AN) Sorry that I haven't updated in forever but I had writer's block and I just lost interest. But I'm back and going to try and finish this story. I have it mapped out sort of but not completely so updates might not be frequent. Also the writing style has changed a little, it's going to be in first person now but still third person now and then.
Arianna P.O.V.
I ran to the bathroom and shut the door before I started crying. The memories kept coming back in a flood and wouldn't stop. You see what happened was, in the beginning, just like what any twelve year old girl went through. Her first crush, and mine just happened to be on Ethan, one of the most popular guys in the grade ahead of me of course. I told some people I thought were really close friends but one of them went and blabbed it to the entire grade and it reached the ears of the grade above. I got teased for a little bit about it, mostly by asshole guys who have no life. It stopped after Ethan told me he felt the same way and we started dating. Well whatever you call "dating" when you're in middle school.
It was going really good for about a month and then it was my birthday. It started out as a normal day but about halfway through the day it started getting weird. Ethan was constantly trying to get me to go to his house after school for some reason and he wouldn't drop it. I finally told him I would ask my mom if he stopped, he quit for a while but it started up again until I finally told him I would go, even if it was against my better judgment. When I was leaving school with him some people started walking with us and Ethan said they were friends of his from his dad's job.
I was starting to get really nervous and when we finally got to his house all of a sudden Ethan just grabs me, ties me up, and takes me to his basement. I thought he was just gonna drop me there but all of a sudden a door opens and he takes me down, down, down until it feels like I was three stories under. Then he stops and goes into this really big hall and drops me on the floor in front of this platform with a chair on it. In the chair is Ethan's father but he's wearing this really odd looking knights armor and a cape. All of a sudden the hall fills with men and boys all dressed similarly. They all rush in so fast that I can't see Ethan for a good five to ten minutes and the next time I spot him he's dressed like everyone else except he has this little silver circlet on his head. All of a sudden the room gets dead quiet and Ethan comes forward next to me. He gets down and kneels for a few minutes until his dad tells him to stand. Ethan then tells his dad that he has finally got the "elf" and launches into a story of how he got the "elf" to trust him so he could bring it there. About half way through I realize that when he says elf he means me and I got confused, why was he calling me that one and how could he know I was different two. He keeps going and says that if they could "influence" the brain, my brain, I could forget what just happened and they could influence me. His father congratulates him and tells him to bring me up so he can get a better look at me.
As Ethan drags me up to the chair his father stands and began speaking. "Knights we have finally found the one thing that will help us reach our goal! This girl is the key, even if she is a woman and a child, none the less her kind have powers so great you can hardly imagine. They can control things, make people do their binding, and even so the rumors go live forever. She will be the key to our success and it is all thanks to Ethan, he has brought her to us and his prize will be a great one. This girl will have to have someone watch her and control her, this is his prize for it means she will think he's her lover." At this point I went into shock at the thought as the room burst into laughter that seemed to last forever. As Ethan's father sat down he said "Ethan take her away."
As Ethan drug me out of the room I went into a panic and began to worry, how would I get out, how could I stop this, would Ethan have pity on me and let me go, or was there even a chance at escape at all? These thoughts kept running through my head as we came to a stop. I took one look at Ethan's face and knew he wouldn't help me. So I started looking for ways out, but it was impossible. I could barely control my "powers" and this room appeared to be able to block out what "power" I could control. At that point I began to cry and panic, Ethan just looked at me and laughed. He then picked me up and tied me to a chair in the middle of the room. I began to freak out even more afraid he was going to rape me but he just chuckled and told me " Don't worry Ari I won't do anything to you until you're ready. Which should be soon so I don't have to wait long." and this point he began to laugh even more. I started to have a panic attack as he attached electrodes and wires to my head and just as he was about to flip a switch to turn the machine on I blacked out.
