I'm so glad I finally got to put this together finally. I don't why but this story is always coming up with writing blocks for me and it's making me really upset with myself...*Sigh* I think I just need a break a long LONG break. (Don't worry Mick I'm still working on that chapter you're waiting for ;). But other than that enjoy it. GIRLS I LOVE YOU ALL xxxxxx
Vanessa pov
Summer vacation was over and it was back to school for us. My classes had become so lonely since Lauren Cassie and Noah all became supers I was now the only non-super in school. I was always left out of everything and to make things worse; I was less than a week away from my birthday where everything would change and just to add insult to injury, I still had no idea what to chose. I had less than a week to chose it and it still hadn't come to me at all, all these times I've spent with mum and dad doing both good and evil hadn't made my decision any easier at all.
My eyes were closed tightly as sleep overtook me and I had those illusive dreams once more...
I was standing alone next to a chair in a single spotlight. I was a little nervous on why I was here when I could see nothing.
"How could you do this to me?!"
"Mother?" I asked looking around.
"Clearly I was wrong about you"
"Dad?"
A second spotlight popped from nowhere my mum was there and so was I but I was watching myself.
"I am so sorry mother!" I was on my knees crying. "I'm so sorry".
"You should be sorry after everything I did for you, you ungrateful little brat!" She walked off into the darkness leaving me in tears.
I closed my eyes and that light vanished. Another light appears to my right with my Dad this time.
"You are no daughter of mine. I am done with you!"
"Daddy please!"
"Get away from me!"
"Miss Bluebury!" Mr. whiplash called out my name.
I popped out of my daydreaming nightmare "Yes!" I said looking at him.
"Something bothering you?" He said looking at me softly.
"Yes! I have a huge decision to make in less than a week and I still have no idea what that's gonna be!" I said banging my head on the table.
"Is this about you choosing your fate!" He asked.
"Is it that obvious!" I said still hanging my head down. "I dont suppose you have any teacherly advice for me!"
"Vanessa I know it may not be easy making a tough choice but once you do make it, it just feels right!"
"So what do you think I should choose?!" I asked him
"Well that's up to you and you alone!"
"But I don't know!"
"Look deep inside yourself you'll find the answer!" He said to me. The bell rang and that meant it was time for me to go, I walked through the halls and everyone was looking at me and glaring and whispering things. I felt so out of place everywhere I went.
"Nessa wait up!?" I looked behind me and saw Lauren, Cassie and Noah flying towards me.
"Hey guys it so good to see you!" I said hugging Lauren tightly. "How's it feel being super now!"
"It's awesome I can do so much that I couldn't do before!" Cassie shrieked.
"And my powers have gotten a super upgrade it awesome being super!" Noah said.
"When are you going to chose that way we could all be super together!"
"Not for another week!" I say.
"Are you gonna chose good or bad!" Cassie said.
"Not entirely sure!"
The 3 of them looked at each other with worried looks "Vanessa you don't have much time left you can't keep batting this around!" Cassie said.
"I'll have my choice by then I just need the little time I have to really figure this out!"
They looked at each other again "Well until then, we'll see you around!" Noah said flying away.
"Wait where are you guys going!?" I stop them.
They kept looking at one another with awkward, worried faces "Vanessa we can't be seen with you right now, you know with us being supers and you're still not!" Noah said
I gasped and covered my mouth "But you guys are my best friends!" I said.
"And we still are it's just, until you're a super too we can let anyone else see us with you!"
"You guys are just gonna abandon me like that, now that you're all supers you're just gonna pretend we've never met!" I said feeling hurt and betrayed.
"No! We're not abandoning you and we never will its just.. until you're a super we just can't be seen around school with you, but we can met up outside of school if you want!" Noah said.
I glared at them al and was about to say something to them until... "YO You guys!" I saw some other hero and villain teens calling and gesturing to my friends. "Hey you 3 coming or what!?" One of the hero girls said.
"On our way!"
"Wait up!" Noah and cassie took off without even saying goodbye to me.
Lauren stayed next to me with a frown "Lauren you coming!" Noah said.
"Go on I'll catch up!" She said and turned back to me.
"Lauren!" I said tearing up.
She cut me off and took my hand in a friendly manner "Vanessa, you and I will always be best friends, but until you make up your mind, I just can't be around you, I'm sorry!" She let go of my hands and slowly floated away from me. I stood there in the empty halls just loss for words, my friends were all gone, it was just me as always.
I walked out of the school and climbed down the ladder and walked down the street, normally I'd take the bus with the others but I was in no mood to get harassed by the kids on the bus today. I knew it was risky to be walking the streets non-super, but I took my chances, hey if I was lucky someone might strike me and put me out of my misery already. I looked at the sidewalk the whole way and somehow I made it back home. I walked inside and raced right upstairs before anyone saw me.
