Chapter 3 Can We Come

Deuce POV

I looked into her crystal blue eyes and it felt like she is looking into my soul, seeing all of me not just the cool guy at school. But she accepted all my faults even my mother who hates her. I almost felt bad that I still didn't say a word other that I would even think about lying to her.

I listened to the roar of the crowd, just weighing my options as the laughter of my teamets filled the excited air. I let out this sigh as I looked back into Cleo's eyes. I could tell that she was worried about me from the concern that is shimmering in her eyes.

I let out this growl and slipped her hand on my hand for a moment before squeezing and staring at me straight in the eyes. I could feel this electricity going through my body. "Fine if you really must know I am going to have to head to Greece for spring break."

I could see the way that her eyes clouded over with confusion like she didn't understand, what I could possibly be upset about. I sighed and shook my head sadly "I don't get it." I growled under my breath that part was obvious. "Never mind the others are coming and I don't want to talk about it."

I watch as the other ghouls walking over to us. Frankie sat down as I watch the electricity exploded from the nodes on her neck. She must have been excited just as the rest of us. I sighed as Clawd and Dracula walked over to us and took seats across from us. As the slammed their traits on the table the team looked up and Heath noticed that we were sitting.

"Hey man wants up, you did not sit with the guys." So they did notice that there was something bugging me. This was really messing with my social life and I don't think that I would have figured that it would.

I looked at them, I didn't have enough time to think about a good life so I didn't even answer the question. I was going to drop the subject but before I could change the subject. But before I could even respond Cleo began to talk to them, telling them all of my business.

"Deuce is going to be going to Greece, so we will have to hang out on break without him. But he doesn't seem too excited about it." I looked at Cleo she had some nerve what the hell was wrong with her I told her that I didn't want them to know anything about and she didn't even fully understand.

I let out this low growl and tried to keep from cursing in Greek under my breath. When I turned to look at Claud he had this probing look in his eyes as I mumbled under my breath.

"Yeah, I'm going to see my father theses next two weeks." I chuckled to myself when they looked up stunned. I had never mentioned my father to any of them before not even Cleo except to tell her that I didn't want to talk to him.

This was the exact reason that I hadn't said anything they all seemed was one of the many reasons that I hadn't said a word to them, is to convening not even explained not to mention I don't want to talk about it. In the silence of their confusion, a pale girl with pretty pink hair and pale glowing skin walked over to me. Her wings were pink but they were a lighter shade of pink that her hair.

"Hey Deuce, you heading to Greece this break." I sighed but nodded my head there was no point in saying no I would just see her there. "Alright later." She waved over her shoulder and ran off, to gods knows where. I let out this sigh as Heath came over and smiled wide.

"You have to take us." I let out this growl it was the last thing that I want to do, I didn't even want to do that." I looked at him a then at Claud and shook my head no. "Can't it's supposed to be a family thing I should get going." I hightailed it out of the room before they could ask any more question.

I was walking home with Cleo when she yanked on my arms, I was so lost looking at up at the sky as the sun started to set. I was supposed to go home hours ago but I was got rope into a last-minute date with Cleo. "Deuce!"

I heard her yelling at me but I was so caught up in my thoughts, that I didn't hear her the first my father isn't something that I am never happy about and that's not going to change just because my mom wants it to. I felt a breath leave my lung as a heavy exhale as I turned my head to see Cleo's periwinkle eyes staring at me expently like she has asked me something.

"Yup Cleo whatever you want." I heard her squealing but I didn't know why it was probably because of whatever I just agreed to. "Really you mean it." I knew that if I did no and that said that I had no clue what she was talking about then I would get yelled at. "Yeah babe whatever you want but I gotta go."

I looked at her and she smiled wide like I had just made her the hell did I just say? "Bye Deuce ." I kissed her lips softly and walked away towards my house, I could see the house off in the distance.

It was high and might a guess the outside of the house was a play white with a blue trimmed. As I got closer and I looked at the large white windows it got me thinking about something that Cleo has told me once.

She said that my house was nice for a minute but her house was a palace which was better than a mansion. But what the hell did she mean it was only 4 floors that weren't conserved a mansion. Was it?

I late out this exhausted sigh as my shoulders slump I'm ready for bed and hearing my moms mouth wouldn't put me at ease any time soon. So as my hand curled around the golden nob the regret that climbed into my heart was hard to ignore as I pushed the door open only to be met with yelling.

I thought that my mom was on the phone with someone. But when I opened the door fully, I noticed how close the voice seemed to the door. When I walk down the dark hallway that led to the foyer I could see my mom standing there.

Her arms folded over her chest as her snakes hissed disapproving at me. I snapped my friend and my snakes let out their own wild hiss as I spoke. "Hey, mom. I know I'm late. I'll start packing right now."

Before she could really dig into me I ran up the stairs two at a times not looking at the ivory that was used to make them. When I walked down the cold hallway I could see that there was a picture of me and my mother at Greece. My father was standing next to her, his arm wrapped around her waist and she seems to happy.

