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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 main course arrived with great ceremony, roasted pheasant with herbs and root vegetables, accompanied by freshly baked bread that filled the air with its rich aroma. My stomach growled despite my anxiety, and I realised I hadn't eaten much since breakfast."You need to eat," Thomas murmured beside me. "Keep your strength up."I nodded and took a tentative bite. The flavors exploded on my tongue, rosemary, thyme, and something else I couldn't quite place. It was exactly as I remembered from that other life, down to the way the meat fell off the bone."Ava," I said quietly, leaning toward my friend. "When you said you felt like you'd been here before, have you been having any dreams lately? Strange ones?"She paused with her fork halfway to her mouth. "Actually, yeah. Really vivid ones. About this place, I think. There's always this girl with long dark hair who looks kind of like you, and she's always crying about something." Ava's brow furrowed. "Why?"My heart started racing. "Wha
As we walked toward the dining hall, I couldn't shake the feeling that Mrs Hargrove was watching us from the shadows, waiting for the perfect moment to strike. The château's corridors seemed to whisper with memories of the past, and I wondered if we were walking toward our deaths all over again.Thomas pulled me into his arms, “I can’t take this anymore.” He said planting another kiss to my lips but this time I melted into it.I felt myself surrender to the kiss, all my doubts momentarily forgotten as Thomas's lips moved against mine. There was something desperate in the way he held me, as if he feared I might disappear if he let go. When we finally broke apart, I found myself breathless, my heart hammering against my ribs."Sorry," he whispered, though his eyes told me he wasn't sorry at all. "I just... if something happens tonight, I need you to know how I really feel.""This is getting sickeningly romantic," Louis muttered, though there was no real bite to his words. "Can we focus
"You made it," he said, crossing the room in three long strides. He took my hands in his, examining me as if checking for injuries. "Any problems?""Other than being assigned to my old bedroom? No." I shivered despite the warmth of the room. "It's exactly the same, Thomas. The windows, the view of the garden, everything.""This isn't a coincidence," Louis said, closing the library doors behind us. "Mrs Hargrove arranged all of this. The room assignments, the timing, she's recreating what happened."Thomas nodded grimly. "But why? What does she gain from killing us again?""Revenge," I suggested. "If she couldn't have you in that life, maybe she thinks she can in the next one.""Or she's trying to break some kind of cycle," Louis said, moving to one of the bookshelves. "These diaries Ava mentioned, we need to find them."I wandered deeper into the library, running my fingers along the spines of ancient books. The smell of old leather and paper was intoxicating, familiar. "They wouldn't
Ava shrugged. "Just that they were in love, despite it being an arranged marriage. And something about a prophecy? Mrs Hargrove said Lady Serenity wrote about a dream where she foresaw their deaths but couldn't prevent it."My skin prickled with goosebumps. I had never written about any prophecy, at least, not that I remembered. But if Mrs. Hargrove had the diaries, she could have altered them, or fabricated content entirely."We need to see those diaries," I whispered to Thomas. "The real ones, not whatever version Mrs Hargrove is presenting.""Ladies and gentlemen," Mrs Hargrove's voice crackled through the speakers again. "If you look to your right, you'll get your first glimpse of Château Beaumont."I turned to the window, and my heart nearly stopped. There it was, rising from the forest like something out of a fairy tale, or a nightmare. Stone towers reached toward the darkening sky, and even from this distance, I could make out the distinctive arched windows of the east wing. Th
"What are they saying?" I asked, though I could guess."Nothing worth repeating," he muttered, shoving his phone into his pocket. "Just the same garbage from three years ago."I felt a strange mixture of sympathy and vindication. "Now you know how it feels to be on the receiving end."His eyes met mine, filled with genuine regret. "I do. And I'm sorry, Serenity. I was an idiot."The sincerity in his voice caught me off guard. This wasn't the arrogant, dismissive Thomas I'd known for years. This was someone else, or maybe the person he'd always been beneath the facade.“Well, one thing is for sure, we’ve gotta work out what this is between us, I guess. But we’ve gotta also make it back home again in one piece would be nice to deal with the fall out of that kiss.” I said noticing the hurt in Ava’s eyes Thomas’s friends knew of our father’s agreement but I had never told my own friends, “Ava I never said anything about the agreement because I thought Thomas would brake it off as for his
"I remember something about papers," Louis whispered, leaning across Thomas. "Documents that my father, or whoever he was back then, wanted to get his hands on. Something about land rights or inheritance."The memory clicked into place, sharp and clear. "The marriage contract," I breathed. "It wasn't just a marriage. It was a merger of lands. My family's estate bordered yours, Thomas. There was water access on our side, mining rights on yours."Thomas nodded slowly, his eyes distant. "And Louis's family wanted it all. They'd been trying to buy both properties for years.""But my sister," Louis said, his voice catching. "Violet had nothing to do with any of that. She was innocent."Thomas did something I wasn’t quite expecting he put his hand over mine his fingers interlacing with mine making me look down at our joined hands making my face heat.“Well the old woman said that Violet was in love with Thomas maybe as much as I was in that life time she looked to be maybe a handmaiden? Whe







