Strings of Fate

Strings of Fate

219- Painting and purple

We don’t tell anyone else about what Kiara told us, not even the police. It won’t change anything and after Kiara cried herself to sleep that night, Bellamy and I returned to our room. and discussed it. If Kiara wants to tell someone she can, but we don’t want people to be scared of her or anything like that. We don’t even tell Megan and Darrien. I know they wouldn’t be bothered by it, but Kiara told me and it’s not my place to share. Bellamy only heard because he was coming up to say goodnight too and overheard. Although he did admit to eavesdropping in the hallway for a couple minutes. He came to tuck her in with me but heard the tears and didn’t know if he should come in or not and just ended up waiting there. Still, in the week after that conversation Kiara did begin to relax a little more. She talks to people out loud now, although she still is pretty quiet. She hasn’t brought it up again and neither have we but she has her first appointment talking to a professional later in the week, a Witch with empathic abilities that we have VERY thoroughly checked out. We were a little. unsure about sending Kiara to see a Witch after she was controlled with magic for so long, but she reacted well to the Shifters and we don’t want her to think that Witches are all bad.

She seemed okay when she met Cam so we’re hoping it works. If they’re not compatible then

we can find someone else.

I’m out grocery shopping with Aaron. Bellamy and Kiara were in the process of painting her bedroom when I left and after I nearly knocked over the tin of paint for the second time they “politely‘ suggested I could sort out dinner instead. Yeah I probably deserved that. But hey, I’m no good at painting anyway so I don’t mind and the two of them working on it together is completely adorable anyway. Walking around with Aaron would be sort of quiet and awkward but now that I’m out and about again and actually able to leave the house without a

death threat lingering over me, I’ve quickly fallen back into my habit of chattering away and filling the silence by just telling him practically everything that goes through my mind. He probably feels like my daily journal or something at this point but he never seems to complain so I guess he doesn’t mind? Right now I’m updating him on how my threads have been changing lately.

Kiara, which does make sense since we’re taking care of her. But I don’t know why it just suddenly happened now and while all the changes are ones I’m okay with, what am I meant to do if something changes that I don’t want? I am seriously concerned about this.” I sigh. Aaron usually listens to my complaints silently so it’s always a shock when he actually answers which is why I drop

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Painting and

changes are all things you are sure about.” He says softly. I whirl to face him.

you mean?” I ask. He shrugs.

changes aren’t something that you did?” He clarifies. I stare at him. It’s so obvious, I don’t know how I didn’t make the connection. Alex literally

that I was doing anything at the time but it makes perfect sense. I wonder… is it something I can do on purpose? Or is it just something that happens to me but according to my desires. Well, I should test it. What’s something else that I’m certain about? My eyes fall on Aaron who is picking up the tomatoes I dropped and adding them to the basket while waiting for me to work my way through my thoughts. Perfect. I can’t imagine not having him around, he’s basically my brother, kind of like Harry is. A very different brother, but still my brother. Darrien is too actually. The three of them, Darrien, Aaron and Harry are basically my brothers and I know that isn’t going to change. Honestly I can’t believe that I didn’t have threads connecting me to them to begin with because I swear it was unavoidable and I wouldn’t have it any other way. Sure enough, my vision blurs and goes dark for a second and when my eyes adjust I have a new thread connecting me to Aaron and I suspect that if Darrien or Harry were nearby I would have threads connecting me to them as well. Well that’s pretty cool. I mean, at

might be overwhelming and screw up my vision. Maybe I should try to learn how to not–see them or make them less noticeable or something first. Surely that’s possible if I can literally

face.

because I would probably have to get rid of them or something. We all eat. dinner together. Kiara is sleeping in the living room tonight so that she doesn’t get sick from the paint fumes. So after dinner we get her set up and comfortable on the couch. I’m relaxing in bed while Bellamy showers. I’m pretty excited to tell him about my newly discovered

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