Chapter Three

A Chapter by Heaven

So after going to school for about a month, and its actully pretty cool.

Ryan and I are the best of friends, and everyone's gotten used to the idea of us hanging out. Now, its like if you see me, your gonna see Ryan, or the other way around. And you know somethings wrong when you don't.

Matt and I have some kind've ritual going on. Every day at free period, we take my Porche(or just walk) and go to the McDonalds across the street from the school. We eat and goof off, and I've also learned Matt plays the bass.

Katie is decent enough, she hasn't said anything out of the way, but Matt is always angry at her when she's near me, which strikes me as odd. Why near only me?

When I asked Ryan what he thought, he just laughed, and said, "Matt's territorial."

What the heck does that mean?!

So, about half way into the year, weird things started happening.

I fell asleep late one night, and I was running.

Why am I running?

"Keep going!" A voice yells, and I look to see Ryan on my right. He flashes me a grim, but then grimices, and something whizes past my ear. "Kyle, run!"

I kick my legs into hyperdrive, and someone's pounding behind me.

I try to push myself further, and go faster. I couldn't let them catch me.

"Kyle! Its me!" A voice says.

My feet decide at that moment to fail me, and I fall forward.

Something whips past me, and catches me before I touch the ground.

"Are you okay?" A voice says, I look up, and come face to face with Matt... With his eyes glowing.

I woke up in a cold sweat, and looked at my clock... 5:59. It hits 6, and the alarm go's off.

I groan, and get up.

When I got to school, Ryan met me by Matt's bike, which is where I usially parked.

"Hey," he says.

The dream I'd jsut head plays back in my head faster than a milisecond, and I smile at Ryan, "Hey."

"I couldn't sleep last night because someone kept me intill the crack of dawn, last night." Ryan says, a smirk on his face.

"The sun doesn't come up intill five, smart*ss." I say, and he laughs,

"Touche."

I roll my eyes, and we walk inside. Normally, we'd talk to Matt, but he wasn't there-- his bike was though.

I walked up to the doors, then stopped.

"Girl..."

What was that?

"Whats wrong?" Ryan says.

"I don't--" Then stop.

"Girl! I know you can hear me!" It sounded like someone was whispering in my ear, and when I looked over at the woods that surrounded the school... I saw something move.

I take off running towards it, and Ryan runs after me after shouting my name.

"Kyle! Stop!" He says as we enter the woods, "This isn't safe!"

I ignored him, and I heard his phone ring.

"Hello?" ... "Matt! Dude, she just took off in the woods-- Kyle! Stop! Matt, get your *ss out here! She won't stop!"

A few seconds later, I see the thing again, and it takes off deeper into the woods.

I hear a crack, and see Matt rear up beside Ryan, and Katie too.

"Kyle! Stop!" Katie screeches. "You'll get hurt!"

I ignore her too, and just keep running.

Suddenly, I hear a snarling, and something with teeth and claws launch after me.

I gasp, and the next thing I know, I'm hanging from a tree branch.

A bear is clawing at the tree... but here's the thing, its eyes were glowing red.

The thing I'd seen earlier, a shadow, is next to me.

"Girl, you must cleanse the animal. Its soul is suffering. I beg of you."

"I don't know what to do!" I say to the shadow.

"Princess Kyletheria, please!"

I flinch at the sound of my real name. It was so weird.

"Kyle!" A voice says, I look down and see Katie, Matt, and Ryan.

"Sweetie, get down from there!" Katie says, trying to sound calm, but I could see the panic in her eyes.

"How do I cleanse this thing?" I say, somehow knowing she'd have the answer.

"You'd have to use your pow--" She stops her eyes getting wide, "You mean you know about this?!"

"Please!" The shadow screeches again, and they all snap their heads to the shadow.

"I don't know how." I say, feeling tears pick my eyes, "I'm sorry."

Suddenly, a warming sensation is shot through me. I feel as if I just walked into a warm house when its freezing cold outside.

I squeeze my eyes shut, and loose my hold on the branch.

I blacked out.

***

When I'm come to, a familar fuzzy looking face in in my face.

I laugh as Baby licks me, "Baby!"

I look up as my door opens, and in come Katie, Matt, Ryan, Aunt Kelley, and Uncle Greg stays by the door.

My eyes squint, and I jump as Katie launches herself towards me, hugging me.

"I knew you were her! I just knew it!" She screeches.

"What the hell?!" I say, freaking out.

"Katie!" Matt says, grabbing her arm and jerking her off of me, "You know how emotional it is after you used your powers for the first time!"

"Oops," Katie says, "Sorry Kyle."

Suddenly, I feel really angry, and my fist jets out and punches the wall, leaving a hole.

"Whoa!" All three men say, and Matt and Ryan shoot forward and restle me away from the wall.

I go limp.

"Kyle?" Aunt Kelley says. She walks infront of me, and lifts my head up by the chin, "Oh sweetie, you look just like your mother when your angry."

"You've never seen her angry before?" Katie asks.

"Kyle's always been very good at hiding her real feelings, so I never knew..." Tears spring to her eyes, and she smiles through them, "Even at her mothers funerial, she didn't shed a single tear. Then, when I woke up the next morning, she was throwing everything her mother ever bought her out the window."

"Aunt Kelley," I moan.

"Oh, I'm sorry. You don't want me to tell them--"

"What the heck is going on?" I whisper, before slumping against Matt, and falling back asleep.

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