The Rebel by Kaitlyn Garlets (beginner reading books for adults TXT) 📖

that. I didn't either, but I thought it was only because we were getting low on our funds left over from when we got money from our bank after mother died.
The day father asked me to go get milk and bread he knelt by me in the morning when I had just woken up and hugged me until I couldn't breath anymore.
He had looked at me and smiled a sad smile and kissed me on the forehead. I had thought it was strange even for him, but didn't think anything of it. He had said, "I hope you live a long healthy life, Mia. Your strong just like your mother, and don't you forget that. You hear, young lady?"
I, for some reason swallowed tears back in my throat and nodded, giving him another hug. It was my last hug I got from him.
I regretted being mean to my brothers. You know that saying, 'you don't know what you have until its gone'? Well, its true. I didn't realize it until they were gone. I always treated them with little respect.
When I came back home to see them like there were, all bloody on the floor, their eyes wide with fear that was frozen on their faces, I vomited next to their bodies and cried.
I shivered, remembering that. I didn't know who had done what had happened to them until I went to the mayor and told him about the murders of my family. He has said something that made me freeze in my spot in the chair he made me sit in and it stopped my blood flow for a split second. Everything is going to be fine now, Mia. Your father wasn't of use to anyone anymore. And you know that its true. He was a mess and he is in a better place where he is wanted now. He had said that to my face, not even caring if he told me that he was the one who had killed them. He might not have killed them himself, but he could have hired someone to do it. Many people in this town would kill anyone for money that he would offer.
After the mayor, (who is now dead) said that to me, I got up and screamed at him, "What about my brothers?"
The mayor just smiled and said the same thing to me. I cried and ran out of his office and I could hear his laughter playing over and over in my head as I ran.
I had ran until I fell to the ground in the next town over. The town I shouldn't have been in buying milk and bread. The town I now hated. I slept on the ground until someone picked me up and carried me into their house.
But that story is for another time.
I looked up from my horse and turned around to see Luke staring at me. I looked at him. For some reason, I felt as if I knew him, even though I just met him. I shouldn't have even gave him a ride into the town.
I needed to stay away from him, but I couldn't.
Luke leaned over to Margot, whispering something in his ear. Margot looked over at me and signaled me that Luke wanted to talk to you alone.
I nod, and then stop my horse, who whinnies as we do. I jump off my horse and walk over to Luke, who had already gotten off of Margot's horse.
"You wanted to talk to me?" I ask, looking at my dirty nails, as if I was bored. Luke didn't talk, but he looked past me until I caught on and signaled to my crew to leave. They knew where we were heading, so they rode off into town and left us alone in the desert.
Luke waited until I was just about bored with myself. "So? What did you want to talk to me about?"
Luke sighed and looked at the ground. "I need to talk to you about something. Something important. And you cannot tell anyone. If you do, then I might have to do something that I really don't want to do to you."
I scoffed, clearly telling him that I wasn't frightened of his remark. "Is that supposed to scare me?"
Luke shook his head. "No, but if I wanted to scare you, then I would have already done that. So, do you promise not to tell anyone?" He asks, searching me for something that he probably couldn't see. For some reason, I felt as if I knew him and I felt...safe next to him. I looked at him until I finally said yes.
"Alright. I promise. Now tell me before I get bored," I say, shifting my weight over to the left side.
Luke didn't say anything for a while, but when he finally did, then it was like something I would never have thought to hear coming from him.
"I am not from this planet. If you don't believe me, then I can prove it by making another storm just as I had with that storm you saw earlier. I could tell when I first laid my eyes on you that you knew that that storm wasn't natural. I had made that and I ended up here. I need to get back to my planet and save my planet."
I was speechless. On the outside, I kept a cool, collected image, but on the inside, my heart was pounding so fast, I was sure that he could see it. "What are you talking about? This is the only planet in this solar system!" I say, trying to come up with some other reason.
