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

was underage to be drinking. "Oh, I'm sorry, William. I can't drink. I'm only nineteen."
William just smiled and kept pouring. "No one will know but us, right? This is my place. And if I say you can drink here, you can."
Reece frowned, knowing that she shouldn't drink.
"I don't really want any, but thanks anyways," she said, shifting uncomfortably in her seat. She looked over at Griffen who slightly shook his head so that William couldn't see it but Reece did.
William laughed, sliding a glass of vodka over to her, where she looked down at it. She didn't like this at all.
Suddenly, she was mad. She didn't like how he wanted her to drink, so she decided to show him that she could even though she didn't like to drink that kind of stuff.
Reece stood up and reached over the counter and grabbed the vodka bottle out of William's hand and chugged it all down until it was all gone in three big gulps.
"Whoa, little lady. Drink much?" William asked, laughing.
"Yeah, you shouldn't have done that, Reece. Your going to get drunk," Griffen said, walking over to her to help her balance her, but she was perfectly fine. She shoved him out of the way and walked behind the counter, putting her arm around William.
"How was that?" Reece asked, feeling perfectly fine even though she just drank almost a full bottle of vodka.
"Fine with me! Your probably going to get drunk."
"How long does it take?" Reece asked.
"Not very long. You should be drunk right about now. Question is: Why are you not?"
Reece shrugged her shoulders and grabbed the glass that William had slid to her and dumped the vodka onto the counter.
"Reece, why did you just do that?" Griffen asked, reaching for a rag on the counter William had previously used to wipe the counter on.
Reece held her hand out, not realizing that she had accidentally shoved Griffen into the wall. She was concentrating on the vodka that was floating in mid-air. William looked at her with wide eyes as he helped Griffen up off the ground and watched as the Vodka transformed into a ball of liquid and it fell back into the glass without even touching or getting anything wet.
"What the hell was that?" an unfamiliar voice said.
Everyone turned to look to see who it was.
William smiled, looking down at the counter. "Everyone, this is my ex-girlfriend, who I thought I was married to but it turns out, we were illegally married and it wasn't working out anyways, so we split and are just friends now," William said, waving his hand over to the woman, who didn't even look William's way.
The woman walked over to Reece, popping a bubble in her face with her chewing bubble gum. "Hi, I'm Evernime Muno. Your Reece, right?"
Reece nodded and looked at the red-haired woman standing before her. She was tall and looked as if she didn't even eat anything. Her red hair went way past her knees. She had bright green eyes and had a smile that would make anyone smile right back at her.
"Hi, your right. I am Reece. I like your name. Its unique. I like unique people," Reece said, feeling stupid for saying that.
"Your not stupid for saying that. I like unique people too," Evernime said, smiling.
Reece dropped Evernime's hand and gasped. "Did you just do what I think you just did?"
Evernime smiled again and said, "Yes, I did. I read your mind. Well, I didn't mean to, but that's who I am. Everything anyone around me in a hundred miles I can hear everything that they are thinking about. It was hard at first because I thought that I was going insane, but turns out, I wasn't. William told me that you can do just about everything. So why can't you hear people's thoughts?"
William walked around the counter and put an arm around Reece, looking at Evernime. "I think she hasn't because she hasn't fully developed."
Reece nodded. "I think he is right because I really just started figuring out that I have powers like three or four days ago."
Evernime looked surprised. "Really? And William told me that you are the girl from the prophecy. I don't see how you are because there is supposed to be another. 'A brother of another', I do believe is what the prophecy said."
"How do you know what the prophecy says?" Reece asked.
"I have read it and memorized it, trying to find the two from the prophecy. But it looks like you found me. Well, that is if you are the one from the prophecy. Where is the other?" Evernime said, looking around. "Please tell me that it isn't Griffen."
Reece and William laughed, looking at Griffen who looked up from a glass of water he had gotten himself. "What? What did I miss?" he asked.
"Nothing. Evernime thinks your the other half of the prophecy."
"No, I am not. Not even close. Her brother is. Why would you think that I am?" Griffen asked, smirking as he swigged some water.
They all laughed. "I can't see you as the other one from the prophecy, Griffen," William said.
Reece and Evernime nodded in agreement. "I agree. I can't see you as someone who could save the world."
Griffen slammed the glass of water he was drinking, water going everywhere on the surface of the counter. "I don't even know who you people are anymore. Who are you? Am I the only one who hasn't changed?"
