Chapter One: “Cleopatra You’re Endless”

"I DON'T WANT TO LEAVE" I cried my eyes out as I looked at my guardian spirit, her eyes were full of love and commotion as she delicately adjusted the little white daisy in my Afro.

Her hands were so delicate and her skin glowed under the white rays of the starts, her skin was as dark as charcoal and my tears seemed to upset her even more.

"I don't need to die, do I?" I asked confused.

"This is just how life goes my beautiful Cleopatra, you're endless but you need this time to rest, you need the specific stop in your life to regenerate enough energy to get closer to becoming yourself" she said, her gentle voice seemed to be laying loving kisses upon my skin and it sent shivers all around my cold body.

"Kem is your skin and believe my thoughts you'll live a better and serene next life" she said as she held my hand and our eyes locked, she was beautiful she was just like a sister to me someone I could reach out when I needed confort, she pointed her finger towards my vein and I could hear the rushing of my blood through my veins in my ear.

"I regretted every moment when I gave you this life, the universe will listen to anything you ask goddess or just demand it straight away, this is your life all I'm doing is preparing you to this process but then later it will depend all on you" she smiled at me and I tried to smile back though my tears I felt happiness.

"I don't want to cry in front of you" I begged holding the white gallebaya dress she dressed me in.

"Do you want me to take you to Mut?" she said kindly taking in her other hand mine.

"Yes, please" I answered politely.

She walked me towards a high pyramid and as I looked at her, her chin was raised towards the tip of the pyramid and she smiled as bright as day and pointed to the top.

"Want me to take you to her?" She asked again and I smiled but deep inside I was scared I had never witnessed whatever was happening at the moment.

She held me by her hand and we started to walk up the stairs, she smiled more and more but still I felt sad and still I felt like giving up.

"Who stands before me, behind these walls?" I heard a beautiful soothing calm voice behind the bricks.

"It's me goddess" my guardian spirit responded like she already knew Mut knew her.

"Amun-Ra my king I'll leave your side and go check, I'm having visitors, you may come and salute if needed or I might salute in your place" I heard behind the walls.

They're relationship sounded so pure, down to earth and reciprocate, they both seemed to treat each other like king and queens of their own lives I felt like where I was wasn't deserving of me.

My guardian walked me closer to the gate and as we entered she stepped behind.

In front of me sat the most gorgeous person I had ever seen, who so called Mut sat in front on me our eyes met and she looked shy even tho she had her head up.

She wore two crowns: the United crown of Upper and Lower Egypt on her head and wore a blue dress as dark as the night skies and held in her hands an ankh and she wore the feathers of goddess Ma'at at her beautiful feet.

"Welcome" She gave me a motherly smile and she stood up and sat back right down, I bowed before her and stood straight back up.

"You must be scared of rebirth, child, your skin might not be totally kem but in your subconscious and dna they tell me you belong here that you're meant to be part of the universe vibrations, are you upset?" she asked and I didn't speak I just felt my answer upon my skin and she knew.

"Your mind is troubled, you see you're an energy being you cannot be created nor destroyed and the atoms in your body move as you walk, you're the whole universe but you just express yourself in your what's so called body" she said.

"My husband Amun-Ra is as busy as day and he would have loved to welcome you home princess, salute from both of us" she said and giggled a little.

I simply bowed again saying "more than honoured".

"I guess this is another prospective of life" I thought.

"Princess, your past life might have been hard but things will get better in this new one, you just have to choose wisely but must importantly choose for yourself and keep your life balanced; talk to your guardian spirit whenever your needed and they will answer back and never limit yourself because all chances are endless" she concluded.

"May you go now, she's waiting for you outside, you'll be missed" she said and smiled.

A/N-

Hello, flower.

Thank you so much for having a go at this story, at the moment it’s not on any other platforms I just want to see what would happened if I published my novel here.

Pretty please any support would be appreciated!

Chapter Two: "He Looked So Messy"

"I'M NEVER LATE, there's no such thing as late" I laughed sarcastically looking over to my little sister that sat on my king sized bed.

The sun kissed upon my dark melanated skin as I looked out from my balcony, there was nothing more and nothing less than peach trees, they've kept me company for so long, I had made a little park just so that my younger sister would enjoy her stay at my house.

It looked kind of miserable, it looked miserable for me as I was never able to enjoy my childhood I always had to learn, I overworked myself and stressed myself out, I burned myself out and then by the time I had any free time I was back to working non stop.

It still looked miserable in my eyes.

I stood on my balcony lifeless as I wore a white silk long gown and white matte heels, I wasn't really used to wearing trainers since I moved to my house.