It almost didn't seem real, that was back when we were still happy. So I walked over to my door, the glossy black finish shining as the fluorescent light flooded the floor. I didn't want my mother coming to yell at me so I open the door and closed it shut so that she wouldn't storm in.

I sighed as I fell backward collapsing on the bed feeling emotionally strained as I stood out of the window staring at the tree in front of my mind. The thick brown trunk rose up high enough to touch the fourth-floor window.

I could hear the melody of the bride singing as the sunset truing the bright blue sky into a pitch black that shines with brilliant stars. I wonder just how late that I was which meant if I wanted to pack and eat before knocking out I would have to move fast.

I moved about the room packing a few weeks worth of clothing but my skateboard, I'm sure that the old man has a surfboard at his place he should. Not like I would want to talk to him long enough to know where the board is. I sighed and put my suitcase and my book bag at the door. Making sure my Icoffin charger and my laptop in it.

I smiled to myself at least I made a good time with the packing. But just as I was about to sit on the bed and take a small nap I could hear my mother yelling. I slowly crept down the stair to see that my mother was sitting at the table. As her snake snapped at each other like they were fighting for her attention. I smiled and looked at her.

"Hey, mom." I looked intently at her as my sullen voice seemed to make her sigh, her eyes would have grown said if I could see them."Hey dear, you are late, I told you right after school." I could hear the disappointment and anger in her voice like she expected this to happen and she should have known better.

But instead of a snarling or yelling she hung her head low for a moment before shaking her head sadly."I'm sure that you were with Cleo but it is fine. Sit we are having dinner and your father is picking you up from the airport tomorrow morning." I snarled under my breath that was the last thing that I wanted to deal with right now my but I nodded my head and picked at my food.

I'm guessing at some point my mother noticed that I wasn't eating and poked my elbow pushing it off of the white tablecloths. "Dear, what is wrong?" I grumbled under my breath and sighed "Nothing really it's just thinking back to walk back to the house with Cleo, I kind of zoned out. I'm guessing that Cleo was talking about something important and then she asked me a question.

I said yeah sure whatever she wanted but I don't know what the question even was. I feel like it is going to hit me in the gaydars you know." I watched as this deep frown start to take over his face as her eyes crinkled into crows feet and deep frownlines took over her forehead. "Yes, I suppose so but don't curse, I'm not telling you again I won't have that at the dinner table or at all."

I don't get what the big deal was, dad curses all the time hell he lets me curse when I stay with him for the month as long as I respected my elder, but I guess then again, he wasn't the best role model to have.

"Yeah, mom whatever you say. Can I head up to my room I'm not really hungry and the flight is early in the morning right?" She nodded her head absent as I ran out of the room before I could shove my foot in my mouth again and caused her to start yelling at me.

When I was in my room Coals on the bed not even bothering to unmake it. I did tired and my limbs were too heavy for me to move so I just laid there. Letting my eyes get heavier and heavier until I passé out.

"Deuce are you up." I hear a knock at my door and stirred me from my sleep as I slowly rose from my bed and shut my eyes dimly rubbing the back of my head as I grabbed my glasses and put them on.

Exhaustion sat heavy in my bones as I struggled to sit up in bed this is way too early to be up on a Saturday god this sucks. I shifted slightly as I hear my mother tapping her foot nervously. Like she is trying her best not to barge up in my room but was getting tired on waiting for my response.

"Yeah, mom I am up." I washed the door open wide and my mother walked into her. hair pulled back in a high bun causing her snakes to look higher up and more alert than usual. Her deep ocean blue eyes were staring deep into my soul as she let out this nervous smile.

"Worried to see you father and your uncles." I laugh shallot I would never say it out loud but yes. I didn't have the best relationship with them and the very pit of my stomach lurched at the thought of seeing them again so soon.

But I am not going to say it out loud so instead I simply nodded my head and stood up. I quickly shifted out my clothes and grabbed my bags before hopping in the car. I listened to my mother prattle on as we drove to the airport.

"Deuce remembers your hood, and keep your phone off on the plane, your father is going to call me the moment that he picks you up but I still want you to text me the moment that you land, understood."

Her urgent and worried voice filled the car and she turned the stereo off, her hand fighting around the wheel as she waited for me to yell at her. But I mumbled a simple yes before looking out of the window.

But then I realized something that she said and I let out this annoyed sigh I knew that there was a catch, "Why the hell do I need to put my hood up mom." I looked at her and she let out this ship laugh and grinned as she kept her eyes focused on the black ashplant.

"Well you see I got you the last ticket for Greece, I wanted you really to really have two weeks with our father but the only opening was with the normies so you need to hide your, it's not a big deal it's just that if I wanted for a monster-friendly flight you wouldn't have been there until tomorrow."

Was that her excuse it wouldn't be monster friendly that was bull how the hell was I supposed to keep my snakes form hissing or moving under my hood all it takes is one creaked out passenger and I am so screed. "Dear don't worry about it." I let out a snarl and glared at him for a moment before looking back to see planes taking off me in the clear blue sky.

