AN: Been so long, no? I am so sorry for the late update. But I'm back. So, here ya go! And yeah, special thnax to sugarishfreak for Brady's nickname!
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(FAITH'S POV)
As soon as I woke up, I felt the hammock under me shake so hard that I practically fell off it flat on the grassy ground. I knew it might have been Louie once again. Well, Louie's real name is Louis and he is a year elder to me. He has got brown (chocolate shade) hair and green eyes which when I look into get me drowned. I am not saying I kind of have a crush on him but it's like…. Well, yeah, who am I kidding? He controls fire and is a great guy and a computer whiz except the fact that I hate him when he disturbs me while sleeping. It was his childhood habit, I might say because I have known him for years. Well, he and I shared his element because of my accident earlier this spring. He had to give a part of it to me because I needed it like, you know, when people have accidents and need blood. His part of the element was like life saving blood to me. Okay, hang on. That's just not it. Because of this, he has a brain connection with me. It therefore makes it difficult to hide it from him sometimes. I mean my feelings for him.
"Morning, Squirt. Ooh, seems like I have an 'I hate your good mornings' coming from you, eh?" he asked. As a stupid normal reply, my middle finger sprang out of my fist.
"I knew it!" he said as if he had loved some girl since forever and she had accepted him. Who knows how weird this guy can be?
I got up and went into the house and there Wayne was, sitting in the living room having his breakfast. Well, you might be wondering who Wayne is. No worries, I'll tell you.
Well, Wayne's another member of our small household. He is Louie's elder brother. He is about 23 and is 5'11", an inch more than Louie though. Unlike Louie, Wayne has got electric blue eyes and is a practicing doctor. So, I went to him and said "Dude, my 5 dollars plus five of the bet."
We had a bet last night that if I sleep outside the house without complain, and then he'll give me five bucks plus he gives the three of us five bucks every day. Might be wondering who's the third one, right? Well, it's Amelia\ Amy. Well, she's my sister and is 18. She controls air and has got grey eyes and blonde hair. We have nothing in common but still we are good together.
As usual, Louie and I went to the ravine. I don't know why but we go there every day at about 10o'clock but today we were a bit late. We play there for a while and he helps me gain control over my element better because I am a real bum at doing so. All of them have a good control over their but me? Ha, forget it. Wayne says because I control fire, this is why I am having problem with this but whatever. Louie is my coach till dad finds schools for us which is really a problem because as we ran away from the Volturi, we have lost our certificates and stuff and that's when the accident thingy happened.
I was talking about the element control thing. So let me tell you, it's not that fun you are thinking it might be. Well, for one hour, first you have got to focus on letting the heat out of you and then finally when you succeed, you try breaking a stupid tree with it. That's so not fun. So, I better tried to climb the tree as I am strictly against deforestation.
"So, princess, what're you gonna do now?" Louie asked as I landed on the ground.
"What about tree climbing?" I asked.
"What? Wanna learn it?" he replied.
"No, I don't need to. I can do it myself." I answered.
"What if you fall down?" he asked casually.
"I won't." I retorted. I climbed the tree and that took me about fifteen minutes to reach the third branch.
"Told ya!" I said, my voice filled with joy as if I had won an Oscar. Just then, I felt a change in the surroundings. Seriously, I hadn't felt it ever before.
"Faith, is everything alright?" Louie called and as he ended, my foot slipped and I was right off that tree and…
Fortunately, safely into Louie's arms.
"Faith, you alright?" he asked.
"Thanks for catching me, Louie." I muttered, getting off him. What am I?
An idiot?
That's right.
"So, what now?" he asked.
"What squared now?" I replied.
"How are you such a…a trouble magnet, if I may ask?" he asked.
"Oh, shut up!" I hit him on his arm.
"As you say." He answered, looking about.
"Are you thinking what I am?"
"Yeah. What was it?"
"I don't know but I feel I have sensed it earlier."
"I don't think so. I've never ever felt it." He answered. "Let's better go back home, I guess."
"I want to know what it is." I insisted.
"Faith, I don't think it's safe enough here." He replied.
"But?"
He turned away to walk and I still followed him trying to figure out what it really might have been.
My list consisted of:
1. Banshees
2. Goblins
3. Witches
4. Phoenix
5. Or something like that.
We went back home but soon, we started getting bored.
Anyway, we walked back to Wayne's clinic to disturb. That's what we do to pass time. The sessions of school have started but dad and Wayne are finding it difficult to get us enrolled in a school because of the vampires after us.
"Wayne, you know we had a different sensation back there in the woods while training her." Louie informed.
"What?" he sniggered.
"Oh! Shut up. Nothing like that. You know like when we sense vampires and it was actually better than vampires. Like it wasn't so disgusting." I added. Wayne knows about my feelings for Louie but we've had this deal. If he tells him, I'll burn his clothes as the last time I did it. My phone buzzed and it was Amy's SMS.
