Love, Loyalty and Family by Anysia Eaton (color ebook reader .txt) 📖

of my daughter. I will be sure to make a complete and utter mockery of her. She will regret the day that she messed with Billy Wright’s daughter.

I knew better than to let him confront me. I excused myself from my group and went off, Richard and Angela trailing behind me. I went straight to the girls bathroom and pulled out my phone. I sent a text to everyone in my family.
'Hey, meeting spot in ten. Billy Wright is gonna cause trouble.'
It only took most of us five minutes to reach the spot. Dad was the last to arrive, exactly on the ten minutes mark. Our meeting spot was in the middle of the nearby woods. Irena and I were sat on a fallen tree. Alec was leaning against one of the standing trees and mom was stood in the middle of the small space. When Dad arrived he stood besides mom.
“What is wrong Sarah? You said something about Billy Wright in your text” asked Dad.
“Yeah, he’s mad. He thinks I’m the one to do the paint bomb in Lauren’s locker last week, and because the principal couldn’t punish me – as he had no evidence it was me – he’s mad.”
“He’s just being protective of his daughter.” Commented Mom.
“No, his exact thoughts were ‘I will be sure to make a complete and utter mockery of her’. He’s going to go digging.” I told them.
“We can’t have somebody digging” agreed Alec. “He might find out too much”
“Well what can we really do?” asked Irena.
“We have to be careful here. If he suspects anything, I won’t know. He’ll always be out of reach” I replied.
“This is risky. But we can’t afford to leave if he would follow us. He’s rich and rather powerful. We wouldn’t be able to stay in the USA, that’s for sure. We will need to deal with him” mused my dad.
Perhaps I can talk to him.

“That would work dad, but how are you going to get to talk to him. You can’t just wander up to him without warning and say ‘my daughter didn’t do it so back off’” I told him.
“That is true” he agreed.
Sarah, do you think we would be able to scare him away?

Asked Alec in his head.
“No, that would just cause us so much more trouble”
“What if we stay, keep an eye on the subject. He may just end up having a word with you and then Henry can have a word with him.” Suggested Mom.
“Yes, that is what we shall do” Agreed Dad.
Don’t worry Sarah, if he starts getting angry we can always have a nice tornado visiting his house.

Snickered Alec.
“Okay” I said to both Dad and Alec, with a little hint of a giggle. I liked the sound of a Tornado hitting that house more than I should.
“Now get to school. And be careful when you arrive.” Commented Dad seconds before he shot off at a speed that humans wouldn’t even detect. Next mom left. Irena and I jumped down from the tree then. Irena vanished straight away, but Alec hovered a while.
Race ya.

Thought Alec.
“You’re on. School boundries.” I told him.
We both shot off.
I loved running at full speed. It was like flying through the forest. I was the fastest runner, but Alec could use his wind to propel him making it even and Irena could fly as fast as I could run. So all of us were even.
As we started to approach the school boundaries I focussed hard on my ability, so then I could pick out the people at school and find out where they were and which way they were looking. Nobody was the parking lot, but that was because they were all by the school boundries watching Mr Wright yelling at the principal. I quickly grabbed Alec shoulder and pulled him back and behind the closest tree. We were only about ten trees away from where a whole crowd of students are stood surrounding the arguing adults.
What are you doing?

Alec asked me.
“Mr Wright and the principal are at the school boundaries, arguing, surrounded by practically the whole school. We have to go around.” I whispered to him.
Okay. Lead the way.

I lead him – at full speed – around the other side of the school. I listened out. There was nobody there. We were safe to leave the woods here and so we both stepped out. We slipped quietly into the school building.
Should we go to the other students?

Alec asked me.
I nodded. We can’t afford to be different.
We headed to the crowd of students. Teachers had started to watch the verbal fight. I used my ability to see what was happening. Angela was stood at the front. She was a good mind to watch from as any.
Mr Wright and the Principal were stood just inches from each other. Both look as angry as a wild boar. Both were huffing and puffing.
“My daughter was absolutely humiliated by that girl and you let her go scot free” Prick

. Mr Wright yelled adding on a little bit on the end mentally.
“There was no proof that she was responsible” growled the principal. “I can’t punish someone without proof that they did it. The CCTV camera’s didn’t pick up anything and there was no eye witnesses” I don’t care how rich and powerful you are, you can’t tell me what to do, muck head.

