Stark caught up with me just as I put my cell phone in my pocket.
"Hey I know you missed home but wait up for me."
"Sorry." I did miss Tulsa but that is not why I'm jumping out of my skin. We walked to the exit of the airport my grandmother and Steve Rae are outside. "Steve Rae!"
"Zoey!" we hug each other tight. I missed that old Okie Twang. "Thank Nyx you are okay I missed you."
"So did I Steve Rae. I need you to do me a favor. " I whisper in her ear.
"Anything." she whispers back.
"I want some alone time with my grandma think you can take Stark back to the school?"
"Sure."
"Thank you Steve Rae."
"Your welcome Z." we brake are embrace and she goes over to talk to Stark.
"Zoey Steve Rae wants me to do something back at the school do you mind if I go?"
"Not at all." I tried to keep the smile out of my voice and on my face.
"Thanks babe." he kisses my cheek. When everyone has there back on me I wipe my cheek with the back of my hand. Steve Rae left leaving me alone with grandma.
"Zoeybird I missed you so much." she hugs me. I missed her smell of lavender and spice.
"So did I grandma." she pulls away enough so that we meet each others eyes.
"You need to tell me something?" I have no idea how she does it but my grandma can all ways spot my troubles. Anyones really.
"I do grandma." we sit down on a bench.
"What is it Zoey?" she looks at me there is a lot of concern in her eyes.
"I'm in love." I start there.
"With Stark?" she looks at me confused.
"No not with Stark."
"Then who?" I take a deep breath.
"Neferet."
SYLVIA'S POINT OF VIEW:
I must of heard her wrong. Do I have a problem with the fact that my granddaughter just said she was in love with another women? No Linda had a girlfriend once best relationship my daughter ever had. I have a problem with my granddaughter being in love with the person whose trying to kill her. Regardless I let Zoey finish.
ZOEY'S POINT OF VIEW:
Grandma doesn't say anything so I continue.
"Now I know this is going to sound crazy but there are two Neferet's. I'm not talking about split personalities I mean there are literally two Neferet's. The one that is at the house of night is evil she's the impostor. The real Neferet has been in Sweden she's the one that I love. I know this is confusing but don't freak out on me. I can't lose you grandma your the only one that I can turn to. Are you mad at me?" I look at her, her face is unreadable.
"I'm not mad at you Zoey I can tell when your lying to me and your not. I was worried that if you loved someone who was going to kill you then I will tell you not to act on your feelings." I hug her. This is the best part my grandma she always understands.
"I'm glad you feel that way grandma cause I need your help."
"Tell me what I can do and I'll do the best I can." I smile at her and start to explaining our problem.
NEFERET'S POINT OF VIEW:
We picked up our bags at baggage claim. I turned on my cell phone and found a text message from Zoey.
'I'm home' that's all it said. I felt like squealing like she did. She's some where in this airport I have to see her before she leaves.
'Where r u?' I got a response a minute later.
'Outside' I half ran out the door leaving Anastasia, Mrs. Gurkha, and Larisa behind. I look around till I find her. She's sitting on a bench with her grandmother her back to me, She's more beautiful then I remember. I calmly walk over to her my heart beating harder with each step I take. She turns around to face me. My heart stops. All I can do is gin like a idiot.
"Hi." her voice is like a thousand wind chimes. God it's a beautiful sound.
"H-Hi." damn it! Way to go Neferet you sounded like a complete moron. All I can do is blush and look at the ground.
ZOEY'S POINT OF VIEW:
She's nervous I can tell. I walked closer to her and hugged her. If we weren't in public and my grandma was sitting on the bench next to me I would of kissed her. I feel her arms wrap around my waist bringing us closer together.
"I missed you." tears started to form in my eyes.
"So did I my little Zoeybird and soon we will be together always." she wipes away the tears in my eyes. Our foreheads met and we stay that way for the longest time.
"I-" we say at the same time. We laugh lightly at each other. God hearing it in person again is the greatest thing in the world.
"You first." she says lightly.
