"Mom! I'm home. Are you here?" I screamed. I walked into the kitchen and I found a note on the kitchen table:
Dear,
Phaedra, Your father, your sisters and I have gone
to the hospital. Your grandmother, Althea, had a heart-attack while
you were at school, and we needed to get here as soon as we could. We
will be home late tonight so please do the dishes for me. Also, there
is a pizza on the counter thawing out for you if you are hungry. Love Always, P.s. Try not to tear
the house down while we are gone!
Don't you worry about, Grandma Althea. She will be
alright.
Mom.
After my homework was done,
and I finished my pizza, I took a little nap to calm the stress from
my grandmother in the hospital, and all the stress Kaylin was giving
me.
"Wake up Phaedra! Wake up!" Kaylin screeched.
"What, What? Where am I?" I screamed.
"You are at home
silly. You just dozed off before I had the chance to talk to you, and
I kind of welcomed myself in if that's alright with you." He
explained
"Yeah,
that's ok, just come walk into my house whenever you want, I won't
mind." I said sarcastically.
"Well sorry…I…uhmm…can you
come with me?" Kaylin asked
"Why on earth would I want to go
anywhere with you?" I questioned.
"Because what I am about to
show you is going to be the only thing that will keep you alive,"
he stated, " but you must tell no-one of what I am about to show
you.
"Ok, Kaylin you must be on some crack or something because
you are making no sense at all!" I said in a harsh tone.
"Everything will make sense once you come with me!" he
explained, "so do as I say, and you live."
Well
that defiantly sounded safe. 'Do as I say and you live'? Like
what is that! What is so important that if I don't see it I die?
"Well seeing as I don't plan on dying any time soon, I guess
my only option is to go with you…I guess." I gulped.
"That's
the spirit! Now let's go before midnight hits." Kaylin quickly
ordered.
"Why before midnight?" I asked.
"Because we
need to get there before they
show up." He replied.
"Are you going to tell me who they
are, or are you going
to pull one of those 'that's not important' things?" I
questioned him.
"I'm pulling one of those 'that's not
important' things." He laughed.
"I figured." I sighed.
Unexpected, Kaylin swept me off of my feet and into his arms. He
literally through me in the backseat of his red pickup truck and
quickly began to drive.
"Are you kidnapping me?" I asked
sarcastically, "Because I have seen this in a movie before, where
the handsome guy kidnaps the girl and takes her away to meet her
doom. And let me tell you, it did not have a happy
ending!"
"Relax…No-one is going to harm you." He
laughed
"Wait, what? I though you had to show me something,
not someone."
I said.
"Yeah well, this was the only way I was going to get
you to come with me. They
have been expecting you Phaedra. The prophecy demands it. Soon our
world will once again be safe." He said.
"Your world? Isn't
your world my world?" I said.
"Sure, sure." He replied.
"What's that suppose to mean! I demand an answer!" I
screamed.
"Pathetic little human." He whispered to himself. I
didn't quite hear him, but I gave up.
* * * * * * "Wake up Phaedra! We have
arrived." Kaylin claimed.
I woke up in a dark room, surrounded
by people with capes, and they all had red eyes like Kaylin. They
weren't natives, that was for sure. That means Kaylin wasn't
telling me something, and I wasn't going to sit around and be a
bunch of bait for whomever and whatever these people were.
"You
have done well Kaylin. I am certain that this is what the master
asked for." One of the caped men said.
"I am sure this is
exactly
what he wanted." Kaylin corrected.
"Well we are going to have
to find out some way." Another caped man said, "Kaylin get the
demon. Let it sniff her, and if she isn't the right one, it will
devour her."
"Don't you think that is a little bit harsh?"
Kaylin said, "She hasn't done anything to deserve death!"
"But
she has!" The caped man said, "She was born!"
"But,
but…"
"Get the demons!" the man interrupted Kaylin.
"Fine! But I'm not watching." Kaylin demanded.
