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

up for the restaurant.
The house was small like on the outside and had what looked like only three rooms. One for Monika, one for her brother, and probably the other is a guest room.
The living room was as small as the kitchen.
"So, how are you doing?" Monika asked, when she saw that Reece had a sad look on her face.
"I'm doing fine, I guess. I have to face the facts that my brother and parents are gone now and I have to learn that I have to live without them. Its a part of life. But murdering someone isn't part of life. And I want to personally kill whoever killed my brother, but I can't," Reece said, knowing she could kill Skincrawlers with lightening like she did at the hotel.
"Okay, I didn't think that you would act like this. Especially since you bawled your eyes out for a whole month when your parents died. But people change, right?" Monika said, walking into the kitchen and grabbed three cups out of the cupboard.
Reece looked away, catching Griffen looking at her with a smile. "What?" she mouthed to him and he just shrugged, a smile growing larger.
"So, who wants tea? Or do you prefer cocoa?" Monika asked, glancing at Reece and Griffen.
"Oh, hot chocolate!" Reece said in synch with Griffen, making them burst out laughing.
"Okay...you just lost your brother and all your doing is laughing?" Monika asked.
"Well, what do you want me to do about it? Cry for myself because my brother is gone? I know he is gone, but I can't do anything about it, and crying isn't something that will help, either," Reece said, knowing that that is what she needed to do was cry over everything that happened to her, but she had cried enough last night and today.
"Well, I guess your right about that. When my dog died when I was twelve, I didn't cry because I couldn't. Nothing would come out of my eyes, no matter how hard I tried to make myself cry," She replied.
"Its not good to make yourself cry on purpose," Griffen said.
"And who is this, may I ask, Reece?" Monika asked, busying herself with the drinks.
"This is Griffen. One of my old friends."
"I have been one of your friends since I began working at your place, and that has been what, seven years? Well, anyways, I think I would have at least seen him around here. This town isn't very big, you know. Who is he really?" Monika knew Reece so well, she saw straight through her lies, even when she tried to keep her lies looking like they weren't lies, but she always failed around Monika. "Who is he, Reece?"
"Monika, I am going to tell you that I am so sorry, but I have to do this," Reece said, closing her eyes, clearing her mind of everything but an image of Monika walking down the hallway to her room and getting clothes for her and Griffen.
"What? What are you talking about? I just wanted to know who he really was!" Monika said, offended.
"I want you to go to your room and get some clean clothes for me and Griffen, then come back and hand them to us and when we leave, you will not remember anything, okay?" Reece asked, still picturing the same thing over and over again even when she opened her eyes and saw Monika walking to the back rooms.
"Every time you do that, it freaks me out. Every time," Griffen whispered, watching Monika walk back into the kitchen, holding two plastic bags full of clothes and she handed them to Reece, who grabbed Griffen's hand and pulled him out the door, closing it behind him.
"I cannot believe that I actually did that! But I had to do it because she was getting too nosey about who you were," Reece said once they were back at the bush they were previously hiding behind.
"That's okay, I could have handled it, saying that I was an ex-boyfriend that happened to have dumped you and you never wanted to talk to again!" Griffen said, smiling.
"Griffen! She would totally see through the lies. I had always had to be honest with her and if I wasn't, then she knew, so it wouldn't have helped. My way was way easier," Reece said, a matter of fact.
"Okay...whatever. Want to change here?" Griffen asked, hoping she would say yes.
"No, I don't. People could be watching us! We can go to my restaurant and have some food before we come back here and, you know, sneak in to my own house."
"Alright! A little B and E!" Griffen said, acting like he was punching something.
"B and E? What is that?" Reece asked, feeling silly.
"Breaking and entering. You have never heard that before?" Griffen asked, shocked.
"No, I have never because I have never broken and entered into anything!" Reece said, feeling even more silly for not knowing what B and E was.
"Girl, you need to get out more than just this town!" Griffen said, acting silly, making Reece laugh, which was what he wanted to do.
"Stop, my stomach already hurts from laughing at you when I made you monkey around, so lets just save that for some other time, okay?" Reece asked, walking in the direction of her restaurant, as Griffen followed her on her left side.
"Alright, I intend to keep that one on you! I'm going to make you laugh, but not right now, because the girl from the prophecy said so!" Griffen teased, Reece taking it the wrong way.
"Its not funny, Griffen. I don't want to be that girl that saves everyone," Reece whispered, not looking at him.
"I didn't mean it. I was just trying to make you...laugh," Griffen said, instantly feeling bad.
