A/N-Hey guys, some of you might notice the changes I made. Anyways I updated a few chapters so it could be decent enough for you guys sooo…enjoy!
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Chloe's POV
Waking up, I rush over to my closet. I smile as I put on a gray long sleeve and a pair of black designed tights. I throw on some black, loose leather shorts, and put in some studs. I go straight to the bathroom and brush out my hair, leaving with my natural curls. I swiped some natural makeup on and went to pick up one of my favorite lipsticks that I own, but found it missing.
I stomp straight to the room next to mine, and knock vigorously on the door. "Hana, I know hear me" I screamed. I start to bang on the door again, until it opens up. A girl identical to me, scowl and all, holds open the door with my red lipstick on. "Is there something you need sister dearest?" she says sarcastically.
"Why yes sister dear. My lipstick seems to have gone missing, and oh look! I see it now, right on your face."
My sister smile with a sigh and says "On my counter dear, enter if you dare." She walks out and heads over to the bathroom. I go and retrieve my lipstick, applying it as I walked over to the steps. I stop and say "Nice outfit by the way." She wears a faded blue long sleeve sweater, with a beige skirt. Her tights are the same off blue as her shirt, and her hair is in two braids. "Ditto." She says joining me downstairs.
"Hey, I heard the screaming upstairs but decided to let you guys figure it out yourselves." Me and Han smiles as we put our shoes and coats on. "But I would like to be the first to say happy sixteenth birthday to my two little babies." Meredith says excitedly, as she comes to hug us. "Not babies anymore mom." Han says.
I laugh. "Yeah mom, we're sixteen not six. But thank you." I said smirking to Meredith. I look over to the clock and widened my eyes slightly. "Dang, we have to go mom. Bye, love you!" I say as I grab Han's hand and go to the door. "Love you!" Hana shouts as we walk out.
"Implied!" I heard Meredith yell at us.
"Race you to the beach." I say to Hana. "You're on!" Hana said, as we sprint toward the beach.
At the beach
"HAPPY PRE BIRTHDAY!" screams Amy and Paul, each handing us a cupcake.
"Make a wish guys!" Amy says smiling widely, barely containing her excitement.
"Okay, okay." I laugh as I think about a wish. It isn't hard to guess either. Hana and I blow out the candles in unison.
"What did you wish for guys?" Paul asks grinning.
"No you can't tell! She can't tell!" Amy says freaked, as she hits Paul's arm.
"Really it wasn't that big." I say amused. "Ditto." Hana says.
"I just wished for things to be different." Han and I say simultaneously. We looked at each other. We usually say the same thing so people weren't that surprised.
Amy asked "What things?"
"Everything." Hana drawls.
"So you're saying you want more than two best friends." Amy, being Amy, states.
"Amy not about you," I say. "I kinda want to be kissed once in my life." I say.
"Hey you've both have been kissed before." Paul said.
"Paul we were seven, and Chloe was dared at eight." Han says jumping on the top of the bench were I was at.
"Yeah, and I'm pretty sure it has scarred them for life, having them not want to kiss anyone again." Amy taunted.
"Actually I've progressed a lot since then!" Paul retalianted.
"I just want to take a risk, you know? Do something special. Be noticed. Is that wrong?" I said completely ignoring their banter.
"Maybe we're just tired of being the good girl." Hana says exasperated.
"Umm how are you guys doing that?" Paul asks.
"I don't know it's easy." Hana states, as we both then jump off.
"I mean it might sound so lame when I say it but… I don't know I want to do something dangerous…be different-"
"Not be us for a while." I say finishing her sentence.
"Okay so after I have band we go to north beach for dinner. Oh, and Paul's ditching Korean." Amy says nonchalantly.
"Did you just hear what we said?" Hana exclaims.
"But that's what we always do to kick off our thinking." Amy said confused.
Just then Paul falls onto the sand in between us.
"That is so not easy." Paul says as he jumps up.
Amy ignores him as she asks "Is there something you want to do instead?"
Hana and I then share a look and then look at Amy and Paul.
Chloe's POV
I look at my dress for a second taking another look at it. I wore an above the knee, length strapless black dress that flows at the bottom. I decide there's again nothing wrong with it. I look at Hana's dress, which is the same except its blue with pink that meets at the very bottom. We both look not bad so I decide to relax a bit.
"There's no way their letting any of us in there." Amy says looking at the guard. I looked around to find a guy coming out of a back door, throwing up.
"Then we'll just find another way in there." I said leading them to the back door.
We go through the door, unnoticed. Music's blasting through the stereos, while people dance everywhere. Hana dragged Amy, Paul, and I to the dance floor. We all began dancing together. Hana and I especially loved to dance. It's like we get lost in the music and we can't help ourselves. Dancing is in our blood.
When we went our separate ways a boy I saw earlier went up to me, and we started to dance together to the song Fever by Cascada. When I thought it was time to leave I went outside, the guy following me.
"You are wild." The guy said.
"Thanks. Nobody's ever said that about me before."
"I find that hard to believe."
I smile at him coyly.
"You know um, my brother's place is just a couple blocks."
