Stormy Chronicles

Three Wiccan women and a male Christian Vampire hunter enjoy a eventful dip

Once again I stare out of a now familiar luxury car window to watch the dirt road whiz past. I pull myself away from the oh-so-riveting dust clouds to glance at the bodies next to mine. After 5 hours of sugary candies and countless energy drinks, the high wore off and my two companions had collapsed into content slumbers.

 

Immediately next to myself was the petite redhead Alexi, who never actually needed sugar to have a sugar high. Her head was propped on my lap with her arms underneath as a makeshift cushion; her legs were curled on my other friends lap. Her blue blouse fawned around her thin frame and her jeans rode slightly down on her hips, letting a small amount of pale flesh to be visible.

 

The curvaceous brunette Scarlet was more like myself in posture. Black shorts-covered legs crossed in a bored manner but her torso was slouched over as the window bed acted for the pillow. The sun sent small sparkles as it bounced off the silver embroidery of her red tank. While older then Alexi, Scarlet never seemed to act her age. She also was fast asleep, most likely dreaming of her lover she left in Texas.

 

While my own position was highly uncomfortable, slightly turned and hunched in effort to be comfortable for Alexi, I attempted to pull my plain black tank top down. My blue digital camo jacket had long been forgotten on the floor.

 

As I softly smile at my sisters, I inwardly snicker at our Coven names. Stormy was chosen as a pun on both my Birth name and my personality. Only Alexi and Scarlet know my real name, but everyone else calls me Stormy because my sarcastic and vicious sense of humor. Alexi was given hers by her mother, so there was no chance for us to create one, but Scarlet received hers the first time I was able to make her blush.

 

The three of us met in late middle school and not quite so smoothly bonded. By early high school we were inseparable and would often take road trips such as this one to get away from the bustling city and reconnect with our inner Wiccans. But now, I was a full fledged adult and Wiccan in our coven, with Alexi and Scarlet to follow soon.

Speaking of road trips, this one has come to an end as Scarlet’s grandmother pulls into the ancient driveway. My scarred hand gently shakes Alexi awake and as she yawns, shifting to unbuckle herself, she startles Scarlet.

 

“Wanna tie you up-!” Her hazel eyes wide, Scarlet clapped her hands over her mouth but the damage was done and once again she earned her nickname.

 

“…Is there something you should tell us?” I leaned over Alexi and gave Scarlet one hellva evil grin. My hand deftly unclasps the seatbelt that harnesses me and I open the door to allow Alexi exit. “So, I take it you and T-”

“Don’t you say it!”

 

“oh, so you haven’t? tut-tut girl, he wont wait forever.”

Scarlet glared and promptly blew a raspberry, slamming the car’s door shut most likely in effort to drown out my laughing. Once I gather my jacket I leave the Sudan and strut around to the spacious trunk. By now Scarlet had grabbed her suitcase and dragged it into the summer lake house but thankfully Alexi had straggled behind.

 

“You shouldn’t tease her like that.” Her small frame leaned against the white car with her loose strawberry blond hair blowing in the breeze and she crossed her arms to show disapproval. I ignored the arched eyebrow I knew graced her face. Instead of commenting on how hypocritical that comment was, I reached into the trunk and pulled out her hiking duffle bag and dumped in on the ground at her feet. I groaned slightly when I struggled to lift my giant SeaBag.

 

“When you slouch like that it almost looks as if you have b***s.“ I say rudely with a grunt. Finally I manage to pull it free and grin widely at Alexi. She smiled in return as if she hadn’t heard my comment and bounced up to the house.

 

“Hm…I will never understand her. Ah! Hey! Wai-…” I stare down at the duffle bag that seemed to smile innocently back at me. She left it there to get back at me, I know. I pick it up and sling it over my empty shoulder. I lift my cold gray eyes up to stare at the empty blue sky.

 

“Oh yea, I can just tell this will be fun”

　

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“Stormy?!” A muffled voice shouts from a back room. I cant tell which it is so I reply and keep mindful of my mortar and pestle.