"Its okay, you and your bad mouth can shut up now, though."
"Okay," Griffen said, shutting up, as he kicked a rock.
The silence was too much for Griffen, but he sucked it up so that Reece could think as they walked down a street with a few houses and a bunch of shops with knick-knacks and a bakery on the right side of Reece, who didn't seem to see them there.
"Griffen?" Reece said, not looking up from the ground.
"Yes?" Griffen said.
"Do you think that I am the girl from the prophecy?" She whispered.
"I do. I mean, who else could it be? You are so amazing, and you don't even realize it. The way your hair would fly around when you got angry at me when I accidentally said that one thing and how you could will so much fire without even knowing it. Same with the lightening. It was so amazing the way the lightening would shape to the shape of your body and still hit you, but you acted like it didn't even hurt. Did it hurt?" Griffen asked.
"I didn't feel anything. Do you think that I am also a Skywalker? Because Macbeth said that Skywalkers can will anything from the sky, and isn't lightening from the sky?" Reece asked, not looking at him.
"I believe so. Your so unique," Griffen said, looking at her with such adoration, that Reece could feel it on her skin.
"Do you think I am a freak?" Reece asked, purposely not looking at him.
"No! Of course not. Why would you think that?"
"Well, I don't know. But someone who can kill a Skincrawler with her hands sounds like a freak to me," she replied.
"Well, Skincrawlers are more the freaks than we are or you are. You are normal compared to them. Skincrawlers are disgusting creatures that need to be killed off before they kill humans off."
"Yes, I suppose your right," Reece said with a heavy sigh, not believing anything he was trying to get stuck in her head.
"You don't believe me, do you?" he asked.
Reece shook her head as they came to an end of the road. "Here we are. This is my restaurant, Griffen."
Reece waved her hands at her place she was working at even before her parents died.
"Wow, I have never been in one before," Griffen said, smiling at how it looked like a place he once knew, but long wanted to forget.
"Cool, so now I have to give you a tour," Reece said, smiling too.
"I have heard many things about a restaurant, but I never have been in one."
"How come?" Reece asked, bending down in front of the door. She stuck her hand in a rock and pulled a key out. "Spare key. Just in case of emergencies such as this one!"
"How did you do that?" Griffen asked, belittled.
"Oh, you mean the key? Well, its a trick rock. You can get them at prank stores. It looks like a rock, but you can put things in it if you wanted to. That's what I did. No one has ever tried to break into here, but you never know. They might go looking for a key because everyone keeps one outside somewhere hidden, so if they looked near the rock, they would see just a rock," she explained. "Pretty cool, huh?"
"Yeah, that is pretty cool. For someone who doesn't know a lot about things sure knows how to keep things hidden!" Griffen said, complimenting her.
"Thanks, lets go in. There is two bathrooms in the back, one for us ladies and one for you guys. I have my own office. Just knock on the door when your done and I'll make you something to eat, okay?" Reece said, already walking to her office.
"You mean make us something to eat," Griffen corrected her, smiling.
"Right, us," Reece said, agreeing.
Even though Reece told herself that she wouldn't trust anyone, Griffen seemed like someone she could trust, but she wasn't so sure yet. She had a feeling that he liked her, and even though there wasn't anything wrong with him liking her, she just didn't feel anything more than a friendship between them.
Reece sighed as she went to her office and closed the door behind her, sliding to the floor.
Reece really didn't know what to do with her life anymore, and she surely didn't want to save the world. She could barely keep people in order on a slow day here! And she surely didn't know what to do about Griffen, who seemed to like her more and more every second.
But on the other hand, Griffen felt like he was lighter than a feather around her. And even though he had just met Reece, he felt so comfortable around her and like he had known her his whole life.
And he didn't know if Reece felt the same way about him because her face was so hard to read unless she was frightened. Then she was easy to read. But other times, she just acted like a friend more than anything. Nothing more. And other times, she acted like she needed him more than just a friend, but he wasn't sure.
Reece got dressed in the large clothes that she forced Monika to give her and Griffen, feeling all itchy from so much guilt. But she had no other choice earlier.
Is everything in my life going to be like this from now on? Reece thought, sighing from a loss of words for her question, that she hoped she could solve, but found she couldn't, mo matter how hard she tried to answer it.
Reece wasn't used to so much drama in her life. Would she go to Hell for killing two people in two days? She hoped not. She was only defending herself from the Skincrawler and she was not in her own control when she had killed Macbeth.
Reece was