Heather tossed and turned weeks later, almost interim time school wise, sweat poured down her face as she whimpered, she had been haunted by nightmares for weeks and wasn't sleeping well, and it even began to wear on her like a second skin. Suddenly she shot up and looked around the room and when it registered in her that it was just a nightmare she sighed before she plopped back down on her pillows. She sighed and closed her eyes, before she got up from the bed and walked to the window watching as the sun rose and the environment began to respond to that.

The birds flew from the trees as the night animals crawled back into their homes and hid as the roaster crowed and the birds took flight into the sky swirling higher and higher before drooping down below. They tilted their wings and Heather watched in amazement as the sleepless nights began to wear on her, she had light bags under her eyes from the lack of sleep. Amber had appeared in almost all of her dreams, as did the new kids, they hadn't really talked much because the new kids kept their distance from her.

Heather walked away from the window putting on an orange aeropostal shirt and a white sweater with some light blue jeans, she tied her hair into a bun and added some sunglasses, and she also grabbed her bag with her car keys before she walked down stairs. She grabbed a piece of paper before using some sharpie to write a note.

Went out, see you guys later and I'll come by later to pick Jenn up so we can go on our monthly trip ~Heather

Heather walked out of the front door grabbing a light red scarf and a hat to top off her look. She planned on spending the day with Jenn grabbing some dresses for homecoming which was tonight, late as always for the siblings, they planned on grabbing their dresses, getting a manicure, and picking out their accessories then going over to Katie's to get ready. Katie was Jenn's best friend in the whole wide world and Heather saw her as another little sister. Heather went over to Alison's house to hang out with her and have some girl talk before Heather left to get Jenn.

Heather turned the car off once she pulled into Alison's driveway and grabbed her bag before jumping out of the car, she grabbed some coffee to start of her day with a dozen donuts, she also took a two hour walk around the park before she grabbed the food so it was around nine thirty. She walked up the steps and grabbed the spare key before she opened the door and saw that no one was awake yet.

Heather sighed but smiled anyways, she had been up early, and she had to admit that she was an early bird, but now she was waking up earlier then she usually did. Heather went and sat on the sofa as Alison's golden retriever, Nate came bundling up to her and jumped on the couch next to her. "Morning Nate" Heather smiled as she scratched Nate behind the ears.

"I was wondering when you would get here" A woman stated from the door, she had short brown hair with tan skin and brown eyes; she leaned against the doorway wearing a baggy grey t-shirt and some leggings. Stacy Newman, Alison's mom, she smiled softly at Heather before she walked over and sat down.

Heather released a short giggle as she started to scratch Nate on his stomach as he turned over, "So is Alison awake yet?" Heather asked as she looked up and saw Stacy giving her an intense look, reading her.

"What do you think?" Stacy asked humorously but then her smile dropped when she noticed the bags under Heather's eyes, "Have you been sleeping well?" She asked gathering the younger girls hand into her own.

Heather avoided eye contact and instead looked down onto Nate, who eyed her curiously; "No really" She said as she shrugged softly and began to scratch Nate again.

"Well you should take a nap" Stacy suggested thoughtfully, Heather opened her mouth in protest but Stacy cut her off, "You know Alison won't be up for two more hours, take a nap, I'll wake you up when she is up"

Heather gave in and laid down on the couch with Nate lying down beside her and soon closed her eyes before she fell asleep. She snuggled into the pillow as Stacy walked out of the room not noticing the darkness that crept into the room.

Heather opened her eyes and the living room that she had recently been in disappeared and instead there was a small highway that she was standing on, she saw that nobody was out her, just the endless road and the dead grass which alarmed her as the temperature started to decrease dramatically.

She looked back down and saw that she was sitting on an old cold steel bench and saw a map balanced out onto her lap, the map was blurred as she tried to study it to get a read of it so that she could find out where she was going but nothing was making sense on the map. Suddenly she heard the sound of a dragon fluttering up above her head and looked up to be met with warm amber eyes.

The dragon held her gaze as she started to walk forward but felt vines come out of the ground ad wrap itself around her feet, she struggled and looked around helplessly, hoping to find someone to help her, suddenly her eyes caught sight of the new kids across the highway and Natalie had her arms outstretched as they emitted a light green glow. Her eyelids were closed as Heather gasped for breath when she felt the vines wrap tighter and tighter around her small frame.

"Please help me" She screamed out as she saw Natalie drop her hands and open her eyes, but she just smirked smugly, an uncommon thing for a kind person like herself to have marred on her own face.

"Never going to happen you witch" Laura snapped harshly as the girls gathered together and yelled out magic winx, Heather watched astonished that she was seeing fairies transforming right in front of her eyes.