 

“In the kitchen.” I reach across bowls of ground leaves and seeds, and past the bottles of unlabeled contents only to settle on a tiny vial. I bring it close to my face to double check the liquid and I pull the topper out. ‘Three drops, that’s all I need’ I think to myself and my steady hand brings the topper down to my marble pestle when

 

“SCARLET!” Alexi shouts directly behind me. Now I know you cant understand from mere words, but DAMN that girl can screech. The vial flew out of my jolted hand and landed into the mixture. I blinked once. Twice. It was the smoke that was issuing from my pestle that caught my attention. Without thinking I grabbed it up, rushed past a confused Alexi and bolted out the door onto the wrap around patio.

 

Without further ado, I chucked pestle and everything as far as I could into the bushes before a crack like a gunshot resonated in the air.

 

“is everything ok?” Scarlet came walking up the steps from the pool just in time to save Alexi from a very nasty end. “What the hell was that sound?!”

 

“SHE-” I stab a scorched gloved finger at Alexi, “Interrupted me AGAIN! She owes me a Pestle!”

 

“What the hell! You threw the damn thing, I didn’t! I was looking for her.” She defended her self and pointedly stuck her tongue out.

 

“Stormy! Stop making freaky potions in my house!” Scarlet took another deep breath,

 

“Alexi, I told you before I would be outside! Why didn’t you just come outside instead of shouting!?”

Five minutes of bickering pasted between us before I noticed “Scarlet…why do you have a pair of binoculars?”

 

I wish I never asked. cus the next think I know, I am being shoved into a green and white bikini and being forced to march along side an equally confused Alexi towards a boat launch.

 

“Ok girls, Mission ‘Luscious City Girls’ is a go!” Scarlet got an evil gleam in her eye which only meant one thing. Boys. I knew it was pointless to argue at this point, besides the fact Scarlet had her eyes set on a boy, I am not that big on flirting , and while Alexi wasn’t quite taken, she also wasn’t quite single either.

 

Might as well let Scarlet have her fun no?

 

“Fine, but if a snake bites me, Im kicking your a*s.” I warn before getting a childish grin plastered on my face and sprinting towards the water. What? I love swimming. I didn’t have to look to know Alexi just face palmed herself and Scarlet was giggling like she did whenever she thought a boy was around.

 

We were enjoying ourselves playing in the murky river water. By now I had already gotten a glimpse of the mixed group that was hanging around the boating dock almost 30 yards away. Adult male, adult female, two adolescent boys; I made a mental note subconsciously as habit required. As I studied the group I noticed the adult male to be taking quite an interest in Alexi. Did he know?

“Are you going to molest her with your eyes some more or are you going to talk,” I asked defiantly. I stood up spread my legs apart and placed my fists on my hips in the trademark Superwoman pose.

 

“Oh my god! I didn’t mean to stare. Ok I’m lying, but still it was rude of me,” He replied in a sort of stupor. Yup. Alexi was getting ogled by an idiot. Even though i hadn’t meant for my comment to be an invitation he stood up from the bench and began walking towards us. About 6 foot, brown hair cut military style, rather stocky but I couldn’t tell if it was muscle or not. But it was his eyes that startled me the most. A beautiful emerald but in the sun the sparks of gold became visible. The eyes of a dragon?

 

I turned and side stepped until I was between Alexi and the newcomer. Or I was until she placed her thin hand on my arm and gently waded around me.

 

“Its ok, Stormy.” she knew what I was trying to do, “I don’t mind.”

I don’t feel any malicious in him she Sent through our psyche channel.

 

Just cus you don’t feel it, doesn’t mean its not there. I replied sharply. Yes, Alexi could ’read’ peoples intentions, but it wasn’t one hundred percent accurate. We had learned that one the hard way and Alexi still woke with night terrors on occasion. I wasn’t keen on repeating the experience.

 

“Now now Alexi, lets not get too frisky with our friend too soon.” Scarlet jumped in. Calm down Stormy, there are three of us, and one of him. If things go south, we can take him. Besides! Its summer! Lets have some fun for once!!

 

Fine and I backed away from Alexi, letting her pass.

 

“Scarlet, I wasn’t-”

“You have no self control” I commented in effort to appear calmer.

