The Dark Divide by Laura Sopko (mobi reader txt) 📕

of you apologizing!” I take my hand out of his grip and take a few steps back.
“Fine whatever, be that way. Cindy was never as whiney as you anyway.”He walks back to his car and leaves the parking lot.
I stand there for a few seconds replaying the words Alex said in my head. “Cindy was never as whiney as you anyway” does that mean he was cheating on me or does that just mean he’s a major douche and was just trying to say that he was going to go back out with Cindy Crawford
Ugh whatever I am over Alex, I can find someone better like Mitchell, and He showed some interest in me when we were in the café I wonder if he was just being polite?
I ponder over this as I make my way back to my apartment.
I pull into my flats parking lot at 12:19. My mom is gonna be uber pissed when I go up there, unless she’s passed out on the couch again. I make my way up to the apartment I share with my mom and unlock the door. I slowly open the door and turn on the light. My mom wasn’t in the living room or the kitchen so I went into the hallway and put my ear against her bedroom door. There was her loud snoring coming from the other side of the door so that’s one less thing I have to worry about.
I opened the door to my bedroom and threw my purse and keys on my desk. I walked over to my vanity and sat down to take off my makeup and brush my hair. I pull out my cell phone and see that there is a text from Anna and a text from Miles.
The text from Anna says:
“Hey its Anna you looked upset in the parking lot. Just wanted to make sure you were OK. And if you are okay then I wanted to know if you wanted to come over tomorrow for a sleepover?
I text back letting her know I’m okay and that I would come over tomorrow, and then I read the one from Miles.
“What the fuck A. where did you go?!? I am freaking out wondering if you’re dead in a ditch somewhere! Text me and let me know!!!”
Awe hell! I forgot to call Miles and tell him I wasn’t dead. Oh well ill call him tomorrow and tell him what happened right now I’ll just send him a text that says I’m okay and not dead.
By time I finish taking a shower and get in my P.Js it’s almost 1:20 so I quickly get into bed and try to get some sleep.

Chapter two
I wake up at eleven o’clock to get ready for work. I work as a cashier at Hollister and to get to the mall takes a good twenty minutes cause I take the bus. Traffic is horrible in New York no matter which part you live in.
After a quick shower I go into my bedroom and go to my closet. I pull out a pair of blue skinny jeans, a t-shirt that says “God save the queen” in black letters over a blue and red British flag, and my black Doc Martins. I leave my hair down and put a hair clip on the side opposite my bangs. I quickly apply my makeup in the elfish way that I wear it, grab my mini book bag that I put all my purses contents in, grabbed my keys and jacket and headed out the door.
I get to Hollister at eleven-fifty one and clock in. The moment I get behind the counter I have my cell phone out calling Miles.
“God Damn, Araya Dawn Elspeth Warren where on God’s green earth have you been I was worried sick I thought you were dead!”
“Miles chill I’m fine! I’m at work so I can’t talk long. I just wanted to call so you wouldn’t think I was dead.”
“Whatever you are forgiven know tell me what happened between you and Alex I saw him last night dancing with Cindy Crapford and I went over there to protect your honor and what not but he said that you guys broke up.”
“Yeah he called me a robot and stuff so I went back to the coffee shop drank some coffee and met some weird kids.”
“You don’t sound to upset about it.”
“Yeah I know I’m doing that thing I was told I do when I am upset when I just shove it down.” I say absently playing with a bracelet I found on the counter.
“Come on A. you should be screaming and punching people in the face.”
“No really Miles I’m fine. Really. So how was your night.”
That got him going into a detailed recap of his night and the boy he met. I was only vaguely listing adding in “Mhms” and Ohhs” when they were needed.
About five minutes later my first costumer came in and I told Miles I had to go.
And that’s how my day went on. Costumer after costumer for four and a half hours. It was 4:45 when I got a text from Anna saying that she was sending Jay to come pick me up for our sleepover.
“I’m probably gonna regret asking this but how do you know where I work?”
“Easy I’ve seen you working there before.”
“And why is he coming to get me and not you?”
