My Sunrise Sunset Paramour (My Midnight Moonlight Valentine 2)

I felt something in me begin to shake. Like my heart was racing with each word from her, which was not possible. I didn’t want to think about it. But her words…were they the truth? Was that how my past was with Theseus? I wanted to know. However, when I looked at her, the world changed around me.

“Hey, Dru!”

I blinked and saw Adelaide beside me, arms linked with me and a large smile on her face. The hall was gone as I—we now stood in some high school. “Buy me lunch!”

“No, not again!” I snapped

“You said to think of you as my big sister. Isn’t this what big sisters are for?”

“No, we are supposed to nag you not to do something stupid and offer advice!”

She pouted. “Please, I promise I’ll help you with your chemistry.”

My eyes narrowed her. “And calculus?”

She grinned wide. “Feed me!”

“Ah, I swear your familiar should be a pig!” I then hushed her, checking around the school hall. She laughed as she walked, dragging me with her.

The memory changed again, and now we sat on playground swings, looking up at the stars.

“Hey, Dru?” she called as she swung her feet.

“What? I am not buying you food!” I said as I kicked my feet up higher beside her.

“Do you have a boyfriend?”

At her question, I quickly dragged my tennis shoes through the sand and came to a stop so fast I almost fell out of the swing.

“No.”

She snorted. “Liar!”

“I really don’t!”

“Really, then why have you been all smiles and going off on your own all the time.”

“To paint without you bunch bothering me,” I said quickly.

“Sure, whatever, I believe you. It is so hard being a circle leader.” She gave me a look like she didn’t believe me and started to swing higher, screaming to the heavens. “This is not fair! I want a boyfriend too!”

“Shut up! I don’t have one!”

“Fine, but if that’s true, don’t admit it! How are we this age and not had a romance!” she grumbled. “Training. Training. Training! My heart needs to be trained, and so does my va—”

I flung her off the swing. “Oops, sorry.”

She rose from the sand and glared at me. “Dru!”

I laughed, hopped off the swing, then took off running.

“Druella?”

I had blanked again, and Atarah was right beside me. When I glanced up to Adelaide as her heart rate rose, her legs were wobbling, and she stared at me.

“Memories.” I gasped. “Were those your memories or mine?”

She was so shaken that she fell over. However, I ran and caught her with ease. I could feel how weak, how desperate she was.