 

“Come here and I’ll show you self-control” Alexi challenged me, and began wading back towards where i was standing. Of course I laughed at her attempt to appear threatening so I turned and dived under the waters surface, psychically egging her on to chase me. We danced and fought in the dark world of the river for a while before requiring air. When I broke the surface I noticed two things. First, Scarlet and the man had moved back over to the pier, and Second I was topless. I quickly covered myself with a silent shriek and looked around for Alexi. She was lost to me until she surfaced at the mans dangling feet.

 

“You better give me back my top Alexi! Just wait till I catch you!” and I swam to the trio. I was directly behind the mischievous redhead when I heard-

 

“I’m Keiran, and there is a very mad topless girl behind you,”

I put both of my hands on Alexi’s shoulders and shoved her under the surface. We were battling as I tried to get Alexi’s top when Scarlet Sent He’s a Christian. We both stop immediately and kicked apart to surface.

 

We should leave I Sent as my face reached to warm June air. Instead of heading my warning, Alexi smiled innocently up at the Christian and asked for aid. Instead of her leaping out of the water onto the deck, Keiran leapt from the deck into the water. In effort to get out of the way, I pushed myself up onto the wooden floating pier and sat next to Scarlet. Alexi quickly joined us but was pulled unceremoniously back into the water as the man Keiran got his revenge. He threw back his head and laughed that sounded like a deep rumble of thunder. My heart skipped of its own accord and I quickly looked away as he stripped the wet t-shirt off and tossed it leisurely onto the deck.

 

Scarlet turned towards me to ignore the flirting pair and said “He’s a Christian Stormy.”

“Yes I know, you Sent that little tidbit remember?”

“He said something that struck me odd. He commented that he wasn’t a normal Christian.”

“I noticed. He has the Dragon’s eyes.”

 

“What?!” she turned to face Keiran to see if what I said was real when she was faced with Keiran and Alexi kissing. She gasped in surprise and I reached for the closest thing I could reach and tried to beat the man over the head with it. It turned out to be one of those orange life preservers so the damage done was no where near the intended amount, but it did its job and the two spilt and floated away in opposite directions.

 

“See what I meant?! No self cont-” I was pulled into the water by Keiran’s gentle but playful hands. When I rose to the surface sputtering, I was overtaken again when Scarlet jumped in and tried unsuccessfully to drown me.

　

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Soon dusk fell and two exhausted girls and one very entertained handsome man waded out of the murky river onto the boat launch. I had taken perch on the rickety bench a few feet away from the pier so that I could be in range of the conversation but not in danger of being dragged into the cool brown water. Throughout the afternoon I watched Keiran and how he interacted with Alexi and Scarlet. He seemed cool and collected if not somewhat overly flirtatious. The way he ruffled his wet hair made me smile slightly before I quelled the urge to do so.

 

“Bored?” He smiled wide and plopped down next to me while Alexi and Scarlet sat on the table itself.

 

“Not in the slightest.”

“Oh? But you haven’t said a word since you sat out here, avoiding us.” he leaned forward to place his chin on his hand to prop his head up.

 

“Don’t mind Stormy. When she isn’t making a sarcastic remark, she is sitting in a moody way to ward off future boyfriends.” Scarlet giggled and flicked water at Alexi. The boyfriend remark made Keiran curious,

 

“You’ve never had a boyfriend?”

“Oh, she has. But they’ve all run screaming in the other direction after about a month” Scarlet teased.

 

“That isn’t it at all Scarlet.” Well geez, they did run per say. It was more like a brisk jog screaming. And it wasn’t the reason I was silent. To be honest I had been reading him. Like Alexi, who can read intentions and read the past, both Scarlet and I could read people as well. Scarlet can read peoples strengths and the present. I can see peoples weakness and the near future. I had been searching and I had found what I was looking for. If this Keiran dared harm Scarlet or Alexi he would woe the day he met us.

 

“Then what were you doing over here Oh Great Stormy.” he smirked and cocked an eyebrow.

 

Instead of replying which required speaking , I did not trust my voice at the moment, I pushed Alexi off the table and ‘hmpf-ed’. I stood up thrusting my bosom out and swayed my hips provocatively as I walked to grab my red beach towel. When I turned around I noticed Keiran’s eyes were not upon me, but instead his full attention was on helping Alexi up from the ground. I dropped the act and began walking normally back towards the summer house.

