Chapter 2
"You won't be alone." Someone said from behind Semphoni. The others looked over her shoulder and gestured that it was okay. Semphoni slowly turned around to find Angelika and Haily standing behind her.
"Don't ever do that again! You scared the crap out of me!" Semphoni lectured them. Angelika and Haily are twin sisters in every way possible. Angelika likes cats and so does Haily. Haily likes to talk and then Angelika helps finish her sentences. Haily started laughing as the two of them started to walk farther toward them to give them each a hug.
"What are you doing here?" Kira said in a happy tone.
"We sensed another one of us over here so we decided to check it out." Angelika explained.
"So you guys walked?! Where do you live? Why didn't you call one of us?" Sharla asked in disbelief that they walked. "Yes we walked. Yes we live nearby. And no we don't have your numbers so that we could call you." Angelika and Haily pointed out. Then there was an awkward silence that settled over them and they all laughed.
"So, do you want to come with us? We were actually supposed to go over to Head Over Heels, Shoe Carnival, and then Wal-Mart before we headed to bed at school. So...do you want to join us?" Lexy asked hopeful that they would.
"Sure. I guess we could, but we left our car at home." Angelika said almost sounding embarrassed.
"Well, you can ride with me!" Semphoni said happily. Trevor stood there and silenced himself every time he started to talk.
"Is it okay if we go with you Trevor?" Sharla asked. Trevor didn't hear her so it was Kira's turn to get his attention.
"Hey!" She screamed next to his ear. Trevor jumped so high they thought he was going to try out his flying in the middle of the McDonald's parking lot.
"What was that for?!" Trevor yelled at Kira. She jolted and almost started crying for being yelled at so sudden. "What's her problem? What'd I do?" Trevor said in a panicked way.
"She's a very sensitive person. She can't even handle her little brother yelling at her. No she's not spoiled she was just raised to be emotional. Her mother and father were real emotional when they found out that she had been Touched. They started bawling and asking themselves why they deserved it. They blame God for it and then they blame Kira's friends for it." Angelika explained to Trevor.
"For how long you've known her you of all people should know that!" Jasmine scolded. Trevor walked over to Kira and gave her a soft bear hug that made her laugh through tears.
"I'm sorry, Kira. I didn't really mean it. You know that. Right?" Trevor asked in a forgiving matter.
"It's okay. I guess it's time I get used to that sort of thing happening. Huh?" Kira asked him. Then they gave each other another hug and stayed like that longer.
"Uh. EWW!!" Angelika and Haily shrieked to each other.
"Okay you two. Let's head over to Head Over Heels to look for new dresses." Semphoni practically ordered. "I can hold three other people in my car and so can Trevor. So...who wants to go with who?" Semphoni asked.
"Well, I'll take Kira for sure to make it up to her. Um...I guess I'll take anybody else I guess." Trevor said.
"Oh! I pick Trevor!" Lexy and Haily squealed.
"Okay then. Me and Sharla will go with Semphoni so that she's not lonely." Angelika smiled.
"That's okay. If you guys also want to with him I guess that would work." Semphoni suggested to them.
"Are you kidding me?! Why wouldn't we go with you?" Sharla exasperated.
"Next stop Head Over Heels! Why don't we race?" Lexy suggested.
"That sounds like a fantastic idea! First one to Head Over Heels wins." Angelika said for Semphoni. "On your mark, get set... GO!" And then everyone jumped into the vehicle they were riding in and sped off.
"Eat my dust, Trevor!" Semphoni squealed excitedly. As they sped towards the store, Semphoni looked up at her rear view mirror and saw that Trevor wasn't there.
"Where do you think he went?" Sharla asked everyone in the car.
"I have no idea whatsoever. He was right there just a few seconds ago." Angelika stated. Once they got to the store and started to get out of the car, they looked out in front of them and saw the others sitting there talking like they had been waiting for hours.
