Hey everyone! Thank you all for your reviews. A special thanks to burning impossibly bright who was the only one to feel sympathy for my little puppy. SO I forgot to mention this last chapter, I saw Wolfman last weekend! I thought it was hilarious, there was just so much blood and gore it was funny and awesome. Like three people got decapitated and that was just so awesome! I was smiling evilly or silently laughing the entire time! Also, I now understand why Changing hurts Derek so much. They showed the guy in Wolfman going through his first change and it was so horrible because it reminded me of Derek I almost started crying. So, speaking of movies, last night I watched Wedding Crashers. It was funny and I liked it but like all of the even semi-bad words were bleeped out and it was really annoying because you couldn't follow half of the conversations! But it had Will Ferrel in it, even if he was a complete freak, and any movie with Will Ferrel has to be good! Okay so I have a question for you guys, who completely loves Adrian Ivashkov from Vampire Academy? ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME!!!! I just love him and I hope that Rose chooses him instead of Dimitri. I used to love the Russian but now I just find him annoying. Anyway, I ask because one of my friends has finally finished Shadow Kissed and she still doesn't love Adrian! She says he's a drug addict and a freak and it makes me really mad. Who cares if he's an addict, he's freakin' awesome! So my friend is currently reading Blood Promise and she read like half of it the first day I gave it to her. Actually she's probably finished with it by no. Anyway… I think that's it! Again, sorry for any spelling/grammar stuff and anything out of character, which I'm pretty sure there is. And Kelly Armstrong owns Darkest Powers, not me. Here's the chapter!
"AAHHH!!" I yelled as I woke up and bolted up on my bed. Okay, I thought, it's only a dream. I had been having a dream where I was in a cemetery and raised all the bodies. They were trying to get me and I was running, but the dream wouldn't let me run. Then a body jumped down from a tree above me and suddenly they all were jumping out of the tree. I was completely surrounded by dead bodies when suddenly a big pit opened up beneath me and all the bodies and I began falling. That's when I woke up. I was still trying to calm down when I heard a voice.
"Chloe? Are you okay?" someone said. I jumped and looked around the room. I saw someone standing, no floating, right by the window. The person stepped forward and I recognized them.
"Casey?" I asked.
"Hey, Chloe. Are you okay? You sounded pretty freaked out," Casey said.
"Uh… Yeah I'm fine," I said, trying to rub the sleep out of my eyes. "What are you doing in my room at…" I looked at the clock. "3:30 in the morning?"
"Oh…" Casey said. "Well when I can't sleep, I astral project into other people's rooms and watch them sleep. It is very entertaining sometimes. If you don't want me to though, I won't go in you're room anymore."
"I don't really care Casey," I said. "So why can't you sleep?"
"I don't know really. Probably just all the caffeine I had last night."
"Yeah that's probably it," I said, thinking back to kick the can last night. We played until almost midnight again and Casey had chugged a can of pop after each game. "Well can I go back to sleep now?"
"Yeah, sure. Sorry, I didn't mean to wake you up or anything."
"I know. Bye Casey."
"Bye Chloe!" Casey said happily. Her body began to fade and soon she wasn't there at all. I turned over and tried to fall back asleep. I was again however, unsuccessful. I reached for my iPod but remembered that I had plugged it into one of the computers and I was not going downstairs. I kept trying to fall back asleep but eventually, the inner voice in my head began talking.
So… Let's talk some more about Derek. Uhg! You have got to be kidding me. I thought I said we were with this conversation. No, you said "I'm done talking to you." I was the one who said "We're not done with this conversation." So come on, let us talk. There isn't anything to talk about. I do not like Derek. Stop saying that already! It's really annoying. I am you inner voice, and I know everything about you. So what can I do to convince you? Become a physical being, look like a leprechaun, and dance around in circles. Eww, I hate leprechauns. And you know I can't really be real, I'm your inner voice. That means I stay in you head. Now can we please really discuss this Derek issue? Why is it that you think you don't like Derek? Because he is only my friend and nothing more. That's not a reason. It's denial. Do you still think you like Simon? You're my inner voice. You know everything about me, ask yourself. I need to hear you admit it. Now is it a yes or no? I don't know. Maybe… See now we are getting somewhere. Now… Tell me what you think makes you feel all weird when you look into his eyes. (Wow that sounded really cheesey.) Um… That's a good point. Ah ha! So you admit it. I did not. I just can't think about any reason for me to feel that way when I look at him. Well it means you like him. REALLY, REALLY like him. God, will you just shut up? I'm tired and want to go back to sleep. Uhg! Why can't you just admit it?! I'll let you sleep for now but next time, I'm not letting you go that easily. Thank you. Now go away.