When I woke up I was home in my room. I was still scared that they would come for me and was almost afraid to go downstairs. Eventually I got the courage to get up and go down and see if my parents were home. They were both standing in the kitchen and were going on like it was any normal day. When they asked me how my day was I broke down crying. They rushed over to me and began to try and comfort me and ask me what was wrong. My parents had me sit down at the kitchen table and my mom made me a cup of apple cider, one of my favorites, and I began to tell them what happened.
As I finished my story my parents sat there in slight shock, when I was done they both rushed over to me again and just hugged me for almost a half an hour. We finally started kind of talking about what we should do. I told my parents I wanted to get away for a while and we had been getting letters from a Plumber school in England asking me to come so I told them I wanted to go and would take care of it. They were really nervous but were finally convinced to let me go. I told all my friends I was going to a boarding school in England that had really good academics that my parents wanted me to go to. I packed most of my stuff and made some calls. I didn't call the school like I told my parents though, I called Kevin and asked him if I could live with him for a while. He agreed without hesitation and told me I could come whenever I wanted. I said I would be up in a day or two and hung up. I packed all my stuff into the car and had my parents take me to the airport. From there I called up Kevin and told him to come get me. After we got to his apartment I took the spare room and basically became a sister crossed with his mother. I showed him some things like the cars and making sure he didn't burn food every time he cooked. But I got tired of the way we were living con-job to con-job just wasn't cutting it for me anymore and I told Kevin I was tired. I wanted to actually go to the school I had been pretending to go to for about a year. I told Kevin I was going to go there and that it wasn't his fault and explained I thought that the forever Knights were tracking me again. He wanted to go fight but after one long argument he said he wouldn't, although you could tell he wasn't happy about it.
I packed up my stuff once again. Contacted the school and took a flight across the pond and learned things about my powers and my people. I finally felt I didn't have to worry everyday about getting attacked. About a month ago I decided to come home for more that a week at holidays and moved back in with my parents. Then just today I run into Kevin and two people I thought he hated for really stupid reasons, Gwen and Ben. They really were great people and all they were trying to do was help the world from people like the Forever Knights. I guess he'd finally realized that because it looked like he and Gwen were sort of a thing, even if Kevin was completely oblivious, and he and Ben acted almost like brothers instead of killing each other all the time.
I finished crying as the memories stopped and got up off the floor. I guess I had fell down or something while I was having flashbacks. I grabbed what looked like a clean washrag and cleaned off all the runny makeup so I didn't look like a raccoon. My face was still all red and splotchy as I walked out of the bathroom and back into the living room. As I walked back in I heard Kevin talking and realized he was telling them why I ran out of there. I was mad he did but at the same time I was glad because now I didn't have to tell them myself.
I stood in the doorway for a bit and they didn't notice me so I cleared my throat. All three heads whipped around and looked at me for about three second before I was attacked I a hug. At first I thought it was Gwen but noticed the green jacket and the smoothie smell. I was shocked why was Ben acting like this? He barely even knew me so why was he being so nice? He finally backed off and then realized what he'd just done and rush to say some thing so it came out so fast I couldn't hear him. I said to him " Ben it might help if you explained a little more slowly." He grinned sheepishly and said "I'm sorry about how I said that earlier. I didn't think that maybe you had a reason to keep that from us. If it helps I know what it's like to have the Forever Knights on your tail and trying to get something from you." at that point the held up his wrist with the omnitrix on it and continued, "This thing has caused me and my family a lot of problems and that's just from people trying to get it off of me. None of them tried to mess with my brain and brainwash me into doing what they wanted." At this point I was just grinning and said "Thanks you have no idea how much that means to me."
Kevin decided to interrupt this hallmark card (again if you recognize then it probably isn't mine) moment by asking" Do you still make those really awesome pancakes with chocolate chips in them?" Gwen smacked him at that comment and everybody just laughed. I could get used to this I thought, having my family around again and friends that care about me.
AN) So there's the first chapter in forever. If there's any grammar mistakes just let me know and I'll try and fix them. It might be awhile before the next update like I said already but I'm going to try and update soon.