Me and my siblings spent the day at home cause no one expected us to be their after our mother just died. We had all been up all night in, the living room ,crying, talking, and remembering mama and all the fun memories of her. A little bit after 8 the doorbell rang. Of course I was the one to get up and get it cause I was the closest to the door. I got up and answered the door and Grayson Wes standing there with flowers, my favorite ice cream, my favorite movie, and his laptop.
He looked so gorgeous standing there in his light blue jeans that show off his perfect ass, his white sweater that I love cause it's so soft, he was there looking at me with his gorgeous brown eyes, and his perfect lips curved into a small smile, after I stood there in disbelief of how perfect he was I grabbed the front of his sweater and pulled him into a passionate kiss, which almost made him drop everything. "I love you." I said pulling away from the kiss to look in he deep brown eyes.
"I love you too. Now can we come in it's freezing out here." He said almost starting to shiver
"Oh ya. Of course. Come in." I said stepping aside so him and Greg could come in. Once they were inside I lead them to the family room and talia got up with a screech, ran over and just about tackled Greg.
"What are you guys doing here. Why aren't you in school" She said pulling away and looking at him with an angry face.
"Well we went to school but the we all saw this video and decided that you guys needed to see it as well, especially your parents. So we were all going to come over and then aside said that we can't all leave because people would notice so me and Grayson just decided to come over and then we stopped at the store to get you guys some flowers and stuff." Greg rambled
"What video?" I asked.
As soon as I asked Grayson brought in the laptop and hooked it up to the tv and played the video. After the video everyone looked at each other scared.
"Who the fuck was that!" Dani yelled.
"That was Michael Chasseur they have been hunting us for years. I thought that we had gotten away from them but I guess I was wrong." Derek said as he was leaning against the wall.
"Wait. Is that why we moved to New York, then to Mystic Falls, then New Orleans, and then here." Maddie asked.
"Ya pretty much. Your father insists on moving us all around instead of staying and fighting." Lydia said rolling her eyes and walking into the room.
"Well we aren't going to move again. They started a war and I intend to finish it." Derek said walking out of the room.
"Derek what do you mean you intend to finish it?" Lydia said looking at him worried about what he's going to do.
"I mean that we are going to train everyone so when the come for us, which they will, we will be ready."
"Wait are you serious?" Shawn asked.
"Yes I am. Wy do you think we have the training center downstairs?"
"Oh thats what that is?"
"Ya what else would it be Shawn." Derek said.
"I don't know we are never allowed in there." Shawn pointed out.
"But that hasnt stopped you." he said looking at me.
"So when are we going to start training?" I asked
"How about right now. I need everyone down in the training center in 5." he said walking out of the room.
"Is he serious?" I said looking at my mom.
"Yes I am, now go upstairs, get changed, and be downstairs in 5." Derek yelled from the other room.
Everyone sat there for a second looking at each other and then Derek yelled "NOW!" right after he yelled everyone got up.
"Well I think that's our que to leave." Grayson said heading to the door.
"Where the hell do you guys think your going. When I said I'm going to train everyone, I meant everyone." he said stepping into the foyer.
After we all got dressed we went downstairs to the training room. When we got into the room we all stared around in amazement. Weirdly enough the room was beautiful it was a cement room that had a viewing room so that whoever isn't training can watch, there was a rack full of every weapon imaginable, there were shooting ranges, magic rooms and also combat rooms. I think my parents based it off the training center in hunger games and the just added stuff to make it fit our supernatural side. As I looked around the room I could see everyone's soul marks, they are all unique and beautiful and they all go with that persons personality.
"Okay are you guys ready." Derek said walking into the room seeing the boys in gym shorts and no shirt and the girls in sports bras and leggings.
"Ya I think so." I said speaking for everyone.
"Okay so you all don't have to have a weapon, but if you want one pick one now. Shawn you will go first cause you already got yours."
Shawn stepped on to the plate dad was pointing to, a red beam came out of the ceiling, scanned him, and the pulled up a profile about him. A couple minutes later these holographic people started running towards Shawn, by intinck he drew the boy, fired and once he hit one they disappeared. We watched Shawn train for about two minutes before my dad told us that we each have a station.
