Chapter Two:
Thalia's POV
The next morning, I jumped out of bed quickly. I got dressed in all black; stockings, ripped skinny jeans, slightly tight sleeveless shirt, black hoodie, and my black high top converse; the only thing that wasn't black was my usual red leather jacket.
I slipped my phone in my back pocket and my butterfly knife in my front. I went upstairs to the attic and decided to start here for my digging.
I looked through every box, every case, every bag. Then I found a box with my name on it. Opening it up, the first thing I saw was my very first pair of shoes: red, black, and white Air Jordans from when I was only a year old. I cooed at the sight, I was so adorable.
I pulled out everything that was inside, baby pictures, my old blanket with my name on it I named Foofie, my stuffed strawberry I named Berry, and my old baby clothes. But the part that caught most of my attention was a sealed yellow folder.
I grabbed that and opened it up. I looked in a saw something that broke my heart, adoption papers.
"Thalia, are you up yet?" I heard mom, no Lauren ask. I held the papers at my side and walked downstairs.
I saw dad, Joshua sitting on the table reading the morning papers and drinking coffee. Lauren was at the counter making tea.
"Hi sweety, are you going somewhere?" She asked me. I gave her a blank look and held up the papers.
"What are these?" I asked them slowly. They looked at the papers in my hand and wide eyed with fear.
"Thalia, sweety. Let us explain." Joshua said.
"Oh please, do enlighten me on why these were in my box of baby stuff." I said coldly, throwing the papers on the counter.
"When we got to the adoption center, the lady said that they found you abandoned on the side of the road, no letter, just your blanket, and Barry." Lauren started. "The police said there were too many reports on missing children they couldn't track down your real parents. So we took you in as our own."
"But you lied to me for eighteen years?!" I exclaimed.
"Don't you dare raise your voice at your moth-" I cut Joshua off.
"NO SHE IS NOT MY MOTHER AND YOU ARE NOT MY FATHER! I AM DONE WITH YOU TWO! I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU LIED TO ME!" I ran upstairs to my room slamming the door.
I grabbed a duffel bag not too big and not too small. I began to fill it with my clothes, my belongings, my laptop, my tablet, my books, my CDs. I ran to the attic real quick and got Barry, Foofie, and my baby Jordans. I packed those as well.
I used to teleport out of the room and out of the house. I ended up at Marblehead. I pulled my phone out and called the first person I could think of, Caleb.
RIING
RIING
RIING
"Hello?"
"Caleb."
"Hey Thalia, what's up."
"Look, can you get the others and meet me at Marblehead, I found something out that may or may not help."
"Yeah sure, we'll meet you there."
"Thanks, bye."
"Bye."
Then I hung up. I walked a little further into Marblehead. I dropped my bag as I saw the tire tracks from last night. Looking up at the sky, I prayed to God for answers. Who is my real family? Why would Lauren and Joshua lie to me? Do I have any siblings? Why was I even born? Did my real family not want me?
Tears fell from my eyes and wrapped my arms around my waist. I hunched over, still standing, and sobs wracked my body. I cried for about twenty minutes, before the anger took the best of me.
My eyes darkened and I could feel the magic flowing through my body. I screamed at the top of my lungs and felt the ground shake beneath me. The wind blew harshly and spun around me like a mini tornado. Crow caws could be heard and they could be seen flying around the tornado. I couldn't stop screaming.
Soon, it sounded super sonic and I felt myself fly off the ground. My hands to the sides stretched out and my head thrown back. I didn't focus on anything else until I heard them.
"THALIA! YOU HAVE TO STOP!" Reid..
"YOU'RE GOING TO GET YOURSELF KILLED!" Tyler…
"STOP! THALIA!" Pogue…
"THALIA! WHAT EVER IT IS YOU FOUND IN YOUR HOUSE, I PROMISE YOU WE WILL HELP YOU WITH THIS!" Caleb… Oh god..
I felt myself calm down at the sound of their voices. The tornado calming down, the crows flying away, my screaming coming to an end, and the vibrations in the Earth stopped. I slowly levitated down to the ground on my knees. My back hunched over and and my head down, my hair covering my face like a mask.
I broke down crying again. The pain was too much for me. I felt arms wrap me up and pull me close to them. Caleb…
"Shh, shh, it's okay, Thalia. It's over. Shh." He runs his fingers through my hair.
"It's never gonna be okay." I said through sobs.
"Hey, it will be, I promise." I eventually calmed down.
Caleb helped me to stand and put his arm around me. Reid, Tyler, and Pogue looked worried.
"What happened, Thalia? What caused you to use that much?" Tyler asked. I walked to my bag and pulled out the folder.