My inner voice really did shut up after that. After a few minutes, I finally did fall back asleep.
I woke up to the sun shining in through the window. I looked over at the clock, which read 9:30. I sighed and got out of bed. I walked over to the pile of clothes Julie had lent me. She was the shortest in the house and all her clothes were only slightly big on me. I grabbed some jeans and tee shirt and headed to the bathroom to take a shower. I took 20 minutes or so more than I needed to thoroughly wash all the die out of my hair. When I was back to my normal blond self, I got out of the shower and pulled out a towel from under the sink. I dried off and got dressed. I left the bathroom and went back to my room to drop off the pajamas Julie had also lent me. I walked downstairs and headed towards the kitchen.
On the way to food, I saw the open door to the game basement and a bunch of people talking and yelling from down there. Charlie and Jake were talking on one of the couches to each other and Alex and Derek were just watching TV. I didn't really feel like talking to anyone so I walked into the kitchen and found no one in there for once. I found a muffin on the counter and started eating it while I searched for the milk and a cup. I found both and poured myself a glass. I was on my second muffin when Simon came running up from the basement. He came into the kitchen with an amused look on his face.
"Hey Chloe," he said as he grabbed a muffin and sat next to me.
"Hi," I said weakly. I was still tired and really didn't feel like talking to Simon. He didn't seem to realize this though.
"What's wrong?" he asked.
"Just tired."
"Oh, well I'm not! I've been up since like 7:00 and have been downstairs playing Super Mario Bros with Casey and Kyle. That game is so freaking aggravating."
"Good for you Simon," I said. I looked up at him and saw the hurt expression on his face. "I'm sorry, I'm just really tired."
"It's alright," Simon said. "Why are you so tired?"
"Casey visited my room last night and I couldn't fall back asleep," I said. I didn't think that Simon would really need to know that I was also having an argument with my inner voice about whether or not I like Derek so I just skipped that part.
"Why did she come into your room?"
"Apparently she couldn't sleep and when she can't sleep, she astral projects into other rooms and watch people sleep. Don't ask me why."
"Yeah that's kind of weird." Simon and I talked a little for a while before Miles came into the room.
"Good, you're up," he said to me. "Julie and I usually start training around 11 every Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday so you should be ready by then each day we have training. You have about an hour. Meet me and Julie outside by the garage. Okay?"
"Sure," I mumbled. I had completely forgotten about the training and was not really looking forward to it. I left Simon in the kitchen and went to the couch. I laid down in one of the corners and watched Man vs. Food, which was already on. My eyelids became heavy after a couple of minutes and I closed them , thinking I could take away some of the tiredness by just closing them. It wasn't until I felt someone shaking me that I realized I had fallen asleep. I picked up my hand and rubbed at my eyes before opening them. I saw Simon sitting next to me on the couch.
"I fell asleep?" I asked him.
"Yup, I guess you really were tired. Anyway I would have let you sleep but it's 10:58 and I heard Miles tell you training is at 11:00 so…"
"Thanks Simon," I said smiling at him. "I guess I better get going then." I stood up and walked towards the porch door. I went outside and ran over to the garage, thinking maybe a little exercise would wake me up. It actually worked and by the time I reached the garage door, I was entirely awake. I rounded the corner and saw Miles sitting on a foldable plastic table that he had set up. There was a big box on the end opposite the side of table Miles was sitting on. I walked up to him and asked "What's in the box?"
"You're future zombies," Miles said as he tipped the box towards me. The top was open and as I looked into the box, I saw a bunch of dead bugs. I shivered.
"Is this really necessary? " I asked him.
"Yes it is. I need to see exactly how strong your powers are and this is pretty much the only way. Unless of course you would like to raise human bodies."
"No. I'll stick with the bugs," I said as I went over to sit on the table. "Where's Julie?"
"Right there," Miles said, pointing towards the back of the house. Julie was just coming around the corner of the house. She saw me and waved and started running over.
"Hey Chloe!" she said as she came closer to the table.
"Hi Julie," I said. She got to the table and sat down on it next to me.
"Okay guys," Miles said as he stood up. "Julie, we aren't going to go to the cemetery today. We're just going to watch Chloe bring the bugs back to life."