"I have a gift for you." I opened the front pocket of my backpack and hand her the box.
"I have a gift for you too." she bends over so she can open her small carry on. she takes out a package the one that candy comes in. "I know it's a little late and small but here these are some sour balls I found in Sweden. I remembered how much you like sour stuff so this is perfect. Each ball has four different levels of sour. So happy birthday." she gave me a nervous smile. She thought I wasn't going to like her gift!
"Thank you Neferet I never got Swedish candy before I love it you know how much I love sour stuff." I hugged her. "Here." I handed her the box. Now it was my turn to be nervous.
NEFERET'S POINT OF VIEW:
She liked my gift! I knew she would but I was afraid that she would laugh at me saying that it was kind of joke. She handed me a box with with a pretty blue ribbon on it. This time she was nervous. I untied the ribbon opened the box. I gasped it was one of the seashells from the sand heart that she made. The shell had a small purple 'Z' on it. Attached to the shell was a thin pice of moss green ribbon. I realize that it's a necklace. I take out the necklace putting the box in my pocket and put on the necklace.
"Do you like it?" she asked nervously.
"No." she looks sad and looked down at the ground. I lift her chin up so I can look at her. "I love it thank you Zoey." she smiles and wraps her arms around my neck.
ZOEY'S POINT OF VIEW:
'No." my heart stops. She doesn't like it but why? What's wrong with it? I look down at the ground I can't meet her eyes anymore. She lifts up my chin so I have to meet her eyes. "I love it thank you Zoey." my heart beats again. I smile at her and wrap my arms around her neck.
"Did you know there's a story behind seashells?" we press our foreheads together again our marks touching.
"What is it?"
"Every shell has only one other half just like there's only one true love out there for us."
"I didn't know that do you have your half?" I took my necklace out of my shirt. She takes it into her hand gently rubbing the moss green 'N' with her thumb. "Are these the same shells you used in that sand heart?"
"Yeah I went back for them the next day. They where to pretty to leave behind. Sgiach made them into necklaces. I chose moss green for the 'N' cause thats the color of your eyes and purple for the 'Z' because-"
"Your connected to spirt more then the other elements."
"Yeah."
SYLVIA'S POINT OF VIEW:
They where so beautiful together. I felt like crying. Zoey looks so happy. I felt a tap on my shoulder. A women with dark wheat color hair dressed head to toe in black stood behind me. I seen her some where before.
"Hi Mss. Redbird I'm Anastasia Lankford I'm one of the professors at the house of night." of course that's where I seen her. She was with a short blond man. Dragon I think his name was.
"I remember your one Zoey's teachers."
"Not exactly I only teach Fifth and sixth formers but she has my husband Dragon."
"Of course." she turns to the two women behind her.
"This is my mother Gurkha and my mother in- law Larisa." we shook hands and introduced our selfs. Gurkha sat down at one of the benches and started to rub her left knee.
ANASTASIA'S POINT OF VIEW:
With my mother and Larisa occupied at the moment I walked over to Neferet and Zoey. They looked so sweet together, foreheads pressed together. I almost can't disturbed them. Almost.
"Break it up love birds there's work to be done." Neferet lifts her head from Zoey's and shoots me a dirty look. "What?" I play innocent.
"Couldn't you broke us up in a more gentler way?" I fake ponder this.
"Nope." she rolls her eyes at me.
"Your a pain Anastasia." she picked up her carry on.
"I know but I'm your pain."
"Are you being a pain because you feel like it or for revenge cause I wouldn't tell you anything?"
"Both,"
"I'm still not telling." she walks away with Zoey in tow.
"Your being unfair!" I walk over and stand next to my mother. I crossed my arms over my chest and pouted. A sharp pain surged through the back of my calf. "Oww!"
"What did I tell you Anastasia stay out of Neferet's personal life and stop pouting your setting a horrible example for your children." okay that's it I love my mom but come on what kids!
"What children? My kids aren't even here."
"I see two over there." I look in the direction she was pointing. Neferet was right about Dragon.
