24 Chapter 23

Dinner was eventful only in stolen glances from Zaline to Kelvin, Claudette speaking of everything and nothing, and Buford in his ever so moody silence. We discussed the upcoming party or what they would like to call a ball, and the people that are all coming to meet me.

After dinner I was so tired and sore, I decided to tell everyone goodnight, retiring to my room and shedding all my clothes, and climbing in bed. Not having any visions, just regular nightmares lately, I've been working on touching Claudette only and controlling my visions when I only want to see them, but in my sleep, I cannot control anything.

I always go back to my mother running scared, then my father dying, ending with Remey betraying me, then only to calm down and see Buford's handsome green eyes before I wake.

Still use to waking up early, even though I don't work anymore, I still have training to do, getting dressed in blue jeans, and a tank top, and tying my hair into pigtails, it's time to get started.

After I ate a quick breakfast and grabbing a bottle of water, I ran into Buford "Oh, Good morning, I'm almost ready for training if you are" I said then noticed he's in his slacks and button-up shirt with a tie.

"Good morning Acadia, I will not be training with you today, mother and I have some planning to do for the ball, but we have asked Kelvin to stand in" he responded, without ever really looking at me, he walked away.

I wish I knew why he was giving me the cold shoulder; we have barely said any words to each other since the night we kissed, and now that Remey is gone, I don't see what I did wrong. Claudette comes in and says goodbye as they both leave, now I'm to wait on Kelvin.

I've never trained with him before, and I'm curious what his power is, hoping it's not something I can't deflect. Time to find out as I hear the doorbell, and open to door to see him dressed in a similar fashion like me, wow, I've never seen him out of a suite before, and I see why Zaline is so shy around him.

Were in the basement going over what training I have already done, I told him about how I can control my visions with touch, the deflect of powers I learned, the hand to hand fighting, and how I learned to enhance other's abilities without such force unless needed.

"Who knew you would be the highest honored Heir when you started working with us a year ago? It all seems so surreal you know, I never thought we would find one of you" he looks at me.

"Right!" I snort "I never thought any of this was real, but here we are, and you're helping to teach your Queen how to fight and protect you" smiling at him.

"Your right and I'm absolutely honored to be a part of this, and I hope you don't think of me as being too forward, but I hope we can be friends as well, especially after what I am here to do today" What does that mean, ugh.

"Um sure, of course, we can be friends, the more the merr....."

I didn't get to finish my sentence, everything happened so fast, one minute there was just him, then there were nine more of him, all looking at me! They all started talking at once, saying the deaths at the meeting were all my fault, saying no one loves me, saying that Remey betrayed me, I'm just like my father, and I will never be like my mother.

Hearing all these things makes me overwhelmingly upset, sad, and very angry. That's when I feel it again, my body starting to levitate, the hum of power flowing through it, yellow light radiating from my body, and suddenly I see clearer this time. All of the clones of Kelvin disappeared into thin air, as he slowly walks towards me, hands in front of him trying to calm me.

"Now listen to me Acadia, those clones were not real, just projections. I need you to stay calm or we could both die in here. The feeling you have now, hold onto it and familiarize yourself with it" I am still angry but starting to see what was going on, he did it on purpose to bring out my worst power so far, I calm down just enough to feel what I was doing.