Clan Fighters by Kaitlyn Garlets (dark academia books to read .txt) 📖

so into her thoughts, she almost didn't hear Griffen knocking on the door of her office.
Reece opened the door and saw Griffen standing in front of her, dressed in boys clothes just his size.
"Wow, didn't think you would look good in Monika's brother's clothes," Reece said, making fun of the clothes he was wearing.
"Well, your no picnic either," Griffen said, pointing to her top which was a sweater vest that was made for Christmas.
"Ha, ha," Reece said sarcastically, flopping on her couch, which made her cough from the dust all over it. Maybe when she got enough time to actually have a normal life, she would come in and vacuum the place, because she had to admit, it wasn't very clean. All her paperwork was thrown on the floor and in the trash, wadded up or bundled.
"Can I come in?" Griffen asked, looking around the room.
"If you dare," Reece said, trying to lighten the mood up, which worked.
"Alright, I will challenge your dare! I am in your office!" Griffen said, pretending to hold his breath as he stepping on foot at a time. He let his imaginary breath he was holding out and flopped down on the couch next to Reece, who giggled as more dust flew in their faces, making them gasp and cough, making them laugh even harder.
As they stopped laughing, Griffen yawned and put his arm around Reece, who's face burned with embarrassment.
"Griffen, please," she said.
Griffen took his arm away from her, feeling rejected.
"Sorry, I just thought..." Griffen started, but stopped himself.
"I know. But lets just see how this goes, okay?" Reece said, hoping that what she said would make up for forcing his arm away.
"Okay," Griffen said, his mood lightening from low to higher than it was a second ago because he might get a shot at something that might be something, but he wasn't sure, but he would take anything he got just to be near her.
"So, what do you want to eat? I have everything in this place. Whatever you want, doesn't matter. Neither does the amount. We are here to eat and we are starving, so lets go to the kitchen!" Reece said, rising from the dusty couch, Griffen not far from her.
Reece hopped into the kitchen and started opening the drawers and the freezer doors, cupboard doors, and many other places that contained food. "So, what do you want?" Reece asked.
"Hmm...so hard to choose from. How about hamburgers? I haven't had one of those in a long time," Griffen replied with a smile on his face.
"Works for me. I've been making these things as long as I can remember, and it always makes my customers smile, so I am sure that they are good," Reece said.
"You mean you have never had one of your own hamburgers? Haven't you had one of parents' before?" Griffen asked.
"Well, yes, but not one of mine. I usually don't eat my food from here. But there is always a first time for everything!" Reece said, walking over to the fridge and pulled out a fresh pack of meat that Monika had put there that morning and unwrapped it from the package.
"Don't you freeze your food?" Griffen asked.
"Oh, goodness no! We make everything fresh every single day! And if we have something left over from that day the next day, we give it to the customers for half off."
"How much do you make a day?"
"Like two to three thousand a day. But its nothing really because our rent is outlandish! My rent is like four hundred dollars per month. Then there is the insurance. God, that is the highest. It changes every month. Sometimes its less, and most times, its more. I have like a property damage insurance thingy and then a bunch more that I can never remember," Reece said, as she turned on the flat stove and began to cook the hamburger patties. "What do you want on it?"
"How about a nice slice of cheddar cheese and some lettuce and pickles? Oh, and don't forget the tomato! I love a good tomato!" Griffen said, making a fake accent, making Reece laugh until she almost choked, making Griffen laugh even harder when he saw her coughing up nothing.
"Its not funny!" Reece said, turning back to her hamburger, which had burnt. "Now look what you did to it! You made it burn! Your going to be eating this one!" Reece slapped the patty on a sesame bun and topped it off with the toppings Griffen wanted and handed it to him, saying, "Order up, number one!"
"That would be me!" Griffen said, waving his hands at Reece, who pretended to ignore him, pushing the sandwich to him.
"Mine is almost ready, so you can eat while I make mine, your probably just as hungry as I am. What did you eat in that shack?" She asked.
"Uh, mostly just burnt road kill. I'm the worst at catching animals, even if they are already dead," he replied, taking a huge bite out of the most delicious hamburger he had ever tasted.
"So where were you before you came here?" Reece asked, making conversation as he ate, waiting for hers to get done so that she could eat it too.
"I was all over the place. I would hunt down Skincrawlers, and kill them if I had the chance, but that was rare. They can be quick suckers. I still don't know how you even got in reaching distance to kill one! I have a really hard time finding one, and when I do, I either lose sight of him or they end up trying to kill me instead!" Griffen huffed and took another bite out of his already almost gone hamburger.
