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Time seemed to go by so slow without t.v. I looked at the clock that was hanging on the wall and it read, 9:30 am. I sat in front of the t.v. just staring into it, which reminded me of one of my old families. When the parents said we couldn't go outside, watch t.v., practically do nothing, we would sit in front of the t.v. just staring into it. Which when we noticed our reflection, we eventually came up with a way to entertain ourselves; we made our own shows. But I wasen't that bored, to where I would do something like that.
I sat there staring at my reflection in their huge flat screen t.v. I listened to the sound of the clock, upon the wall. Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock.
I groaned. I'm sooo bored.
"Wow. Are you that bored?" Daniel walked up from behind me and sat next to me on the couch.
"Yeah, just a little bit." I said, followed by a sigh. Daniel's dark hair wasn't spiked up like normal, and he had dark grey circles under his hazel eyes. For a while, until he noticed, I just sat there and stared at him.
"Do I have something on my face?" He reached up and wiped his face.
I laughed. "No, you don't. You just look really tired."
"Nah. I may look tired, but I'm not." I didn't believe him, so I raised one eyebrow.
"Really. I'm not." I sighed, and just started to stare at the t.v. screen again.
"Would you want to come with me and Kyle, over to Mikes place?" My head snapped in his direction.
"Are you serious? When?"
"In a couple minutes, so get dressed." Daniel got up and walked in the direction of the kitchen. I followed him, but went up the stairs instead. I walked quickly, but I made sure I picked up my feet, so I didn't trip. When I made it to my room, I went straight to my dresser and pulled out a pair of jean shorts, a blue yeah, no green star t-shirt, and got out a pair of socks. I slipped everything on, including my shoes with an amazing speed and went into the bathroom to put some foundation on, and some eye-liner. I put my messy, wavy brown hair in a pony tail, and quickly ran to the door.
"Tori, were leaving!" Daniel yelled from down stairs.
I ran down the stairs as quickly as I could, almost tripping, and hoped Daniel didn't change his mind because I took so long. I reached the front door, and walked out into the blinding sun, which hit my eyes like a ton of bricks. My arm immediately blocked the sun from my eyes but it took me a while to finally get adjusted, and I knew I will be seeing spots for the next few hours. As I took in the usual deep breath like I always did when I walked outside, somebody came up from behind me and picked me up. I turned around and saw Kyle's smiling face. I tried to wiggle out of his tight grip, but his arms didn't seem to budge.
"Let go." I started to hit his arms, and he began to laugh.
"I'll kick your butt." I said through clenched teeth.
"Yeah, you wish." He tightened his grip harder, which his arm was right on my tickle spot, so I started to giggle.
"Pl-Please. Ha ha, Stop."
"What's wrong with you." My giggling started to make him laugh. That's it. I pulled my right foot forward and brought it back, hoping that I was going to bring it back on his leg, but it sort of went in his "forbidden zone". He immediately dropped me, and I gasped.
"Oh. My. Goodness. I'm so sorry." I tried not to let out a laugh, but I couldn't help it. He was kneeling on the ground, and was breathing heavily. Daniel walked out the front door, and froze in his tracks.
He closed his eyes. "Please tell me you didn't..."
"I didn't mean to, he wouldn't...let go." Daniel still had his eyes closed and sighed.
After a minute of Kyle breathing heavily, he started, and tried to talk.
"I'm..." He took another deep breath.
"Going...to...kill...you." I yelped like a dog, and turned quickly on my heels, and bolted for the car.
"Open up the car Daniel, I'm too young to die!" I yelled while running.
"He's not going to kill you." He yelled back.
As I was running, it felt like I was going no where. The car was at the end of the driveway, which the driveway is just too long.
"Open up, Open up!" As I reached the car, I ran to the passenger side and screamed "Shotgun!", and opened it up. I quickly got in and locked the doors. Whew, that was close. I looked in Daniel's and Kyle's direction and Daniel was helping Kyle walk over to the car. As they got closer, I noticed how Kyle never got his eyes off of me. His look wasen't friendly either. Daniel opened the drivers side door and Kyle came over to my door.
"You sit in the back." He said.
"I called 'shotgun' first." I replied.
"You want shotgun? I shoot you with one." He said with a fierce tone.
I gulped.
Daniel laughed, "Go in the back."
I turned around and climbed over the seat and got in the back. I'm not stepping outside this car, with that thing out there. Kyle slowly got in, without saying a word, so I decided to be the bigger and better person and say something, but something simple. "Sorry."
