Chosen by Fate, Rejected by the Alpha

1061 Chapter 46- Rika – Surprise Party Part 4 (VOLUME 6)

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Rika

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In the end, we decided that since this was a party, we were going to stay together for pretty much the entire weekend. I didn’t get to spend a lot of time with a few of the girls that were with me, so I wanted to make up for lost time. Or at least for the last few months that I hadn’t seen them.

Now, the first thing that I wanted to do was get something to eat. We could have ordered room service and had it brought back here to us, but I wanted to explore the resort as well. I thought that it would be best to check out one of the restaurants that they had offer. This was also just going to be a late lunch, since I fully intended to eat again later. Why else should I have a shifter’s metabolism if I wasn’t going to use it?

The restaurant that we settled on for this meal was called Welladonna’s. I knew that it was just a play on Belladonna, and the fact that this place was called the Goddess Well, but I thought it was a little funny. Still, it was a lovely restaurant.

The interior of the restaurant was very frilly and girly, and I am sure that there wasn’t a man in sight, aside from the staff that is. The chairs, tablecloths, napkins, and everything in sight was frilly and lacy. This place would have made Reagan, hell even Talia, have a seizure with how pretty it was, but I loved it. The pinks, purples, and all the white lacy décor, it was perfect for a girly girl like me. And thankfully, the girls that I was with either loved it, or tolerated it enough. I knew that Kaede was not into this stuff, but she didn’t let it bother her at all.

The drinks menu that we were given had cute little names next to all the teas and juices. I ordered myself a Lotus Love which was colored like a lotus flower and mixed with juice and tea. It was sweet and fragrant, and very delicious.

The eight of us, being treated like VIPs in the restaurant, enjoyed every moment of the meal. We talked, we giggled, and we shared juicy stories from our first semester of college. It was all so much fun that I didn’t want it to end at all.

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It did come to an end though, and the place that we went next was the spa. I wanted to get a massage, a facial, and a few other specials done. Everyone was onboard with this as well. I mean, who wouldn’t want to be pampered like this? It was amazing.

We spent several hours in the spa as we relaxed as thoroughly as possible. By the time that we made it back to our room, it was nearly ten that night and a lot of things were closing down for the evening. However, room service was still open, and all that pampering had made us hungry again. We ordered lots of food, drinks, and desserts so that we could pig out and enjoy the night.

A movie was turned on in the background while we talked and laughed some more. It was all perfect. That is, until I started to get a headache. I could feel the throbbing behind my eyes with every beat of my heart. I knew that it had to be the stress that I had been feeling until today. It was all piling on me at once and giving me a migraine.

When I called it a night, I was barely able to open my eyes. I knew that sleep was probably the only thing to make it go away. I really didn’t want the rest of the weekend to be ruined because of me having a headache.

I don’t remember dreaming that night. I just remember closing my eyes and then waking up that morning. I opened my eyes while it was still dark outside. I could see the outlines of everything in the room as I looked around. It was strange, there was a white outline around everything. I think that it was because the room and the furniture had so much white in it.

But wait. That wasn’t true. The furniture in my room was dark. There wouldn’t be any white outlines. And even if there were, why would they be there in the dark? There needed to be something shining on it to make the outline like that.

That was when I decided to rub my eyes and try to make this strange feeling go away. Whatever was causing that outline, it was making my eyes want to cross. And since my headache was gone, I didn’t want it to come back because of that.

When I rubbed my eyes though, I noticed something. They weren’t open. They were closed. How was that possible. I was looking at a perfect image of the room. It just looked like things usually did in the dark for me. Except that they were all outlined in white.

When I did open my eyes, I saw that it was morning for real, not dark but daylight.

“What the hell?” I sat up and asked the empty room. “What is going on here?”

As I tried to process what was happening to me, I noticed something else. I was still seeing some of those black images with white outlines. Though it wasn’t what I was looking at. I was seeing the rest of the room in this image. I was seeing the ornate headboard, the lamp on the table, and the frame for the pictures on the wall. I couldn’t see what was in the pictures though, just the shape of it.

When I turned to look behind me, I saw that the image was perfectly matched to what I had seen. What I had seen as a sort of inverted image, or was negative the better word here, anyway, what I saw was completely true. And now that I was looking in this direction, I could see the other side of the room. The part that I had just seen with my eyes. And it was the perfect black image with white outlines.

“Alright. I don’t get this.” I said to myself as I scooted to the edge of the bed and put my face in my hands. I was covering my face, and therefore couldn’t actually see with my eyes at the moment. That didn’t stop me though. I was still looking at the room, all of it. It was literally like seeing the space in three hundred and sixty degrees with nothing obscuring it at all.

The room was perfectly detailed, except for the subjects of the paintings and pictures that were in the frames. They were flat and underneath glass for the most part, so I guess that they didn’t have enough presence for me to see them.

“How do I know that?” I asked myself. “How do I know that is what makes it harder to see them?”

“Rika?” I heard Lyssa’s voice as she came into the room. “Are you OK? You keep talking to yourself.”

“I..I don’t know.” I said as I watched her come into the room. Although, I wasn’t really watching her come into the room. This was that darkness that was outlined perfectly in white lines. The more that I looked at it, the more I saw that there were shades of gray as well. It helped to indicate the locations of the items.

When I saw, however I was seeing it, that Lyssa was standing right in front of me, I lifted my head to look at her. Before I opened my eyes, I saw that she was wearing a pair of tight pants, but I didn’t know the fabric, a loose empire waisted top, and her hair braided over her left shoulder. When I opened my eyes, I saw that I had seen it all correctly, and that she was wearing a pair of black leggings. I hadn’t been able to tell with my eyes closed.

“What is the matter, Rika?” She asked me as she looked into my worried face.

“I don’t know. Something is strange. Different really.”

“How so?” She sat on the bed next to me, concern filling her eyes as she watched my face.

“Well, you know how when you walked up, I had my face in my hands and my eyes were closed.”

“Yes.” She nodded as she said that, but didn’t continue after that.

“Well, I had my eyes closed, but I was still able to see you. I even knew what you were wearing before I opened my eyes. Mostly anyway. This is strange, Lyssa. How can I see this?”

“What was that?” Kaede asked as she came into the room. I wasn’t even looking at the door, but I could see her and the others rushing in to see what was happening to me. Their faces were filled with worry and concern, but they were also curious and eager. And not a single one of them was in color, because I was seeing them behind me.

“What is going on in here?” Alexa asked as she hurried to sit on my other side.

“I..I..I can see everything.” I looked at her. “Even with my eyes closed, behind me, everything. I can see it all. I..I don’t know how to explain it.” My head was shaking slowly from side to side as I thought about this. “I don’t know what is going on, but I know that something really strange is happening.” I felt weird for a moment.

“What do you mean that you can see everything?” Isabella asked me.

“Can you see me?” Ashle asked. She had ran around behind me so that I shouldn’t be able to see her.

“Yes.” I nodded.

“What am I doing?” She sounded excited.

“You are jumping on one foot with your hands waving about your head.” I told her and heard the others gasp.

“Too easy, you could see that in the window reflection.” She said smugly. “We need a real test.” Apparently, Ashle was the only one that didn’t believe me at first. “Come on, let’s go to the living room, we will figure all of this out.” I let Ashle take my hand and pull me to my feet. Kaede grabbed my other hand and pulled me along as well. I was a little uneasy about this, but there was something exciting about this too. Was this some new ability of mine? Or had I gone completely insane? I didn’t know just yet, but I knew that I wanted to figure it all out very soon. I didn’t like not knowing one way or the other.