"How'd you get here before us?!" Semphoni asked in astonishment.
"A magician never reveals his secrets." Trevor replied.
"Well, at least we're all here." Kira pointed out to everybody. Once they got in, two people went to left, one person went forward, two went to the right, and Trevor was left at the entrance.
"Well this is embarrassing." He said as his face went red as he walked through the almost empty store. As he was walking he found Kira looking at dresses on a clearance rack. "You do know that I can get you something right?" He said behind Kira.
"Will you quit doing that! You're going to give me a heart attack one of these times." She replied.
"You did hear me right? I said you pick something from the non-clearance racks. I'll buy it for you." He volunteered.
"No! I will not let you do that! It's your money and I'm not going to let you buy me a dress that's more than twenty-five dollars. I'll find something. Eventually." Kira said shyly.
"Hey, don't worry about it! Besides, I'm the one that freaked out on someone earlier so I think I should pay her back by buying her something that she wants." Trevor tried to point out matter-of-factly.
"That's really sweet of you, Trevor, but I can't let you do that." She told him straight out.
"So what size are you?" Trevor asked her anyway.
"What do you mean what size am I?" Kira asked back.
"Exactly that. What size are you?" He asked again.
"I'm a medium. Why?" She asked back; again. Then Trevor turned around to show her a beautiful jet black dress that was just her size and style of clothing.
"It's beautiful!" Kira squealed in awe.
"Go try it on then." Trevor told her. "
Okay!" She replied happily. Trevor turned around to find Angelika standing right behind him.
"What the hell?! Oh, it's you." Trevor exclaimed startled.
"What are you doing to Kira?" She asked him like she was Kira's mom.
"I'm having her try on a dress I'm going to buy her for payback for earlier." Trevor exclaimed.
"Really!? That's sweet! Well, good luck." Angelika smiled. Once he turned back around, Kira was coming out of the dressing room wearing the jet black dress he found for her. "Wow!" He exclaimed.
"Huh? Oh, thanks. It's beautiful! And it's just the right size!" Kira said in admiration as she turned around and around in front of the mirror. "How much is it though?" She asked.
"That's for me to know and you to find out." Trevor told her.
"No! I can't let you do something like this." Kira told him in a playful tone.
"Well, what if I want to?" He asked her.
Kirae sighed. "I'm not going to win this argument, am I?" Trevor smiled.
"Fine. Just don't go looking through more clothes. You know what others might think of you." Kira played.
"Don't even go there!" Trevor played back. As he walked up to the front of the store to pay for the dress, suddenly several people in black coats with hoods started coming towards the store. He ran up to the cashier and told her to keep whatever change was left. "Where's the back door?" Trevor asked in a panic.
"Next to the restrooms on the back left wall?" The cashier told him confused. Trevor ran to get the others without another word. He found Kira paralyzed and almost falling over. Just as she was about to hit the floor, Trevor caught her in his arms and ran to the back door looking for the others.
"Trevor. Trevor!" Sharla and the others whispered as the strange people started coming toward the back of the store where they were hiding.
"What do we do? What happened to her?!" Lexy whispered in panic.
"I don't know, but what I do know is that we need to get out of here and fast!" Trevor pointed out quietly where the door was. "What we got to do is, quietly, crawl over to that door, slowly open it in case it squeaks and get out to the cars and get the hell out of here." Trevor explained his plan. The girls quickly took a position and started heading towards the door one at a time.
Haily went first, then Angelika, Lexy, Semphoni, Sharla taking Kira with her, and then Trevor. After about three minutes, all that was left to go was Sharla, Kira and Trevor. Suddenly, Kira woke up and screamed for no apparent reason. Sharla tried calming her down, but the people in black coats were gaining fast now that they heard the noise coming from the back. Trevor quickly ran over to her and picked Kira back up and helped Sharla up and out of the door. Then he blocked the door with one of the large, metal garbage cans and ran for his car. As he ran, he kept tripping over little gaps in the concrete and almost landed on his face with Kira in his arms. Once they all made it to one of the two vehicles, Semphoni and Angelika started up the cars that needed drivers since Trevor was busy and Semphoni's black Porsche would have been left. As they drove off as fast as their car would go, they soon realized that they were being followed by the people in black coats and they were chasing them down. Literally.