Reece smiled to herself when she thought he wasn't looking and finished cooking her patty.
When she was done putting the toppings on hers, she sat down in one of the soft fast food chairs and ate hers, kicking herself for not eating one sooner than this.
"I loved it, best thing that I have ever tasted!" Griffen said, full from the large hamburger.
"Good, because I love it too, and if you didn't then there really is something wrong with you. I am not bragging, but this has to be the best thing I have ever tasted."
Reece took another bite out of her hamburger.
"So, did you kill any more Skincrawlers?" Reece asked once she swallowed a bite.
"Well, I have only killed three, but all of them was by luck. The first one I was tracking, seeing where he was going, but I thought I had lost him, but it turns out, he knew I was there the whole entire time, so he crept up on me and tried to grab me, but I moved out of the way just in time and landed in a pond. We fought underwater until we were so tired and Skincrawlers can't jump into anyone's skin while underwater, so I had that advantage. Then the Skincrawler had me by the neck and I was choking to death underwater, and not being able to breath underwater didn't help either. But it turns out, there was people in the park that night, so the Skincrawler couldn't kill me there. He got out of the water and tried to leave, but I grabbed his ankle and sliced his neck when he fell. Good thing that no one was around at the second to see that. I left the body hidden in between some bushes," Griffen said, obviously liking the fact that Reece was wanting to know these things.
"What happened to the second one?" Reece asked, finishing her hamburger.
"Well, it was sort of the same thing. I was also following another, seeing that he was just feeding off of innocent humans, so I snuck up behind him and burned him. Same thing happened to the third one."
"Wow. That must have been tough for you to do," Reece said, taking the dirty dishes from Griffen and took them to the sink, where she washed them and dried them, seating them in the spot that she had found them. Then she went to cleaning the counters and flat stove while Griffen finished talking about when he had killed Skincrawlers.
"What was it like?" Griffen asked. "I mean, it must have been a rush to kill one. It was for me."
"What? Are you asking if I enjoyed killing a Skincrawler?" Reece asked, surprised, but more shocked than surprised.
"Yeah," he said. "Was it?"
"No, it felt like someone had ripped my heart right out of my chest after all that shock thrusted itself at me. I don't like to kill anything, even if it was trying to kill me. I didn't want to, and I surely didn't want to kill Macbeth even though I was mad at her for betraying me. But I can't do anything about it now can I?" Reece said in a whisper.
"I guess not, but I think your a natural at this kinds of things. Which just tells everyone that you are the girl from the prophecy."
"I don't know. I just think it would be kind of weird to be the girl from the prophecy because I didn't even know that I was someone with powers. I don't even know what the prophecy is, do you?"
"Yes. Do you want to hear it?" Reece nodded and finished cleaning the counter so that no one would know that she and Griffen was there that night. "Okay, so there is said to be a girl and a boy that is born and they are gifted with every power that there ever can be on Earth. Those two had to be blood brother and sisters and they would fight all the evil in the world and save us from total darkness."
"That's it?" Reece asked when Griffen stopped talking and raised her eyebrows.
"Yes. I don't think that it was a well put together prophecy, do you?"
"Not really. And plus, maybe I am not the person from the prophecy because my brother died."
"Do you want to be the person from the prophecy? I would totally be that person if I could."
"No, I don't because if I wasn't then my mother and my father and my brother would still be alive and well, and they wouldn't have to worry about being stalked by the Skincrawlers or having to take a huge responsibility of saving the world when they were the ones who are practically the ones who are going to kill us all off one of these days from whatever reason that they would."
"What are you babbling about?" Griffen asked, snorting with laughter.
"What do you think I'm talking about?"
"I have no idea. All I know is that you don't want to be the girl from the prophecy. The other stuff that you were talking about made no sense to me."
"That's okay, sometimes nothing makes any sense to me too," Reece said, knowing that he might have insulted her, but she let it go. She was tired of having to fight with people and running for her life even though she didn't even know she had any powers until two days ago.
"So, you ready to B and E into your own house, then?" Griffen asked.
"You bet! I hope no one is there. I thought that by the time we came there that no one would be there and everything would be cleared out and taken care of."
"Yeah, I didn't think that there was going to be anyone there either. We sure didn't even think this through enough, did we?" Griffen asked, wiping his hands on his pants.
Reece smiled and looked at Griffen as he