Not a Dragon: Soulmarked: Kiara Ravenlocke Files 1 by Alexia Black

Author:Alexia Black [Black, Alexia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Independent
Published: 2021-02-27T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

I stared at the ceiling unable to make myself read any further. To be honest, I regretted reading that. Knowledge was power but it brought so much fear with it too.

I took my phone hoping to distract myself. I plugged in my earphones and started watching random videos, not even focusing on them, but instead scrolling through the comments. Half an hour later, I couldn’t even remember what I had watched. I opened my chat with Sam. She probably wouldn’t see it now but I wanted to send her a text before I had to make myself research again.

Yo fairyshit, u okay?

To my surprise, my message was read immediately. But, no reply came back. I texted again immediately, this time the message was left unread. Did she go offline after the first message? Her drill master or someone must’ve organized a surprise practice for them or maybe a teacher had called for her. That must be why she couldn’t reply, right?

I pulled my knees to my chest and pressed my forehead against it, hard. The logical part of my brain told me to shut up but the louder part of me insisted she was also abandoning me. I didn’t cry, unwilling to lose myself to despair. But, like an ominous omen, I couldn’t shake the chill I felt in my bones that this time it wasn’t just me overthinking.

“Kiara?”

I didn’t bother looking up. “Yeah?” I muttered.

He hesitated and it was that hesitation that made me look up. “Do you want to listen to my song?”

Huh?

“Sure,” a distraction was a distraction, and I needed one desperately now.

“I haven’t shown this to anyone yet, but it’s my favorite among the songs I’ve ever written,” Aiden scrolled through his phone. “Close your eyes,” he pressed play.

Lost, oh so lost

In the sea of my sins

Voices screaming in my head that I should never dream

Burning to the ashes in the flames of my rage

Cracked heart and Jagged scars

I wish I could be the person that I used to be.

Then I remember, it’s not over

In the darkest corner of a heart so broken

There’s still that tiny ember in my soul

A siren song of better tomorrows

Aiden’s soulful voice crooned. Bit by bit, I lost myself to the music, let the words heal me, fill me with hope.

Let the scars bleed, you are more than your scars

Let yourself dream bright, the boogyman is but a spectre who can’t bear to see the light

Let yourself breathe, my darling

For you’ve been alone long enough.

The world didn’t seem so bleak anymore. I opened my eyes to see Aiden staring back, a gleam of worry flashed across his eyes. Epiphany hit me. He hadn’t randomly asked me to listen to his song. He had seen me upset and he was trying to cheer me up in his own way, through music.

“Thank you,” I softly whispered.

He nodded and went back but didn’t take his phone back. I looped the song back and listened to it, feeling a lightness in my heart I hadn’t felt in years.

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