Disclaimer- I own nothing, except a cracked MP3 player and some other junk nobody cares about. But I do NOT own the Covenant or any songs or books I mention. I do however own Ana, the other Valentines, and Steven, SO DON'T STEAL THEM!
"I swear Nick if you don't stop speaking Spanish, I'm gonna wring your neck!" I said rather loudly, a couple passengers on the plane turned in their seats and looked at me. I shot them a cold glare and they turned around pretty rapidly.
"Really? How you gonna do that?" nick said in an annoying Jim Carrey voice that sounded nothing like the master himself. He did however have a point, I could harm him in variety of ways, but because of his abilities, strangle him I could not.
"No need, I hear English!" I said in an equally annoying singsong voice. Raidon snorted, we both knew that Nick wouldn't speak English for more half a half a minute since he had the option of every other language in the world. Nick immediately switched back to Spanish; I tried to move my attention away from my beach-boy brother and glanced around the plane. The twins were playing Euchre against Steven and Jonathon, hard to say who'd win, the twins had freaky twin telepathy but Steven and Jonathon had been together so long they might as well have. I could still hear nick rambling on in Spanish. I jammed my blue headphones impatiently into my ears trying to drown out Nick's Spanish assault on my eardrums. I turned my MP3 player a he way up and Nick just scowled at me. I could practically hear him telling me hat id' be deaf by the time I was 30 if I kept it up. I continued looking around the plane at my family. Bella and Dawn were dozing in their seats; I relaxed a bit to see them safe and sleeping. I pulled a book out of my bag to stare intently a the word for a coupe seconds then jammed it back into my bag. Sure I COULD read (the Detroit schools aren't THAT bad) but I had no concentration at the moment.
What's on your mind Matches? Raidon's voice sounded in my head like an intercom. I snapped my head up; code names were when we were Using our abilities so I must be… I glanced down at my try table where all the objects were slowly moving away from me. I immediately stopped the force field I had been unconsciously creating.
Aunt Alice I replied knowing Raidon was now consciously reading my thoughts I can't help but wonder if we had gotten our powers sooner, maybe we would have been able to save her…
Stop. Raidon commanded harshly Even Jacob couldn't have helped her. Pneumonia kills. I flinched at the words, but suddenly found myself calming and becoming sleepy. I glanced over at James and sure enough his eyes were locked on me.
…Not fair… I thought as Raidon chuckled darkly.
Twenty- two minutes later I was awake again and drumming my fingers on the little fold out table tray. I think nick might break every one of my fingers slowly and deliberately pretty soon, but what the heck. I love Dominic and he's one of my heroes, but he and I can only be within a three-foot radius for so long without causing some bodily pain to the other. Finally the pilot's condescending voice came over the loud speaker.
" Ladies and Gentlemen, I hope you enjoyed your flight aboard Southwest Airways, we will be landing in about 2 minutes"
Nick and I sighed in relief simultaneously. The Euchre game was only halfway done and the boys looked pissed as then packed the cards up and carefully noted down the score in a notebook full of similar notations. In our family card games (especially euchre) are a really big deal. I wasn't really hat long of a fight from the Detroit Airport to the Boston one, they couldn't have believed they'd actually get a whole game in. the plane came to a stop and the eight of us got us and easily grabbed all our carry on luggage and walked off the plane.
At baggage claim we worked out a system; Raidon, Nick, and Steven were stationed at the area the luggage came out, where they then chucked whatever baggage was ours over to one of the twins or Jonathon, who then chucked it to Bella or Dawn who handed it to me to arrange on the largest luggage cart I could find. After the flinging of the bags and making everyone in baggage claim fear for their lives, we drug all our crap over to my Uncle Jerry's van where he was waiting for us. After we all loaded Uncle Jerry's car down to maximum capacity we headed for Ipswich. Oh my fucking god… did we just move to the land of the rich or is it just me? There were frigging mansions around every corner! We eventually pulled into my Uncle Jerry's house; we'd only be staying there for the night seeing as we'd be attending Spenser Academy and living in the dorms, well seven of us at least. Raidon and nick were in college and would be living with Uncle Jerry to save money on housing. We could have stayed with Uncle Jerry too but he'd insisted we stay at Spenser to " Get the full experience" needless too say he'd paid for everything. Besides Jonathon had opted for the dorm straight off, avoiding any "Quality time" with his father. Raidon, Nick, myself, and the twins had just left any family we'd had left back in Michigan, for Ipswich . Steven, well…his family moved to Africa about five years ago, and he stayed behind, 'nuf said. I gave Uncle Jerry a quick one-armed hug then bee lined for my room upstairs. I looked It over, it was technically MY room, I was actually a storage room for forgotten things hat happened to have a bed in it. But I was where I stayed every time I was here hence my room.
I shrugged out of my jacket and kicked of my skate shoes, I hen proceeded to walk across the room to Aunt Alice's old jewelry chest, going through each of he drawers and secret compartments I'd discovered when I was younger. I wonder what she'd think of me now; I was a far cry from the little girl she'd left. Now I was pierced up, beat up, and screwed up. Ok so I wasn't THAT pierced up (nose and belly button big whoop), and any one who would have beat me up had gotten beat up themselves. But screwed up? Sure I was, who wasn't.
Picking up my favorite dream catcher earrings I put them on. Antique silver with four turquoise beads. I sighed putting them back. I looked down a my right hand ring finger, Uncle Jerry had allowed me to keep one ring of hers. I wore it so constantly that I felt like a part of my hand. I shut the chest up knowing James would detect the high stress levels and come rushing up before I broke anything. Pfft, everything in his room used to be Aunt Alice's, like I would ever break any of it. I crawled in the bed still in my travel sweats and t-shirt.
I was shook awake at 7:00 AM by Bella, the only one brave enough o face me this early in the morning. That's because I would never hurt her, because she would never hurt me the rest of my family on the other hand…Trying to roll out of bed I swiftly found myself face down on the floor, shoving myself up and the blankets off I started to routinely crack my back and fingers, I sound like Rice Krispies from old injuries. Letting myself slide down the stairs I found myself sitting on the floor of the kitchen.
"Hey!" Uncle Jerry said cheerfully. Ugg, morning people… I grunted in response, I'm so civilized I've got manners flying out my ass. Sliding along the floor on the butt of my sweats I found a chair and pulled myself up onto it. Finding it not nearly as comfortable as the floor I slid off the hardback chair and leaned up against a cabinet. The kitchen was now crowded with the rest of my family. We were all just shoveling food into our mouths as quickly as we could into our mouths. Another reason we're not staying with Uncle Jerry, I don't think that he could feed all of us. A half hour later we pulled into the absolutely huge campus of Spenser Academy.
A/N: that's all for now, umm I now realize that most of you won't know what euchre is, it's just a card game played in Michigan, it's really huge just about everyone in Michigan plays.