I laugh. "Not that wild, at least not yet. I really, truly have to go." I turn my head. "I can't believe Amy and Paul just ditched me." I say more to myself.
"Would you at least, maybe, give me a call sometime?" He asked.
I smile as I take out my phone, and hand it to him. He dials his number and save his contact. I look over it. "Xavier? I like the name."
"I just hope you like the face that goes with it." He says, and I laugh as I take a picture of him
"I think I do." I say as I see Hana making her way toward us.
I walk away about 6 inches until I stop. I decide if I should do what I'm about to do. Usually I would leave it to the guy but…tonight I'm someone different. I walk back to him and kiss him full on the mouth.
"See? I knew I would be missing out." I say, meaning for just me, accidentally out loud
"Uh, wow." He says with a laugh. I follow suit, thinking how crazy this must seem.
"Are you sure I can't at least give you a ride? It's pretty cold." He says still chuckling.
"You know, I-I like it. It makes me feel, alive." I say as Hana comes toward me.
"Han, this is Xaviar." I introduce.
"Hmm, Xaviar. Nice," Hana says eyeing the both of us. "I'm Hana." Han reaches out to shake his hand. Xaviar smiles and shakes back.
"Twins? Identical too. That's a little freaky." Xaviar says jokingly.
"Watch out, wrong move and we might strike you!" Han says.
I laugh. "Come on Han." I say taking her hand. We walk side by side, lost in our own thoughts. We both agree to talk about tomorrow, because it was so late.
At school (Chloe's POV)
Hana and I talked about how we both had our very first real kiss, last night. Hana said the guy was named Darin, and they danced together all night. I for one can't believe I missed that! But I guess I was occupied too. I see Amy, so I call her toward us.
"Amy, Amy, Amy, Amy!" I call as I walk to her right, while Han goes to her left.
"Oh, hey guys." Amy says still walking.
"What the hell Amy? I cannot believe you and Paul just left us there! But if you didn't we probably wouldn't have had the best night of our lives!"
"Why? Because we left?" Amy asked shocked.
"Ugh no!" I say pulling my phone. "Because of him!"
"Oh crap! Amy I have to tell you all about it later, but I really need to talk to this teacher!" Han says moving away from the stairs.
"Uh, ok"
"Amy look!" I say putting the phone closer to her. "We danced together all night!"
"His name's Xaviar, and he kissed me! I mean, well, we kissed each other!" I exclaim.
"I mean yesterday I said I wanted it to happen and then it did! Actually I kind of made it happen, which is kind of even cooler!"
"Oh my god Chloe, I can't believe you actually kissed him!" Amy says excitedly. We hear a thump, and Amy turns around. I roll my eyes, but she looks even more excited.
"Look perky London calling at 10 o'clock."
"That's your crazy obsession not mine." I say, going back to my story. "I mean I can't believe I actually did it! You would have been so proud of me! I just went straight up to him-"
Thump
He hits his basketball on the wall right above my head, but I ignore him. Amy bend down a bit while and tries not to get wacked.
"I mean, I don't know if I'm ever going to talk-"
He tries to hit the ball over my head again, but exasperated, I catch the ball before it hits the wall. I walk up to while saying
"Hey jocko. Do you mind? People are trying to have a conversation here, so why don't you go play look-at-me, somewhere else." I say with strong hand movements. I turn and throw it, not really aiming but I manage to make it inside the trash bin.
I look at the trash bin wide mouthed. I could assume the people behind me are too, because the people in front of me sure as hell are. I could already hear people starting to talk.
"You did NOT just do that." Amy says shocked.
"I think I did. Let's go." I say grabbing Amy and heading over to our next class. She turns to say something to Alek but I keep dragging her saying "No, Amy, come on!"
The worst part of having history, is having history alone. Counting every single second of a minute hoping that it will magically turn into an hour, now that's the struggle. But at least it eventually does. I stand to my feet as quickly as possible and head out the room, as the bell rings. Next Drama. I think to myself.
Out of nowhere a hand blocks my way. I look up and find the face to belong to Alek. I quickly stumble backwards as he says "That was very impressive."
I start to go backwards trying to avoid this conversation, but he follows me. "Maybe you can show me some of your moves sometime."
Annoyed I say "No moves just a lucky shot."
"I wasn't really talking about basketball." Wooow. I wonder if it took him all second block to think of that one.
"Subtle." I say rolling my eyes. I reach the last part of the wall, and he pushes my stomach gently onto. I couldn't move and he was being painfully obvious to what he wanted from me.
"I wasn't trying to be." He says smirking.
"Umm you haven't talked to me in about two years, let's get back to that." I say nodding. He then stiffs my hair?
"You smell very good." I'm not sure whether I want to punch him in his seemingly perfect face, or give in to his suggestive banter.
Mad he could allow me to feel this way I say "Okay crazy, non-sequator man it's called bathing… try it."
"Why are you giving me such a hard time, Chloe King?" the way he says my name I think I just…want to kick him where it hurts.