"What are you talking about, Griffen? None of us have changed," William said. Everyone's smile had faded.
"How would you know? Your too caught up in Reece, who you have just met. I have known her longer than you have and she has never shown me what she's been showing you and she just met you not even a hour ago. Your acting like you've all been best friends since the beginning of time, and you haven't. You've all changed," Griffen said, pointing his finger at all three of them, who were standing by the door, trying to figure out why he was acting like this. Griffen looked at Reece. "And you, Reece. You said that you wouldn't get involved with anyone, and look at you right now! Your practically in his arms right now!" Reece looked at William and blushed, pulling away from him, who coughed nervously to himself.
"What are you saying?" Reece asked, her heart aching. She needed him here, and she was afraid he would leave. She had promised Griffen that she wouldn't get involved with anyone, and she had been flirting with William, who had been flirting back with her.
"I'm saying that I don't want to be near people that I don't know," Griffen said, standing up and pushed past the three.
"Where are you going?" Reece asked, tears rolling down her face as she grabbed his arm. He turned back to look at her, searching for something that he had seen in her eyes when he first met her, but he didn't see or find it.
"I'm leaving. I brought you here to help you, and I have. You don't need me anymore. They can help you now."
Reece loosened her grip on him, but didn't let go. She couldn't believe that he was just leaving after everything that they had gone though together. "Don't go, I need you here still."
Griffen shook his head, pulling away from Reece. "If you needed me here, you would have said it a long time ago, and you didn't. I can see where this is going, and I don't want to be around when-" he stopped talking. He couldn't say anymore. Reece had promised him something that he thought she would keep, and he believed her because he believed in her, but now that was all fading away.
"But what?" Reece asked, holding her breath.
"Never mind. Just leave me alone. I got you to where you were meant to be, and I hope your happy," Griffen said, turning again to the door.
Reece had to say something to get him to stay, but she didn't know what to say. "What about all those things you said to me when you brought me into Monika's room when I almost died. What about what happened in there, huh? Does that not matter to you anymore?" She whispered, making Griffen stop just for a second to say: "Not anymore."
Griffen walked out the door without another word, and Reece just let him go, tears falling down her cheeks and onto her shirt.
"Reece?" William asked, grabbing her face in his hands. His hands were so warm. "Its going to be okay. He will come back, you know it."
Reece nodded, not sure if she should believe him.
Evernime grabbed Reece's arms and pulled her into a hug. "Don't listen to William. I know he doesn't believe what he said. But let me tell you something, Reece. He loves you and he let you go. That's his own problem to pity himself. I do admit that it wasn't very nice to say he couldn't save the world, but it was true, and he is very sensitive about things. He always was and still is. He just needs to cool off, alright?"
Reece nodded, wiping the tears off her face. "I don't think he will come back though. I haven't been very nice to him since I met him. He kissed me once and I told him basically that I didn't like it. I told him that I just wanted to be friends with him. I shouldn't have. I do need him, and he was right. I should have been nicer to him, but I wasn't."
"Its alright, Reece. You didn't do anything wrong. You followed your heart. He needs to find his now. And he will, but not for a while longer. He will come back I can promise you that," Evernime said, cradling Reece in her arms.
"Why are you being so nice to me, you guys?" Reece asked, slightly pulling away from Evernime, who was still holding Reece in a hug.
"Have you seen what you can do?" William asked.
"I guess. Its stuff that people can do," Reece said, not following him.
"You don't understand. You have so much power, that you don't even realize it. You may not have all of them right now, but once you hit your full potential, then you will be almost immortal, but not really. If that makes any sense," William said.
Reece suddenly felt better. "I guess your right. I just wish Griffen was still here. In a way, I do love him, but not the way he wants me to."
William scoffed, looking away.
"He doesn't care, sweetie," Evernime said.
Reece laughed, putting a hand on William's cheek. "I know he doesn't."
William blushed and looked at his feet.
"So, I take it that Griffen wants me to train you to protect yourself and all that good stuff, and I right?" Evernime asked, looking at Reece.
"I think so, but he didn't really say. When we first met, he told me that he knew some people, who I think are you and he said that you would be able to help me. That's all I really know. I just assumed that you were someone who could help me train," Reece said, sitting back in her seat, which had gone cold.
She looked over at the spot Griffen had sat in, and a chill ran up her spine as she pictured him slamming down the cup of water on the counter.
She should never said what she had said. But then again, ever since she met William, he had been acting like someone she didn't