They started to fire random spells at her as she screamed helplessly, she was about to drift off when she heard a powerful voice boom over them, "Children that is enough" The male voice boomed as Heather looked up to see the dragon hovering over her glaring down onto the other people there.

Suddenly everything disappeared and Heather saw darkness swarm through the night trying to grasp ahold of her, she started to run through the woods and dodged the trees but tripped and stumbled to see a figure in a dark cloak holding a knife above their head as they began to move it down onto her.

Heather screamed in fear as she saw the dagger move closer and closer to her before it was blasted out of the figures hands and stabbed into a tree, Heather looked over to see Amber with her hands outstretched and aimed at where the dagger once was as the shadow hissed at her before disappearing into the night.

"Amber you are here, thank goodness" Heather said as she looked over to the older girl who smiled kindly in return, Heather got up and ran towards Amber smiling like a kid on Christmas but the figure reappeared and stabbed her as Heather sunk to her knees to see the family from earlier crying a little bit away from her, she felt her head land onto a muscular arm and looked up to see someone hovering above her and when she finally got to see their faces she was blinded.

Heather's eyes shot open as she saw Stacy leaning over her with a worried expression and Alison not far away. "Heather are you alright?" Alison asked as relief filled her brown eyes.

"Yeah I am fine, what happened?" Heather asked as she glanced at Stacy.

"I don't know, half an hour after I left you to take a nap you were screaming and struggling in your sleep, I tried to wake you up and Alison came down wondering what the commotion was all about but she tried to wake up, then you woke up minutes later." Stacy explained her gaze never leaving Heather's. "You have been having night mares lately huh?' she asked, more like stated.

Heather nodded her head and sat up and saw Nate in the corner hiding away from her, "What happened to Nate?" Heather asked confused.

"He came to get me when you woke him up" Stacy answered.

"Oh wow" Heather said appalled as Nate came out of hiding to delicately sniff her hand before he rubbed his face into her hand.

"We should go have our talk" Alison said as she grabbed Heather and dragged her up the stairs and they both jumped onto Alison's bed. "So how long have you been having nightmares?" She asked as she glanced at Heather.

"Ever since the new kids got here" Heather answered honestly.

"You have been having nightmares like that for a while, then why didn't you tell me or someone, we could have helped?" Alison asked as she shot Heather a confused look.

Heather shrugged, "I guess I wanted to figure it on my own." She said as she shifted a little awkwardly, "So how have things been going between you and Luke?" She asked referring to Alison's boyfriend Luke that she got two weeks ago, he had short spiked up brown hair with light blue eyes and tan skin.

Alison rolled her eyes playfully, "Good I guess, I am just so glad that I am over the douche bag Tyler, he really was a jerk, huh?" Alison asked.

"Thank god for that Ally, I don't know how long we would have had to watch as you were hurt by his obvious rudeness to your affections, besides you are way too good for him." Heather said as she gave Alison the thumbs up.

"Although in my defense I really did like him, but now that I have Luke, it just feels right, like I am dating the guy who truly gets me, do you know what I mean?" Alison asked.

Heather nodded, "I got, so I heard that Jacob manned up and asked Jessie to Homecoming" Heather said wiggling her eye brows, she sighed, "I guess I am the only single lady left of us. Too bad that me and Brandon don't talk anymore."

Alison wondered whether or not she should tell Heather what she had just found out, she bit her lip, "Heather, I heard that Brandon was taking Tracy to homecoming." She blurted out accidently.

Heather looked up startled but then hurt filled her eyes once she realized what Alison just said, "Oh" was all that could escape her lips as she felt tears brim her eyes. She wiped them away, "Why should I care?" She gave a harsh dry laugh, "Obviously he did not like me that way so whatever." She shrugged looking around dejectedly.

"Heather I am sorry for saying anything." Alison apologized knowing that Heather was really hurting on the inside.

"It's ok Alison, I am sorry for putting you in that situation so let's talk about something else" Heather suggested dismissing the subject, avoiding the hurt feeling the swelled inside of her heart.

"Ok well how are things going with you and your family?" Alison asked as she curiously studied Heather.

"Good I guess, we haven't talked that much anymore." Heather said with a shrug, "So have you seen the way Tracy has been acting lately." She raised her eyebrows in thought.

Alison gave off a disgusted look, "I can't believe her, she was kissing on Tyler the other day, what a filthy" Alison was about to say another word but Heather shot her a look, "Ok I won't say that word, but she is acting like a dirty girl, and she has been hanging around Cassidy."

Heather sighed as she pushed a strand of her hair out of the way, "well are you coming with me to the mall to get dresses with Katie and Jenn?' Heather asked.

"Totally" Alison said, "speaking of which we should probably go before we miss our manicures."