I want u at the mall in five minutes. U r helping me out with a cute guy here.
"What the f…hell?!" I muttered.
"We had a deal, no?" Wayne said.
"I just said f." I retorted. The deal was that at the end of the month whoever curses the least gets to have a videogame of his/ her choice and gets more phone privileges.
"That doesn't count." Louie took my side.
"Thanks." I winked my eye at him. "Amy wants me at the mall. You are comin'?" I asked Louie.
"After you." He jumped across the table and followed me. We went up to his bike and wore the helmets. Then, we rode to the mall and met Amy at McD's. No kidding, she was staring at three guys like a blind man watching sun for the first time, like a deaf man hearing music for the first time.
"Ames! Ames!" I snapped my fingers in front of her eyes.
"Yeah, what? What?" she asked. Two of the three looked native Americans and the third, somewhat like, you know, a totally white guy with those butterscotch colored eyes. The natives seemed totally different from each other. One was smiling like anything and the second was angry like I had asked for his kidneys. Okay, whatever.
"Which one?" I asked, sighing.
"The one behind the three." She said. I smacked my own forehead.
"What?" they both asked in unison.
"Nothing." I said. I had somewhat of a space out when Louie shook me.
"Yeah, yeah, what?" I asked.
"You spaced out." He reminded me.
"Where's Amy larking?" I asked Louie.
"She asked me and you to leave, Ms. Spaced-out." He said.
"Why?" I questioned.
"Because…those vampys are up here." He answered.
"You've gotta be kidding me!" I shouted.
"Hush down and let's leave without making a sound." He responded.
And that's why, I ended up walking back home in Louie's stupid tunnels. Although I have a part of Louie's element but I'm still not used to this muddy soil and earthworms.
"I am not gonna walk in these tunnels ever again in my life." I complained.
"Whatever." He murmured. We reached the woods when both of us got out of these tunnels, we saw two crimson-eyed, porcelain-skinned guys.
"Faith, run. I'll catch 'em up." He said and pushed me to start running.
"I ain't leaving without you, dummy." I retorted.
"I said: better leave." He ordered. I felt like a fire sensation in his brain and then, mine. Then, I didn't remember what happened later. I just remembered that I had my hand in Louie's.
When I opened my eyes, I saw the straight wooden ceiling and my head hurt a lot. It was some kinda wooden warehouse. The mattress (from what I guess) under me was like the one Louie had in his room – an air mattress. I sat up straight and there was a golden retriever sitting next to me.
"Yikes!" I reacted but it looked at me as if it knew me and licked me.
"Hey, hey. Stop it, boy. Have any idea what place is this?" I asked it. What am I? An idiot? I am talking to a puppy? Seriously? Then, that guy, from McD's, the smiling one entered with a seriously cute one. He had these dark brown eyes that seemed like peat bogs to me. You know what are they? They are used in Celtic countries to test whether someone is guilty of some crimes or not. They are full of brown colored semi solid and when you step into them, they start working. If you drown you are guilty, if not; then you're innocent. I felt like I was a guilty one and I couldn't move. It was like he had paralyzed me. Was he using steroids? But still, he was sexy.
"You were at the mall!" I shrieked coming back to my sense.
"Hey, don't get scared." that cute one said. Wow! I am officially kidnapped.
"I am not scared. You don't know who I am and by the way, may I know why am I kidnapped?" I demanded.
"Well, we didn't kidnap you."
"Well, taking someone by force to an unknown place without her parents' knowledge seems like kidnapping to me. What's your definition of kidnapping, Assclown?" I asked him. The one, who was smiling, laughed.
"Oh, shut up, chuckle head." I said to the other.
"Believed it?" chuckle-head asked Assclown.
"I'd better leave." Assclown replied.
"Why have you got me here?" I asked, ridiculed.
"Look, no one would hurt you but just give a stress on your mind and tell me who you are." He said.
"I'm Faith Simons. I don't need to give a stress upon my brain to answer that, you dickhead!" I screamed.
"Okay, okay. Don't scream like that. Look, I'd better say you don't hurt yourself being here. I know who and what you are but please for Pete's sake, don't." he said. Seriously? Is that how kidnappers behave with kids?
"But why am I here?!" I questioned in the same tone.
"Because you're not what you think you are. You are something that you don't know who you are."
"What?"
"You won't get it until you try to recognize any of us."
"You were at the mall!"
"NO, you know me already!"
"I don't."
"Till you don't recognize me, you'll stay here!"
"What?"
"That's an order."
"You're not my goddamn father to order me!"
When I ended, he went away.
"So, boy, what's your name?" I asked the puppy and caressed his head. He put his head in my lap, as if he wanted me to do that some more. Frankly, speaking, he is an intelligent puppy.
"Hmm. Bark if any of these names is yours?" I commanded. He barked happily.
