7. Showdown.
The first I knew of his arrival was when he pulled me out of my embrace with Daniel and pushed me behind his body. I herd a throaty growl come from Jack's throat and for a horrible second I thought that he would turn in the middle of the party and blow his whole pack's cover.
"What do you think you are doing?" I cried out angrily but neither boy took any notice of me.
"We had a deal." Jack growled at Daniel.
"I haven't broken it." Daniel said simply. "I was simply dancing with her."
"I told you not to go near her and to tell your freakish sisters to stay away as well."
"OI! Don't you dear speak about them in that way?" Daniel cried although he had just said the same thing about them.
"Come on you're causing a scene." Jasmine grabbed both boys' arms but Jack pulled his arm away.
"Stay here Caz. I'll be back soon." Then he turned and followed the two Pyres' away towards a door by the fridge. I followed them. No way was I staying here with the hole of the party watching me. I followed them and opened the door. They were already arguing in the garage. It was a huge room full of highly polished cars that were almost as famous as the clothes they wore at school. Jack was the first to know I was there and glared at me.
"What the hell are you doing down here?!" He screamed. I was vaguely aware of the music being turned up in the house. It scared me slightly as I had no clue what the hell was going on between Jack and the Pyres.
"I could ask you the same question!" I screamed back.
"This is none of your business, Caz!"
"Go back to the party. I'll be back out in a minute." Daniel told me. He was much calmer then Jack and Jasmine who was growling like a wildcat at Jack.
"NO, you are not going anywhere near Caz ever again. I was a fool to let her come here and I must have been on drugs not to get her away from your fucking sister earlier!" Jack screamed at Daniel and his hands started shaking violently.
"Not here Jack!" I screamed at him too scared of him giving away his secret.
"Jack, Caz is here you have to calm down or she could get hurt!" Daniel Moved towards me and stood so that he was between me and my shape shifting buddy.
"And you are worried that we will hurt her. Ha!" Jasmine laughed cruelly. Then it struck me.
"Hang on one cotton picking minute. They know!!" I cried and moved passed Daniel to look at Jack who nodded solemnly as if it had not been his choice to tell them. "What the hell is going on here? They know that you turn into a fluffy fox/ wolf hybrid thing when you didn't bother to tell me until you were about to kill me! And why are you lot fighting like you hate each other? They have been here for a week if that how can you hate each other this much! What is going on between you lot?!" I cried out, I was so sick of all this secrecy.
"You tried to kill her?" Daniel growled suddenly. Then he sprang at him and forced him against the wall. "How could you! And you moan that we could hurt her. Don't you ever go near her again!" I was so shocked by his protectiveness towards me as was jasmine and jack who were both stunned. But maybe Jack was stunned because he was being pinned against the wall.
"Calm down you guys!" Jasmine hissed as she got between the boys and pushed then apart. She must be strong to pull those two apart.
"What is going on?" I growled my voice going into the same pitch as all theirs. They froze as if they were hoping that their fighting would keep this thought out of my mind. "Well? You have three seconds to answer me. One... two..."
"Caz this is something that doesn't concern you. It is just a little tiff." Jasmine tried and failed to placate me. Then something caught my eye. I walked over to where the fight had been taking place and noticed that the wall had a huge dent in it. The two boys had actually dented a solid brick wall.
"You dented the wall! No one is strong enough to do that not even a shape shifter."
"Actually we are that strong!" Jack growled offended that I had come to the conclusion that whatever Daniel and his family were because I was pretty sure that he was not human.
"Look tell me what the hell is going on?! What are you lot- more shape shifters?"
"NO! They bloody well are not!" Jack screamed. "They are not one of us!"
"Good like we would want to be like you lot!" Jasmine screamed back.
"So what else is there in this world- witches werewolves, vampires, lepricorns???" I screamed losing it just slightly. Then I looked down at the silver bracelet on my wrist. Jared had bought it for our six month anniversary in July. I smiled as I thought of the meal we had shared and the walk along the beach in the moonlight. Then as all thoughts of Jared did now they turned into him with the unidentified slut. I remembered how cruel he had been when he had come to jack's after I had just woken up in jack's arms after I had found out about their secret. Why had I fainted? I tried to remember why I had felt so faint as it hadn't been because of the whole wolf thing but I could have been forgiven for that. No it was after me and Ephraim talked. Then it hit me like a bucket of cold water- No, there are none here, yet. We also change when some our going to come. Our bodies can tell when they are going to come in the future. The near future. I felt sick they couldn't be. Could they? I looked them up and down and remembered what Ephraim had said. Their skin is a cold and hard as ice. Check I had felt that it was certainly cold. They are impossibly strong and fast- well I didn't know about fast but the strength had been proved. Oh, and apparently they are really beautiful- well that was definitely true.
"Vampire." It was all I could do to get the word out of my mouth.
"It's not that bad. We are different we only eat animals. Caz." Daniel moved towards me but I backed away.
"Stay away from me." I felt tears welling up at this latest betrayal. I was really starting to like Hannah and there was something between me and Daniel. I was about to head for the door when my cell went off. Irritably I pulled it out and took the call.
"Hello"
"Hun?" she was crying and in a state.
"Mum what's wrong?"I asked feeling panic rising.
"It's Gabby she's gone missing."