"Vanessa!" I stopped halfway upstairs when I heard my dad's voice "Nessa is that you!?" He said again.
"Hi mum, Hi daddy!" I said smiling.
"Hey sweetie!" Dad said kissing me. "How was school?"
I shrugged "Alright I guess!"
"Sweetie we have a surprise for you!" They said holding out 2 big bags to me. "Call it early birthday gifts!" Mum said.
"But my birthday is at the end of the week!" I remind them
"I know but just look at what we got you!" Mum said I set the bags down and reach in them each one had a costume in it. "They're super costumes, for when you chose your fate soon. We weren't sure which one you wanted so we got you 2 so we could be ready for it!" Mum smiled
"Gee thanks!" I said with a fake smile.
"Well go on, try them on!" She said. I went to the bathroom and tried on the villain one first, It was a black blouse with a black skirt, black leather gloves with the fingers tops cut off, midnight purple jeggings and long black leather boots that reached my knees, a black mask for my eyes and to complete the outfit a long black vampire cape with an overlong collar.
I walked out of the bathroom with my head barely up to where my parents couldn't see the sadness in my face. But that didn't stop dad from gasping at me when I slowly made my way into view. "Well what do you think?" I asked coming to their View
"*Gasp* Vanessa you look so beautiful and evil!" Dad smiled coming next to me. "The perfect wear for my little villain!" He said kissing my check.
"Dad you know I haven't chosen yet!" I remind him.
"I know but still I just can't wait to see you wearing this one day!" He said hugging me.
"Yeah!" I said looking down.
Dad looked at me. "What you don't like it!?" He asked.
"No I love it I really do!?" I said looking in the big mirror. "The capes a nice touch!" I say.
Dad nods in agreement. "Yeah the capes a signature villain thing" He said showing off his.
"Okay Okay try on mine now sweetie!" Mum said. I walked back to the bathroom and tried on my hero costume mum got me. It was a white knee long dress with long sleeves and had a golden star in the middle with a purple, glittery V for my name, bright purple tights, white boots and a short purple cape and to finish off the costume I had a small flower crown on my head that glimmered in the light. Once again I walked out in view not even showing the slightest bit of happiness about any of this. But once again my parents didn't notice it and mum just gasped.
"Oh sweetie it's adorable!" Mum said coming and hugging me. "You look like a true hero in that!"
"Yeah a true hero!" I said sighing deeply.
Mum lifted my chin up to hers, she was casting a smile and I was just depressed "I know you haven't chosen yet but to think soon you'll be wearing this as a sign of your fate as a hero, I just can't wait to see what you chose!" She said holding me close to her chest
"Me either!" I mumble
"What are you going to chose Vanessa? can you give us a little hint" Dad asked.
I stayed quiet for a while acting like I didn't hear him "Vanessa did you hear me?!"
"Oh I heard you, I just don't think you want to know what it is?!" I said grinning nervously.
"Oh yes we do!" They both said. "But don't feel nervous you can tell us!" Mum smiled
"But what if I tell you and the one I didn't chose would make one of you disappointed in me!" I said making something up to distract them even more.
"Don't be silly its your choice, the choice you thought long and hard about!" Dad assured me, but I just went wide eye rubbing my arm.
"Vanessa you did think about it right?!" Mum asked seeing my facial expression.
"Oh yes I thought about it!" I said quietly.
Mum and dad looked to each other and then to me "Well...what did you decide?" Mum asked.
"I decided, what does it really matter which one I chose, I mean in a way there both good choices just for different purposes!"
They looked confused. "That doesn't make any sense dear!" dad said
"No! in the right context it actually would make sense" I said still stalling.
"Vanessa stop stalling and answer our question!" Mum said to me.
"I'm not stalling and I did answer it already!" I rebut.
"We want to know what you chose!" She said.
"And I said what does it matter if I tell you I want it to be a surprise for the day I actually have to do it, and you should know that in no way which I chose I will love the one I didn't chose any less!" I blabber on.
Mum and dad looked to each other and them looked at me. "Vanessa is all this just a long winded way of saying you have no idea what you're going to be!" Dad said crossing his arms.
I grinned nervously "You are the smart one daddy!" I complimented his sleuthing.
"VANESSA!" They shout at me.
I flinched and started to get scared "I'm sorry but I just don't know okay!" I cried and then I saw them both just rub and shake their heads.
"Vanessa why is it so hard for you to decide this!" Dad asked so freaked out by this.
