Part
ten
"Hi Mrs. Blake," I said as I
walked into her house.
"Hi Liese," she said
smiling.
"So, Cassie how are you?" I
asked as my sister, brother, mother and I were
directed towards the dinning
room table.
"I'm good," she said smiling
at me.
Adam was there too. I'm
guessing that they're boyfriend and girlfriend.
"Hi Liese," he said to
me.
"Hey," I said as I looked at the platter of spiral ham that
was set in the
middle of the
table.
"Liese, some ham?" asked
Mrs. Blake.
"Ummm no thanxs, I don't eat
meat," I said.
"Oh dear, then I'll go get
you something else," she said as she was about
ready to get
up.
"No it's cool, I'm on a
fruits and veggie fast anyhow," I said only half
lying.
"You are not," said Deanna
helping herself to the ham.
'Yes I am, I just started it
an hour ago," I said looking up as Mr. Blake
walked in and sat at the
table.
I felt tension in the
room.
"Hello Deanna, Liese, Evan,
Mrs. Anders." he said nodding his head in hello.
"Hey," we all
said.
Two Hours
Later.....
"Well that was strange,"
Deanna stated as we walked inside of our house.
"I have a feeling that they
don't like Mr. Blake," Evan said.
"Me too," mom
said.
"Well, night," I
said.
"Night sweets," mom
said.
I walked up stairs and got
into my pajamas. They were a blue silk. Shorts
and a t-shirt of blue silk.
I went to the upstairs bathroom and brushed my
teeth. Then I washed my
face. I headed back to my room, turned on my stereo
and all I heard was
Jewel's Deep
Water.
You find yourself falling
down
Your hopes in the
sky
But your heart like grape
gum on the ground
And you try to find
yourself
In the abstractions of
religion
And the cruelty of everyone
else
And you wake up to
realize
Your standard living somehow
got stuck on survive
When you're standing in deep
water
And you're bailing yourself
out with a straw
And when you're drowning in
deep water
And you wake up making love
to a wall
Well it's these little times
that help to remind
It's nothing without
love
You wake up to realize your
only friend
Has never been yourself or
anyone who cared in the end
That's when suddenly
everything fades or falls away
Cause the chains which once
held us are only chains which we've made
When you're standing in deep
water
And you're bailing yourself
out with a straw
And when you're drowning in
deep water
And you wake up making love
to a wall
Well it's these little times
that help to remind
It's nothing without love,
love, love
It's nothing without
love
We've compromised our
pride
And sacrificed our
health
We must demand
more
Not of each
other
But more from
ourselves
'Cause when you're standing
in deep water
And you're bailing yourself
out with a straw
When you're drowning in deep
water
And you wake up making love
to a wall
Well it's these little times
that help to remind
It's nothing without love,
love, love
It's nothing without
love
It's nothing without
love
I feel asleep as the last
love was said.
The next
morning....
Ring, ring, ring,
ring
God what is that awful
noise????? I thought to myself as I lifted my head up
off of my pillow.
"Freaken alarm clock," I
said as I threw it across the room and got out of
bed.
I walked over to my closet
and rummaged through it.
"What to wear, what to
wear," I said.
I came across my new Armani,
black suit. It was all black. From the long
black coat to the pants.
There was a wide square v on the top of the long
black sleeved shirt and
another opening at the bottom. I headed towards the
my bathroom. I turned the
cold water on. I take cold showers in the morning
to wake me up. And slipped
into it. I scrubbed down this time using my Oui
soup. I scrubbed my head
with my Herbal Essence shampoo and conditioner and
hopped out. I put on my
Armani suit and went over to the closet to get my
black leather boots that had
the zipper on the side of them. I walked over
to the mirror putting on my
peach lip gloss, put a little black mascara on
and looked at
myself.
"Hmmm, something is
missing," I said to myself in the mirror.
I reached for my hairchops
and twisted my hair into a professional, but cute
bun and jammed the black
hairchops in. I went into my sock drawer and pulled
out my classes. I think
today was going to be my professional looking day.