"It's my adoption papers." They looked at me shocked. "Lauren and Joshua found me at an adoption center. The people who were there said that the police found me on the side of the road with only my blanket and stuffed strawberry. There were too many reports on missing children they couldn't find out who my real parents were. Maybe…." I calmed down before I could cry again. "Maybe we could use this to find out how I have magic."
"We'll see what we can do. Come on, let's go to my place." Caled said. Reid grabbed my bag for me and we all walked out of Marblehead. Tylers hummer was parked at the exact spot where he did the jump.
We all got in the car, the same way as last night. I rest my head on Caleb's shoulder and he put his arm around my shoulder. The whole ride was quiet. Often, the others would take a glance at me, probably to make sure I'm not dead to the world.
We finally got to a huge mansion that took my breath away, I just didn't seem to show it. Once inside, Caleb and Pogue brought me to a living room. Pogue used to start a fire in the fireplace. I didn't even notice I was shaking and shivering.
Reid and Tyler came in with a blanket and a mug. Reid gave the mug to me and Tyler wrapped the blanket around my shoulders. I took a sip from the mug and found it was hot tea.
"I've never used so much before. Thing is, I liked it." I said emotionlessly. "I don't know what happened. I just thought about how I found out and how they lied to me for eighteen years. I just blew up."
"Do you want to rest or should we find out the truth now?" Pogue asked me cautiously.
"Now. I need to know now." I said determined. He nodded and sat down. I reached into my bag and pulled out my notebook, ripping out a piece of paper.
I laid it out on the coffee table and pulled out my pocket knife. All I needed was a few drops of blood and it'll show me my truth birth family. I cut my palm a bit and held it over the paper. Once it was done I looked to the others and nodded.
All our darkened and I felt the magic through each of us. The blood disappeared from the paper, I folded it up and we only had to wait ten minutes.
The past ten minutes were painstaking and tense. I was now pacing in front of the fireplace and chewing on my nails. Reid sat with his elbows on his knees burning holes in the paper (figuratively). Caleb had his elbow resting on the couch arm and his knee bouncing up and down. Tyler kept wringing his hands. Pogue would often move his long hair back even when it wasn't in his eyes.
My watch beeped indicating that the ten minutes are over. I jumped a little but calmed down. The guys stood up looking a little anxious. I reached forward and took the paper that held my birth name. I opened it and almost fell to the ground in shock. But Caleb caught me and I started to cry again.
"We all could've grown up together. I could've had the best life ever." I whispered. On the paper written in my blood read Thalia Elizabeth Simms. Oh god, Tyler is my brother. "Tyler is my brother." I voiced my thoughts.
"What? My parents said I was an only child…." He trailed off. "I have a sister. I have a sister. Thalia, when were you born?" He asked me.
"November 3rd, 1988." He looked shocked before standing up and pacing. "Tyler, what is it? What's wrong?" I asked him worried. He stopped pacing and looked me in the eye. I saw he was crying too.
"That's the same day I was born." I gasped and stood up from the ground, walking to be in front of him.
"So that means that we're like-" I started.
"Twins." We said in unison.
"Holy shit…" I heard Reid whisper.
"We have to get answers from mom and dad." Tyler said quickly.
"But what if they don't remember ever having a daughter? What if they gave me up 'cause they never wanted me? What if-?" I was cut off. Tyler grabbed my elbows and made me look him in the eye.
"Thalia. Thalia, calm down. Relax, of course they're going to remember you, you're their daughter and my sister. You hear me? You. Are. My. Sister. Okay?" I nodded and Tyler pulled me into a hug. I cried into his shoulder. I calmed down and wiped the tears from my eyes.
"Let's go, I want some answers and right now goddamnit." I said sternly. Before we left, I grabbed my duffel as well as my old baby blanket and Berry. The boys didn't question me.
We walked out of Caleb's house/mansion and went into his hummer. Nobody said anything or made a sound. Tyler pulled up to a house that was fairly big.
All of us got out of the car and to the house. I put my hood up and covered my eyes. I was really nervous. I only met the guys last night and I find out I am adopted and one of the guys twin sister. I held Berry and Foofie close to me, they were proof that they were my parents and I was their daughter.
Tyler opens the door for us and leads us to the living room where I hear voices.
"Ah, Tyler, Caleb, Pogue, Reid, and who is this?" I heard a deep male voice ask. My father..
"Mom, dad, do I have any siblings?" Tyler asks. They were silent before I heard a sigh.
"You had a twin sister, but she disappeared when you were only a few months old. We found the man who kidnapped her, but we never found your sister. My poor baby could be anywhere out there." I heard a woman say. My mother….
"Well, she's not there." Tyler said. "She's right here…." He pulled my hood down and I looked to see a couple around forty years old. They both had brown hair but the my mother had green eyes. She put a hand to her mouth and looked to me with tears. My father looked dumbstruck.
"Thalia?" Dad asked hesitantly. I nodded and tears gathered.
