Blessing

Ariellas pov

"Im sorry." I whispered as soon as I was sure that Blake was sleep. He had been rubbing my cheek for awhile and I just pretended like I was sleep. I was a punk I guess.

The realization of what happened still didn't quite register, maybe because I didn't have any real memories to go off, it did not affect me the way it should.

"I'm the one who should be apologizing." Blake's deep voice had me stiffening. He was so quiet I could've sworn he was sleep.

"I thought you were sleep." I softly said as I looked up at him. His green eyes lazily looked at me. Studying me. He seemed sad or maybe just upset about earlier.

"You seem to forget I don't need sleep like you do." He stated before he was getting up off the bed. I turned over and watched him walk to the chair and sit down with his legs spread in a v shape.

I had been thinking about alot since I first woke up. The main thing was that I was an easy target and I needed to find a way to protect myself. I didn't want to be watched at all times by Blake and Alax.

I sat up and grabbed one of my many stuffed animals. I needed to find a way to voice my plans. I had came up with a perfect way to protect myself. It was just about getting Blake on board with them.

"You have alot of stuffed animals." His smile gave me the confidence to not back down. Especially since he didn't find my stuff animals childish like my father use to say they were.

"You know I was thinking that maybe if we pretended to date that." I was stopped by him putting up his hand to stop me. That had some of my confidence leaving instantly.

"What it would protect me and we are close." I said trying to act indifferent from the outright rejection. I didn't like him like that but if it helped why not try.

"I actually have a girlfriend. Anyways you are like a sister to me." He quickly shot down my idea without even a second thought. I didn't even realize he had a girlfriend. Well there was still Alax. I doubt he would say no to that.

"Alax has a fiancee, so drop that idea." He said fast. Alax had a fiancee? That was news for me, I thought we were close but maybe we weren't as close as I felt.

"I'm going to take a shower." I blurted, as I rushed and grabbed my stuff so I could get away from him. He didn't seem to care about my sudden need to get away from him. I definitely didn't know what hurt more being rejected or not knowing them like I thought.

The shower wasn't as refreshing as I hoped. All I could think about was how I didn't feel angry with Ace. I should've been traumatized but I felt nothing. It's like without the memories my mind couldn't see him at fault.

I was more upset about the secrets that Alax and Blake had. So many things didn't add up and the news of Alaxs engagement had me wondering. Do I really know them well enough to trust them with their word?

I felt fine and than didn't. Why would Ace do it with so many eyes watching and if he did why didn't he try to get me to leave before I passed out? When I started chocking he could've used that as an excuse to teleport us out instead of patting my back.

Another thing that didn't make sense was Blake allowing him to sit next to me and allowing me to eat the tacos. Unless he was trying to punish me. Also Ace took a hit of the straw and didn't pass out during class. Even after they gave me that drink I was still affected. How was he not?

Ace said someone was framing him. Could someone that is behind the scenes be trying to hurt me? None of it made sense and it all pointed to Blake and Alax lying but I would never voice my thoughts because I felt close to them and didn't want to lose them as friends.

The question was did they actually consider me friends. My shower thoughts were interrupted by Blake banging on the door and telling me it was time to leave.

Most of the morning went by uneventful. I had a new Goddess sit next to me in one of my classes. Blake and Alax were missing throughtout the whole morning besides Blake taking me to and from classes. Alax had transfered to my awakening powers class but he and all the counsil members were missing.

So I wasn't surprised when they both didn't show up to take me to the court yard. "I can walk with you." The Goddess who sat with me during one of my classes said right as she caught up to me. She seemed friendly enough. I needed to make more friends anyways.

"That would be nice." I smiled as we made our way out of the class. I definitely didn't want to eat alone.

"Well than we should get going before all the good food is gone." She said as she grabbed my hand and had us teleporting out. I didn't even have time to protest or to think it through. She was quick.

"Sorry about not waiting for you to be ready." She said as she pulled her hand away. I looked at the lake that was in front of us with a gasp. It was beautiful. There was a waterfall that was sparkling with purple specks and flowers were all around the shore line.

"I actually seen you were looking at my law book earlier so I thought you might need it for class today since it seems like you don't have one with you." She said as she handed me the book I had been looking at.

"Don't you need this?" I asked with a raised eyebrow. She was acting strange. She gave a soft smile and pulled out another book, giving me a smile with all teeth. This was perfect I could finally talk about the book.

I looked down at the book and something caught my eye. The front cover was slightly different than the one I had. The font was off and the centering was too far right.

I opened up the first page and my confusion deepened. It actually made sense. ' It is against the law to question the king. His word is law and to go against his word is to go against the whole realm. Punishments for any law broken in this book is execution by soul breaking.' The first page read.

The first page of my book was 'If your soul is deemed right, protect this book with your life. Only one has a soul so pure, protect this book when he's near.'

"I seen you were having trouble during class so I was thinking I could help you out." She said with a soft smile. I was quick to squash all the doubt and questions for when I was alone.

I didn't remember seeing her before today. She must be a counsil member because her snow white hair and purple eyes would've been something I never forgot. She was mesmerizing and I couldn't help but feel like she was a blessing because I definitely needed help.