"I'm not nervous." As I said it I felt her place a hand on my shoulder as the car halted. "Then why did your leg shake." I turned my head, the muscles in my neck feeling stiff and cramp from looking out the window the whole time.

"Don't know, just is, why did you stop the car." As I looked at my mother her blue eyes looked like they were glowing for the worry in them. "We are here pull your hood up." I nodded my head and just did what I was told and she sighed and hugged me in the seat. "Do you need me to walk with you or do you think that you got it." I looked irritatedly at my mother it sounded lame and there is no way that I am going to agree with it.

"Nah I got this, I love you." I kissed her gently on her soft pale skin before hopping out of the car and grabbing my bags out of the backseat before walking into the airport I just hoped they wouldn't ask me to take off my hood I didn't want time breaking.

As I walked through airports scrutiny someone was taunting the guards so they didn't see my snakes in the x-ray. By the time that I got onto the plane, I was a ball of nervous and I don't know if it was the fact that I was on the plane alone for the first time or it was because I would be seeing my father alone for the first time.

"Are you alright. "I snapped my head back from my window to see a little old lady walking over to me she was a ball of wrinkles and she had wispy white hair tied back in a small white bun. I smiled gently at her I'm sure that if I blue on her the wrong way she would crumple.

But as she took the empty pale blue plush seat next to me I could tell from her kind gray eyes that she is begging for someone to talk to her. "Yea I am, what would make you think otherwise?" I looked at her as she laughed little to herself and pulled out a magazine, on the cover was Monster: Freaks of Natures. "Your leg is shaking dear." I looked down at my leg and she was right it as moving so fast I didn't think that I would be able to see it.

I growled and nodded my head at her "It's my first time flying alone without my mom. I am going to spend the next two weeks with my father in Greece for spring break so I am a little edgy." I slimed and she nodded her head and smiling sweetly at me.

"Yes, I understand what you mean I'm going to see my grandkids and my daughter and I'm not very good with planes either." I nod my head and look out of the window, plugging my headphones in and drifting off to sleep.

When I woke up I was sitting on the plane and the old woman was sitting next to me was slowly started to stand up. I sighed and did the same gripping my book bag tightly before walking off the plane. As I walked off of the plane the anxiety left my body so it was seeing my father that was freaking me out.

As I walked out of the baggage claim I couldn't find the exit. But I did notice that there were quite a few monsters floating around the airport. I looked around to make sure that there were no humans around before taking my hood off and letting my snakes breath for once.

They hissed at me and one of them snapped at the coherence of my eyebrow. "Sorry guys but you try sitting next to a monster hating grandma." I let out this sigh as they counted to hiss at me. I had speaking of hissing and biting I had to call mom.

When I pulled my coffin out of my bookbag and turned it on. I watched as the screen turned on and the wallpapers of me and Cleo at the fair popped up. On the screen said 40 missed messages on it. What the hell was that all about, I could have to call her later. But if I didn't call my mom and tell her that the plane landed she would kill me.

I pulled up my mom's contact info up and called her before walked off to get out of the way. I don't want to get yelled at our chased by some normie douchebags. "Hello" I snapped my head up when I heard the sound of my mother concerned voice ringing in my ears. I smiled a little to myself as I sighed and watched the foot traffic. "Hey mom my plane just landed but I have no clue how to get the hell out of here."

I could have followed the signs but they were all pointing in the same direction. I snarled and my mother laughed "Call your father he has been at the airport before I'm sure that he can help you out of that maze. Love you" I smiled to myself "Love you too."

I sighed and walk around aimlessly for a few more minutes when my phone rings. The name of Don't Answer popped on it and then a picture of my father at the beach appeared. I sighed heavily and looked at the phone.

I would avoid it but then I would never get out of here. I hit the accept button before placing it to my ear. "Hey dad are you hear at the airport, I'm kind of lost." I heard him chuckle on the other end of the line and sighed heavily. "Yeah what gate are you at bud I will come to get you."

I looked up to the signs and read the action Greek letters that are killer on my eyes this early in the morning. But I could make out the letters easily. "Yeah, gate B and dad do you think that we could not tell the family that I could navigate the airport." I hear him laugh but I knew that our family would never let me live it down. "Sure son."

I hung up the phone and stared blankly at the people moving around, humans gave me this disgusted glare as they walked the hell was their problem is beyond me. I let out this sign, what was going on with humans head. I sighed and growled under my breath. "I hope that isn't because of me."

I looked up to see my father bright green eyes that I knew well they were my eyes. His chiseled feature and muscles were the mirror images of mine and if it weren't for the snakes we would probe lot has the same haircut too.

"Nah for the humans, hey dad it's good to see you." I pulled him into a hug and tried not to gag from the contact. When I pulled out the hug he had this small smile on his face as he chuckled under his breath "Come on let's get you out of here."