Prologue & Chapter 1

Prologue:

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Darkness was filtering through every room in the castle, which was normal. It was the odd eeriness that was hovering around every corner. Usually, there would have been at least one bubbly girl skip through but there was no one. Hale wasn’t sure what to make of this.

Hale heard a faint cry from down the hall... the queen’s bedroom. He paused for a mere moment and then raced down to the large door. The proceeded to knock hardly on it until a maid answered it. She seemed to be very cautious. The girl yanked him inside then slammed the door closed and locked it quickly.

But Hale wasn’t paying attention to that. He was watching six small bundles in a cradle. Even though, the blankets covered his view he knew it what it was... six babies. He turned sharply on his heel to look at the maid. “are they all girls?” he asked and the girl nodded. It was then that he noticed that the Queen was barely hanging on.

He came to her bed side. “My queen?” He stared at her intently. The poor thing looked so sickly, her face so pale but still the most beautiful he had ever seen. “Please tell Icarus...I...I love...him... and, and I’m glad that I died for something so important...” She said through violent coughs. Then she was gone, she was no more.

At that moment, King Icarus through open the locked door with such strength Hale had never seen the king do. Icarus was by his wife’s body in seconds and he stared at her as if he wanted to cry but that was impossible... for vampire’s can’t cry.

Chapter one: 

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Light trickled through the curtains and Kiara thrust a pillow over her head, begging to no one really for 5 more minutes of sleep. Lacey, one of her 5 sisters pushed her out of bed. “Get up!” Lacey hollered. Kiara sat up from the floor rubbing her head and glaring at Lacey. Kiara studied her features; Lacey had light brown hair and chocolate colored eyes, she had a sort of baby face even though she was 17 and she had a few freckles here and there on her cheeks. All in all, she was attractive. But she’s sort of a genius, like as in a 5.0 grade average.

Kiara scowled at her. She loved her sister and sometimes was sad that they weren’t truly blood related. Yes, that’s right they were adopted. All of them were. The couple that took them in had wanted a big family but due to some complications, the woman (Mrs. Paxton) couldn’t have children. So they adopted 6 girls all around the same age. But that had been a long time ago, they had been adopted at 2.

Then her more gentle sister, Lily came and helped her to stand up. Lily had hair that was black and it cut off just a inch or two from her ears. She had grass green eyes that really pierced through your soul if you looked into them to long. She seemed to always have a soft smile playing on her lips, even when things didn’t seem to be going her way.

Kiara thanked her then looked at the clock. “Crap! Why didn’t you wake me up earlier?!” She yelled when she saw that they had about 30 minutes to get to school and it was the first day too! She scrambled to the bathroom. She took a quick shower and then put on her clothes, a t-shirt with a skull and cross bones on & a pair of skinny jeans. Kiara didn’t have to much time to focus on fashion today.

As she brushed her teeth she looked at herself in the mirror. Kiara had hair that was so long it went a little past her butt and it was so blonde it almost looked like it was a shiny white. She had aquamarine eyes and a nice thin face.

After she got ready, she went down stairs. Her 3 other sisters were there too; Ayi, Skye, and Dawn. Ayi had curly brown hair & light brown eyes. Skye had very long, layered black hair (That Kiara adored) and eyes so dark brown they almost seemed black. Then dawn, She had nice shoulder length strawberry blonde hair with dark blue/gray eyes.

They took their Chevy Suburban Half-ton that they had gotten for Christmas. Of course they have Lily drive, since she was the more calm one. If anyone else drove, they would probably run over a poor old woman while head-banging to a song they liked. Kiara pressed the play button on the CD player and the Evanescence song: Whisper came on.

Lacey sat ‘shot-gun’ because she didn’t want to sit back with the other girls when they were listening to Evanescence. Kiara, Ayi, Skye, and Dawn were singing the words and they weren’t that bad. It was the dancing that Lacey thought made them look insane. Dawn had her hands up in the air and were waving them around randomly and Skye was doing the ‘Robot’, while Kiara and Ayi did ‘the Wave’ together. The melancholy music and their random dances didn’t go together but it sure was interesting.

