Century Love

Part I

The alarm clock wakes me up, I am sweating from the nightmare I've had for the past three months, I know it is late from the shout out my door: 'Can you turn that off already please, Aggy?' I hear my father walk away, I turn the clock off and prepare to the morning ahead. I am almost 18 and basically on the last year of high school, and I have to say it has definitely been a difficult year.

Let me get you in context, my mother passed away a year ago, my father is very strict with my education and a lot of other things, among them: relationships. I have no more than two friends at school, this asked very specifically from him, and when it comes to boys, well it gets worst... I am already proposed to a guy I have met once, when I was 4 years old. And this year has been really complicated because when it comes to an end and I get to go to college, well I am also getting married whether I want or not.  

You may be wondering, we are on the 21st Century and already proposed? Well, my father is a business man of the most highly standards and positions, and we have to add something else from a family long line: Witches and wizards. And to make things better, I am the last one of the line so far, meaning I am becoming the most powerful of them, however this has obviously become the best kept secret among the people that surround us. Meaning the family I am to be married to does not know anything about it. Well things are about to get more complicated, we have hunters always looking away for us, and trying to get ahold of another of our secrets: Immortality and the power to transfer it to our beloved ones specially if they are mortal humans. 

I find myself thinking of all this secrets that run around me and my family, and I start getting ready to get to school; I send a text to my best friend, Maggie: 'Hey girl, pick you up in 30?', and continue to the bathroom to get a quick shower and get ready. I choose black jeans and a baby pink blouse, get my stuff ready for the lessons of the day and head out to get some breakfast. My phone rings, a message has come in, I quickly check it out it's Maggie's answer: ' Cool, love ya'.

As I enter the kitchen I see my dad starting his own breakfast: 'Morning love, took you a lot to get up.' And he smiles at me. ' Yes dad, a bit, I am picking Maggs up in a bit so I will take my breakfast with me' He smiles again and turns to me 'You forgot, didn't you?', I look back at him with a confused expression 'Forgot what?' He gives me a smirk and starts laughing ' Today we have THE dinner', I panic for a second and suddenly I realized today we have THE dinner, in which I meet up once more my fiancé along with his family, I have no problem with his dad, he is always around mine doing business, but the rest of the family, I have never met, or at least I don't really remember, after all I saw them when I was 4. My dad notices my panic and comes closer to me: 'There's nothing to be afraid of, you are getting a good husband and the business you will inherit will become stronger with this union' I try to smile back at him 'I am fine, I just forgot, I will come back to get ready as soon as school is over' He nods at me and kisses my forehead.

I get practically running out, I need to speak to my friends, I have been terrified of this day for the last couple of months, the reason, I have been having weird dreams about this. I start the engine and then I notice that the bodyguard that has to be always checking on me is already outside the house waiting for me to get out, I realized my father most be fearing I run away or something like that.

I get to Maggie's house as quick as possible and I give a couple of honks so she knows I am outside. I see her coming out and running to the car, as soon as she gets in she turns to me: 'So it THAT day right?', I turn with an awkward expression and she quickly says 'I see Gerard following very close'. I nod and start driving away, 'I don't know what to do, I haven't told my father about the dreams' She looks at me with a worried expression 'You should, according to you guys dreams like the ones you've been having mean something in your world' 

Yes, she and Mike know about the magic world, they are the only ones I am allowed to tell, after years and years of friendship, you see, I had to select properly my friends and definitely I did. We get to school in no more that 20 mins, Mike is already waiting for us near his car, Gerard comes up close to get a good parking space near me. I get out of the car and go to him: 'Is there any chance you give me some more space today?' He smirks and answers 'No ma'am, your father's orders' I realize there is no way i am getting any space today and I give up for a little bit, 10 mins later and as we are talking about the lessons of the day, I text my father 'Is there any chance you can ask Gerard to give some space?' I get the answer as soon as I sent it 'No, today you have to be specially careful, don't try using any magic until we are sure there is no problem on doing it' 

I get cranky on the answer and Maggie and Mike notice, Mike immediately tells if I wanna go to the mall later to get a little tension out o my system and I explain that today whether I go to the mall or not is a stressful day, and suddenly he remembers 'Oh, it's THAT day'

'Yes, today I am meeting my future family and husband' I answer with a worried expression, He turns to me and asks if the dreams are gone and as soon as I tell him 'No' he realizes why I am so stressed out about the issue.

