Chapter 62: A LITTLE GREEN 2

I have been calling out for Siofra, but for unknown reasons, she can't see or hear me. Something pushed me out of my body earlier. I don't know what that was, but I felt it.

And after I nearly suffocated to death, I figured out I was out of my body. I saw my own lifeless body as Xender carried it inside. I thought that maybe Siofra had regained her body, and I was scared.

But I was even more surprised when Siofra woke up in my body; instead, I became the spirit while she became one with my body.

All the time Xender and Mike were trying to revive me, I was present in the room, but no one could see me. I was glad when Mike said something about taking me back to the hospital, but what I didn't expect was Siofra waking my body up before Mike and Xender could carry me away.

I thought she was going to be able to see me, but she didn't. I called out for her a couple of times, but she didn't respond to me.

I never knew that my eyes could look green like Siofra's until now. This might be the reason why Xender was suspicious all this time. He can't really see Siofra in person, but he can feel her presence.

I watched Siofra try to act like everything was fine, but Xender kept shooting daggers at her with his eyes. Siofra, on the other hand, was making it too obvious.

When Xender dragged Siofra out of the room, I quickly went after them. Xender questioned Siofra about who she was, but instead of Siofra answering him by saying, “I'm Alda; who else will I be?" She decided to run instead, and that gave Xender more ideas that he was right all along.

He trapped her once she hit the wall behind him, which left her with nowhere else to run to. I thought Siofra already had the idea of how to get herself out of the mess she created, but instead she decided to kiss Xender.

I felt like screaming; why would she even do that? Xender knows I wouldn't kiss him out of the blue. I hit my hand against my head in frustration.

I was caught off guard when I felt the same force that pushed me out of my body. Pulling me back in, but my anger was, Why did it have to wait for Siofra to put me in a tight position before pushing me back?

Xender’s POV

I never expected her to kiss me; she took me by surprise. Her lips were tightly pressed against mine, and her eyes were closed tightly. I grabbed onto her shoulder, shoving her away from me. I stared at her face, waiting for her to open her eyes, and when she did, those green eyes were gone.

“Alda?”

“Xender, I didn't... I mean, I didn't mean to kiss you. It was a mistake, and it won't happen again.” She left me more confused than I already was. A few seconds ago, she was a different person, and now she is herself again. 

Maybe Mike was right; Alda needs more tests just to confirm if she is okay, but then again, how does that affect her eye colour changing?

“Alda, are you okay?” I asked when I realised I had been standing and looking at her like she had stolen something from me.

"Yeah, I'm fine. I'm really sorry if I stressed you out for no reason. If you would excuse me, I need to go to bed,” she said to me before heading for the door. I didn't stop her this time around because she felt more like herself.

Should I tell Mike about this? It even sounds strange to me, so how will this sound to Mike? I ran my hands through my hair as I tried gathering my thoughts together.

I went back to my room to meet Mike before he left. I had already taken most of his time. I met him waiting for me in the sitting room.

“How is she?”

“She seems fine; it's more like nothing happened. I'm just confused at the moment, like my brain is about to burst with the events of today.

“Relax; you worry too much. You both should be at the hospital at noon tomorrow. Let's run more tests and see if we can find the reason why she fainted.”

“Mike, you and I know that that wasn't a faint. We couldn't find a pulse, remember, so I'm thinking something is fishy.”

“What are you driving at?”

“I don't know, but something has just been off about her lately. The other day, she went missing. I searched the whole building along with the securities, but we couldn't find her.” I saw disbelief on Mike's face as he stared at me like I had gone nuts.

“I'm sure you guys didn't search for her properly. So where did you later find her, if I may ask?”

“Well, we couldn't find her; she just came out of nowhere and claimed to be in the garden. In the same garden, I had the securities search over again.”

"Okay, this is insane, but I still believe you are overthinking things; just relax. I need to head home and rest. I have a lot of surgery to perform tomorrow.”

“Thank you, Mike. I will call you up tomorrow.”

“Take good care of her and yourself too.”

“Yes doctor.”

I need to talk to Alda; I still need her clarification on things.

Alda's POV

“What happened?” I asked Siofra, who was pacing around the room.

“I don't know; how am I supposed to know?”

“Because you are the powerful one among us, you should know why I got kicked out of my body; I thought I was going to die.”

“I'm sorry, Alda, but everything is driving me crazy. Like, why would Stone pick me out of all the candidates?? I don't know a shit about being a queen; I can't even take care of my own belongings, so how am I supposed to rule a kingdom?

The stone should have chosen Alma; she is smart, a good fighter, can hunt, and knows everything about being a queen. She would have made a perfect queen. She had her back on me, making it difficult to tell how she was feeling at the moment.

But from her voice, I could tell she was frustrated, and so was I.

“Siofra, don't sound that way. You are the one who told me that the stone never makes a mistake when picking its candidate.

How sure are you that your sister won't misuse the power bestowed upon her? I know you don't really know why the stone chose you out of every other person worthy of those powers, but I think it's up to you to figure it out.

Do you really think I haven't pondered why the universe chose to send you to me? I have pondered that a million times, but I haven't gotten my answers.”

“I'm scared that I might not be able to save Álfheimr. I'm scared that if I don't act fast, there will be bloodshed.”

“Your fear will only make your power weak, so be strong, and you are not alone in this fight.”

“I know I'm not alone, but how long are we going to keep waiting for the portal to come to us?” She asked, finally facing me. I saw anger, pain, rage, and determination in her eyes.

“Then we find the portal; something triggered it to start appearing to us; we need to find what that is and make use of it.”

"Shh, he is coming,” Siofra said.

“Whose coming?”

“Xender”

“What? Oh no, I really don't want to talk to him.”

“Then you better go pretend like you are asleep.”

"Oh, really, I wonder who got us into this mess from the beginning.” I stared at her with my left eyebrow raised.

"Well, don't look at me like that. I told you he was beginning to feel my presence around you, but you wouldn't believe me.”

“And that doesn't explain the reason why you had to kiss him.”

“I was only trying to distract him so we wouldn't get caught, but instead of thanking me, you are nagging me about it.” She has got to be kidding me.

“I should thank you for putting me in a tight position.”

“He is almost close; you better get moving.” I groaned in frustration before throwing myself on top of the bed.

“You are full of troubles, Siofra.”

“Thanks for the compliment, but goodnight; I will see you in the morning.”

“Where are you going?” I waited for her response, but the quiet room told me that she was gone. I sighed and closed my eyes, looking for sleep.