Thank you for who has left me those few reviews. They have helped me in this story a lot. A special thanks to Gweneth Black, I'll try as much as I can, not to confuse you. The tenses thing I may have to work on a little more if I do say so myself. Carbuncle Goddness thank you for reading my story I hope you enjoy the rest of it. Enjoy chapter 3, and don't doubt I'll stop here!

New Age Goddess

Chapter 3

Making a New Friend

"Well it wasn't that bad shopping with a guy cousin now was it?" Michael said looking back to the road as they pulled out of the mall. "I'm sure you'll like it at school too."

"No it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be." Wanisha was still a little nervous about being around him, "What school am I going to be going to?"

"La Brea High, don't worry I'll introduce you to lots of people. I think you'll be good friends with my girlfriend and her group."

"You have a girlfriend?" Wanisha joked.

"Yeah her name is Vanessa and she's a really great soccer player. Do you like soccer?"

"It's okay I guess, but softball is my sport."

"That's good you have a while to get to know people before the season starts."

The rest of the way home was mostly silence except for the other cars on the freeway. No matter how much they talked they still didn't seem to click like they had planed. What they were trying was going well, talking always helps. Wanisha looked up in the sky. From the freeway in L.A. you really couldn't see the stars. She loved looking at the stars they had a way of comforting her and making her feel good. The moon most of all made her feel like she could walk the world and not be afraid at all. Those were only dreams though. No one could really feel the way she thought.

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Later that night when in her new room Wanisha laid on the bed. The room smelled of fresh flowers. The flowers that her uncle had brought her home as a gift for moving into her new room and practically starting over. No pink in the room was a great start she whispered to herself while looking around the room. The walls were a musty white. She only had one dresser and a mirror which were on the other wall. Her bed was in a corner close to the window. That way she would be able to see the moon. Everything seemed to be going good. The carpet was very nice color too. It felt great under her feel. The look was her very own style she finally decided. The curtains were a light lavender and added just the color the walls needed. The be cover was more for what you could say royalty. A canvas of a gold material was draped over the bed; more like it just floated over the bed. The bed comforter was a deep hypnotizing purple with golden pillows at the head of the bed.

Wanisha set on her bed looking like a queen when Michael knocked at the door.

"Come in"

"Hi Wanisha, I was wondering if you wanted to come with me to this really hot hang out." Michael was kind of nervous, "You can have a chance to meet some really nice people there too!"

" Sure, only if you stay with me. I don't know anyone here you know."

" Okay, you can even have a chance to get to know my girlfriend. She is really nice and so are her friends."

" That would be fine. Umm...What would I wear to something like that?"

"Well clothes."

"Like what Mike?"

"You know what once you meet Vanessa I'm sure she can help you in that area. I think clothes are clothes. I'll see you in the morning. Be ready at seven-thirty, I have to be at school early."

"Sure thing."

Wanisha laid back on her pillows. Looking up at the ceiling she thought about her mother and father. She never got to say good-bye. They must have thought she was the worst daughter. Wanisha's thoughts were interrupted when she heard something at her window. Pulling back the curtain she looked out, seeing nothing she let the curtains fall back. Then the tapping on the window started again. Again Wanisha looked out only to see the lawn motionless. Then she seen someone in the shadows. She opened her window to yell at the person when they stepped into the light.

It was Russell her old boyfriend. Wanisha looked for the easiest way to get down to see him. She told them she would be right down that she was going to come out the back door. Really she couldn't do that. Wanisha was different though. She usually had a fear of using her power. She thought she might one day get caught in animal form, but this one time she could risk it just to see Russell.

Wanisha expanded her molecules and then before you knew it her eyes slanted and yellow. Her arms started to pull together and her legs became one. Scales covered her body. Next thing she was a snake. The door she had cracked was still open a little. Wanisha turned the corner to got down the stairs that led to the kitchen and not the front door.

Once in the kitchen Wanisha looked around as best as she could. Good luck was with her, there was a doggy door. She slide right up to it and lifted her head right to the outside. She was in the back yard she closed the her snake eyes and imagined herself as a person again. This time it worked. When she first accidentally had that happen she had been stuck in that form for a while. Wanisha hadn't figured out how she was suppose to get back to her human form. She had felt that she had mastered it though. All she knew is that it was great for sneaking out.

In the front yard Russell was waiting for her. She ran up to him and gave him a huge hug. Then unexpectedly he kissed her. He smelled of cologne and frosty mist air. Wanisha had missed that smell of him, the way he looked and his body warmth. She looked into his eyes and was swept away all over again. He was the boyfriend that she had left when she ran away from home. She had only see him once after that.

"It's been a while Wanisha." He said looking right into her eyes and not blinking, "I've missed you, a lot. It just hasn't been the same without you."

"How did you find me?"

" Well after I found out about the accident I asked my father to find out where they took you. We were going to take you in if you didn't have family."

"That would have been great."

" I can't go back though. I'm surprised they let me out of the house. They don't want me to run away again. They wouldn't like you though."

"I don't think anyone does." Russell forced a smile.

"Sure, You know I do." Wanisha said as she played with his belt hook.

"I've got you and that's all I need."

"Once I turn 18, I'm all yours."

"Yeah that's only another 6 years."

"Come with me for a while. Just hang out. We're just going to ride around and then we'll bring you back."

"I don't know," Wanisha had said in an unsure attitude. "Who's we?"

"Oh, a new guy that goes to... well I don't know what school he goes to. He doesn't go to my school even though he lives next door. I think they send him to the private school on the east side."