"You don't understand dad none of you do, you mum and everyone else in the garden were born good or evil I wasn't you don't know what it's like being me!"
"We don't have to understand it Vanessa that's just how it is!" He said.
"But why does it have to be that way huh?!" I asked them. "Why does it only have to be that way for me no one else but me!"
"Because that's how you were born, you were born that way so you could live this life!" He said again.
"Well maybe I didn't ask for this okay!" I snap. "I didn't ask to be born the way I was nor did I want too!"
"You didn't have to ask or want it you were born the way you were and that's just that!" He said losing his temper for a moment.
I gasped "How could you say that to me!" I cried.
"Just how I did!" Dad crossed his arms. "Vanessa I know this isn't easy for you but your purpose in this world is to chose your fate your way not many people get that chance and the one who do are very lucky!"
"How is this lucky? To be pressured into having to do something I was never even prepared for in the first place. I don't like having everything put on me so hard I can't think one way or the other about it, that's just too much for me" I cried.
"Well maybe you wouldn't feel so much pressure if you just chose one or the other, it's just that simple!" Mum said calmly
"Well maybe I wanted to be born a super like the rest of you not to chose my fate but have it already placed on me!" I said calmly to her.
"Well unfortunately sweetie that's not how your life was meant to be!" Mum said with a frown. "So it's better you just live up to your potentials and chose!" I could see she didn't want this to happen to me anymore than I wanted it to happen.
"Mum I don't want to chose!" I admit to them both.
"WHAT!?" They both said shocked.
"Why should I chose? I haven't made up my mind so I shouldn't chose!" I said with a grin.
"No! no, no, no, no! Vanessa that's not a smart thing you can't just not chose!" Mum said worried.
"Why not!?"
"You just can't!" Mum said. "It's mandatory you chose good or bad it's like that for all supers!"
"Not all supers some have never chosen to be good/bad!" I said thinking of Sydney.
"And that's there problem because they put themselves on the lines!" Mum said
"Lines of what!" I wonder.
Dad came over to me and grabbed my shoulders "The line I don't want to see you go down, so I suggest you do just take the time to chose!" Dad said like he was trying to threaten me now.
"I already told you I haven't chosen and I don't want to!" I said proudly.
Dad glared at me and mum gave me a nervous grin "Vanessa I'm saying this as calmly as I can, you are going to chose a fate and that is that!" Mum said trying to hide the impatience she was having with me.
"But why!?"
"Because that' the rule!" Dad said butting in. "Vanessa it's not that we wouldn't have it so that you couldn't chose if you didn't want to but around here you have to chose!"
"Isn't it my choice to choose what I want!" I ask him.
"It's your choice to pick a fate, not your choice to do it or not!"
"That doesn't really seem fair if you ask me!" I say with a blank expression.
"It doesn't have to be fair, it's just the way it happens!" He said to me.
"But why does it have to happen that way
"It just does!" He says straight up.
"But why?" I ask for like the 4th time already.
"Vanessa!" He snaps.
"I'm serious dad why can't I just not pick!?" I ask getting annoyed.
"And here's what I'm serious about too, YOU picking a fate by weeks end or you'll be in serious trouble!"
"Why can't I just not pick it's my choice isn't it!"
"Vanessa it's not more your power to chose to do it than it Is your power to actually chose, period!" He states.
"But..." I try to say.
"Vanessa we are done with this conversation!" Dad said walking away.
"Dad wait a minuet!" I said running after him to the front room. "Dad I don't understand what is so important about me choosing anyway!"
He turned around to me slowly and gave me a sad look "Vanessa there are serious consequences that come with not choosing!" He said holding my shoulders.
"Which are!?"
"You wouldn't like it if I told you, it just bad!" He says
I roll my eyes "More worse than having to do something you don't want to!" I said glaring at the floor.
Dad got a little upset by that "Vanessa you think this is easy on us? You think we wanted this to happen to you so soon? because we didn't, but it was out of our control to change it! If we could we would have kept it till you were 18 and mature, but that wasn't an option anymore we didn't want this to happen to you but it did so I don't want to hear it from you!"
"But why was it changed!?"
"Because they felt it was more suited for you to chose at 16, they felt you were mature enough to make the choice then!" Mum said.
"But I'm not ready!" I said getting upset.
"We know but you just have to do this!" He said to me.
I glared down at him "No! NO! No! I won't do it I can't do something I'm not ready for nor do I want to do it, I just won't put myself through that!" I snapped crossing my arms
Mum and dad got shocked by my sudden outburst, but they knew what my intentions for it were "You don't want to put yourself through the consequences either" Mum says to me.
