The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy

Chapter 0649

"Can you...can you move it, Ari?" I hear my mom whisper, and I glance to the side to see tears streaking down her face, her fingers pressed delicately to her lips as she stares up at this incredible thing that we've created.

I turn back to the fire, concentrating, and as I sway slightly to the left...yes! My smile deepens when I discover that the whirlwind itself moves left too. I move back to the center and again to the right, moving like a dancer - like the ballerina I was raised to be. The whirlwind

of flame and shadow goes too.

"Amazing," Tony whispers, delighted and awed.

Suddenly, Luca lets go of my hand and steps away.

The shadow fire immediately sinks to the ground and I scramble, a little, to catch it in my surprise. But ultimately it's easily done, the fire simply obeying gravity again, attached to the ground instead of lifted high in the air. Jackson turns his head to glare at Luca, having felt my shock and surprise, but Jesse exhales a long breath and takes his hand from my neck too. "Okay," he whispers. "I think that's enough for me too. For right now."

The shadows rise like smoke from my flames and suddenly there the colors are back - cheerful and yellow and red, burning happily through the little pile of wood.

I turn my head to Jackson next, who grins at me and drops my hand.

And then, when I look back at the fire it's...

happily through the wood provided

a long, long moment, each of us just staring - I think trying to figure out

laughing so hard that there's no time to draw air into my lungs. Breathless,

seen!" he roars. "That was

against his chest so that I beam down into

marvel of his life, "are the

eyes, completely overwhelmed by how much he means

cool, wasn't it?" I whisper, still stroking my trembling fingers through

he says, his smile deepening. "I'm good, tiny - it took less energy than I'm sure it

hurt?" I ask, desperately

just shakes his head at me, and snarls again, and drops me a bit in his arms so that my face is even with his, so that the kiss he presses to my mouth is as simple

Jackson back

a long moment

Line

put down, and he growls-hating it - but obeys, letting me slip down the length of his chest and stomach to set me again on my

spinning me around in turn. It goes like that for a few minutes, everyone gathering me close and talking about how amazing it was, the details of it, the possibilities

when Luca hugs and congratulates me his words are stilted, his wall still up. I peer up at him, curious, and he does his best to give me a warm smile -