I trudged away from Katherine with one thing on my mind:
What did my mother want?
If it was just to give me something, she would just leave it under my pillow with a note that said: 'From mother, with love.' Like she always had.
But no, this time she called me out, face to face.
In broad daylight, no less; well, cloudy, rainy daylight...
No, this was big. Something was going on; it had to be...
"Oof." I grunted as I smashed into what felt like a rock.
"Hey, you're back." Seth chuckled, turning around to face me, the same brilliant as when I left still plastered on his mouth. Turns out he was the rock.
"Sorry, I wasn't watching where I was going." I shrugged, distracted.
"What did mom want?" Eric asked.
"She wanted to know your tie isn't straight. Come here." I replied, pulling him towards me and straightening his tie. "There. Perfect." I murmured, patting his chest before stepping back. "I'm going to go sit down for a bit. I have a...headache." I mumbled, already walking away. Instead of walking towards the kid's table where my seat was, I walked around to the front of the church and to the rental car. I slid into the unlocked back seat, shutting the door behind me with a soft click. I pulled my glasses from my face and rubbed at my eyes, forgetting I was wearing make-up. "Shit." I grumbled as I looked at the smudged, black gunk on my fingers. I jumped and squeezed my eyes shut as I heard a door open and felt someone slide into the backseat next to me. "Eric, I'm really not in the mood." I hissed as I angrily threw my glasses back onto the bridge of my nose, my breath hitching as I opened my eyes and saw Seth's staring back. "Oh, hey." I said awkward, excessively dragging out the 'e'.
"Hey." He smiled me.
"Oh, Gods. Don't look at me." I groaned, quickly throwing my face in my lap.
"Why not? I like looking at you." He replied, trying to coax my head back up.
"I forgot I was wearing make-up and rubbed my eyes and now it's smudged and I ate a lot of mashed potatoes so I probably look-"
"Hey," He cupped my face and lifted it, forcing me to look him in the eye. "You look beautiful. You have all day. You were yesterday when you were in sweats when you weren't wearing any makeup at all." He told me with such an intensity that made my entire body flush.
"Really?" I peeped like a small child.
"Really." His smile returned. I smiled shyly and adjusted my glasses. "Nerd." He laughed, mockingly.
"Stop it." I giggled, playfully slapping him and wincing when it hurt me way more that it hurt him.
"You okay?" He shot forward, cradling my hand for me.
"Yes." I snickered.
"You sure." pried.
"Yes, Seth. I'm fine." I giggled and rested my head against his.
"That's a relief." He chuckled.
"You're, like, super hard." I mumbled, squeezing his shoulder and biceps with my other hand that he wasn't holding. His laughter shook the car. "That came out so wrong." I sneered, mortified, pulling both of my hands away and using them to cover my face.
"Yeah, it did." He pulled my hands back and held both of them in his. "It's cool though. I get what you meant." He winked. "Thirsty?" He asked, pulling two cups out of the cup-holders and handing one to me.
"Thank you." I smiled at him as I rose the cup to my lips and smiled bigger when the iced tea hit my tongue. "How'd you know what I drank?" I asked, looking at him over the cup.
"Your mom told me." He replied.
"Katherine's not my mom." I shrugged, holding the cup shyly with both hands in my lap. "Well, not biologically."
"Shit, I'm so sorry." He said quickly, his eyes wide.
"Nah, it's okay. You didn't know. How could you have? Bella and Uncle Charlie don't even know." I snickered, watching the liquid slosh around as I moved the cup.
"Really?" He asked.
"Yeah. Katherine and my dad were already together when he got my bio-mom pregnant. It almost ruined them; I almost ruined them." I murmured, putting mydrink back into the cup holder.
"That is in no way, shape, or form is that remotely your fault." Seth snapped; not angrily, just sternly.
"Sadly, you're the only one that thinks that." I looked up at him. "If you knew my story, I'm sure you wouldn't want anything to do with me anymore." I said weakly, finally meeting his remorseful eyes with my sad ones.
"And if you knew my story, I'm sure you'd know just how wrong you are." He told me, his voice serious. Instead of replying, I did the only thing I felt I could do at that second: I tangled my fingers in his jet-black hair and pulled his head down gently, locking our mouths together. His arms wound around my waist, lifting me easily into his lap and deepening the kiss. I straddled him, feeling his warm, strong hands find their way to the backs of my knees, pulling my closer yet.