There, I look good. The red
streaks in my hair were shining exceptionally
bright
today.
"Deanna!!!!! Are you done
yet??" Evan said pounding on the bathroom door.
I loved it that I got to get
my own bathroom.
"Evan," I
said.
"Oh thank you Liese," he
said, knowing what I was going to say.
"No problem," I said as I
went down stairs.
"Well, you look very nice
today Liese," Ann-Marie(mom) said.
"Thanxs, I decided that
today was going to be my sophisticated day," I said
as I sat
down.
"Honey, I meant to ask you
this early, why last night did you say you didn't
eat meat??" she
asked.
"Well, I just decided then
that I didn't want to eat any ham today, but I
didn't want to say that I
didn't want it because that day was a no-meater
day for me ya know. SO I
said the first thing that came to me." I said as I
sat down at the table with
my bowl of Special K and an orange, with apple
juice.
"Man oh man," I heard Deanna
say as she came down the stairs and got out her
bagel with no cream cheese
regular breakfast.
"What's wrong?" I
asked.
Deanna only said "Man oh
man" when something was wrong.
"I haven't figured out what
to say to Chris today. After what you did to him
I doubt he'll even talk to
me," she said.
"I thought of something for
you, but you'll have to wait until 3rd hour," I
said.
Deanna had third hour
history with me and Chris, along with all his other
friends, including Faye had
that class as well.
"Come on guys," Evan said as
his pop tarts popped out of the toaster.
We grabbed our bags and
left.
3rd
hour....
Deanna grabbed
me.
"You never told me what I
was to say," she whispered harshly into my ear.
"Did I say you were going to
say anything?" I asked as I pushed her into
Chris's lap as we passed
by.
Chris looked at me as I
walked back to my seat.
"Umm, hi," Deanna said, her
voice wobbly.
I looked over at her and
noticed that he hadn't pushed off his lap. But then
Deanna got off and sat in
the other chair in front of him.
"Hi," he said
smiling.
"So, um, um, um," Deanna
stammered.
Oh god, she's making a
complete fool of her self. I looked around to see
what I could do. I saw that
there was going to be a Valentine's dance on the
14th of
February.
"So, Chris, what are you
doing on the 16th of February?" I asked.
"Um, nothing," he said
looking back at me.
"Well, good cause now you
are doing something. You're going to take Deanna
to the V-Dance," I
said.
"LIESE!!! Ask him first
don't demand it," she said blushing furiously.
"You don't mind taking her
do you?" I asked.
"No not at all," he said
smiling while bending his head down at the same
time.
"Peachy, but since that's
one month away how bout a trial base?? How bout
this Friday??? To the movies
or whatever??" I said leaning on my elbow.
"Okay," he said looking at
Deanna.
Deanna blushed and got
up.
"I'm going to kill you
Liese," she whispered as she walked by me.
"Ahh, you'll thank me on
Saturday," I said folding my hands on the desk and
looking up at
her.
"Haa," she said glaring at
me.
I realized then that the
whole class was looking at me along with the
teacher.
"What?" I said shrugging my
shoulders as a smile crept up on to my face.
"Do you do that often??" the
teacher asked.
"Only to embarrass my
sister," I said.
He looked at
me.
"The Revolutionary War," he
said as he started to teach.
The bell rang 45 minutes
later. I got up, gathered my books and started to
walk out the
door.
"Uh, Liese," said the
teacher.
"Yeah??" I turned back
around towards the teacher.
"Do you think you could do
what you did with your sister for me?? Well,
maybe not exactly like that
but, ya know," he said as he fidgeted with his
hand.
I shook my head and
laughed.
"Tell me who the victim is,"
I said.
"Mrs. Kensington," he said.
"The gym teacher?" I
asked.
"Yeah," he
said.
"Well I don't have gym, but when it's lunch I'm going
to stop by the art
room so I'll stop by there
and I'll put in a few good words for you," I said
as I smiled at him and
walked away.
