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We’ll be saved. We’ll be alive. We’ll be protected.
But Malin saved her,
Was probably a set up huh
Remember, you’re protected here. You’re safe. We’re all ascending with you.”
My friends celebrate with me, jealous that I’m the one turning thirteen today while some of them go through their own ceremonies later this year, next, or even the year after that.
I thought anyone under 13 couldn't be there? is 13th birthday not the designated day?
“Dance with me, wildflower.” His voice is dark and husky and just as he says it, little flowers literally spring up around my feet from the grass.
She's high af lol
“You don’t have to understand right now. Just enjoy it, Aura. Experience it. Let it make you feel alive. This is the beauty of The Nation. Whatever you want is right, what you’re feeling right now is beautiful. We know the truth here, we know what’s truly right and wrong, we’ve been enlightened.”
Hmmmm this feels like a trap
My mother says that it’s okay for her and me to share him.
“Aura Lizabeth Valentine. Your Induction Ceremony is to begin in five minutes. Please take my hand and join me. Your mother and father will follow you as well.”
Besides, the show is really for Hawk anyway. I’m straight and have always been into men. Not that I find anything wrong with women, I don’t. In fact, I find the female body beautiful in ways that can’t even compare to men.
But being instinctually attracted to women? Being sexually turned on by women? Not my thing. I just don’t vibe on that wavelength, I guess.
The three of us are so close, such good friends, that he feels protective over her as well.
Sus
An esoteric butterfly.
and instinctually I end up leaning forward, refusing to end it this quickly. Because I feel something, a connection, a tether, a magnetic draw that’s clouding my mind and replacing my guilty thoughts for just a moment.
“Secondly, I’m not doing this with her because I’m not vibing with her, or the other two dumbasses at your sides, am I?”
“Because this? This is dangerous. I can feel it.”
“Give me your name. Your name. I want it.”
Not in my entire life have I experienced a connection like that.
Too innocent for anything I’d be able to give her. And you can believe I’d fucking give it. I’d destroy her with every poisonous word and dark touch I created.
No one owns me. I’m a free spirit, and I intend on keeping it that way.
Before I got my head on straight and ran away from him and my family for good.
Because I enjoy both men and women, alone or together. Gender doesn’t register on my radar anymore
Her energy, whatever that was between us? It was stronger, more potent than anything I’ve experienced before.
No one takes the side of a woman, let alone a fucking stripper.
I’ll take Dom out myself if I fucking have too. No regrets, no hesitation.
Her energy cleanses mine in an addictive way.
Does Aura see the way her friend plays her?
R12. Twelfth rung. The Ladder of Ascension.
“Aura! What the hell? You have a boyfriend and Hawk is right fucking here.”
Ooohh she's so jealous!!!
“Besides, I’m surprised you’d even entertain the idea of kissing her after how The Nation raised you.”
WHAT. THE. ACTUAL. FUCK.
“It’s okay, Aura. It’s okay. I know you didn’t mean to. I forgive you,”
Oh she's a master ducking manipulator
“Yes, of course. I’ve been claiming her for the last five years,” he responds.
Since she was ducking 8!!!!!!?!
“Then maybe hold off on the fucking objections until you figure it out, yeah?”
“Shh, Vibe Girl. We don’t want your boyfriend to hear you, do we?”
“Because this is different. Fuck, it’s different and I don’t know why.”
“I’m not fucking good for you. You should have never stepped inside my club tonight.”
“Don’t even fucking think about it. You’re mine now, Aura.”
“Because you like this, don’t you? Even though you shouldn’t. Even though you have a fucking boyfriend. It’s my hands you’ve wanted on your body all night. Tell me I’m right, Aura.”
“That’s mine, Aura. Everything you’re feeling right now, every spark of fire that’s licking against your skin. Every moan you make, that orgasm that’s cresting inside of you. It’s all mine, don’t fucking forget that I’m the one who’s making you feel this.”
“Fuck you, Aura. Lie to everyone else except me, because I can see right through it. I’m the one who can taste the lies in your cum, Vibe Girl. Your moans, your touch, your pussy. It’s all stained my hands and tainted my flesh.”
I’m free. To love who I want, touch who I want, experience who I want.
“You fucking owe me.”
She doesn’t get to let me touch her like that, fuck her like that and then pretend like every second of it was a mistake.
“I’m trying to tell you that you can’t steal anything when you fucking leave here.”
“I’ll let Aura take care of those when she dumps your ass and moves in with me.”
“I don’t know, how long do you plan on sneaking into your kitchen in the middle of the night with Aura’s best friend?”
FUCKING GASP BRO
“When I fuck your girlfriend—because I will fuck Aura…”
“You won’t be anywhere near her. Fuck off, ass wipe.”
Aura has work to finish.
To make sure this psychopath doesn’t hurt her like I’m suddenly realizing he can.
Bethie and him are a fucking match made in Heaven, I’ll give them that.