"Oh, my baby…" Mom said crying and walking to me.
"Mom…" I walked to her and wrapped my arms around her. Both of us cried our eyes out. Dad came over and hugged the two of us.
"My little girl…" Dad said.
"Daddy…."
"You came back to us, my darling girl." Mom wept. The three of us pulled away and mom put her hands on the sides of my face. "I'm so sorry, we did everything we could to find you ourselves."
"You probably even used magic to try and find me." They looked shocked to know that I know.
"Yeah thing is mom, dad, Thalia has the Power too." Tyler said.
"What?" Dad gasped. I nodded for confirmation.
"I found out when I was only thirteen. I kept it well hidden and practiced on my own." I explained.
"Oh, you still have Berry and your baby blanket." Mom said noticing Foofie and Berry in my hands. "I gave those to you when you were two months old. And I gave Tyler the exact same blanket in blue and a stuffed dog named Marco."
"Mom…" Tyler groaned, blushing.
"Wait, if Tyler and I are twins, who came out first?" I asked. Tyler came to my side and we looked to mom and dad anxiously.
"Do you really want to know?" Dad asked.
"Go on." I said at the same time Tyler said "Yeah." Mom and dad exchanged a look and both smiled.
"The one with the bigger cock." Then they walked away laughing their asses off and giving us some time in the living room. Tyler and I were both frowning and we looked to Caleb, Pogue, and Reid who were trying to suppress their laughs.
"The fuck is that?" I asked Tyler who just shook his head. "That's your fucking mother talking." I said giving him a light smack in the back of the head.
"That's our fucking mother." He muttered collapsing on the couch. I sighed and collapsed next to him.
"I meet mom and dad who are awesome, then I ask them which of the two of us came out first, then she tells me the one with the bigger cock. What the fuck?" I mutter.
"This day just got crazier and crazier." Tyler says, running a hand down his face. "Come on, grab your bag and I'll show you where you'll be staying until we fix up a bedroom for you." I chose not to argue and grabbed my bag.
All five of us walked upstairs and Tyler led us to a room. He opened it to reveal a guest room. It had a black bed frame with a blood red bed set with a red comforter. At the foot of the bed was a wooden chest painted black with red roses around the key area, in the keyhole was a ruby key. There was a dark wood dresser and a wardrobe, kinda like the one in Chronicles of Narnia. On the other side of the room was a glass desk with dark wood holding it.
"It's not much, but we'll help get it decorated the way you want." He said as I examined the room.
"I love it, and the sheets are my favorite color." I told him. I set my bag on top of the chest and put Foofie and Berry on the bed. Reid walked up and held the blanket in front of it.
"Why do you have this blanket? I know it was from your childhood, but I gave away all my baby stuff to Goodwill." I took my blanket away from him.
"Don't touch Foofie." I said sternly.
"Foofie? You named a blanket Foofie?" He asked.
"Yes I did, now don't mock me or else your gonna be dubbed Half-Sack." I warned.
"Why Half-Sa… Oh." He realised.
"Yeah, 'oh'." I flopped down on the bed and the others fully came into the room and sat anywhere. Caleb on the bed, Reid at the desk, Tyler on the floor beside my head, and Pogue at the edge of the dresser.
I took out my phone and decided to play music. I pressed shuffle and a very dirty song came on and I couldn't help but sing along. Apparently Tyler and Pogue knew this song too because the three of us sang along.
Situations are irrelevant now.
She loves the way that I tease,
I love the way that she breathes
I touched her ooh, she touched my ahhh, it was the craziest thing.
I love the girls who hate to love because they're just like me.
A certain girl she took my hand and ran it up her thigh.
She licked her lips and pulled my hair, I fall in love for a night
She can't behave and I'm just a slave,
don't worry I'll be gone when the morning comes.
Darling what is going on?
Honestly that never happened
Lying is your favorite passion.
Leave me, go where you belong
Higher heels and lipstick napkins
dying is your latest fashion.
The frustration it's a regular thing
I hate the ones who love to hate because they're just like me.
A certain girl she took her hand and put it in my lap
"It's way too full," she said
"Once you have me you'll always come back."
She can't behave and I'm just a slave,
don't worry I'll be gone when the morning comes.
Darling what is going on?
Honestly that never happened
Lying is your favorite passion.
Leave me, go where you belong
Higher heels and lipstick napkins
dying is your latest fashion.
I know you love to resist
and all it takes is a kiss
and you just love to hate me.
You know you love all the lies
so don't act surprised
that I just love to hate you.
I kissed your lips you pulled my hair it was the craziest thing.
I love the girls who love to hate. [Breathing]
(Whoa) Darling what is going on?
Honestly that never happened
Lying is your favorite passion.
Leave me, go where you belong
Higher heels and lipstick napkins,
dying is your latest fashion
Darling (leave me) what is going on?
