Chapter 1

It was 7:15, the bus would be there any minute and Kat lay there still sleeping. Mark came downstairs to see if she had woken up, she hadn't yet.

"Kat get up," Mark said as he nudged her. Nothing.

"Get up! Or we'll miss the bus!" he had made progress, Kat moaned and rolled over to the other side of her bed, making her long white hair slide across her back. He held one of her ears and screamed in "GET UP OR WE'LL BE LATE" she rose with a scream. Kat looked over at Mark and said "What the hell do you want! Do you NOT see that I am trying to sleep!?" she laid back down and tried to go back to sleep. "We're going to be LATE, let me spell this out for you L-A-T-E, it's already 7:19!" she had gotten the message this time. She jumped out of bed and started looking for cloths to wear for school that day.

"Why didn't you SAY it was 7:19 to BEGIN with?"

"I thought you would realize that it was already late and get up"

"You obviously overestimated me," she said as she shooed him out of the room so she could change. Mark went upstairs and found Eric. He quickly avoided eye contact and went to the refrigerator to get something for Kat to eat since she was already running late. Eric ignoring him as well went out the door to go to his car. At that Kat came running up the stairs.

"Ready, Mark how could you be thinking of eating right now when we're going to miss our bus!"

"It was for.."

"Nevermind lets just go OK? I have enough tardies as it is"

"Yah I wonder why," Mark said to himself.

"I heard that"

They walked outside just as the bus drove past their house.

"O man Kat! You made us miss the bus AGAIN!"

"Damn don't take it so hard you know you could have just left without me"

"Yah but I didn't want you to just not go to school"

"O I'm touched," Kat added with a sarcastic hint in her voice. "Race you"

"Sure I'll beat your butt"

"You keep thinking that," he said as he shifted his shoulder bag in back of him. "Ready"

"Set"

"GO!" he yelled as he ran off in front of her.

"MAN WAIT UP!"

They raced through the field to the Main street that ran through the middle of the town. The school was more than two miles away from their house but they were already coming up close to it. With Mark still in the lead (but not by much) he yelled back "HA slow poke, you're never going to catch up to me"

"Keep thinking that Mark," she said as she sped up to catch up to him. Too late, Mark had already gotten to the school. "HA what happened to the "I'm going to kick your butt" huh?"

"Yah I just gave you a lucky break that's all, If I REALLY wanted to I could have beaten you" she said as the 5 minute warning bell rang. "See we made it in time, man I don't know why you have such a cow every time I sleep in"

"It's because you do it EVERYDAY!"

"Yah you keep whining," Kat said as they entered the school and made toward their lockers. As Kat came up to her locker one of her Human friends came by her. "You sleep in again?"

"Is it that obvious?"

"Yah it is you always seem to come in late when you sleep in"

"I couldn't help it I was watching a really good movie last night! ... I forgot what it was about but it was still a good movie!"

"Uh huh.. Sure it was Kat" Kat noticed Eric standing in his little Demon buddy group, she saw him looking straight at her with a disgusted look on his face. Her friend noticed Kat looking in that direction and said "Your brother again? Why won't he lay off you may only be Half Demon but you still have a right to talk to whoever you want"

"Yah I know but he's just an ass like that" At that Eric came over since Kat had not ditched her friend yet like he wanted her to. He just stood their looking at her, finally Kat said "Yes can I help you?"

"Yah why are you hanging out with this human filth" Kat got kind of mad that he just spoke about her friend like that in front of her.

"Gah will you just go away? Why should you care what friends I have, you don't seem to like me anyway"

"You and Mark already disgrace our family, it doesn't need more embarrassment with you hanging around a human"

"Yah screw you Eric, I'll hang out with whoever the hell I feel like"

"Such nice words to speak to your own brother when you know I can easily hurt you," he said with sort of a sneer. Kat not wanting to start anything in the hallway (since people were already beginning to stare) told her friend that she would talk to her later. Eric, seeming to be very pleased with her decision, went back to his clique. Mark then came over, he had seen the whole thing. "Why do you let him do that?"

"I don't, I just didn't want to call too much attention to this, it's not that big of a deal I'll talk to her later"

"But it is a big deal, you shouldn't let him do that"

"Yah I guess you're right," she said as she got up with her books "I need to go to 1st, see you in gym next hour" The day went by pretty fast, most of the time she couldn't help but think about how Eric could be such an ass like that to her. 4th hour was finally. Kat walked outside with Mark (actually Mark was dragging her outside so they would be sure not to miss the bus) to the bus and got on. "Why in the world would you come onto the bus this early when you could talk with your friends?"

