Wow, I loved chapter 10, I only made the story a few days ago and we are on to chapter 11, very exciting. I hope everybody liked Chloe's visitor, I loved how it came together. Now we need to see how she handles it, lying about what happened. I can't wait to see how this chapter turns out, and I hope everybody likes that I update often.
Sophia's POV
I woke up feeling refreshed and ready for the day to hit me. I walked out of my room and everybody but Chloe was up. That's odd; I thought that Jasmine and Valentina would be sleeping. Forget Alek, he was probably up most the night worrying after Valentina said Chloe would be fine.
"Why are you all up already?" I asked rubbing my eyes.
"Oh no reason, just the phone ringing at 7 in the morning. You know, super hearing wakes you up sometimes." Jasmine answered, I looked around without moving my head, acting like I did nothing, which I didn't; I was asleep.
"Yes, we must work on that, we can't have the Order breaking in and killing you in your sleep." Alek added. Then I raised an eye brow at him.
"Uh, ok. Now, um…how's Chloe doing?" I asked nervously. I want her to be ok again.
"Fine, we will just have to wait and see what is happening." Valentina answered. She didn't have much emotion to her voice just then; she is probably worried that the Unitor will lose another life.
"Ok" I said…
"Yea" Alek commented. Now things were awkward.
"SO, what's for breakfast?" I asked trying to change the subject. I hate awkward moments, there just so…well…awkward.
"Pancakes and…" He stopped.
Chloe's POV
I woke up after that weird dream, I guess vision thing. I heard voices coming from the kitchen, let me see, Sophia's, Jasmine's, Alek's…Oh and there is Valentina's. Everybody was awake, then an awkward silence, then another subject besides my health. It is now my queue to get up.
"Pancakes and…" Alek stopped to see me. He was standing behind the island counter thing, and everybody else had their backs turned towards me. Alek stared me in eyes for a few seconds before Jasmine interrupted still not knowing I was there.
"Earth to Alek?" Jasmine said waving her hand in his face. He hit it away and jumped over the counter to run towards me.
"Chloe!" He screamed and hugged me. The other three twirled around to see me. Valentina looked happy but stood there; Jasmine and Sophia ran to me and hugged me with Alek, now it was a group hug.
"Can't…breathe..." I told them
"Oh sorry" they all said at the same time.
"I am so happy you are ok!" Sophia squealed, gosh she sounded like Amy.
"Yea, I was really worried. How is your arm?" Alek asked.
"Oh, yea, it's…better…" I answered, it actually really hurt. Then I remembered the scratch on my cheek, I reached my good arm and felt it. It was healing, but slowly, and I am afraid my arm will scar and be a reminder of the night. Everybody looked at me, frowning, they were sad for me, and when I noticed I put my hand down and changed the subject.
"Is everybody ok? Like did any Mai get injured?" I asked, I hope nobody did.
"Everybody is ok, some more hurt than others, but nothing serious or life-threatening." Valentina answered.
"Oh good." I breathed out.
"Now that you know we are ok, how are you?" Alek asked. I guess he didn't believe me that I was fine, he can really tell if I lied.
"I told you I am fine" I told them all again. Alek raised his eye brows and everybody stared at me.
"Fine, you got me, my arm hurts a lot. But other than that I am…WAIT…MY MOM! I have to go!" I said pushing my way through without anyone touching my arm. Then, before I made it out of the apartment I felt Alek grab my non-injured arm and pull me back.
"She is fine; we have Mai guarding her, Amy and Paul. Also your mom called this morning." Alek told me, at first I calmed down but after my eyes widened.
"And you took care of that call?" I asked in disbelief.
"Yes, I told her you were having a sleep over with Jasmine and I was out with friends." Alek said filling me in on what happened. Hm, is that what Basset meant, she wasn't going to tell me herself, Alek did. Everybody must have noticed me in my thought.
"Chloe? You in there?" Sophia asked. I snapped myself out of it and responded by nodding.
"Is everything ok?" Valentina asked. They were getting suspicious.
