Eclipse by Smiley sn (books to read to improve english .txt) 📖

I was terrified.

I wasn’t going to mince my words, I was absolutely posolutely petrified. I was afraid to move, to breathe, to make any sound. Am I dead? Is this what dying felt like? I didn’t want to die. My breaths came out in desperate pants.

“Mom? Dad?” I asked into the void of black. My voice ragged.

A very faint. “Jax?” Hope bloomed in my chest.

I stood up on wobbling legs. “Mom! Dad!”

“Jackson. Is that you?” That was definitely my dad.

“Where are you?” I tried to move, but it seemed like my feet were frozen on the floor. I stare at the spot where I assume my feet are and try to move them. Nothing, it was as if someone glued them to the floor. Panic washed over me as I heard my name being called.

“Jax! Jackson! Jackson!” I try to cover my ears with my arms, but I couldn’t move them. I could only move my head, but no matter where I turned to, I couldn’t find my parents. Not even could I pinpoint where it was because every time they called my name, it seemed to echo and bounce around a million of times before reaching me. “Jax! Jax! Jax!”

Overwhelming helplessness bloomed in my chest as I struggled against my invisible bonds. I shut my eyes to stop the onslaught of tears that wanted to escape. “Jackson! Please Jackson!”

“Shut up!” I screamed.

“Please Jackson! Open your eyes!”

I couldn’t take it anymore. It hurt too much to hear their voice, but not being able to hug them, see them. “Shut up! Shut up.” I felt deflated. I was dead and this was my punishment. I was in hell. Might as well do as they say.

I opened my eyes. The light was blinding me and I groaned against it trying to move my hand to block out the bright light. I could not move my limbs, I felt so weak. I could only cause my fingers to twitch.

“Dim the lights. He’s waking.” I heard a voice say. Deep and masculine.

“Stacey, get the water.” The same voice said. Something cool was placed on my lips and I opened my lips drinking greedily of the refreshing liquid. It soothed my parched throat. I drank the whole glass and then someone placed another which I also finished.

“Jackson can you hear me. Move your ring finger for yes.” My fingers twitched again. “Good. Vey good.” I felt him touch my ungloved hand and a sense of power went through me, healing me, making me feel warm all over. I welcomed it and latched on his finger but he knocked my hand off.

He chuckles. “Okay, Jax. Don’t suck in all my powers. I’m still running low on trying to heal you.” I opened my eyes this time more easily with the dim lighting and the window covered by curtains. I saw a tall male with shoulder-length chestnut brown hair dressed in a gray button-down and black pants. His bright blue eyes stare at me in concern for me.

“What h-happened?” Everything was blurry. I remember snow, going to my house, then the weird dream. I wasn’t completely sure how I ended up here. How I ended up in a warm bed with the family friend I was going to visit in the first place. Did I make it to his home? Where is Sea? Is she okay? I suddenly tried to sit up in worry, but I was sent a splitting headache making me groan in pain.

“Don’t move too much. I don’t want you to get hurt again. Flailing around in your sleep and almost knocking yourself to the floor. I had to hold you down to make sure didn’t hit someone.” He grumbles under his breath but I knew he was worried. 

He holds my eye open as he shines a small handheld flashlight in my eye. “Everything seems to be working fine now. You’re going to be weak for the next few days and it will take an hour for your anesthetic to wear off. Don’t try to move or I will strap you to the bed.” He waggles his finger in front of me and I stare at it. “What were you thinking? Going out in the cold weather and falling asleep in the snow. If your dog didn’t come out and dragged you to the sidewalk, you could’ve died. Do you hear me?” I winced as he scolded me.

Then a hand smacked him in the shoulder. “Kayo, be quiet.” He looked like he wanted to argue, but she shushed him. “At least wait until the poor boy can talk right so you can give him a heart attack.” Her brown eyes looking apologetically at me. “Sweetie, you gave us quite a scare. Disappearing on us and we find you half dead in the snow.  What happened?” Her long blonde hair brushed over one shoulder in wavy thick locks reminding me of my Mother’s hair.

“Okay, I see how it is. You can ask questions but when I do it, it is a crime.” Kayo grumbled at her, folding his arms like a child. She glared at him and opened her mouth to argue, but I interrupted her.

“My d-dog. Where is S-Sea.” I stuttered trying not to panic. Is she hurt?

