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

to have anyone in her house. "My tooth brush, tooth paste, and hair brush are in the bathroom on the first floor. If you see anything else that you think that I will need, then you can bring them over, but I don't think that I will be needing anything else, so just get me my stuff."
"Okay, anything to help!" Monika said. "So the bathroom down stairs?"
"Oh, right. When you walk into the house through the front door, you will see the living room, then go straight until you see a red door, that's the bathroom. You can't miss it. Its the only red door that I have in my house."
Monika nodded, understanding that Reece didn't want her going anywhere else in her house.
"Oh, and Monika?" Reece asked.
"Yes?" she asked.
"Please, try not to move things around. The police would think that I came in or something and took stuff. I'm not even supposed to be in my house because of, well, you know," Reece said, not daring to say what her and Monika knew she was talking about.
"You can trust me. I won't go anywhere else except in the bathroom and I won't touch anything else but the things you want me to get. I get it," she said.
"Thanks," Reece said, sighing with relief that she understood that Reece didn't want her in her house at all, but she had to. Reece really needed a shower, and she really didn't want to go outside again and go into her house. She saw to much of her house anyways. Hopefully, Monika would get the hint not to go upstairs to look at the crime scene.
For some reason, she felt like her words would be looked past, and Monika would go and look at the crime scene. But what did it matter? The crime was already done, and all that was left was dried blood stains.
Reece shook the thought out of her head and walked to the bathroom that Monika had said was on the left, which it was. Inside the bathroom, she saw that it looked similar to the rest of her house: with her sink right in the middle of the counter and all her hair products lined up just so that if someone didn't know Monika walked in and would think that she was a clean freak.
The shower curtain was no better. It was so flat, there wasn't a wrinkle in sight, even when you took a closer look, you wouldn't see a single wrinkle. The shower curtain was plain, just a large white curtain on it.
Reece closed the door, locking it, just in case. She didn't know why she was locking the door, but she felt it would be right.
She stripped the clothes that she forced Monika to give her off her body and folded them nicely and sat them on the toilet lid so that she could wear them again once she was done.
She really should have asked Monika to get her some of her own clothes, but she never even thought about it.
She sighed and stepped into the shower, forgetting to check the water temperature before stepping into freezing cold water.
The tub was plugged, but she didn't realize that until she slipped on some soap that had spilled previously and she fell in the tub.
The tub was filling with freezing cold water, and it was filling fast. But something was stopping Reece. She wasn't, and she felt like something was stopping her from getting up.
She screamed, but nothing came out.
Oh, God. I'm going to die! I'm going to die! Reece thought as her life flashed before her eyes.
Reece struggled, knowing she shouldn't because that only killed her even faster.
The water was already above half of her body, which only meant that she had at least two minutes before the water was above her nose.
Reece tried to scream again, but like the first time, nothing came out.
Reece looked around the area of the tub and saw a shadowed figure standing outside the curtain, but she wasn't sure if she was seeing things.
The water was almost up to her chin now, and she knew it was only a few more seconds left till she wasn't on the planet anymore.
Reece tried to scream once again, but nothing came out but a squeak. Nothing that anyone would hear. She looked around, to see if the shadowed thing was there, but it was gone when she blinked her wet eyes.
Her tears came when the water was above her chin and she could feel it seeping into her nose now, making her accidentally sniff some up her nose, which made her nose and mouth sting.
She thought about how her life wasn't really all that great. Monika was right. She didn't pay any attention to anything at all. She also thought about Griffen, who didn't know that he would never see her again.
She knew he liked her, and she still wasn't sure if she liked him. But something told her she didn't. She did like him, but only as a friend, and if she ever lived this, which she was sure she wouldn't, she would never, ever think of Griffen as more than a friend because that's all he was is a friend to her. A great friend that helped her out when she really needed him.
The water was passed her nose, and humans can only hold their breath up to three minutes, if Reece remembered. And the only people that can hold their breath for three minutes is the people who practice that.
But Reece didn't care about dying anymore. Because she thought about her parents and brother. She knew that they would love to see her, and she wouldn't have to worry about saving the world.