"Thank you. Young kids are
so useful these days," he said.
Part eleven heading towards
the art room
"Hello, Miss Kensington??" I
said as I went into the gym.
"Yes dear, can I help you?"
she said.
She was middle aged with
hair turning white, but she had bright blue eyes.
Mr. Turner and she were
about the same age. They would be perfect together I
think.
"Mr. Turner needs to have a
few words with you," I said.
"Oh? What so about?" she
questioned.
"Oh, he wants to ask you out
on a date," I said.
"WHAT???" she
yelled.
"Don't say no," I said and
walked away and went into the art room.
"Miss Hallow? Would it be
alright if I borrow some canvas?" I asked as I saw
the art teacher at her
desk.
"Sure honey. You're art is
amazing. Do you ever think about entering in any
competitions??" she
asked/
"Not really," I
said.
"Well, would you mind
terribly if I entered you into a couple?? And how are
you with sculpting?" she
asked.
"I would mind, and I've
never tried sculpting," I said.
"That's a pity, that you
mind. I'll have to get you into one of my sculpting
classes," she
said.
"Thanxs, I'd like that,
bye!" I said.
I went into the lunch room,
got my food and walked out the door to go
outside.
I looked at the willow tree
that I had wanted to paint and set the piece of
canvas in front of me. I got
my paints and my paint brushes out, I poured a
tiny amount of paint into my
pallet of the colors, green, brown, red, and
gold. Then I got my folded
up easel, picked up my canvas and placed it on. I
grabbed my large hog-hair
paint brush and thinned down the paint with
turpentine. I took out my
head phone set and placed them on my ear. I had
Creed in. Arms Wide Open
came on. As soon as I got
everything situated I
started.
Well I just heard the news
today
It seems my life is going to
change
I closed my eyes, begin to
pray
Then tears of joy stream
down my face
With arms wide
open
Under the
sunlight
Welcome to this
place
I'll show you
everything
With arms wide
open
Well I don't know if I'm
ready
To be the man I have to
be
I'll take a breath, take her
by my side
We stand in awe, we've
created life
With arms wide
open
Under the
sunlight
Welcome to this
place
I'll show you
everything
With arms wide
open
Now everything has
changed
I'll show you
love
I'll show you
everything
With arms wide
open
If I had just one
wish
Only one
demand
I hope he's not like
me
I hope he
understands
That he can take this
life
And hold it by the
hand
And he can greet the
world
With arms wide
open...
5 minutes
later...
I wisped my brush and
snapped my wrist to make the tree look real, and I
thickened my paint, after I
was done painting the tree, which in order to do
I had to squeeze out some
more paint because paint from the tube was thick.
I wanted it to look slightly
three dimensional. I turned my brush over to
scratch out the effects of
the paint to show the gold, red, brown, and green
leaves better. As I finished
this I took a few steps back and just gazed at
it to see if I missed
anything.
"Very nice," I heard a voice
say behind me.
I turned around to see Nick,
Diana and Cassie's friend.
"Thank you, do you think
it's missing anything?" I asked him.
"It's perfect," said another
voice behind him.
"Hi, who are you?" I
said.
"I'm Laurel and this is
Melanie," she said.
"If you like it that much,"
I said as I saw Laurel gazing at it like it was
a master piece," Then you
can have it."
"Really??" she
asked.
"Why not?" I
asked.
"Well, I figured painters as
good as you wouldn't give them away," she said.
"Ahh, I was just fooling
around with this anyhow. I know what it's missing
know, fallen leaves should
be at the bottom," I said as I started up again.
"You guys aren't allowed out
here," said Portia.
But as she saw my painting
she stopped.
"Wow," she said "You're
amazing."
"Thanxs," I said as I
finished with the fallen leaves "Now, what were you
saying?"
"You can't be out here," she
demanded putting her hands on her hips.
"Why? Oh right, violation of
Type A," I said emphazing on my words.