“Oh she’s fine. We had one of our nieces keeping tabs on you and she sensed you were in trouble. She tracked you where you were and we found you on the sidewalk with your dog laying on top of you. Was growling at anyone who tried to come near you. Super protective of you and only calmed down when we said your name. She also saved you. Without her body heat, you would’ve been a human popsicle.” She chuckled a little weakly in a grimace and put the hair in my face behind my ear.

“You had a case of hypothermia and you’re body temperature was extremely low. You were dehydrated and malnourished.”

Her expression became haunted and Stacey stroked my cheek. “We thought we lost you, honey.” Her eyes filled with pain.

I suddenly felt super guilty. I left them with no evidence that I was alive. Just two dead bodies of their best friends and a deep sense of worry for me. For all they know I could’ve been kidnapped by my parent’s murderer and left for dead.

I should have left a note or something to let them know I was okay. But, I wasn’t okay though. I was way too skinny from when I couldn’t eat and I had dark circles under my eyes from being unable to sleep. I had a scar on neck and shoulder and several scattered around my body from the power fights I would fight for money and a way to vent out the anger I felt for myself. My hair was too long and matted with dirt and grease.

I am definitely not okay.

I suddenly felt very self-conscious without my hoodie and gloves on. My cheeks pinked when I realized these were not my clothes. They undressed me. I was dressed in a thin T-shirt and some navy blue sweats. They dwarfed my tiny frame. I felt exposed and just wanted to be alone.

As if reading my thoughts, Kayo looked at me. “Well, we’re going to leave you for a little while. The kids really missed you and have been dying to see you. Dinner is in an hour and we can see about giving you a bath. Man, you smell like you went living with the pigs.” Stacey smacked him on the arm again and he looked at her sheepishly. “What! What did I say? We were all thinking it.” She looked at him exasperated.

“We’ll let you rest. If you need anything, just call us better yet me.” Kayo looked like he wanted to add something else, but Stacey shushed him and pushed him out the door before he could make any more crude comments.

Before she left she turned to me one more time. “We really missed you. We view you as a part of our family and hate to lose you.” Like we lost your parents. She didn’t say it, but the shock of losing my parents really hurt her. Now that I had a nice look at her, she looked more tired and wrinkles had shown up where it wasn’t before. With that she left pulling her husband in tow, who grumbled about chivalry being dead.

I closed my eyes and snuggled into my warm bed. I pulled two pillows on either side of me and tuck them in beside me. Perfect. I suddenly felt so tired. All those sleepless nights were catching up to me and I felt so tired of everything. The instance I rested my eyes I went into a dreamless sleep.

Chapter 4

I woke up to someone poking my cheek. “Are you awake yet?” I am now, I thought grumpily, maybe if I ignore him he will go away.

“Anza, I think he is dead” he whispered to his twin.

“No he’s not, Bobbi. Dad said he might look like it, but he promised he wasn’t.” I mentally roll my eyes. Of course Kayo would tell five year olds that. Then Anza proceeded to tug on my ears. “Wake up.” she yelled in my ear making me open one eye to glare at her.

They gave me identical innocent smiles that made it hard to stay mad at. They inherited their mom’s chocolate brown eyes that could make anyone like putty in their hands if they give you puppy eyes and dark brown hair streaked with blond highlights. While Anza, short for Esperanza, had wavy long hair down to her waist, Bobbi, real name Robin, had his curly in an adorable little afro. They didn’t have their powers, but I was dreading the day they do. Knowing them they would use it to pull even more pranks on us and make it harder to keep track of them. They also inherited their father’s mischievous nature. 

“See I told you he wasn’t dead.” Anza said to Bobbi. Bobbi stuck his tongue out at her. Before I could even open my mouth to ask her why she woke me up, I just saw a blur of fur come towards. Sea tackled me so hard I fell of the bed with a groan from me. She ignored it as went to lick my face as I struggled to get her off me. Every time I managed to push her off she just weaseled out of my grip to sniff me everywhere to make sure I was okay making me laugh at her.

“Girl, I’m fine. Though you may have bruised a rib.” Her tail went in between her legs in shame and her head bowed down for a second before she jumped on the bed to sniff at Anza making her laugh and shriek when Sea pressed her wet muzzle to her cheek. Bobbi pushed her fluffy tail away from him that was smacking him in the face every time she wagged her tail.

I laughed at the two, until I saw a figure leaning on the doorframe, looking at me. As soon as she saw me looking at her and she immediately left down the hallway while I tried to stand up to follow her.

“Savannah, Wait!” I tried