I was so engrossed with watching the argument, giggling at some of the things they were calling each other mentally, that I didn’t notice Lauren had spotted me.
“Daddy, there she is” she called.
That caught my attention, and I silently cursed myself for getting distracted.
Mr Wright stormed through the crowd of students to come face to face with me. He must of expected me to be scared and back away, because he looked shocked when I stood still, with a innocent expression on my face.
“Hello, Mr Wright” I said in the softest voice I had.
You little rascal, acting so innocent.

“Are you Sarah?” he growled.
“Yes, sir” I replied.
“What were you playing at, putting a paint bomb in my daughters locker?” he asked, well growled.
“I didn’t put it in there, sir, I was as surprised as she was.” I lied.
“Really?” he sneered. What a little liar?

“Trust me on this one sir. Had I the brains to come up with such a brilliant idea I would have done it. But as I don’t I didn’t” That was one of the many things I’d leant to do. Take the rip at yourself. It tended to work, because they think your being honest.
Damn right, you don’t have the brains, but you did it you filthy little peasant.

My jaw locked. How dare he?
“I think we should sit down and talk this through, like civilised people instead of scrapping animals sir. You and Lauren and then me and my dad” I said. “Because obviously there has been a mistake. It’ll only take my dad about ten minutes to arrive. I’ll see you in the principal’s office then.”
I turned on my heels and headed off to phone Dad. I used Richards eyes to see that Mr Wright was stood huffing and puffing where I had left him. Something snapped in him.
“Did you just call me a scrapping animal?” You dirty little peasant.

He stormed after me, grabbing my arm, tightly and turning me to face him. I grabbed me by the collar as he sneered into my face. “How dare you? I am more of a person than any of you poor folks could ever be”
Alec leaped into action then. He was always protective of his family. He grabbed the back of Mr Wright’s top, making him let go of me, and then flung him across the parking lot like he was a bag of feathers.
Alec was shaking with rage. The wind was increasing. Everybody was having to brace themselves against the force of the wind.
Oh no.
I spun Alec around to face me and placed my hands on either side of his face.
“Calm down. Calm. Down. Alec, you need to calm down”
He could have hurt you.

He growled in his head.
“Forget him, he’s unimportant. Think of us. Thing of the ‘We Come in Peace’ people. Think of the family” I said to him. I didn’t care if anybody saw us. We would have to leave now anyway. The wind was starting to decrease.
Mr Wright was back on his feet. He was watching the two of us with wide fear stuck eyes. Everybody was. They were watching uncertain of what was really going on, but both of us knew instantly we wouldn’t be able to stay here any longer. We would have to move on.
When the wind had gone I listened in to what everybody was thinking. They all though in sync with each other...
Freak

I looked to Alec.
“It’s time to leave.” I said to him.
You get Irena. I’ll go and get dad. We’ll meet back at the house.

He thought.
I nodded.
We turned and ran, at human speed away into the woods. As soon as we were out of eye shot we went to full speed. I hurried to Irena. I searched the school for her thoughts.
I wonder whether Bradley will ask me to the prom? I hope so. It would be perfect.

She was in her classroom already. I didn’t need to leave behind more rumours.
I ran inside the school at full speed until I reached the corridor her classroom was on. The corridor was empty so I halted there. No camera’s or human eyes would have been able to see my approach. To them it would seem as though I had just appeared. I followed her voice to the classroom she was in. I didn’t knock on the door, I just walked in. I ignored the teacher’s negative vibe and walked straight to her. She looked at me oddly.
Are we leaving?

She asked.
The expression on my face must have given it away. I nodded.
I saw the small storm. I guessed we’d have to leave after that.

She sighed.
She collected up her things without saying a word. Her thought were a jumble of things. She was just as sad to leave this place as I was. I loved it here. We all did.
What on Earth is she doing? She is not going anywhere. Not in the middle of class.

The teachers thoughts entered my head. She was heading to us. “What is going on?”
“We’re leaving” I told her.
Oh no you’re not.

“You need parent permission to be out of school yourself and to take her out of school”
“We’re leaving” I repeated. “I mean leaving leaving. We’re not returning here”
What are we doing? Door or window?

I shrugged.
Window?

I looked at her puzzled. She was normally against showing off our powers.
Well, if we’re going to out with a bang. We may as well make it a big one. That will cheer up the ‘We Come in Peace’ up. I bet they think we’ve left, we’ve been so quiet.

She giggled.
I walked to the window and opened it.
What is she doing?

Asked everybody in sync.
I looked out. This was a second floor window. Had we been human, there was no way I would even consider jumping this, but as a person from Scerna we can jump a lot further than this without getting hurt. This was a minor jump.
Irena was at my side now.
Who goes first?

She asked.
I nodded towards the window. She climbed up and jumped out.
There was a conjoined gasp and scream