The Adventures of June Wonder by Jeanne Esterhuizen (carter reed TXT) 📖

It’s a Moondweller thing. We don’t get many lovers, so if we do get one, we have to do everything to protect them and illuminate any threats to our love” she said, on the verge of tears. He thought deep for a while, then he came over and grabbed her in his arms and gave her a hug and a kiss, lovingly. “Lets share the one room, Azura can have the single room” “Nah. It only has single beds and I need to do some M.D stuff.” June never talked of Moondweller in public, she talks of M.D. “Ok. I’ll share with Sven, Mary can deal with Azura.” He said and came to sit next to her. After the guys returned from the loos, they were pretty surprised to see June and Cole sitting next to each other and chatting like nothing ever happened. Azura wasn’t too happy, she went all huffy. She wouldn’t talk to anyone except room service and Mary. “I thought they were over” she whispered to Mary. “No, looks as if they only were angry with each other for a little while” Mary answered. “Yeah, but what about those things he said about her and complementing me and me kissing him?” she went on and on but if we told you all the things she said, you’ll take forever to read the book. Anyway, June and Sven were talking. But she heard what Azura said. She pounced towards her, but Sven grabbed her, in midair, round her middle, and just in time! “June, I know you despise her and all, but PLEASE control yourself!” he said, struggling to hold her. June took a deep, shaky breath. Sven let her slowly go. “Are you ok?” he asked her. She turned around and looked at him. She smiled and said “Yes” and she walked of to her room. She didn’t feel like walking, she felt like STOMPING. “Urrgg!” she yelled when she was in her room “I hate her!!!” she yelled and took the pillow and threw it through the wall. “Oops” she said, not really caring. She waved her hand at the wall and it fixed itself. She suddenly sat went into a trance. An eerie glow formed around her. Cole knocked and came in. He saw June kneeling on the floor, with an eerie golden glow around her. It seemed she was staring into space. He knelt down next to her and shook her, trying to wake her up. She turned her head towards him, still unblinking. She grabbed the front of his shirt. “Moon… dragon… wood… Trench… get…” she wasn’t making any sense. “Whot the hell? Sven, Mary, get in here, and make it quick!!” he shouted. He was useless against June; she was super strong for freaking sakes! This was the one person and thing he was afraid of. He hoped Trench didn’t ever find out. June stood up and carried him with her. She went through the hall. Sven and Mary were in the hall, on their way to June’s room. “What’s wrong with her?” Sven asked, looking very bewildered. “Let’s talk about that later. For now, COULD YOU JUST HELP ME, FOR FREAK’S SAKE???” he bellowed. So loud, June came out of her trance. She crumbled to the floor. She stood on her hands and knees, shaking and taking rattling breaths. Cole ran and hid in the toilet till he was sure June was herself again. She stood up, covered in cold sweat, shaking uncontrollable. Cole rushed out and hugged her. He took her shoulders, holding her at arms length. “Are you ok?” he asked her. “What happened?” she asked “I feel so drained.” “Well you kinda went into a trance.” Cole explained “…” June couldn’t get a word out “I know, sounds bad” He said. June started waving and pointing frantically. Most to her throat. She ran into her room, grabbed a paper and pen, rushed out and scribbled down:

I can’t speak! My voice is gone and with it, my powers! What do you think it can be? Oh, please help!

Azura came over and looked at the paper. June snatched it away before she could read. “Jeepers, what’s wrong with you?” she asked. June just turned her back on her and scribbled something down on the other side of the paper:

Would you mind if we share a room tonight? I’m very vulnerable when I don’t have powers. I never learnt how to live like a normal person.

