• “Are crazy enough as it is.” Emma finished up for me. I nodded and he just hugged me, “I don’t care. I thought it was cute.”…

    I pulled away, “Uh huh.” I felt completely embarrassed and awkward standing there. Thankfully Emma was my knight in shinning armor, “Let’s go eat. I vote boys making breakfast!”
    “Me too.”
    Ben and Dane shook their heads no, “How bout-”
    We did our puppy dog eyes and shook our bodies looking like little kids and we stood together, “Aw, look let’s just make breakfast.” Dane fell into the trap easily, Ben not so much, “No.”
    I took a step closer and Emma followed behind and we stuck our thumbs in our mouths with wide eyes, “N… fine.”
    “Yes, no back outs and since you are cooking you are cleaning.”
    They groaned and walked out mumbling about us while Emma and I did our handshake. We laughed for a while ‘til I sat down and looked Emma in the eye as she wiggled her eyebrows and I raised one, “Jeremy huh?”
    She blushed and nodded, “OOOH JEREMY! PLEASE COME ASK-”
    “SHHH!”
    “AHHHHH!” Emma was down hitting me madly, “White flag!”
    She had always hated when you even brought up a crush if you simply smiled at their conversation she would go savage on you. I pulled my hands to my chest and put palms forward indicating I would be quite.
    When we had calmed down we heard a huge crash. I looked at Emma wide eyed and rushed out of the room. I instantly coughed at the smoke clouding my view. Emma had started laughing while pulling out a chair to fan away the smoke, “You…*cough*…guys…*cough* what did you do?!” She exclaimed while laughing and coughing. Dane was running around opening windows while Ben held a dish rag swatting away the gray smoke, “We tried to cook!” I laughed as I walked into the kitchen now being able to see with a thin layer of smoke. I turned to see water spilling over the sink, “How many dishes did you use?!” There had to be at least five pans in the sink. I turned of the water to just slip and fall on my behind. I heard muffled chuckles and picked myself up, “What did you guys…er try to make?”
    Ben flustered and furrowed his brow, “Toast, eggs, bacon, and… I think hash browns.”
    “Think?” Emma asked while he simply shrugged.
    “You should really buy a toaster… I mean if you want toast you have to put it in the oven!” He used his hands in an exasperated way.
    “Ben, you see that shinny silver box next to the blender?”
    “Yeah?”
    “That’s the toaster.”
    He swiveled around and poked the toaster and looked at Dane, “We thought it was, but it has stickers on it.”
    “Magnets, Ben, magnets.”
    I looked around and laughed, “Hey make sure you clean all this up!”
    “WHA?!” Dane and Ben glared at me, “Hey, you made the mess.”
    “B…b..but that’s not fair!” Ben practically whined and danced.
    I shrugged, “Well, we are going school shopping.”
    I turned to Emma, “Oh yes, I almost forgot school! With everything it was the least important.”
    I laughed and nodded towards the guys, “Hire a maid or something, just make sure this is clean by the time we are back.”
    I grabbed my jacket and keys with Emma trailing behind me. We drove to mall and walked inside; I immediately turned to Emma, “Okay you get the school pens and boring stuff…while I go and get the clothes.”
    I smiled and she of course protested, “No fair that’s the fun part. At least do row sham bow.”
    “Fine.” I smiled slyly as a looked across at a near by window and saw scissors behind her back, “Only once.”
    “Okay.”
    “One…Two…Three.” We showed the symbols, I won. I laughed, “Toodles darling.”
    She just smiled, “Jay, can we meet half way?”
    “Fine, get the supplies quickly and meet me at the store.”
    She smiled and was gone before I could say something. I chuckled and went to the food court, “Hi, welcome to Smooth Smoothies! How may I help you?”
    I looked up to see Jessy, “See you have to work here?”
    “Whatever.” She rolled her eyes, “What do you want?” Her words had a hint of ‘test-me-I’ll-tell-you-something-you-don’t-want-to-know’.
    “Hm, a lemon strawberry smoothie, but made by someone else I want to speak with you.”
    “Fine, Cassie!” A blonde bouncy girl bounded out and looked at a piece of paper, “Alrighty one Lemon strawberry coming up.”
    “How is Damon?” She had a smirk that I would soon wipe away.
    “Oh that bugger, I wouldn’t know I dumped him.”
    Low and behold she kept smirking, “Yeah I know, I am his girlfriend.”
    I shrugged, “More drama for you, less for me.”
    This time her mouth fell but quickly she put a smile on, “You must be jealous I mean to see me, the popular girl with the ex-boyfriend that is extremely cute…while you only have your two little friends and no cute guy.”
