When I awoke, I heard my stepmom and dad talking. I let out a groan to tell them I was awake.
"I passed out again?" I questioned them. They nodded, they're faces blank. "What's going on?" I asked.
"Chanik was arrested for attacking me. Your mom is trying to keep him there. I was just telling your stepmom."
"He can't be arrested! It's not his fault! It's some freaking Native American guy doing that. He needs me and I need him." I shrieked.
"Kyra, I learned that your mom is a talent who wants all Anima to die. I found that out before i died."
"Holy shiznit!" I shouted, the IV popping out at the jerking of my hand. I winced and yelped in pain.
"You've got to stop doing that." he frowned at me. "I only figured it out because of the guy she has been talking to. This is dangerous business you're dealing with Kyra. I need you to stay out of it." he ordered. I looked at him like he was crazy.
"But I want to. I finally have a reason to do something in my life!" I shouted at him.
"Calm down Kyra." he said, not looking at me funny.
"I need him and he needs me. That's how it works." I spat.
"That's what you think. It could be true but the guy that's inside him will hurt you to get to Chanik."
"But that could make Chanik stronger. That's how I got him back last time. And don't tell me it's not true." I snapped.
"Kyra, I'm just telling you to be careful and see what you're doing. That's why we're moving to Washington with you."
"I do see and I am careful. I just don't care if I get hurt anymore. If I'm saving people, it's worth it." I told him.
"KYRA! THE FIGHT BETWEEN ANIMA AND TALENT'S IS NOT A THING TO GET INTO!" Dad shouted at me.
"Too late. I'm already into it." I sighed. I already was on people's lists and wants. Not to mention the Volturi's. At the thought of the name I saw an image in my head of a pale faced person looking up from a book….at me. What was wrong with me? I seriously considered I was going mentally insane. Was this all a dream? Then Chanik walked in the door. I wanted to jump up and hug him but I felt the tug of wires…grrrrrrr. Maybe I was in mental hell, you know? I couldn't hug my own freaking boyfriend. This was pure torture!
"If you're wondering, I was released on evidence that a darker skin and haired man with green eyes was the attacker."
"Well, you have blue eyes and you are pale skinned." I sighed in relief. He smiled and came over and hugged me.
"Exactlly. And whatever your dad did to me, it stunned the guy. I now only get bad headaches."
"Well that's good. Now hug me one more time. I feel hugless." I laughed. He grinned and hugged me again.
"Um Kyra…we need to talk to you about moving to Washington with Chanik." my stepmom said behind him.
"What are you getting at here?" I asked. I was curious as to what their meaning of this was.
"Kyra…Chanik told us what happened at his house and then he also told us that you wanted a baby."
"Not now!" I said, feeling a blush creep to my cheeks. He told? Was he honestly trying to get my parents to eye me like a hawk.
"I didn…" Chanik began and then got a glare from my dad. He got it out of my head. Chanik said mentally.
"Hey. you can't put the blame straight on me. I was emotionally unstable." I raised my hands in defense.
"Kyra, you really need to think before you speak then. We worry about you"
"I'm fine, really. Teenagers are emotionally unstable, it's normal. It was a phase, alright." I sighed.
"We still are going to move up there." dad said winking at me. Why me? What was he thinking?
"What about Eliza? She never got grounded or punished. Yet I do even though I'm not pregnant? Nore did I have sex," I argued.
"What are you talking about?" dad looked at me.
"Eliza got prego, didn't you know that?" Dad's face became enraged.
"And mom doesn't even care. She's happy about it and she treats me like crap." I spilled.
"I don't know why she treats you like crap but I think she's hoping the baby will be a Talent."
"Maybe she treats me like crap because she somehow knew I'd fall in love with an Anima and be on their side." I suggested.
"She would have killed you then instead." dad laughed. How was that funny?
"Dad, that wasn't funny cuz I think she might actually kill me." I gasped. He just laughed…again!!!
"She wouldn't kill you now. She knows that I can kill her first." he laughed, everyone stared.
"Violent much?" I snorted and just began to geek out. I couldn't help not being serious.
"You're ok to go know." the doctor came in and grumbled. "Your dad signed the release sheets."
"Yes! I'm free!" I grinned. The doctor took out the heart monitor thingy reluctantly. I don't think they were very happy I was leaving.
