Chapter 10
That's not important
Airiana ran into Cameron on the way to breakfast the next day. "Hey wanna go to the gym, ok, cool, let's go." He gripped Airiana's arm and dragged her towards the gym.
"Um, ok."
Once they got there, Cameron power-walked into the changerooms and Airiana waited patiently.
But once she heard something at the door of the male changeroom, a lycan emerged. He scrambled to her feet and pulled the starshot out of her pocket. Except this lycan was expecting it and it was at her side in second, ripping the gun from her hands and pegging across the room. She then pulled out her silver knife and stabbed it into it's chest. It pulled it out with ease and dropped it to the ground like it was a twig.
The lycan morphed back into a boy with dark hair and bluish brown eyes.
"Your a lycan."
"That's right. And your in trouble."
"Why? Cause of that lycan buddy of yours I killed last night?" Airiana couldn't help being smug and proud.
"Yes! He knows your angry! He knows how to make you vulnerable. He knows how to make you weak and he's gonna keep taking and killing the one's close to you because he wants you weak. Your the only thing on this whole entire god-for-saken planet that kill him. And he wants you dead."
"Is that why your here. To kill me?"
"No. I was sent here to gain information about you. Where you are. When your there. Who your with."
"Did you tell him anything. Anything about Jeremy?"
"No. That, he already knew."
"Why do you care."
"Because I want him dead! Once I'm in his pack, I'm in till I die. And in that pack, I'd rather die. But I can't. So I need you, to kill him. And I have to train you to do that, because right now, your nothing. And you made the mistake of running off into that forest and screaming and crying and killing Brad!"
"Brad?" So that was the lycan I killed. "That's good. Now he knows what I'm capable of."
"Oh, Brad's stage 2. He's scared, yes. But he gets creative when he's scared. YOur gonna need protection. Hmmm..."
"Stage 2?"
"I'll have to sit beside you while you sleep, transfer into all your classes, follow you around."
"Stage 2?"
"Yes. Brad was a stage 2, but Cretus, he's a stage 7. I'm a stage 6. Remember that sorrowful lycan the night you came looking for Riley, Quote, another stupid thing you've done."
"That was you?"
"Yes, that was me."
"I feel like I've known you before."
"You have. I've been around your whole life."
"Tell me?"
"That's not important..."
Airiana opened her door to go for a walk, and standing there with her hand raised, about to knock, was Mary-Lynette. "I'm sorry," She said quickly.
Airiana cocked her head to the side and smiled. She grabbed Mary-Lynette's arm and ran into the forest.
They kneeled beside a running stream. Airiana put Mary-Lynette's hand in the stream, and tails of glowing blue water trailed after her fingers.
Mary-Lynette gasped.
"It's the stream of forgiveness. It only glows when someone needs to be forgiven." Airiana recited. "I forgive you."
Just then, the trail of glowing blue water disappeared, leaving ordinary water in it's wake.
Airiana ran her fingers through the water, it glowed blue.
"I forgive you." Mary-Lynette said, but the trail of glowing blue water behind Airiana's fingers stayed. Airiana smiled.
"It's not you, Mary-Lynette."
(The next day)
Flashback
Sam, Jeremy and Airiana in a clearing in the forest, late afternoon. The rain had just began to pour down. Every window streamed with raindrops. Every cloud, a silver-lining. Every other person inside.
The mud was building up and the puddles were getting bigger.
Sam spoke quietly to Airiana before the mud-catastrophe began. "I broke up with Amy."
"What? Why?"
"She said she loved me. I'm too good for her." He said cockily.
Airiana slapped the back of his head, "Don't let it get to your head, kiddo."
"Ok, 3, 2, 1, MUDSLIDE!" Jeremy yelled.
Airiana leaped and dived into the puddle. Sam jumped and landed on top of her. Jeremy had a trash-can lid under his feet, he got a run up, and surfed across the damp mud.
Airiana stood and began jumping around in the puddle with Sam, the rain pouring over them, the mud curling up through the toes of their bare-feet.
Airiana's skin was splashed with dark mud-spots and her hair was nearly black, as it always was when it got wet, mud or water.