When Cole finished reading, he nodded and they got her bags and Cole led her to their room. “I’m going to make tonight a special night just for you.” She smiled and played with the bell around his neck. It started raining softly. She looked out of the window towards the moon. She knew it should be almost full, but she couldn’t see it. Odd, she thought. “I’m gonna go take a shower, do you want to have one after me?” Cole asked. She nodded as a sign as yes. After they both had a nice shower, they lay in bed. Cole held her and they kissed. They had a wonderful night. June was nocturnal, so she could handle the late nights and the kickback of it. But Cole can’t. He was like a dead man the next day. He slept the whole day. June spent the day with Sven and Mary, trying to get her powers back. Her first exercise was to move a spoon. ‘Simple’ she thought. Not so simple. A while after she tried, she was sitting with her head in her hands. She was hopeless. She sneaked out of the hotel and went to the hair salon. She took a sketch of a hairstyle with her. The hairstyle looked as following: a fringe that came to the eyebrows, long bits of hair on the sides, and then the other hair is a piece shorter as the hair piece before. After having her hair cut this way, she walked back to the motel. A lot of men whistled at her and said things like ‘Wana have some fun baby?’ she just ignored them and walked on. But she was smiling on the inside. Now she knows Cole will like it. She waved at Sven when she came in. “Where the hell have you been?” he asked. She flipped her hair “Damn you look nice!” he said touching her hair. Suddenly he grabbed her… just as Cole came in. “What’s going on here? And you two of all people!” Cole was upset but uncertain of it “Cole, calm down and don’t move” Sven said very softly. Cole was angry, but he wasn’t stupid. He knew that when Sven said something, he meant do it. Cole obeyed him. Sven stood stock still, holding June tight in his arms. He reached slowly into his pocket and took a small pistol out. He pointed it at a shape standing in the doorway. It was the same man that tried to shoot Azura and instead shot Cole. He had a remote in his hand. He pointed it at Cole and pressed one of the buttons. A light flashed on the point of the remote and a light flashed on Cole’s shoulder. The doors spun and he was gone. Sven stood still for a moment and then relaxed. He hugged June and then let her go. Cole rushed over. “That… was weird” he said looking at Sven. He was thinking hard. The form of a wolf glowed on June’s chest again. She didn’t notice, but Cole and Sven did. They looked at it, looked at each other and looked at it again. June saw them staring. She stiffened, sniffed and turned her back on them. ‘How rude’ she thought to herself. It was about noon, the eleventh and Cole remembered that he must be wary of her from tomorrow.
The whole bunch of them, Mary, Sven, June and Cole sat in the park. Azura was still huffed, and was staying in her room all day. They all thought it would be good for June to get some fresh air. They sat on the park bench while June and Cole were playing a game of chase. It was Cole’s turn to catch June and it looked as if she was enjoying the game. Her mouth was open like she was laughing. Cole couldn’t catch her, no matter what. Sven chuckled “Her voice and powers may be gone, but the wolf is still in her.” He told Mary “Yes” she said. Just when Cole got close enough to catch her, she zips out of the way. He tried stalking her and pouncing, but she noticed him and got out of the way, letting him crash into the crisp green grass. Cole came and sat on the bench next to Mary, trying to get his breath back. Suddenly someone came up from behind him and pressed a pistol against his head. June was playing hopscotch at the time and didn’t notice until she heard Cole yelling at the person “Let go of me!” she stopped her hop in mid hop. She ran over, but not as fast as usual. The person let go of Cole for a second, hesitating, but picked him up again soon again. Once again the pistol was against his head. Unfortunately, his Austrin was at home. An Austrin is Cole’s gun. It’s the best there is. “Cole!!” June shouted in a hoarse voice. She surprised everyone. Even the woman holding him “I can speak!” ‘Maybe my powers are back as well’ she thought. So she tried something easy to test it. She tried moving the pistol with her eyes. It worked. She had trouble doing it at first, but after a while she got it right. The pistol shot out of the woman’s hand, rather clumsy. Cole took this moment to grab her gun and spin around and hit her through the face with it. She fell over and struggled to get up. She heard the click of a gun being loaded. “Who sent you?” Cole asked “No one sent me; I came out my own free will.” She said “My name is Ushuaia Kobola. And I’ve come to talk to June. I thought you were a threat to her. Sorry” Ushuaia said and went over to June. They whispered for a while. There was a lot of pointing from Ushuaia and nodding from June. After they waved and said goodbye to each other, June sat on the bench, closed her eyes and her breath slowed down. “Lets get back to the motel, I’m tired.” she said in a very disappointed voice. “What did she tell you that upset you this much?” Sven asked. Mary looked at June and sighed. “I’m sorry” she said and looked down. “I don’t wanna talk about it” June answered and started walking towards the motel.
When they got to the motel, every one went to fetch their bags; they were going to leave that night. When Cole and June got to their room, June closed the door. “I’m so glad I have my powers and voice back, I missed telling you how much I love you” she said and gave Cole a hug. Azura knocked and came in. At that moment Cole yelled, clutching his shoulder, and dropped to the floor. It seems Sven and Mary were close by, because they rushed in. Cole had started glowing and shrinking. He was still yelling. Azura knelt down next to him and tried to hold him, but a volt of electricity surged through her body, so she decided not to try again. Take that, June gloated in her head. After a while he stopped shrinking and looked up at everyone and blinked. June couldn’t believe her eyes. She was like totally freaked out. Luckily she was standing near a bed, because at that moment she fainted. Just fainted.

Oops.