Complicated - Bianca Gray (top ebook reader .txt) 📗

I think she would be beaming right now. I smiled at her.
“Are we going to go or what?” I asked Katie. She nodded.
“Let’s get going before Aqua breaks anything else,” she said while looking back at my mother apologetically. My mother was already fixing things. It didn’t take too long when you’ve got magic. Everyone has got to love magic. Drew, Katie, and I were out the door with our brooms.
“Ready to learn how to fly, Sam?” asked Drew.
“I don’t know…” I said. Katie looked at me.
“C’mon! It is so fun!! I mean, the wind blowing your hair!! So much fun!” said Katie. The wind started to pick up and we all knew what that meant. Time to fly. My stomach started to feel queasy. Katie looked at me.
“If you have to throw up, throw up but we have to go NOW!” she had to scream over the rushing wind. I sighed. I tried to get on my broom. How do you get on this thing? I asked myself. As if answering my thoughts a seat appeared from nowhere.
“Thanks,” I whispered to Aqua.
“NO PROBLEM!!” said Aqua. I got onto the broom and sat on the chair. All I needed to do now was to hold on. At least that’s what I thought.
“GOOD!! Now put some MAGIC in it!!” screamed Katie. Magic? How do you put magic in a broom? She had to be joking. She wasn’t.
“YOU HAVE TO WISH IT!!” screamed Katie. While she was screaming that, Drew started to take off. It looked so easy. At least the way he did it. Katie started flying off too. I didn’t want to be left behind so I tried to put magic in Aqua and it worked! I was flying. I was flying really high. Don’t look down. Don’t look down. I squeezed my eyes shut. Suddenly my broom started spinning out of control but then Drew flew up right next to me.
“Open your eyes, Sam. Keep your eyes on the road,” said Drew. Since when was there a road in the sky? But I still listened to Drew. I opened my eyes. When I opened my eyes, I saw millions of other brooms. They were all lined up like in traffic. Some of the witches and warlocks just flew upward and out in speed of light. It was nothing I have ever seen before. Katie flew upwards to avoid the traffic. I followed her and I looked down at all the witches and warlocks. They all waved hi, to me. Some of them were taking pictures of me. I waved at them and that only got them more excited. It was like I was a celebrity or something. Wait, I was the princess. I quickly caught up with Katie. Drew was right behind me. He wasn’t paying any attention to the witches and warlocks under him. He was looking at me. I blushed. He laughed. We were finally out of the traffic of brooms. What I saw under me was blocks of ice. The North Pole.


Chapter 6
The North Pole.