"Believe me if I ever knew it would have this effect on you I would have never touched your ball." I say drily. As soon as it comes from my mouth I mentally curse at myself, because it seems my mouth moves faster than my mind. I see him chuckle and I practically plead "God, don't say it."
He then comes closer and says "Something tells me we're going to be very good friends."
As he starts to come closer to my lips I hear someone say "ALEK." Very loud and very harsh.
"Well nice chatting, this was fun let's try and never do it again.' I say as the bell rings circling around him to rush to my class.
Hana's POV
I heard Chloe and Lana talking about something but I was too focused on the wonderful new clothes in the store today.
"Oh turn up I love that song." I say to Lana. "You can hear that?" she says. "Sure, can't you?" I ask. She turns it up, and as if on cue a really cute guy comes in. He looks a little older older than me, but so adorably lost so I decide to help him out a bit.
"Hi." I say as I walk over. He looks up and suddenly I'm at a loss of words.
"I love this song." He says.
"Me too! I, umm, just said that." I say lucky I found some words. Toward the end I accidentally fumble next to a manikin. I fix his hat quickly trying not to look embarrassed.
"Can I help you with something?"
"Yeah an opinion," He puts on a hat with little cat ears on it. "Ironic or lame." We both laugh.
"Um, a little bit of both. But it works with the jacket" I smiled. "You a cat person?" I ask.
"Umm no just cold ears." He chuckles. "I'll take it."
"So you in college." I ask then realizing it's a rude question I start rambling. "I'm only asking because we get a lot of people from university, you see we have this ad-"
"Stop talking" Lana says. I chuckle lightly and say "Five dollars."
"Yeah well I'm just staying the semester to help out with some family stuff." He says. "Umm Brian."
"Hana. Every day from three to six." I say. "Maybe I'll see you around some time." He says.
"Okay. BYE." I say loudly, as I laugh.
"Okay I don't know what you did with Hana but when you see her tell her to tack the sow rack." Chloe said.
Chloe's POV
"Well maybe we're hurrying because it's our birthday dinner so-" I text Amy out loud. I got caught off by a biker that was, just about to squash Hana and I. I instinctively jumped and as if magic I was on top of a car. Han too.
"How'd you get up there?"
Hana and I looked at each other wide-eyed, staring at our body. We looked back at each other, and slightly smiled. "Holy…shit." I exclaimed.
Soon enough Han and I were running, to no particular destination. I just felt something inside of me come alive, and needed some relief of this need to run. I guess Han felt it too. We seemed too run faster than we've ever ran before. Everyone else was becoming a blur. We saw a place with all types off boxes, tables, poles, and bars. We shared a look and quickly ran to it. We started jumping over boxes, leaping over tables, and everything unimaginable. I started to look for Hana and saw her climbing a pole so I quickly flipped over a garbage can and climbed with her. When we made it up the pole we climbed on top of a roof, then jumped to another roof. We looked around taking in the San Francisco view and catching our breath. We looked at each other and said simultaneously "Wow." We started to make our way to the restaurant, finally, Amy had picked for us to go. We HAVE to tell Amy and Paul.
At the restaurant
"Wait. What?" Amy laughed. "So all of a sudden you have these, like, super powers."
"I don't think jumping over a dumpster justifies as super powers. But it's kind of weird right?" I asked.
"Ya huh." Amy said clearly surprised.
"It's like this burst of energy, like, I just knew I could do it." Hana said.
"Oh and I can hear things." Hana said leaning in toward Amy.
"Like thoughts in your head things." Amy said questioningly.
"No! Like low volume sort of things." Hana said.
"Really I can't." I said curiously.
"Well, have you tried?" Hana asked.
"Not the sort of thing you randomly try to do, at sixteen." I say sarcastically. Han rolls her eyes.
"Just try. See what those waiters are talking about." Hana said pointing to the group of waitors. I tried really hard, and manage to hear something. It's not very clear though. I put on a disgusted look.
"What?" Amy said.
"Okay, I think they just spit in that guy's food." I say as I watch him bite into his food.
"It's like our non-wish, birthday wish came true." Hana says so we can get to our previous topic.
"I know it's just, I feel so different." I say.
"Yeah." Hana says.
"Obviously there has to be some explanation to this. Other than you know, you two are freaks." Amy said eating her food.
"And you're worthless." Hana and I say together. Amy smiles back.
"I can't believe Paul blew off our birthday dinner." Hana says.
"The comic book king would be so into this." I add.
"I…told him not to come." Amy says quickly.
"Why?" I say confused.
"Paul and I made out." Amy bursts, grinning.
"What!" Hana says.
"When?" I say.
Amy started laughing. "Last night. First it was like a here we are at the dance floor what are we gonna do now, sort of thing but then…not so much." Amy says enthusiastically.
"You and Paul" Hana says leaning in, wide-eyed.
"I know." Amy squealed out.
"Wait, wait, wait. Now you're a couple." I said. "Amy we have talked to you all day every day since we were like two. And never once did you mention you had a thing for …Paul!" I say the last part incredulously.
"Well I kinda didn't know until it happened." Amy says as she looks at us. Are you guys jealous?!" Amy accused.
"Of you and Paul." Hana said like it was the dumbest question ever.