"To bad for me I have to stay here for a few more weeks." dad looked at his missing legs and frowned.
"Sorry," I apologized. How come his legs didn't come back? What had I done wrong? Was he mad at me for screwing up? Reading my mind he replied, "The vampire you exchanged me for was a little young I think."
"That makes no sense at all!" I said, feeling utterly blonde at the moment. I sighed in frustration.
"Remember what I told you. To trade a person you need someone of same age, gender, and must be alive."
"Okay, now that makes sense….thank god that vampire wasn't any younger." I joked. My dad grinned back at me.
"Maybe he could have been older." my stepmom laughed. I playfully glared at her and grabbed my belongings. My sister walked in with her boyfriend and my mom. Let the fight began. Seriously, I wanted it to begin so it can end.
"Why are you here?" she roared at Chanik.
"I wasn't the attacker." he smiled sharp pointy teeth at her.
"You bet he isn't the attacker." I said under my breath as I bent down to get my bag off the floor. I kinda began laughing.
"And why are you leaving?" she growled at me.
"I signed the release papers." dad smirked.
"I'm going back to Washington with Chanik and I'm going to follow my dreams and live my life." I stated and grabbed Chaniks hand.
"What about me?" Eliza thought I was joking. I walked out of the room with Chanik and we went to his car. My mom and Eliza stood there confused and shocked. My mom recovered though and chased after us. We ran and jumped into the car. She was not as fast as either of us which made me wonder: Why wasn't Eliza a talent like my dad, my mom, and I were? I had no clue how the genetics went.
The car squeeled out of the parking lot and we drove to my house the get things. We quickly ran downstairs and grabbed my boxes my mom took the 'liberty' of packing for me and put them in the bed of truck.
"Let's go before the witch gets here." I said as the last box was put in the truck.
"Yes…let's." Chanik smiled at me. He hopped in the cab and I followed suit. He revved the engine and we were setting back off on the road just like before.
"Your dad had told me that he and your stepmom will try to find a house near us as soon as they can."
"So I get to stay with you?" I grinned. He rolled his eyes at me.
"I'm surprised he let you." he laughed. "And yes, you can….but we did have to come up with a compromise." he chuckled.
"Oh? And what's that? I figured you guys were talking about me when I was unconscious." I questioned, grabbing his hand.
"My older sister has to come live with us." he said with a drawn out sigh.
"Okay…what's so bad about that?" I asked. He looked at me, so many emotions in his eyes.
"She has always had a very watchful eye over me. And she is also very specail in our world."
"Okay? I'm lost. So what's so bad?" I shrugged. I was used to having a watchful eye over me. It wouldn't be the first time.
"Well…she is an Anima and a Talent. She can become a crow and used to follow me everywhere."
"Okay…still lost but…alright." I smiled. He chuckled. I was probably always too lost to make any sense.
"The fact is…she doesn't like me being with other people…and what makes it worse is her talent in sorcery."
"Why? I'm sorry I'm asking so many questions. I'm just really confused." I apologized. He sighed.
"Because she thinks I'll hurt them or they hurt my feelings when they find out about me."
"But i already know and I'm in love with you." I added.
"I know that…but she doesn't." he sighed.
"Well that might cause problems" I started to laugh histaricly.
"What's so funny?"
"I don't know, you tell me?" i laughed. He looked at me weird. I grinned right back at him.
"Well, we do still have a 17 hour drive till we get to my house to think about why your laughing." he chortled.
"Oh yeah? Maybe I will." i grinned.
As we drove and kept making up stupid reasons of why we were laughing, I soon began to fall asleep. My dreams took over me. I was running, my breath coming out in front of me in the cold with gnawing pit in my stomach. I heard people yelling and screaming behind me. I stopped to look back. A huge fight was happening behind me.
"Keep running!" I saw and heard Chanik scream at me. A pang tore into my heart. My chest rose and fell quickly. Even though my heart didn't want to run, my body did. I tried to stop but couldn't. I began screaming at myself. I needed to go back. I could fight!
Not yet. I heard in my head. What?
"I said, "We are not there yet"…are you sleeping?" Chanik's voice said. I tossed and jerked awake. My forehead had a cold sheen of sweat on it. I was breathing heavily. A whimper escaped my lips.