As I
gazed in horror, Kaylin ripped open a huge gate, and out came a
creature, so horrid that I had to look away. It looked like a dog,
but it was far from one. The demons teeth were razor sharp, and where
there should have been fur, was blood. It came up to me and began to
sniff me. Blood got all up my shirt and I could see that Kaylin
wasn't watching. The demon stared into my eyes for one quick
second, than quickly ran off, back through the gate that Kaylin had
opened.
"Is she still in tack?" Kaylin asked.
"The girl
is fine Kaylin. Now, stop being a baby and turn around. Your
one-hundred-sixteen years old, start acting like it!" The caped man
said.
"Thorne! She doesn't know about us!" Kaylin
screeched.
"Well she was going to find out sooner, or later,
and sooner is better than later in this case." The caped man,
Thorne replied.
"Ok, well you have the girl. What's next in
the prophecy?" Kaylin asked.
"Well all that is left is
to…"
"Honey? Wake up! We're home," said a voice in the
distance, "Phaedra! Wake up!" The voice said again.
"What,
what?" I asked.
"Good to see your alive!" My mom laughed,
"We just got home, and Jeannette seen you shacking on the couch.
You must have had one hell of a dream!"
"Wait, so that was all
a dream? The demons, Kaylin, and Thorne? It was all just a dream?"
I questioned.
"Yes honey, it was all a dream, and by the sounds
of it a nightmare." Dad chuckled.
"OK, that's good. How is
Grandma Althea feeling?" I wondered.
"Well, it was a pretty
bad heart-attack, and luckily the doctor's revived her. She is on
life support now." Dad replied.
"That's also good." I
said.
"Well you better get up to bed now, its 1:45am now."
Dad ordered.
"Wow, I slept for a while. Goodnight mom,
goodnight dad!" I yelled.
"Goodnight sweetie!" They said
together.
The next morning, I got up and quickly ate breakfast,
eager to tell Kaylin about my dream last night.
"What's the
rush?" Dad asked.
"Nothing, I just have a lot of energy this
morning that's all." I answered.
"Must have been from the
13 hours of sleep you had last night." Dad said sarcastically.
"Yeah, sure, sure." I replied.
As soon as I got
to school, I began my search for Kaylin.
When I finally found him,
the warning bell rang to get to first period.
"Hey, Kaylin, can
I talk to you at lunch?" I asked.
"Will you actually talk to
me this time?" He questioned.
"Kaylin I was only being like
that because you were being a jerk to me earlier! It was just
pay-back Kaylin! Sorry!" I mumbled back to him.
"Kay, well I
will see you at lunch I guess. Meet me by my locker." He demanded.
"Where is your locker?" I asked curiously.
"It's on
the second floor. Number 2624." He replied.
"Got, it. See you
than!" I said, "Promise me you won't forget!"
"I
promise!" Kaylin assured me.
It felt like torture
waiting for every second and every minute on the clock to pass.
Something in me just had to tell Kaylin what happened that night.
Like I was meant to tell him.
"Ms. Agneta! For the fourth time,
what is the method called that organizes books?" asked Mr. Behan.
"The Pythagorean Theorem?" I guessed.
"No, Phaedra,
wrong subject. We are in English not math." Mr. Behan ordered.
"Sorry sir. I just have a lot on my mind that's all." I
admitted.
"Well start paying attention, or next time its
detention!" He threatened.
"Yes, sir." I said, than began
counting down the minutes left tell lunch.
At the
bell, I quickly ran out of class looking for locker 2624. It wasn't
that hard to find. It was actually only three locker bays away from
my locker – which was number 2543 – and as I gazed out in search
for Kaylin, I heard a phone going off in his locker. I pushed down on
his lock, and – like most of the people at school – it wasn't
actually locked. I knew I was being really rude by invading his
privacy, but I kept on digging for the ringing phone anyways.
"Hello? This is a friend of Kaylin." I knew I shouldn't
have, but I answered the phone anyways.