"Yea, I was just thinking, thank you for telling me, but I truly do need to get home." I told them, as Alek finally let go of my arm.
"Ok, Alek take her home and make sure she is safe. I am going to call Ryan and you two will guard for a few hours." Valentina instructed. Sophia looked oddly disappointed when she said that, and I knew Alek saw it too.
"On it," Alek replied, and then turned to me, "Come on, let's get you home." He finished.
We walked to my house holding hands the whole way there. It was nice, and peaceful. We laughed and just talked like nothing bad has happened. I loved it, when we got to my house; I gave Alek a quick kiss on the cheek and walked inside. I heard him jump up to the roof and then another person join him, it must by Ryan. Then I focused on talking and explaining my arm to my mom.
"Hi mom, I am home." I said loudly enough so that if she was in her room she would hear me.
"Hello Chloe how was your sleep over with…WHAT HAPPENED?" She started out nice, until she saw my arm. You know I should have just worn a jacket over it; it would have made everything easier.
"The sleep over was great, me and Jasmine had a great girls night." I said cheerfully avoiding the second question. My mom dropped the laundry basket she was holding and walked quickly over to me.
"Explain!" My mom yelled pointing to my arm.
"It is nothing, clumsy me tripped on the sidewalk and hit a bike basket which cut my arm. But that was on the way to her house, and Jasmine's mom is very good with medicine so she took care of it." I told my mom, it was the best I could come up with.
"Ok, now are you ok?" She asked and came to hug me.
"I am fine." I said to her as we hugged. When we stopped she looked me in the eyes.
"Be careful." My mom said, great advice mom.
"I will be more careful anyway." I said and smiled.
"Ok, well I am doing laundry now so any dirty clothes you have I can take now." She told me. I went upstairs to my room and grabbed random clothes from my drawers. I didn't have any dirty clothes to give her because I wasn't planning on staying the night. Well I have the ones with blood on it, but I will take care of that later. I ran down to the laundry room and gave my mom the clothes then walked back to my room. When I got up I laid on my bed, but just dropping myself on there wasn't a good idea because it hurt my arm like heck. I hissed at the pain that went through my arm and curse under my breath. I sat there for about a half hour thinking about what Basset had said, and then I remembered I didn't have breakfast this morning. I looked over to the clock and saw that it was already 11:42 a.m. I decided on skipping breakfast and going to and early lunch.
Alek's POV
When I got on Chloe's roof Ryan accompanied me.
"Hello Alek" Ryan greeted me.
"Hello, how are you?" I asked him. I haven't talked to him in a while, and he was still my friend.
"Good, you?" he asked.
"Fine." I said sitting down, he came and sat next to me.
"I see Chloe is better." He said.
"Yes, but her arm is very hurt. We need it to heal quickly so she can fight again." I told him.
"Yea. How is Sophia this morning?" Ryan asked, I looked at him suspiciously.
"She is well rested, why do you ask?" That is odd, why in the world would he care.
"No reason, she just looked tired yesterday." He said looking down at his hands.
"I know you that was not a 'no reason' question. Now talk" I demanded.
"Well your sister, she is, different. I think I might like her." Ryan told me, I so called it. But I am her big brother and I am going to protect Sophia.
"Ah, ok. Well I give you my permission to go out with her, but if you do hurt her I will hurt you three times as bad." I told him.
"Good to know, I will keep that in mind. How do I even know she likes me back?" He asked.
"Well when Valentina said I was guarding with you she looked disappointed, but that could mean more than one thing." I said.
"Oh, well I guess I will wait and see." He said.
"Ryan, I thought the same thing, I wasn't sure if Chloe liked me or not, but look at us now. I will see what I can find out, and maybe she will end up liking you." I reassured him, no matter how awkward it would be for my friend and sister to go out together.
"Thanks" he responded and then got up and walked to the other side of the roof to keep watch.
Cool right, some Alek and Ryan time, talking about Sophia. I hoped you like this chapter, it was more of a transitional chapter, but review so I know how you liked it. I am sorry for being behind and only updating once today. I could have been done earlier but I had a bad morning and didn't get to work on it till after school.
