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Home Wreckers Ch6:
Fawn sat down at the dinner table and started to chew on her steamed broccoli. She couldn’t help but notice their faces. They looked hungry.
“Want some?” she asked politely because her mother was glaring at her to do so.
They didn’t speak again. Finally, Fawn was fed up with this commandment thing. She wanted to them to do things on their own. She smacked her fork down on the table and looked them square in the face.
“Be your own person!” she yelled and her mother was about to say something, but Fawn cut her off. “Act like normal people! The better you fit in the sooner we can find that spell to send you home. I’m sorry I ever opened that cursed book in the first place. I do not want to babysit monsters!” she took a quick breath and stood from the table.
“We’re not monters.” Marco said matter of factly. “To us, you are the monster.” With that he walked away, back out into the yard where he stood where he had before.
“That was mean, Fawn.” Her mother said, going after Scott who was headed toward the front door.
I sat there like an idiot. I hadn’t realized what I had done until the words were all ready floating amidst the dust particles in the air. It wasn’t my plan to be cold hearted toward them, but they were frustrating and my parents weren’t making things any better. They were treating them like royalty when in all reality they could turn around and make us dinner instead of the broccoli, corn, and meatloaf that mom had cooked in her spare time.
Since mom was taking care of Scott, I went for Marco, who was still dutifully standing in the center of the yard.
“Hey,” I greeted him quietly. “Sorry about the outburst.”
“Fine, whatever…” he sighed, the accent that he had before coming back out for me. “If you want us to be our own people, I guess I’ll have to talk like this for the rest of my time here. And Scott has chosen to be shy and timid to mask the Minatare within him. I told him that was a stupid idea.”
I waited a moment before talking again. “Do you still have to listen to me…?” he nodded yes smoothly. “Oh, sorry about that too, I guess. I didn’t mean to call anything here…”
“We’re not things, girl.” He snapped. “We have every right to be here same as you.” He snickered then. “I just hope that the line up that’s coming out from the Black Haze is as kind to you about summoning us here. We don’t like to be disturbed especially for mistakes.” His smile broadened. “But I guess you were lucky to get Scott and I first.”
“How so?”
“We know every single, creature, as you would call them that can come out of there to this world. The good, the bad, and the ugly.” I nodded slowly, soaking in all this information. If I didn’t find that note soon, I would be swimming up to my neck in monsters!
“Fawn!” that was mom calling out of the backdoor. “Come get your portal and show the boys where they’re going to be staying.” The portal, the compact.
They were all settled in the basement by the time eleven thirty rolled around. It was way past my opted bedtime for a school night and that mean that I was going to be fit to be tied come morning. Tony and Alyssa were going to kill me for missing our theatre practice today, but that stupid book had interfered. I was only planning on skimming it then putting it back in the truck, but I just couldn’t. It was too fascinating and there was this unnatural pull to the point that I physically couldn’t put it down and walk away.
Catsmeow389 · Sun May 17, 2009 @ 06:51pm · 0 Comments |
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