STEPHANIE'S POINT OF VIEW:
I was in London for two days then I'm on a two week break before the I start the American half of my tour. I turned on my cell phone once I got into my private dressing room. I found a miss call and voice mail from Darius. What did my stupid little brother want now?
'Hi Stephanie it's Darius and I um need a favor from you. I need you to come back to Tulsa and help me find Easnadh she and Andy have gone missing. If you help me I'll do whatever you want just please help me, don't do it for me do it for Easnadh. By the way our grandparents are coming. Call me back.'
This was not good.
"Rachel." Rachel came in she has been my assistant since the begging of my carer. Before that she was and still is my best friend.
"Yes?" she asked in her mouse like voice her brown hair is in a tight french twist. She was wearing a light pink button down blouse, a black pencil skirt. and black stiletto heels. With the way she's dressed and her looks you would think she's a flirt who lost her virginity long ago. Wrong Rachel is a shy girl from a small town but she's not foolish at 22 she was still a virgin.
"I need you to book me the next flight to Tulsa." she typed away on her iPad.
"You want the absolute next flight to Tulsa?"
"Yes Rachel."
"Okay the next on leaves in an hour." I changed out of my costume and into a pair of skinny jeans, a t-shirt, and heels. I grabbed my pre packed bag thanking someone that it's small.
"Did you book it Rachel?"
"I did your all set."
"Excellent." I grabbed my cellphone and found Easnadh's name. I wonder Darius tried to call her? I pressed call. She answered on the second ring.
"Onee- Sama(big sister)!" she sounded so happy.
"Hey. How's my favorite little sister?" she laughs.
"I'm your only sister,"
"I know. I'm coming home."
"You are!" she sounded so excited.
"I am. I'm leaving for the airport right now."
"Really? I'm so happy!"
"Meet me at the airport?"
"Of corse."
"Great! see you then."
"See you!" we hung up I turned my cellphone off and placed it in my pocket. The limo dropped me off at the airport. I found my gate with ease. I found a seat and waited for the plain to take off. The plain landed hours later. I grabbed my suitcase and stepped off the plain. "ONEE- SAMA!" she ran to me and wrapped her arms around my waist. "I missed you."
"I missed you too." I kissed the top of her head. "Come on lets head home."
"Okay." we walked to the exit.
"I see two over there." I recognized the voice. It's Grandma Gurkha's. I turned to the sound of Grandma Gurkha's voice. I met moms green eyes.
"Hey Easnadh look over there." she turned to where I pointed. Her face grew the biggest smile.
"MOMMY!" she ran at lightning speed toward her.
ANASTASIA'S POINT OF VIEW:
Easnadh ran to me arms wide opened. I took her into my arms blessing our goddess that she's okay. I don't care that the few people that where there where looking at her like she's retarded they can screw them selfs. Stephanie walked over to us more calmer than Easnadh.
"Hi mom." we hug briefly. She turns to Neferet. "Hey Neferet." they hug briefly.
"Hey Steph how are you?"
"I have been fine." she turns to Larisa. "Grandma Isa!" Larisa gives her a quick tight hug.
"Stephanie I missed you."
"So did I." she sat down next to my mom. "Grandma Gurkha how's your knee?"
"It's been better." a tight hold on my waist brought my attention back to Easnadh.
"Easnadh baby your crushing me." she instantly losses her grip on my waist.
"I'm sorry it's just that I missed you so much and daddy said you were never coming back. That's not true is it mommy?" she looks up at me her baby blue eyes filled with tears. I'm mad now. Dragon is in for a world full of hurt.
"Of course it's not true baby home now why would Dragon say I wouldn't?"
"Daddy was sad I asked him why and he said you where dead but I told him that you left we went back and forth for a while till he yelled at me he said: baby I love you but your mom is dead d-e-a-d dead she's never coming back! I ran to my room and didn't come out. The women in my head told me to get some powder from your room and head to a school. We blew the powder on a blond boy and she told me to use fire on the others." she took off her coffin shaped backpack and handed me a plastic bag filled with powder. I can't believe it Dragon nearly made her kill herself.
