Cold as Ice

Chpt 1

Nobody is going to notice.
I start up my car as the party carries on.
Although guilty for leaving my own birthday party I need to go unnoticed.
I start backing out of the car park.
My sister runs out of the stairwell and races into my car.
"Andi go back home!"
"Not a chance Luci"
Is puts on her seatbelt giving me a Daring look.
"Dad will think you were taken or something!"
"Shhh what he doesn't know won't hurt him"
"Now drive the sooner we go the sooner we'll be back"
I roll my eyes and drive out of the car park.
Once on the road the questions start.
"Where are we going anyway?"
"To see Riley"
"Wait what why?"
"There's a secret that's being kept from us and I know how to get the answer from Riley"
"What's the secret?"
"It's about our mother"
Andi's face changes from general curiousity to extreme confusion.
"Why do you care?"
"Because I think it has something to do with my power's"
"Once I get the information from Riley I'm going to leave"
"Where too?"
"To wherever our mother is Andi"
"Why don't you ask dad?"
"Don't you think I've tried that"
"Did you look in his room for old letters?"
"I've practically taken that room apart and put it back together five times over"
"How about our birth certs?"
"I also checked them"
"Anything?"
"Nope"
"Maybe you're looking too hard?"
"I don't think I'm looking hard enough"
I ignore Andi for a second and drive into the housing estate racking my brain for which house My grandparents live in.
I don't like my mother's side of the family so I haven't seen them since I was like thirteen.
"Third house on the right"
"Thanks Andi"
I park next to the side walk and turn off the car.
Unclipping our seatbelts and getting out in unison we both breath in the cold night air.
Andi walks ahead of me as I lock the car and do a little jog to catch up to her.
She takes off the doorbell which must be fake and gets a key carefully putting the plastic covering on before putting the key in the door and unlocking it.
Once inside she carefully closes the door and I tip upstairs and into my mother's room.
Andi closes the door behind me.
"What are we looking for?"
"Old letters I already told you idiot"
"Shut up Lucia"
We search through boxes of memorabilia and drawers full of nothing and yet everything.
Our efforts are fruitless.
I sit on the bed thinking for a second.
I remember reading this one book where letters were hidden in photo frames.
It's worth a shot.
"Andi open all the pictures and see if there's anything there"
We open every photo frame in sight and go looking for more.
I find one and pause looking at it.
It's of Dad and my mother holding me when I was by the looks of it seven or eight months old.
I shake my head and open the frame.
Bingo.
The Letter looks unopened.
Lucia Noelle Moretti.
The handwriting is unfamiliar and looks rushed.
"Did you find one Luci?"
"It has my name on it"
"Give it"
Andi snatches the letter from my hand examining it.
She thrust it back into my hands.
"Open it"
I carefully open it leaving the envelop fall to the floor.
I unfold the letter.
Scanning over it quickly it doesn't look like it's anything of much importance.
I give it to Andi as she clears her throat for dramatic effect and starts reading it.

"To my baby girl,
I hope you are well whenever you find this and read it.
As I am writing this you are sound asleep cuddling your sheep Eoghans arms wrapped around you."
"For heaven's sake will she ever get to the point nobody cares that dad and you were asleep"
"Shut up and finish reading it"
"I'm sure you're reading this because you're looking for wherever I'm gone"
"No shit Sherlock"
"Andi shut up and finish reading it"
"Unfortunately I can't write it in plain words..."
"Oh my god reading this letter is a waste of time"
I grab the letter and hit it off her and pick up where she left off.
"However there is a letter from my aunt somewhere in this house that has my location,
Good luck
Mam."

"Oh my God that was so pointless"
"Shut up Andi and go find that letter"
I pick up the envelop carefully folding the letter and placing it back inside.
I look at the picture and put that in the envelope before putting it in one of the inside pockets of my jacket.
Andi has already left the room and I look around for a few minutes.
One of the drawers is locked.
I use my powers to break the locking mechanism and open the stiff drawer.
It's full of letters.
Nice try Cassidy you can't hide shit from me.
I find a small book bag and take out the contents of the drawer stuffing them unceremoniously into the bag.
Andi and I can go through them later.
"Long time no see Lucia"
Riley leans against the doorframe Andi standing next to them shamefaced.
"Why are you stealing papers?"
"I need them for a journey"
"You're not going to have any luck finding out where your mother is with those"
"Riley you know where she is don't you"
Riley turns to Andi and rolls their eyes.
"I obviously know where my daughter is I sent her there when Lucia was only one or something"
"Where is she Riley"
"I'm never going to tell you"
"Riley of you don't tell us where our mother is I'll tell the vampire council that you have been drinking newborn"
Riley looks at me in shock and slight Fury.
Andi looks at me in confusion as I shoot her that look of 'ill explain later'.
"That's blackmail!"
I roll my eyes.
"No shit Sherlock now tell us where she is"
"Why do you want to know"
"I think it's time we had a little reunion"
Riley looks concerned and angry.