"No!" I finished.
"You guys don't have to be mean." Amy said looking at her plate.
"We're not being mean we're… being surprised." Hana says.
"I thought you two would be happy for us." Amy says protectively.
"We are." I tell her lightly.
"So like was he any good." Hana busted out, leaning into Amy.
"Surprisingly, yes!" Amy squealed out. "At first it was a little bit awkward, but then we kinda got into it-"
"Okay Amy I could accept it, but I just can't hear about it." I say feeling weird about the situation. Amy nodded, and fixed her napkin on her lap. I turned to look over at the door and instantly regretted it.
"Aw crap there's Alek's girlfriend." I say as I hide my face.
"Ew, creepy! No that's Jasmine" Amy said as she waved at her. I tried not to look.
"They're cousins." Amy says with a laugh. "She's in my AP history class."
"And why do you even care? I thought you hated his hot ass." Hana asked.
"Because, he kinda tried to kiss me." I tell her.
"Chloe! You like him?"
"No." I say defensively.
"But speaking of guys, didn't you meet some cute guy at the shop?" I ask smiling at Hana, trying to get the topic off of me.
She blushed and said "Yeah, well I did kinda shamelessly throw myself at this cute guy with the world's most beautiful eyes."
"Did he throw back?" Amy asked giddy.
"Yeah I think he kinda did." Hana said.
Amy squealed. "Oh my god! Hana!"
"Who are you two?" Amy asked sarcastically astonished.
"I have no idea." Hana and I said together before laughing
"Yeah, hi it's your mom, remember me? You said you were going to be home an hour ago." Meredith says through the phone.
"We're just paying. We-we will be home in just two seconds. I swear" I say. I hang up, after that.
"Woops, we gotta go." I said, as I grabbed Hana's hand.
"No, you two can't go yet. We have to make a plan."
Han sits back down, and put her head over her fist.
"A short plan." I say.
"Okay, first wait a day then call the club boys."
"I don't know, that was just drive-by flirting." Hana says as I nod my head in agreement.
"They stay on the list." Amy says pointing at us.
"And then there's Alek." Amy says, smiling at me knowingly.
"His royal Hotness? Let it go. "
"Okay before you rush into any judgment, you should at least see him with his shirt off." Amy says, nodding her head, probably looking back to that image.
We both tilt our head to the side.
"Fine, that just leaves kitty hat." Amy sings.
"Brian. And he's a definite yes." Hana says, as she gets up.
"Okay birthday girls. I'll get this" Amy says as she grabs the check.
"Amy I really am happy for you and Paul." Han says. I nod in agreement.
"Thanks guys." Amy says smiling warmly at us both.
"And Han, Chlo try not to wrestle too many bad guys, on your way home." Amy says pointing a finger.
"We'll try." Hana say drawing out the word 'try' as we leave.
Hana's POV
"Chlo, remind me to never have you keep watch of the time. It's almost 12o'clock." I say as I look at her with a raised brow.
"Come on, it's not that late!" Chlo says as we turn a corner.
We almost fell on our butts, when a homeless guy jumped up to us "Spare change."
"Uh no sorry." Chlo said with her head down.
"Well maybe something else then." The homeless dude said. I don't think he saw me behind him, which under any circumstances is good. But then he grabbed Chloe and pushed her on a wall.
As Chloe was screaming, I quickly went behind him. I hit him really hard, which was at the same time Chloe did. He fell, which I expected, but what I didn't expect was claws marks. Our nails were replaced with some freaky white… claws.
"Bitch! Ah! What you two do to me!" he says, falling on his huddle of trash.
Chloe and I stood there, looking at our claws.
"Stay away from me!" the guy said.
I paid the homeless man no attention. I was getting super freaked out. What the hell is this? Just then Chloe and my hands turned back to normal. When I flexed my hands, again it turned into claws. I didn't flex my hands it turned back to normal. Chloe and I look at each other and run to our house.
"Okay clearly two seconds doesn't mean-" Meredith started to say but was cut off when Chloe and I hugged her.
"Girls are you okay?" Meredith said.
"I'm fine." I sniffled out.
"Sure?" she asked. We both nodded, half-smiling.
"Yeah we're just…sorry for coming home so late." Chloe said.
"Oh, it's okay. It's your birthdays. You got a couple free passes." Meredith said with a shrug.
"Thanks." I said. "We'll be in our rooms if you need us. Ok." I said, as Han and I walked over to the stairs.
"Uh girls." Meredith called.
"Yeah?" Chloe and I asked.
"I've been staring at this cake for hours, mind if you two blow a few candles so I can have a slice?" Meredith asked as she led us to the cake.
"It's beautiful." Chloe said.
"Vanilla?" I ask.
"Like I just met you two." Meredith said.
"No singing." Chloe said, pointing a finger.
"What? I'm not a singer, that was your da-. Okay no singing." Meredith said as we blew the candles.
"Mom it's okay, he left over ten years ago." Chloe said.
"We're good." I said.
"Happy birthday girls." Meredith said as she kissed both our cheeks.
