Darkness in Daylight
Ch. 5
DINNER WITH DEMONS
Richard had
put aside a separate table for the younger people. Raven noticed instantly that
it was surrounded by linoleum and newspaper. Hey, this Richard guy certainly
plans ahead. Raven thought. He knows when a food fight is inevitable.
And, apparently, so did Ty. He even went so far as to change from his DBZ shirt into a plain blue one. Raven looked down at himself. He was wearing one of his favorite shirts, the black one that said in bold letters: One by one the penguins steal my sanity... He glanced at his friend. "Uh, Ty? Could I borrow a shirt?"
The other boy lifted an eyebrow. "Sure. Here, you can use this one. I never wear it." He tossed a gray shirt at Raven, and it landed squarely on his head.
"Thanks, bud..." Raven attempted to walk towards the bathroom, and found out that the door was closed. "Ouch."
He pulled the shirt off of his head, and, ignoring the snickers from Sara and Jannie, walked into the bathroom and shut the door.
Once inside, he pulled off his penguins shirt and got a good look at the one Ty had given him. He gave a loud false gasp that was heard quite clearly through the door. He threw the door open and shouted at Ty, "You never wear this shirt? I've been looking for these everywhere!"
Tyler just shrugged. "G-Wing just isn't my thing." he grinned, "Hey! That rhymes!!"
"Don't you turn into Dan now, ya hear?" Sarri scowled at her brother. "The planet only needs one of those."
"Who's Dan?" asked Raven, utterly confused.
"Just a creep." Was Ty's answer. "Okay, you can keep the Gundam shirt. You can have this one. See? It has little teddy bears on it. I don't think anyone minds me trashing this one. Sara? Jannie?" He turned to the girls for their opinion. All he got was the "you are such an idiot" And "I can't believe I'm related to this dweeb" stares.
Raven caught the teddy bear shirt and pulled it over his head. "Thanks. Now, what're we having?"
"Take your pick. Spaghetti and meatballs or hamburgers." Richard walked into the room wearing an apron. "Oh, Ty and Sarri, Wyrna's here. Don't throw anything in her direction. Okay?" When his children nodded, Richard continued: "Okay, who wants what?"
Sara and Jannie both opted for the hamburgers. Ty and Raven yelled at the same time. "BOTH!!!" which prompted Jannie to snort and say, "typical male."
Both Richard and Raven's father insisted on seeing them before dinner, so they could take before and after pictures. There was much whispering and laughter from the two girls at this. Me and Ty had better watch out. Those two are planning something evil, and very evil.
Apparently, Ty had the same thought, and the two boys lost no time in getting to the kitchen where Richard, Andrew, (Raven's Dad) and a graceful looking woman with long black hair sat.
The woman stood and smiled, revealing very white, even teeth. "Hello." She said, her voice had a slight accent that Raven couldn't quite place. "My name is Wyrna. I'm Tyler and Sara's grandmother."
Raven lifted an eyebrow. No way. She can't be more than twenty-five! Richard looks older than she does!
Ty nodded a greeting at the woman who claimed to be his grandmother, and grabbed a plate. "Food. Now." His father rolled his eyes, but chose not to comment.
When Raven and Ty both got their dinners, they went into the little niche that had been set aside as the "kids table." Jannie, however, objected strongly to that term, so it was renamed "The Eating Area for People of Younger Years," or TEAPYY.
The adults took their places in the more formal dining room, (Jannie called it The Old Peoples' Table) and shut the door.
For about five seconds, there was silence. Each kid took a bite of his or her hamburger, nearly at the same time. Ten more beats of silence.
"FOOD
FIGHT!!!!!!"
Within seconds, Raven had half a plate of spaghetti in his face. He threw a carrot at his attacker, (who turned out to be Jannie) and wound up with a tomato slice hanging from his nose.
Ty wasn't faring much better against his sister. Sara had managed to get a whole bottle of ketchup and was squirting it all over her brother. She herself was splattered with tomato sauce, and her blond hair was made yellower with mustard.
After about five minutes of this, Richard opened the door.
Total silence.
The older man took a good look at each one of the kids. Jannie with mustard, ketchup, and carrot-bits all over her, Sara with her new hairstyle, Raven with his spaghetti facial, and his son Ty with his formerly blue shirt, now dyed red. He didn't even smile. The four kids blinked. He slowly reached behind him, and pulled something from his pocket.
*flash!*
A camera.
Richard was
then forced to exit the room quickly, under pain of being sprayed with mustard
and ketchup.
Of course, a four-person food fight can't last very long. Everyone gets tired of it after a while, and this was really no exception.
They got new plates of food and sat down again.
Sara was grinning evilly at her brother. "That's for dying my hair pink, twerp!"
Ty bit his tongue, then stuck it out at her. "Take a running jump, sister."
Sara laughed at him, and she and Jannie wolfed down their food as fast as they could. Then they excused themselves and ran towards Sara's room.
They had a lot to talk about.
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Jannie and Sarri had been friends since they had first met one another: Their freshman year at Ramsa High. At first, they had distrusted each other, because they could each sense that the other wasn't human. Gradually, they discovered that that particular high school was overrun by witches, Tristes, and...things.
Sarri and Jannie both fell into the 'things' category.
To any normal being, such as a human, Jannie was completely average, except for her brilliant lilac colored eyes. Even to a vampire, she was indistinguishable. But, to a Deamon such as Sarri, it was obvious that she was something else.
However, this 'something else' wasn't clear to Sarri until she had asked Wyrna, who told her that Jannie was something called a Geoni, and that it was none of her business.
But now, there was Raven.
"He's gonna be in Ty's class." Said Jannie in a hushed voice. "I hear that Silver's after him, that he's gonna send someone out to keep an eye on him."
Sarri nodded. "Definitely. Probably Jessica, she knows Ramsa well enough."
"Oh, come on. She hated Ramsa! Besides, she was a Senior when she was changed. Raven'll be a Sophomore."
"Yeah, but she's not stupid. She'll do what Silver tells her to do. He's stronger than her."
Jannie laughed. "Yeah, then she'd write one of her stories about him!"
The Deamon girl's eyes glittered. "You weren't there when they had the fight, were you?"
"Fight?" Jannie's ears perked up. "Jessica vs. Silver? They fought?"
Sarri nodded. "Yeah. That's how I know it'll be her, because the fight was over who would go to keep track of Raven. She had said: I'll be damned if I'll keep watch over a stupid human for you! And he said: You already are, so why don't you do it? It went downhill from there."
Jannie looked slightly disappointed. "You mean she didn't try to attack him?"
"Nah. Like I said. She's not stupid." Sarri leaned back and put her hands behind her head. "But you gotta wonder, why is this kid so important to Silver? Ty said it was because of his mother, but that makes no sense."
"Hey, don't look at me. You Deamons are closer to vampires than I am."
"Yeah, you're right."
The rest of the evening was spent by the two girls planning on how they could drug Ty into sleeping while they painted his fingernails a bright, lurid pink. However, something kept nagging Sarri in the back of her mind, something about Raven.
A question that went unanswered until that night.
To be continued.
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