Cecilia Echo's Story

Under a disaster of sheets was a small blonde, Cecilia, who was honestly dead to the world, that is until the sun began to peak through the dark curtains. It was a matter of seconds after the ray of sunshine reached Cee's closed eyes that seemed to have triggered movement as she stirred from under the covers giving a small grunting noise as her arm hurled from under the covers and covered her eyes with her forearm. Then she heard a small crash, she slowly peaked out from behind her forearm with her eyes squinted to see her own shadow fumbling around on her dresser. "Stop." She croaked, her voice layered with sleep as she sat up slowly. Her head was swimming from the party last night. How the hell was she even drug to the damn party anyway? She rubbed her temples gently with her fingers. A voice sounded from the corner, "Hangoverrr?" the deep raspy voice teased. Cee's eyes shot open to glare at her shadow, "Shut up. I am not in the mood." She snapped, turning in her bed and slowly sliding down to where her feet touched the floor. She took a deep soothing breath as she stretched, giving a satisfied groaned as she blinked and glanced around the room. Everything was normal except for the newly broken frame thanks to her shadow. Her eyes caught movement and she pointed her finger threateningly at her shadow, "Stop fucking my room up!" She growled, a smile sliding onto her face as she saw her shadow slowly disappear.

Hearing movement outside her door she decided it was time to start the day. She took a deep breath as she went over to her dresser. Honestly, she didn't care what she wore..she might as well just go her pajamas. She headed downstairs in her sweat pants that were white and a shirt that had something written on it, but from upside down it was hard to read. She stopped at the door, who was she kidding she did care what she wore. She went over to her dresser pulling out her favorite shirt. A black ramones shirt that was a little big for her and then she went over and grabbed her white skinny jeans, sliding them on, and then slipped on her black vans. She fixed her hair easily just taking a bobby-pin and sliding it in on the right side to keep some of her bangs out of her face, lucky for her..today was not a bad hair day. Heading toward the mirror she picked up her thrown on the floor blue jacket and slid it on as she reached the mirror. She wiped the mascara from under her eyes, she still had the make-up on from the party. "Oh well." She grumbled as just shrugged to her reflection. She opened her door as she glanced down the hallways..no one.

After grabbing a Pop-Tart, Cee was out the door and heading towards the zoo. That is she was for two steps then she had to hurry back inside to grab her sunglasses. Once she slid her sunglasses on she headed back outside. Her eyes narrowed as she kept a steady pace, trying to avoid people's eyes. She kept glancing over her shoulder and looking at people through narrowed eyes. A tall man rammed into her shoulder as he passed, Cecilia's jaw locked as she glanced back to see if it was anyone of them. It wasn't. She let her breath out as she grumbled to herself about arrogant idiots. She still had a good twenty minutes before she got to the zoo.

As soon as Evee finally got in the car, she smiled softly but didn’t like how Evee turned down the music but she dealt with it. During the drive she stayed quiet softly humming to herself, she noticed her sister was distracted in thought, she wondered who called Evee to get her sister like the way she was. As the car parked near Femme Belle Café she grinned. She loved this place and the coffee, so when she got out of the car and heard her sister "Essie, coffee sounds nice right now, right?" Nodding her head “That sounds amazing right now, I need it before my head explodes” she said in a soft voice.

As they went into the café she took a look around seeing who was where and noticed Kadence Roy “Well look at that..” she said picking up a menu. Really she did not want to fight, she was still dealing with what she did to Angeline, she wasn’t sure if she could do it again in such a short time but when they where either around the Echos’ or Roys’ something always happens.

“Hello what can I get you” Essie looked up to see Kadence now at their table, she could see the change of look in the other girl knowing the girl must of just noticed who she was serving. “Well look it here, it’s a Roy.” She held her tongue before she said anything else. “Would you like to see our specials” she heard Kadence ask, she shook her head. “Black large coffee, the biggest and darkest, and two cinnamon rolls for me” she said putting the menu down, noticing Kandence was fingering something in her pocket, she looked to Evee and gave her a look before she looked back to the Roy girl.




Zander was almost done making breakfast when he turned to see Cee come into the kitchen “I made breakfast Cee” he said but saw her grab a poptart and walk out the door. He sighed wondering where his siblings where, looking to the food he shook his head. “Made it all for nothing” he was about to make himself a plate but then felt his phone go off in his pocket.

Fishing it out of his pocket he saw who the caller was and wondered what Rae got herself into this time. Touching the phone to answer he put the phone to his ear ”Zander?”, he could hear the panting in her voice as his sister spoke “it’s the one and only” he said trying to get her to laugh but when he heard the next thing she said he kind of became stiff “I need you to come get me”.