 

 I vaguely remember someone shouting for me to wait, but instead I marched up the hill without looking back scolding myself the entire way for having an infatuation with a Christian.

 

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“What the hell was that?!” Alexi stormed into the kitchen wearing not but a towel, still dripping from her shower. She stood in front of the granite island and slammed her hands down. I looked up from the meat sizzling in the cast iron skillet in front of me to quirk an eyebrow.

 

“I don’t know what your talking about.”

“You were Reading him! You cant do that without his permission, you know that!!” She snarled. Of course I knew that, but then again who am I to follow rules and she of all people knew that little tidbit.

 

“I can do it without consent if I feel threatened.”

 

“Why the hell would you be scared of him?! We were just swimming!”

 

“Ok, two things. One, stop shouting I’m right in front of you. And Two I was not afraid of him.”

“But you just said-”

 

“That I felt threatened. I’m never afraid of someone.” I sniffed in a prude fashion and turned my attention back to the ground beef that I was currently cooking for tacos. “I don’t want you getting close to him.”

“What?!“ she crossed her thin arms across her chest and leaned back in quiet rage. I am older then her by three years and as an Eldest Sister, my word was supposed to be law within the coven; even if I personally didn’t like the fact I had authority over them, I did find it useful on occasion. “Why?”

 

But I didn’t answer. I lifted the heavy skillet with one hand and grabbed the strainer to place it in the sink. I drained the meat in silence. Alexi may not understand but I could bet Scarlet would figure it out sooner or later. The meat got put back into the skillet and back onto the stove where I mixed in the seasonings and stirred, moving my face out of the way of the steam. Alexi growled obscenities under her breath and stormed out of the kitchen, almost barreling into Scarlet who just finished her own shower.

 

“Why is Alexi calling you a b*tch f*cker in Spanish?” Scarlet looked over her shoulder and winced when a door was slammed.

 

“I told her not to get close to that Keiran boy.”

“And why would you do that?” She sat in the bar chair and nibbled on a tortilla.

Once again I remained silent. After all, my reason was mine alone. It wasn’t until I turned off the stove and began building the tacos that Scarlet left to consol Alexi. It gave me room to think and prepare for the grilling I was going to receive from the both of them. Granted my word was law, but I had to have a viable reason as to my declarations.

 

What was I going to tell them? ‘Sorry Alexi but I have a crush on your boy toy. Since I’m older I call dibs.’

HA! Yea right, not only will my reputation of ‘cold hearted b*tch’ be tarnished but they would laugh in my face. To be honest I couldn’t quite Read him well enough to get anything solid. All I could pick up from him was what appeared to be a fight and even then I couldn’t see any faces clearly.

 

So instead of worring more then necessary I placed the plates on the dinner table and sat patiently waiting for Scarlet to coax Alexi out of her room. I decided to wing it and hope they wouldn’t press the subject.

Author's Note

PART ONE

This is a mirror of the story 'Alexi Chronicles' from the character Stormy's point of veiw.
We journey with Stormy as she trys to protect her coven sister from an unknown Christian while she unbeknowistly falls for him herself!

Reviews

[Forest Green]

A wild ride...a day in the life of...

Interesting take on the dynamic between sisters seasoned by the unexpected.

Interesting...will read more..!

[Misty Blue Eyes]

WOW this was an amazing story.. i really love this

[Arctic Fox]

Well Well Well Miss "Stormy" this has given me very valuable insight into two things. What went on when I wasn't there and more about how you think. Your words have me thinking now. That and something Paise said. I need to think. Oh remember don't make any plans for Thanksgiving 2011. We're going to Italy. I have some places I want to see in Venice. This well written and I enjoyed it. It gave me a so many laughs.....good ones of course. Kinda wished I knew how you felt then if this is factualy to your feelings. I had a crush on both "Alexi" and YOU, but you seemed less interested and I love red heads. Both of have great qualities I love. Here is my problem..... I can sense "Alexi" likes me, but her being with HIM >:( it has me all confused. Then there is you little miss.....I never even knew. You are very good at hiding things. Of course you could have been making that part fiction, but then that would actually kinda suck..... well I do know one thing GET A DAMN CELLPHONE. I need to talk to you at basic and I can't do that if I can't text you. Remember ITALY :D ^_^ ^o^ ;)