I waited for his reply, and finally after a few seconds to long, he said, "Yeah, Yeah."
The car ride was just too quiet, and I hate too quiet. So I started to whistle the tune, 'Twinkle Twinkle, little star.' It was the first song that popped in my head. Twinkle, Twinkle, little star. How I wonder--
"Shut up." Kyle muttered.
I crossed my arms, and grunted.
"Don't worry Tori, were almost there." I looked at Daniel's reflection in his rear-view mirror, and he smiled.
I looked out the window, and I watched houses sporadically appear throughout the woods, which I haven't seen a house in a long time. We started to turn down this long dirt driveway that was like ours. At the end of the long driveway, towards the back of the woods was a house that looked the same as ours, porch going around the house, white with blue trimmings, but it was smaller.
"Were here." Daniel parked the car in front of the house, and got out followed by Kyle, but I didn't attempt to get out of the car. I didn't feel right at the moment, it felt like I had a huge rock in the pit of my stomach, and I knew the reason why.
I still went out and saw Caleb turn into a werewolf when Daniel told me not to.
Mike walked out of the house, waving to Daniel and Kyle and started to talk but I couldn't understand, so I stepped out of the car with a smile, hiding the fact that I was sick to my stomach.
"Hi Victoria." Mike was waving, and I waved back. He got back to the conversation that they were having.
I didn't know what to do, I just didn't want to walk right into his house without them. So I stood there, looking around and noticed that at the edge of the woods was a gravestone, and next to it was what seemed to be freshly cut sunflowers. I became curious, like always, and walked over to see who it was. I crouched down next to it so I could clearly read it, which it read:
R.I.P
(1984-2004)
Josh Raymond
Great brother, friend, and son
We will always remember you
"He was a werewolf too." I jumped at the sound of Mike's voice, from behind me. I stood up next to him, and held back tears.
"What happened, if you don't mind me asking?" I was whispering.
"A jerk killed him, because of what he was." Mike cleared his throat, and I knew he was holding back tears. I looked up and his black hair was in his face, but I could still see the pain he was hiding through his partially covered brown eyes.
"Are you his brother?" I said whispering again. I just couldn't talk, it felt like I had something stuck in the back of my throat.
"No, he didn't have any brothers. Me, Daniel, Kyle, and Caleb, we were all his brothers... well, from different mothers." He closed his eyes and sighed. "We promised that we would always be there for each other, and we weren't there for him." He whispered. I couldn't look at him anymore, and I felt like I needed to say something, but I really didn't know what to say. Luckily, Daniel called from the front porch, telling us to come inside. I didn't want him to feel like I didn't care, so I turned towards him and gave him a hug, which he accepted and hugged me back.
"I'm so sorry." I whispered. He put his arm around me and led me to his house. As we reached the house, Daniel walked inside, and Mike stopped me. His black side-swiped hair wasen't in front of his dark brown eyes like before, and I began to noticed how he had the same dark circles, as Daniel did.
"Hey. You're a good kid." Mike smiled, which forced a smile to spread across my face. He turned on his heels, walked up the steps and walked in the house. I took a deep breath, and followed Mike through the front door.
The house had the same layout, but everything was more laid back. His furniture wasen't as elegant as Kelly's, it had more of a college dorm feel than a castle feeling. I looked over to the left where the family room was and saw Kyle and Daniel sitting on the couch, with Caleb sitting in a small chair in the corner, they were all watching college football, but Brent was quietly on the other side of the room reading a book. Mike came from the kitchen behind me with a drink in his hand.
"You can sit if you want." I nodded, and he walked over to join them. I turned and saw photos hanging on the wall. Placed in a white picture frame was a nice, formal picture of all four of them, Mike, Daniel, Caleb, and Kyle, in suits and in the corner of the picture it read 2007. Then hanging next to it, in a brown frame, was a picture of five young teenagers wrestling in mud, which I could clearly tell who was who, but there was one kid who I didn't recognize. Josh. I frowned, and decided to join the mayhem so I could get my mind off of everything.
After the long and boring game(s), yes, 3 games, (which none of them I watched, I slept) we all decided to go outside and sit around the fire pit that was placed in the middle of Mike's backyard. We sat ourselves on the soft grass around the orange flames, that trailed up towards the dark sky. It was nice outside, not too hot, and not to cold. It was perfect. After a few minutes of sitting on the ground, we just sat there and stared at the fire, not knowing what to talk about. That's when I got the nerve to ask them about their past.