"Don't you want to go outside and play on that thing, go be a kid or something" I said with no emotions she was meant to enjoy whatever was left to of her time.

She just stood up from my bed and ran over to me with little steps at a time and my heart felt warm for a moment as he asked "Can you please take me to school or did you forget?" I hated that idea but I had to or else mom would have been mad at me, not like mom had time for me in the first place.

She raised and reached out her hand over to me and I stood back a little but then I held her little hand in mine, it was as warm as how dusk felt but she had trouble holding mine so she held onto my pinky and I slightly smiled.

"Where are we picking this friend of yours?" I asked looking through the mirror at Mae.

She giggled and replied "At the train station".

"Your friend huh, he sounds a little grown to be waiting for you at the train station, is your friend a girl or a boy and do they take the train themselves or is their guardian with them?" I asked sounding concerned as ever.

"The person is a boy and yes sometimes he does take the train alone" she answers me to then look right outside the window.

"Good to know" I reply, pressing onto the break with my heel as the traffic light turns red.

"Are you good at school, is there anything you find difficult is there anything not school related you're questioning, because don't worry when I used to be you're age I questioned everything?" I asked once in the car it got quite, talking to fill the quite had always stuck to me since I was little.

"Yes everything is good at school" She replied.

"Great, you know at your age I used to talk a lot but I'm surprised you don't" i say slightly grinning to myself I loved the fact she didn't take any of my habits.

Once we arrived the main train station I took Mae by her hand and tried to smile at her or show any signs of affection.

The place was quite and pretty much looked dangerous my heels where hitting against the hard dirty concrete below them and they were the only loud sound around.

"I just bought these yesterday" I sarcastically cried looking everywhere but my feet.

"There's Mirko" Mae shouted interrupting me to then run off towards two boys that I didn't notice being a few steps ahead.

"Mirko?" I asked quietly looking at Mae running towards the guys.

Once I had reached them I quietly stood with arm crossed looking down on the kids waiting for Mae to finish hugging her friend.

Once I had the chance to look at the guy, I did.

He had a black tank top and tight black jeans with a what seemed like a silver chain hanging across, he had a figure built like a footballer, he was tall, his face seemed sculpted gently by the gods and his hair was dark brown, curly and messy.

Our eyes met and for a moment he slightly smiled and quickly went back to looking at his little brother who's name I just knew was Mirko and my sister, Mae, having a conversation.

He had perfect straight teeth for someone his age, his eyes where light brown and his lips... there was something about them that made me want to smile back.

He looked so messy and unprofessional.

I didn't smile back and looked the other way.

He might have looked unprofessional and yes that was another reason not to talk to him, he looked like he didn't have his life together and I was all about a solid life and business.

I would have talked to him if he gave me a hint of knowing something about business but no.

"Okay that was lovely, let's head over to the car" I tried to smile avoiding eye contact with the guy, he didn't seem surprised at all.

I realised I was pretty rude before.

"My name's Cleo, Cleo Isis Nile?" I asked looking at my right to whom I thought was Mirko's older brother that seemed to be enjoying the ride.

"Nethan, Nethan Ozris Artega" he answered.

"Thank you for the ride" he proceeded to add.

"No problem" I replied.

"Once I take them to school, are you planning on going anywhere, I don't usually said this but I'll be more than welcome to drop you off to your destination, instead of you taking the train" I asked and then I took a right turn.

There was something about him, there was something about the first time I met him that made me what to stay longer with him.

I had a sense of knowing him for lives.

"I don't mind I think I'm just going back to the subway and then from there I'll take the train back home if you don't mind" he answered.

"Yes, totally why would I be bothered" I smiled nervously as I tapped on my thigh I felt the tender satin fabric of the dress I wore from home to here.

"Is this the first time you're taking Mirko to school, I mean my sister told me that sometimes he takes the train alone but that doesn't mean it's better you came all the way with him of course, I'm not trying to say you shouldn't have come" I rambled.

"I should keep quite" I said, more to myself than to him.

"I actually enjoy your voice, it's soothing and your accent is so unique" he said and for a moment I lost concentration on the road in front of me.

"I just came because I wanted to see my little brother's girlfriend" he laughed, I always thought his laugh was just as the type of unique he considered my accent was, my heart warmed a little.

"You must be joking" I scuffed shaking my head faking a laugh as I looked back to the road.

Chapter Three: “You Really Find It Hard To Love”

OUR LOVE WASN’T really written in books, it was written on walls, craved on gold, written on bed sheets and in museums.

