Chapter 4

Kara got home around three in the morning. She opened the front door and went to sit on the couch. "AHHHH!" Some one suddenly screamed. Kara jumped up and her first instinct was to torch the guy sitting there. "MY NOSE!" He screamed.

"DAMIAN!" Kara yelled. Vesper came running down the stairs screaming "Demon" Kara ignored her sisters frantic screams and let the flames on her hands go out and the sound of someone falling down stairs was heard.

"KARA!" Vesper yelled. Immediately the room was a blaze with a blinding light. There were more groans. "MY EYES! KARA DIM THE LIGHTS." After five, more attempts to get the light at the right percentage. Everyone calmed down from the chaos. Then Damian groaned as he touched his nose.

"You sat on my face," He said in his clipped little English accent.

"Well, what are you doing on my couch?" She asked making a comeback. (Albeit it was, lame but a comeback none the less.)

"I just so happened be recovering from the broken nose you gave me, and the medicine your freakishly gorgeous aunt gave me." He said smiling strangely.

"Ok was it me or was that thought just disturbing?" Kara asked Vesper. The twin agreed. "I guess I'll call her to make sure there aren't any other damages done." Kara got up along with Vesper. The straight haired twin went up stairs and back to bed while the curly haired one made a phone call to a rather angry Aunt.

The next at school the McQuaid brothers lived up to their reputation. A couple of jocks were poking at them and calling them low lives so what else to do but beat them up. Tom jumped on the big one and Doug took the other one. They wrestled until the principal came out and stopped them.

"Both McQuaids my office now!" He shouted ignoring the other guys whose parents were rich and could have him fired. The boys strutted into his office. Doug sat down in his chair and Tom sat on his desk.

"Boys," he said shutting the door. When he turned the boys both gave him a smirk. "If you're going to sit there at least get your feet off my desk." He said. Years of being a principal at school where the students ran him down made him soft. "I understand that at this age it is necessary to show off for your lady friends, but please don't do it in my school yard." He said.

"That's it?" Doug asked sitting forward in the chair.

"That is all, you may go" They both looked at him in surprise, but did not argue. Both men just got up and walked away. "Man, I wish he was my principal back when I was in school" Doug said. Neither of them was watching where they were going so when Doug bumped into some one it was not a big surprise.

"AHH my nose!" Damian shouted. He looked up from the ground. "Listen Bucko you'd better has a- MCQUAID!"

"Hey what's your problem?" Tom yelled. He looked down at the person on the floor. Was he not the blonde person he saw with Kara? Just then, Kara walked up only today her hair was straight. "Speak of the Devil"

"Damian, get off the floor you look like an even bigger freak than you already are." She commanded.

"Hey Kara" Tom greeted.

"KARA? Whom are you calling Kara? I'm Vesper! Damian, get off of the floor you look like a freak!"

"Then you're her twin right." Tom asked

"No, I'm the Boogie Man! Duh I'm her twin! Damian!"

"So you're the replica." Doug said putting his arm around her.

Vesper glowered at him and pushed his arm off her. Then she said very tightly. "Touch me again and I'll break your wrist!" Doug just smiled. Then Kara bounced up accidentally stepping on Damian.

"That's it!" he shouted. "I'm calling myself in sick you two can stay for a long hard grueling day! Me and my nose are going home!" He jumped up from the floor and stalked away.

"What's his problem?" Doug asked.

"Well, he's in a bad mood. I broke his nose last night then I broke it again, then my aunt wouldn't give him medicine because he made a pass at her, then you broke his nose, I think, and I just stepped on him. So I'd say it was a rough day."

The bell rang and everyone went to his or her respective classes. Kara was sitting behind a preppy girl who was scribbling something in her notebook. Kara sighed then she saw a piece of what ever she was writing. It was a very dangerous thing, the symbol of an old occult. She quickly scribbled down on a note. "Ves, get the prep files I got an idea that's where we need to start." She waved her hand on the note and it disappeared.

Tommy McQuaid was sitting at his desk carving his name in his desk. Biology was so boring. Suddenly a note appeared on his desk. He did not know where or how it came, but he opened it anyway. The note was directed to Vesper who was sitting on the other side of the room. He sighed and folded it up. The teacher turned her back he tossed it across the classroom, but the teacher caught it.

"Now, what have we here?" She asked, opening the note.

Tommy winced. Kara's eyes grew wide and she looked to her twin. Vesper rolled her eyes and waved her hand ever so discretely. When the teacher opened the note, she was astonished. "I am Tommy McQuaid." She read aloud. "Mr. McQuaid, we don't pass notes in my class, so I'll just take this and give you this." She handed him a demerit. Tom shrugged and leaned back into his desk and just looked at him.