He didn’t take any time as he grabbed the car keys of one of the cars his dad owned “where are you?” he asked jogging out of the house, getting into the car he turned it on and pulled out of the drive way waiting for his sisters response.

She heard the jingling of car keys, on the other line and then her brothers voice came. “Where are you?” He said, sounding worried. She leaned her head against the alley wall and closed her eyes, smiling weakly. Nothing like good old family to be there for you whenever. No doubt Zander was used to her getting in trouble a lot. She could have called Alex, but Zander had always been her first choice when she was in a fix, why, she had no idea, it just always seemed to happen that way. She could also call Cee if she really had to, but she was her younger sister, and the only person on earth Rae felt protective, almost motherly, towards. She would never ask her baby sister to spring her from her own reckless traps.

"Uhm, you're not going to be happy." She said with a light smile. "But I'm sitting in an alley just outside the Morgenstern Place." She laughed weakly and closed her eyes. "Jay stole something of mine, but he kind of drained me of energy so I didn't get it back." She sounded like she didn't care, but really, inside, she was seething. "Oh. And I threatened his family. In front of his dad." She bit her lip on that last one, not wanting him to be angry with her for potentially starting a war between the families. It excited her to piss off her father, since she was always up for that, but she could never stand the idea of her siblings being disappointed in her.

Weariness was seeping into her. "I managed to steal enough energy off Jay to get out of there, but now I'm completely drained. If I fall asleep..." She was drifting, but jerked herself up. "Just don't hang up until you get here... Where's Cee? She's not at home is she?" She didn't want her little sister to see her like this. Rae knew what she would offer. Her energy or her supply of Rose. On most people, her energy-stealing power has no effect, however, on Cee, it seemed to actually take her energy. When that happened, she used her Rose to cover it up, but Rae could always tell. She hated that her sister always offered her both her energy and her Rose. Neither of which she was willing to take, though, if she had to, she would.

Walking into the kitchen a small smirk slid onto Cee's face when she saw her brother Zander cooking. She always teased him whenever he cooked calling him, "Woman" or "Cookin' Momma", she enjoyed messing with her older siblings. That was the great thing about being the youngest, she was allowed to tease them and they could tease her and they could all get pissy at each other, but she still knew she could count on them. "No thanks, Big Mouth. I got a job to do." She called, sarcastically as she grabbed her Poptart and went towards the door. Big Mouth? That's what she called The Big Z from time to time. Cee always had a knack for nicknames, so she likes to give them out like free candy at Halloween. And a job? No. She was just going to the zoo, but it was a job to her. "I have my cell if I am needed." She said in more of a serious tone, but it broke when she snickered to herself. 'I sounded like a superhero.' She thought smugly to herself as she shut the door behind her and slid her sunglasses on smoothly.

Cecilia's eyes darted around as she walked, keeping a distance from most of the people. She had an odd gnawing feeling..where was Rae? She went by her room and didn't hear anything and usually Rae was downstairs in the morning. 'She's probably just sleeping..she did party hard last night..' She thought to herself as she opened her Poptart and began to nibble on it. "You sure about that? Maybe she's in a bind! Stuck in her own trap. You know how your sister is." The same raspy voice coming from nowhere. Cee's jaw clenched as her eyes darted to the nearest building, there on the wall was her shadow. It seemed normal, it was mimicking her, but then it moved it's hands as if someone was choking it, "Maybe someone has her." It teased, as Cee stopped in her tracks and glared at the wall. 'Don't get mad..don't get mad..' she kept thinking over and over. The shadow continued to give out different scenarios. Rae getting hit by a car. Rae getting kidnapped. Rae falling into a manhole. Rae falling off a building. And what seemed to be Cee's favorite, Rae loosing her energy and passing out in some random place. She couldn't take it anymore, "Shut up! Shut up! Just shut the fuck up!" Cee growled as her hands clenched into fists, causing her to crush what was left of her Poptart. Her shadow froze, seeming to be in the middle of a very descriptive scene of Rae tripping on stairs. "Way to go Cee.." It's voice sounded, sounding smug. "You've got people's attention." was the last thing it said before it slowly faded.

Got people's attention? Cee glanced around to see a person looking at her. Her jaw clenched even more as she just shrugged her shoulders, her fists unclenching and leaving little piles of crushed Poptart. "Sorry. Migraine." She huffed, rubbing her forehead. She pulled out her phone, 'hey, where are you?' Cee typed and then hit send. The message was for Rae. Yes, Cee was worried, but what made Cee angry was she let her shadow get to her.