"Thank you for picking up my little brother" he smiled looking at me, he really couldn't keep his curly messy hair to himself.

"I'd do anything for little William, during these days I've gotten to know him better, I never thought I'd say this but he's just so unique for his age; I feel like I've known you from somewhere," I say looking on my right just to find Nethan gazing at me, what expression was that I had never seen it before.

"You really find it hard to love."

Those words sounded like they were going to make our story beginning but that day as my eyes watched outside from my window I felt something crawl inside chest a feeling I'd never felt before.

"I've got a swimming pool at home and you guys are more than welcome to come" I tried to smile changing argument.

Why did whatever was happening at the moment had to feel like summer, why did it feel like when I had just finished a book or just finished correcting a chapter, why did it have to feel so heavy and uncomfortable on my chest.

The rest of the ride was just quite and only songs played from Nethan’s phone that was connected to my car.

"Why don't you jump inside, the water is so refreshing, it's warm and it feels so good," he smiled looking up to me.

As I looked down I had no choice but to look at his face one more time, it was imperfectly perfect.

"Or is there something that's bothering you?" he asked, he knew something was up, it might have been written all over my face.

Water scared me, the water all gathered in one place scared me, no matter how cleaned it looked the, plain sight of it just filled my chest with sorrow, I could feel my hands shaking but I collected them behind my back hiding them from Nethan curiosity.

"What are you saying?" I bitterly asked laughing, I looked at his eyes that were brown as chocolate they filled up with love and affection, in that moment I didn't think of it as anything like pity towards me.

He must have felt sorry for me.

He walked out of the swimming pool, as there were stairs on every edge going downwards, and he now stood right in front of me, the warming water dripped down his sculpted body and the sun made his soft silky skin glimmer, not even the water dared to dishonour his skin.

"You must like the sight" he laughed.

"What are you scared of" he added after a while of pure silence, at that moment I was lost I clearly wasn’t paying attention but that question brought me back down to earth.

What was I scared of.

It wasn't a question, he simply knew and I didn't and that's why he didn't bother to ask.

"I've seen sunsets more beautiful than this" I shrugged and looked up to meet his eyes, I could feel something inside of me fill up, but I never knew it was affection, I watched as the sides of his lips curved a little and he slightly breathed out.

"You really have an attitude sweetheart" he chucked not surprised, he was never the one to like to be disrespected in any way.

"I say we should go for a swim" he smiled and in a nick of time he slightly got on his knees and grabbed me in bride style and he jumped in the pool with me in his arms.

I hope the kids are not watching this, I thought.

What else could go wrong.

"Please let go of me" I tried to scream.

His arms held me like he was scared to break me, I could feel something beautifully beating in my chest, under water it beated louder in my ears, I begged the universe and hoped Nethan couldn't hear it as well, but after the sensation left as quick as it came when Nethan gently let go of me in the water; from then on I was simply floating like a dead body in an endless sea.

It was so overwhelming, I started to hyperventilated my lungs out.

Am image flashed through the darkness: a girl wearing a big fluffy golden dress, with her back facing me, perhaps a princess, she was at the edge of a river and in her position she seemed to be vulnerably crying.

I wanted to cry too, I begged every inch of my body to cry and when I did I felt a lot better, I couldn't see anything everything was blurry and in the corners there was a red vignette for being to long under water.

His arms without hesitation wrapped around the weakest my body had ever felt in centuries and pulled me closer, he turned me around and I could feel his fingertips trembling even though in the water.

"Ozris”

"Ozris”

"Ozris”

“Cleo”

“Cleo”

“Cleo, can you hear me”

I could but I just wanted to be better off dead, I tried hard to come back to the word of the awaken and I succeeded, he was there, with me, the whole time and I couldn’t be less grateful.

“Nethan” I whispered as tried to open my arms to hug him but he started swimming towards the edge of the swimming pool with me in his arms.

And I simply sighed annoyed.

“Cleo, you scared me so much” he said.

“Did you hear it too” I asked once he stood firmly onto the concrete ground beside the pool, I hoped he heard it, I really did, that would have made our life easier from then on.

He simply looked at me, his eyes were beautifully worried and I still felt something heavy stinging in my chest, he brought his hands to my face and moved one of my black curls from my face, he slightly smiled and opened and closed his eyes slowly.

“You just need a little rest, that’s it” he said.

Why was he blanking my question, I didn’t need his pity, from that moment I felt like that guy would have only felt pity towards me, he would have been dissapointed in me not being able to swim.

It wasn’t my fault, there was something in the water, that felt too familiar and it scared me.