Chapter Five
Fifteen
It's been nearly three years since I learnt of my second ability and I can now do a number of things with the four elements. I can cause rivers to travel up stream, fires to form from a gone out match, newly planted trees to grow at extraordinary speeds, and cause miniature whirlwinds to rise from the air.
March 21st 2013, Handerward High School.
"But Sir! Werewolves don't exist, I bet the myths don't even hold any truth to them!"
My head whips around to see Veronica challenging Mr. O'Brian knowing he will bite, but what she doesn't know is that so will I.
"And blondes are smart!" I snicker towards her.
Her head whips around and she greets me with a pair of piercing eyes that could skin a cat, and I should know…I've skinned a few. Her blonde hair wraps itself around her tanned bronze neck like a new scarf, her ruby red lipstick perfectly painted on her lips resembles that of blood. I know every pair of eyes are now pinned on us wondering who will break the silence first. Of course it is Veronica.
"How dare you! You know I'm my intellect exceeds yours largely Catalie." she barks behind pearl white teeth.
"And you know Eric has a girlfriend don't you?" I respond noticing her history book front cover tattooed with "Miss Veronica Dane-Edwards". I don't think she knows how much ammunition she has just given me from that one front cover. Just as she is about to bark a statement I can easily turned on it's head the buzzer squeals from the speakers signalling the end of first period. I lung for my ruck-sac and hooded jacket and then run through the classroom door leaving Veronica gawping at my speedy escape.
I halt to a stop when the sound of the rain beating against the school windows catches my attention. I gaze out of them loosing track of time and space. I am brutally brought back to Earth when a cold hand rests itself on my left shoulder. I snuggle my head into the hand purring like a new born kitten.
"You should really control your temper Catalie. One day your temper will get us all into trouble." sighed my older brother Luscious. I always find it weird that our parents would name him Luscious knowing the definition of the word is to have a delicious taste and smell and to also be sexually attractive. Luscious finds it to be a fitting name being he's a half-vampire giving him an excellent sense of smell and a delicate taste, also he is practically a sex God to the girls of Handerward High school.
"I know but you should have heard what she was saying! According to Veronica we shouldn't't even exist!" I yell at him. A number of passing students turn their gaze towards us for one shaky second then shake their heads and carrying on assuming I am crazy.
"Do you mind keeping your voice down Catalie? Unlike you I don't want to end up on a science lab table cut up and in pain thank you!" retaliates Luscious.
"Yea right Luscious you know you can out run any science geek and besides no blade can pierce your chest unlike mine of course. I just can't wait until its my time to change and freeze in time?" I inform him.
"You know when you appear a human age of thirteen you age the human way. So you're now a human fifteen and I froze when I was seventeen almost hitting the eighteen mark, so I'd give you another three maybe four years maximum sis. And before you ask me how do you know you're frozen in time, well, when you freeze no matter where you are, an excruciating pain courses through your entire body causing you to scream out in terror. Ripples of anger break to the surface of your skin and an ear piercing scream rushes from your throat effecting all those near you to kneel in pain covering their ears. But once the pain ceases the power you feel afterwards is indescribable. You get an unnatural thirst for human blood and you find yourself able to run for hours without breaking a sweat going fast enough to demolish the Olympic records. You can break a steel bar in two without using an ounce on your true strength. And in your first year of being frozen you can take grampa Black and great-great-uncle Emmett down in arm wrestling. After the first year of being frozen you find yourself lessen but you're power and abilities will still be high enough for you to call yourself a half-vampire."
The school buzzer blears around us signalling the beginning of second lesson ruining the soon-to-be my reality talk from Luscious. I sigh and jog to my Biology class leaving Luscious to be trapped by the rains hypnotic affect that it beholds upon our family.
