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

left. “Now its time for me to apologize to Nova.” I turned to her. “Will you forgive me?”
“Are you going to dump a drink on my head?” She asked.
“No.”
She smiled at me. “Then I accept.”
“Great now we can get this party started.”

Chapter 23
Alexzander

After Nova and Astra hugged it out, the party really did start. I walked around greeting everyone, but my mind kept going back to the night before. It was strange. I swear I heard a tiger growl, but when I got there, there was no tiger. Nova was on the ground, but she didn’t look hurt and the guy looked like he saw…. Well a tiger.
“Hey Alexzander, how was your trip?”
I nervously laughed and put on a fake smile, “Fun, kind of strange.”
“Why? Because you guys had to sleep in the same bed?”
I blushed and looked away. I didn’t know guys even blushed, “No, not that. It was strange because, well because…. Nova was attacked.”
“Attacked? By who?”
“I think he works for our father.”
“Our father? Why would he want to hurt Nova?”
“I don’t know.” Astra walked up behind Collin. “Well, I’ll talk to you guys later.” I went to look for Nova. I walked around down stairs and looked up into my room. I looked out of my window and found her on the roof. I carefully opened my window and climbed outside. “Hey.” She mumbled.
“Hi. What are you doing out here? This party is for you and it is freezing out here.” I shrugged off the leather jacket and wrapped it around her arms. She started to laugh and turn to me, “One thing that was so cheesy,” she gave me back my jacket, “and two it is eighty-three degrees out here.”
“Hey, can’t blame a guy for trying.” I scooted closer to her and lifted her on my lap. “Why are you out here then?”
“Oh nothing. It is just; I can’t stop thinking about the attack.”
“Same here. It felt so, weird.”
“Yeah,” she leaned her head on my shoulders and looked up at the stars. “You want to know something, but you can’t tell a soul. Not even your brother.”
“I promise.”
“Well, I can do weird things.”
“I can too.”
“Really?” She got up from my lap and turned towards me, “Don’t freak out.” Her skin started to darken and fur grew everywhere. She slowly got on four feet and growled at me. Now what was in front of me was a tiger, a white tiger. I jumped back, but saw the tiger’s violet eyes. I walked over to her and held out my hand.
“Nova?” Nova was soon turned back to her human form and let her head drop. I closed the distance on us, “You…. You’re a tiger?”
“Well, not exactly. I can turn into other animals too.” I looked into her eyes. I could tell she wanted to tell me sooner, but mostly she was ashamed.
“Well, guess what I can do.”
“Are you a vampire?”
“No.” I laughed.
“Good, I don’t like vampires very much.” She looked up at me. I slowly shifted. I felt my hair grow longer and I was shorter. Nova gasped and touched my arm. “You look like me! How is that possible?”
“Well, I can look like other people too. I guess it’s the same way you turn into animals, but it is hard to explain.” She jumped into my arms and I spun her around. I lifted her over my shoulder and climbed through my window, “Come on, they are probably wondering where we are right about now.”
“I don’t wanna go.”
“I’m ignoring you.”
“Alexzander!” I felt her punching my back, but I just smirk and jumped down the stairs. I could feel her flying in the air then hitting my shoulder every time I hit a step. I softly put her down and turned towards Astra, “Found her.”
Chapter 24
Collin
The party was fun. I had to say that. I hadn’t been around that many outsiders before. But I had really enjoyed myself.
When people started to leave, I was kind of glad.
Nova and Astra were the last to leave. “Thank you for everything.” Astra said to me.
“It was the least I could do.”
“I guess I’ll see you at school Monday. I’ll return the dress and shoes to you then.”
“No need. You can keep them. Before you go, can I take you to dinner tomorrow?”
She walked down the sidewalk. “I don’t know. You tell me.” She got into her car and left.
When I got back into the house I went to find Alexzander.
He was sitting in the living room with his feet propped up on the coffee table. He heard me come in, and jumped up. “Man do I have something to tell you.”
“What is it?”
“Nova and Astra are shape shifters!”
I looked at him surprised. “Are they members of the HS?”
“No. For one their eyes aren’t like ours. Their eyes are violet. And do you know who violet eyes belong to?”
“The AS?” I asked.
“Exactly. They’re members of the AS.”
“Do they know about us?”
“Nova does, but I’m not sure about Astra.” I sighed deeply. Things had gone from good, to slightly complicated.
“Should we tell dad?”
“I don’t know. But I’m going to try to keep it a secret for as long as possible.”
I nodded my head. “Alright. I’m going to go find him.”
Alexzander nodded his head. “Just be careful, I don’t want to lose Nova.”
I left and went to find dad. I looked in his bedroom, but he wasn’t there. Then I went to his office.
I heard someone talking in his office. I stopped right outside the door. “-tattoo was right on the base of her neck. I would have had her, but one of your sons showed up. And I had to leave.”
“That was an unfortunate situation. But at least we know who one of the girls are. I want you to work on finding the other one. And then bring both to me.”
“Yes sir. But what do I do if one of your son’s are there?”
“You try again later.”
“Yes sir.”
When I was sure that they were done talking, I knocked on the door. “Come in.”
“I just wanted to thank you for letting me help Astra.”
“It was a pleasure to help you.” I nodded my head. I couldn’t look him in the eye. If I did, he would know that I knew. He noticed my distress and commented. “Is there something wrong Collin?”
“Yes. I’m suddenly not feeling very well.”
“Sorry son. Get some rest and you should feel fine in the morning.”
With that I turned and went to find Alexzander.