Heather nodded her head in agreement as Alison gathered her overnight bag and they walked to Heather's car and picked up Katie, she had long blonde hair that was straight and light grey eyes with tan skin, before picking up Jenn and heading to the mall. They were all giggling as they arrived at the mall and went into Macy's to get some dresses, the homecoming theme was fall colors, so they had to pick out fall colors. They grabbed the dresses before they went to the changing stalls.

Jenn walked out wearing an orange off the shoulder short dress with her hair tied into a side ponytail; she glanced at the dress curiously watching as Katie walked out wearing a short strapless yellow dress. "So how do I look?" Jenn asked as she twirled.

"You look gorgeous, what do you think about my outfit?" Katie asked as she twirled around in her short yellow dress.

"Ok girls don't go making decisions without us." Alison said as she excited wearing a crème spaghetti strap short dress. "You both look gorgeous so how do you think I look?" She asked striking a pose,

The other girls giggled, "You look fantastic" Katie said as Jenn nodded her head in agreement.

Heather looked at herself in the mirror; she was wearing a strapless red dress that reached to a little bit above her knees, it was tight and she thought it would look great with her hair up in a ponytail with curls. Heather glanced at herself one last time before walking out and the other girls stared shocked as Heather blushed. "Does it look that bad?" she asked.

"Heather it looks flipping beautiful on you, you have to get it." Alison said as the other girls nodded their heads in agreement.

"Yeah sis, you look really gorgeous." Jenn said in awe.

"So are these our dresses?" Katie asked as the other girls shared glances.

Jenn nodded her head, "Yeah Kate, now let's go change and buy the dresses then get our nails done, then we have to get shoes." Jenn said as she mentally made a check list.

"How much time to we have left?" Alison asked.

"We have four hours." Heather said as she glanced at her phone. "We are actually making great time, so let's go get our nails done."

The other girls nodded as they all went and took off the dresses before buying them, they walked out of Macy's with two bags, one for each dress and then to get their manicures, after that they bought some shoes. When they got to Katie's house they went up to her room and started to get ready, when they were done they all looked beautiful, like supermodels.

Katie was wearing the yellow short strapless dress that she bought with some silver heels with diamonds on it and she had her nails painted a beautiful orange color and she had her long hair hung loosely in huge waves with some orange eye shadow with black eyeliner and mascara. She was waiting for her boyfriend Mason, a guy with short blonde hair with pale skin and light grey eyes.

Jennifer was the next one to be ready and she was wearing her orange one strap dress that had a red belt around her waist with some red pumps and a red bracelet with a red ruby necklace, she had the same color earrings and her hair held into a side braid with parts of it highlighted light orange, it wasn't real highlights or anything, just something for the occasion, she had red eye shadow on and red lipstick with black eyeliner and mascara. Her boyfriend, Stephan was coming with Mason to pick her up.

Alison was wearing the light crème spaghetti strap dress that ended a little bit above her knees and had an orange sash from her left shoulder to her right side, she also had some orange heels on that had white diamonds on them that stood out, she straightened her hair and had it split down the middle with it covering her shoulders. She had orange eye shadow on with black eye liner and mascara with light pink lip stick. Luke was coming to pick her up with the other boys.

Heather was wearing a short strapless red dress that had orange designs along the bottom like fire; she had some silver heels on that showed her toes and had orange fire designs on them and had her hair curled and up in a ponytail, she was wearing the locket from her family that she could never open and a golden bracelet, she had on red eye shadow with light pink blush and light pink lipstick and black mascara and eye liner. She was going to be riding with the other girls and guys.

"Wow we look smoking" Alison said as she looked in the full length mirror.

Heather shook her head as she smiled at Alison, then the doorbell rang and the girl rushed down the stairs almost knocking each other over. Heather laughed as she walked down the stairs as the boys greeted their girlfriends.

"Well let's get this show on the road" Katie said as she dragged Mason out of the door by his ears and the rest of them chuckled but followed.

They started to talk but Heather kind of felt left out with all of the other people being couples and her the only single girl there. Sometimes it was awkward as she watched the boys present the other girls gifts and whispered sweet things in their ears earning themselves giggles.

Heather found herself staring out of the window and soon they arrived at the decorated gym, it was a huge area with people inside and fall themed decoration as a DJ booth was by the stage and also a photo booth. Heather walked into the dance and immediately started to scan the area. She walked to the punch table and grabbed a drink and sat there with a bunch of other single people.

Suddenly the doors opened and the new kids arrived, girls started to drool as did boys, Tracy was with Brandon wearing a really short red dress. Heather scoffed and looked away; little did she know that Brandon was watching her with curiosity.

Brandon walked in with Tracy clinging onto his arm and he looked around and spotted Heather at the punch table, they locked eye contact for a moment before she scoffed and looked away. Brandon raised an eyebrow at this as he then looked down at his date that he was forced to ask out, she was actually really pretty but had a horrible personality.

