Midnight Blood (Born Immortal) by Nicole Yanski Read Free Book Online Page A

for Cain. She had already told Melina too much. Now that she knew why he would wear a bloodstone ring, she really didn’t want Melina to know too much. She sighed, she wanted to see Cain, she needed to see him.
    She put on a plush pink robe, and went downstairs. Melina was on the phone, probably with Maria or Delany, on the couch. Shayna went to the big picture window in the living room, and looked out at the neighborhood. She didn’t want to be cooped up all day. She wasn’t going to let a couple inches of snow keep her inside. She went to the kitchen and had a bowl of cereal, and a bagel, then went upstairs to take a bath, and decide what to do with the snow day.
    When she was out of the bath she went back to her room, she dug through her closet, wrapped in a towel, for the warmest clothes she could find. Buried way in the back, she found a box she hadn’t seen in two years. Her grandmother had sent it to her. Somehow it had gotten shoved to the back of her closet, to be forgotten about. She grabbed the box and a pair of jeans, and sat down on the bed with them.
    “Perfect,” she said to herself.
    Inside was a pair of brown, almost knee high, leather  lace up boots, that were lined with thick wool, and a matching hooded coat. I can’t believe I forgot about these.She thought.
    Once dressed she looked in the mirror. She looked like an eskimo princess. Like she was dressed for a frozen tundra. The coat hugged her body, and hung  just over her buttocks. Along with the thermal pants she wore under her clothes, and the two pairs of socks she had on, she knew she would be plenty warm enough.
    She went downstairs to the kitchen and found a water bottle, and  filled it. Melina was still veged out on the couch when Shayna came into the living room to talk to her.
    “I’m going for a walk to the meadow,” she told Melina, “I’ll be back in a couple of hours.”
    “You’re crazy,” Melina said, and looked at her sister. “Look at you!” she exclaimed, “You look hot. Are you meeting Cain in the meadow?”
    Shayna glared at Melina, “I’m going for a walk.” Although, she did wish she was meeting Cain at the meadow, “Can’t I be warm and look good too?”
    “Well have fun,” Melina looked outside and frowned, “I’m going to stay right here.” She said pointing to the couch.
    “See ya, then,” Shayna said and whirled around on her heels, and went through the kitchen and out the backdoor, grabbing a pair of gloves out of the seat of the bench as she passed.
    The cold air hit her face hard, almost taking her breath away. She pulled the hood of the coat over her head, the wool lining doing a good job of keeping snow flakes out of her face. She hugged herself and shivered.
    “What am Idoing?” she said under her breath.
    She put on the gloves, and stepped off the porch. She carried the water bottle by it’s strap and,headed in the direction of the path, which had disappeared under the snow, even though she couldn’t see it, she knew where it was.
    She used the trees that she knew very well, to guide her way through, and it payed off. She got to the waterfall about forty five minutes later. She followed the path past, thinking she should have brought her sketch book with her. The way the weather had been lately, who knew when it would snow again. She trudged through the snow in the direction of the meadow for another hour before she finally stepped into the clearing. She had came because of something she had seen in her dream, something that wasn’t what she remembered of the meadow. The fallen tree. She knew there wasn’t a tree down the last time she had been there, but she also knew to pay attention to her dreams.
    There it is. Her widened eyes focused on the tree. She walked across the meadow toward it. She hadn’t been here since the summer, and wondered how long it had been down for. The roots had came up out of the ground when the tree fell. It was an older maple, but appeared dwarfed to