Once I made it back to ben's house fully changed I had to make a stop at my house to get a change of clothes but ben and I were laying on his bed watching 'Scream' the tv show they have on Netflix and he asks "who is your favorite character right now?". I smile my head leaning against his chest "probably Audrey or Brooke she seems like a cool girl she's the party girl but she's really funny though". He snickers and says "I do too I like Kieran the old boyfriend I can't remember his name he seems to safe to plain jane". I nodd against his chest as his arms wrap around my hips and I say "be your luck Kieran will be the serial killer".

He chuckles and I feel his chest vibrate which made me giggle and he says "yeah be my luck I don't know Kieran seems to really care for Emma". I nodd at him and after our little cuddle session I feel like I could get lost in his arms I tell ben I had to get back home it was almost my curfew time. He drove me back home and before I get out of his truck and give him a kiss on the lips and I wrap my arms around his neck and his fit perfectly on my hips. Then we break apart when we hear my front door open and close and I hear my dad's voice "faith say good night to ben".

I whine and bury my head into his neck and I whisper "I'm sorry" I look at my dad and see him walk down the stairs and he approaches us and he says to ben "go home ben the date is over". He nods at him and sends me a soft smile and a wink I giggle quietly and he says "yes sir good night faith I'll see you tomorrow?". I nodd at him and he gets in his truck and when he leaves I turn to my dad and I say "don't ever do that again". I glare at him and I walk away from him and he says "what did I do? the fact that we were supposed to have dinner after the pageant and you blew off your family just so you could hang with that boy?".

I growl and ease up the stairs and I turn around "well maybe I just wanted to relax after my pageant and just be with ben. Maybe I didn't wanna go out to see your perfect country club cronies discussing when the next Chanel #5 is gonna come out or how many of them played Raquetball on the weekend. When in doubt they probably cheated on they're wives with there young Raquetball instructors". I scoff and walk past my mom and I see her sitting at the bottom of the stairs I walk right by her and go to my room and I slam the door and I scream in anger and the mirror on my vanity cracked in the top corner and the candles on my vanity lit up.

I gasp and I hear my grimoire flipping pages and then it stops on 'Arcadius' page again why does it keep stopping on his picture?. I bite my lower lip and I read through the summary which most likely one of my ancestors wrote in on how to prepare for him and how to vanquish him if he ever broke out of his purgatory. I bite my lower lip as I read through the summary about him saying that 'Arcadius' was in love with his twin brother's woman but she didn't reciprocate his feelings she loved the brother more. He became so mad with rage when she rejected him and asked himself 'why does she love him more than me?' and 'he and I are the same person and look the same' but there was one quality that his brother had that Arcadius didn't have.

The brother had love and kindness in his heart that was what made the brother different than Arcadius they may look alike but they were polar opposites the good twin was light and Arcadius was dark in other words it was just a bad case of sibling jealousy. Well, when she rejected his advances if she wanted his brother than she was gonna get him. That night before his brother's woman was set to meet his brother he snuck to the white oak tree in the woods dressed in his brother's clothes and they initiated in intercourse her thinking he was the brother. As soon as they were done he wiped her memory afterward so she wouldn't remember.

Then she slept with his brother no one ever knew about what Arcadius had done my eyes widened and then I continue to read about the evil brother. I turn the page to the back and then I read the last paragraph out loud "Then nine months later the brother's woman gave birth to two twin girls one with brown hair and one with blonde". I gasp does that mean? I keep searching through the book and try and find out what Arcadius' powers are and there wasn't a single thing the only thing that was written about him was the story. I run my hand through my blonde hair and I hear my dad leave and mom goes to bed as soon as he leaves but not before kissing me on the forehead.

I send her a sad smile and pretend I was going to sleep but in reality, I wasn't when I was positive she was asleep I grab my grimoire and put my shoes on and close my door and make sure it was locked. I grab my keys off of my side table and climb out of the window and down to my truck which was still sitting in the driveway. I sit the book in the passenger seat and make my way to Lucian's house even though I didn't really wanna be here right now but I gotta know. When I made it to his house I sit in my truck for the longest time just building up my nerve I was more afraid of what I would find out.

I grab the book from the seat and make my way inside and I knock on the door and what surprised me was it wasn't 'Jax' who answered it was Cheryl. Her eyes widened "faith? are you okay? what's wrong? you got that sad kicked puppy look" I take a deep breath and I ask "can I speak to you and Lucian? alone?". Her eyes soften and our facial expressions are exactly alike and she nods "yeah come on in sweetheart maria she's upstairs in her room do you wanna go see her first?". I shake my head and smile "no uh I just need some answers Cheryl" she smiles at me and walks me inside and she leads me to the kitchen and sits me down at the bar.

I sit the book down on the counter and her fingers glide over the triquetra and she gasps "so you did get it? I was hoping you got it". She stands beside me and smiles at the book and she says "I sent it to you via magic" I smile at her and I look at Lucian and I ask "who's Arcadius?". His eyes widened and he asks "what did you just say?" I bite my lower lip and I ask "who's Arcadius?" he takes a deep breath and Cheryl says "luke". I look at her and see her eyes softening and I ask "is he your twin?" he looks at Cheryl and she says "luke maybe we should-" he shakes his head at her and cuts her off "no she's not ready to know she's not prepared for him we shouldn't even be speaking about him we don't need to risk him breaking out".

Cheryl scoffs and shakes her head "your not giving faith enough credit Lucian she's a lot stronger than you think she is I think she can handle it". He sighs and sits down on the stool and I find the page again and point to the handwriting on the page where the person wrote the story down. I look at Cheryl and I ask "it was you wasn't it? the one who wrote in the book about him you were the girl he was in love with weren't you? but you rejected him oh my god maria is luke's child and I am Arcadius' child".

One Light And One Dark