I moaned as I felt his mouth kissed a trail down to my exposed neck, ravishing the tender skin in an amazing way.
"Seth-whoa-uhhh." Our lips ripped apart just in time to see Leah standing in the door of the car, her mouth agape.
"Uh, hey, Lee. When did you get there?" Seth said awkwardly, running his fingers through his hair, as I sat back in his lap and straightened my glasses.
"I-I just got here… Um, we gotta go…" She mumbled back, just as awkwardly.
"What's up?" He asked, holding me against him and setting me on my feet when he got out of the car, his face suddenly as hard as stone.
"I have no idea. I've never seen anything like it." She breathed. All of the sudden, the ground rumbled, almost as if there were an earthquake.
"What the hell?" Seth growled as he steadied me. "Let's go, Leah. Evelyn, stay here." He ordered, looking me in the eyes and pecking my lips one more time before he and his sister took off at abnormally fast speeds toward the trees.
"Yeah, right." I breathed. and took off toward where my family was, leaving my six-inch death-traps Katherine called sensible footwear in the car. "What's going on?" I asked as I rounded the church and saw my dad on the ground with what looked like tears in his eyes.
"T-They took them…" He breathed.
"Whoa, who took who? Who was here?" I asked, kneeling down by his head.
"Aunts…" He cried. I felt the blood drain from my face, realizing exactly what he meant. My Aunts: Stheno and Euryale… "Evelyn, no!" Dad barked, snapping up and grabbing my arm when I started toward the woods.
"Dad, they'll listen to me. I'll bring them back." I assured him.
"No! I can't lose you too!" He screamed, just as a loud clash of thunder rang through the sky.
"I'll be fine, Dad. Mom gave me this," I said, ripping the lighter out or the one pocket like thing I had-my bra.
"What is that?" He asked, raising his voice as the wind picked up.
"I-I don't know, but it looks handy. Let me go." I whispered.
"It's too dangerous." He insisted.
"Dad, I'm not afraid for myself, so why are you afraid for me?" I asked.
"I-I-I, no!" He stammered. I flipped the lighter open and stuck it, gasping when a brilliant bronze sword exploded in my hand.
"Can I go now?" I asked, turning back to my father, his eyes wide: pride shining in them. He pulled me into a tight hug.
"Go. Make me proud." He mumbled into my hair before he pulled back.
"Thank you, check on uncle Charlie." I smiled at him before turning on my heels and sprinting towards the trees.
"I love you!" I heard him yell after me, but was in the trees before I could reply.
"I love you too, daddy." I whispered as I bolted through the unfamiliar woods, following the abnormal footprints in the brush. I was forced to stop as it started torrential downpour, ruining the rest of my makeup and cause it to run into my eyes. I rubbed at my eyes for countless minutes to no avail.
'If you cannot see, then use your other senses.' A female voice boomed in my head.
"Mom?" I whispered, aloud.
'No, no. I am not your mother.' She replied, sounding offended.
"Then who are you?" I asked.
'You will find out in time, my dear. Just please, listen to me. Close your eyes.' She reasoned. I listened, closing my burning eyes. 'Now, focus. Where are they?' I suddenly caught Eric's abundance of cologne brutally attacked my nostrils. I took off running towards the scent, my eyes still closed. 'Good girl. Keep it up.' I now heard voices, and growling, and Eric's voice spitting out profanities, some of which in Greek.
Eric knew Greek?
Maybe he wasn't as big of an idiot as I thought.
I wiped the last bit of goop from my eyes, which were still on fire. My eyesight was blurry as I ran into a clearing. The first thing I saw was Eric being restrained by something I immediately recognized as a Cyclops, the one eye giving it away. Katherine lay knocked out at their feet. The next thing I saw, a two more Cyclops welding clubs and attacking-and beating-this pack of huge wolves; like I'm talking Colchis Bull huge.
But I didn't see Stheno and Euryale. And from what I heard they were-
"AH!" I exclaimed as something hard slammed against my head, interrupting my thought process and knocking me onto the ground.
"Niece? Sister, it's Medusa's brat!" Euryale hissed, as I scrambled back to my feet.
"The Abomination? Yes, yes, Lord Kronos would love to meet her!" Stheno cackled.
"My name is Evelyn." I growled, holding my sword up. Euryale disappeared, only to reappear behind me and knock me off my feet again.
"Evelyn, what the hell are you doing here?" Eric barked.
"Losing." I yelled back, rolling away from my crazed aunts and getting to my feet, holding my sword up with false-confidence.