"I love cake." Meredith said as we sat down.
"So not to be all snoopy, but I did notice that you two and your posse-"
"Please don't say posse." I said.
"Rat pack!" Meredith said as she liked icing off her finger. "Do something special?" she asked.
"Yeah actually we did, uhh we went dancing, and I met a boy."
"Me too." I said smiling.
"Ooo" Meredith said. "Please do not cry, squeal, or hug us." Chloe said.
"Okay." She said.
"And I met another boy today at work. He was…nice" I said.
"That's it? That's all you're gonna give me? ..Nice." Meredith said.
"I mean that's kinda everything." I said while shrugging my shoulders.
"I'm sensing there's more to this story, and you don't seem very excited." Meredith says eating.
"No, no I'm-I'm excited I just, we just have a lot going on right now." I said.
"What do you have 'going on'?" Meredith asks, chuckling.
We hesitated to eat our cake, looking at our hands.
"Girls?"
"Do-do you know anything about our birth parents?" Chloe asked reluctantly.
"Dammit Chloe, Hana you're not going to give me a break are you?" Meredith huffed.
"No, it's not a door slamming, you're not our real mother moment. We're just curious. We swear." I added quickly.
"Well you guys already know everything I know. Which is pretty much nothing" Meredith said, getting up to refill her wine glass.
"No papers, no records?" I ask.
"It was chaotic. Ukraine was a new country. Your dad was working up there, and when he saw you two in the orphanage he fell in love." Meredith said.
"But how did he get us out of the country? I mean that makes no sense." Chloe said.
Meredith then looked around.
"What?" I asked.
"I think-umm I think money may have changed hands." Meredith said.
"Wait you mean he stole us!" I asked.
"No, no that's just how things were done." Meredith said holding our hands.
"Yeah but, he didn't even want to know where I was from or how-" Chloe began.
"Your father wasn't a big fan of questions…sorry. I wish I knew the answers too." Meredith said.
I looked down.
"Thanks for the cake." Chloe said.
"Sure." Meredith said.
Chloe and I started to go upstairs,
"Mom?" I said.
"Yeah"
"I love you."
"Implied." She sang. I smiled and went upstairs with Chloe.
I stood there looking at myself in the mirror trying to figure everything out. I brushed my hair behind my ear, and turned away. The only good thing about this right now, is that I have Chloe. Chloe and my mom.
The next day (Chloe's POV)
(Chloe is wearing, A black and white striped crop top with short sleeves. Black ripped jeans. Black timberland boots. With her hair down.)
(Hana is wearing a decorated white, green, and blue dress. A soft white sweater. Thick black over the knee highs, and some white knee boots. Her hair is down.)
I stood with Amy, pretending to help her decide what she wanted to buy, only half paying attention. The other half is constantly playing with my fingers.
"Amy, Paul isn't my whole life…for your information."
"Okay what is the matter with you? Did you hit your head on the trash bin? Oh, and don't tell me you can fly because if you can I will have you committed." Amy says.
"Amy we can't fly. That would just be weird." Hana says leaning on one of the racks.
"Are we even gonna call the club boys, like we planned?" Amy asked.
"Okay you planned, we didn't." I said. Amy turned around, and saw Lana looking at her.
"Don't give me that look they're helping me." Lana rolled her eyes, while raising her eyebrow.
"I'm gonna buy something." Amy taunted.
"Heard that before."
"Look Amy I don't know what's going on with us lately. I mean last night I was so alive-"
"Is that your your phones." Amy asked as she took both of them.
I twitched my eye "Amy."
While Hana ran to her to get the phone. Surprisingly Amy already had the dial tone of both our phones and now it was ringing, almost simultaneously.
"It's a voicemail." Hana and I said together. "Uh hi Xavier it's me, Chloe, from the other night you must be busy right now so umm call me later. Bye!" Hana said the same thing on Darin's voicemail.
"And never do that again." Hana said to Amy.
"Aww" Amy said while clapping her hands.
"I hate you." Hana said rolling her eyes.
"Love you." Amy sang.
"Whatever,"
"What about this?" Amy asked holding up a horrible brown fur coat.
"Seriously?" Chlo asked. Amy started dancing around in it.
"Oh God!" I said laughing and moving away from her.
Hana's POV
Chloe and I were locking up with Amy, when someone called
"Closing early."
I turned around and saw it was Brian! I whispered in Amy's ear, not so subtlety, "Kitty hat."
I turned and said "Yes."
"Now how am I supposed to indulge in my corky headwear fetish?" He asked.
"Uh you know, I-I'm sorry, I should have warned you this um happens… a lot." I say shrugging my shoulder, and laughing.
"Well just know I planned on doing fifteen minutes of humor small talk, just before asking you this, but you wanna get a cup of coffee with me?" Brian asked.
"I-I-I can't, I mean we-" I pointed over to my sister and Amy.
"Are parting ways" Amy said.
"Because we have no plans together once so ever." Chloe said smiling.
"Wow, I didn't know you had a sister. Hi I'm Brian." He told Chloe.