"Hmm. So, Alex? Rex? Roy? Sammy? Atticus? Clad? Um….what about Marley?" I asked and he barked. "You liked it? Is that your name?"
He licked me.
"So, Marley it is. Me, I'm Faith." I said. "Wanna play fetch, Marley? Go and get a ball?"
He shook his head and I smiled. I wanted him to stay there. I couldn't understand why he wanted me to recognize him and as whom? Oh my god! Was this a look-alike problem like it happens in movies?! I played with Marley for a while when Assclown walked in with a bag of dog food. He put it in Marley's bowl and sat there opposite to me.
"Why am I here?!" I asked him the same question.
"You'll know by the time you get your memories back."
"I still don't get what memories you guys are talking about. Look, I think…I mean I'm pretty sure that you are mistaking me for someone else. I've lived whole life there in Santa Paula and Spokane and Richland." I added.
"You think I can mistake you for someone else?" He said, looking straight into my eyes. It was like an electric shock that set through my whole body.
"How do you know me already? I've never ever seen you before in my life." I said. He shut down his mouth and sat there, unmoving.
"Why is this happening with me? At least gimme a clue how would I know you!" I demanded.
"It's a long story."
"So, why don't the hell you let me go?!"
"Because he would kill you out there!"
"Who would?"
"Well, someone whom you think is your father!"
"Why would he ever kill me?! I am his daughter!"
"He doesn't take you as that. He takes you as a rival!"
"Oh! Whatever!"
DAY 2
Well, you won't believe that I had to share the mattress with Assclown last night. Not that, he did anything. But I don't understand why I feel my attraction towards him even more than Louie. Seriously, I have felt my feelings for him in one second equal to those that I have had for Louie in these past 14 years. I could've hated the person I am supposed to hate but somehow I ain't able to hate him. Got what I am trying to say?
Even I couldn't at first.
Marley was with me the whole night. I seriously think that I love this puppy. I want to take him with me when I go.
"Morning!" Assclown said taking a yawn. I had sat up already and was trying to figure out my way out. That's when Marley gave his leash in my hand.
"He wants you to take him out for a walk." Assclown told me.
"I don't know my way out." I muttered.
"This place is La Push. So, don't worry, it's safe around." He said. "And, yeah, no vampires are around, so you're totally safe."
"How do you know about vampires?!" I asked, awestruck.
"Let's just say that we are all shape shifters. Heard about Quileute tribe?" he questioned. I thought for some seconds. Oh my god! These shape shifters kill the cold ones! The 'cold ones' means the vampires, I get it!
"So, why have you kidnapped me? Are you gonna use me against Volturi or some other coven?"
"No, you go and give him a walk." He said and Marley pulled me after him and burst open the door. It was a beach area. The sea breeze that swept across my face made me feel a little better from that claustrophobic place. I still don't get why is he that good with me? After a while, I saw the highway turn. I think I know how to run away from here now!
PLAN EXECUTION
Okay, so I am trying my best to be alone for a few minutes. Assclown just came and gave me my cereal but the noticeable thing was that how did he know that this is my favorite cereal.
"How do you know that this is my favorite cereal?" I asked, brushing my teeth.
"I know somehow." He replied and then his phone rang off. He picked it up.
"Yeah, hey Cole…what happened, dude? ... You kidding me, ain't ya? ….I'll be there in a sec." he said, locked the door from outside and I saw him going away.
I was now left with just one option and that went…
BURN!
I burned the shelter. I heard Marley shout from outside the shelter and I just realized I WAS TRAPPED INSIDE!
With a sudden thump, the roof fell before me and then, it all went black.
When I opened my eyes, I realized I was in this basement kind of a room and this guy from the mall, chucklehead, was sitting beside me with Assclown who was almost leaning on me. Gee, my head aches. I shouldn't try that again.
"What's your problem?!" Assclown blew off.
"Right now! You! You're my problem! I want to go back home! What do you want with me? Neither are you calling my family to get me in exchange of money nor are you telling me what I have to do, to go. If you wanna kill me, why don't you end it now!?" I shouted.
"All I want is that you don't hurt yourself!" he replied.
"Guys, don't fight." Chucklehead interrupted.
"Oh, you shut up!" both of us yelled in unison.
"I'll do." He squeezed himself in the corner of the basement.
"Why don't you lemme go!?"
"Because I know it's not safe for you without us!"
"I am not a kid. I can take care of myself and right now, I am going!" I shouted and got up.
"JUST BE HERE!" he commanded.
"You've got nothing to do with me! Why do I listen to you?!"
"I've got everything to do with you, got that!?" he said and I sat back.
I NEED TO GO BACK HOME!
AN: She's behaving pretty bad with poor Assclown. Any ideas who's assclown? Anyway, don't forget to review. The faster you review, the faster I update a chapter. Three reviews needed atleast? Pwease?