The brown water was splashing up around them. Airiana ran over to get another trash-can lid, slipping on the mud and landing face-first into a puddle. She re-surfaced laughing. She picked up the trash-can lid, having a little race with Jeremy down the aisle of mud and water. They attempted to do stunts, but just fell off instantly, occasionally winding themselves...
So, mud covered, the three siblings ran to the stream of forgiveness. They ran along it's edge laughing and yelling insults and counter-insults.
They ran along the clean waters until they reached the edge of a cliff where the stream tumbled down as a waterfall into a natural, crystal-clear pool below.
They exchanged glances, held eachothers hands and jumped off the edge simultaniously, falling 10 metres and feeling their feet crash into the chilly water below.
They re-surfaced, first Jeremy, then Airiana, then little Sam too.
Airiana brushed thwet hair from her face and laughed as Sam made a joke about Jeremy being a whimp.
It all turned into a splash-a-thon. Something the siblings invented when they were young. They all layed back and kicked up as much water they could using their hands and feet.
So many happy moments took place after that.
Jeremy jumping up and pushing Airiana under the water with his hands by her head.
Sam attempting to tackle Jeremy under water, fail.
Jeremy holding Sam, bending down to get some power behind the throw as he tossed Sam two metres away.
Airiana swimming under water and grabbing Jeremy's ankle, hearing him scream like a girl, thinking Airiana was a shark or an alligator.
Sam swimming to shore without Airiana and Jeremy noticing and sitting on a rock. Seeing Airiana and Jeremy's worried faces as they called his name. He replied 'Yes' and Airiana and Jeremy ran up to shore, the water splashing up around them, and tickling Sam on the grass behind the rock...
End of Flashback
Airiana blinked a few times in the cafeteria as she came back into focus. Cameron was staring at her creepily from a distant table. Airiana was holding her fork above her scrambled eggs, her fork shaking as her hand did. She abruptly dropped her fork, hearing the screeching of the fork on the plates edge startling everyone.
Someone came up behind Airiana and tapped her shoulder. She whipped around to see the headmistress's tired eyes.
"The police are coming to the school today for questioning, they would like to talk to you and Sam first, is that ok." The headmistress asked wearily.
"What is it involving?" Airiana asked stupidly.
"The disappearance of your brother, of coarse."
Airiana winced and looked away.
"It's fine, you have nothing." The headmistress growled.
"What?" Airiana turned to face her.
"I said, you have nothing to worry about, unless your hiding something." The headmistress spat the last part of the sentence.
"Excuse me, you think I'm hiding something." Airiana frowned, rage boiling through her blood.
"I said, It's fine, you have nothing to worry about." The headmistress repeated.
Airiana must have been going insane. She was halucinating. Or maybe...
The headmistress wandered off. Airiana turned back to the table to see Lexi looking at her weirdly. Mouthing something...We have to talk...
Great.
After Lexi and Airiana had shut the door, the tension began to built.
"WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?" Lexi yelled.
"WHAT?"
"Well, it's not exactly like you to call the headmistress a bitch and yell at her to leave!"
"I did not!"
"Yes you did, I was sitting right across from you!"
"I-I said that?"
"Yes, didn't you hear yourself. You almost got yourself suspended. An-wait, did you hear yourself?"
"No."
Airiana was so confused. What the fuck was going on? Was she starting to turn. Turn into a the what the shadow described, and she wasn't even conscious.
"What is wrong with you?" Lexi whispered.
"I CAN HEAR PEOPLE'S THOUGHTS! IT"S NOT NORMAL, AND IT"S NOT WHAT I WANT TO HEAR!" Airiana blurted.
Ok, she's lost it.
"NO, I have not lost it!"
Shit, she can read minds.
"Yes I Can."
I wish i could read minds.
"LEXI!"
"Oh right right, um...are you sure, what colour am I thinking of..."
Blue and green.
"Blue and green."
"Ok, that's weird, what work am I thinking of..."
Super-calla-fragilistic-expi-aladocious...
"Super-calla-fragalistic-expi-aladocious." Airiana repeated.
"WHAT THE FUCK!" Lexi was quick to exclaim.
"I know."