Chapter 8: Dropping off

Mariette P.O.V:

"Just stay calm, Mariette! I am sure they will likely get us out of here in no time!" Aries said to me. I just looked over at him, feeling the faint headache that was on its way from hanging upside down for 5 minutes already. I just squinted my eyes at him. "You know ... I really am not freaking out at the moment ... right?" I said to Aries. I couldn't help but not want to laugh at his face. His face was all red with the blood that was gushing to his brain. "I think you should rather be the one who needs to stay calm! Looks like your face is undergoing some ... discoloration, I think?" I mocked him. I could see him narrowing his eyes at me before shaking his head and looking the other way.

It felt like forever until the maintenance team finally managed to get us back down to the ground. It looked like the triplets had been turned inside out and rushed through the washing machine. "How ... on ... earth ... are you managing to still be able to stand up straight?" Allec asked before rushing over to the nearest dustbin and hurling his lungs out. I just laughed before I walked over to him and gave him a pat on the back.

I could see the jealousy drip off of Aries but I didn't care. I felt bad for them feeling like this. "I guess it is just one of the perks of being a vampire!" I said, winking at him. I knew I could have managed to get the four of us back down to the ground safely and a lot faster, but at the risk of the humans seeing me and causing a riot or something like that, I had to remain put right there. Aries just glared at me before he, too, went running for a dustbin. I turned my attention to Alex who looked like his eyes would pop out of his head. I spun around and pointed to another dustbin not far from where we were standing "Right there" I said as Alex rushed passed me and soon was throwing up too.

I just laughed, shaking my head before walking over to the nearest bench and sitting down under the three as I waited for them. Eventually, the three of them got over their sickness and walked over to me. "Feeling better?" I asked them, feeling a bit sorry for the way they looked. Even though they were better, they still looked completely awful. They just nodded their heads before leaning back, not one of them uttering a word. I took this as my opportunity to snoop and try and find out exactly what supernatural species they were.

"So, I would have thought that by you three being wizards, you could have easily conjured something up to make you feel better or perhaps get us down from there a little faster than what the maintenance team has managed to do?" I said with a ray of hope in my voice. As soon as those words left my mouth, the three of them immediately snapped their heads in my direction, looking at me like I have managed to grow three heads or something like that.

There was an awkward moment of silence before they burst out laughing. "Really? Are you really going to take a guess, and your first guess would be that we are wizards? Really?" Allec blurted out. I could see he regretted asking me that as his face immediately turned red. Clearly, he possessed the same sarcastic caveman manners as Aries, he just managed to keep it well under wraps in order for me to not be able to notice anything. I just glared at him before huffing and crossing my arms around my chest, looking down at my 'all of a sudden' interesting lap.

I felt a bit embarrassed by just assuming that they were wizards. My mind went back to what my parents had told me this morning, how they were honest by saying that there were other supernatural species out there, but we were the only ones in town, from what I could pick up, so the real question is ... where do the triplets live, if not in town? I hated that they wanted me to figure all of this out on my own. I just wanted them to be straight forward and honest with me. Clearly, they were my destineds and I was their ... I don't even know what.

"Mariette?" I heard Alex ask, snapping me back to reality. I looked up at him to see Alex looking back at me with a small sad smile on his face. I tried my best to smile back at him, but my smile barely lifted. "Come on ... how about we get you home? Seems like we are likely not going to be getting on any of the rides for the rest of the day, not after what had just happened" Alex said, trying to cheer me up. I just nodded my head before we got up. As we walked back to the car, the bloody marathon back to the car if I may add, Alex comfortably draped his arm around my shoulders, and for the first time in a very, very long while, I felt completely safe, like nothing would come to harm me.

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"Okay, now don't be a stranger. Just know that if you want to come and say hello, just head on out to the spot where we met up this morning in the forest" Alex said, winking at me before leaning in and giving me a quick kiss on the cheek. All of a sudden, his soft lips were no longer on my cheek and it felt so cold. I opened my eyes, only to see Alex, laying down flat on his back a few meters away from me. I couldn't understand how on earth he got there, until I looked over at my left-hand side to see my father standing there next to me with a death glare pointed in the direction of the triplets. Shit, this was bad! This was so bad!