"Hi, this vis
Kaylins father. May I ask vhat your name
vis?" The strange man asked. He had a
very deep voice, and sounded as if he had a little bit of a Romanian
accent.
"Uh, yes. My name is Phaedra Agneta." I answered him
slowly, "Phaedra Saffron-Rose Agneta to be exact."
"Your
name vis Vaedra?"
Kaylins' Father asked in a shocking tone.
"Yes, my name
vis-is Phaedra." I had to correct myself
quickly after copying his accent. I felt so embarrassed.
"Why,
are you on my phone?" I heard a voice ask me. It was Kaylin and he
didn't sound too happy either. I scrambled up an explanation, but I
didn't think it would really work so I just stuck with the plain
and simple, "I heard your phone ringing, and I wanted to answer it
just incase it was important." I lied.
"Yeah, ok." He shot
out.
"I'm sorry. Oh, but your dads on the phone so I think you
might want to talk to him. I told him my name was Phaedra to just so
you know." I confessed.
"YOU WHAT! Why on earth did you tell
him your name?" he demanded
"Why does it matter?" I
questioned.
"You're right, sorry it doesn't matter." He
hesitated out. I could tell by that, that something was wrong. Kaylin
began talking to his dad, "Hey dad, what did you want? –Pause-
Dad don't talk about that now! Please. I can talk to you about it
once I get home. –Pause- Dad you can wait tell I get home! Bye!"
Kaylin hung up on his dad, "uh, he makes me so frustrated
sometimes!" Kaylins' eyes beamed with red rage, and he stormed
off, totally forgetting that I needed to talk to him.
"Kaylin!
Wait up! Didn't you forget that I needed to talk to you?" I
demanded.
"Oh, I'm sorry. Can it wait until tomorrow?" He
asked sadly.
"Fine, whatever, I guess it can." I replied.
"Sorry! I just have a lot to take care of! I'm sorry!"
Kaylin ran off. Well there went all of my excitement. I was just
about to let it all out, until stupid Kaylin had to stupid leave! I
was really pissed off about that, and Kaylin was going to get a load
of it the next time I were to see him!
For now though, it was
still lunch and I never noticed but I was hungrier than my dad on
thanksgiving, which is pretty damn hungry!
When I walked
into the cafeteria I decided to grab a seat next to the new girl in
school. Her name was Sarah, and she had moved here from California.
Sarah had short, dark-brown hair, with a red streak down the one
side. She had dark brown eyes, and seemed to never wear the same
outfit twice. She was, unique.
"Hi, Sarah, my name is Phaedra.
Do you mind if I sit next to you?" I asked nicely. Sarah gave me a
weird 'hell no' kind of look, but I sat down anyways. "So,
how's it going?" I attempted to talk to her.
"Err…its
good. I guess. Sorry if I'm being rude, but why are you talking to
me?" she said smugly, "I have been told not to hang around with
you."
"Oh, so now you're going to be like everybody else,
and stop talking to me. Sorry if I'm being rude, but I
thought you would have been better than that." I quickly got up and
stomped off, madder than ever.
When class was over and
school finally ended, I went up to my locker to get my supplies to go
home. That's when I heard feet stomping on the ground near me. By
the sounds of it, it was a person running. I turned around thinking
it would be Kaylin, but what confused me most was that it was Sarah,
and she was coming towards me.
"Phaedra!" I heard her scream,
"Phaedra wait up! Don't leave yet. I need to talk to you!" I
finally got annoyed of hearing her running, and screaming for me, so
I gave up and stopped in my tracks. "Finally you stop! Look I have
been thinking and you are right. I shouldn't judge you for what
people have told me. Do you want to be friends?" I could tell in
her voice that she was actually being serious. So, I gave her a
chance, and turned around.
"Ok, I will be your friend, on one
condition!" I stated.
"Which is…?" She asked
impatiently.
"You don't drop me as a friend unless I actually
do something worth getting mad at. Fair enough?" I questioned.
"Fair enough." She laughed.