"Wait," I said. "You go to a cemetery for training?"
"Yup," Julie said. "I know it's pretty freaky but it's the best way to find ghosts. So says Miles anyway."
"It really is Julie. Okay come on now. Off the table. It's time to work." Julie and I jumped off of the table and stood next to Miles. "Okay Chloe, now we're really going to see what you can do. Go stand by table."
I walked over to the table and Miles went on the other side so he could face me. Be beckoned Julie to stand next to him and she came over. Miles then put one hand into the box of dead bugs and pulled out a handful. He set them on the table in front of me.
"That is really disgusting Miles," Julie said. "You could at least use a glove."
"But where's the fun in that?" Miles said jokingly. "Okay now Chloe, do you know exactly how you raise things?"
"Not exactly," I said. "Well when I was experimenting with that bird with Derek, I just tried summoning Liz, one of the other kids at Lyle House who the Edison Group killed. Should I try that again?"
"Sure. Try to do exactly what you did last time. Then we'll try different ways."
"Alright," I said. I closed my eyes and tried to concentrate on Liz. I pictured he face and tried calling to her in my mind. I kept doing this doing this for a few more seconds before Miles said stop. I opened my eyes and saw that three of the bugs were beginning to crawl around the table.
"Okay. So this is what happens when you just try to call a ghost to you right?"
"That's what I was doing."
"Alright then, now why don't you try to actually bring back the bugs. Focus on putting their spirits back into their bodies." Miles reached back into the box and drew out another handful of bugs.
I closed my eyes and focused on bringing the bugs back to life. I imagined pushing their spirits back into their bodies and after a few seconds, Miles told me to stop again. I opened my eyes and this time, found all the bugs crawling around.
"Good job Chloe," Miles said. "Now try releasing them."
"Sure," I said. I closed my eyes again and tried to imagine pulling the spirits out of the bugs. Miles stopped me very quickly this time and when I opened my eyes, all the bugs had stopped moving and were frozen on the table, once again dead.
"Good," Miles said again. "Now let's try some different ways."
Miles made me practice bringing the bugs back to life for three whole hours. By the time he let me go back inside, I was exhausted. Frank and James apparently did a group self defense class every Monday too so I had a feeling that I was going to be really sore tomorrow. The classish thing was at 3:30 so I had around an hour and a half to do what ever I wanted, so I decided to go look at some of the necromancer books. I walked into the house and then to the reading room. I grabbed five necromancer books and sat down with them at one of the tables.
I started with a book called Necromancer, a Ghost's Best Friend. Really weird title but it actually was very helpful. It explained that you could tell ghosts from real people by just concentrating on them and seeing if they begin to fade. I was really going to have to try that out. I started with another called The Art of Summoning. I was halfway through one of the chapters about safely summoning ghosts when Claire came into the room with a laptop under her arm.
"There you are Chloe," she said as she came and sat at the table across from me. "I've been looking for you. Tuesday is always our shopping day and since tomorrow is a Tuesday, all of us will be gone almost all day. Well everyone besides you and Derek."
"Why not us?" I asked confused.
"Well you are the one with the half a million dollars reward for your safe return to your father. And Derek is you supposed kidnapper so we all think it would be best if you both stay here. Better not to involve the police in a simple shopping trip. Anyway, I came to find you because I know you all need clothes and I figured you might want to pick out your own stuff over the internet. Then we'll buy the stuff for you at the store. I think we'll be going to Kohl's, Old Navy, and then Aeropostale. You can go on any of their websites and look for whatever you want." Claire set the laptop down in front of me.
"Thanks Claire," I said as I pulled the laptop closer. Then I thought about Derek looking for clothes over the internet and had to stifle a laugh. "Is Derek doing this too?"
"He said just to have Simon get him some stuff." Damn, I would have loved to see that. Claire stood up to leave but just as she was about to exit the room, she turned back. "By the way," she said. "You might want to look at swim suits. We have the pool open all year and usually wind up swimming at least once a week, so if you want to swim at all, it's probably a good idea to find one. Also, if you want to every leave the yard, you should probably pick out a hair dye color."
"Okay, thanks," I said. Claire really did leave the room this time and I turned on the laptop. Once everything had stopped loading, the profile thingy screen popped up. There was only a guest thing so I clicked that. It opened and I clicked the internet icon. Then I went to Google and started looking for clothes.