I stretch out the time it takes me to reach my Biology class without Mrs. Woorsle accusing me of skipping her class. It's not that I dislike the subject its just…I HATE it! It's mainly because of Mrs. Woorsle, she doesn't know the students call her Mrs. Weasel because of the main fact being that she looks like one. Her hair constantly bounces from side to side shimmering tan brown , her nose flickers up so far that it is as though you are peering into two dark train tunnels and her voice is so nasal I cannot even imagine a worse sound. My ratter-tat-tat on the class door disturbs another of her sleep causing lectures. I open the door and slowly enter her class making sure that I have enough time to run straight back out of the room if she gives me a lecture on time keeping. Oddly she greets me with a hawk's gaze and then turns back to the class continuing on with her lecture. Once I have my book out and am sat down in my chair I tune myself into her lecture which was annoyingly about blood types and its lasting age at hospital. She comments at the end demanding we learn all the blood groups and their differences for an assessment that will go towards our final end of year grade.
The end of school buzzer chirps into my ears and I shoot out of the class room before Mrs. Woorsle can even wish us a pleasant trip home. I slow my jog down to a steady walk once I've stepped out of the science block heading towards the student car park to meet Luscious and his silver Lexus RX400. George Greening jogs up behind me and slows down to meet my pace once he is sure he can keep up. George is your typical American jock, he towers over me standing at five six one. He has beach blonde hair and piercing blue eyes. His body is covered in muscles, but not the 'roid type of muscle, the health work-out type of muscles. Surprisingly he's single. George also had to suffer the lecture as he sits in the front row of the Biology class. His soccer training top is hanging from his chest scarred with mud and sweat, his hands are resting in his front jean pockets and his Reebok trainers disappear with every raised stride under his jeans and then make a miraculous appearance on the landing stride. His ruck-sac knocks my shoulder which would hurt any human and since George thinks I am one I have to play along with the sheared of pain.
"Ouch George, watch the bag will you?!" I squeak taking an alert step away from him.
"Oh sorry Catalie, didn't realise it was that heavy. Enjoy the lecture?" he asks changing the subject.
"Yea like a dog enjoys doing a cat" I sigh, George laughs at my response and I join in not quite believing what I just said. George walks me to my brother's car. Luscious offers him a lift home but weirdly George refuses and walks on home waving us a good-bye. I open the front passenger door whilst waving George good-bye with a puzzled look across my face. The smell of fresh leather happily greeted me when I sit into the seat, Luscious has put on the seat warmers causing my back to be covered in goose bumps of warmth and pleasure.
"Thought you might be cold" comments Luscious mockingly "Wonder why George didn't want a lift home with us, he adores this thing. Do you know he's always wanted a lift in this thing since the day I drove up to school in it?".
" Yea I do actually Luscious. You told me what he thought of the entire jeep that day when you picked me up after you mitched last period…wait a minute you said "wanted" that's past tense right?" Luscious nodded at my grammar change "As in he doesn't want a lift in the Lexus any more? What's with the sudden change in greed?" I ask confused. George is the kind of boy who will push himself to the limits to achieve what he wants. I remember him saying he's saving up to buy his own Lexus RX400 a week after seen Luscious's.
"Because he's got his own Lexus RX400, that's why Catalie" informs Luscious calmly "but it's only a 1.4 litre engine and its second hand whilst this is a 2.0 litre engine and new off the top range, mine can easily out do his any day and its emo black which doesn't suit the kid at all!." finished Luscious with a chirp of pride.
"You know reading people's minds all the time is rather rude Luscious, where's your sense of mystery?" I whisper at him even though I know we're safe to talk about our abilities within the Lexus.
"And you know being able to snap people into pieces within their minds is rather rude Catalie, where's your sense of a challenge?" he snickers back turning on the engine of the car roaring it to life,
scaring a few freshmens behind us.
"Do you mind not scaring freshmens Luscious? How was gym last period anyway?" I ask trying to change the subject.
"What do you think? All the guys wore shorts way too tight with shirts way too big and the cheerleaders forgot about underwear again spending the entire period "stretching" trying to impress the guys. Oh and our teacher is a bald git who would be better suited at the Devil's right hand side. All in all it was a pain in the arse period! How was your's?" he asks rolling his eyes sarcastically.
