Lacey's POV
"Time to get up, Lacey." Aunt Tiffany cooed shaking me gently.
"Mmm!" I moaned in protest.
"Hey, shrimpy, if you don't get up I'm not driving you to school and it's pouring buckets." Embry threatened.
"I'm OK with that." I retorted, my voice muffled by the blankets and pillow.
"Do you want to be late for your first day of high school?" Embry asked.
"No." I sighed.
I got up and pushed Aunt Tiffany and Embry out of the room so I could change.
I choose black jeans, a black rock concert t shirt, and a red hoodie with 'Devil's Child' written on the back in black script.
Its almost as if the hoodie was made for me.
Making sure I didn't forget anything, I slipped on my black and red tennis shoes then ran downstairs into the kitchen.
"Aunt Tiffany, can I have cake for breakfast?" I asked eagerly eyeing the chocolate cake Mrs. Clearwater had baked for us.
"No, I told you a million times. You can't have cake for breakfast." Aunt Tiffany said.
"In Abyss I could have cake." I muttered.
At this Aunt Tiffany smacked me upside the head.
"Ow!"' I exclaimed.
"Shut up, grab a granola bar, and get in Embry's car." Aunt Tiffany rolled her eyes.
I did as told and grabbed my bag that was sitting on a table right next to the front door, then got in the car.
"Sooo, are you ready to start your first year of high school?" Embry asked backing out of the drive.
"No, I want to go back to bed." I snapped.
"OK, OK! I'll shut up!"
"Good."
It was silent the rest of the way to school.
When the school came into view, I dug around in my bag for my sunglasses that I quickly found and put on.
"Why do you even where those?" Embry asked clearly annoyed.
A cambions eyes can be just as deadly as their ability with a sword, which is very deadly might I add, in medieval times, when monarchs ruled, cambions were the best assassins.
Our eyes can be used to hypnotize people, and lets just say that I'm not the best at controlling my power when I'm tired.
"Because I want to." I shrugged getting out of the car and walking towards the building.
"My cousin's nuts." I heard Embry mutter under his breath.
Oh, yeah, cambions also have EXTREMELY good hearing.
Even better than Children of the Moon, I know this from something that I probably should not have been doing in the first place.
Bottom line, I no longer have a cat…and, if I ever get another on, I won't take it on the class trip to europe.
I quickly found my new (and first) charges, Mitzi and Drew, because they were doing what they do best, bullying a freshman.
Mitzi and Drew were twin cambions, this is something thats almost never heard of and is extremely rare.
Since I had been living on earth since I was seven, I had compassion for the kid.
Also, it wasn't that fair, Mitzi and Drew were sixteen while the kid looked like he was fourteen, almost fifteen.
"Emma! Drew! Leave him alone!" I exclaimed pushing past them to help the kid get his things that were scattered everywhere.
"Aw! Come on, Lace, we were just having a bit of fun." Drew whined.
I took a deep breath, trying my hardest not to rip out their throats.
"You OK?" I asked the kid that I recognized as Seth Clearwater.
"Yeah, thanks." Seth said.
"No problem. Sorry for my…ugh, friends." I sighed getting up and helping Seth up too.
"Their your friends?" Seth asked eyebrow raised.
"Long story. See ya." I said walking away.
"See ya!" Seth yelled.
I stalked over to Mitzi and Drew where they were laughing against their lockers.
"Would you two be kind enough to explain what the Abyss was that?" I seethed.
"No." Mitzi smirked.
"Look, I am trying really hard right now not to rip out your esophagus, and I'm warning you that the next time I see something like that, or hear that you did something like that, I will personally banish you into the smallest, darkest corner of the Abyss." I growled.
THAT scared them.
Just to explain something to you, cambions have our own sayings like OMD and 'Thank the devil!'
Hey, we're part demon.
Anyway, the twins, scared silly, rushed to their class like I rushed to mine.
As I entered English, the bell rang and Mr. Burns glared at me.
"Technically I'm not late." I said.
"Take your sit, Miss Call." He sighed with a chuckle.
I rushed to sit in the only open seat and didn't look to see who I was sitting next too.
"OK, class, I am Mr. Burns and I will be your biology teacher this year. Now, turn to the person sitting next to you, this will be your lab partner for the rest of the year." Mr. Burns said.
I turned to my left and saw a lanky figure with shoulder length hair, russet skin, and dark eyes, Seth Clearwater (A/N: Seth has not yet phased, he is still 100% human!)
"Oh! Hey," I said smiling.
"H-hi." Seth said flustered and embarrassed.
This happened a lot, and I mean A LOT.
You see, cambions are born with 'undeniable beauty' as another way to get whatever we want whenever we want it.
Its annoying and stupid to me, and Embry says it just makes his role as my older brother figure harder.
"Now, todays assignment is to get to know your partner so you can learn to trust them. If you can't trust them on their own, how can you trust them with chemicals? You can begin." Mr. Burns said.
"OK, so, is this like a giant game of 20 Questions?" I asked.
"I guess." Seth shrugged.
"Alright. I'll go first. Hm…how many friends do you have?" I asked.
"Lets see…fifteen. You?"
"None."
Seth furrowed his eyebrows.
"What about Emma and Drew?" He asked.
