Loud Noises Scare the Big Animals by seastarpwn (large ebook reader txt) 📖

/> “Shit! You scared me.”
“Sorry, I didn’t mean too.”
“Yeah, I bet that.” I started to walk away, but he grabbed my shoulder and turned me around.
“I didn’t just come here for you to scream in my face.”
“I’m sorry, it’s just I stayed after school sweating my ass off for an hour more then I needed too.”
“Why?”
“I’m helping some kids who will probably never get onto the soccer team. Wait, why are you still here?” I put on my jacket and we walked out of the school.
“My brother left before I came out of the changing room.”
We walked up to my motorcycle, “Do you need a ride?”
“You ride a Cruiser?”
“What’s a Cruiser?”
“This bike, it’s called a Cruiser.”
“Oh yeah. I knew that.” I nervously laughed and got onto the bike. “You getting on the bike?”
“You know how to ride this thing right.”
I hit him in the chest, “Of course I know how to ride this. I’ve had it for like two months now.”
“You are joking right?”
I kick started the bike, “If that makes you feel safer.” I drove out of the parking lot before he could refuse or get off. I was riding at least 90mph. He clung to me like I was the only thing that saved him from drowning. At a stop light I turned to look at him, “Where do you live?”
“Just keep going straight until you see a huge blue house.”
“You mean the blue house with a porch swing on the porch and a huge tree in the yard?”
“That’s the one.”
After a couple minutes of riding I finally pulled up next to his house. “Well here you are.”
“Hey Nova?”
“Yeah.”
“Thanks for the ride.”
“Anytime, anywhere.”
“Oh and just so you know, I always thought chicks that could ride bikes were sexy.”
I blushed a little, “Never call a girl sexy.”
“I’m sorry…. Again. I meant beautiful.”
Riding back to Astra’s and I’s two story, old style house, I was distracted by what happened in the past thirty minutes. I pulled up to our house and parked the bike in the garage, next to Astra’s bike. I slowly walked up the stairs and closed the door. “I’m home Astra!” I screamed to her.
“In here.”
I walked into the living room and sat next to Astra, “The weirdest most awesomeness thing happened.”

Chapter 8
Astra

Of course Nova would say that. She got happy about the simplest things. But I sensed something else behind this happiness. “What happened?”
“I just gave Alexzander Crawford a ride home, and he called me… beautiful.”
I busted out in a laugh right then and there. “You shouldn’t believe anything that asshole says. I almost had to fight off him and his brother earlier today. What makes you think he would actually be nice to you?”
“I-I don’t know. Let’s just forget about it.”
“Gladly. Now go take a shower, your ass stinks. Afterwards we can all eat ice cream together.”
Nova just sulked up the stairs. “You really need to be nice to your cousin.” Said Lilly.
“Yeah. I know that. But Alexzander and his brother are trying to make our life a living hell and it is getting a lot harder to control. Sometimes I want nothing more than to turn into a tiger and rip their throats out.”
“I can’t say that I understand. But I know for that violence is not the answer. If that were to be the case, than we would have nowhere to go.”
“Not true, every one of my friends here would have a safe place.”
“But that’s the thing. Only our friends. What about the other creatures out there that don’t have a safe place to go? Are you just going to let them die?”
I started to think about what Lilly had said. It was true. It wasn’t just about keeping my friends safe; it was about keeping every creature safe. “Of course not. I’m not that cruel. Wait, you got me off topic. Why do you always do that?”
“Do what?” She asked innocently.
I just sighed. “I see what you’re doing Lilly. Just for that, when our friends begin to arrive you can bring them to the living room. And make sure that they don’t break anything.”
I went to the kitchen and began pulling things out. I got chips, candy, pretzels, cookies, and ice cream, anything that was essential to having a good time with your friends.
I balanced everything in my arms, trying to navigate my way back to the living room. I heard something fall to the ground and brake. “I thought I told you not to break anything.”
“It’s not their fault they can’t be graceful like me.” Said Kasey bowing with her wings fully extended.
“Girl put those things away. I can’t stand all that angelic power.” Said Hailey. I should probably mention that Hailey is a Fire Demon. The total opposite of Kasey.
“Fine. But only because Astra won’t want to be cleaning up ashes later.” She retracted her wings. She looked up and saw me standing there. “Oh. Hey Astra. We were wondering when you were going to get her with the snacks.”
“Of course you were. Yall were obviously worried about the snacks. And I will not be cleaning up anyone’s ashes.” I set the food down on the coffee table. “If you all are hungry, then you need to eat now. I’m going to go upstairs and change. Try not to break anything else.”
I ran up stairs. And to my room. I quickly changed into a jogging uniform.
I opened a window and jumped out.

