454: FOURTEEN YEARS OLD (5)

FOURTEEN YEARS OLD (5)

"What kind of law?" Hope asked eagerly. This conversation was getting more and more interesting. At this point she had forgotten that she had just met them for hours. In Ethan and Rossie's case, it was less than an hour to be exact.0

However, Hope felt excited as if she had known them for years.

Finally, she found someone who could share these kind of things with her and was able to see things that most people couldn't see. 

This kind of conversation was what Hope really wanted, rather than talking about fashion and boys. Supernatural's world was way more interesting for her since she had been living with them. 

"No one is allowed to enter the forest, without permission of course. Either humans and shifters or witches, vampires, well you name it." Ian shrugged. "You will get lost there."

"Because there were many people who entered the forest and didn't come back. People in this village thought that that forest is cursed, thus it is forbidden to walk there." Rossie chimed in. She, apparently, had the same interest in this kind of topic, just like Hope. 

"But, we, supernatural creatures, know that there is a portal to go to another realm where missing people would go if they couldn't return to this village." Ian added. 

"How do all of you know about this? Have you been there before?" Hope threw a suspicious look to Ian. 

"Kind of trying to prove the story." Ian grinned. 

"Humans are forbidden from going there, but why does it imply to supernatural creatures as well? Isn't everything in there is from the same kind as you?" Hope didn't understand. It was understandable if humans were not allowed there, but why restrict shifters too?

"Because there are dark creatures resided there." Ian shrugged. "It is ironic that we take a shelter here, near their realm because this is the safest place for us, rogues, since there are very few places that we can live, to stay away from those packs."

Why don't you join a pack then? That was the question that Hope wanted to ask, but she remembered that Ethan had already said it was a family problem, hence she kept her mouth shut.

Moreover, Hope was not in a better position either. If the definition of rogue was what they explained, then she had two rogues at house. 

And then, they continued chatting about a few more things, about the law in this village and the forbidden forest, before the siblings filled Hope in with the information about werewolves and Lycanthropes.

Well, Hope learned a lot from this one hour conversation about the shifters world rather than living with two shifters and one witch for fourteen years. 

"What is a mate?" Hope asked curiously when Rossie mentioned mate to her. 

This time it was the little girl, who explained it to Hope with sparkle in her eyes. "Someone who is your half soul. Our kind believe that moon goddess had blessed all of the shifters in pairs, all we have to do is to find our own mate."

Hope raised her brows, she had never heard anything like that. "Wow! How romantic…" Hope felt giddy when she heard that while the two boys rolled their eyes. This was a topic that girls liked after all. "How would you know someone was your mate?"

"There are a few way to recognize your mate, but in most of the cases, it happens at the same time." Rossie loosened up with Hope now as she leaned over to tell her this piece of information. "Your mate scent is like parfume that was only made for you."

Hope blinked her eyes. Maybe for those shifters who had acute noses, it was possible, but for her who could barely smell a faint change in the scent, it was impossible.

But, again…Hope was not a shifter, so how could she have a mate? Stupid… she scolded herself for imagining things like that.

What to do, the way Rossie explained it, made it sound very romantic and Hope wished to be able to experience that. 

"And when you look into your mate's eyes, you will feel the pull of mate bond that will make you feel the want to be near your mate forever." Rossie grinned giddily, but she was not yet done. "And the last thing…"

"What is it?" Hope asked again. Rossie made it sound like a love at first sight situation and made one believe there were still true love stories in this cruel world. 

"When you touch your mate, you will feel the spark that will erupt from your skin to skin contact." Rossie's focus was solely on Hope now, though she was the very person who was reluctant to inform Hope further about their kind. 

"Spark?" Hope furrowed her eyebrows. "What do you mean by spark?"

"I don't have an idea about that because I have not experienced it yet, but from what I heard, it is like a tingling feeling that will spread on your skin, like a spark." 

Rossie elaborated in detail about the spark that she mentioned, but all Hope could think was the same exact feeling when she touched Kace.

However, before Hope could ask further the bell rang and they had to be separated. 

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"How is your first day?" Lana asked when Hope closed the car door.

She was tasked to pick Hope up from her school and observe the situation here, whether it was safe enough for Hope to be in this village or not. 

"Good." Hope put her bag on her lap and buckled herself or else Lana wouldn't start the engine and they would never reach home.

Safety first. That was what Lana would say.

"What?" Hope furrowed her brows when Lana tried to sniff her and scrunched her nose afterward. 

"There is a shifter in your school." Lana stated, it wasn't a question. Meaning, she already knew about Hope's new friends.

"Really? I don't know." For some reason, Hope didn't want Lana to know about them. She didn't want to move again. Knowing Serefina, there was a high chance she would decide to choose that option. "How do you know?"

"I can smell it." Lana replied curtly. 

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