It's been hours since we arrived on Earth. Sebastian & I, we've been rummaging through my room & no trace of my mother's journal. The fuck!! I remember exactly where I kept the journal hidden : in a box in my closet. And now? The box is there but empty.

Finally, when I couldn't find the journal, I made my way towards my king sized bed & stared at my room which was a complete mess by now. I ran my fingers through my hair & sighed in frustration. Where the fuck could it go? No one enters my room without my permission.

I was lost in my thoughts when I heard Sebastian's groan. Snapping my head in his direction, there he was lying on the floor with all of my clothes stocked on him that fell on him after he opened the closet. I should've warned him when I rummaged through my closet because I literally pushed everything in the closet & closed the door by force. Anyone who'd open the closet will meet the same fate as him.

Taking in the sight, I pursed my lips to stop myself from laughing but I couldn't stop myself from laughing so I did the most unexpected in a situation like this. I burst into fits of laughter as a result of which I received a glare from him. Well, I wasn't the one to blame. How was I supposed to organize everything in a situation like this?

"Why are you laughing?" He ran his hand through his hair in frustration. He sighed & closed his eyes, resting his head on the floor.

"Will you help me get up?" He glared at me while motioning towards the clothes.

"Yeah, uhh, sure" I said clearing my throat & wiping the fake tears from the corner of my eyes.

Removing all the clothes from him& placing them on my bed, I extended my hand towards him to help him get up. He just stared at my extended hand for a minute & looked me in the eyes. Ignoring my extended hand, he just stood up on his own making me regret my decision of helping him stand up. Of course, he could stand up on his own.

"So, do you even have the journal?" He looked at me as if I had lied to him.

"Of course. I have it. I mean I had it. Last time I was here, I placed the journal in a box, right under my clothes in the closet" I sighed, looking at the now-messed-up room.

"Where could it go?" Sebastian placed a finger under his chin as if in a deep thought.

That's when I literally gawked at him. He looked so gorgeous today. I hadn't even noticed how worn out he looked from all the sudden things that happened in just a day. Well not a day according to Earth's timings but according to Kingdom White's. He still looked gorgeous in that denim jacket that hugged his masculine figure & those blue ripped jeans. He really knows how to dress up.

"You done staring?" He finally spoke with a smirk on his beautiful face. That's when I realized that I've staring for too long.

"I wasn't staring" I denied & hugged myself, looking him straight in the eye.

"Yeah, sure. You weren't" He scoffed.

"Seriously, I wasn't. I was lost in my thoughts. I just zoned out for a moment" I said, waving my hand in the air & making my way towards the closet so that I'll dump the clothes in it again.

"Yeah. Sure" He chuckled, not really buying my excuse. And damn his deep chuckle! Hey! I haven't seen him smiling or chuckling.

Then a thought occured to me, what if Aunt Chelsea took it while cleaning up my room?

"Listen, don't come out. I'll go & ask Aunt Chelsea about it" I said & left, not waiting for his reply.

I made my way towards the main hall of our mansion. Thankfully, Aunt Chelsea was sitting there on the couch, watching her favorite TV show as always. I rolled my eyes, thinking that she probably got used to my sudden disappearances. I can't say the same about Alex though. Looking around, I spotted Alex from the window on the right side of our lounge, playing football outside in the lawn.

"Aunt, I'm so sorry. But I need you to tell me. This is really important. Have you seen a journal in my room?" I asked her, plopping on the couch beside her.

"What the fuck?" She jumped in surprise, making me jump as well.

Realizing what she just said, she cleared her throat.

"Language, Aunt Chelsea" I sang in a sarcastic tone.

"How do expect me to mind my language when you just scared the shit out of me?" She scoffed & I just laughed at her.

"Okay. Okay. I'm sorry. So what I was saying is that have you seen a journal that was in a box in my closet?" I raised my brows, looking at her expectantly.

"Uh. What journal? I haven't seen any journal in a box nof any box in a closet" She looked at me with her brows furrowed.

"The journal that's brown in color & has two half moons on either side of a circle of clouds?" I looked at her, waiting impatiently.

"Oh yeah. That one. That's in my room. You- uh, left it on your bed. I didn't know where to put it since journals are always personal so took it to my room to keep it out of reach of Alex & everyone else" She explained. And oh, I thought I placed it somewhere safe.

"It's on my side table" She told me where the journal is.

Running upstairs, I almost tripped. That's how impatient I was. The door of her room was wide open which made me wonder 'Why was it left open? Aunt never leaves the door open. In fact she hates it when one of us leaves the doors of our rooms wide open'. Shrugging the negative feeling off, I went inside of her room.

As soon as I did, I saw Ruby standing near the side table where the journal was. She kept staring at it, trying to reach out for it. But when she reached out her hand, she just curled it in a fist. Again she tried, but it looked like she couldn't do it.

"What are you doing?" I asked her.

She turned around, shock evident in her eyes.

"Why are you shocked? It's not like you were stealing or something!" I laughed at her reaction. She's weird & gives off a very dark vibe.

I walked past her & picked the journal. Relief washed over me as I finally had the journal in my hands. I made my way downstairs but soon stopped dead in my tracks when I saw Aunt Chelsea looking at me with her hands folded over her chest & eying me suspiciously.

At that moment I realized how beautiful she was. The floral dress she wore which reached to her knees, hugged her perfectly shaped body. Her long auburn hair were in a fishtail braid as she's always liked braids but she looked so damn young. Locking my blue eyes with her hazel ones, I smiled sheepishly at her.