    I started to laugh, “Damon…cute…HAHA! Psh,” I controlled my laughing just enough to spit the rest out, “Yeah he has a certain cuteness but I mean seriously I have a way cuter boyfriend and my friends are way better than yours. Don’t ever say anything about them again.” I had said the rest with a straight face, “Prove it. Prove you have a boyfriend.”
    “First day of school be looking.”
    “Oh, I will be.” She slid the words out of her mouth as if she was planning something. Emma walked by and had four bags of supplies, “Psh, nerd! Why don’t you go read a book…no I’ll do you a favor. Fix yourself, you are just plain ugly and ew just get out of my way.”
    I shook my head while Emma looked as if she was in tears almost, Jess was laughing her little fake self, “Hey! Jess, what did I say!”
    She turned around and smacked her lips, “What are you going to do, you are even uglier.”
    I rolled my eyes, “Say something else like that and you will have to have a doctor fix your face.”
    “Fine, Emma… you are well you are just weird.”
    I shook my head and grabbed her hair while she let out a yelp, “Jess…when are you going to learn? Oh yeah, right now.” I threw her into a wall. She fell down bleeding and got up and turned around, “Oh, poor Jayne I have a black belt.”
    “Bring it.”
    She dusted herself off while people began to gather. I placed my hands on my hips and watched as she bowed weirdly and charged. She was concentrated on her feet so much that when I moved she ran into someone else. I laughed, “Take off the heels so you can actually put up some sort of fight.”
    She slipped them off and charged. She hit my stomach, “Should I say ow?” I punched her in the face just hard enough to see more blood. I grabbed her shirt while she held her nose, “You need to keep your big fat mouth shut or next time I will hurt you. This right here is nothing.”
    I dropped her and began to walk away to see Emma wearily smiling and whisper, “Dane is coming to erm, get you…let’s go.”
    I shook my head and started to leave when I heard a high pitch voice, “So you are going to walk away, like that time you walked out on your sister?”
    I turned around and nothing could hold me back. A few guys had grab my arms but I bit them; I got right up in Jess’s face, “You know nothing. Don’t try to be tough because when I comes down to it, I will be the one to hurt you. I will never let you be something. I will not let you take control. As for my sister, shut your mouth, you know NOTHING of her or what happened.”
    “So.” I smacked her I kept hitting her until someone grabbed my waist and dragged me away. I thrashed and yelled as I saw Jess staring at me all beat up. I kept kicking until I was harshly dropped, “JAYNE!”
    I looked up to see an angry Dane. I had never seen him angry, granted I alone have known him for about a week or so. I shrunk back; his eyes were filled with pure anger. I looked to see I was at my house, “How… how did we get here so fast?”
    “My. Speed.” He spoke through clenched teeth but even with a struggle his anger came back, “ DO YOU REALIZE WHAT YOU HAVE DONE?! WHAT YOU COULD HAVE EXPOSED?! WITH YOUR INHUMAN STRENGTH AND POWERS YOU COULD HAVE SPILLED THE SECRET! YOU DO NOT DISERVE THIS JOB! YOU ARE TOO IRRESPONSIABLE!-”
    “SHUT UP! DO NOT TALK TO ME LIKE I AM A CHILD! I CAN SEE THAT BUT YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I JUST WENT THROUGH!”
    “DO NOT INTRUPT ME! DON’T FEED ME CRAP! I CANT BELIEVE YOU WERE CHOOSEN TO PROTECT THE SECRET!-”
    “STO-” I was smacked across the cheek and so hard I fell back against the wall. Dane was fuming, “Get out.” Was all I whispered.
    “NO! YOU NEED TO HEAR THIS! YOU NEED TO GRASP-”
    “GET OUT OF MY HOUSE! I UNDERSTAND COMPLETELY, GET OUT!”
    I had stood up even though it hurt my body completely. I had started to shake from the pain and rage, “Do not ever hit me again.”
    He just turned around and slammed the door. I awkwardly walked to my room, I sprawled on my bed. I had just been abused; I had just been hit by my boyfriend. I was hit by my cross breed boyfriend. What was I going to say to the police? If I spoke to the police anyway, would I say ‘yeah it was powerful because he is a cross breed thing and I keep the secret of immortals and other mythical creatures.’
    Of course I could not say or go to the police. I would just take it easy tomorrow. I groaned in pain as I got under my blankets.

    {b]Dane’s Pov.

    “Do not ever hit me again.”
    I barely heard Jayne over the monster who took over. I slammed the door and ran straight to Carter’s room. I knocked rapidly; when he answered I stepped in and paced, “I hit her. I cant believe I just hit her. I cant believe this rage is getting so bad I hit her!”
    “What? Who did you hit?” Carter was asking as soothing as a man could. I sat down and wiped my face with my hands looking up, “Jayne.”