"Easnadh that was extremely dangerous what you did."
"I know but she said it needed to be done and I brought Scar with me." I looked at where she pointed and jumped. How could I not have noticed him in the first place. Andy(likes to be called Scar) is a big guy nearly six foot tall, he has no fat on him he's completely muscle. Dark, tall, good looking, with his usual clothing and his scars from his past he's every girls dream to bad he's head over heels in love with Easnadh and vise versa.
"Hi Andy how have you been?" I hugged him and kissed his check.
"I've been doing fine Anastasia."
"Good." I pulled Easnadh off my waist. "Easnadh I would like you to meet your grandmothers Larisa and Gurkha."
"Hi!" she walked over to Larisa and hugged her with her busy I turned to Mss. Redbird.
"Mss. Redbird did Zoey tell you about are situation or not?"
"Yes Zoey did and I would gladly help."
"Great. What now?" Mss. Redbird smiled.
"We head to my house." We started to the parking lot. "Anastasia?"
"Yes?"
"Call me Sylvia."
"Okay." We headed to Sylvia's house.
Zoey'S POINT OF VIEW:
Me, Neferet, and Grandma took grandma's new car to her house. Neferet and I sat in the back our hands only parted once when we put on our seat belts. Our fingers laced together. I loved her hand It's small(compared to a guys), not to boney, smooth, and soft. Very very soft. I don't want to let go of her hand. We arrived at grandma's house. Grandma let us in her house had a warm den like feel and look to it. Pictures of my mom and us where every where along with some traditional Cherokee artifacts and a large stone fire place.
"Can I offer you guys anything?" my grandmother asked.
"No thank you." We all said. Anastasia sat down on the right end of the couch her mother next to her then grandma. Larisa sat down in the arm chair closes to grandma. Much to my dismay Neferet let go of my hand and sat down in the other arm chair that was close to Anastasia. Stephanie, Easnadh, Andy, and I sat on the floor. Easnadh turned on the T.V. to USA.
"What are we watching?" I asked her.
"SVU!" she replied happily.
"What?"
"You never heard of Law and Order: Special victims aka SVU?"
"I think so Erik watches it."
"How much do you know?"
"Not much." she turns her attention to the T.V.
"The final fall of Sonya Paxton seen it."
"Who?" she points to the semi elderly women.
"Sonya Paxton she's the ADA she dies at the end." the opening song rolls. A man first. "Elliot Stabler." then a female. "Olivia Benson." a man with gray hair and glasses. "John Munch." a african american man. "Fin." a Chinese male. "Gorge Huang." a african american female. "Melinda Warner." last a bald male. "Donald Craigan."
"Wow how do remember all that?"
"Good memory." she turns to Anastasia. "Mommy guess what?"
"What?"
"In season thirteen they might(are) having both Casey Novak AND Alex Cabot!"
"Seriously?"
"Yeah personally I think Casey should come back."
"Whose Casey and Alex?"
"There ADA's. Alex came after Abbie but Alex was placed a hit on so she went into witness protection. Casey took her place but her license was suspended for four years she was in one episode of the new season." we turn our attention back to the T.V. Easnadh jabbed me in the arm with her elbow. "What half?" she split a cream filled chocolate cupcake.
"Sure." she handed me one of the half's. I forgot how good junk food was.
ANASTASIA'S POINT OF VIEW:
Sylvia and mom where at it like no tomorrow. Hearing Easnadh socializing with Zoey was heart warming. Neferet, Dragon, some of the other professors, and myself have been trying to get her to talk to the other kids but she would usually just shy away from them or talk to Princess her Turkish Angora or say 'I have Scar'. This was the first time that Easnadh has opened up to someone that she was just introduced to so quickly. I looked at them again they had something in there hands.