"Because I want to make sure that we don't miss it this time" Kat sighed and found a seat to sit in. The bus ride home was relatively boring. She found herself thinking about that day in gym. The teacher had gotten pretty ticked off at Mark and her for running a 2 ½ minute mile, he gave the two of them a huge lecture of how all the other kids in the class had done it in 1 ½ minutes. He obviously didn't get that being half demon (as both of them were) made it a little harder to run the mile in that small of a time slot. She just sighed and thought of how stupid people could be sometimes.
They got home and came into the house. Their little sister Tracy came running downstairs. Kat picked her up and started to swirl her around in a circle, Tracy started to laugh. ""How are yah Trace! Was Kindergarten fun today?" She nodded as Kat put her down on the ground. Mark smiled and said "I dunno, she looks kind of down to me, maybe she needs a.....TICKLE" he said as Tracy wailed in a funny sort of way. Mark caught her and started to tickle her stomach, she laughed uncontrollably and said "No..(laughing) stop! (more laughing)"

"You love it too much don't you?" he said as he started to tickle her feet. At that Eric came through the door. He looked down and saw Mark tickling Tracy, he gave a disgusted look and walked upstairs. "Guess you can't keep half humans away from humans" Kat gave him a yah-screw-you look and turned back to see if Tracy had heard that, she didn't and was still laughing uncontrollably. The doorbell rang and Kat went to open the door, it was one of Tracy's friends Margaret and her mother. "Hi Margaret, want to play with Tracy?"

"Yah Hi Katty!"

"Hey Tracy you have a friend who wants to play with you" Tracy ran to the door and saw Margaret. "Be good, I'll tell Mom that you went to her house! Mrs. Rhine would you like me to go.."

"That will be quit all right I can handle it" she said. As she walked away, she said to herself "Honestly I don't know how such a nice girl can come from a demon family" Kat of course heard it but decided not to say anything, she knew that Mrs. Rhine wasn't the most sensible person in the world. Kat closed the door. "Don't worry about that Kat she's not a very nice person anyway, you know that"

"Yah well I'm going to go downstairs to do my homework," she said as she picked up her backpack and went downstairs. She pulled out her math homework and started to grumble about how much geometry needed to die. Mark came downstairs "Hi I got some English homework to do to, Mrs.DeFrosest has us reading McBeth"

"O fun I enjoyed reading that.. Mark you do know what day it is right?"

"Um yah I do, what do you think, I don't keep track of it or something"

"No just checking" It turned out that they had more homework to do than they thought they had to it was 6:35 and both of them still hadn't finished. Kat got up and looked out the window (it was a basement window and all you could see was the window well), she could barely see light. She went back to her bed and started to work on her Geometry again. She looked at her hand just in time to see her claws shrink down to human nails, it was the night of the new moon and they both knew what was happening. She rolled over and looked in the mirror on the back of her bed. Her dog ears disappeared just as her human ones reappeared and her white hair turned a brown color. She sighed and rolled over and kept doing her Geometry. Mark was grumbling, he looked over at Kat "How can you just sit there like it's no big deal"

"Mark."

"Yah..."

"How old are we"

"15.."

"And how many times does this happen a year?"

"Around 12. What are you getting at.."

"You're acting like this is some new thing, just calm down alright?"

"I can't I hate it, and I just can't seem to figure out how this doesn't bother you too"

"I've learned to accept it, there is nothing we can do about it anyway and you know that too" Mark went to open his mouth to say something when Eric invited himself into their room. "Yah can we help you," Kat said sarcastically. They knew why he was down there, he came to gloat. Eric knew it didn't get to Kat but he knew it pissed Mark off. "Yes I see your filth level is at 100% right now" Mark was trembling with anger, he couldn't stand his older brother but he knew there was nothing he could do right now to stop him. "Piss off Eric, god don't you have something better to do than piss us off," Kat remarked.

"No this is quit fun. My entertainment for the month"

"Sleezball," Mark commented.

"You've got guts especially when you know I could easily kick your ass right now" Mark lost it, he got off his bed and started to run towards Eric. Kat knowing he would do something like this had already gotten up and ran in front of Mark before he had a chance to hit Eric. "Will yah get out of my way!"