"What is it?!" I asked again, repeating the same question that continually went unanswered by them
"I can't tell you but you won't like it" She said almost crying, the consequences must've been bad, but I still wanted to know what it was. But they just weren't telling me so, I had no choice but to rebel.
"I don't care! I'll take the consequences, I don't care" I state
"Oh no you won't!" Dad said puling on my arm. "Vanessa I am not letting you put yourself through what could happen to you if you go against this you are going to do this one way or another!"
"No I won't" I state.
Dad glared to me. "Are you getting smart with me young lady!" He snapped.
"Dad I don't want to chose!" I tell him again.
"I don't care what you want! You're doing this outta what you want!" The raise in his voice said he was getting frustrated with me, well I was getting frustrated with him, and mum too.
I snatch my arm away "You can't make me do that!"
"I can if I have to!" He said squeezing my arm tighter.
"Dad you're hurting my arm!" I strained
"Good!" He said pulling me closer! "Now listen everything we've done we did to protect you Vanessa, I love you and I don't want to see you put yourself through a horrible experience or much worse because of your stubbornness"
"Daddy I love you too but I will not do something I don't want to and you just have to respect that!" I said standing up fro myself for once. BIG MISTAKE!
"Respect this!" He took me and slapped me across the face as I fell backwards on the ground as I fell I hit the side of the table and bruised my arm.
I pulled myself halfway up and laid there shocked "DAD!" I screamed.
"GNOMEO!" Mum shrieked in terror. dad has never done that to anyone before in his life why me.
He pulled me off the ground by the arm, I shook and quivered. "Listen to me Vanessa everything we did was to protect you, I am not going to stand here and have you tell me what you will and will not do with your life, I have as much control over your life as you do and I can tell you what to do and I say you ARE going to chose or so help me you will regret it, not just from me but from every consequence you have thrown at you!" He said pushing me backwards, and I laid on the couch fighting back tears.
"Just because you're my father doesn't mean you control me!"
"As your father I have prIorIty over you regardless! And no amount of rebellIon wIll change that!"
"I hate you!" I mumbled softly. Dad pulled me back to my feet and this time he punched me, HARD. I fell back down with my eye throbbing from the blow. I saw mum try to run to me but dad wouldn't let her near me.
"YOU DON'T TALK TO ME LIKE THAT!" He said slapping me for the 3rd time and I didn't even say anything that time. "You can go up to your room and until you want to act right I don't want to see you again till your birthday, where you will chose even if I have to beat it out of you!" He slapped me again for the even 4th time, this time there was blood coming out, he was really just trying to hurt me now.
"GNOMEO STOP IT!" Mum cried forcing dad away from me, this was all too much for her to bare.
I stood up and held the places dad had hit me trying to slow down the bleeding "Mum say something to him!" I said crying my eyes out by that point.
Mum was in tears herself, but that didn't stop her from saying "I'm sorry sweetie but your fathers right" She said siding with dad. I looked at her with a shocked face, I don't believe it! was she really going on dad side, after she just witnessed him assault me like that.
"Mum!" I gasped.
"You say one more word!" Dad said getting ready to hit me again.
"GNOMEO NO!" Mum put up her fist at him, but that didn't stop him from reaching down, pulling me by my hair braid and yanking me across the floor a little till I hit my head on the leg of the table.
"DADDY LEAVE ME ALONE!" I screamed at him when I got my bruised, bloody face off the ground.
"I SWEAR YOU ARE JUST ASKING FOR ME TO MURDER YOU NOW!" He said wrapping his hands to my neck this time, mum grabbed hold of him and pushed him against the wall.
"GNOMEO I'M GOING TO MURDER YOU IF YOU TOUCH HER AGAIN, NOW GO!" Mum demanded with a lot of authority. Dad glared at me and just stood at the wall.
Mum came back to me and helped me set my sore body on the couch. She used her healing abilities to make the way I was before. "There you go sweetie all better" She said stroking me.
I got down on my knees and hugged her waist. "Mum please do something about this, you know I don't want to do this!" I begged crying into her lap.
She pulled me back up and looked so sad and as beat down as I just was, literally. "Vanessa this is no more in your control than it is our, you are going to chose whether you like it or not so you better get over it and jut get ready for it!" She said seriously.
I started crying even more "But.."