When they arrived at school most of the spots had been taken, so they had to park all the way in the back; which caused them to run all the way up to the school and with only 5 more minutes till the bell was going to ring, signaling Home-room. “I can’t believe it’s our Senior year!” Skye cheered in a song voice. Dawn put her arm through Ayi’s. “There’s gonna be lots of parties!” She yelled with enthusiasm. Then Lacey chimed in, “and trips to all kinds of places!” She said with a dreamy faraway look in her eyes. And the next thing Ayi said was something they could all relate to, “BUT MOST OF ALL... SUPER CUTE boys!!!” They all laughed.

As they got toward the entrance of the school, the girls noticed a couple of boys waiting there with anxious looks on their faces. Skye and Dawn went running at them. Kiara instantly knew who the boys were, Steven and Jack. They were Skye and Dawn’s boyfriends. Dawn Kissed Jack on the cheek, while Skye took Steven’s hand. “Aw, How cute... they waited for them...” Kiara said sarcastically with a roll of her eyes. Skye and Dawn turned sharply and glared at her. Lacey nudged her in the rib cage, “don’t ruin their cute moment!” She hissed in Kiara’s ear.

“your just jealous because you don’t have a boyfriend right now!” Lily said with an innocent giggle which made Kiara even madder. “I’m not jealous!” She insisted. “What-ever..” Ayi said and then focus on the guys. “Hey um, boys... neither wouldn’t happen to have a brother or a something?” She said with hope in her eyes. Ayi sure was boy-crazy. Jack laughed, “Yeah, I have a brother but you’re not going to like him.” He and dawn seemed to be snickering together. Ayi tilted her head to the side. “Oh? And why not?” She pressed. “Because he’s 6 and it’d be a little weird for that.” He answered and everyone (but Ayi) broke out in laughter. Ayi mumbled something under her breath and started to head to her own Home-room.

It was then that group separated. Kiara, Lily, and Lacey went to Lit and Dawn, Jack, Skye, Steven, and Ayi went to Art. Kiara flung her bag over her shoulder and walked slowly to class, as if she wanted to be late. Lily and Lacey didn’t plan on that so they ran to class without her. Kiara listened to the silence, she found the quiet kind of enjoyable.

As soon as she got to the Lit room’s door and walked inside the bell rang. ‘I have perfect timing...’ she thought with a small smirk. The class was already in their seats and they stared at her intently, including her sisters. Kiara didn’t act like she had a care in the world as she made her way to the back of the room to sit in between Lily and Lacey.

The good thing was that the teacher, Mrs. Whitman was really cool and you could say Kiara was her ‘teacher’s pet’. The two had clicked a long time ago, when she had first started high school and Kiara had dropped a book she had been writing in front of Mrs. Whitman. And much to Kiara’s dismay the teacher read it. Mrs. Whitman had been impressed by her writing skills and since then the two spent a lot of the school break time’s together just talking about stuff. But that had been when Kiara hadn’t been one of her own students but now it was going to be a long more fun in Lit class this year for Kiara.

Mrs. Whitman was just beginning to write the book they were going to be reading this year on the board when the class-room door opened up. A boy no one had seen before walked inside. He had short black hair and really dark brown eyes that he used to glare at Kiara, Lacey, and Lily with pure hate. He also had muscles he could barely hide through his T-shirt. All in all, he was eye-candy and every girl in the room as side from the sisters were drooling over him.

Kiara and Lacey were suspicious of him, even Lily didn’t like that evil look he gave them. The boy thrust a paper on Mrs. Whitman’s desk, making her jump slightly and take it. Then he went and sat right behind Kiara and it took all of the sister’s strength not to look at him. though, they could feel his glare burning onto their backs. “Everyone, this is Logan. He just moved to town yesterday. So become his friend and so him around school and town.” She said as she looked at his papers. Then went back to the board.

The rest of class, Kiara tried her hardest not to look back at Logan. When the bell rang, all three girls let out a sigh of relief and scurried out the door before Logan could even stand up. as they walked down the halls, they calmed down. “That guy may be cute but he sure does look mean!” Lily said quietly, trying to make sure if he was around them. “Yeah, He glared at our backs most of class. What kinda weirdo does that?” Lacey complained. Kiara shrugged, “let’s just hope he doesn’t sit by us tomorrow”.

