I kept glancing at my wristwatch. The time seemed to go slower.

Tick-tock and time freezes...

Sometimes, I just wish I had normalcy in my life. Like, when does a girl my age fall? For who? I'm in love with my wolf who says he's not. Is that called normal? I thought so...

I started pacing around the forest which was sculptured with sky high trees and birds of all types chirping, tweeting, or making simple noises, giving away all the animals in this place.

The trees, thankfully, blocked the view of the potential sun. The weather was cool and a bit chilly. I kept walking around the forest, with crunching leaves and branches along the way, as I did before I got to my father's castle.

After what happened the last time with Fabiola and Elizabeth, I had this gut feeling I couldn't trust anyone, yet at the same time I could. How is that?

8:17am

Is Alex ever going to arrive? He tells me he'd be here at eighth aclock, so why isn't he here?

What if one of the vampires from the castle was playing mind tricks on me? What if that was my father luring me here to actually kill me?

Sudden panic galloped in me, and my breathing became erratic. I looked from left to right and from North to South yet there was no one there.

How could I become so dim? Alex disappeared from my mind so he just couldn't be real. He won't see me in person. That's an impossibility. Feeling determined, and with that said, I'm leaving. Fast also, I don't want to be dead and if I do get killed, I don't want it to be in a forest.

Suddenly, the wind became even more chilled and icy cold and I tugged the sleeves of my white delicate sweater as to get warm, to no avail. Bad timing to place this garment in this winter...

Then, my hairs stood up and my pounding heart came to a halt as I felt someone watching me. Once I heard footsteps, squatting leaves like I was, I ran as fast as I could to the castle yet somehow bam. I got tackled down to the floor with a heavy weight on top of me.

I started shoving and pushing, afraid for my life not really looking who it was, until my hands were pushed and separated beside both sides of my head. I started heaving and with terror welled in me, adrenaline kicking, wearing off, I stared at this person.

One look. Just one look and my heartbeat rose to life, like drums in a solo played by the drummer. I gasped and tried to wiggle myself from his grasp. I thought before I was terrified. Now, terror doesn't begin with what I'm feeling now.

It can't be. I thought.

Yes, yes it can. His rich voice spoke to my mind.

His honey eyes met mine and I was a goner for good. His even lips twitched into a smirk and his stark, shiny black hair, fell to his pale yet flushed face.

I tried again to wriggle myself out from my position, but he was still there holding me in place. I was captivated by his eyes, who just remained staring at me for some time.

God, you're so beautiful... Alex said.

"A-alex?" I rasped with my voice all throaty and breathless. "This isn't real, it's just a dream. After all these years, since a kid and now- now here you are, right in front of me. How? Why? When? How?"

He smiled down at me, and in one swift movement, stood up and took hold of my hand to help me stand up.

I rapidly went towards him, chest to chest and I could surely enough hear his erratic heartbeat feeling like mine. With the back of my hand, I caressed his cheeks, his eyes, his mouth, his ears, his hair and somehow, it landed on his chest. His breath caught and my eyes landed on his intense ones.

He looked as if tranced and inched closer, so close, his breath was fanning my face. Emotions I felt before, for this handsome, tall and amazing man swarmed in me like fishes in a sea. I gulped and inched closer.

My dreams finally came true... You're here... I thought.

But then it snapped: he doesn't know how I feel about him... So I must stay quiet. I cleared my throat and that really did wake him up from our little moment. I backed away while he did the same.

"Look, let's skip all the cheesy and corny sentences please, for we don't have much time. Just know I'm glad to know you're here and I'm finally meeting you in person."

"Um, sure. Yeah, go on Alex." I said unsure.

"You're father is on the hunt for your powers and then for your life. He lied." Alex said as he paced around the forest while I was still shell-shocked.

"How do you know what my father and I and all the things going on in my life has happened?" I asked backing away until my back hit a tree.

He went up to me with his eyes getting softer and said: "Your mother, she needs you. You're father lied. She doesn't hate you. She indeed gave you up for adoption but it was to protect you from your father. She gave you to a woman who was one of her most dearest friends to protect you. You're mother is so important in this world, just like you. Let me show you."

I arched an eyebrow not understanding a word he was saying. But refused to voice out my doubts. My expression was enough to give away how thoroughly confused I was.

He gave me an apologetic look, with a sheepish smile while extending a hand out. I looked at it long and hard, wondering why was he extending his hand out. It's not like we just met. This is just the first time we met in person...

He shook his head and took my hand, squeezing it a bit. Electricity shot through my fingers to my whole hand, and I yelped momentarily in pain. I wanted to yank it away yet his firm hold didn't budge.

He looked at my eyes with an uncertainty. "Do you trust me?" Alex asked me in a low voice.

I kept staring at his eyes still not processing the fact that I've just met Alex in the flesh. The love of my life. And without a cloud of a doubt, I nodded to his question. Of course I trust him.

"I'm glad you trust me, for right now, I need you to let me take you somewhere, and you might feel a little nauseous along the way since it's your first time. I know I'm not making sense. I'm just telling you that I will take you somewhere, okay?" He said assertively.

