C h. 2

Oh my God! That scared the freakin daylights out of me! Who is at the door?

I looked around the coats and Aaron to get a look at Lisanna at the door. She stared in at us with a smile. Her smile made her look kind but her eyes stared at us coldly. Her eyes examined everyone in the house, slowly, before they found me in the far corner. It took everything I had to not fidget under her intimidating gaze.

Finally, to get her to stop staring at me, I reached up and brushed the hair back from one of my eyes and glared at her with everything I had. I gave her a dark smirk. Her eyes widened a little and her smile faltered before she looked away from me. She put on her fake smile again as she turned back at Aaron. I combed my hair back over my eyes, thankful that that trick worked on her. My last ditch effort if I felt threatened was to show whatever was threatening me my abnormal eyes while giving them a dark and intimidating smirk. I let out a small sigh.

"Well, won't you invite me in?" She asked him, straitening herself

"Oh yeah. Come on in." Aaron said, giving her a big dumb smile

Aaron stepped out of the doorway and walked back over to the couch. He plopped down on the couch. Lisanna walked in politely and closed the door behind herself. Aaron turned around and looked at me, patting the couch next to him with that extremely dumb smile plastered to his face. I walked out of the shadows, slowly, and sat down next to him. I looked at Lisanna. She was looking at Dr. P.

"I guess you're wondering why I'm here." She said

"Yes. I am." Dr. P replied, nervously

"Well, there have been some abnormal disturbances at the high school and your children's names were the ones mentioned by the teachers and the students that I questioned. I've heard some very interesting things about your kids. I've come here, to your home, to ask you some questions about what is going on." She said, tilting her head again and smiling at him

I narrowed my eyes at her. Something wasn't right about her. I tilted my head up so I could get a better look at her. She made me feel uneasy, like she was some sort a threat. I got a bad since of foreboding.

"What do you want to ask us, lady?" I asked rudely

"Brandon! Be polite to our company." Dr. P said with a nervous glance at Lisanna

I rolled my eyes at him under my hair. Why does he have to be so nice to her? It's clear that he is nervous.

"It's all good. I should get down to business shouldn't I? She asked

"Yes. We should get this over with fast." Caleb said with a hint of rudeness to his tone

Me and him looked at each other. He had an uneasy look on his face. He must feel the same way as me.

"Um, I would like to talk to the parents only. I would like it if they weren't with us while we discussed all of this official stuff." Lisanna said looking from us to Dr. P.

Dr. P fidgeted nervously. Mrs. P wrapped her arm around his.

"Boys, go to your room." Dr. P said after a minute

"Tsk." I said, angrily as we stood up.

As we closed the door to our room I heard voices. They must have started talking again. I walked over to my bed and crawled onto it quietly. Caleb and Aaron slowly walked to their beds. I lay down on my back and stared up at the ceiling, trying to hear what they were talking about in the other room. We stayed in our room for a long time waiting for them to call us out.

At one point Aaron got off of his bed and walked over to the window. He moved the curtain enough for him to look outside. His eyes lit up with excitement.

"Yo. There are a lot of big guys around our house." He said

Caleb got up and walked over to the window.

"They must be more CIA agents." He said with a sigh

I propped myself up on my elbows. Caleb opened the curtains enough for me to see outside. There were several large men with handguns and bulletproof vests on outside. A few of the large men had rifles.

"I got a bad feeling about this." I said nervously to myself

Caleb and Aaron both walked over to their beds and sat down on the edge of them. They left the curtains open. Caleb kept looking out at the men. Aaron looked at them in awe. How stupid could a person get? Didn't he see that they were surrounding our house in case one of us tried to escape or something like that? I lay back down on my bed.

I stared up at the ceiling again. I pressed my ear against the wall, once again trying to listen to what they were talking about in the other room. Every now and then I heard someone raise their voice but the voices were still inaudible. I suddenly heard Lisanna's voice raise loudly in irritation.

"That's it! I'm tired of trying to do this the nice way! Give me the freaking kids!" I heard her scream

"No!" I heard Dr. P yell back at her

"Fine! Get the kids!" I heard her yell

I turned my head to the side to look out the window intuitively. One of the men had grabbed his radio from his belt and was listening to it. He said something into it. Suddenly the men started to close in on the house. There was a crash in the living room. I heard Mrs. P scream. Caleb and Aaron jumped up and ran out into the hallway.

I jumped up so fast that my head slammed hard into the ceiling. Pain flared in my head. White sparks clouded my vision. I leaned over in pain, holding the back of my head. I leaned over the railing on the side of my bed. Unable to see, I leaned to far over the edge and I flipped off the side of the bed.

I landed on the floor with a thump. I lay there on my back for a second, in shock. I turned my head and looked out the bedroom door and saw Caleb and Aaron struggling to get out of the grasp of two of the huge men that had been outside. The men had them by their wrists.

"Get out of our way." I heard a deep man's voice say from the living room

"No!" I heard Dr. P yell back at him

"Let go of me!" Caleb screamed trying to pull his wrist out of one of the men's grasp.

Coming to my senses I jumped up, just as Lisanna burst into the bedroom. She walked over to me while I was trying to get up and grabbed a handful of my hair. She dragged me to my feet. Pain flared once again in my head. I let out a shout of pain. I wriggled around trying to free myself. I went let my legs fall beneath me and thrashed around on the ground trying to get out of her grip. She was surprisingly strong. I let out a shout of surprise as she yanked me off the ground and into the air. She slammed me back down onto the ground with a gross thud and then started to drag me out the bedroom.