Chapter 25
Nova
I was thankful being back in my bed. I didn’t say I don’t like sleeping next to Alexzander, but I missed my conformable bed.
I felt a buzz under my pillow and quickly answered my phone. “Hello?” I could hear Alexzander on the other side talking way too fast for me to understand. I sat up and turned on my light, “Alexzander slow down I can’t understand you.”
“Me and Collin will be at your house in twenty minutes, wake up Astra.”
“Why?”
“Just please, we’ll explain everything when we get there.” I heard the phone go dead. I rushed out of my room and walked in Astra’s room. She was on her computer playing some game; I unplugged her earphones.
“Hey!” she screamed at me.
“Get changed Alexzander and Collin is coming in twenty minutes. I don’t know why they just said they were coming.”
“Do you think you know why they’re coming?”
I nervously backed towards the door, “Might be because I told Alexzander we are shape shifters.” I ran out the door, ran in mine, and locked the door.
“You did what?!”
“It’s cool though, because they are shifters too.”
“Well that makes everything just better.” I heard her sigh from the other side of the door, “What kind of shifters.”
I smiled and opened my door, “It’s so cool, Alexzander shifted into me! Well besides his eyes, they stayed the same.”
Astra’s smile brightened, “So Collin can do that too?”
“Yep.”
“So they could stalk us all day and the only way we know is by their eyes?”
“Yeah. I guess so.”
Exactly twenty minutes later me and Astra were in the living room waiting for them. The quiet bubble busted when we heard the door rang. Astra and I bolted towards the door pushing and shoving. She pushed me on the ground, looked in a mirror and opened the door.
“Hey.” She coolly said. She moved out of the way to let the boys in. Collin walked in first and pulled me up.
“Thanks.”
“What happen?” Collin asked.
“Oh, Someone pushed me,” I stuck my tongue out at Astra. Collin walked in the living room while Alexzander came in.
“Hey little ninja.” He picked me up and spun me around. Astra shot me a questioning look and followed Collin. I hugged Alexzander back and brushed hair out of his eyes, “Why are you here? Not in a rude way, but in a questioning way.”
He pulled me into the living room where Collin and Astra were on the door laughing. When they saw us they both got up from the floor and sat on the couch. It was my turn to give Astra a confused look, but she just shook her head and smiled. “So I need to tell you something Nova.” Alexzander said in a surprisingly strict tone.
“What?” He saw that I was nervous and tried to put a smile back on. He kissed me on my forehead and made me sit on his lap.
“Well remember the attack?”
“What attack?” I heard Astra ask. I totally forgot to tell her.
“I was attacked a carnival and that’s why we came home. It wasn’t a big deal, I took care of it.” I explained, but her worried eyes still stared at me. I broke our eye contact and turned my attention back to Alexzander, “What about it?”
“Well the guy who attacked you was hired by my dad.”
Chapter 26
Astra
I just nodded my head. “Does your dad know who we are?”
“He knows about Nova and what you are. But he doesn’t know who the other girls is.”
“And that other girl is me isn’t it?”
“We think so.”
I just nodded my head. “I’m not going to get angry, because if I do; things are not going to end well. Also because you came and told us. In my book if you go against your father to help your friends, then you’re a good guy.”
Collin smiled. “I’m glad you said that. I was worried that you would be angry with us.”
“I’m not angry. Is there anything else we should know about him?”
“He’s the leader of the HS society.”
“HS society?” Nova and I asked in union.
“The Human Shifters. That’s what we are, and that’s the society we belong to.”
“And why should that matter to us?” I asked.
Collin looked at me confused. “You don’t know about the Societies?”
“Nope.”
“So you know all about fairies, vampires, and werewolves? But you know nothing about the societies?”
“I said no.”
“That complicates things a little.”
“Were used to thing getting complicated.”
“Alright. We’ll tell you more about it on the plane. But for now you need to go pack.”
“What makes you think we’re going to go with you?”
“You both are in danger. Are you willing to risk your life to sit here and play in ignorance?” Said Alexzander.
“Alexzander you don’t need to talk to her like that. Just let me see if