"Okay." I replied meekly. And just like that, the world started to spin so fast I had to close my eyes.

As soon as I opened them, the forest was gone to be replaced with a rainy foggy day, in an unknown place, desolated. I couldn't see Alex.

Frantically, I searched and searched until I saw sobbing, tall lady holding a baby, in a soft looking blanket. She nestled the baby with her arms and hugged it as if her dear life depended on it. The baby wasn't visible to me until the mother slipped a bit more the blanket, and there popped a beautiful glowing baby with a bright yellow halo.

The lady seeing the bright halo quickly covered the baby with the blanket and immediate fear etched in her expressions. After walking and walking, she finally reached an isolated building from all the others, and did a little unique knock on a wooden tall door.

A familiar looking woman stepped out and kissed the mothers forehead. The woman did a motion for the woman to enter, but the mother simply shook her head indicating a no. The mother stuck her hands out with the baby cocooned in the blanket and gave it to the woman.

The woman gently and lovingly took the baby in her arms, and slipped the blanket that covered the baby's face and body. Confusion swarmed in the woman's face as she saw the baby glow so strongly of orange, yellow and white lights around it.

All of a sudden the mother took her robe that covered her body and face and there, I saw a woman. She was a beautiful, stunning woman who looked like a goddess. Her stark pale face made a huge contrast with her long and brilliant black hair. Her features were delicate and sweet even with the red eyes, signs of her crying. But, she still looked stunning. The woman holding her baby was not that visible, so I etched closer and gasped.

"Yes, she's your mother, well, she's the one who raised you. Now the mother, that's something you'll have to find out for yourself." I looked around frightened, not knowing where that voice came from but here curiosity for knowing who that mother and baby was, got stronger.

I ran to both women. Neither one of them noticed me though.

The woman indeed was the woman I've called mother all my life. And a crazy thought flew through my mind. Imagine if that mother was my own and that baby was me? But that's absurd! I'm not this glowing baby... And if that was me, where's Tony?

I looked at the baby as I got closer, and the baby looked so gorgeous... Then the mother spoke firmly, after she got her senses apparently together.

"My dear Delila, take care of my daughter. She's the only one in the whole world who is the one who can save the world or- as her father wants, destroy it. Many things will fight for her and you have to promise to let her do it on her own. I don't care what you feel or think, you have to let her become strong. She's a warrior Delila, a half vampire and half-" Then the woman interrupted her in the best part where I would know who I was. I got so frustrated yet kept listening.

"I know she's a special baby. Her glow, it will fade with us right? But what about when we're not around? Everyone will know she's different and special. They'll- they'll kill her. You know how the world reacts with unknown things..." Delila, my mother who raised me, said with fear.

The mother who I was guessing was my biological one, shook her head. "I will do an enchantment. It will wear off once she knows who she is though."

The mother took the glowing baby softly again in her delicate arms and started chanting in some words that seemed like Latin. The baby glowed even more until it seemed as if the whole place was lit and then just like that the glowing disappeared.

The baby looked normal and I wondered how on earth was this place so isolated from everyone. No cars, no street, nothing. After that, the mother kissed the baby's forehead and looked at Delila with affection. Before the mother left, she said: "The worlds' destiny depends on you and so does her fate and life depend on you. Be careful."

And swoosh, the mother disappeared into thin air. The woman smiled and embraced the baby as if she was the mother.

Alex all of a sudden appeared next to me, and held my hand only to be taken again to the forest where we were. I didn't feel nauseous, just utterly confused.

"That was my mother. My father didn't lie, she really was a Goddess from the highest above kingdoms... But- your point was to show me that she did indeed love me. But did she hate my father?"

Alex, so handsomely with a serious expression said yes as he stood in a second next to me.

"What about Tony?" I asked.

"He was a year there already. But remember, he's a God completely. So he isn't a threat. But he was supposed to protect you. He's your half-brother slash protector. Not by anything odd, it was just your mother wanting you to be safe. And yes, indeed it was hard to let him go too..." Alex held my hands and I was immediately comforted as he looked at my eyes.

"I'm, look," He said sternly and deeply. "I'm your guardian. Your official one. Like I was born to do that... Since you were born. I'm not supposed to do many things Nar, but fudging hell I can't help it. But for now, all I care about is your safety." He closed the gap and came to a halt when we were dangerously too close.

"Alex... So, you were never my wolf but my guardian Angel?" His sad nod made me just wish to kiss him impulsively, to make him smile again. But of course, I refrained myself.

If she's a Goddess, does that mean I'm half God? I asked Alex.
Nar, you have to figure that out..." Alex said. And though the answer would be obvious to anyone, it wasn't for me.

So many questions are still buzzing in me but you know what? I don't mind. He's here... His strong arms embraced me and nothing was sweeter then being there safe in his embrace. That is until he whispered the next words...

"Narinae, the thing that is most complicated now to me is that..." He spoke while stroking my hair. "We're soulmates..."

My head snapped and looked at him with big eyes.

"What?"