"You little sneak." both of them rushed what ever was in there hands in there mouths. "Give me it." Easnadh slid her coffin shaped backpack to me. I went through it. I found what was normal for Easnadh iPod, cellphone, game boy. I also found two Hershey milk chocolate bars along with some gummy bears. She never changes. I took out the candy and gave it back to her. She went through it then crossed her arms over her chest and pouted. "Stop pouting Easnadh." she uncrossed her arms and stopped pouting. My hand stopped mid may in my bag. I sounded like my mother just a minute ago. I looked at my mother she's occupied in helping Sylvia. I'm in the clear. I looked up at Neferet. She had a smirk on her face. I spoke to soon. "What?"
"Oh nothing Mrs. Gurkha." her smirk grows.
"Shut up." my mother looks up at Neferet.
"Is there something that you need Neferet?" she asked.
"No Mrs. Gurkha."
"Okay."
"Excuse me."
SYLVIA'S POINT OF VIEW:
I look up from the book to look at Anastasia's little girl.
"What is it dear?"
"Where's the restroom?"
"Down the hall second door on the left."
"Thank you." she took off. Gurkha and I continued our work. Gurkha had pretty much made an outline with her part re writhing what she translated from the book to a note book. Some of the words where already filled in with the combination of our translations. Anything that was pure Hebrew was already filled out. When ever there was a word missing Gurkha skipped some space and naturally skipped every other line. "You have a pretty cat Mss. Redbird." I look up following the sound of Easnadh's(I think that's her name) she's standing over the Cherokee blanket that was on the floor. When I entered my home for the first time after my ascendant I found a brown mother cat with her four kittens. She gave birth on that blanket that I usually keep over the sofa. She looked conferrable enough and I didn't mind her being there so I went out bought some cat food and she stayed where she was.
"Thank you but to be honest she's not mine I found her here when I got back from the church."
"She's a Havana Brown did you know that they are the only cat breed that is required to have color whiskers?"
"No I didn't but what color would there whiskers be besides white?"
"Brown."
"Really very interesting."
"How do you know all this?" Zoey asked.
"I watch animal planet they have a show call Cats 101 and they tell you about different cat breeds. Did you know that Sphinx's hairlessness is caused by a natural mutated gene and that there coloring is based on pigmentation?"
"No I didn't." the two talked about cats during chimerical breaks.
ZOEY'S POINT OF VIEW:
Easnadh was really smart. She may sound like a little kid half the time and act like one at some points but she's really cool. I learned some stuff about cats from her like the Egyptian Mau has a skin flap from mid torso to the top of there knee that helps them run really fast and that Mau means cat in Egyptian. My cellphone ringed I found a text message from Neferet.
'Outside 10 minutes' I looked up from my cellphone.
"Does anyone mind if I stepped out for air."
"Not at all Zoey but take someone with you." Anastasia said.
NEFERET'S POINT OF VIEW:
Zoey was a genius. She played it cool and got to the point.
"I'll go with her." I offer. No one objects(not even Anastasia) at this point I don't care. She leaves first then I follow her. She walks to a tree in the middle of a huge lavender field.
ZOEY'S POINT OF VIEW:
I walked out first then she followed me. I lead her to the tree the only one in miles on my grandmas lavender farm. It's also away from from everyones eyes. I leaned against the trunk she comes around her auburn hair flowing behind her. She normally places her hair in a bun or braid but today it was in a pony tail. She steps in front of me wrapping her arms around my waist. I placed my hands on her shoulders pulling her body closer to mine. I kissed her and she returns the kiss with just as much force as me. Kissing her for real is better than any dream. I trace her bottom lip with my tongue asking to go in. She lets me our tongues intertwining exploring each others mouths. My lungs tighten the need for air becomes to great. We break the kiss both of us panting heavily. She kisses my jaw line moving down to my neck. She kisses my pulse point bitting lightly then soothing with her tongue. I know what she wants and I want it to.
"Go ahead Neferet you can drink I miss our imprint." she smiles against my neck.
"I want to do it from a different spot this time do you trust me?"