"Oh that's very cool." She whispered as she winked at him. "Do I get to meet him, or just hear about him?"

"You can meet him...I guess, as long as you're still mine afterwards."

"I promise."

"Really promise?"

"Promise." Wanisha did her tilt head cute look for him.

Russell was totally convinced. Wanisha seriously thought that was another one of her powers. She was great at that look. They walked over to the black H2 hummer. If she wasn't told it was there she would have overlooked it. He opened the door and a the light didn't turn on like a normal vehicle.

"Hi sorry about the light. I don't know why it's not working. My names Kevin. Nice to meet you Wanisha, I heard a lot about you." Kevin reached his hand out to shake her hand and he pulled her in the hummer at the same time.

Once in the hummer Wanisha was pulled closer to Kevin, because he kept pulling her towards him. He held her close and whispered in her ear so delicately.

"I want you to be mine."

After that Wanisha thought about Russell as he climbed in. Her mind went a little strange. She felt a little tingly inside her mind and thought about things she hadn't thought about in a while. Then she was left with the memory of her mother and father. Kevin was looking at Wanisha strangely as she came out of her dreamlike stage. Wanisha was really confused. Something wasn't right. When Russell got ready to go Wanisha slid close up to him, feeling more comfortable.

For the next hour they rode down town and over to the beach. They had got out and sat on the big rocks above the beach front. The moon was out and Wanisha had sat there for at least another hour just looking at it. Kevin's face was finally reviled in the light of the moon, even though he seemed to hide from the light. Kevin was very well built and he wore a black thin T under a leather black vest. His jeans were more of the baggy type pant and it seemed to Wanisha all he wore was black. Even his boxers, that were seen over the sagging pants, were black. He had blonde hair that showed in the moon like a star on earth. His long bangs that didn't stay slicked back hung in his eyes. Every once in a while he would brisk them out of his eyes. Then you would see very exotic brown eyes that seemed to glow a emerald green in the light. Kevin had the attitude of a very sly kind of cloudy personality. He was big on jokes though. Kevin again asked Wanisha to be all his. Wanisha was so tempted, but was pulled back by thoughts and feelings of Russell.

On the way back after all the joy of being really extremely happy Wanisha was very tired. She fell asleep before Kevin and Russell got her home. She fell asleep with her hands together, propping up her head against Russell's shoulder. Wanisha could feel Russell brush his hands through her hair and he would whisper to her as if she were still really awake. She knew he liked her when he talked to her in her dreams. Wanisha could hear another voice travel across her mind.

"Do you want to be mine, you could have anything."

The voice didn't scare her or bother her. It soothed her mind to relax and think of Kevin. It was rather odd at first though. The words stayed in her mind and they wanted to explore her, it seemed like. They were calming and the voice is one she had heard before.

Russell slid Wanisha out of the hummer. Holding her in his arms He seen how small she was he was very careful with her. Her hair flew and flutter in the wind. She smelt of a deep meadow flowers, which reminded him of living in the country. Kevin came around. He held out his hands gesturing Russell to put Wanisha in his arms. The look of puzzlement was on Russell's face.

"Man, if you give her to me then I'll be the one they wont let her see." He said this while holding out his hands, "That way you can still see each other after she is ungrounded."

"Ok, but if you get hurt it's not my fault."

"I got this one. I'm good at bad things."

"I'd believe that...Is that why you moved here?"

"Yes and no. My family is looking for someone."

"Who, maybe I know them."

"No, we really don't know who it is. We have to find them to give them what is rightfully theirs."

"Are you looking for more of your family Kevin?"

"Yeah family," he said with an evil smile that was hidden by the shadows.

Kevin took Wanisha in his muscular arms that were as gentle as if he were cradling a baby. He starts walking her around the side of the house after Russell got back into the hummer. Once in the back yard he admired the settings. He started thinking about how to get into the house. He didn't know which window was hers'. That was out of the question to ask her guardian, or her cousin. He decided he had no choice. The doggy door was his only other way. Kevin hoped Wanisha didn't wake up while they were in shadow form. Kevin released his and Wanisha's bodies to let them blend into the night until they were no more then phantoms formed among the shadows of a dark from the house.

Kevin glided through the darkest shadows and then went up the side of the house. It was all the better that the full moon was on the other side of the house at this time of the night. Kevin looked in the windows of the house. None of them looked like a girl's room. He went through the crack of the window of a room that was empty. Kevin searched the rooms down the hall. Coming to a door that had a sign saying Wanisha's room; he glided in. He gathered Wanisha and himself back to human there form.

Kevin walked Wanisha over to her beautifully decorated bed. He pulled the covers back to put Wanisha in her bed. Wanisha moaned and turned over. Kevin pulled the covers up over her shoulders. He settled everything to his liking before he sat next to her for a while, to watch her sleep. When he got ready to go he did one last thing that would leave her dreaming of him. A message across her mind.

"I love you. Will you be mine? Being Kevin's you could have anything you have ever dreamed of."

Kevin gave her a kiss on her temple right before he left. The night was an open meadow of dreams for Wanisha. What seemed to be forever was only a few minutes in Wanisha's room.

I enjoyed the reviews I got from you all. Anything helps is what I say. I'll probably have chapter 4 out by 3/13/03 because I've got most of it done. I just don't know how to really end the chapter. If it's not out by then I promise to have it out soon. What do you think of the new Characters? Is Russell not watching his girlfriend good enough? Where is Kevin from? What will happen next? I don't even think I know that one. Well I have a good idea though. I love you all just for taking time to read my story.