Chapter 1
Agent Pierce, her daughter Brittany and the fateful meeting
Early in the morning, it's the usual scene in the Pierce apartment. Susan wakes up to prepare for the day being so dedicated to her family and her work. She's an FBI agent specializing on weird phenomenon.
She wakes up early, prepares for breakfast, showers and wakes her daughter.
Brittany, her daughter is 17 years old, and is attending high school. She is also an early riser, but unlike her mother who wakes up to be able to review the things which concerns her work for the day, Brittany just wants the morning sunlight. She wants to hear the birds and the feeling of the new day.
The teenager wakes up from her alarm going off. She turns it and gets out of bed and heads for shower, then she goes to the kitchen to greet her mom and have breakfast.
"Good morning mom." She smiled as she sat down the chair in the kitchen for breakfast. Pancakes, she loves them especially if they are chocolate chip pancakes.
"Morning sweetie." Susan placed their breakfast on the table then grabbed her coffee.
"Hmmm. Pancakes!" Brittany placed some on her plate. "These are delicious!" she said with a mouthful of pancakes.
"Brittany, don't talk when your mouth is full." Susan looked over her daughter.
"Mom, there's this parent-teacher conference at school on Wednesday, uh, the principal says all parents must attend." Brittany knows her mom is always busy with cases, and more often than not away from home. She is not really sure if her mom will be able to attend the conference in school because she believes that it is the least of her worries.
"Hmmm, what time? I will have it arranged so I can be free at that time."
"Uh it's at 1pm on Tuesday." The girl replies shyly.
Susan finds herself guilty whenever her daughter needs her and she is not around which is more than sometimes. Whenever her daughter had dance recitals, she is somewhere solving a mundane case of human bombs, genetically modified animals, name the mundane and she has heard of it. of course it keeps her away from her daughter, and since her husband died 5 years ago, Brittany kind of has always to be on her own. Despite her playful and carefree personality, she learned to be responsible.
"Okay dear, I'll make sure to be there."
Susan has been investigating the case of a person almost killed by some kind of animal attack in the woods in the outskirts of the city.
A few days ago, a teenager threw a party in the said woods, and then an animal, which has been described by some witnesses to be yet unseen has attacked a man who wander off the party near the river separating the woods from a deeper forest.
She will drive there today.
Brittany goes to school at CSA. She is a cheerleader at school, very popular and is sought after by almost all the male and female population.
At the end of the 4th period, she met Quinn, head cheerio at the entrance of the school and her best friend.
"Hey Quinn!" she called out to the head cheerleader.
Quinn, another blond, only shorter is a very eloquent young lady. She is fierce and yet sweet to those who she thinks deserves her sweetness.
"Hey B! Are you heading for P.E.?" They have the same P.E. class. Mostly, they do physical exercises in the class, and the girls just watch the jocks train for soccer with dreamy looks.
"Yeah, let's go!"
They arrived at the field, and coach Bieste is already fuming.
The girl population of the class is either occupied with nail filing, drooling over boys, gossiping or bitching around. The boys were flirting, and yeah girls were also flirting that's why they were drooling. So, coach Bieste is really pissed off.
"Okay you lazy asses, get your butts in two groups and we'll play ball."
"Fuck!"
"Aw man!" the class chorused. But the coach was insistent so they grouped and started the game.
Brittany and Quinn were team mates. Some of her buddies were on the other group, Finn and Sam, members of the soccer team were on the other team.
The game was 4-3 and Finn's team is winning like taking candy from a baby. Coach Bieste was watching to look for new potential members of the soccer team.
Brittany was distracted when she saw a helicopter flew above them. It makes her think of the whereabouts and safety of her mom.
She was staring at the aircraft when half the class yelp. Finn kicked the ball so hard and it is traveling at a heightened momentum headed for Brittany. When it was just half a second from her face, a figure blocked her sight of the ball then kicked it in the opposite direction with twice the force. It flew directly to the goal making the scores 4-4.
Brittany's face was pale when Quinn ran to her.
"Brit! Brit! are you okay?you almost got hit by a killer ball!" Quinn snapped the taller blond out of the shock. Her eyes light up in recognition of Quinn's voice. "Uh, I think so, I was not hit."
Brittany looked at Quinn. Then she realized that someone blocked the ball and kicked it to the goal of the other team. The distance was more than half the court and it shoot to the goal like a bullet, the goal keeper did not attempt to block it fearing he will be hurt.
It made coach Bieste stand from her sitting position and all the players stood and look at the person who saved Brittany.
A girl with black hair stanging 5 feet 7 inches looked at the ball in the goal of the other team. Everyone cheered for her. She straightened from the posture she elegantly took after kicking the ball. Brittany looked into her eyes then she drowned in the girl's purple eyes. It was about 7 seconds before she was able to speak.
"Uh, thanks a lot, I would have been in the clinic right now." She said shyly then realized she did not know the girl, nor is she a familiar face in the school.
"You don't have to thank me." the girl said staring at Brittany with the weird eyes. Her brows are thick in a well defined manner, she has jet black hair just touching her collar bone in front but, goes half her back at her back. She is well tanned. Latina? Brittany did not notice herself holding her breath as she stared at her savior.
"Are you new here?" Quinn started. She also looked at the girl with admiration and inquiry.
"Yeah, actually it's my first day today. I transferred from -" the girl stopped talking, she did not want to talk about where she came from. Bieste started to ran towards the trio.
"I'm Quinn and this is Brittany, what's your name?" Quinn asked curiously. Brittany continued to stare at the transfer student. She found her mesmerizing.
"Santana."
"You! She pointed to Santana. "Transfer student!"
"Ma'am!" Santana got startled.
"That was a feisty kick! You have to try out for the soccer team." She said proudly. "But coach, we only have a boys soccer team." Quinn reminded the beast then the teacher got a surprised face then one of disappointment.
"Oh yeah, I got so excited that I forgot. Too bad, you have talent kid!"
She turned to Santana. "it was just beginner's luck coach, it's my first day in CSA." She said carefully so that no further questions about her thrown her way.
Bieste walked away leaving the trio.
"Thanks again Santana." The transfer girl got surprised from the tackle of Brittany. The blond hugged her playfully, and then her knees wobbled as she inhaled the scent of the blond. They fell on the ground. Brittany landed on top of her. her pink lips landed perfectly on the lips of the transfer girl. Brittany's stomach flipped somersaults. Her heart beat faster, she did not know what came into her but she made the accidental kiss a real kiss. She pressed on the lips if the other girl so gently. The girl pressed her lips softly too. They broke from the kiss with fear of having a full swing make out session from two persons who just met.
Santana stood up with the help of the blond. They were both blushing furiously. They held hands even after getting up. "I… I'm s-sorry, I, I did not know what I'm doing." The blond said shyly. She was stuttering because her stomach is flipping. She was breathing heavily.
"Uh, it's okay." The bell rang, saved by the bell, she thought. Uh, I got Math next period. "So do we!" Quinn said to break the awkwardness. "With Mrs. Doviniel?" The two confirmed and they headed there together finding out they are classmates.
Great! More awkwardness! Santana thought.