Shadows: A teen paranormal romance series (The Celestial Series Book 2) by Lisa Champagne

Author:Lisa Champagne [Champagne, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Champagne Stories
Published: 2020-09-28T05:00:00+00:00

Lili - Hide and Seek

I stand in my room, full of fear. It’s not how I left it. Things have been moved, and I can feel dark energy in places it shouldn’t be. Someone was in here, looking through my things. I begin searching for the objects that mean something to me. A heart necklace my dad gave me that I can’t bring myself to wear. My Yoda clock that my mom gave me, even though she didn’t understand the movies.

Nora’s book, which I hid under my mattress before I left for Rome. I use my energy to lift the mattress in the air and find nothing. Where is the book? I frantically search under my bed, hoping it fell. Hoping the darkness didn’t steal my best chance of rescuing my loved ones and defeating it. But it’s not there. I drop to the floor, lost. I know I put it there. I didn’t move it…did I? How could I be so stupid?

I resemble an addict, searching for the book like it’s my drug of choice and I’m on the verge of becoming sober. I tear everything out of my closet, the only place I’ve yet to search, but it’s nowhere. It’s gone. It disappeared, along with my hope of surviving the trip to Nirvana. I begin to cry uncontrollably, my body convulsing from lack of breath, from lack of control, like a broken fire hydrant unable to stop. I just need a break, need a way to come out of this.

I put my head between my knees and take deep breath after deep breath until my shattered lungs return to normal and my tears dry up. I’m not a damsel in distress. I can solve this. My dad used to tell me that problems are the catalyst to growth, and you have to solve them in a different way than how they were created. I got myself into this mess because I decided to handle it myself, so maybe I need to ask someone for help.

I grab my Gnosis, to call Adem, but I hesitate. We’ve been spending so much time together that I’m beginning to feel things I don’t want to feel. I need to think clearly, and when I’m with Adem my thoughts become clouded. I decide to call Sebastian instead. He helped me last year when I needed it, maybe his peculiar mind will have some insight now.

My Gnosis rings until I hear a click and Sebastian answers. “Speak.”

I fight to make my voice sound stable, not emotional and scratchy, but I fail. “Hi. Uh, it’s Lili…I…Would you be able to come over?”

I hear a whooshing sound on the other side that then appears in my room, along with a forming transportation circle. Then suddenly, without warning, Sebastian jumps through, floating to my side like a fairy king.

“What’s wrong?” he asks with sincerity. I’m caught off guard by his sudden appearance and wipe the remains of my breakdown from my reddened face. I try to hide behind a smile, but it comes out wrong, feeling more like a snarl.

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