I took the canvas off of my
easel, handed it to Laurel, folded my easel but
it back into my paint bag,
along with my paints and paint
brushes, then
turned to walk back into the
lunch room.
"Oh Laurel, that paint will
dry in about 20 minutes so you don't need to
worry about it being wet
when you take it home," I said as
we all walked
though the
door.
I saw that Deanna and Chris
were sitting together. I looked over a smiled at
them. They got
up.
"Liese you did another
painting again didn't you??" she asked.
"Yep," I
said.
"Our house is full of her
paintings," she said to Chris "I want to see it."
I noticed that they were
holding hands. I smiled again. Just then Diana,
Cassie and the others came
over.
"Oh Liese, it's beautiful!!
It looks so real," Deanna said.
"Were are you going to put
that one?? We have no more wall space," said
Evan.
"I gave it to Laurel," I
said as I walked past everyone. "I have to go to
the library, see ya. Oh
Evan, can you take my art bag?"
"Sure," he said as he
extended his hand to take it.
"Thanxs," I said as I walked
out of the cafeteria.
After
school....
"Oh wow," I said as I walked
passed a black motorcycle.
I stopped and bent down to
look at it. I had to push my
classes up.
"This is amazing," I said to
myself.
"I think so too," said
Deborah as she walked up to it.
"Yours??" I questioned as I
looked up at her.
"Yep, not suppose to have it
on school grounds put I just brought it today,
so I have to get out of here
fast. You want go for a ride?" she asked.
"Hell yeah," I said standing
up.
"Hello no," said a voice
behind me.
"Evan, who the hell made you
the boss of me," I asked as I turned around to
see him with Deanna and
Chris.
"You aren't going," he
said.
"Oh yes I am," I said as I
watched Deborah get on.
"Don't you at least have any helmets??" he
questioned Deb.
"Nope," she
said.
"Don't worry she's good
enough not to crash," said Nick.
"There is always a chance,"
Evan said.
"Bye," I
said.
"Damnit Liese," he
said.
I pulled out my hairchops
and felt my hair flow down over my shoulders. I
turned my head to smile at
the others and we took off.
Part twelve still on the
motorcycle
"This is amazing!!!!!" I
yelled over the roar of the wind.
"Idnit though?" she yelled
back.
My hair flew and flapped in
front of my face as we turned the corner. I had
to lean with Deb. It felt
like I was going to fall off so I held on tighter
to her waist. All of a
sudden Deb lost control.
"What's wrong?" I yelled as
we started going uncontrollably faster than
usual.
"Black John," was her
answer.
"HUH?" I yelled just as we
crashed into a tree.
Deb flew and I could here
her neck crack as I crashed to the ground on the
other
side.
"Deb??? oh no!!" I said
getting up.
I wasn't hurt at all, then
again I never get hurt, ever.
"Deb," I
said.
I can't feel her life force
anymore.
I squatted down and placed
my hands on her neck. I could feel my life force
flow into her. My hands
became all hot and started to glow a neon green/gold
color.
"hsssssssssshhhhhhhh" Deb
sat up and sucked in breath.
"There," I said standing
up.
Man oh man I had a migraine
the size of Texas. Queasy, queasy. I always get
a headache when I heal
people.
"I was dead!!!" Deb said as
she got up.
"Yeah, you can't tell
anyone!!!" I said. "Bring your bike over to my house
tomorrow at 12 o'clock. Not
one will be there and I'll fix it then."
I started to walk towards my
house. Geez we were only 3 blocks away.
"Deb, I need you to promise
me that you won't tell anyone about this!! I
have these abilities. I
don't know why, but I have them. I think it has to
do with why I have blood
tears. I can see the future and I can heal people
and things," I said looking
at her bike.
"I won't tell anyone," she
said as she looked at me walk away.
At
home.....
I ran up stairs, took four
Excedrin and zonked out on my bed.
~~~~~~~~~Circle Meeting,
without Black John knowing about it. 3rd person POV
"Deb are you okay, you're
acting really weird," said Nick.