I found a few pairs of jeans, some sweatshirts, and a bunch of really cute shirts in about 10 minutes. The swim suit and hair dye took a while though. I was looking a light brownish hair color and a bluish tankini and couldn't find anything like what I actually wanted. I spent around ten minutes looking through all the brown colors of hair dye. Eventually I found one that I really like and put it on the list I was keeping. The swim suit took even longer. I spent like 30 minutes trying to find something like it until I finally just quit and started looking for other stuff. I eventually found a really cute brown bikini and put that down on the list. I messed around for another few minutes before I noticed that it was 3:20. I turned off the laptop and went to go find Claire. I found her in the kitchen yet again, cleaning the counters.
"Here Claire," I said as I handed over the laptop and list. Claire accepted the list but wouldn't take the laptop back.
"No Chloe" she said, pushing the computer back at me. "You keep it."
"Claire, no," I said. "I can't let you give me a laptop."
"It's fine really," Claire said. "Frank works from home for a computer company and he get's four free computers every year. We have like five sitting in the attic at any time. Everyone in the house has one too so please, take it."
"Thanks Claire," I said, taking back the laptop. I looked at the clock on the oven and saw it was 3:27. "Oh, crap, I have to go to the defense thing. Thanks again Claire!" I ran upstairs to put the laptop in my room. Then I ran over to the gym where the class thing was. I pushed open the door and saw that all the kids were already there, plus Frank. "Sorry, I was talking to Claire."
"It's fine Chloe," Frank said. "Just pair up with someone."
"Okay," I said as I looked around the room. Tori seemed to be the only one who didn't have a partner so I went over to her.
"Hi Chloe," she said. "I hope you know that I'm going to kick your ass."
"Thanks for that Tori," I said as I turned to face Frank and James.
"Okay everyone," Frank started. "Today we're going to do some simple punching strategies."
"WHAT?" Julie screamed. She looked up at her partner, Kyle. "I don't want to get punched by Kyle!"
"And I don't want to punch a girl," Kyle whined.
"Then use the glove things," James said. "Now just shut up!"
"James calm down," Frank said to his son. "But he's right everybody. If you don't really want to hurt anyone, just use the punching glove. James go get them."
"Uhg fine," James said as he ran over to a door on the right side of the gym. He disappeared into it and in a few seconds, came out with a box. He ran back over to Frank and started throwing things to each group. Tori caught ours and held up one of those punching things everyone had been talking about. She shook it and smiled at me.
"Do we really have to use this?" she asked.
"Uh yeah! I'm not going to let you actually hit me," I said.
"You're no fun Chloe."
"Everyone!" Frank said. "Okay, so first we're going to try the simple, average punch. Here let me demonstrate." He turned to James and pulled his hand back. "Sorry son," he said as he swung his arm forwards, his hand hitting right on James' jaw. James stumbled back a little and rubbed his jaw, but otherwise seemed fine.
"That was actually a good punch Dad," he said.
"Thank you James. So now did everyone see that?"
"No," Charlie said.
"Yeah I figured not," James said.
"James," Frank warned. "Okay I'll go through it in slow motion this time, and explain each step." He drew his hand back again and showed us the whole process twice. Then it was our turn to try it on our partners.
"You want to go first?" I asked Tori.
"Sure!" Tori said happily. She smiled evilly and tossed me the punch glove. I slipped it on, held it up away from me, and prepared myself. Tori pulled back her arm just like Frank had showed us and swung it towards me. Even though I knew I was protected, I still flinched at the impact of her hand. I stumbled back a few steps before looking back at Tori. She was holding her hand and yelling "Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow!" I started laughing hysterically at her and everyone turned to look at us. I could hear someone else laughing just as hard as I was and turned to see Casey pointing at Tori and laughing her head off. Charlie was her partner and was looking at her like she was crazy but also was clearly holding back a laugh. Derek and Simon were both staring at me like I had lost my mind. Simon looked merely amused while Derek was just, well Derek. He had a completely stoic expression on his face but I could see amusement in his eyes. I stopped laughing after a few seconds and so did Casey and we got back to work.
Tori refused to try punching me through the glove again so I began punching her. I did everything just as Frank had showed us and when my hand hit the glove, it didn't hurt at all. I smiled, thinking that I had actually done it right and Tori had apparently done it wrong, considering how she freaked out when she hit me. I kept hitting her over and over again until Frank told us all to stop.
"Alright everyone," he said. "Good job all of you. Now let's try some defense moves against a punch. James, hit me."
