The necklace felt heavier every day. I kept touching it under my hoodie like it was some kind of magic charm that could protect me from everything bad. But deep down I knew it wasn’t. It was just making everything more confusing. Seraphina’s words kept replaying in my head. “You just don’t remember yet.” What did that even mean? I was nobody. Just Kai Reyes, the weak pretty boy who cried too much and drew dresses in secret. Why would someone like her care so much about me?
I was sitting in the school bathroom during lunch, staring at myself in the cracked mirror. My lip gloss was strawberry pink again. The bruise on my cheek from Luca last week was finally fading, but my eyes looked tired. Scared. I touched the silver crest necklace and whispered to my reflection, “What’s happening to me?