"How did you guys meet each other... and become... werewolves?" I questioned, quietly.
They exchanged looks, all of them looking eager to tell me their stories.
Mike stated, "We might be here a while." They all laughed, as Daniel began. "All of our mothers and fathers were werewolves, which means, we were born as werewolves. I don't remember alot about my parents, they left me when I was two."
Caleb joined in, "Our parents, me and Kyle's--" I didn't know they were brothers, I thought. "-- killed by-- were killed in a tragic accident. I remember alot about them, luckily Kyle doesn't."
Daniel chimed in again, "The five of us were all six at the time, except Caleb he was ten, and we were sent to a special boys school, it's not a typical school either. It was place were they trained, and cared for werewolves that was either neglected, or their parents was just too busy and too rich to even care for them, like Mike's parents." I looked towards Mike, which he was looking towards the ground, and moving his head up and down; agreeing. "Also for werewolves who just needed to escape their family like--" Daniel's head lowered, "Like Josh's family." He whispered.
There was an awkward pause, but Caleb decided to break it and finish. "We all became acquainted when we were all roomed together and found out we all had the same interests. We became like brothers, we had classes together, we trained together, we even did sports together." He chuckled, "We even promised that when we became older we would still be like brothers. So here we are now." I looked around and everyone had a smile on their face, except Brent.
"What about Brent?"
Brent looked up from his book and towards my direction. "I just joined two weeks ago." He looked down towards his book and began reading again.
"What do you mean by joined? You mean like, a club?" I asked.
Daniel laughed, "No, we have this thing going on. Our group, just helps out people that are in need. They call Mike, and Mike calls us."
"Oh."
I had so many questions to ask and they were all running through my head, but I didn't want them to be overwhelmed, so I picked and chose the best questions.
"How did you and Kyle become part of the family?"
Kyle decided to answer this one, "They were teachers at the school, and they decided to adopt. They came up to us one day and told us that they were really interested in me, Caleb and Daniel. Daniel and I agreed but Caleb was eighteen at the time and he thought he was too old. So we were adopted a couple of days later, and we moved to California, which didn't last long, and we moved back here into the home were living in now."
My head began to get things jumbled up, so a headache started to form, but I had to ask one more question.
"What about Faith?"
"She was adopted three years after we were adopted." Kyle explained.
"No... See, there's more to her than just that. She's so-- just so, different."
Kyle and Daniel exchanged a look.
I knew they were hiding something, so I glared at them, hoping they would tell me.
"What." Kyle snapped.
"Your hiding something from me, and I'd like to know. I'm part of this family too." I could just feel the awkwardness in the air, and I knew people weren't enjoying this part of the conversation.
Kyle looked towards the ground, and started to poke at the fire which wasen't more than a small flame. Daniel just stared at me, with blank eyes, hopefully thinking of what to say.
I crossed my arms, to tell them that I was becoming impatient, and Daniel noticed and gave in.
"Faith is..." He paused.
"Faith is, what you call-- a psychic."
My arms fell onto my lap, and my jaw dropped. I couldn't believe what I was hearing. I looked around, Are they going crazy like me? But everyone was looking at me, waiting for me to say something, but I was so dumb-struck.
"You mean like--" I couldn't finish a sentence, so I took a deep breath in.
"You mean, she can tell the future or something?" Everyone nodded their head, and my jaw dropped again. I put my head into my hands, and tried not to freak out.
This can't be. How can someone see the future?... Well how can someone change into a werewolf? Okay, I'm seriously going crazy... Or maybe-- I'm dreaming...
"Your not dreaming." Kyle said.
He just read my mind! I snapped my head in his direction and gave him a confused look.
"How did you--" I couldn't take it anymore. To many weird things were going on, and I had the biggest headache ever.
"Okay, I can't ask anymore questions. If I do, my head might explode." They all laughed in unison, like usual, and I got up from where I was standing. I looked down towards the fire, and kicked some dirt onto it.
"I think it's time to go." I looked at Daniel, which he nodded. "Yeah, it's almost ten." He said while getting up.
Everyone followed and slowly walked towards the house, mumbling stuff I couldn't understand. My head was just pounding and I didn't care, I just wanted to go home.
I need alot of sleep.
I hope you guys liked it. I wanted to put how they became friends, and stuff.
You will learn more about Faith, and other stuff in the next chapter. :
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