Chapter 9
Nova

I looked myself in the mirror. My black hair fell straight down my back and you could see purple and silver height lights at every angle. I stared at my violet eyes; they were unique, but not for animal shifters. Every animal shifter had violets eyes.
I opened my closet to find stuff had been thrown everywhere, I was never very neat. I pulled out yellow skinny jeans and a blue shirt. My shirt had huge red lips on it. Then I put on some red and white checkered high tops.
I walked down the stairs to find the living room completely wrecked. “Hey Nova,” Hailey walked up to me.
“Hey. Umm what happened?”
“Oh. We were just giving you living room a makeover.”
Lamps were on the ground and chairs were on the book shelf. Everything was misplaced. They didn’t even leave alone the 1st place soccer trophy. I started to pick up stuff when the doorbell rang. I dropped everything in my hands and bolted towards the door. I opened to door to find two people I least expected.
“Hey Alexzander…. Collin?”
“Hi. Is Astra here?”Collin asked in a hurry.
“I don’t know. You guys come in and I’ll go get her.”
I stepped back to let them in. I rushed up the stairs taking three at a time. I didn’t even knock, I just busted through the door.
“Hey Astra-“I stopped mid sentence and walked towards the window. I could see Astra running down the street. I sighed and ran back down the stairs.
I walked in the living room to find Collin and Alexzander bombarded by every girl in the house besides me. “Hey, girls stop it.” I pushed the away one at a time, “Sorry about that. I don’t know what went over them….. Astra isn’t here.”
“Oh, do you know when she will be back?” Collin asked.
“If it is really important, I could take you guys.”
Collin looked over at Alexzander who had an annoyed look on his face, “Yeah that would be great.”
I showed them down to the garage. Astra’s and I’s Mach7 Motorsports Falcon f7. I looked at the boys mouths drop open.
“No fucking way!” Alexzander ran to the car. “How do you have one of these?”
“Our grandpa was rich, rich.”
“So you decided to buy the best car in the world!”
“I just liked the style.” I jumped into the car with the boys in pursuit. They kept blinking their eyes to make sure they were seeing this correct. I opened the garage and pulled out.
In no time we were at the park and walking towards the soccer field. “So why do you need Astra so badly?”
Collin answered, “Oh, ummm, you know.”
“No, I don’t think I know.” We finally spotted Astra kicking the soccer ball in the goal with a swish. I stopped and watched as Collin carefully walked over towards her. I turned towards Alexzander to see him playing with his hands. “Are you O.K?”
“What? Oh yeah, I’m great.”
“Ok? Do you know why Collin wanted to see her?”
“Collin has his own twisted reasons.”
I smiled up to him, “Well, that’s reassuring.”

Chapter 10
Astra

I stayed focused on the center of the goal. I imagined a crowd cheering around me. Cheering me on towards the winning shot. I stepped back and kicked the ball. It went flying into the goal faster than a human’s eye could see.
Someone clapped behind me. I spun around to face them. “That was an amazing shot. I understand why the coach made you captain.” Said Collin.
“She wasn’t the one that made me captain. It was my team.” I retrieved my ball from the goal. “Hurry up and tell me what you want. I need to practice.”
“I saw the way that you were helping those girls at practice today. And I was thinking. This year the boys soccer team is losing some good players. And I was wondering if you would come help whip them into shape.”
I kicked the ball harder in response. “That’s a great reason to help. But I’m not going to do it. You don’t help me in any way. So I’m not going to help you. Especially after how you treated me and my friends today.” I said recalling what happened in biology, and in athletics. “I told you that payback was going to be a bitch.”
His confident smile fell. “Alright. If you do this for me…” He thought for a moment. “I’ll do anything for you.” Then it returned.
I thought about it for a moment. Whatever he was saying to me was a total lie. But the thought of him doing anything for me was alluring. “Fine. I’ll do it. But you have to bring them to the park. I’m not going to train them on school property.”
“Thank you. This means the world to me and them.” He stepped in to hug me, but I held up a hand to stop him.
“Just because I’m doing this for you doesn’t give you the right to touch me. I have a boyfriend. And he will rip your throat out if you touch me. If you’re willing to risk it go ahead. But I wouldn’t do it if I was you.” I was then concentrating on balancing the ball on my foot. It was really easy so I stopped.
“Alright then. Tomorrow were going to have a pool party to celebrate. You and Nova are invited. The party starts at noon.”
“I’ll think about it.” I kicked the ball into the air. It disappeared into the night sky.
He nodded his head. “I really do hope you show up tomorrow.” He walked off.
I motioned for Nova to come to me. “He just invited us to a party tomorrow. Do you think it’s safe to go?”
Nova jumped up and down in excitement. “Of course it’s going to be safe. You can bring Scott for extra protection.”
“He’s not going to like seeing a bunch of preps staring at my body.”
“Were going to be in a public place. He won’t compromise himself.”
“But that won’t mean he won’t