NovelXoxo Chapter 24
Chapter 24: Starting Fresh
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Since Avery nearly died, I have seen her differently. Her body might be frail but her spirit isn’t. She keeps pushing forward no
matter what has been done to her. She more than deserves the surprise in her locker that my brothers and I arranged. As I think
back to how I have mistreated her, I/recall a quote from Pride and Prejudice I was given good principles, but left to follow them in
pride and conceit,” Mr. Darcy said in that book. I am just as guilty as he is and so are my brothers. We let our titles and pride
keep us from knowing the real Avery. We judged her by her appearance, not her character. Maybe it is too late for a truly fresh
start because of all of the damage that has been done, but that won’t stop me from trying.
Before the bell rings to signal us to go to our first–period classes, Hedi walks over to me with a fake smile plastered on her face
and a seductive glint in her eyes. She puts her hand on my arm and 1 fight the urge to slap it away. Pretending that we don’t
know what she and the other girls did might prove harder than I thought. “Meet me under the bleachers after school since there’s
no practice. I have something that I want to show you,” she says. I only nod in response because I won’t be meeting her. Instead,
I will be taking Avery home.
Avery
To my delight, my day sped by plus it was great not having to go to PE. I skipped lunch because I was still full from breakfast.
When I get back to the palace, I will have a care basket sent to Momma June and Poppa Anton. They cared enough to come
and check on me, so I will make sure their kindness doesn’t go unrewarded. So far the Hags have kept their distance from me
but I have felt their furious gazes when I traversed the halls. They must be pissed that I didn’t die or get withdrawn from school
because I was in a coma, a coma that they tried to cause. I have always continued forward even when I have tried to kill myself,
fate intervened. I survived my parents‘ deaths, that dragon in the woods, my own feeble attempts at suicide, and this latest attack
by the Hags. Fate wants me alive for a reason and I won’t disappoint her again.
I entered Mr. Chen’s class and he greeted me. He remarks on how well I look and attributes it to me having a good weekend. I
assume that only the headmaster knows what happened besides those that were involved. After I take my seat, Cassius comes
in and sits beside me at our lab station. Mr. Chen hands out the necessary items and encourages us to begin the first part of our
study on genetics. We are going to use an equation involving our physical traits to craft what our offspring would look like. He
wants both human and dragon offspring to be revealed during this experiment. I sigh and look down.
Cassius puts his finger under my chin. Our eyes meet as he says, “Use your imagination. What would you like your dragon to
look
like?”
That is something that I have never thought about. Dragons have always frightened me since I was attacked when I was six. If
my dreams are any indication, dragons killed my parents. I have no reason to want a dragon, but The Trio did save me. I will try
because I am alive because of them. “She would have blue eyes because I love blue eyes,” I began to blush as his blue eyes
twinkled at me before a bit of red dotted them. “Her scales would be white, iridescent, and maybe accentuated with gold or
silver.”
Cassius nodded as he put my information into the formula. Next, he added Asher’s. Mr. Chen came over and congratulated us
on creating a beautifully unique wormling. After he left, I asked Cassius, “Why did he have that look on his face?”
Cassius suddenly loses his confidence. He’s nervous. Why? He clears his throat, “Because we just made a true queen. We
made the Supreme Mother.”
I blink rapidly. Based on what history I have learned, the Supreme Mother has been extinct for several millennia. She was the
one who possessed the magic that was responsible for the
ting bond. That can’t be right.”
“You can give me different traits and we can see if it changes the results,” he suggests. I nodded because I didn’t use any of the
Supreme Mother’s known traits. I simply told him what I liked in a dragon.
“Okay, try silver eyes on a sky–blue dragon.
Cassius chuckled, “I need to remember how much you like blue,” as be put in the new information. However, we ended up with
nearly the same thing. I took the first one and he took the second. He put his paper into his backpack and I carried mine out of
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class, but I protectively put it into my book when I saw Jessica bounging over with a paper in her hand.
She spoke so loudly that I couldn’t help but overheat, “Look at this. put you and Asher in as my mate. Look how adorable our
babies are.
I pushed back the bile that roke into my mouth. Cassius said, “That’s nice,” as he started walking to his next class. Jessica trailed
after him like a lost puppy. I shook my head and went to my next class. I sigh because I hope that he knows what he is doing.
What if she turns out to be his mate? Can he punish her then? If by some wisted chance, the Hags are the Trio’s mates I will ask
them to allow me to graduate early so that I can leave. I am done being abused because I am a weak human girl.
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