“Cause me and Clara are setting up for our fun filled night. Now stop asking questions”
I didn’t text back to that instead I went to the back room to get my book bag. When I walked back into the store Jay is standing near the door waiting for me. He looked like a model just standing there in his black t-shirt and jeans. You could see that he was muscular just by looking at him, he looked like one of the models at Ambracombie.
“You look like a stalker just standing there.” I inform him as I fall into step next to him.
“That coming from the girl who started at me for three minutes before walking over.” He says with a cocky grin on his face.
“Whatever.”
We walk in awkward silence until we reach the parking lot. Now this is gonna be one of the parts of the story when you’re like “Man this girl is bulshitting me” but no this really happened.
I was just about to ask Jay a random question when out of nowhere this chubacabra looking thing jumps out from behind a car and tries to eat my face off. Before I even have time to conjure up a girly scream the thing is flying backwards, and a terrible pain is shooting through my arm. My adrenaline kicks in and the pain is dulled to an annoying sting. I quickly look up in time to see Jace throw some type of magical ice crystal thing at it and POOF! The thing is dead. I watch in horror as the thing turns to dust right before my eyes,
“Holy shit on a cracker what was that thing!?” I ask about three seconds from running through the parking lot screaming.
“That was a Calzie demon.”Jay answers as nonchalantly as if I asked him what time it was.
“Yeah a Calzie demon. What the hell is that!!!!”
The adrenalin is slowly subsiding and the pain in my arm is coming back with a vengeance.
“Ill let Hodge tell you all about it but right now we have to get you back to the institute so they can take care of that demon scratch.”
“I’m fine.” I tell him as I turn away from Jay.
He grabs my arm and turns me to look at him.”Where the hell do you think you’re going?”
“Home! After what I just saw you do to that thing I’m not going anywhere with you!”I say trying to pull my arm out of his grasp but he holds firm.
“No, you have to come back to the institute and have them take care of the demon scratch!”
“NO!!”
“Araya Dawn I swear to God I will drag your ass to my car if I have to.”
“So you’ll kidnap me?”I stop struggling to long enough to give him an appalled look.
“If it comes to it.”
“Well I’m not going with you so you’ll have to take me kicking and screaming”
Was all I got in before he grabbed me around the waist and hauled me over his shoulder.
“What the hell Jay?!!?!?!”I screech fighting for my life!
“Lisisn Araya, I really don’t want to do this but you’ll die if we don’t get back to the institute and your kind of important so that would suck.”
“What do you mean I’m important?” I ask curious.
“Well you saw what I did right? How I killed the Calzie demon?”I answer with a grunt of agreement suddenly to tired to fight anymore.
“Okay I guess I have to give you the full history for you to understand.”He tells me stopping in front of a car.
He places me way more gently then I thought him capable of into the car and puts the seat belt around me.
“Okay centuries ago a terrible shadow escaped to the world of the past to destroy Gods children, ever waiting for the signs of terrain war to rise up and mankind. The shadow created animal men to hunt down and destroy mankind. Werewolves as we know them today still have souls and constantly reject the shadows plan. They have created their own society where they live and hunt the way they want to the shadow then created soulless demons to carry out its plan of destruction upon the world. Vampires as they are called in these dismal times are always looking to feed on unsuspecting humans and to destroy the feral cowards who have failed their beloved dark lord God will not stand by and watch his children fall to darkness so he empowered his Archangels to bless humans at birth with the speed, agility and strength as the angels themselves, so they could cleanse the earth of the shadow and its followers we have been deemed shadow hunters by the many who know of the ongoing struggle with heavens light and the darkness of hell. There are few who fill our ranks and time is not kind to our fight we struggle to find the unknowing blessed before the minions of the shadow take them from this world even though many battles have been fought the war is far from over and the hunters grow few as the years go on. Too many disciples of the hells entity have begun to cover the worlds in hells black embrace but prophecies of a full blessed human that could this fight to an end have kept the shadow hunters going.”
“Wow Jay that was a great history lesson on a bunch of mumbo jumbo I don’t understand but that doesn’t asnswer the question of how im important.”
“Oh my god you are so stubit. Go to sleep or something im just gonna let Hodge explaine everything.”
“Gee whiz I think this is the bestest birthday ever!”I say sarcastically as I lean my head against the car door.