My Best Friend Stole My Royal Boyfriend

“Remember what we’ve told you. You must behave yourself; many eyes will be on you today.” My mother warns me.

We’d been on a two-week break, and now it was back to school. I didn’t want to attend after knowing that everyone knew exactly what went down between Bryan and me. It didn’t help that he and Aria were the more popular ones; everyone here would side with them. Just like always, I’ll be an outcast that people gossiped about.

I nod, ” yes, mother, ” I say as I exit the limousine.

I keep my head low when I walk through the front entrance; I know that eyes are on me without looking up; I can feel it. The noisy corridor grows quiet, and now all that’s left are hushed whispers, gossips about me; I knew that much.

When entering the classroom, Aria and Bryan are already there, and they’re seated to the front. Aria looks up at me, and there isn’t the slightest bit of remorse on her face. The lack of empathy only adds to my pain and fuels my anger.

How could she be okay with this? How is it that I considered both of them so much when they barely cared for me?

I take a seat next to one of the quiet girls in the class; she barely ever said anything, even when the teachers called on her. That was the best option for me; anyone else would ask too many questions or make fun of me.

“Okay, class, today we will be discussing more on the flaming whisperer.”

The flaming whisperer. I’ve been hearing about her my entire life. She was supposedly born amongst us fire whisperers and could be any one of us. I know for a fact that she couldn’t be me; I was the only one of my kind that still couldn’t create fire.

No matter how hard I tried and no matter how many extra classes I went to, there still was no hope for me. I’ve never given up trying, but it did get tiring at times.

Sometimes I thought that the flaming whisperer was nothing but a myth, just like stories about the dark whisperers being the doom of us all. Adam and his family never did anything to harm anyone as far as I knew; they were just a bit intimidating, and because of that, people feared them.

the girls at my school went crazy over them. Even more

She’s prophesied to save us all from darkness like no other. Every year we host the fairy fire ritual in hopes of finding her. This year’s ritual will

all of us? I knew all of the teachers wouldn’t see

are suddenly big on public display of their feelings for one

hair, and I’m surprised that Miss Phillis is doing nothing to stop them.

“Ignore them.”

side of me, surprised that the girl

is unforgivable. They will receive their

to speak but am

and all of the women in the class sigh contentedly. I follow

Adam.

Adam.

Adam.

I’d turn eighteen. Whenever Adam was in the same room as me, the whispers start and suddenly disappear

tell anyone about it, either. They would think that something was wrong with me, and everyone around me already had the worst things to say about me; I didn’t need

longer breathe. I can no longer hear what the teacher is saying, and everyone around me disappears. There is this fire flowing around me, and Adam is the center of its attention. It wants to rush to

eyes are blazing but not with fire, with dangerous darkness that makes my

“Amiera!”

has already reached his seat, and unlike everyone else,  he is not