"They aren't really my friends, I'm just looking out for them. Their new."
"Oh. My turn now, why are you wearing those sunglasses?"
"Simple, I want to wear them. Whens your birthday?"
"September 19, yours?"
"May 14."
That was how the entire class period went.
Of course, we weren't 'friends' but hey, I didn't exactly mind.
You can't have friends when your trying to make sure two temperamental cambions fresh from the abyss aren't going to try and burn down your school…though if they did I'm not sure I would have really minded.
(*)
When lunch rolled around, I found myself sitting with Drew and Mitzi while they fought.
And fought.
And fought.
About food!
"I don't get it, why did you just have to have the last pudding? I wanted it!" Drew whined.
"Well, I did too!" Mitzi exclaimed.
"I wanted more!"
"Nuh uh!"
"Uh huh!"
"Nuh uh!"
"Uh huh!"
"Nuh uh!"
"Uh huh!"
"Kill. Me. Know!" I moaned biting into my apple glaring daggers at Emma and Drew.
They ignored me…typical.
"Can you not go five minutes without arguing?" I asked.
"Its in our blood." Mitzi sneered.
At this the two guys that looked like they were on steroids, Jared and Paul, looked at us.
Great! Just what I needed!
"I knew I shouldn't have brought you out of Abyss." I muttered.
"Hey!" Mitzi and Drew exclaimed.
"Its true." I muttered.
"Well, we appreciate our new abode." Drew said rolling her eyes.
The words were nice…for them.
"I'm glad you like the motel. You could have stayed with my aunt, cousin, and I." I said.
"Uh, no." Mitzi smirked.
I rolled my eyes and turned my attention to my food.
"Um…Lacey?" Drew asked gulping.
"What?" I growled in annoyance.
"Does cousin usually do that?" She asked.
I looked at my cousin and saw him shaking, badly, while Jared and Paul rushed over to him.
They quickly restrained him and took him outside.
This wasn't happening, this couldn't be happening.
My cousin couldn't possibly be a shape-shifter, I mean Aunt Tiffany already has to deal with a child from the Underworld, literally!
Suddenly, all the little hints and clues fell into place.
Poor, poor Aunt Tiffany.
*three weeks later*
I was sitting in my seat at the dinner table as Aunt Tiffany sullenly moved things around the dish.
Already finished I tried coaxing her into eating something.
"Come on, Aunt Tiff, I'm sure Embry's fine and he'd want you to eat. Not starve yourself." I cooed.
"But its been three weeks lace and no one knows where he is." Aunt Tiffany sobbed. "Anyway, Lacey go do your homework."
With a heavy heart, I did as told and went to my room.
I knew where Embry was, but I couldn't call and ask if he was alright because they didn't know I existed.
I also couldn't tell Aunt Tiffany about the shape shifters, or 'werewolves', because when Aunt Tiffany confronted Embry, she'd have to tell him how she knew and lets just say its better this way.
Its not a good feeling though, to feel so guilty.
Suddenly, the sound of a door being crashed down resounded throughout the house as did Aunt Tiffany's scream.
I ran down stairs with my hand on my pocket knife and saw Embry in a pair of cut offs holding the now broken door.
It was shocking how different Embry looked now.
His once shoulder length hair was chopped close to his head, he grew at least a foot, and his muscles were huge.
A tattoo on his left arm was clearly there and I was sure my mouth was open.
Oh, and Aunt Tiffany was holding a spoon pointing at Embry.
"Woah," was all I said.
"Hi, mom, Lacey," Embry squeaked.
"Embry!" Aunt Tiffany exclaimed hugging him and sobbing into his chest.
She let go of him and I hugged him with all my might.
I have to admit, I missed the guy, and not just because I had to walk in the ran to school.
When I pulled away Embry narrowed his eyes at me and I knew that he smelt something off about me.
After about five minutes ofAunt Tiffany asking over and over if he was alright and constantly hugging him her eyes narrowed.
I was already leaning against the doorframe and knew that I wasn't going to bed anytime soon for I would have to be the one to make sure Aunt Tiffany didn't kill Embry.
"Where have you been mister?" She demanded.
Oh, this should be good!
"Uh…" was Embry's BRILLIANT answer.
"What happened to you?"
"Uh…"
"How did you get so tall?"
"Uh…"
"Why didn't you call?"
"Uh…"
Thats how the rest of the night went until Aunt Tiffany got tired of not being answered.
As Embry and I walked to our rooms, Embry turned to me.
"Lacey, first, I would like to say how very sorry I am."
"Yes?"
"But I need a favor."
"What is it?"
"I need to go out tomorrow after curfew, will you cover for me?"
Oh, devil, he has to be kidding.
"Embry, please tell me your kidding. You are not seriously asking me to help you sneak out!" I pleaded shocked.
"Please." Embry begged.
"I-I can't, Embry. Aunt Tiffany has given me too much to go right and defy her. I'm sorry, you know I think of you as a brother, but I can't do something like this. I won't tell her, but I can't lie for you." At this I turned around and slammed my bedroom door in Embry's face.
Embry may have a reason for defying her, but there is a simpler way instead of asking your cousin to cover for you and its to tell her.
Great, now I sound like Dr. Phil!
A/N:
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