"Mark you KNOW he is doing this just to bug you, just ignore him, he might get bored of us and leave" She looked back at Eric, he had a smile on his face, he was obviously enjoying this. "O Mark what are you going to do, hit me? I'm sure if you try really hard you might hit as hard as a pillow, but that's saying much"

"Ignore him Mark"

"I can't, he's too annoying and his face is too ugly to ignore"

"Mark come now, you're too weak so you come back at me with bad insults?" Kat forced Mark back to his bed "Just ignore him he will go away, we're not THAT amusing"

"Sometimes I wonder how you do it Kat," Eric sneered. He was starting to get to Kat too, but she hid it with a proud remark "Eric sometimes I wonder how you do it too, you can't stand to be around us when we're Half Demon but you seem to have a magnetic pull to us when we turn Human, its quit odd really.."

"It's just so amusing to see you guys get ticked off, you make it too easy too"

"O really mature Eric, are you a Senior or a 5th grader.. I dunno Mark what do you think"

"My guess is a tall 2nd grader"

"Hahah I think we're getting closer" Eric wasn't having fun anymore. "You bore me even more than when you are half demon, I'm leaving"

"About time, we got bored of you before you came in the door" Mark yelled. There was no response. Eric had obviously not heard it or he would have come back downstairs to strangle Mark. Kat turned towards Mark "Why do you let him get to you like that, if he would have hit you, you would be lying on the floor in pieces right now"

"It would have been worth it to hit him"

"No it wouldn't have been, you can always try to beat him up tomorrow, you'll have a better chance then rather than now"

"Yah you're right, well I'm going to bed, I'm dead tired"

"Mm-hm me too I'll finish this god awful geometry tomorrow morning"

"Fat chance of that happening"

"Oh hardy hardy har you're just so funny" Kat said in a sarcastic tone. Mark just laughed and turned off his light "Night"

"Goodnight"

"Who said anything about good" Kat was about to say something to Mark but she knew he was pretty upset so she decided to leave it be. She awoke in the morning to Mark pushing her "Why do I have to go through this EVERYDAY" he complained (along with other smart remarks). Kat moaned and covered her ears so there wouldn't be a repeat of yesterday morning. There wouldn't be, he had planned ahead. He picked up the cold bucket of water (that he had made just in case she wouldn't get up peacefully) and threw it over Kat. A high pitched scream rang through the house. Mark started to laugh "HAHA YOU LOOK LIKE A WET DOG"

"Maybe that's because I am a MAD WET DOG" Kat screamed as she bull rushed him down to the floor (with him still laughing hard). "You are going to wish you NEVER did that"

"HAHAAHAHAHA well you better get ready we have 10 minutes to get on the bus"

"YOU WOKE ME UP WHEN THERE WAS STILL 10 MINUTES LEFT"

"You said you still had to do your Geometry"

"True... But still you're going to pay" She got off of him with a hard shove to his chest and went up stairs to go blow dry her hair. Mark just sat there still laughing his ass off. She came back downstairs 2 minutes later with a portable hairdryer "Do you know how LONG it takes me to blow dry my hair!?"

"Let me guess long?"

"YAH you moron" Kat started to grumble as she looked through her cloths to find what she was going to wear. "Well at least you're up"

"Screw you"

"Ok Kat you be like that, you have to go to school you don't have much of a choice so I'm GOING to get you up whether you like it or not"

"Guess what I don't"

"That was quit noticeable" Mark said as he walked upstairs to let Kat get dressed. About 2 minutes later she came up with damp hair. "I don't have time to dry the rest of my hair, let's just go"

"Ok" Mark shrugged his shoulders, picked up his backpack and went for the door, Kat followed. They walked outside just as Eric came out of the garage. Mark gave a screw-you look at Eric and looked away, Kat just ignored him. "Aww not human anymore? Too bad it was fun to see you so helpless"

"Keep walking Mark" Kat told him

"Yah yah I will"

Eric sort of gave a small chuckle and got into his car. As Mark passed him by he gave him the middle finger. Eric stopped laughing. They rounded the corner of the block and saw the bus about to pull up to their stop. Mark yelled at Kat to get a move on and they started to run for it. The bus driver saw them right before he left and decided to stop for them to let them get on the bus "Don't do it again or I'll leaves yahs behind," he said.

"Uh huh don't worry we won't" Mark said as he glared back at Kat who was behind him. She gave him a look back and they found a seat to sit down.