"Fine Dad," James said as he pulled back his arm and swung it forward. Right before he hit Frank's face, Frank brought up his arm so fast it was a blur and smacked James' arm away from him. James let his arm fall and said, "How come you get to do all the fun things? I want to punch you for once."
"Fine you can demonstrate next time," Frank said before turning back to all of us. "Should I slow it down for everyone?"
"Yes Frank!" Charlotte said.
"Okay then," Frank began. "James you explain."
"Yes," James said. He then proceeded to explain the defense move.
The class ended after about an hour and a half. It was really fun getting to beat up Tori, even if it was only through a punching glove. Tori still didn't do anything right and wound up hurting herself like five times. I laughed at every one of those times and so did Casey, who was really good at punching people. She had asked Charlie to not use the glove at all and he had said yes, which was a huge mistake. Casey punched him really hard the first time and sent him flying back into a shelf of exercise balls. She did this a couple of other times and by the time we were done, Charlie was already covered in at least a dozen bruises. Casey was nice and healed him but Charlie still wouldn't talk to her.
After the class thing ended, I went upstairs to go get the laptop Claire had given me. I had nothing better to do so I brought it downstairs to mess around with while I watched some TV. It was a really cool laptop. It was a light blue color with a pretty big screen. I opened up the guest profile thing again so I could change it to make it look that way I wanted to. It took me a while to find the change profile button. I first changed the name from "Guest" to "Chloe" then started looking through the little profile picture. I was about to click on this one with an adorable little puppy on it when I saw a ghost thing. I clicked it to make it bigger and it came up as this really cute cartoon ghost. I choose that one and moved on to backgrounds.
I spent like an hour changing all the setting before Claire called everyone in for dinner. I hadn't even realized that it was already 6:00 so I went and put my laptop in the computer room. I went back to the kitchen and found Derek, James, and Charlie already crowded around the food with plates.
As I drew closer them, I saw that Claire had made a fried food dinner. There were chicken nuggets, fried chicken, onion rings, regular fries, smiley fries, and then a bunch of other stuff that I couldn't really identify. I grabbed a plate and started loading up it up. The three guys alone had taken at least a third of the food but there was still a lot to choose from. I filled up my plate and grabbed a Coke that Claire had set out next to the food. I then went back to the table and sat down next to Derek, who was scarfing down all of his food. I had barely touched my food before he stood up and went to get seconds, quickly followed by James. What is it with all the werewolves eating nonstop?
The guys had just reached to food counter when Casey, Julie, and Jake came in. Casey saw what was for dinner and started running towards the counter. James had just picked up some smiley fries and was putting them on his plate when Casey came over and smacked his hand.
"You do not touch my smiley fries," she told him as she took the fries out of his hand and put them on her own plate. Derek looked at her and discreetly took some smiley fries from behind his back and came back to the table. I smiled at that. Derek came back down and sat back in his spot next to me.
"Apparently she likes smiley fries," he said. He held up his plate towards me. "You want some?"
"Yes," I said as I took a couple of fries. "These things are really good."
"They are," Derek said through a mouthful of chicken. Then he looked over at the counter and shielded his plate. I followed his gaze and saw Casey walking back to the table. Her plate was completely full of fries, both regular and smiley, mostly smiley though. She had at least 10 on her plate.
"Hey Chloe," she said as she came to sit on my other side.
"Uh… Hi. Are you really going to eat all of those?"
"Of course! I love fries! And I know, it's not healthy at all but I don't care one bit!" Casey said as she picked up the ketchup bottle and moved some fries out of the way to make room for the ketchup.
"That really is nasty," Julie said as she sat across from us.
"Shut up Julie," Casey snapped. She then turned to me. "She comments on everyone's eating habits, particularly werewolves."
"Well have you seen how much they eat?" Julie said. Then she gestured at Derek, who was stuffing his mouth full of fries. "Just look at Derek."
"You're not nice Julie," Derek said, his mouth still full of fries.
"Now that's disgusting," Julie said before turning back to her own plate.
"That what really annoys me about all the girls here," Casey said, shaking her head. "They think that everything is just disgusting or rude. I can't even burp out loud without having Claire or Libby yell at me!"
"Poor Casey," I said. "You have such a tough life."
"Thank you Chloe," she said, her mouth now also filled. James came over and sat down next to her then, another mountain of food on his plate.
"So aren't you excited for our shopping day tomorrow Casey?" he asked. Casey turned to face him.