I try to forget a little about the topic for the rest of the day, I get as normal as possible through all my lessons and suddenly as I am washing my hands at the bathroom, I foresee a prophecy, I see myself coming down stairs at home ready to present myself to my future family, suddenly I see a bright light coming from outside and a sudden explosion. I come out of my prophecy and quickly panic out of there. I run to my car and see Gerard running towards me. He is unable to get to me when I reach my car and start it as quick as possible, I see him go back to his and start running after me.

As soon as I get home I call out for my father, he comes out running as he hears me 'What are you doing here at this time?' He asks kind of pissed off and changes quickly his expression as soon as he looks at me 'What's wrong? Are you in pain? Trouble? Did you use your magic?' I try to pull myself together as I say 'Something's wrong, I didn't tell you because I thought you were going to think I was pulling something out 'cause of the marriage' 

He turns to me and tries to calm me down, we get into the living room, Gerard, who arrived two seconds after me comes in with a cup of tea; my father looks at me and nods as if telling me to continue 'I've been having these dreams, more like nightmares, always the same ending, we are waiting in here for the Walsh family, and as I am coming downstairs there is a big explosion and mess afterwards. And it was worst since I saw it as a prophecy while I was in the middle of the school' I don't realize I am crying until my dad cleans up my tears rolling down my cheeks. 

He turns to Gerard and gives him instructions of checking the security and to double check if or system has been broken. 'You darling go upstairs and get ready, no need to worry, I need you to be calm, in case our powers are needed' he says to me. I nod at him knowing my strength will be needed in case we suffer an attack or whatever my dreams are warning about.

It has been over two hours since I arrived in panic at home, I am getting ready to receive the Walsh family, I slept for at least an hour after I arrived to calm myself down, and now I am texting with Maggie and Mike explaining why I had to leave in a hurry, I hear a knock on my door 'Come in' I answer; my dad gets in the room and smiles 'Just checking on you kiddo, you alright?' he says, 'Yes dad I am much better now, just wondering what will be better to wear tonight' I smirk and he starts laughing 'Well I have an option for you if you need one' he says getting a box from the corridor, I smile and open it very carefully. I gasp in surprise, it is a beautiful black and gold stylish jumper - dress, and it is not just that, it was my mother's favorite. I turn to see my father and he smiles 'She would have loved that you had it' I smile back and run to my bathroom to try it on, as I start getting on it I hear my father laugh and get out of the room.

I decided to wear the dress with some gold stilettos that I have and wear a simple but chic makeup and an up do on my hair. As I get out of the room to head downstairs I get a little bit nervous and try to calm myself down, I am telling myself that dad did everything for us t be secure in this moment. 

I get to the living room and see my father in a perfect black suit, he is waiting for me and he smiles 'You look beautiful, let's get going' I smile and ask 'I thought we were having the dinner here'; 'After you told me your dreams I decided to move the appointment, James wasn't very happy about it but I gave a very credible excuse and he agreed' he explains. I smile at him and he leads the way out home and straight to the car where Gerard is waiting to drive us to the place. 

We have a couple of ideas in order to hide the witchcraft from the Walshes for an estimated period of time. Afterwards the next 20 mins we stay in silence in our own thoughts.

As we get to the hotel where they decided to meet, I gasp in surprise when I realize they chose the same hotel where my parents got married. I get a little bit nervous, after all this is the moment where I met my husband to be. 'Let's do this' I found myself saying to my dad, Gerard opens the car door  for us, As I get out I realize the bodyguard people went from a couple that we always have to at least a dozen of them. I guess dad took very seriously my dreams and prophecy.

We get into the lobby and head towards the restaurant 'Welcome Mr. Brown, we have your table ready' the nice hostess leads the way to the table. As soon as we get a sit my father smiles and says 'Here they come', I look up and suddenly I have another vision - I am walking down the aisle in a church, one I have never seen in my life, the priest starts talking in ancient latin as I look into a close mirror I see myself, yet not like the actual me, and I turn to the groom and I see this dark haired, brown eyes man standing in front of me - suddenly they all are in front of us and out of my mouth comes put one name 'Damian'.

My father looks at me and stands still, ' You remember him?' You have only seen him when you were 4. And as I stand there not knowing what to answer he smiles at me and says 'Aggie it is my pleasure to meet you' gives me a sweet kiss and I don't know how to continue the evening. I remember this man,  not from now,  but from centuries ago.