"Worse than your's surprisingly. I may have to skip a few biology lessons for the rest of my school life."
"Why's that then sis?"
"Next lesson we're doing a blood types assessment and I am guessing that involves using blood so I am mitching the next load of Biology lessons" I tell him sternly.
"What?! You haven't got a lust for blood yet. I am sure you'll be fine" he says tapping my shoulder while driving the car.
"Actually I have. Last night in my nightmare I was a half-vampire and…and…and…and I bit someone, when I woke up I was covered in blood." I hang my head in shame waiting for Luscious to begin lecturing me over self control.
"Was it someone you know?" is all he asks.
"Elizabeth" I whisper
"Better than I could have expected!" he bellows smiling like a ginger cat.
"What?! What could be worse than killing my best fried for her blood!?" I scream.
"Killing your sister for her blood." he looks at me, forgiveness fills his eyes "I've had that nightmare Catalie and it was worse for me that it was for you. I ripped you to shreds, your head came off like a bottle top. I woke up once I realised what I'd done. When I woke up your blood was stained all over me, under my fingernails, everywhere. I ran into your room to see if what had happened to me meant something worse for you. You have no idea how worried I was, but when I saw you sleeping like a baby I almost fainted with relief." his fists are clenched on his steering wheel, I fear he's gonna break it in two. "The reason I'm telling you this is so that you know that you can come to me with anything and everything no matter what the problem is. You'll always have me there for support no matter what the issue…even if you decide to live as a werewolf." he smiles at me letting go of the steering wheel. We laugh and for a while everything seems like magic.
"Thanks Luscious. I mean it thanks. I am glad to have my brother by my side" my nose wrinkles "even if he does stink! Don't you know how to use a shower anymore? Geese!" I put my hand under my nose to lessen the stench.
"Showers in the guy's gym are bust. We did have to choice to shower with the girls but I turned it down obviously."
"I swear to God Luscious sometimes you act so gay!"
"Yea right! I'd rather stink than be butt naked with some soon to be porn start cheerleader thank you" he pulls a stuck up face and I can't help but laugh.
Luscious continues to drive for another thirty minutes, we live rather far from Handerward and my friends for the simple reason of security and secrecy. Luscious turns the car down a lane which to any human appears to lead to a dead-end. Trees and bushes cover the area arching over to form a shelter for drives concealing us from the bright sun and the clear blue sky. I catch a glimpse of a red squirrel scampering its way up a tree and a rabbit burrowing itself a home. Birds tweet and chirp as they fly by on the wind's waves. I open the sun window of the Lexus and inhaul deeply the fresh air of the outside world. We continue to drive down the lane and eventually slow down in front of a manor house. Its big grey walls greet us welcomingly. Windows, double the size of normal windows, dot the great house. Luscious parks the Lexus besides a midnight black Jeep Cherokee and a Green Porsche Carrera GT. I know instantly what those cars mean.
"Wow mum and dad are home!" I yell rushing from the car leaving Luscious to get our school stuff.
"I leap through the wooden doors, happiness bubbling within me. Our parents had been away on work for the past two weeks. Our dad is psychology professor at the Handerward University and he had been on a class trip to Canada as a treat for the class who passed the psychology paper with flying colours. Our mum is a doctor at the local hospital and has been away on a conference in Oklahoma. Luckily since dad is a werewolf he doesn't have to worry about his skin going weird in the light and mum is of werewolf decent so that's not a problem either and because they both have werewolf blood they don't have to worry about out ageing the other by miles. But to be honest I don't really know why Luscious's skin doesn't go all weird in the sunlight. I'll have to remember to ask him about it later on.
As soon as I've stepped foot in the hall way I am bombarded by Howard who forces me to the ground and begins to slobber me in dog drool.
"Howard get off of me you over grown fur ball!" I order him ruffling his fur.