The next class, all of the sisters had together. It was math with Mr. Bithers and everybody really disliked this teacher. The girls sat in the back of the room; much to Lacey’s dismay because she loved to sit in the front. As he started telling the class about the procedures of the this class this year, Kiara, Lily, and Lacey were passing notes to Dawn, Ayi, and Skye about this new ‘Logan’ boy. The other girls seemed intrigued by the boy’s odd behavior. “Well, if he’s as hot as you say he is... I don’t care how he acts!” Ayi said in a whisper to Kiara.

The next few classes were uneventful for the girls. It was really all just the teachers explaining how the year would proceed. Kiara was especially glad when the lunch time rolled around. Though, no one was happy when they saw what was for lunch... mystery meat surprise. The thing about this meal was that there probably wasn’t even any meat any it. Some people have said they actually saw the (so called) ‘food’ walk right off their plate.

So this put Kiara in a majorly bad mood and no one wanted to be around Kiara in a bad mood. The girls sat at their usual table. Lots of kids came flooding to their table. “Hey, How was your summer!” “You girls are looking really hot this year.” “Oh... my... god! I love your hair!” These comments and many more were thrown at them. The sisters were sort of ‘popular’ at their school but they weren’t the preps. The girls are the most pretty in school so everyone wants to be their friend. The sisters hated it...well, all except Ayi who liked the boys fawning over her ‘beauty’.

The most preppy and annoying girl sat at a table near them and glared in envy. Her little groupies were glaring as well, though they secretly wanted to go over to the girls too. “How can everyone like them so much!!! I’m the head cheerleader! I’m the one who should be having fan boys!” She huffed and her lackeys nodded in agreement. Kiara heard them from the other table and stared at them for a few seconds then smiled as if they were old friends and pulled her hand out from under the table, then stuck her middle finger up at the girls. The head cheerleader, Britney (Such a name that reminds me of cheerleaders) screamed in anger and hit the table.

Kiara turned back when she heard the room become silent. Even her sisters were staring as Logan walked through the crowd around their table and sat down in front of Kiara. The girls were more than just a little taken a back. “You’re not even going to ask if you can sit here?” Lacey questioned as they watched the boy continue to eat his lunch. He looked up at them with an amused expression. “Why should I have to ask to sit at a table? This is America, I can do what I want.” He stated simply then went back to what he was doing.

Even, Ayi thought this boy was rude and didn’t want anything to do with him; even though he was amazingly handsome. The crowd around their table had disappeared, much to the joy of the girls and now the lunch room was completely quiet as they watched the group. Dawn, Lily, Ayi and Skye squirmed in their seats but Kiara and Lacey weren’t taking anymore crap from this guy. “Could you please leave? This table is used by us and our friends.” Kiara said friends as if he weren’t and never would be one. “No, I won’t leave” He said as he looked her straight in the eyes. “I said, Leave” Her voice boomed throughout the cafeteria. Logan’s expression then turned to hurt and after a few seconds, he took his things and left.

The room started to feel up with rumors about what had gone on as soon as he was out of the door. The girls huddled together as Jack and Steven showed up late because of being held after class. The sisters told the two boys what had happened. “That guy really freaks me out!” Lily confessed and Ayi nodded. “He may have a pretty face but he isn’t the nicest guy I’ve ever met.”. Lacey came out of her little reverie. “What I don’t understand is, why does he look at us with such hatred, pure loathing. Well, all excepted Kiara of course.” She whispered. This took Kiara by surprise. “What are you talking about?!” She exclaimed with anger.

“Didn’t you see him glancing looks at you?” Skye questioned with a raised eyebrow. “No, not really. I was trying to figure out a way to get him away from us.” Kiara said with a intensity in her voice. Since they were all two, no one got very close to the girls but each other. When there was a thunderstorm when they were younger, they didn’t go to their adopted parents... they all huddled into one bed. No one but her sisters had ever seen Kiara cry and she didn’t even do it in front of them offend. She had to make sure she was brave to protect the others, to protect all of them. If anyone got to close, they got pushed away from the girls lives.

“Well, he was looking at you. And the way you just told him to leave and he did, like some puppy following his masters command. It was so weird.” Dawn commented. The bell rang, signaling for the students to get back to class and Kiara threw away all of her uneaten lunch. She went out of her way to leave the room without her sisters, she was tired of talking about Logan.