Published: April 2, 2013
A/N- I apologize completely for not updating for almost a whole month. A lot of things came up since the last update, and I busy, and had no time to think about this story, besides when going to sleep, and when things hit me, I put them in my notes and I would work with them. Good news, I am on spring break for this week, and I will try and update this Friday or Sunday. So I now give you chapter 3, and I hope you enjoy it.
Callie's POV:
I hope Nina was having a good day too. If there brothers and sisters were this awesome, they would be too, right? I hope they didn't give her much trouble. Hehe, I sound like older sister. I'm shaken out of my thought by the feeling of being stared at. I glance up from my lunch and see Lucas staring at me, but then he shot his head down, his mop of girls bouncing. I suppressed my giggle, he is adorable. Wait, what am I saying? Oh boy, when Nina finds out, she is gonna give me, "The Boyfriend and boy friend" talk, something I'm not looking forward to. I look down at my lunch, losing my appetite quickly. I'm not silent for long, Pamela drug me into a discussion about what it was like where Nina and I were from. I tell her a brief summary about Ohio. It was cold in the winter, and we had good summers. Gran's house was close to the city, so everything was about a twenty minute drive, and we had places where people could meet up and hang out. I change the subject ask about what people here did outside of school. She tells me buses do run every day all day, every day during the week, and we will pick me up a bus pass and schedule. The bus ride is about twenty minutes to the nearest town, and it has lots of shops and malls. Our conversation was cut short by the upperclassmen coming out. I picked out Nina, who was talking to Mara, she spots me and nods. A few minutes later, our older siblings sit in the next to our table.
"Hello rugrats!" Jerome bellows, spooking Alana and Jack.
"Jerome, leave us alone! Don't you have someone else to bother?" Jack complains.
"What, can't a guy check on his favorite brother?" Jerome asks, faking hurt.
"I'm your only little brother." Jack points out, clearly annoyed at his older brother.
"Okay, I will leave you guys alone; don't do anything I wouldn't do." He says, turning around.
I silently hope Nina wouldn't sit here. I don't think she would do that, but I don't want to take a chance. Don't get me wrong I love my older sister, but I don't want my friends to think less of me if my big sister comes over. I glance behind me, seeing Nina talking to someone who wasn't from our house. I smile to myself and glance at the clock, seeing that we have around forty minutes left till we had to be in class.
"So who would fancy a stroll till we have to be back?" Pamela asks. A murmur of agreements goes through our table.
"Good, sitting down for an hour, then having to go back and sit in drama would be killer. I don't think we can hit the town and be back in time, but we could probably go through the forest and be back." Pamela exhales. We got up and through our trash away and went walking. I found the forest soothing, but Alex and Jack thought it would be fun to tell ghost stories.
"Not scary boys, I'm pretty sure Callie here could do better." Alana says, "She's really from the woods, right?"
"Sort of, they were in my back yard." I tell her.
"So, do you know any good stories?" She asks with hope in her voice.
"I guess; I know some bonfire stories that are told a lot." I tell them, hoping to tell one of my favorites.
"Well, go ahead!" Jack insists.
I take a deep breath, "I think this is more creepy than scary, but it's based on opinion. Once a Spanish soldier married a beautiful native woman and they had two children whom the soldier loved very much. However, the soldier came from a rich family. His parents and relations disapproved of his wife and threatened to disown him unless he married a Spanish woman. Not wishing to lose his inheritance, the soldier put away his native wife and sent for a bride from Spain.
The soldier's wife was filled with a terrible, jealous rage. To revenge herself against her unfaithful husband, she drowned their two children in the river. The soldier was horrified when he heard what she had done, and tried to have her arrested. But his wife, driven insane by rage, jealousy, and guilt, escaped into the wilds. She roamed through the land, searching the waterways for her children. But she could not find them. Finally, in agony of body and mind, she drowned herself in the river too.
But the woman's spirit could not escape to heaven because of the weight of her terrible crime. And so La Llorona, the Wailing Woman, spirit still wanders the earth, wailing in guilt and grief. She is condemned forever to search in vain for her children. But she will never find them, for they are no more." I finished with my voice getting quieter and quieter.
"That… was… amazing! It totally crept me out! Who told that to you?" Mike asks.
"One of Nina's friends." I shrugs, "He had moved here from Texas, and he was head over heels for Nina, except you do not mention that to her.
"Well, we better start going back if we want to make the class." Pamela informs. We turned back and followed the trail to the school.
"Hey, guys, I have the best idea!" Alana announces
"Al, the last, 'best idea' you had ended up with Alex, Mike, and I with our eyebrows waxed. Lucky got, well lucky that Fabian was getting appendix removed." Jack grumbled.
"Oh, hush you! This idea is even better. "She pauses, "We can all have a sleep over!"
"Al, Victor's rule." Mike informs.
"We can have it in the common room, duh! I'm not stupid yah know." She exaggerates a hair flip. We all discuss Alana's idea on our way to class and make a decision to have it this Friday night in the common room. We got to drama class, the only class that we had with our brothers and sisters. Our teacher is quiet old, and looks sort of sick. Before class begins, he assigns mine and Nina's books and partners. For the remainder of the class, he explains that we would be working on Romeo and Juliet. I am so excited, except year seven students couldn't participate in the acting, we could only observe. After class, I head to the house with the other kids in my grade and start on homework. I was also secretly planning revenge on Patricia. Only I can pick on Nina; if anyone else does they will pay.
A/N-I hope you enjoyed this chapter. If you see anything wrong with it, please notify it the comments or PM me. Oh, one more thing, if you want to see anything in this story, I am open to most ideas. I will see you lovelies this weekend.