"Kyra wake up, it's just a nightmare." Chanik shook me awake.
"I'm up," i groaned. A quick sob racked through my body and a headache began. I opened my eyes quickly and looked around. We were in a motel room and Chanik was laying next to me.
"Hi," he whispered, pulling me close to him.
"Hey," I sighed, hugging him.
"Did you figure out why you were laughing?" he asked.
"No, but I did have a nightmare about a huge fight in some woods." I snuggled into his chest.
"Oh?" he said nonchalantly and held onto me tighter. "What happened?" he whispered in my ear.
"I don't really know. It was just a fight between two groups of people. I think they were Talents and Anima."
"And that scared you?" he asked.
"The fight didn't scare me." i sighed.
"Than what did?" he asked me.
"You. You were fighting and losing badly. You told me to run and I did. But i knew i could fight."
"But you can't fight. Your abilities aren't fully manifested." he told me.
"I'd still fight." I growled.
"Maybe, but if this fight does come, I do want you to stay out unless there is and emergancy, ok?"
"I can't promise anything Chanik." I whispered. His arms wrapped around me even tighter.
"You have to promise me." he growled.
"I can't and i won't promise you anything until it happens." I glared at him. He laughed and closed his eyes.
"We'll see." he grinned.
"If I want to fight i will fight. Believe it or not, i probably could really help." i said seriously.
"Fine." he said and laughed again. "You know something, i think i know why you were laughing."
"And why was i laughing?" i pouted. He smiled at me. "Tell me," i growled playfully. He chuckled.
"Because laughing shows excitment and you were excited when we ran from your crazy mother."
"Yes, i was excited to get away from her." i smiled and snuggled closer to him, my nose in the crook of his neck.
"You know, your dad somehow confused that guy in me and i think i won't have to worry about changing unexpectedly."
"Well that's good." my voice came out muffled but it was still understandable. This was amount of wonderful bliss.
"Are you ready to go? I noticed when you fell asleep and decided that we need to stop to sleep."
"I don't want to go. I'm comfy where i am." i whined and clung to him and the moment right now.
"We have to." he sighed.
"Just one more night…pleasssssse?" i begged him. He shighed.
"Why?" he asked me quietly.
"Cause i need some more peace time. It's just nice and peaceful here alone with you." i sighed. He pressed his face into my hair.
"Fine, one more day and night and then we go home." he said.
"Home…I like that idea. Thank you." I whispered. The moment was filled with pure happiness on our part. This is the way it was meant to be. We spent most of the morning, laying in bed and talking. i felt so joyed and forgot about my dream.
"We need to go get Oreos and peanut butter because I've been deprived of it." i told him and he laughed.
"I got some yestarday before we stopped." he said reaching behind him and grabbing the goods.
"You know me well." i smiled as he handed me my Oreos. I tore the package open and began to endulge in them. He laughed and I saw him grab something else from behind him. It was a large box of MIKE N' IKES. My eyes went big. We were stocked. I grabbed a jar of peanut butter and stuck my finger in it and stuck it in my mouth.
"I think i love you." i joked as i licked the peanut butter off.
"These are for me." he held the box out of my reach.
"Didn't your mother teach you how to share?" i smirked, grabbing another finger full of peanut butter.
"Yes, but i never shared my MIKE N' IKES. It was the first candy i ever had." he laughed as he eat a handful.
"Well if you won't share your MIKE N' IKES, I won't share my Oreos." i stuck my tongue out at him and rolled on my side, away from him. He laughed and threw a handful at me. i chucked an Oreo at his head. He laughed and ate it.
"See? This is why I wanted to take the day off." I grinned, resting my head on his chest.
"I understand," he smiled, stroking my hair. "Yes, it is good to take a break from my normal life." Chanik continued to stroke my hair.
"Just to relax feels nice." I confessed.
"I know what you're talking about too." he shifted slightly next to me. i saw something out of the corner of my eye. i looked to see a figure trying to break out for a mirror. I got out of the bed and walked over to the mirror. How odd. It then opened what i think was its mouth and let out a loud roar. The room echoed with the eerie sound.
"Youre not coming out of there." i told it. "What is it?" i asked Chanik hoping he knew what it was. The thing let out another roar. Chanik came up, covering his ears and smashed the mirror.
"No," he said.