"Where'd you get that sword?" Stheno asked.
"Did mommy give that to you?" Euryale mocked. I lurched at her, managing to nick her on her arm with the tip of my blade. She cursed in Greek. "You slimy, little rat!" She screeched. "Barth, Kathoes, Ronks, leave them!"
"We want her head on a mantle!" Stheno cut in. Well, so much for reasoning with them...
"No, leave her alive. We need something to bribe her sissy with, remember?" Euryale said to her. "Do not be foolish, child. Hand over the blade and we promise to be gentle." She said, smiling wickedly as the three one-eyed monsters walked menacingly toward me.
"Evelyn, run!" Eric screamed painfully from on the ground.
"Yeah, thanks Eric! You know for a second there I actually thought about not doing that!" I bellowed over the rain, turning on my heels and tearing off into the trees again. Before take-off, I made eye-contact with one of the wolf-things, the sandy-brown one. Something about its eyes hit me hard, like I recognized them and saw the worry and fear in them.
I shrugged it off as the trees started whizzing past me in the double digits. The roaring and the wood snapping from behind me pushed me to go faster.
Faster.
Faster!
And of course, as soon as I was going so fast that I could hardly see my feet, I tripped, flipping head over heels before coming to a stop against the unforgiving trunk of a tree with a grunt. The neanderthals charged at me before I could even get up. I somersaulted under the one in the middle's legs, causing them all to whip around, growling. Realizing my sword was out of reach, I did the thing I swore I would never do: I pulled my glasses off and glared at the beasts.
They didn't look away; neither did I as I watched them slowly petrify, turning to stone as if my mother were standing where I was.
"Evelyn!" I felt a hand on my back.
"I-I had no choice…" I breathed. Katherine turned me around before wrapping her arms around me.
"It's okay." She whispered into my ear, repeating it over and over again.
"Uh, mom, they're getting closer!" Eric cried, he had picked up my sword and held it up in the direction that they had came from.
"Evelyn, look at me." Katherine said, as she set my glasses back onto my face. "Go back to your father, tell him that I said it's time. He'll know what I mean." She explained.
"What about you, and him?" I asked.
"Do not worry about us right now. Worry about each other. Okay?" She looked from Eric, to me. We both nodded solemnly. "I love you both." She said, wrapping her arms around the two of us, kissing both of our soaking wet heads.
"You can't escape us!" I heard one of the sister's yell.
"We can sense you!" The other one wailed.
"Go, now." She gently pushed us as Eric handed the sword back to me. "I'll meet up with you as soon as I can." Eric and I nodded again before running back through the woods.
So much for today being a day of family coming together...
As we reached the reception, all hell had broken loose. Dad and Uncle Charlie were arguing, Seth, Leah, and their friends were still gone, Bella and Edward were still gone, most everyone was hiding under flipped tables…
What was once fun and relaxing was now a war zone.
"Dad! Hey!" I screamed at him when we got closer. Uncle Charlie's eyes fixed on the sword and widened.
"Evelyn, Eric! Thank the Gods." He exclaimed as he wrapped his arms around us. "Where's Katherine?"
"Still in the woods. She told us to tell you, 'It's time.'" I told him.
"Of course it is…" He breathed, his face turning devastated. He reached into his coat and pulled out the keys. "There's a GPS in the glove box. Hit preset one, it will take you to a safe place. Stay there until we come and get you." He explained in a rush, shoving the keys into my hand.
"I'm not leaving you two. Stheno and Euryale are still out there!" I hissed.
"Evelyn Grace, do not argue with me. Just go!" He yelled.
"Ev, let's just go." Eric said, tugging on my hand. I nodded, hitting a small button in the crest of the sword, causing it to collapse back into the lighter.
"You two take care of each other." Dad snapped.
"Promise." I replied, before Eric and I sprinted toward the car.
"Where are they going?" I heard Charlie ask.
"Away." Dad sighed as I slid into the driver side. Eric already had the GPS out before I had gotten in.
"This can't be right: it says we're going to a camp...in New York..." He muttered as I fumbled with my seat belt, the car already running.
"Better get going then." I grumbled, putting the car into reverse and backing out of the spot by doing a 180.
"Fuck, Evelyn!" Eric screamed, now fumbling with his own seat belt.
"Hold on." I growled as I floored it.
We stopped for food and supplies about an hour later, after we were out of Washington.
The GPS said we still had hours of driving left.
It was going to be a long night.
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