Reason to Love

Free

And so life moved on.

Apollo and I barely made it back in time for the homecoming dance which we enjoyed more than ever. It was our last night as "Lenneth the useless replacement feather" and "Apollo I'm still looking for a replacement feather" before we became bonded. We had fun with Destiney, Zach, Tristinee, and Karman who was supposedly watching out for us but instead just having fun standing in a corner while Tristinee brought him drinks. Of course after that night we had to go back to Apollo's kingdom where we got everything in order. We stayed there for a few weeks while I nagged him about last summer and how much fun we had so we could go back. I was ready to go back to normal school. Apollo was too. Before we headed back, this time I made sure I really was 'changed' like everyone was talking about before. I cut my hair and ditched the terrible tied-back ponytails. I also actually got some new clothes, but I still had Apollo's leather jacket. He wasn't getting that back anytime soon. 

We had decided we'd both like to graduate from high school before I was officially inducted in as princess later to be queen. So school was our priority.

Well, as well as fighting the remaining suns. Hordes of sun minions and lesser-suns were still out there trying to, you guessed it, avenge their fallen leader and the unoriginal plot of "take over the world." Apollo and I still trained at night now, learning how to use my special ability. It actually came in handy while doing homework. When you can spawn several versions of yourself you can get a lot done in quite a short amount of time.

I'm sure Brenda saw my multiple selves at once, for now she gave me weird looks whenever she saw me wearing the bracelets on separate wrists. I usually kept them on my right wrist now, as for I didn't usually have to charge huge amounts of light.

As for Alyssa, as soon as she saw me come back with Apollo she pretty much shut up. Every time she tried to speak something to me as to even attempt to put me down, someone stepped in finally telling her how mean she was. She finally was no longer a problem in my life. 

Karman and Will were almost always with Apollo, just there as 'guards' when in reality they just wanted to hang out. Sometimes Yumeo and Nuwa would sub in, but most of the time they were more preoccupied with their newest additions to their family, their new twin boys.

One time Basha and Shay subbed in when they weren't off in Paris doing who knows what. I hadn't known Basha's knowledge in fifteen languages until then, or the fact Shay secretly was helping her run a clothing line which was also a huge hit in Paris.

Fae and Juin now owned a large house on the coast of the ocean in the tropical place of the Caribbean, a place where most of us spent our weekends just because it was always sunny and warm.

Elizabeth had begun organizing and reconstructing multiple schools all over the world for potential feathers, and all potential feathers were now drafted in the one school that was built in Apollo's kingdom. Although none of them were to be bonded to anyone, they still got the ability to learn about all of this and what they could do to protect others. It was a great program and I met several new and amazing friends. It made me feel older than I really was, knowing more than they did, but in reality it was the just the experience of everything I went through. They actually knew more of the history than I did.

"Lenneth are you ready? You don't wanna be late for your own graduation!" Brenda pounded on my door, "you better be the real one in there!"

"Yeah yeah I'm coming!" I told her as I zipped up my gown and adjusted my cap. I looked in the mirror--I was afraid I didn't recognize myself right now. Two and a half years time has passed since back then. We had to grow up pretty quickly then since both of us had some pretty large responsibilities to handle.