Brandon knew that he had to keep his eyes peeled tonight, something sinister was in this room but so was the girl they had come searching for. "Ugh these girls look hideous compared to me, right Brandikins" Tracy scoffed as she clung onto Brandon.

"Whatever you say Tracy" Brandon said rolling his eyes but Tracy was oblivious and she swung her arms around him and kissed him on the cheek.

"I'll be right back with our drinks honey" Tracy purred as she sauntered off.

Brandon rolled his eyes and stepped besides Carter, "Remind me again why I am taking that thing to homecoming?" He asked annoyed.

"Oh come on Brandon, you had to pick someone and what is so bad about her?" Taylor asked.

"You don't even know the half of it." Brandon mumbled under his breath.

Suddenly he caught sight of his 'date' making out with another guy who had just walked in, "So should I just avoid her tonight?" He asked Ryan.

"Yup" Ryan said in disgust when they all saw her making out with another guy right in front of her date.

"I am going to go ask Heather to dance." Brandon stated as he walked over to the punch bowl.

Heather watched the couples dance on the floor and caught sight of Brandon making his way over to her, "Hey" he said as he leaned against the punch bowl beside her.

"Hey, how have you been?" Heather asked as she eyed Brandon and looked down on him wearing the same color tie as her dress.

"Good. Do you want to dance?" Brandon asked.

Heather nodded her head as he smiled and lead her to the dance floor, they started to dance to "Thinking out loud" by Ed Sheeran.

When your legs don't work like they used to before

And I can't sweep you off of your feet

Will your mouth still remember the taste of my love?

Will your eyes still smile from your cheeks?

Brandon swung Heather around carefully as they looked into each other's eyes and he smiled as he saw her lightly smile back at him as she rested her head on his shoulder and he closed his eyes and held her strongly. Heather snuggled against his chest and smelled his familiar aroma, she loved that aroma on him, and he was like the sun in almost every way.

And, darling, I will be loving you 'til were 70

And, baby, my heart could still fall as hard at 23

And I'm thinking 'bout how people fall in love in mysterious ways

Maybe just the touch of a hand

Well, me- I fall in love with you every single day

And just want to tell you I am

"So Brandon what about Tracy" Heather asked curiously over the music.

Brandon sighed knowing that Heather probably heard about him coming with her, "She was making out with someone else so I let her be"

Heather felt sorry for him, "I don't know what happened to her, she used to be my best friend but now she is acting like a mean girl" Heather said as Brandon was shocked that they used to be friends.

"You don't curse?" Brandon asked teasingly.

"Would never dream of it Brandy" Heather teased back as they both laughed and enjoyed each other's company.

So, honey, now

Take me into your loving arms

Kiss me under the light of a thousand stars

Place your hand through my beating heart

I'm thinking out loud

Maybe we found love right where we are

"Do you want to go for a walk?" Brandon asked as Heather nodded her head and he lead her through the crowd and they finally walked outside as the rest of the song could be heard playing from inside.

They walked through the court yard enjoying the air around them, "So what's new with you?" Heather asked breaking the silence the enveloped the two.

"Not much, how about you?" Brandon asked.

Heather started to feel a head ache coming on but pushed it aside, "I'm good I guess" She shrugged her shoulder carelessly.

"I guess?" Brandon raised an eyebrow.

"Well I am just having a hard time sleeping, no big whoop." Heather shrugged it off.

"Do you want to go somewhere else then be here?' Brandon asked.

"Sure just let me text my sister" Heather said as she pulled out her phone and started to type on her messages looking for her sister's contact.

H- I am leaving with Brandon, u guys ok with that?

J-Sure have fun love birds; I'll spread the news ;)

H- Very funny Jenn, :/

"Ok I am all set, let's go" Heather said as the two walked off to Brandon's car and left the school grounds looking for an ice cream stop.

Author's Ramble: Read if you want to give me advice and take guesses at future chapters.

I am going to have a betrayal happen later on in the story so be on the lookout for anything suspicious, Oh and guess who it is going to be. Thanks' for reading and now the topic about Amicix, I understand that I have been putting you guys on hold for that story but I will probably be updating this weekend, that story however is going to be a very long time period before it is finished and I can decide about a sequel. Also I know you hate that I did that to you guys for several of my stories and I am really sorry about that.

Now I need new ideas for characters in the story, so just answer these questions if you want me to add that character in some time in future chapters.

Female or Male?

Name and planet or city (she can be from the magic dimension or earth:

Power (Only if magical):

Appearance:

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Where does he/she stand with Heather?

Clothing (ex. Night clothes, swim, school, normal, camping, etc.):

Thanks for Reviewing and thanks for the help. Stay tuned for more of the suspense of True Heritage.

~Maddy