"What do we do?!" Angelika panicked.
"First, does anyone have a cell phone with Semphoni's number on it?" Trevor asked. Then Haily turned around to hand him her cell phone, but Sharla took it and punched in Semphoni's number then handed her phone back to Trevor. As the phone rang and rang, Semphoni finally answered.
"Yeah?" She asked.
"Okay, I'm going to be talking to both you and Angelika on where to turn okay?" He asked both of them.
"Yep." They answered together.
"Kay, take this next left." Trevor told them. First Angelika turned with Semphoni right behind her. "Kay, now take the second right." He told them. Then it was quiet on both ends.
"Now what?" Semphoni and Lexy asked on the other side.
"Take a left. NOW!" He yelled. Then Kira started to wake up again.
"Wh-what's going on?" Kira asked.
"Nothing, Sweetheart. You're safe." Sharla comforted.
"Kay, now take this left, then another left, then turn on the second left and take the fourth right and be ready to run in." He told them out of breath. Angelika listened and led Semphoni all the way. Before they knew it, they were being rear ended by the people behind them. As they approached a busy street, others in their car realized that something was wrong and decided to help the two cars being chased. As Angelika and Semphoni continued to get rear ended, other people started to side pound the car on the side until it finally rolled from an over-correction.
"Woohoo!" Everyone in both cars screamed. Kira finally grasped what was going on and grabbed onto Trevor. Trevor held her until all the cars that were helping them had passed and until they got to his house and hid the cars under broken off branches they found. As they got out the cars, Trevor picked Kira up again and took her into his room so that she could sleep.
"Get some rest and we'll catch you up on stuff that has happened later." Trevor explained to the sleepy and confused Kira as he bent down to kiss her. He then left the room and went into the living to see how the girls were doing.
"Oh my God! That was scary!" Sharla freaked.
"Uh...that was scary? Think about everything that has happened to us since we got Touched." Haily told her in a sort of sarcastic tone.
"Okay then. Name one thing that's happened that is worse than this." Semphoni asked her.
"Well, what about what had happened to us earlier today?" Lexy asked. "Wouldn't that classify as worse than this?"
"How? If you guys got chased by some random guy that had a gun how is that worse than what had just barely happened?" Haily asked. Trying to get in on the "action".
"She has a point. Which is a first for her." Angelika told them. Everyone started laughing.
"It is not! I've had a better point before. Remember when that drunk guy that tried to kiss us and somehow I got through to him? That was a first." Haily pointed out. Then Trevor got up and headed for the kitchen.
"Is anyone hungry?" He asked from his kitchen. "Definitely. Even though we already ate like a hour ago." Sharla tried to point out.
"Yeah. We were supposed to go to McDonald's after going to Shoe Carnival. Which we never got to." Everyone turned around toward the stairs to see that Kira had gotten up because of all the noise.
"Mornin', Sunshine!" Trevor greeted Kira. Everyone looked between Kira and Trevor as Kira walked over to him and gave him a hug and kiss.
"Wha-!?" Everyone exclaimed at the same time.
"When did this happen?" Sharla asked before anyone else could say anything.
"What do you mean?" Kira asked in confusion.
"You just walked over to Trevor and kissed him. Don't you remember that or did you forget already?" Haily asked in disbelief since she had a huge crush on Trevor already.
"Is there something wrong with kissing your brother?" Kira asked.
"He is not your brother! He's just a guy we barely met." Semphoni tried to get through her head.
"Well, what if he's not? What if he really is my brother?" Kira asked.
