Cathy was frozen to the spot she was in. She couldn’t believe all she was hearing. She couldn’t believe that her brother was right. She had thought that Carson hated her father because he was always so hard on him but Cathy was shocked. Her father had been so hard on him because Carson knew the truth. She knew that she had to get out of here before anything else. She needed to reach her brother. She needed help.“The house is awfully quiet. Where are he kids?” Matilda asked.“I have no idea. I have to go out now. I still have some official matters to take care of. Do you want to come with?” Carlos asked his sister.“I would love to. Besides, there is nothing for me to do here” Matilda said to him as she grabbed her purse.Cathy waited until she could no longer hear their footsteps anymore. She dropped her phone on the floor. She had recorded everything that she had heard for evidence but how was she going to go about it? Her father was the judge, the jury and the executioner. How was
“Punish? Alex, I know that you are trying to defend her but she didn’t even let us explain. Did you notice that we didn’t get a chance to explain why we were not home on time? She just concluded that we were up to no good and she grounds us for two months! How does that work exactly?” Arielle said to him.“She would let us off the hook before the next two months. All you have to do is stay on your best behavior. We would be fine, really. At least she is still letting us go to school. C’mon. Let it be. We would be fine in the end. We should really get down for dinner so that we don’t get into any other trouble” Alex said to her.She rolled her eyes and walked out of the door. All Alexander could do was sigh. Suddenly, there was this responsibility of protecting everybody around him. At first it was his sister, then it was his mom. Either ways, the more he tried to protect someone, the more somebody kept getting hurt. He didn’t know if what he was doing was right anymore. He pulled out
She nodded at him and he smiled at her. He headed to his class and took a deep breath before heading into the class. When he got in, he met Cathy’s stare and he looked away. He walked past her without saying a word to her before heading for Bennie’s seat.“You look like you didn’t sleep well” Bennie said to him as he sat“I didn’t sleep well, Bennie. I was scared that Carlos would come over to finish what he started. My mom was very pissed yesterday. She is grounding me and my sister for the next three months” Alex said to him.“How did your sister take that? She hates things like that” Bennie said to him.“How do you know? I am just finding out that she hates rules like that. I didn’t know until yesterday. She is extremely pissed off but I don’t think it is because we got grounded. I think it is because my mom jumped into conclusion without asking us what happened” Alexander said to him.“And you are starting to sound like she isn't justified to be angry” Bennie said to him.“She is
“What the hell am I supposed to do then? You think this is easier on me? All my life, I have always thought my father was a saint. I thought that he was the best thing life gave to me. You have to understand that he is my father, there is no other way that I could have possibly seen him. There was just no other way. When I found out who he was, it broke my world more than it did to yours. This was someone that I believed in, someone I fought my brother for when he said demeaning things about him! This was someone I put all of my faith and trust in. Yes, my sad story is not supposed to move you but do you think it is my fault? You are so unbelievable and it just hurts because I thought that you of all people would understand it. You would see that it is not my fault and neither is it my brother’s fault but no. You are blinded by your own personal hate, you are blinded by your rage and it is so sad that you are” she said to me.“First you tell me your sob story and then you think you ca
“That is bullshit and I think you know that already because Cathy is right at the center of all of this! This is her father we are talking about. The circle of violence started from her family so she is just as involved in this as her brother is and if you can work with her brother then there is nothing stopping you from working with her too. If you can still talk to her brother after everything that happened with Arielle, then you can still talk to her too” Bennie said to him.Alexander looked at him and sighed. He knew that Bennie has a very valid point and he rubbed his forehead. The bus started to move and he looked out the window. He saw Carson and Cathy get into their car and he looked away. He pulled out his phone and decided to drop her a text but he didn’t know what to say so he sighed and tossed the phone away. He hoped that she would be willing to talk to him after the way he acted earlier today. All Alexander could do was stare at his phone. When the bus stopped at his jun
“I can’t answer all of your questions because you have to leave now. If Carlos senses that you were here, he would hunt you down and he would kill you and I can’t let that happen. You can’t die without fulfilling your destiny. If you do, the world would be just like that house, nothing but ashes. It would be a waste land and your own people would not survive it. It would not be able to inhabit anything living again so I can’t risk you staying here longer but I can grant you one wish. What do you want?” she asked him. “I want to be able to come back and get answers to my questions. I need all the answers I can get!” he said to her. “I was hoping that you wouldn’t ask that. I thought you would be ask to get your sleep back, your sanity, your peace of mind” she said to him. “I guess you can say that somethings are more important than others” he said to her. “I would try my best to keep shielding you every time you come but there would be sometimes where I wouldn’t be able to do that a
“The second time?” Arielle asked him.“It doesn’t matter. We need to go to school. The last thing we are doing is going late to school. Mom would freak out if she finds out that we were late to school” Alexander said to her.“No, I want to hear it. We can be late to school for all I care. This is way more important than whatever the school has to offer us. Besides, we already missed the bus. We might as well take out time or stay home. Nobody really cares” his sister said to him.“Miss school? Mom would kill me” Alexander said to her.“She loves you way too much to even hit you. All she would do is let me off this stupid punishment before you but you already seem unaffected by the entire thing so it shouldn’t be a big deal for you” she said to him.“No. We can talk about this when we get back but for now, we need to find a way to get to school. We would get a cab to take us to school and if they ask why we are late, you would tell them that your brother was coming down with a flu” he
“So what do you plan on doing about that because he is definitely going to be at the phasing ceremony. There is no way he is not going to find out and if I don’t phase, I would draw a lot of attention to myself. That is the last thing I or my family need” Alexander said to him.“You would be transforming. I would keep my father here until the entire transformation is over. Cathy and I decided to act sick and make him stay here. When my father can’t attend to something, he sends his general. This is a bracelet that I had someone make for me. Nobody would be able to see that you are a burning flame wolf except for those with the knowledge already so be careful about who you tell that you are a burning flame wolf” Carson said as he handed him the bracelet.“I don’t understand. Why are you doing this for me? Why are you being so nice to me even though you are aware that I hate your family?” Alexander asked him.“You don’t hate my family. You hate my father and that is okay. I hate him too