"Okay so your stations go in order by age and then family so Shawn was first then it goes Dani, Laura, Koda, Talia, Sage, maddie and then you two" he said looking at Grayson and Greg "You two will be on the next one over." "Okay now pick your weapon and if you don't want one just go to your station." Stiles said walking in the room.
"Oh hey babe I didn't hear you come in."derek said turning to stiles and giving him a kiss.
So you decided to start training without me?" stiles said giving derek a look.
"Well ya they were all sitting on the couch moping around and they refused to go to school today so I thought that they might as well learn something."
"Derek, their mother died a little less than a week ago they don't have the ability to compartmentalize their feeling like we do. They need time."
"Well I'm not going to have them sit around the house and do nothing Stiles. They can't just sit around and mope, that's not what Braeden would have wanted." he yelled and then storming out causing all of us to turn around.
"Everybody get back to work i'll be right back." stiles said running after Derek.
After Stiles left the room we all took a break. "What's up with pop?" Laura said walking up to everyone.
"Have you noticed how he hasn't cried once since mama died." Sage pointed out.
"Well ya, pop never cries. Dad says that after paige and the fire he tries to push all his feelings down." Talia said.
"But dad also said that ever since him and pop got together, pop has been more in tune his feelings." I added.
"I mean our dad never cries." Grayson said.
"Ya but your dad was a psychopath before they sent him to hell." Sean pointed out.
"Ya good point." Grayson responded.
A couple minutes later Stiles came back downstairs.
"So training today is done but we will do some more in a couple days." he said.
"Where's pop?" I asked.
"Um well... he's going to be gone for a couple days. Work called us in on a thing but I told them that one of one of us needed to be here with you guys." he explained.
"Well mom is here, isn't she?" Laura asked.
No, mom is in New York with Auntie B (Beyonce) working on the tour outfits."
What the fuck. Why didn't she say bye." Laura asked
"What do you mean, she came down here and said bye like 20 minutes ago." I said.
"Oh. I must have forgot." She laughed.
"How did you forget you were super excited because Auntie B came down and she gave us backstage passes to coachella this year." I said holding up my pass.
"Oh."
"Laura, what has been going on with you lately. You keep forgetting things, like important things." I said.
"I don't know. I just have alot on my mind lately." She defended
"You know if you need someone to talk to you can talk to any of us." Dani said
"Ya I know, it's just not really something I want to talk about." she said walking out of the room.
"Laura. Come back." Stiles said to get her to come back but she just kept walking.
"Okay one more thing." Stiles said when he realized Laura wasn't coming back in. "You are all going to school tomorrow."
A couple seconds passed and we all broke out laughing. Our dad isn't a strick guy, he has never been, he loves to have fun with us and make jokes. pop said that he has always been that way and that's one of the reasons he fell in love with him. A couple minutes passed of us laughing and then we looked up and saw the most serious look had has ever had in his face.
"Oh you're serious." I said.
"Yes, I'm serious you little runts. You guys have had a break and you need to go back to school tomorrow." He said sternly.
"I don't wanna be that kid, tho." Maddie said.
"What kid?" He asked
"The kid everyone feels bad for cause their parent died." She said.
"Sweetheart, whether you go back tomorrow or next week, or even the week after that, you will still be that kid. When my mom died everyone was always coming up to me asking if I was okay and stuff, it's just what people do and since you kids excel in the popular department, which you get from your mom and only your mom, you guys will probably have everyone coming up to you asking if your fine or how you're doing and you just have to say your fine even though you're not."
"Okay, fine I guess if we have to." Maddie said.
"Well you do and it won't be as bad as you think cause you guys will have each other and your friends. I promise the day will fly by and you will be home before you know it."
After that we all hung out for a little bit and ate lunch, talked about more memories of mama, and then after school all of or friends came over and we watched a couple of funny movies to lighten the mood, which it did, and then before I knew it everyone was saying bye except for Grayson. We went up to my room he told me everything I missed that week with the "puppy" pack — that's what all the older kids and our parents call our group of friends— while I got ready for bed.