But then again, if she didn't save the world, well, who knows what will happen to it. Maybe world slavery. Or the Skincrawlers probably would just kill them all off. Who knows?
Suddenly, Reece didn't want to die. She wanted to see her family, but she knew she had to stay on this earth a while longer. Just long enough to save the world from those creepy Skincrawlers. She knew that she would see her family one day, but that was not today.
Reece was so weak from lack of oxygen, but she gathered what strength she had and knew what she had to do.


Griffen knew he had hurt Reece's feelings, but he really didn't want her to know what he was looking for. He was looking for many things, actually.
One thing he was looking for was his parents. He had been searching for them in previous towns, but he had gotten nowhere. He didn't even know why he even tried to look for them when he remembered them being killed by two people: a Skincrawler named Roney, and a Firewiller named Erone. The only reason he knew the names was because right when his parents were asking for mercy, they had asked them by their names. This was all he remembered besides his mother setting him inside some bushes so thick, the only way to see out of them, you had to look really closely.
Griffen wanted them all dead. Especially Roney and Erone. They had killed his parents in front of him without realizing it, and gotten away with it. His parents would have rather have died then join the Skincrawlers. So they did. Willingly.
Griffen tightened his grip on the keys as he jogged to the library he had seen when Reece and him had gone to her house to look for some papers that they didn't even get.
Another thing that he was looking for was Reece's parents. He knew now what they looked like, and he was curtain that they were alive. They had to be. Reece had that look on her face when they realized it and she just knew that they weren't dead. So if he could get internet connection, he knew that he could find them on the internet if he scanned the picture he had in his pocket.
He reached into his pocket and pulled it out and looked at it. Like he had said yesterday, Reece did have her father's nose and her mother's eyes. He liked her eyes. It reminded him of his ex-girlfriend who was also a Firewiller who had survived, but she was hunted down just a year into their relationship and was killed.
It took Griffen almost two years to get over the death of his first love, and he still thinks about her all the time.
"I wish you were with me, Meg," Griffen said to himself, knowing that it was weird to talk to himself to his dead girlfriend that probably didn't want to contact him to tell him that she was in a better place and all that kind of stuff.
Once his ex-girlfriend died, his heart hardened and he promised that he would never fall for anyone else ever again. But he did. He fell hard for Reece. He fell for her at the moment she had a shovel pointed at his face.
Griffen smiled to himself despite his mood. Everything about Reece made his heart melt and want him to break down and kiss her on her soft lips, but he held it in every time that he thought about, which was all the time he was around her.
For some unexplained reason, Griffen thought that fate had sent her to him and had given him another chance at love, but he had no idea if she liked him that way. Meg, his first love looked similar to Reece, and that was probably the reason that he fell so hard for Reece because she reminded him of Meg.
Griffen stuffed Reece's parents' picture back into his pocket as he approached the doors of the library.
He took the silver key and unlocked the door, making sure that he locked the door behind him so that no one got in without him knowing. He then looked for the closed and open sign and found it, taking it.
He took a pen out and wrote: Closed for the day; open tomorrow. He just didn't want to have to deal with people coming in and wondering why the library was closed, so he thought and wrote: sorry for the inconvenience about our renovation.
"That should do it," Griffen said to himself and looked out the window to make sure that no one had seen him writing that on the open and closed sign. He put the sign in the window and made sure that it was showing what he had written and when it was just right, he found the directory and looked to see that the computer and electronic rooms were upstairs on the third and last floor, so he dashed up the stairs three at a time, almost tripping a few times over them until he was on the third floor, looking right at the computers who were facing him.
Griffen got to work on finding what he needed.
Another thing that he was looking for was the guy he knew and trusted with his life. William Ried.
William Ried was his best friend who he had met in Las Vegas when he was looking for some Skincrawlers who were reported on the news, but of course, no human would believe that there was a creature that would jump inside your body and eat you from the inside out. The humans thought that it was a wild animal loose in Las Vegas, but Griffen knew better than that to think it was a wild animal loose in Las Vegas.
He had met William in a grocery store,