"Where do you think you're going?" She asked, stepping closer.

"Uhh. Nowhere. Just going back to my room" I smiled, scratching the back of my neck & holding the journal close to my chest with my left hand.

"Yeah. You better do that" She said pointing her index finger at me.

"Because you disappears without telling me anything. And god knows where you go. You don't even tell me about it let alone asking for a permission" She scoffed at me.

"I can assure you that I don't go anywhere inappropriate. I have uhh this friend of mine, her name is--" I didn't know what I was saying. I couldn't tell her that I go to Maddison's house because that's the excuse I've been coming up with for quite some time now.

"Mia" I blurted out.

"Her name's Mia" I smiled at her, nervously. Praying that she'll buy my excuse.

"I'll make sure you meet her one day" Before she could say anything, I left her standing there & made my way towards my room.

"Here" I rushed inside my room & closed the door behind me.

"This is the Jorunal" I told Sebastian. He looked at me & the journal, probably waiting for me to give it to him.

"I'm not giving it to you unless you tell me what's so special about this!" I pointed my index finger at him & was about to touch his chest when he just stumbled back & looked at me with anger in his eyes.

"Don't.Touch.Me" He said with gritted teeth. Dude, I wasn't going to touch you deliberately.

"I wasnt going to touch you either" I said with a very unladylike snort.

"Give me the journal" He extended his hand out.

Looking at his hand & then at him, I held the journal close to my chest.

"And why would I do that?" I said in a matter-of-fact tone.

"As I said, I won't give it to you unless you tell me about it" I said, waving my free hand in air.

"Look, when we get back you can ask whatever you want. But not here. Mother will give you the answers you want" He said.

Sighing in defeat, I nodded my head.

"Okay. But don't think I won't-" He cut me off by putting a hand in front of me, careful not to touch me. Why is he like this? I mean what could be a big deal about it? First Isbelle stopped him, then again at the mall he couldn't help me get up & now this. Is he suffering from some sort of touch phobia or what?

"Shh" He placed his finger on his lips to shush me. I opened my mouth that just made me recieve a glare from him & that was enough for me to shut up. I gave him a questioning look & he made his way towards the door & pointed towards it.

I nodded & opened the door to reveal Ruby eavesdropping. What the fuck? How did he know? & I didn't?

"What are you doing here, Ruby?" I asked her, now angry.

"Were you eavesdropping?"

She just shook her head & left. What the actual fuck? I scoffed at her behavior.

Shutting the door closed, I let out a deep breath & shook my head at what just happened.

"She's weird"

"You mean Ruby?" I nodded.

"Well, let's go" He said.

Opening a portal, I again looked at him in shock. I mean how could he open a portal? Is he a warlock? I guess he holds much more power than I can even think of. Shrugging the thought, I followed him closely into the portal & soon after a black out, landed on the white floor of Kingdom White.

I took a deep breath thinking spending one more day here means spending one month.

We made our way to the castle & then to Isabelle's room. I still had the journal in my hands since I refused to give it to him.

"Mother? We found the journal" Saying that was enough to make Isabelle snap her head in our direction.

"Where is it?"

I showed it to her & she moved forward to get it out of my hands. Taking it out of my grasp, she opened it & started reading it.

"Oh my sweet sister" She breathed out & starting crying, clutching the journal close to her chest.

"It's Okay" I hugged her & tried to calm her down.

"I'll keep the journal with me" She sniffed & I nodded.

"Do you know why you used to see Sebastian before all of this?" Isabelle asked me out of the blue. I looked towards Sebastian who looked as confused as me.

"No" I shook my head.

"Because Jacinda put a blood spell on this Journal. Whenever I tried to cast the spell to reach out to it, he would end up where you were. At first, when Jacinda was alive I thought he'll reach her & she'll give him what we want but then her death and everything just messed up. She had the journal protected by your blood because she wanted us to reach you, to protect you & the journal" She whispered the last part.

"I guess she already knew about what was coming" She sighed & gave me a sad smile.

What exactly was coming? I wanted to ask her that. But couldn't bring myself to ask. She was reminiscing the memories of her sister. I'll ask her later. And right now, I could tell that she wanted to tell me a lot of things. The things that I don't know about.

"You have no idea how much your mother meant to me. She's done a lot for me" She said through sobs.

"She destroyed everything" Isabelle said through gritted teeth. I glanced over at Sebastian who stood near the door, leaning over it.

"Who? Who destroyed everything?" I didn't know what she was talking about. Looking over at Sebastian, I gave him a questioning look but he just shrugged showing me that he was as much confused as I was.

"That slut! Who took my husband away from me. Who became the reason of this whole time imbalance! Just for the thirst she had for power. She wanted to be the Queen of this kingdom" Once she said that, I glanced at Sebastian who looked towards the ceiling & sighed as if trying to control his anger. And I was right. He was angry because he left right after five seconds.

But who exactly is she? Even mom had mentioned about a 'SHE' in her journal. I'm so fucking curious right now.

"Who exactly is this SHE?" I asked Isabelle, looking straight in her eyes.

"The one who killed my Carolina! The one who took my husband! The one who destroyed us! The one who killed your brother!" She literally said all of that by yelling with so much hatred that I could sense how serious this whole situation was.

"She is Natlia Ruby Jones! The dark witch, despised by everyone out there. An outcast! An abomination" I stared at Isabelle, wide eyed. Not believing what I just heard.

SHE is RUBY JONES!!! But Natalia Ruby Jones. Wait, the hell! It means it's her! The maid at my house!

What the actual fuck?!!!

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