Right before he was about to leave he walked into the bathroom. "Are you actually okay?" He asked.
"I'm not sure. In one hand I feel like my whole world is falling apart and that I am never going to get through this and then in the other it feels like everything will be alright, ya know?" I said walking out of the bathroom into my closet to put my clothes on my hamper. Without even thinking I stripped down to my very revealing underwear and Grayson was shocked.
"Oh well… I guess that's my cue to leave." He said turning around.
"What do you … oh shit!" I said grabbing some pants and covering up. " I'm so sorry I totally didn't even think."
"It's okay, um, I think I'm just gonna go."
"Please don't."
"What?" He said looking back.
"Don't go. Please. Just stay over." I said giving him my best pouty face.
"Koda, I can't. We have school tomorrow."
"Come on Gray, it's not a big deal, you like right across the street."
"I don't know Koda. I really need to get some sleep, I have a test in bio tomorrow."
"Please. Nothing is going to happen, I just don't want to be alone tonight. I didn't realize how much I missed you this week until you showed up here this morning and now I don't wanna let you go." I said grabbing is shirt and pulling him closer.
"Okay." He said leaning in and kissing me.
Okay what? I said pulling away with a smile.
Okay I'll stay but we have to actually get sleep. Cause I swear to the gods, K, if you make me fail this test I will…"
"You will what?" I said cutting him off and kissing him.
"I will…" before he could get it out I kissed him again.
"What, what could you possibly do."
"I will kill you." he said looking in my eyes.
"You could never kill me, you love me too much, plus Im like 10 times stronger than you." I said with a smirk.
"Oh really." he said lifting me up and slamming me down on the bed and pinned me down.
"Now who's stronger?" he whispered in my ear.
"Still me." I said flipping him to his back, pinning him down and then kissing him. While were kissing I slid my hands up from his wrists to his hands intertwining our fingers. After a couple minutes of making out i climed off of his stomach where I was sitting and we started to spoon (i'm the big spoon of course).
"Koda?" he said turning around so we were face to face.
"Ya?"
"I love you."
"I love you too." When I said that he leaned in and kissed me before turning back around.
The next morning when I woke up Grayson was already gone to his house to get dressed, so I got up got ready for the day and went down to join the rest of my family.
"So I guess Grayson stayed over last night." Dad said as I walked into the kitchen.
"Ya, I got him to say."
"Koda, you know the rules. Boyfriends and girlfriends aren't allowed to stay over on school nights."
"We didn't do anything, if that's what you're concerned about. I just didn't want to be alone last night." I explained.
"That's not what i'm worried about, but we have tose rules for a reason and I expect each and everyone of you kid's to follow them. Understood."
"Yes dad." we all said in unison.
"Now eat your breakfast and go to school, and i swear to god if i hear of any of you sluffing…"
"We won't sluff dad. Now go to work." Laura said cutting him off.
"Okay, and kids remember to keep it low key today. We don't need to draw any extra attention to our family." he said before he walked out the door.
After he left we ate our breakfast like normal and then I drove us all to school. Right when we walked in the doors of Hollywood Arts everyone stopped what they were doing and stared at us which made us stop in out tracks.
"Oh hell nah." maddie yelled.
"Maddie calm down. We knew this was gonna happen, all we can do is ignore it." Lia said
"I can't handle this." Sage said running down the hall with Aiden running after her.
"Well, today is gonna be fun." I said making a joke to lighten the mood.
"Koda, they are still looking at us." Maddie whispered in my ear.
"Can I help you?" I yelled to the crowd of people making then stop staring and going about their day.
"Koda, I said ignore it." she said punching my shoulder.
"Lia I can't just ignore it when people are looking at us like we are freaks." I explained
"But now you just made things worse." She snapped back before storming off to her locker.
"Lia!" I yelled chasing after her. "How did I make things worse." I asked while leaning against my locker which is right next to hers.
"Because now everyone things that we are unstable. Like look that kid won't even look maddie in the eyes." She said pointing to maddie and a kid in our math class.