"Shut up James," she said. "It's bad enough that we have to be at stores all day but tomorrow we have to go to clothing stores as well. At least at grocery stores you can get candy and snacks. All you can get at Kohl's and places is clothes. For me it's like a torture chamber."
"What?" I said. "Do you hate shopping or something?"
"Yes I do," Casey said, turning back to me. "Well, maybe despise is a better word. Clothes shopping is actually torture for me. That's why I'm not looking forward to tomorrow."
"Again, your life is so terrible," I said. We all talked for around an hour, eating all the fatty fried food the whole time. Eventually though, people started leaving the kitchen. Soon, only me, Derek, and Simon were left in the room.
"So are you happy about going shopping tomorrow?" I asked Simon.
"I am actually," he said. "I've gotten really tired of these jeans."
"That I can understand," I said, looking down at my own jeans. Claire had washed them for me yesterday but they were still pretty worn out. "Did Claire give you guys laptops too?"
"Yeah," Derek said. "Mine's in my room."
"Same here," Simon said. "She is such an awesome lady."
"She is," I said. "She's like the perfect mom to everyone."
"And a really good cook," Derek added. I laughed at that and so did Simon. How like Derek to compliment someone on their cooking. Then I heard some people in the TV room.
"Anyone want to watch TV?" I asked the guys. Derek grunted and Simon said yes so we all went into the other room. Casey, Julie, Alex, and Charlie were all watching TV. I went over and sat in one of the corners of a couch. I saw Simon practically run over to sit next to me and I had to stifle a laugh. He really did like me, a lot too, and I didn't really know what to make of it. I mean, I liked him, but as a friend or maybe a brother. It was Derek and my inner voice that were confusing me.
"What are you guys watching?" Simon asked, bringing me back to reality.
"Cake Boss," Charlie said.
"You seriously watch this?" Simon said.
"I told you guys that I like to watch stupid reality shows," Charlie replied. "Anything on TLC or Discovery is considered reality to me."
"Why do you like it though?" Simon asked him again.
"Because it involves cake," Casey said, not looking away from the TV. "And Italian people are hilarious."
"Exactly," Charlie said. "Thank you Casey."
"No prob," she replied, still not looking away from the TV.
"Well if it involves cake…" Simon said. He looked at the TV and started watching and I did the same. The show was actually pretty good. They made some really cool looking cakes and also were hilarious. The main people dumped a bunch of flour and other stuff on this one guy which was really funny. Then the mom of the main main guy freaked out and started yelling at him like a little kid. We watched like four episodes of it until Claire said that we should go to bed.
"We're going to be gone all day tomorrow so you might as well get a decent nice sleep," she said.
I usually would have protested against this, considering it was only 10, but I did find a bunch of games on my laptop that I had been wanting to play so I just snuck it and my iPod upstairs with me. Simon said goodnight to me before disappearing onto his room, which was closer to the stairs than mine. I was then left walking next to Derek, which I couldn't complain about, wait what? I reached my door and turned to him.
"Night Derek," I said.
"Good night Chloe," he said. His eyes found mine and I got that really weird feeling again. "See you in the morning."
"You too," I said, walking into my room and mentally slapping myself. You too, really Chloe? How pathetic is that? Very. Uhg, you again. Hey I'll stop showing up if you just admit you like him. I thought for a minute. I had just thought that I couldn't really complain about walking alone next to him. What was that about? And then that feeling I got when I looked at his eyes, maybe I really did like him. Okay maybe you're right. See!! I told you, I told you, I told you! I just said maybe, not yes. I'll think about it more tomorrow, when I'm alone in the house with him. Yay! Okay I'll go now.
My inner voice went away and I decided to just go to bed and not mess with my laptop. I changed into my pajamas and climbed into bed. I put in my ear buds and turned on my iPod. I fell asleep thinking about spending tomorrow with Derek.
Phew, that was a long chapter. So who liked it? Wasn't training exciting? And who wants Claire as their mom besides me? I love her and really wish she was my mom. I know Chloe gave in pretty easily but if I didn't do it soon, I would have lost a chance for her to finally sort of admit it. So the next chapter will be their day alone, who's excited? Me! Okay so I know this is random but I just noticed that I almost never make Chloe stutter and I don't really know why. I'll try to make her do it more but I'm not sure if it will work. Anyway, please, please review! They make me happy and motivate me to write the next chapter. So bye and I'll try to update soon. By the way, I do not go watch people sleep when I can't, but I do love smiley fries! Those things are addicting! So bye for real this time and please review!