"I guess if you weren't ogling my sister you would have noticed…" I say sarcastically. "But yeah, I'm Chloe. And uh, me and Amy have to go…to that thing… remember Amy." Chloe asked looking at Amy.
"Oh yeah, let's go talk about that thing. Off we go." Amy said walking away with Chloe and giving me the keys.
He chuckled and said "I'll take that as a yes."
I shrugged. "Okay." We started to walk over to the coffee shop.
We ordered a coffee and walked outside. When we were going outside I started to tell him about my father and how I don't know where he is, or if he's even alive or not. I also told him about how I found his e-mail a couple of years ago, and started sending him these messages. We sat down at a table.
I also told him that Chloe, my mom, and I make a pretty good team. He started to tell me about how his mother died and his father is really hard on him. So far I was having a really good time. We were about to talk about some other things when, a jogger with a huge dog came. The dog was growling and trying to bite me. I jumped up, and grabbed Brian's arm, but I accidentally drew my claws in it. Even when I did that he didn't get mad he actually defended me and told the jogger that he needs to control that dog.
"Well, that was random." He said. Yeah, not so much.
"Yeah, listen I-I gotta go home, my mom has this.. thing about me going home. Umm thanks for the coffee." I said then turned to walk really fast.
"Wait, Chloe" I turned back around, not sure of what he was gonna say. "Can we do this again sometime?"
I smiled sheepishly. "Yeah-yeah I'd-I'd really like that. Bye" I said as I began to walk away again.
I was walking over to my the way of my house, when I saw that some freak was following me. I walked through some woods hoping to lose him. That's when I saw some more people through the woods, and I quickly ran the other way. I don't know where I was going, but hopefully it was somewhere populated. As I ran I pulled out my phone, and called Chloe. I told her it was an emergency and to leave Amy.
I hung up and began running through some forest to an open area. Greatful there was people I began trying to blend in, while looking for Chloe. I saw the man and began running up, the tower. I think it was called Coit tower. The stairs were spiraled and I'd almost tripped running up the stair so fast. I made it to the top floor and looked out the window openings. I saw Chloe down there, but behind her there was a guy with a knife.
I quickly yelled "CHLOE WATCH OUT! BEHIND YOU!" but it was too late by the time she turned around, the guy said something to her and stabbed her in the stomach.
"NOO!" I screamed, grabbing my head. I turned around, and gasped because the scare faced guy was there. Right behind me.
"Good bye. Hana." Then he pushed me out the opening and I fell plummeting down.
I hit the ground. Hard. And I felt the blood drip around me. The last thing I saw was Chloe right beside me. She seemed to have seen the whole thing because she just started to close her eyes and soon enough my teary eyes closed too.
Chloe's POV
I hear all sorts of different gasps and screams and I wonder how can I hear this stuff aren't I dead? But out of nowhere, I opened my eyes. I don't know how I'm doing this but I turn to look at Han and…she's still dead. Tears form in my eyes, but then…she awakens. She looks at me, and I look at her. We jump up, and we run. We head to the woods.
We were about to get away when someone pushed me to the ground, I saw Hana about to scratch her with her claws. I was had mine up too, already aiming for her face. But then I heard someone. A familiar voice, that makes me stop. I looked up at saw Alek. He's the one that said stop? But why would I listen to him, or Hana for that matter.
"We're here to help." He said, and slowly I put my hand down along with Hana. The person on top of me lifted her hoodie off, and revealed that it was Jasmine. Both Hana and I looked at then wide-eyed, unable to speak.
Chloe's POV
"We're only supposed to be watching you two. To make sure Alek was right." Jasmine explains as we run. To where? I don't know.
"I was right. I thought you were starting to transform, and since you two are sisters, Hana might be one too." Alek said.
"But then we saw that crazy assassin starting to lurk around, and knew we had to do something." Jasmine says. Alek then jumps on a garbage can and looks around.
"I don't think were being followed." He says.
"Okay will one of you please tell us what's going on?" I ask.
"We're so sorry. There are people who usually talk you through this. This isn't how its normally done." Jasmine says trying to calm me down.
"What's done?" Hana asks.
"Contact. Your transformation was so fast." Jasmine tells us.
"You two were born in Ukraine, right?"
"Yes. But how do you know that." I ask.
"Not here." He says as he grabs my arm. "Come on."
Jasmine grabs Hana's arm.
We jump on the top of a building and Alek inspects "I think we're safe here. We should probably keep moving."
"No, no, no, no we are not going anywhere until we get some answers." I say.
"Yeah like why is there a scare-faced freak who trying to kill us. I mean how does he even know my name, I mean a-a-a-a" Hana says.
"Hana! It's going to be okay we'll answer all your questions I promise." Jasmine explains.
Hana and I look at each other and say at the same time "Well here's one. What the hell are you?"
"You mean what the hell are we." Alek corrects.
We raise our eyebrows telling him to go on. "We are Mai." Alek says.
"Mai?" Hana and I say.
"Decedents of an ancient and sacred race. Not completely human, not completely god. The offspring of Bastet, the most powerful of all the goddesses. It was a time when we were revered. They advise pharaohs. Mai and humans had a special relationship. We were their sworn protectors." Jasmine explains to us while showing, her necklace of what I guess is Bastet.