Luke shakes his head. "No. There is. I was actually supposed to go to a different planet in the next galaxy over, but I accidently came here in the past."
"The past?" I ask, shaking my head. I back up. This is the stupidest thing that I have ever heard of. "You have to be joking. I do not like people who joke. Leave me now. I will not take you anywhere you ask. I do not want anything to have to do with someone like you."
Luke shook his head. "I am so sorry, Mia. I didn't want to have to do this, but I will have to."
I backed up a few more steps and gasped. I never even told him my name. How could he possibly know it?
"How did you kow my name?" I ask, breathing heavily.
Luke took three steps towards me with every two steps I took. "Because I know you. That is my gift. To know everything about whoever I look into their eyes. Ask me anything and I will tell you."
I shook my head.
"No?" He asks, stepping towards me. I didn't even try to move because there was nowhere to go. I was out in the middle of nowhere in the hot desert with someone who claims to be from another planet and knows everything about me. "I know that you only keep this image up in front of other people because you’re crying inside. You lost your mother when you were born and your father and three brothers at the hands of a hit man hired by the dead mayor in that town you will probably never go in ever again because you cannot face your families killer face to face even though that's what you keep telling yourself anyways that you would kill him on the spot."
I gasp. No one knows anything about that, so how could he possibly know anything about that? He was so close to me, that I could smell him and touch his beautiful face. I wanted to, but I forced myself not to. He is an alien. "How did you know all that? No one knows about that, so no one could tell you about that."
Luke smiles, his smile staring me down. I fall to my knees, letting all my tears I am always hiding until I am alone fall down on my face. Luke holds me, and it is comforting. I cannot let him get to me. I wipe the tears off my face and I stand, walking away from Luke. I didn't get very far because Luke grabbed me with such strength that I gasped from the pain. He let me go as I gasp.
"Leave me alone! I don't even know you! You lie! You know nothing about me!" I yell, not caring if the whole world heard me. He was trying to turn me into someone that I didn't want to be.
Luke held his hands in the air. "Your right. I did lie."
I pointed my finger at him. "I knew it! Your a joker and I don't like it. You only have heard of what happened to my family and now you are here to rub it in my face, right?" I ask, jumping up onto my horse.
Luke grabs my reins. He is serious, I can tell. "No. I never joke. I only lied about one thing. I told you that I am from a different planet and that I needed to get there. Which I do, but not until I complete what I came here to do. When I said that I came here by accident, that was the lie."
I can see he is telling the truth. I don't want it to be the truth, but I can see it in his gray eyes. "What do you want from me?"
Luke doesn't say anything for a while, then sighs. "I have a mission here. You are my mission."
I gape at him. He cannot be serious. Does he really think that I am going to believe something so absurd? No. I will not.


Chapter four:

I wish that Mia would understand. But she doesn't. She is so caught up in the fact that her life is screwed up and she doesn't need my help. But she does. This is my mission. To help her get to where she is needed and to where she finds herself. Once that is done, then I must return to where I belong with her help.
"Mia, please. I cannot leave you now. When you saw me for the first time just hours ago, coming out of that storm I made, you knew that something wasn't right about me or that storm. You know who I am, even if you don't. We barely know each other, I know, but we know each other one way or another. I've known you since the day you were born. I was born to help you, and if you don't want my help, then I am not going to give it that easily. You will have to earn it. But if you take my help now, then you won't have to earn it and it will be so much easier for both of us. So please, take it while I offer it," I say to her, still holding her horses reins. I wasn't letting go of them until she gave me an answer.
Mia looked at me for what seemed like hours, standing in this hot desert. She finally nodded her head and I handed the reins back to her. She smiled at me and I smiled back .This is a start.
Suddenly, Mia yelled, "Yehaw!" and she and the horse took off to the town. I shook my head, not wanting to do what I was about to do.
I closed my eyes and held my hands out in front of me, willing time to turn back for a few seconds.
Seconds later, I still had a tight