"I'm fine," she
said.
"Yeah whatever," he
said.
"Yeah, whatever," she
said.
"Okay, Faye what do you have
to tell us?" Cassie said.
"That Liese girl. On the
first day that she came and we kind of had a little
brawl, well anyhow I tried
to use my powers on her, but I couldn't," Faye
said.
"You just leave her alone
okay!!!!" Deb yelled at her as she got up and
started walking around the
circle.
They had decided that it
would be at Nicks house because that would be where
Black John would least
suspect.
"What is up your ass??" Faye
asked.
"She brought me back to
life," Deb said.
"What???" everyone said at
the same time.
The next day,
Thursday.....Liese's POV
Another day of choosing out
outfits. Let's see what I shall were today.
"I think that this is good,"
I said.
It was a black turtle neck
sweater and black pants that weren't sweater
pants, but a material of
sweater. This time my hair would be down and wild
and my lip gloss would be
plum.
I walked downstairs with the
usual happening. Deanna taking forever in the
shower and Evan pounding
then running into my bathroom.
"Guys, I need to leave early
so have Mom give you all a ride," I said as I
walked out the door before
they could say anything.
3 minutes
later.....
"Hey, what are you doing
this weekend??" asked Doug as I got out of the
jeep.
"Well, I'm going to rent
movies, stuff my face with ice cream, cookies,
fudge and any other junk
foods you could imagine, and then I'll go throw up
from eating to much. After I
get down blowing chunks, I'll do it all over
again," I said and
smiled.
"Kay, um you wanna go out
with me?" he asked.
"Um no," I
said.
"Why?" he
asked.
"Because I don't do that," I
said starting to walk towards the school doors.
"You don't go out??" he
asked as he grabbed my hand and turned me around "Or
you don't have
fun?"
"Both," I said giving him a
quick smile and going into the school.
"Damn she blew you off," I
heard someone say to him.
"Shut up Nick, why don't you
try. I bet she'll even say no to you," he said.
"Nah," he
said.
"I dare you!" Doug
said.
"Okay," he
said.
Oooooh I'm a dare now. I
thought as the door shut and I heard nothing else.
Part Thirteen Thursday
afternoon
"Mom, I'm going
to go to this house that is asking, in the paper,
for a talented painter to
paint their daughter," I said.
"How far away is
it??"
"I think it's
only three blocks away," I said.
"Okay, be back
around 5 for dinner," she said as she continued
painting.
I went outside
and got into the jeep. I headed towards Salem Ave.
As I went down
the block I saw Deanna walking home with Chris, Doug,
Laurel, Melanie, Cassie,
Deb, Diana, Adam, Evan, and Nick.
Big group.
"Hey, you guys
need a ride??" I asked as I rolled down the window.
"Nope, we're just
going to our house. Mom has invited everyone for
dinner. Even Faye. Then
tomorrow night we're goning to have their parents
and grandparents over," said
Deanna.
"Oh joy," I said
sarcastically "Well, see ya."
I drove away.
Before I knew it I was there.
"Well Liese
here's your chance," I said to myself.
I jogged up the
stairs and stopped to straighten myself up before I
knocked on the door. I took
three deep breaths and took my chance.
"Hello can I help
you?" said the beautiful young women.
"Hi, I'm here
from the add in the paper. You wanted a talented
painter to paint your
daughter," I said.
"Oh yes, come in
did you bring some of your work?" she asked.
"Oh, no, was I
suppose to?" I asked starting to hypervenalate.
"Well yes, but
that's all right. I can tell when someone is talented
and you have painter hands,"
she said smiling at me.
""How can you
tell?" I asked looking at my hands.
"Only because you
have paint all over them," she said laughing.
"Oh right, I
practiced before I came over," I said smiling.
"Okay well let's
get started," she said.
"Now??" I
asked.
"Yeah," she said
looking at me "Hallie!!" she called.
