Tomboy ~ Editing

Chapter 18- Shadowkissed

I'm falling. Down a black tunnel. I frantically try to stop myself. But am frozen. I'm falling and differnt shapes and shades flash before me. I fall. I fall. I fall. I can feel the ground coming closer to me. I brace myself for the impact. When I hit its like someone had turned on slow motion. I feel my legs hit first. It sends a shock through my body. My fingertips graze the ground. And my back slams down blowing all of the wind out of me. The back of my head bashes and its over. I lie very still. My eye's are still closed. I just think about breathing. I slowly open my eye's to see myself looking at the sky.

I sit up and look around. Beside me is Clara's body. Much like how it looked in my dream, rotting broken and decaying. I muffle a scream.

"Shh! Its okay" says a voice behind me. I jump up and turn facing my opponent only to find a boy about Charlie's age. He looks like Charlie too...looking like Charlie would automatically mean he looks like Reeve too, and an older version of Noah.

"Who are you?" I ask, trying and failing to keep fear from leaking into my voice

"I'm your brother" he says and I frown

"No...You can't be...." I mutter, eyebrows furrowed "My brothers are..."

"I'm your oldest brother. shocking I know. Hi, I'm Jason" he smirks playfully. Extending his hand towards me. I take it and shake it

"But Reeve is my oldest brother" I say completely and utterly confused.

"Reeve and Charlie had a third twin...Well I suppose a triplet. But our Mom lost me. I didn't make it off the table." he says, zero pity in his very blue eyes.

"I'm sorry" I whisper, unsure of how to react to this unsettling information. He merely laughs

"Don't be. If I had been born most likely you wouldn't have been" Jason shrugs and I nod beginning to understand. But it's like taking a crumb off a timbit with another doughnut sitting there.

I wearily ask "Am I dead?"

"No you are alive. You're Shadow kissed." he says, waiting me with careful eyes. Monitoring me, it's the same look my nurse gives me when she draws blood. Fear that I'll crumple, vomit, pass out, cry, or all thee above.

"Whats that?" I ask, playing along with this wild thought. and he looks at his wrist, he's looking at a watch

"You are dead and alive. You can die and come back. So you can't die until Leo dies. Because he brought you back. So when Leo dies you will too...like a link" he says, as if he was taking about the freaking weather instead of my lifeline.

"But then how am I here?" I ask with doubt lacing my words. Looking at Mom with a wrinkled nose

"Its your first time, this is the first time you've gotten hurt since Mom tried to kill you. So this was a easy spot for me to talk to you. But pretty much you can come over whenever. Keep in mind through that every time you do, you're dead. Your heart doesn't beat, you don't breath. So you're probably freaking someone out right now." he says with a chuckle

"Oh no...Leo" I gasp, panic surging through my veins. My blue eyes going wide

"So I will be able to heal again?" I ask and he nods "And how do I get back here?"

"Well... You concentrate on me. This spot. And that tunnel. Whisper "las sombras de la muerte" and you should just come, at least 'till you get the hang of it. Then it's practically second nature" he says, I let the information sink in. I seriously doubt that this is real, I must be dreaming this is too wild

"What does that mean? That whole 'las somaro de la mert' " I ask

"The shadows of death" he answers looking at his watch again