"But then we had a falling out. I guess you could say we got tired of taking orders." Alek says.
"We broke our sacred bond." Jasmine corrects.
"That's one interpretation. But we've been hunted for generations." Alek says fiercely.
I widened my eyes.
"He's being slightly dramatic. We lead pretty normal lives." Jasmine says.
"This truly makes no sense." I say.
"Deep down, you know it's true. You always knew you were different." Alek says.
"Are there gonna be more…"
"Changes." Hana says finishing my sentence.
"No, just a tail." Alek says shrugging.
"Ignore him. He thinks he's hilarious." Jasmine says.
I glared at him for a minute before Jasmine said "I know this is hard to take in but this is who you are."
"Do you regret being so mean to me, now?" Alek says sitting down.
"No." I say.
"Hana, who was that guy you were having coffee with? A boyfriend?" Jazmin asks.
"So none of your business." Hana says shocked.
"For a second I thought you were gonna kiss him. I swear I almost had a heart attack." Jasmine says smiling. We tilted our head a little.
"Mai and humans don't really mix well." Alek says.
"Guess you call it a curse we can't be-"
"Intimate." Alek interrupts, looking at me.
"Sometimes something even as small as a kiss." Jasmine says.
"What happens if we kiss?" Hana and I say together.
Alek chuckles "You guys really need to stop doing that. Anyway though, it depends on the kiss. Paralysis, death. Sometimes paralysis and death."
We quickly take out our phones. "Don't worry not for the Mai just the… human." Alek shrugs.
"Alek I swear. Don't worry you didn't kiss that guy he's fine. We were watching." Jasmine says.
"It's not him we're worried about." we say.
Hana's POV
I can't believe this. Chloe and I killed someone. Someone so innocent, cute, and funny. Chloe and I are crying our eyes out looking at the two dead bodies that's going inside the truck. Brothers. Would you believe that? Can this could ever get any more worse.
"It's not your fault. You had no way of knowing." Jasmine said to us. Sick of her bullshit I turn to leave.
"Hana, wait!" Jasmine said as she touched my arm. "Don't touch me! Please." I yelled, but whispered that last part. Chlo was in front of me in a second.
"Don't fucking touch her." She whispered menacingly, shaking, as she turned and wrapped an arm around me.
"Please just let us take you home." Jasmine offered.
"We can get home on our own!" Chloe said harshly.
"She means our home." Alek says, with soft eyes. Great. Take fucking pity.
"Don't you two get it?" I ask.
"We don't want anything to do with you." Chloe said bitterly. She was getting mad by the second. Chlo mad, is a very bad thing.
"I don't think you have a choice. At least until we figure out why the order was after you." Jasmine says.
"How they knew about you. They normally don't attack like this." Alek said.
"The Order?" I choked out.
"The Order are the ones dedicated to our extinction." Jasmine explains.
"Trust me you won't be happy if that guy in the park catches you." Alek says.
"Uh too late he just tossed me off the top of Coit tower." I said.
"Stabbed. In the fucking stomach." Chloe says.
"What happened?" Jasmine said really confused.
"It felt like I broke every bone in my body." I said.
"I was dead. She was dead. Plain and simple." Chloe mutters.
"But you're both still alive." Alek said. "
Sorry to disappoint." We say.
"Only The Uniter has nine lives to live. The prophecies never said anything about two Uniters." Jasmine says.
"There's no way." Alek says slightly smiling.
"Nine lives to endure." Jasmine says getting closer to us.
"Chloe, Hana we're not supposed to save you, you're supposed to save us." Jasmine says.
"No, no-"
"You have to come The Order knows about you and they won't stop. Many people are gonna die." Alek says as he reaches and grabs Chloe.
"Don't touch me!" She says as she throws Alek on the bench near us.
"This has nothing to do with us!" Chlo scream. "Leave us alone!" Chloe yells as we run to our house.
Chloe's POV
I try to control my breathing as I'm in the shower and wash all the dirt off of me. How did this happen to me. I think to myself. I hold my head, sick with image of Xavier's house. After I get dressed, I go to Hana's room. She's crying. I quickly come to her and gently I brushed her hair back while I say lies, like it's okay.
She stopped crying. "Thanks."
I smile at her.
All of a sudden Amy burst through the door. "Thank god. Chloe, Hana your home. I've been calling both of you like one-million bajillion times." Amy said.
"We're okay, were fine Amy." I say.
"Not you. Paul and I just broke up." Amy said.
"Amy-"
"He was supposed to meet me at the galaxy and then he just didn't show. Bet his mom-"
"Amy!" Hana says.
"Look Amy we're really sorry, but-but I just can-cant right know. Okay?"
"And what the hell do you guys have going on that's so important." Amy said.
"How about this?" Hana show her scarred back, and I show my scarred stomach.
"There's nothing there." Amy said.
I go to Hana's mirror and see there really is nothing there. Like it…vanished.
"Chloe, Hana?" Amy says softly.
"I think we died today." Hana and I said together.