A little angel of
a girl came galloping down the stairs.
"Yes mommy?" she
asked.
"Are you ready to
get painted?" she asked.
"Oh yes. Hi," she
said turning to me and extending her hand.
Wow, she's so
proper.
"Hi, I'm Liese
Anders," I said bending down to shake her hand.
"Hi, I'm Hallie
Paris," she said.
"So let's go,"
said her mother.
"Okay," I
said.
"Now, you won't
be painting today. I just want you to look at the
rooms and see where you
would like to paint her,"
she
said.
"Um, Mrs. Paris,
if you're giving me a choice I would like to paint
her outside," I said looking
out at her flower garden.
It was full of
all sorts of colorful flowers.
That would be fun
to paint with the little girl lying in them with
her arms spread out on
either side of her.
"I see what you
mean. Okay then, lets go," we headed through the
elegant
house.
Everything was
gold. Gold rugs, gold trimming, even gold flowers. It
was so beautiful. The
furniture wasn't as gold as the other things in the
house, but a little lighter.
We were at the back door and then we were
outside.
"What I was
thinking is that Hallie could lay in this little path
with her arms spread out on
either side. Her eyes shut like she's sleeping,"
I
said.
"I like that.
What should she wear?" Mrs. Paris asked.
"How about
something gentle, white!! White is good. White dress with
just white socks on," I
said.
"Good," Mrs.
Paris said.
"So, I'll see you
tomorrow, same time?" I asked.
"Yeah, I'll pay
you $100 dollars on hour, and 2 hours a day of
working, until your done,
and when you do extra time you'll get 150. Honey
close your mouth," she said
to me.
"Oh, I'm sorry,
$100 dollars an hour??" I asked.
"Yes, maybe extra
if you're as good as you say. Good
day Liese,"
she
said.
"Thank you, a
good d-day to you too," I said and went around the
front to my
car.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~Back
at the house
"Hi honey I'm
home," I yelled as I shut the front door.
I walked into the
living room where Faye, Laurel, Cassie, Nick,
Adam, Diana, Sean, Melanie,
Doug, Chris, Evan, and Deanna were sitting and
talking. Evan was slouched
in the recliner and Diana, Cassie, and Adam were
sharing the couch with
Cassie's head on Adam's lap and her feet on Diana's
lap. The rest were on the
floor. I went over to Evan and Jumped into his lap
so that my feet hung over
the arm of one side and my head resting on his
shoulder.
"I got the job.
$100 dollars an hour," I said as I stretched out my
arms and
sighed.
"A $100 DOLLARS
AN HOUR???????" everyone screamed.
"Yeah, isn't it
great????" I asked.
I swung around
and wrapped my arms around Evan's neck. Then I kissed
him on his forehead and got
up.
"I'm going to go
take a shower," I said.
"Hey, where's my
kiss???" asked Nick.
"Only because I'm
in a good mood," I said as I walked through
everyone and bent down to
kiss his forehead.
I meant to kiss
his forehead, but he moved his head so that my lips
landed on his lips. His hand
came up and wrapped around the back off my
head. and held me closer and
tighter to him. I went to my knees. I felt
something wet. His tongue.
He teased my lips apart and soon our tongues were
massaging each others. After
what seemed like hours he pulled away. My eyes
were still
closed.
"Ummm, that was
cooool," I said hearing the dreamy sound in my
voice. I lifted my head up
for more.
I realized what I
had just done then opened my eyes and just popped
up.
"SSSSSSS, A-a-a
thank you," I said as I sucked in breathe.
I swung around
and ran upstairs.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~3rd
POV
"That was Liese
first kiss!!!!!!!!" Deanna screamed as she popped
up.
"What??" said
Nick and Doug.
"Oh Nick!!!! You
were her first real kiss. That is so sweet!!"
Deanna
screamed.
"Oh, well Doug,"
said Nick looking at him like
I-just-passed-through-part-one-and-before-you-know-itI'll-have-a-date-with-h
er.