We landed our brooms on the huge block of ice. I never dreamt that I would actually be able to go to the North Pole and meet a polar bear. I always wished but now I wish I wasn’t there. It felt dangerous. What if polar bears were as dangerous as Katie says? They thirst on power. I’m the most powerful witch. The most powerful, I thought. I would probably die before Katie and Drew. I was the most powerful. I saw a girl. She was walking toward us. She had jet-black hair like mine. Her hair only came to her shoulders though. Her skin was as white as snow. It looked pure and innocent. Her face looked like it came from the angels.
“Hello,” she said when she got closer. She gasped when she saw me. When she was closer, I could see the resemblance. The same brown eyes. The same black hair. We were identical. Well, almost identical. The only problem was the skin color. Her skin was really pale and mine was more tan but only a little more darker than hers. I gasped as well. Apparently, the girl thought she was looking into a mirror because she put her hand up. When I didn’t, she jumped 2 feet back. She started to tremble like I was some kind of ghost.
“It’s okay,” I said putting my hand out. She stood completely still, like a marble statue.
“My name is Samanthia,” I said. She looked relieved.
“My name is Sama,” she said.
“But you can call me Sam,” we said at the same time. We both jumped too. Katie gawked. So did Drew but Drew was known for his gawking.
“What did you say?” I asked.
“You can call me Sam,” said the girl.
“That’s what I thought you said,” I said.
“How old are you?” asked the girl.
“I’m 18,” I said. The girl stood as still as a statue.
“I’m 18,” she whispered, barely moving her lips.
“Oh my god,” whispered Katie. She turned to me.
“She has your Dad’s eyes. You have your dad’s eyes. You both have your dad’s eyes and his hair. You both also have his skin color,” said Katie.
“Where are you going with this, Katie?” I asked. Katie turned to Sama.
“Sama, isn’t it?” asked Katie. Sama nodded.
“Who is your father?” asked Katie.
“My father? His name is Samuel. My nickname was after him,” she answered. I gasped. Katie nodded.
“So was Samanthia,” said Katie. Sama gasped. We just stared at each other.
“Are we sisters?” I asked Katie.
“I’m not exactly sure, but seems to me like you are,” said Katie. I looked at Sama. She looked back at me.
“We can’t be sisters,” I said. “We can’t because we’re both the same age. My father wouldn’t cheat on his wife, would he?”
“I totally agree. We can’t be. My father would never cheat on my mother, unless,” said Sama thoughtfully.
“Unless…?” I said. Sama looked at me.
“Unless one of us isn’t human,” said Sama. I looked back at her. I wasn’t human, technically.
“What do you mean ‘isn’t human’?” I asked hesitantly.
“I mean, like a robot or ghost or maybe even clone,” said Sama. I was relieved.
“One of us is a robot or a ghost or clone?” I asked. Sama nodded.
“I know it sounds totally ridiculous, but that’s the only solution I’ve come up with,” said Sama.
“Who do you live with?” asked Katie randomly. Sama looked at Katie, confused.
“Um, well, my mother died when I was young. That’s what my grandfather tells me. I guess I live with my grandpa and my dad. Why?” said Sama. Katie was pacing.
“When did you start to live with your dad?” asked Katie.
“When I was about 11 years old,” said Sama. I looked at Katie and then to Sama.
“My father disappeared when I was about 10,” I whispered. Sama stared at me.
“No way,” she whispered. I nodded. She looked up into the clouds. “Oh no.”
“What?” I asked. She started to run.
“C’mon! There’s a blizzard coming. Hurry!” said Sama. We all started to run after her. She led us in to a cave. It was unbelievably warm in the cave and the cave led downward.
“Where are we going?” I asked. Sama just stared at me.
“My home,” she said, with glassy eyes and kept going. I looked at Drew and he just shrugged. When we reached the bottom of the cave, there was this swirling spiral of death.
“What’s that?” I asked Katie.
“A portal,” said Katie casually.
“Oh,” I said. We walked into it. Wherever we were the clouds were so bunched up together and she led me into a huge red house. It was also scorching hot. Sama looked at me apologetically.
“We had to get out of the blizzard,” she said.
“You live like this?” I asked. She nodded.
“I didn’t get to choose,” said Sama. She sighed.
“Drew!” screamed Katie. He was going to pull up one of the bones in the graveyard.
“I wouldn’t do that,” said Sama.
“Why?” I asked.
“There’s only room for one body in a membrane of skin,” said Sama.
“Oh,” I said. Drew came up to me and held my hand. He held it like he was scared something was going to happen to me and he wasn’t ever going to let me go. I held his the same way. We looked up at each other and smiled. How did we smile in this awful place? I would never know but I couldn’t help noticing that his smile was sort of strange. I shook the thought out of my head. That’s when I saw him. My father. I let go of Drew’s hand and ran up to him.
“DAD!” I screamed. When I hugged him he looked confused.
“Dad? It’s me. Samanthia,” I said. He looked around him before he spoke and when he did speak he spoke sternly and fiercely.
“What are you doing here?” He looked at me with such fierceness that it scared me. Sama went up to us.
“I found her. There was a storm coming and so I took her in here,” said Sama. My father directed his fierceness on her.
“I can’t believe you did that,” said my father.
“I didn’t want her to freeze to death so I thought,” stumbled Sama.
“I don’t care what you thought. Do you know what could happen to her? Your lucky that it hasn’t yet,” said my father. He looked behind my shoulder and saw Katie and Drew.
“You even endangered her friends?” hissed my dad.
“Dad, stop! And the lady is my going to be mother in law and the boy is my fiancé,” I said. He just gawked.
“You’re getting married,” whispered my father.
“Yes, I am,” I whispered back.
“Why?” he asked.
“Because to become Queen you have to be married,” I answered with confidence.
“Who told you?” he asked.
“Someone I know told me,” I said.
“Do you know why I’m here?” asked my father staring at me with the same brown eyes I have.
“Yes,” I said.
“Tell me,” said my father. I took a deep breath.
“Because you’re the Dark Lord’s son,” I said. He hung his head shamefully. “Am I correct?”
“Yes, you are,” whispered my father. Suddenly a huge man put a hand on my father’s shoulders.
“Well look here. It’s a family reunion and I wasn’t even invited,” boomed the man. I looked up at him. He kind of looked like my father except his eyes were crimson red. I immediately took a quick step back. He stared at me intensely. I stared back at him.
“Samanthia, right?” he said.
“Yes,” I managed to say. My father put his head back up.
“Aren’t you going to introduce me, Samuel?” asked the man.
“Samanthia, this is your grandfather,” said my father.
“The Dark Lord,” I whispered. The man smiled.
“Yes, the Dark Lord,” he said. I started to hate this man. He stole my father and made a clone of me. Or so I thought. My father loved this man. He didn’t fully love him but you could see the father and son bond between them. Sama was just in between the two. They were like a family, a family that didn’t include