"Of course." she kneels down in front of me her face meeting the hem of my t-shirt. She lifts up my shirt just a little to revel some of my stomach. Her lips lightly touch the expose flesh. God her lips felt so good! her tongue swirls around my navel before dipping into it causing me to squirm. She presses me more closely against the tree to restrict my movement. She slowly makes her way up bringing my shirt higher till her hands lightly run over my breast. I shiver not because of the cold. Her hands lightly rest on my breast.
"Are you ready?" she looks up at me from my breast.
"Yes." I panted wanting her to continue desperately.
NEFERET'S POINT OF VIEW:
No turning back now. I rub her breast through her bra. She moans at my touches. I gently pull her bra up exposing her breast to the elements. Her nipples become hard from pleasure or the cold I don't know which. I continue to kiss up her breast. I stopped at one of them. I take a deep breath. I ran one of my nails over her breast causing a thin line of blood to form. The sent of her blood causes my eyes to blur slightly. I run my tongue over the line to get the blood flowing swiftly before I latch on the taste exploding in my mouth. I can taste the five elements in her blood. She moans and wiggles under me. My hold on her waist tightens to try and stop her movements so I don't do any harm. I forgot how much she loves to have her blood suck.
ZOEY'S POINT OF VIEW:
Her feather like touches on my breast are torture. Sweet sweet torture. She lifts up my bra exposing my breast to the outside. Cold and pleasure mix together causing my nipples to harden. She continues to kiss my breast. She picks one and rakes her nail over it. A thin line of blood forms. I felt Neferet lips on my breast as she started to drink my blood. I forgot how good it was to get have my blood drunk. I found Neferet's wrist. I rolled down the sleeve just enough to expose her wrist. I bit down hard enough to draw blood. Her blood pools in my into my mouth. God her blood is the best thing I ever tasted. The familiar red haze forms over me raw pleasure surged through me strait to my core. The formation of our imprint started and once it's there we stop. She closes the wound on my breast. The wounds that I caused soon stop bleeding. She pulls down my bra and shirt and just held me till my body stopped shaking. Our foreheads press together again. We shared a bloody kiss.
"I promise this time I will not brake it." she laughs at me, still the best sound in the world.
"Oh Zoey you didn't mean to break our imprint on purpose you took blood to save your life and Stark's life I'm not blaming you for it." I smiled at her and we stay that way for the longest time. Neferet's cellphone chimes. She looks away before putting it away. "We have to go back." I was sad the time that we get to spend together was winding down to a end. "Hey it'll be okay soon this whole thing will be over and we can be together forever so stay strong till then. Okay?"
"Okay." she kisses me one last time before we head back hand in hand.
ANASTASIA'S POIT OF VIEW:
Neferet and Zoey came back from doing who knows what outside.
'You finished?" Neferet asked walking towered us.
"Yes but we have a problem."
"What is it?" I show her the double pentagram one was a normal pentagram containing air, fire, water, earth, and spirt but the extra points where the ancient elements light, ice and lightning. "What are we going to do?" I can hear the stress and frustration in her voice.
"The ancient guardians." Easnadh said out of the blue.
"What did you say Easnadh?" she grabbed Sylvia's pen. She wrote Damien and Darius in air, Hercules in light, Shaunee/ Penthesilia and Dragon in fire, Erin and Seoras in water. Severus in ice. Steve Rae and Dallas in earth, her name and Andy's in lightning, and Zoey's and Stark's in spirt. I studied what she wrote for a while. "Are these the people we need?" she nodes her head. "Okay easy enough but do you think we can get Seoras, Hercules, and Severus to come?" I asked Neferet.
"No idea."
"I have a question." Zoey says.
"What is it Zoey?" Neferet turned to Zoey I swear I saw a twinkle in her eyes.
"In fire why is Shaunee's and Professor Penthesilia's name?" Neferet raised an eyebrow at her.
"You didn't know that Penthesilia had an affinity for fire?"
"I didn't."
"Oh okay now you know." me and Neferet talked a little while longer to set a plan in motion.
Other couples enter and warning of kink