"What? Are you okay?" Amy asked.
I was about to say something when my phone indicated it had a message. I went over and saw who it was.
"It's Paul, should I answer?" I asked Amy. She nodded. I grabbed my phone and pressed answer.
"Hey Paul." I said.
"Uh Chloe. I got some one here who wants to talk to you."
"Paul?" I asked.
"Hello Chloe. I believe you, your sister, and me have a little unfinished business." The scarred-face freak told me.
Chloe's POV
"Keep the motor running." Hana said, as we went to get out.
Amy locked the door.
"Hey." I said.
"There is no way I'm letting you two out of this car if you don't tell me what is going on." Amy said.
"Okay remember when you warned us about bad guys?" I asked Amy.
She nodded.
"We should have listened." I told her.
"If Chloe, Paul, and I don't come out of there in two minutes, call the police." Hana said.
"You can't go in there alone. I mean I'm not saying I'm going in there with you, but still, you can't go in there alone." Amy said.
"Trust us it'll be fine." Hana and I said together as we showed Amy our claws.
"Ahhh!" Amy screamed.
"Wish us luck." I said as we waved and went in.
"Paul?" I asked.
"Chloe, Hana get out of here it's a trap." Paul said.
"Yeah we kinda figured that part out." Hana said.
"Hey creepy, creep." I said.
"You know who you are. So umm I'm just gonna take my friend and go. And I swear you'll never have to see me again." Hana said.
"Look I don't know what's up with you and the Mai, but really it has nothing to do with-" I was suddenly cut off by a star being thrown at me.
Hana quickly hid behind a cloth and indicated she'll come when he's venerable. She then hid. Another star got thrown and it cut my leg. I quickly put my hand on it to stop the bleeding. The guy then jumped down.
"Who the hell are you?" I screamed.
"I know you think this has nothing to do with you two- where's your sister!" the freak asked.
"Right here!" Hana said as she jumped on his back. I saw her eyes as she jumped. A golden/green with a single slit for a pupil.
"Newsflash, dying sucks! And I'm so not doing that again!"
I ran to him, as I felt my eyes turn. I punched him over his face and neck, but more so in his stomach. I was on fire, super quick, not at all awkward with it. He purposely fell on his back, hurting Hana, and punched me square in the face. I fell back as Hana went to trip him and I kneed him in the face. He got up, and pulled something out of his coat. Oh wait…is that a machete? Oh fuck.
I slid under some construction pipes with a white cloth on it. The freak went toward it and started slicing where he thought I'd be. He cut me, but I grabbed his arm and twisted it. I took his knife and threw it somewhere behind me. I ran over to Han and the freak turned around slowly.
Paul witnessing this said "Chloe, that was so cool."
Alek came out of nowhere with Jasmine following. Alek then grabbed his head by the hair and punched him. Sending him across the room and hitting the wall. Jasmine raced to him and kicked him in the stomach making him hit the ground. He went up, and Hana ran over to him, jumped and kicked him in the head hoping to cause injury. He fell back bleeding on the floor.
"Alek! Get Paul!" Jasmine says as she head toward him.
"Paul." Hana and I say at the same time. Alek quickly unlocks Paul and we rush to give him a hug.
"Paul!" someone squealed out. We turned and saw Amy run into Paul's arms.
"Amy are you okay?" Paul asked.
"Me? What about you? What happened in here?" Amy asked.
"Well that freak over there- where's the scarred face dude?!" I ask noticing he's gone.
"He vanished. I don't know where he-"
"HANA LOOK OUT!" I screamed as I saw the freak pick up Han, and throw her out the window.
"Stay away from my friend!" Amy said knocking him outside the window also with a pipe. We all rush outside.
"Don't worry, I'm fine. It's good to cats can land on their feet at any time." Han said sarcastically. "I don't know where that damn freak went."
"Chloe watch out!" Jasmine says as she jumps in front of me just in time for a knife to come in contact with her shoulder blade.
"Jasmine!" Alek says as she helps her stand.
"Oh my god!" I say looking at Jasmine. Amy and Paul come running toward us.
"Oh my god!" Amy said mirroring my last comment. "I'll call 911!"
"No! I'll take her home! We could heal her, the rest of us only have this one life." Alek said looking at Han and I.
"I am so sorry." I say to Alek.
"You can't run away!" Alek says as he leaves with Jasmine.
Chloe's POV
TRUST NO ONE –DAD
"Does that mean-"
"That he knows?" I finish. "I don't know. I don't know anything right now Han."
"Let's get to bed."
"Y-yeah. I think that's really what we need right about now."
"Goodnight Chlo." Han says as she goes to her bed.
"Wait. Han," I say reaching out. She turns.
"Yeah."
I go toward her and give her a hug. "It's going to be alright."
"Promise?" Han chokes out.
"I promise." I look at her and smile. I go through our conjoined bathroom back to my room.
I take a deep breath in and look around for a moment. I go to my bed. I lay there for a while. Then I whisper "Goodnight Alek."
It's a long shot, but I know he could hear me.
I think I hear him say goodnight back but it's really just a blur as I drift off to sleep.