Chapter 11
Michelle's POV
I walked around my bedroom, pacing back and forth while I thought about this new information given to me. This was more serious than ever. We were talking about my birth family, a huge part of my past, which I never even knew about! The conversation I had with Serena just now was slowly settling into my mind.
"How can this be?" I asked myself, as I walked out onto my balcony. "How can I actually believe this? Serena would never lie, so everything she says is true." I could barely restrain myself from exploding with different emotions, like sadness, from losing the two people who cared for me my whole life, or anger, from Serena waiting until now to tell me that I was really the daughter of an evil sorceress that we have to defeat. To bring death upon the woman who gave me life... As traumatizing as finding out I was adopted sounds, I had extreme curiosity dwelling inside of me. What if Xiara hadn't tried to get rid of me? What if she kept me, and raised me herself? Would I have turned out to be the same person I am now? I stood there in my own silence, staring up at the bright, crescent moon that made the twinkling stars shine brighter. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw a black bubble form behind me. I slowly spun around, and I saw the person I've been wondering, thinking, and wanting to know about all night. The one person I was afraid of and now curious about.
"Hello there, Princess Michelle..."
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Emily's POV
In an effort to distract ourselves from Michelle's shocking discovery, we went downstairs to the game room. We opened a closet to find dozens of board games stacked on top of each other, one quickly catching my eye.
"Who wants to play Twister?" I asked, painstakingly pulling the box out from the middle of the first row of games.
"Ooh! Me! Me! Me!" everyone chanted as Serena and I laid out the Twister mat, which looked and felt like Lucy's polka dot shower curtain she had at home. I picked up the spinner as everyone eagerly gathered around the mat. I giggled to myself as I spun the spinner.
"Okay, Kiki, you're first," I said. "Left foot green." I watched Kiki place her foot on a green spot on the mat. I wonder what Michelle's doing upstairs...and how she's doing...
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Michelle's POV
"Hello, Xiara," I said, barely breathing as she stepped closer to me, pulling out her short, silver wand, and poking me in the chest with it.
"Unfortunately, I killed your parents," Xiara said, now standing still. "And, I'm going to have to kill you, too. How tragic." Serena's voice echoed in my head, and everything she said to me before was now rushing through my brain.
You were adopted, and Xiara is your birth mother.
At the time you were born, Xiara heard from Katrina a prophecy that her first-born child would kill her when it grew up.
I snapped out of it, just as Xiara was getting ready to strike.
"Wait, Xiara, you don't have to do this," I said, putting my hands up in a measly attempt to defend myself.
"Oh, but I do," Xiara responded, smirking as she raised her wand. "I have to if I want to rule the world."
"How could you..." I said, now pleading. "Please don't."
"Nothing you say will convince me to spare you!" Xiara snapped. "Avada Kedav-"
"I'm your daughter!" I exclaimed, trying to stop the tears that dared to fall down my cheeks. Xiara stopped, and stared at me, completely frozen.