“I’m dying.” I cried. “I’m going to die and be only seventeen.”
“You won’t die.”
I put my hand on the side of his cool cheek ignoring the looks of confusion that he gave me. I closed my eyes and wished to get better and not perish because of something that was passed down to ...
He cupped my face in his stone hands and kissed my forehead. He moaned as he pulled away. Staring into my eyes melting away all the fears I had. Apparently he didn’t want to talk about the subject of how he would save my life. But when his eyes moved away the cloud of despair came back over me and...
“They beat me with sticks. But when our livestock started disappearing along with people in the neighborhood I decided to leave again. Mother and father died most likely from the same thing that killed the animals. When I was running something grabbed me. It was just a small bite but the pain was ...
The doorbell rang, Dakota and Maria already on their feet to answer it. Dakota was hugging someone and that’s all I could see. She grabbed her hand leading her into the front room. It was Debbie. She looked around the room at how much I messed it up but was already in front of me stroking my hair....
“Kai! Kai!” I screamed but quickly went back in the darkness.
Gaining consciousness I was in the front room on the couch in Kai’s arms. Everyone was around us and James had his hands rubbing his neck. I could see the purple marks where I bruised him. I had a flashback of the alley and screame...
“Sunee and Kyoko are moving in.”
“With us?”
“Yes with us.”
“They don’t even know English!”
“Yes they do.”
“Where are they going to stay?”
“We have two extra rooms.”
“Why are they going to live with us.”
“First it would make my family larger...
“If anything happens act normal.” I told them.
They shook their heads agreeing. We sat at a table and Kai sat next to me. We all talked for awhile until Kai started staring at the door.
“Hey Catherine,” He asked her. “who are they?”
We all looked at the door and two gorgeous girls. ...
I looked over expecting to see Kai sitting up reading some book that was too large and boring for me to ever read. But he wasn’t. Instead he was lying down with his eyes closed as if sleeping. He had his IPod in and I quietly laughed to myself until the fear of my dream took over again. Still it f...
We walked to the lunch room together and sat at our usual table. Catherine met up with us and we started talking but they stopped and looked behind me. There was a pair of cold hands on my shoulder then arms that wrapped around my neck.
“Claire.” He spoke my name formally.
“Kai.”
...
Logan ditched me the rest of the day to hang out with Pete. When I got home it was about eight and everyone was already in their rooms. Paige hadn’t come back yet so I got dressed in more comfortable clothes and walked into his room. He instantly shut the door locking it and pulled me next to him....
“How did you get here?!”
Kai kissed the side of my neck and the hollow of my skinny throat so I could talk.
“I ran here.”
“That is impossible you can’t run from New York to California. That’s bloody impossible.”
“I’m here so I guess it’s not, James.”
“Don’t...
“Why are you going to run away?”
“I’m home sick and no one knows where I am except my adoptive sister, Logan.”
“Do you really want to go back?”
I started crying heavily.
“I don’t know! What if he hurts me?”
“Then don’t go and stay here.”
“But I want to ...
By now it was dark and we were in the middle of the woods Cole sat down and I followed. He fixed a burning fire and broke some wood to make seats. He was really good at this. I looked at the stars and saw the zodiac Cancer sign. My dream, maybe he would know what it meant.
“Hey Cole can you hel...
“Both of you stop.” Dakota walked over to us and grabbed our guns. “We are going to be mature and fight for this. So the teams will be Claire and Kai let’s go around and see who the teams will be.”
Paige stood up. “I’ll be on Claire’s team only because she isn’t all over my husb...
“It’s only when I’m really upset.”
“What do you do?”
“I overdose pills, cut myself multiple times, and try to shoot myself in the chest.”
“I have to deal with that don’t I.”
“Yah most likely.”
“What does he do to get rid of that?”
“Most of the time w...
Clide nodded and everyone left the room. He got up and went straight to the couch. He threw my stuff on the floor and turned on football.
This is going to be a long month and a half. I thought to myself.
I sat in a chair farthest away from the couch.
“So what should I know about you th...
I got up and walked to my room upstairs. It was so different from my room at Kai’s house. My room there was green and blue dots with a lovely mahogany floor. My room here was small and plain and boring. I sat on my bed remembering that this was the room that I first learned his terrifying secret. ...
Everything was dark and I didn’t like it. I woke up in the white room of the hospital that I had been in too many times before. Kai was in the corner talking to the doctor. He looked at me.
“Claire. God, I thought you were dead.”
“Where is everybody?”
“They all came by earlier....
“Claire wake up time for school.”
Kai stood at the edge of my bed shaking me. It had been four months since the death of Logan and my encounter with Taboo.
“I don’t want to go!”
“Too bad!”
“I don’t want to go, Kai!”
He picked me up and carried me out of the room a...
“Claire hello.”
“Hi.”
“Go to Jasmine Casino.”
The phone clicked off and I gave the driver directions. He drove off and it would take about an hour to get there. It was midnight when he drove in front of the casino. I payed him and walked into the casino. It was dark but one by one the...
“No.”
“Should of known you would say that.”
“Then why did you ask?”
“Thought you would change your mind.”
“That isn’t something that you just wake up and decide to. I barely know you please remember that.”
“You don’t know me because you never give me a chance.”
“C...
“No.”
“Should of known you would say that.”
“Then why did you ask?”
“Thought you would change your mind.”
“That isn’t something that you just wake up and decide to. I barely know you please remember that.”
“You don’t know me because you never give me a chance.”
“C...
I swung my arms around his neck and kissed him. He pushed me off and I was on the wall with his hands on my arms pinning me to it. He looked at the ground and not me. Maybe he didn’t want me to see what color his eyes were. I bent my head to look but he growled and snapped at my arm. It started bl...
I got up and walked to the back porch. I grabbed a chair and pulled it next to Kai. It was burning up outside probably ninety degrees.
“Maria, it’s late October why don’t you drop thirty degrees?” Kai remarked. He looked at me.
“We are about to have a fight want to watch?”
“Sure who...
I slid down my robe to where he could see my shoulders. It burned when the light touched them and I quickly covered them back up.
“It’s ok Claire.”
“I tripped and hit my head when I was running down here.”
“Let’s go clean you up and you can tell me the dream if you want to.”
He ...
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