Familly not by Blood. Chapter 1. Catherine Simpson
As I drove my car down the busy streets, heading towards my son's school, I thought back on how things all came to be this way. I, Catherine Simpson, single since practically forever, had somehow obtained a son. Four years ago, I came across a young boy and a woman. The boy was crying, looking miserable. I suppose it was my instinct to help. "Is something wrong?" I asked the woman. She smiled to me sadly and guided me away a bit. This confused me, and I looked back to the young boy who's eyes swam with tears.
"His parents both died a few days ago...he has nobody left." I found out the woman worked with the police, and soon enough, I'm still not sure how, I had adopted this four year old boy, named Jake. He had wheat blonde hair and wide innocent brown eyes. Anyone would know right away we couldn't possibly be related by blood... I had curly black hair and green eyes.
As I arrived at Jake's school, I saw him playing in the school yard. In his own unique way... All the other kids were skipping rope or playing tag or ball or something. Little Jake sat alone in his corner, playing with something in his hands. I parked the car and aproached him. His bright brown eyes looked up to me, suddently brightening from seeing me. "Hey Mommy! Look what I found!" I don't think anyone would understand the pure sense of joy when an adopted child calls you "mom". The first time Jake had was at least two years ago. He cuped his hands and raised them up. I peeked inside and my eyes widened. He was holding a little spotted salamander. "You know you can't bring it home, right?" He pouted and set the little animal on the ground. "I know...I know." He took my hand and we walked off.
As we drove back towards home, his expression darkened. I always knew how he was feeling. "You ok, Jakey?" Through the rearview mirror, I saw him look up. "I had an other "weird moment"." I raised a brow. "weird moments" were a term he came up with to describe these strange events that always seemed to follow him. "What was it this time?" "I was working on my computer collage project when the mean boy came to tell me it was ugly. I got real sad and then the other kids started laughing. When I got up to go tell the teacher, all the computers on my side of the room died. I lost my project." He crossed his arms and pouted, looking out the window. I smiled sadly. As he looked out the window, he spoke. And what he said next made me gasp.
"Mommy, do you think the thing making the "weird moments" turned off the computers because it agreed my project was ugly?" "Of course not! I'm sure it was wonderful. That boy was only jealous of you because your work is so much better than his." He smiled and giggled. I liked it when he smiled. I didn't try to tell him those "weird moments" were only his imagination. He's believed them to be real for months now, and I soon ended up believing in them too. It generally revolved around electronics going haywire. On a few occasions though, groups of people around us would start experiencing dizziness and headaches. It was never us though...but always following us.
The apartment building came into view. It was a nice little place, although small. It was in a pretty quiet neighborhood. Vines clung to the side of the building, reaching all the way up to the third floor front window; Jake's window. We got out of the car and started heading up-stairs. "So other than the "weird moment", anything interesting happen at school today?" Jake looked lost in thought for a moment before vigourously shaking his head. Not many things happened in his life other than the unexplained phenomena. He had steady very good grades and not too many friends. Our life was pretty uneventful. It made me wish for a little excitement. But as I thought this, that little voice of conciousness at the back of my mind rose up to me. "Be careful what you wish for."
AN: Hello people. This is ArashiKira here with my new story. I'm not done with the Nature's Spirit One-Shots, don't worry. I'm just out of ideas for that for now and really inspired to start writing this. Gonna be different from my other stories. Same fictional univers, brand new characters, brand new level of darkness. Keep your eyes peeled, inter-fanfic refferences will be everywhere ;)
ps: don't expect everyday updates. I'm only coming up with the basic concept, though I already have all my characters, writing style and story line pretty much planned out already.