I could hear Caleb and Aaron in the living room, fighting to free themselves. Lisanna started to drag me down the hallway toward the living room. I grabbed at her hand that gripped my hair. I tried to pry her hand off, kicking my feet around as she dragged me on my back, through the hallway. She stopped and looked down at me with a scornful stare. She scoffed at me before she threw me like a ragdoll into the wall at the end of the hallway, opposite of the living room.

I looked up at her from the floor, dazed, as she walked over to me. She had a dark smirk on her face. She stood over me for a second before she squatted down next to me. I glared up at her for a minute before dropping my head down to rest on my arm that was splayed out by my side. I was beginning to feel very tired. She stared at me for a minute before she grabbed a handful of my bangs and pulled my head up to her level. I let out a grunt of pain.

She pressed my cheek against hers and turned to stare at the struggle in the living room. She held my head there for a minute. I watched a little bit, but my eyes kept rolling back into my head. I had almost blacked out when she gave my cheek a little slap with her free hand. My anger began to slowly boil up inside of me again.

She took my cheek away from hers and turned her back to the struggle and faced me again.

"You know, you have a handsome face and very beautiful eyes." She said, stroking my cheek with her free hand

I glared at her with tired eyes. I tried to get to my feet again. She pushed my shoulder trying to force me back down. Without thinking about what I was doing, I shrugged her hand off my shoulder and punched her in the face. I heard her squeal. I jumped to my feet, fast, and was about to run when she jumped up next to me and backhanded me across the cheek. The force sent me flying through the air. I flew face first into a mirror. The glass shattered, pieces falling all over the place.

A piece of glass cut my forehead, right above my left eyebrow. I felt a sharp stab of pain in my cheek that pulled a small squeak of pain out of me. I rolled down the wall and landed lying down with my back to the mirror. My eyes stared straight ahead in shock. I began to feel even more tired. I looked up at her and saw that her nose was bleeding.

"How dare you punch a woman." She screamed, her eyes wild

She walked over to me stiffly, trying to compose herself a little bit. She leaned down beside me and grabbed both of my wrists, stiff with anger. She got to her feet and pulled me alongside her, started down the hallway again.

"Now we have to start the struggle all the way back here because of you" she said through gritted teeth

She pulled me out of the hallway into the living room. In the living room Dr. P and Mrs. P were being pinned down on the floor. Dr. P stared at me.

"Brandon! He's bleeding! He has glass sticking out of his face." He said turning his head to look at Lisanna

I realized that something warm and sticky was flowing toward my eye. I felt Lisanna adjust her grip on my wrist and turned to look at me. My eyes slowly traveled to her and saw that she was examining my face. She wiped something off my forehead. Then she grabbed something in my cheek and yanked it out. Pain flared through my face and I let out a scream.

"Don't be such a baby." She said, voice full of scorn

She showed me a 2 inch piece of glass that was covered in blood. I groggily glared up at her. I felt the inside of my cheek with my tongue. I felt a hole in my cheek.

"Well that will be a definite downer on your looks though." She said with a thoughtful frown.

She stood back up and started to drag me again. She dragged me out the front door onto the porch.

Caleb and Aaron were already out struggling in the grass against the men. I watched, groggily, as Aaron broke free from the man dragging him and punched him in the face. The blow threw the man back against one of the many military trucks parked in front of our house. I couldn't even comprehend how messed up the man's face was after Aaron punched him. Aaron managed to run a little way before three more of the big men tackled him to the ground.

I turned my gaze and saw Caleb got one of his hands free and pointed it to the water hose splayed across the ground on the side of the house. It got up like a snake and flung its self toward Caleb's tormentor. It wrapped itself around the man's neck. The man let go of Caleb's other wrist as he tried to pry the hose off of his neck.

Suddenly the hose dropped from the man's neck and Caleb's arms dropped to his side. I watched as he scratched at the back of his right arm. His eyes rolled into the back of his head and he collapsed to the ground. Sticking out of his right arm was a strange looking dart.

I started to come to my senses slightly, in alarm. I turned back to Aaron and saw him still fighting. I saw a man behind him pointing a gun at him. They must be a tranq guns. Anger began to well up inside of me even more. I jumped up to my feet so fast that my hands ripped out of Lisanna's grasp.

Why was this happening to us?

Lisanna stared at me in shock. I looked up at the sky. Anger began to flood my whole being. I began to shake in fury. The sky began to darken and the wind began to pick up. My hair blew wildly out of my eyes. My eyes widened in a mixture of fury and slight happiness. My emotions poured out of me like a flood. It suddenly began raining hard. Lightning began to flash, striking the ground around me. I looked around in fear. My fear disappeared quickly and turned to joy.

I saw Lisanna fall to the ground and crawl away from me, shaking in terror. I began to feel mad with anger. I looked up at the sky again, smiling, and stretched my arms out on either side of me.

Suddenly lightning struck me. I seized as it hit me, shaking with the power of the electricity. My eyesight glazed and all the noise around me disappeared. Everything suddenly began to feel very far away. A strange calm fell over me. I was floating in emptiness. I stood, frozen, staring straight ahead but I couldn't comprehend anything I saw, almost like it wasn't right there in front of me.