"END OF DISCUSSION VANESSA!" Dad yelled at me. I took one good look at them both and ran upstairs holding my face screaming and crying the whole way. I slammed my door and locked it tight. I took a look at my room and started throwing a terrible tantrum, throwing books around ripping my curtains off the walls I tossed all my junk around till my room was a complete mess. Then I hopped on my bed kicking and screaming and cursing words that were never to be used by a 16 yr. old. I hated my parents so much right now, why was it so hard for them to see that I didn't want to chose, I wasn't ready for it at all. I looked over at the photo on my dresser it was of me, in my best party dress and mum and dad sitting on the couch after my 15 birthday party last year That was when I was happier and I loved my parents now I was miserable and I hated them both. I growled and threw it to the wall as it shatter and broke the glass all over the place. I went back to sorrowing in the darkness.
"It's just not fair!" I screamed into my pillow. "Why was I ever even born, it's just not fair at all!" I began beating my pillow and screaming now.
I heard yelling downstairs and I knew it was mum and dad. I opened my door to listen better and then tiptoed to the top of the stairs where I could just hear them.
"I CAN'T BELEIVE YOU JUST DID THAT GNOMEO!" Mum screamed. Oh so now she decides to yell at dad?
"SHE WAS ASKING FOR IT OK, UNGRATEFUL LITTLE GIRL!" Dad yelled back at her. Dad was the one I hated the most right now, how could he say that about me.
"No she wasn't, gnomeo what you did was just...not like you!"
"Oh and what were you doing to stop me!" He yelled back. "NOTHING! That's what you were doing, absolutely nothing!" He yelled at her
"She's already in pain and thanks to you it just got worse!" She said yelling back.
"You think I like yelling at Vanessa? I didn't want to do it but apparently that's what it had to come too!" He says a little lower.
"That's not what it had to come too! Thanks to you my little girl is terrified!"
"What was I suppose to do Juliet? She wasn't cooperating!" He says looking away from her.
"You could've at least heard her out on what she was trying to say!" Mum said looking dad in the face.
"What was there to talk about? she knew what this was!" Dad snapped not wanting to here it.
"But you know she doesn't want to do this!"
"Want to or not it was going to happen!"
"She doesn't want this to happen at all!"
"Are you forgetting what could happen if she doesn't!"
"I know but...Gnomeo she's just a child, a fragile child!" Mum said crying.
Dad eyed her slowly "Well if you want we could just have her pay the consequences!" Dad said to her like he meant it. I really hopped he didn't.
"What!" Mum said leaving his arms.
"Sure why not if it would put this whole battle of her fate to rest!" He said. I stood by the wall with my mouth hung open, was he really saying what I think he was saying.
"Are you saying you want our daughter to be exiled!" Mum snapped.
"No but I'm implying it would be what's best!" He said like he was no longer concerned for me or what happens to me anymore.
"GNOMEO!" Mum said slapping him hard, serves him right to. I couldn't believe he'd want me to just be exiled like that. "What is wrong with you that's our daughter you're talking about!"
"Is that really more worst than having her be put to death Juliet huh?! Answer me that is it!?" Dad snapped back. I hid behind the wall and gasped, so that was why they were pressuring me so much? Because I would be put to death if I didn't. Now I was really terrified.
"Oh god this is terrible!" I said panicking. I slid down the wall and cried into my knees. This was officially the worst day of my life, my friends deserted me, my parents were mad at me, I had to make a critically decision I was not proud of and I was at risk of death. I crawled on all fours to my room and closed the door behind me.
"What am I'm gonna do now!?" I said, if I chose to do my fate I would be unhappy because I had no idea what it would be, and if I didn't do it I'd break my parents heart and be put to death, either way I went there was a dark side and no silver lining to this dark cloud. Sometimes I think everything would be better if I was never born this way or better yet never born at all. I feel like everything wrong in my life was because of the way I was born and if I hadn't been born at all everyone's life would be better off without having to worry about me. Like violet always says; I was a rare mistake
"I wish I could just turn back time and make it so I was never born the way I was so I could change my fate!" I said to myself but I was unable to make that happen.
"Wait that's it!" I said getting to my feet I couldn't turn back time or change my fate but I knew somewhere I could run away from it. I looked outside my window, it was turning dark fast, the perfect time to escape. I grabbed the costume dad had gotten me and put it on, now I could walk out into public without being noticed as a non-super. I grabbed my dark cloak to and put it up over my head. I used my powers as before and made an ice ramp out of my garden, I looked back on my house from the lower window I could see my parents still arguing but slowly stopping it. I let a tear fall down my eye, I was going to miss them so much.
"I've caused you both enough trouble I'm going somewhere you'll never have to see me again!" I said to myself as the wind howled in the night. I walked into the city and crossed it all the way to the outer gates, I hopped the fence, disappeared into the dense woods and never looked back.
OOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHH! I really have a knack for this kind of stuff. What do you all think? Feel free to tell me, Honestly.
Goodbye for now.
~Jazz-star :)