"What's going on?" I mumbled, walking back over sitting down on the bed. I sat there thinking.
"This is the world we live in." he came over to me and put a hand on my back.
"Hmmmm…our world sucks. How much do you want to bet the paparazzi is outside?" i mused.
"Not much….there is something i forgot to tell you yestarday. i didn't think you'd want to know."
"What didn't you tell me?" i sighed. I laid my head down on the pillow, preparing for the worst.
"Tilton saw the pictures. When he saw my ears he called me up and said that our career is done."
"But i thought we had the Cullen's running us now, remember? I thought we ditched Tilton?" I wondered.
"He didn't send the papers in yet and until they are sent in, he runs us." he let out a growl.
"How the hell can he run us? Besides, the Cullen's have freaking upper power. They have J. Jenks." I spat.
"Did you forget that Edward and Alice were arrested for speeding?" he reminded me.
"WHAT? No I don't. So what for speeding? We still have jasper and Rosalie." i thought. I knew Jasper had links with J. Jenks and i know it'd work.
"I could try to call them but whenever i try to, i get a busy signal." he shighed.
"They're probably trying to bail Edward and Alice out of jail." I sniggered. He laughed too.
"We'll get back on track." At that moment, his phone rang. He looked who it was and his face lit up.
"It's Edward."
"Yay!" I clapped. He concentrated on his conversation. He smiled slightly.
"Thank you." he said and hung up.
"They have gotten out of jail. They are going to go to talk to J."
"Thank the lord because I liked singing and I want to audition for Breaking Dawn and get my chance to meet the cast." I babbled.
"So, shall we leave now or do you still want to stay for awhile?" he asked and kissed me.
"Stay," I mumbled against his lips. He kissed me again and i kissed back. This is where i wanted to be at right now. His arms wrapped around me and pulled me closer. I put my hands around his back too. I gasped for breath. He trailed his lips on my jaw and down my neck. My hands locked around his neck. My phone started ringing. i wanted to answer it but i was enjoying Chanik's lips too much. It kept ringing but i had no intention of answering it. Chanik's hands gripped my waist like there was no tomorrow. i pushed him on the bed and ripped off his shrit. He smiled.
"Not today." he said.
"Who said anything about today?" i said innocently. "Maybe i just like you with your shirt off." i smiled at him.
"Maybe, but i can never tell. Your mind is hard to figure out." he said as i traced the contours of his abs.
"Not really." I said mindlessly pressing my lips lightly to his chest. He shuddered against me. "I love you." I mumbled into his chest.
"And I you." he said and let me nod off into a short nap on his chest. I woke up alone in the bed. I looked around to see him sitting on the end of the bed watching me.
"It's intresting to watch you sleep. I see why Edward did it with Bella." he smirked.
"I'm often told I talk in my sleep. Do I actually talk in my sleep?" I asked him. He laughed lovingly.
"Your face talks. You show show all your emotions of your dreams while you sleep."
"Good, cause we need to be able to control our own lives and careers." I growled, running a hand through my hair.
"Then shall we go?" he smiled at me.
"Yes, I want to sing and be by people I love."
"Hey, I'm right here." he joked.
"I mean by the rest of the people I love." I laughed. He laughed with me.
"Then let us go." he said.
"Ya, but it'll be nice once everything settles down." I sighed. He agreed. I could tell good things would happen.
"Shall we go then…to the other people you love?" Chanik kissed me tenderly on the lips.
"Mmmmm…maybe, but I really don't want to. You know much I would give just to stay here like this." I confessed. He looked around the room as if thinking.
"Well…I do want to get moving to get there soon."
"Do we have to?" I whined, rolling off the bed. He rolled his eyes and began packing our bags. I stifled a yawn.
"Yes, we need to get to school by Monday and today is Friday… and we have another 9 hour drive."
"Hours don't matter as long as I'm with you." I actually yawned this time. I stood on my tiptoes and did my best to stretch.
"Yes…they are the greatest of times, aren't they?" he smiled as he took our bags outside. I followed him, our stash of food in my arms. We hopped into the truck and we were on the road again. He took my hand.
"I love you so much." he kissed. I rolled my eyes.
"You tell me that every five minutes…but I still like it."
"Well it's nice to remind you." he grinned and I grinned right back.
"Well I love you too." I laughed.