MOONLIIT SHADOWS

Seraphina POV

The garden had become my place of peace ever since I stepped foot into the academy; I loved the flowers and the cool fresh air,

Mainly cause it looked so much like the flowers in my home.

The garden very much reminded me of my grandmother, and coming here was like coming to spend time with her,

It's been two weeks since I had that nightmare, the one of me seeing a figure who resembled my grandma trying to kill me.

I had been so relieved that it was a dream, but that day marked the beginning of my heightened nightmares, as I couldn't sleep without having them.

It had been so terrible that I began to find myself waking up deep in the woods, but that wasn't the terrifying part,

I woke up with dead bodies of students surrounding me,

The first time it happened, I had been so scared that I had run away from the scene; I thought I caused the death,

So, I hid the information from everyone. The next day, when it was morning, I went into the woods to check, but the bodies were gone.

And that had been the repeated pattern; sometimes, I could wake up to four dead bodies, all severely injured and beyond recognition, and the following day, the bodies magically disappeared.

So I thought I was hallucinating and that the bodies weren't natural. It was why I decided to keep shut on the whole issue,

I was already viewed as a freak; telling anyone that I was seeing dead bodies would just confirm their theories about me.

So I kept the information to myself, though it was driving me up the wall cause each time I saw the dead bodies, I could feel the deaths, figuratively.

Worse, my powers were getting heightened and out of control, and it was causing the teachers to pay attention to me in ways that meant they were afraid of me.

I hated it.

It was why I stood here In this garden, to escape from the intensity of being in this place.

To escape my troubled mind.

I was still trying to breathe in the air of the garden when I felt another presence,

Turning around, I saw Ciaran standing at the entrance of the garden,

He walked towards me with purposeful strides, his hands in his denim pants pocket.

He had a warm smile on his face; everything about Ciaran was warm and inviting,

It feels like you could letting go wouldn't be a wrong decision cause he would take care of the issue.

Though I didn't return his smile, I was still quite mad over how he ignored me,

Like our connections didn't mean anything to him.

"Hey, cupcake, figured you'll be here." His smile widened, causing his dimples to show; he looked so handsome with them,

His grey eyes shone when he smiled like he was doing right now.

"Yea, if I'm here it means I wanna be alone so fuck off." I said in a cold tone.

"Take a chill, I come in good notions."

I rolled my eyes, deciding that ignoring him would be best,

"You look stressed, and if you are here it means something bad is going on, care to spill?"

I hate how much he could always analyze me and figure out I wasn't okay.

"Nothing is going on, just leave me be."

"I cant do that baby, you know I can't be without you."

"You've been doing fine for the past weeks, I'm sure you'll manage fine."

"But…"

I turned to leave; there was no point in arguing with him, especially when I could go alone; so much for quiet time!

His hands came on my arms, stopping any further movement,

"Come on cupcake, forgive me please, I missed us." He pouted in that cute way, "please…"

He had a way of rubbing on me in a calm, soothing way that made me wanna do all he wanted. Isn't that a bad thing?

"You messed up.."

"I know, but I'm here to make up for it."

I sighed, "for the records I'm just staying cause I love the garden, not cause I have forgiven you."

His smile appeared on his face, "sure baby."

"So how have things been with you, you seemed stressed, and it shows with your powers."

I groaned, even though he noticed, and he was rarely in the same classes as me.

"Just having weird dreams."

"Hmm, wanna talk about it?"

A tug pulled at my heart just thinking about it. "No. Infact I would like to just forget."

"I can help with that."

"How?"

A smirk played on his lips; he came closer, and I moved backward.

"Ciaran?"

He said nothing; I stopped moving when my back felt the walls.

He was much closer now,

"This wasn't what I had in mind when I said I would like to forget." I pushed at his chest, But it was as though he got even closer; his hands went on my waist, and there wasn't any space left between us,

This is awkward.

I couldn't fully process my thoughts before his lips were on mine,

They were soft and urging me to move mine, except I didn't wish to,

, I didn't want any of this. Ciaran was always a friend to me, so this felt awkward.

His kisses weren't demanding or intoxicating; it was as though he was trying to ease me into him,

I was about to push him off before I saw him being lifted away from me,

My eyes widened as I saw Ronan on top of him, and he was punching him in the face,

Ciaran immediately recovered from the element of shock and was lunging at Ronan,

But Ronan had the upper hand,

I tried to separate them, but it only ended with me being pushed away,

This was madness; Ronan looked like he was going to kill Ciaran,

Literally.

I had to stop this, I had to…

I rushed to Ronan's side and held his hands, the one about to land Ciaran the umpteenth blow.

"Please stop." I pleaded in a strained voice; thankfully, I was able to get his attention and also able to make him stop,

But the way he looked at me cut right through my chest, like.. like I had betrayed him.

I swallowed hard,

The trance was soon cut short, for Ciaran was pushing Ronan off him and staggering to his feet,

Ronan, hazed with rage, tried to lurch at him, but I immediately stood in front of Ciaran,

His eyes darkened even more, swirling with hurt and rage, so much rage.

"Get out!" His voice was strained. Too strained.

"No, you'd kill him."

"I can handle myself cupcake, but thanks for the worrry," Ciaran said. I gave him a sharp glare; this was all his fault; why the fuck did he even kiss me,

Since when had our friendship morphed into romance?

Ignoring him, I turned to Ronan,

"Please, don't Ronan."

"You kissed him." His attention was back on me, and I wanted to fall into a hole with the way he looked at me,

"It's not what you think, I didn't…" I wasn't able to finish the statement as Ronan was dragging me out of the garden,

"Ronan slow down, ouch, you're hurting me."

My pleas fell on deaf ears,

Ciaran had superspeed and was already in front of us, halting Ronan from leaving.

"She said to let her go."

"Stop me again, and I'll rip that dead heart of yours out of your chest."

With the look on Ronan's face, I didn't doubt that he would be unable to do it; I didn't want that.

So I turned to Ciaran, "I'm okay, you don't have to follow us, I'll be fine."

Ciaran didn't seem convinced, "please." My voice sounded desperate, and I truly hoped it got to him,

Ronan dragged me out, and thankfully, Ciaran didn't try to stop him,

Ronan's grip on my hand was firm and complex, and I had a feeling it would leave a bruising mark; thank Goodness that I had healing abilities.

I almost tripped a couple of times, but that didn't cause him to stop. I was thankful there were hardly any students down the hallways; in fact, there weren't any students at all,

It is like everyone went somewhere,

Before I had time to ask or process, I realized Ronan had stopped moving; we were now standing outside the academy,

"What.. why are we outside?"

He ignored me, turning around as though he was searching for something.

"Ronan?"

"It is time for you to learn that you are Mine."

And with that, he morphed into a huge-sized werewolf, a black-grey wolf, thrice my average human size.

He pushed me onto his furry back, "hang on." He says, as he immediately galloped into the freaking woods!