Honestly that never happened
Lying is your favorite passion
Leave me (darling) go where you belong
Higher heels and lipstick napkins,
dying is your favorite passion
"You spoke the truth, sista." Reid said winking to me. I glared and threw a pillow at him. It was successfully strong enough to knock him off the seat. We spent the whole time in my new room talking, listening to music, getting to know each other more, using, joking around, and making fun of each other.
"Boys, Thalia, dinners ready!" Mom called.
"Come on." I said hopping on Reids back. We all went downstairs and to the dining area. Mom made spaghetti, lasagna, and garlic bread. Then mom brought up the topic of my powers.
"Thalia, did you ever ascend yet?" She asked.
"What's that?" I asked her, looking to the guys.
"It's when you get your full powers. It happens when we turn eighteen." Caleb explained.
"Well, at the night of my eighteenth birthday I felt this strange feeling, like I just had a…" I trailed off blushing. Reid, Tyler, Pogue, and Caleb were snickering knowing what I was about to say. I glared at them and used so it seemed like I kicked them in the leg. They all winced in pain and groaned a little.
"Ah ah ah, no using at the table." Dad said. I muttered a 'sorry' and gave the boys my hardest death glare. It worked because they flinched.
Caleb's POV
I can't believe it. Tyler has a sister, a twin sister at that. And she has the Power as well. I've never heard of an Ipswich witch before. Oh well, there's a first for everything.
After dinner, we all went back up to Thalia's room. Soon we all got bored and began to throw around a paper ball. Then Thalia stood up quickly.
"Shit I can't believe I forgot Joe-Joe." She hissed.
"Who's Joe-Joe?" Reid asked.
"Hang on, I'll be right back, meet me in the front of the house." Then she disappeared after she used.
"Fuck, she teleported." Pogue muttered and we all went outside. She wasn't there yet.
We sat and waited. After three minutes, she teleported back, but this time she had a bike with her. It was 2006 Kawasaki Ninja Zx636.
"Holy shit." Pogue exclaimed as we walked closer to Thalia and her bike.
"Guys this is Joe-Joe, my baby." Pogue reached out to touch the bike but Thalia smacked his hand hard. "Don't touch. I raised a lot of money to buy one and finally got her. Took two years of babysitting and pet sitting to get enough money for him."
"Let's put Joe-Joe in the garage and you can ride him tomorrow." Tyler said. We all started to snicker at his words. "What?" Then he registered what he just said and started to laugh with us.
As Tyler opened the garage, Thalia pushed Joe-Joe into the garage as if she were pushing a small kids bike. We went back inside and continued what we did before dinner.
Soon, it was just Thalia and I awake, Tyler fell asleep on the floor, Pogue at the desk, and Reid at the foot of the bed.
"I think I'm going to mess with Reid a bit." Thalia announced, going through her stuff and pulling out two markers. I grinned and took one of them.
We began to carefully draw a bunch of stuff on his face. We did a unibrow, a Hitler mustache, swirls on his cheeks, a goatee, eyes over his eyelids, and stitches on the left side of his face starting at the corner of his mouth.
After quietly snickering and taking photos, we finished our dirty work. Then I got the idea of messing with Pogue. I went to the bathroom and got a bowl of warm water.
When I went back to the room, Thalia knew what I was doing and we went to Pogue at the desk. Thalia carefully lifted his hand and I set the bowl down on the desk.
Thalia placed his hand in and we walked away. We walked out of the room and downstairs where we quietly laughed our asses off. We calmed down and sat on the couch. I saw Thalia's eyes darken and the fireplace slowly set alight.
We sat down on the couch just watching the fire. "Everything's going to change now is it?" She asked me. I put my hand on top of hers and she looked me in the eye.
"Yeah." I told her. She smiled a little and entwined our fingers. Her hand was small, soft, and warm whereas mine was large, rough, and heated.
I looked at her again and noticed she was staring at me. I felt myself lean forward slowly and hesitantly. I didn't know if she wanted to kiss me. Then I saw her lean forward as well. I closed the distance between us and our lips met.
Her lips were soft and her kiss gentle. I cupped the side of her heart shaped face with my other hand. I almost moaned at the feel of her tongue grazing my lip. I granted her entry into my mouth. Our tongues rolled together and she tasted like strawberries and cherries. I felt her hands go through my hair and my hands move to her hips to pull her closer. Her arms wrapped around my neck.
She straddled me, but didn't break the kiss. I weaved my fingers through her long brose colored hair and the other hand was at her back. We broke the kiss for needed air and rested our foreheads together.
"What do you think Tyler will think about this?" She asked me.
"I don't care what he thinks, but I think we should at least let him know." I told her, looking into her beautiful brown eyes. She nodded and we went back to making out until we decided to fall asleep on the couch.