"You're just saying that because he's like a brother to all of us right now." Angelika pointed.
"Without him we'd probably be dead by now." Lexy pointed out to everyone.
"Exactly. So what if we're dating. There's nothing wrong with that." Kira said as calmly as she could. Her friends were really starting to get on her nerves and if it got bad enough she could really lose herself. Trevor could feel her tensing up and he turned her around to look at him.
"You need to go back upstairs and get some sleep. Okay?" Trevor told her. Kira didn't bother trying to argue and went back upstairs into Trevor's room. She slammed the door so loudly that the whole house practically shook. "See what you did?" Trevor accused.
"What are you talking about? Kira's our sister and we are not going to let you hurt her." They all said in unison.
"I know that, but now she's also my responsibility and, just like you, I am not going to let anything happen to her." Trevor tried to explain.
"We know you mean well, but none of us know what you're really like. Other than being a third finisher you could be helping those random people that tried to get us." Semphoni accused back.
"If I was one of them, then why are you here and not with them? Answer me that." Trevor challenged.
"You know what. We've all trained in the assassinator class and there's no possible way to forget how to fight like they taught us." Sharla and Haily said at the same time as everyone jumped up, took their coats off, took their position and got into their stance.
"Do you really want to fight me?" Trevor asked humorously.
"We'll just have to wait and see how you do by yourself." Lexy and Angelika said together.
"Then let the match begin!" Trevor suggested. Suddenly everyone was dodging each other to get a hit as Trevor quickly dodged them almost getting hit. Kira heard some sort of commotion going on and decided to go downstairs to see what was happening this time. She stopped halfway down the stairs and gawked. She couldn't believe that her friends were fighting Trevor. She quickly took off her coat and sweater and jumped in to help him out. Lexy, Semphoni, Angelika, Haily and Sharla were all shocked to see Kira showing her marks and fighting back for Trevor's sake. As Lexy ducked down to try and trip Kira, Kira jumped to block a face punch and tried to throw one back. Semphoni tried to hit Trevor while Kira was distracted and couldn't even get close to him as the five of them were pushed back into a corner by Kira and Trevor twenty minutes after they started fighting Trevor.
"Wow. You guys are good!" Trevor complimented. Kira stood her ground and kept her stance just in case they tried something again.
"What did you do that for?" Lexy asked Kira. Kira didn't say a word and continued to tense up. Trevor looked over at Kira and took hold of her just to get hit in the chest and end up on the couch on the other side of the room.
"Don't...ever...ever...ever...do one vs. five again or else I will call Master and have him come over and teach you a lesson. You knew that was illegal and you went and did it anyway. Why?" Kira asked in a stern voice.
"We did it to see if he was one of those people that had tried to capture us, but you just got in the way of that and ruined it." Haily said firmly.
"I cut in because you didn't make it fair to him at all. He told us he was a third finisher. That should count as something." Kira pointed out. Kira started to loosen up, but just barely to be ready if they tried to jump her like they jumped Trevor in his own home. Semphoni started walking toward her, but stopped as she saw Kira tense up again.
"If you really wanted to help him, you should have stayed down here and made sure it was fair instead of jumping in the middle of it." Semphoni told her flatly.
"I'm tired of fighting with you guys, because I always win." Kira said.
"You always won because we went easy on you." Angelika told her out of breath.
"Sure you went easy on me. What about just a few minutes ago when you were giving it all you had to Trevor? You call that taking it easy?" Kira asked accusingly. Kira fully loosened up and challenged each of them to a fight in his back yard.
"If I can beat all of you one by one, you apologize to Trevor. If one of you win I apologize to you and I walk home." Kira suggested. "You're on!" Sharla yelled at her.
"You have no idea what you've gotten yourself into, Sis." Haily warned.
"You're going to really regret it when I kick your ass!" Angelika warned, too.
"I can't believe you suggested this, Kira." Lexy accused.
