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Captain of both the archery and fencing club although his on year 11 this year there is a good bet that he’ll take school captain of the school as well as both teams in the coming year. Now this was about to get even weirder as they got on the bus I saw or at least at the time I thought I saw two versions of each of him and his best friend I had to rub my eyes and hope that neither of them noticed the way I looked at or the fact I was rubbing my eyes to be even sure what I was looking at because they’d never let me live it down.
I thought to myself ‘If I just look out the window they won’t notice that I even looked at them and hopefully never saw me looking at them to the point where I was rubbing my eyes.’
As they walked passed my seat on the bus I noticed that it had happened again there was two versions of them, I still couldn’t believe what I was seeing that’s when I looked at my own arm there was two versions on myself as well it was like we were wearing two types of clothing which made no sense at all as I could see my normal everyday clothes and what looked like a vintage dress. Normally I had shoulder length hair but I could see long hair hanging down on my left hand side of my body where I could see the vintage dress. At that very second I thought I had gone insane I started to tell myself its just stress it had to be I think that the windup for this excursion and the assessment that will follow it will be 50% of my grade for the year this trip must just have my mind completely fried already and going out of my mind at the same time, yeah that has to be it.
It had to be it right well I was about to find out either way, I did my best to try and put it out of my mind till I fell asleep on the bus and once again I was not in out dressed in a complete vintage clothes a man yelled out towards me, “Lady Serenity run I’ll hold them off go its my duty to protect you. Run and hide my lady I know my lord will find you and keep you safe now go.”
I could feel my heart race, the feeling of complete fear that had gripped me in the moment I hear, smell everything. What I was feeling was indescribable the sheer terroir of knowing someone was after me and having no idea where I was where I was going let alone where I was going to find a place to hide and a place that this lord that the man spoke of would still be able to find me but not the people that were meant to be after me. Well that’s a tall order when your being chased. I found a house that the villagers let me in I thought I was safe at least for the time been the lady of the household gave me one of her dresses so that I could hide easier and we would burn the dress that I was wearing in their fire place. Once I had changed I placed my dress in the fire I started to hear voices of solders and a woman I knew that they had found me. Sadly one of the villagers that lived in the home opened the front door to their home it cost them their life as one of the soldiers ran them through I was mortified he had just saved my life but in the end it cost him his. The woman’s voice belonged to an elderly woman she was hold some kind of dagger towards me. The feelings of sadness, dread and despair gripped me. She seemed to know just who I was as she looked at me with cold and uncaring eyes. Who was this woman and what I would have done to her to make her so mad that she would want to kill me?
That’s when she spoke, “You will never marry his Lordship Thomas regardless of your fathers’ have planned for the two of you, you shall live if you agree marry my Lordship Louis instead I shall spare your life. That way my Lady Violet can marry Lord Thomas as she’s in love with him.”
I never got a chance to answer her as an arrow came right through her chest and hit the wall after running her through.
That’s when I woke up with a start from the dream well I didn’t wake up on my own my friend that was sitting next to me woke me apparently I was shaking and making weird noises.
The way that I jumped up made the other kids from my year group brake out in to laugher. Although I also half expected Thomas and Louis to laugh at me as well but it was weird they didn’t they just looked at each other. I sat back down on my seat and turned to the window as my face had gone red from embarrassment the other part of me than began to wonder if those two knew what the fuck what really going on here.
What the fuck did I wake up from thought it defiantly wasn’t a dream that much I was sure of. No…no…no it just had to be some weird ass nightmare right even though it was in the daytime yeah that’s it or I’ve gone off the deep end. Although it felt more like a bad memory but was it really hard to get out of my mind although the guard knew my name my real name not some made up one you’d get called in a dream, but how I never meet that man in my life before. My mind couldn’t let go so it was going to to continue to be a long day.
"The same thing he's always wanted," Mr Blake replied. "To finish what he started. To ensure that the alliance between our families never comes to pass.""But we're not the same people," I protested. "We're not even the same families, really. There's no political gain anymore.""Isn't there?" Lord Ashworth's voice seemed to come from right outside the window now. "Your fathers' law firm is quite successful, I understand. Thomas's inheritance, your family's connections, together, you'd be quite formidable."I shuddered. Even in this lifetime, even as teenagers, we were still valuable enough to be worth killing."He's been watching us," I realized aloud. "All our lives. Waiting for us to remember, waiting
Ava looked up from her phone, where she'd been scrolling through increasingly frantic messages from our classmates. "You really think she could come back? Even frozen like that?""I don't know," I admitted. "I don't understand any of this well enough to be sure of anything."Mr Blake moved closer to our group, his expression gentle but serious. "Serenity, what you did tonight, stepping in front of that bullet for Thomas, it wasn't just brave. It was transformative. The kind of selfless love that rewrites the rules of the universe.""It didn't feel transformative," I said, my voice barely above a whisper. "It just felt like the only choice I could make.""That's exactly what made it powerful," he replied. "True love isn't about grand gestures or dramatic d
"You let me handle that," Mr Blake said. "The official story will be that Mrs. Hargrove had a mental breakdown and threatened students. The rest of the class will be sent home tomorrow, and the four of you will be given time to recover from your 'traumatic experience.'""And our parents?" I asked, thinking of my father who had no idea his daughter had nearly been murdered by her history teacher, again."Your father has been informed that there was an incident," Mr Blake said. "Though not the supernatural details, of course. He's worried about you, but relieved you're safe."I nodded, grateful that at least one complicated conversation could be postponed. My phone buzzed again in my pocket, and I finally pulled it out to check. Dozens of messages from friends, a
"I'm sorry," I said to him, my heart aching for the pain I'd caused him across so many lifetimes. "I never meant to hurt you.""You didn't," he replied, his voice gentle. "You can't help who you love. And seeing you two together, seeing how happy you make each other... it's enough. In every lifetime, that's been enough."Ava moved closer to our group, her eyes still wide with shock. "So what happens to us now? Do we just... go back to being normal teenagers?"I looked around the cottage at the frozen tableau of our would-be killers, then at the people who had become my family across centuries of struggle. "I don't think we'll ever be normal," I said with a shaky laugh. "But maybe that's okay
Mrs Hargrove's smile widened. "Oh, you don't recognize them? How disappointing. They're my loyal servants from our first lifetime together. It seems obsession isn't the only thing that creates bonds strong enough to transcend death."The realization hit me like a physical blow. These weren't just random accomplices, they were the soldiers who had helped her murder us centuries ago, reincarnated just as we had been."That's impossible," Thomas said, stepping protectively in front of me. "You can't control who gets reincarnated.""Can't I?" Mrs Hargrove laughed, the sound echoing off the cottage walls. "Hatred is a powerful force, Thomas. It binds souls together just as surely as love does. These three have followed me through every lifetime, just as faithful in death as they were in life."
"And if they don't?" I asked, voicing the fear we were all thinking. "If she gets away before they get there? There is one question that has plagued me you said that you were my father in that lifetime she told us that she was promised Thomas, or and other noble first if she was raised as a noble, and when I was born the deal was taken away or something like that?”Mr Blake's expression darkened as he turned to face me. "Margaret's father was indeed a servant in your household, but he was delusional about his daughter's prospects. He convinced himself that his years of faithful service entitled him to more than it did."I felt Thomas tense beside me, his hand tightening protectively around mine."When you were born," Mr Blake continued, "your nursemaid mentioned offhandedly that you w







