Hi Everyone, I was very happy to see that we've already reached over 8900 views. Ty everyone for your views, favourites and for following this story. It makes me very happy to see that so many people enjoy my writing. As promised; here's the second update of this month: chapter 27…
Chapter 27
A week had passed since Suz and Maxwell told her parents about baby Rissa. Since then Alexander and Magnus had been taking care of little Rissa so that Suz could start school.
Suz was a freshman and was taking: English, Math, Science (Biology), Social Studies, Foreign Languages, Physical Education and Art. Just like her (now little) sister before her, Suzanna liked art best, but she also enjoyed foreign languages a lot.
Fortunately for her, she and Maxwell had most of their classes together. Not only during classes did the young couple see each other; they spent their breaks together as well.
Suz was happy that she had her boyfriend by her side during her first year of Highschool, cause it made it easier and less scary when she at least knew someone and didn't have to go through it alone. She had already figured out that it wasn't nearly as easy and carefree as secondary school had been; not only were the classes more difficult, but it was also a lot harder to make friends with the differences between the kids in who was cool and who wasn't. Plus that she and Maxwell were the only ones from their old school that choose this high school.
At least they had each other and this meant that they didn't really have to worry about making friends that much yet. They could focus on their classes and Suz could help her dad's take care of her little sister as well.
Little Rissa was loved by everyone the Lightwood-Bane house hold, but there was one person who didn't know about her existence; Jace. Jace was still grieving the loss of his girlfriend and unaware of the fact that Suz had raised her from the death and accidently brought her back as an infant in the process.
This was about to change….
When Rissa came home from school that day, Jace was standing at the front door and about to knock on it. Naturally Suz panicked when she saw him standing there. Knowing full well that if Jace knocked on the door, he would find out about little Rissa.
She silently cursed herself and wondered why she hadn't told him, cause it would have been better if he heard it from her instead of finding out like this without knowing what he was about to walk into.
It was too late though and there was only one thing left to do: let him in and get it over with; she walked up to the house as well and tapped Jace on the shoulder. He turned around and when he saw her his whole face lit up. 'Hey Suz! It's so nice to see you!' he said to her. 'Hey Jace, it's so nice to see you as well! Come on, there's someone I'd like you to meet.' Suz answered while she opened the front door.
Jace looked at her with a puzzled expression on his face, but followed her in anyway. They walked into the house together and took of their coats before walking into the living room.
Jace froze when he spotted Magnus who was sitting on the couch with a baby with fiery read hair sleeping peacefully on his lap.
The young man stood frozen like this for a while with his mouth wide open in shock until he started to scream from shock. 'CLARISSA! IS THAT REALLY MY CLARISSA? BUT, BUT… HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE? I-I-I DON'T UN-…'
On the last word he froze, unable to continue when his whole body was racked with violent sobs. He fell on his knees and lay there sobbing.
Meanwhile little Rissa had been woken up by Jace's screams and was crying herself; it was a truly heart breaking scene and Magnus and Suzanna exchanged a look of desperation.
All the while silently cursing themselves and each other for not just telling Jace about what had happened to Rissa.
After half an hour, in which every minute seemed and hour Jace finally regained his composure and his body stopped shacking when his sobs subsided. It was only then that little Rissa stopped crying as well; it turned out that she hadn't only been startled by Jace violent outburst, but also responded to his grieve with tears of her own. It seemed like even now they still had some kind of connection.
Magnus broke the silence when he spoke: 'Jace I'm so sorry that you had to find out like this, but please let me explain as you have a right to know what happened. It might be difficult to process what I'm about to tell you, but please hear me out before you start to ask questions.'
'When Suzanna was seven, we found out that she can do magic, because she is the second daughter of a first daughter. Suz is a sorceress this means that she can read spells from a grimoire and practice magic.'
'This isn't all that she can do. Suzanna has also received the rare gift of necromancy, which means that she is able to bring someone back to life. All magic comes with a prize though and this is especially true for necromancy where every person that you bring back from the death has to be traded for the life of an unborn child. This is the reason why myself and Alexander warned her, no forbade her to bring Rissa back from the death.'
'A couple of weeks ago though, stricken by her grief, Suz was unable to control herself and she broke her promise to us when she had finally figured out a way to bring Rissa back.'
'Unfortunately Suz was overcome by grief while reciting the spell and she misspoke. Therefore something went wrong with the spell and instead of coming back in the same form in which she had died, Rissa was reborn as an infant. With this she become the little sister, joy of Suz' life, like Suz had once been Rissa's…'
When Magnus had finally finished his story Jace's mouth was wide open and he was looking at baby Rissa with a mixture of horror and hope. It took ten full minutes before Jace finally spoke: 'May I… Can I please hold her?'
Magnus walked took little Rissa in his arms and walked over to Jace to hand her to him. Jace held out his arms and took her from him.
When he held her in his arms, tears where streaming down his face; Jace never imagined that he would ever hold his Rissa in his arms again. Let alone that if he ever did, she would be an infant, but he decided that he didn't care he was to happy to have her back in his life and he would love her in whatever way she was in it…
Yeey! It wasn't easy, but I managed to write another chapter and post it before the month is up… Thank you all very much for u're patience and continued support! Pls review if you want to…