"Hope you have enough energy." Semphoni said trying to sound sympathetic. Trevor stood up and walked over to Kira.
"If you battle them, you battle me, too. And don't hold back just because you love me." He told her.
"I never said I loved you. All that can change with one battle." Kira warned everyone as they went outside and got comfortable. "So...who's the first competitor?" Kira asked. Everyone started warming up while Kira and Trevor talked away from the others.
"What are doing?" Trevor asked her.
"They jumped you and made it unfair. Since I jumped in and fought with you, it is tradition to fight the people that started it one by one." Kira explained. All Trevor could do was stand there with a look of disbelief on his face.
"What I don't understand, Trevor, is why you would take part in this. They jumped you in a one vs. five combat, which is illegal, and you want to fight me as well. Why?" Kira asked in concern.
"I did it so that I know how well you can protect yourself when I'm not around to protect you." Trevor told her.
"I've always been able to protect myself when the situation calls for it. Other than that, I'm completely safe." Kira pointed.
"I might love you, but I'm not going to take it easy on you." Trevor warned. "No one's ever taken it easy on me so I'm used to it and it doesn't bother me." Kira explained. Trevor stood there looking at her with sympathy and pity for how her parents raised her and how her parents decided to miss out on Kira's life.
"My parents will be coming to the back to school parents and teachers meeting." Kira told him. Trevor looked over at her with confusion on his face.
"How did you know that's what I was thinking about?" He asked.
"I can read minds that aren't in telepathy use if you didn't know that already. And since you don't have the telepathy trait, I can read your mind." Kira explained to him. Trevor just kept standing there and almost fell over in disbelief if she hadn't had caught him.
"So, you are a third finisher?" Trevor asked trying to get his mind thinking about something else.
"Yes I am. So are the others. No we're not related to each other. Except for Angelika and Haily. Those two are sisters. We call each other that so that others don't mess with us, because if they do know we're related, they won't come near us or mess with us. So...yeah." Kira explained.
"Well, I'm an only child with no pets and no siblings. Which sucks. I guess I could consider you guys family, but that would be a little odd to think of my girlfriend as a sister. So...yeah. It'll only count with Lexy, Semphoni, Sharla, Angelika and Haily." Trevor explained back.
"Well, I better warm up good if I want to beat all of you." Kira told him as she turned around to start warming up.
"You already beat me." Trevor replied as he walked away to warm up with the others. Kira turned to face the spot Trevor stood in and almost started crying about the happiness she had found when the six of them met a McDonald's worker. Kira giggled to herself and started thinking about how she was going to beat everyone of them in combat and how long it might take for each one that was going to fight her. She estimated about two minutes with the first one she fights, four minutes with the second one she fights, one minute with the third one she fights, two minutes for the fourth one she fights, about two to five seconds for the fifth one she fights, and about seven minutes for the sixth one she fights. Kira kept telling herself that no matter what happens during these fights, she will still love them. Even if she does lose. After about a good half hour to a hour, she was pumped up way more than what she was in the house. She took her spot in the backyard in front of everyone else and started to tense up. No one exactly what she was going to do, but had a good idea that she was going to jump up on top the house. Kira ran as hard as she could to get a good jump and landed on top the house with ease and sat up there looking up at the moon waiting for night to come and school to start. Kira decided that after each combat with her sisters, she would take a five to ten minute break and make sure that her opponents were doing okay and that they were still alive when she got done with them. Sitting in the moonlight, she thought back to when they were little and how whenever they wanted to fight, they'd fight like the boxers on TV. They'd be in their pajamas and slippers and coats and hats and they'd sneak outside and fight for a hour and go back to bed. When they got up and went outside, their slippers would be up in one the trees, or their hats would be up on the roof of the house or something like that. Kira chuckled and jumped back down to see everyone figuring out their stance. She walked to the middle of the backyard and asked again, "Who's first?"