Class ended and Tom was first to get out of his desk. He watched as Kara walked out of the classroom. She was wearing straight-leg jeans and a black sweater. Probably to cover up scrapes and burns, He thought. He walked a few steps after her.

Kara changed books quietly. "What classes do I have next?" She asked herself.

"I don't know, but I hope they don't deal with you standing on a desk" Tommy's voice broke her concentration.

She shut her locker and gave him a quiet laugh. "Oh yeah, Literature, Hi, Tom" He flashed her a rare smile.

"That was a cool trick back in class. How'd you do it?"

"Do what?" She asked trying to play innocent.

"You know the trick with the note." He tired reminding her.

"I don't know what your talking about Tom, you must of have been day dreaming." She said taking on a serious tone that really just came out sounding British.

"No, I got a demerit for passing a note, that said something about prep files and starting somewhere." He continued to follow her trying to press the matter.

"Honestly, Tom, I have no idea what you're talking about." She repeated hoping that this would convince him to drop the matter completely. "Now, I have to get to class, unlike you who can afford to be late." She said walking away quickly trying to catch up with her sister who was already so far ahead.

Doug Penhall sat in complete boredom. He hated literature more than any other subject did. He slouched on his arm trying to find something to entertain him. He looked at the straight brown haired girl in front of him. He sat up ever so slightly and pulled a strand. She jumped and turned around to face him.

Vesper felt something tug at her hair. She reached back tried to slap Doug McQuaid's hand to no avail. Again, she felt something touch her only this time he was poking her in the back. She turned around to give him an icy glare. He just winked and blew her a kiss. The longer he did it the more irate she became. Finally, when he pulled her hair again she turned around and practically screamed, "Stop it you annoying little termite!"

All eyes in the classroom were on them. Vesper sat there and just glared at him. "Is there something you would like to share with the class?" The teacher asked raising an eyebrow at them.

"Yea She's a babe!" Doug said laughing. Vesper blushed furiously. For some strange reason she felt compelled to stand up and slap him, but her better judgment got in the way of that notion.

"Yes, Well, Mr. McQuaid would you please sit down, and not make a spectacle of yourself?" The teacher, Mr. Scoom asked him in a condescending tone.

"Nah, people, especially hot girls, just love to look at me." Doug said looking at the literature teacher.

The bell rang loudly and everyone jumped out of their chairs. They all exited the classroom in a noisy line. Kara walked up to Vesper. "I had Damian check out a few files from the preps."

"Yes?" Vesper replied seeming slightly anxious.

"Well it turns out that Brittney Rogers, Tiffany Waters, and Mia Sanders, those annoying cheerleaders, well they don't have magical records, but I'm going to poke around and see what I can find."

Vesper nodded. "I'll be right back I need to go make my point on someone's head." She spied a tall boy with feathered sandy brown hair and an earring his ear. She stomped over to him and tapped him on the shoulder.

Doug turned around only to find a very angry young woman. Then she slapped him. "If you ever, ever embarrass me again in front of a teacher I will do more than slap you." She yelled then composed herself and stomped away. When her sister returned Kara laughed.

"You know now he will follow you around like a puppy dog now, don't you."

"Ah, I didn't think about that." Vesper moaned leaning against the gray lockers. "Ah well, I'll just beat the mess out of him." She laughed. Kara just nodded. "Well, I guess we'd better go make friends with those preps that you told me about." She paused. "It would be more help if we new what we were dealing with."

"Yeah, but they seemed to only be impressed by money and bad boys." Kara interjected looking at the preppy girls across from the hall.

"Well, we've got plenty of money, but where are we going to get two bad boys."

"We could always dress Damian up in all leather and see how they respond to that." Kara suggested.

Vesper wrinkled her nose in disgust. "Ew!, that's just a nasty thought. I have a hard enough time thinking of Damian, much less of him making a ham of himself." Vesper sat down in advanced math and Kara sat next too her. "No, besides we both need one, and I am not sharing Damian with you the thought is disgusting enough."

"O, but Sister, dear, you fail to see the flaw in your plan, we have made ourselves persona non gratta to every 'bad boy' in this school. You just sealed the deal with the McQuaid brothers." Vesper sighed and pulled out her book. "Well, I suppose that if we really tried hard enough we could entice the McQuaid brothers." Little more was said on the subject as class had started.

Hanson and Penhall stood in the chief's office. "We've taken to checking out some of the preps."

TBC