"So? Who cares what they think."
"I do!"
"Why!"
"Because I just do."
"Since when? When has the Great Talia Hale ever cared what anyone else thought."
"I have always cared. It's just that everyone loved us before so you never noticed, but now people look at us like we are freaks, just like New York, and they don't even know what we are yet. Koda I like it here and I don't want to move again cause people find out." She explained
"Pop already said that we're aren't ever going to move again." I reassured her.
"How do you know that tho."
"Because Pop always keeps his word"
"You're right."
"I know."
"Your also a asshole." She laughed.
"I also know that too." I laughed with her.
After that we went to class and got through the rest of the day.
"Hey, Koda." Evie said walking up to my locker where I was standing.
"What do you want." I said not looking her in the eyes.
"I just wanted to see how you were doing. You have had a rough couple of weeks."
"Really what makes you think that? It's not like I found out my girlfriend of 2 years has been cheating on me, doesn't love me and has been using me to get popular or like my mother was murdered pr anything like that." I said giving her a twisted smile.
"Koda..." she stopped as I cut her off.
"Oh wait. That's exactly how my last 2 weeks have gone." I yelled and slammed my locker door and then Chris walked up.
"Hey babe is there a problem here." He said staring me down and I couldn't help but laugh.
"Hahaha so it is true." I said right before I bursted out laughing. "So while we were going out you were cheating on me mr. macho" I said still laughing.
"You bro. You better step off before you say something you don't mean." He said puffing out his chest.
"Okay first off I'm not your "bro" and second… you better stay the fuck out of this conversation, I don't have enough patience to deal with you toxic masculinity right now."
"Shut the fuck up dude. I could easily kick your ass right now." Chris said cracking his knuckles.
"Oh I'm sorry. Did I bruise your ego." At this point I'm just hoping he will start a fight so I can kick his ass.
"That's it!" He said through big down his back pack and tried to punch me in the face but I moved out of the way.
He threw another punch and this time I caught his fist, grabbed him and flipped him over my shoulder putting my foot to his throat, while his arm was in my hands "You wanna try that again big guy?" I asked slowly twisting his arm.
"Ow stop. Your hurting me!" He yelled.
"See the thing is Chris, why should I stop. Why shouldn't I cause you as much pain as you caused me for the past 2 years. Huh? You have been nothing but a dick to everyone around you and I have had enough." I said twisting his arm a little more.
-Here's the thing you have to understand about Chris, he is the school bully. He picks on anyone and everyone and no one does anything about it cause he's a buff guy. He has picked on me since we moved here but i was always told I couldn't fight back, I always knew I could kick his ass but freshman year I was a scrawny kid so I couldn't actually kick his ass without drawing attention to myself, but these last couple of years I have been getting bigger, muscle wise, and chris and I are actually about the same size now so I'm able to kick his ass without drawing too much attention to myself but obviously we are fighting in the hall so there is a crowd. -
"Koda, Stop!" Evie yelled.
"Ya know, I don't think I want to." I said twisting just a little more making Chris scream.
A couple second later I was being tackled by Nick.
"What the fuck, dude!" I said pushing him off of me and standing up.
"Just doing what Laura asked." He shrugged.
Once I was on my feet Laura came up behind me, grabbed my neck fight where the pressure points are and dragged me out to the parking lot where the rest of our friends were. Once we got out tho the parking lot she threw me down on the ground and started yelling.
"ARE YOU KIDDING ME KODA!" She yelled.
"Chris got what was coming to him. Plus Chris threw the first punch I was just defending myself."
"Koda, we heard what you were saying, you wanted to start a fight with him. You were egging him on." Talia said.
"I'm sorry I wanted to get back at the kid who picked on me for 2 years and was hooking up with my girlfriend while he did it."
"We get why you did it. But we can't afford to draw…" she stopped as I cut her off.
"Any extra attention to the family. I know." I said walking off.
"Where are you going? The jeep is right here." Talia called out
"I'm walking home."
"But you have the…" she stopped because the keys appeared in her hand.
A couple seconds later when I was out of everyone's sight I teleported home.