Siren-chapter one by Anna Garcia (parable of the sower read online txt) 📕

get punished remember?” I said shaking my head towards the trash can. Recognition flooded his face “Right let’s go.” Once we practically ran to Mrs. Meyer’s office Jack said “How’d you now that Niki was there?” “Well,” I said “two reasons: One I can sense evil, and two I heard her whisper I’m going to kill her if she gets any closer to Jack.” “Oh” he said a little uncomfortable “so how are we going to get out of here?” I smiled and said “Portal.” “Portal?” Jack repeated. “I can create a portal that will lead straight to my house.” I explained. “Ok, but why would we want to go to your house?” he said. “My sister, Abby, can help you with your problem and we can’t really go anywhere else considering we don’t have another way out.” I said. “How can she help with Niki?” he asked. “Look, stop asking question, it’s getting really annoying, I explain later, Ok.” I said. “Ok” he said just as ticked off as I was.

I blew a kiss near the door, and then there was a huge flash of light followed by a massive gust of wind. I turned to Jack and said “Come on let’s go.” He looked at the giant heart shaped hole and said “Why is it-” “I told you I’d explain later now hurry up” I said as I climbed into the portal.

Once we both got in I sealed the portal with another kiss. “So, what did you want to ask me?” I turned to find Jack tightly closing his eyes, “What the hell are you doing?” I asked.

“I’m waiting.” he said. “Ok, for what?” I asked. “For us to fall out of the sky.” He said pointing up. “Umm why?” I asked. “Isn’t that how it works?” he said opening his eyes. “No,” I said laughing. “Traveling through a portal is more like an elevator.” He narrowed his eyes at me, and said “You said I could ask you questions now, right?” I nodded, and said “It will take us a few minutes to get there so, shoot.”

“Ok I think I’ll start with, why can you read peoples mind?” he said. “Well, it depends on what type of siren you are.” I said. “There are different types?” He asked.

I nodded, and said “There are four different types: dividers, seers, lovers, and secret lovers. We each have our own duties and powers.” “What can they do?” he asked. “Dividers are responsible for breakups, they can change your emotion to whatever they want them to be, lovers deal with the emotion connection you feel with your girlfriend or boyfriend, they usually are very beautiful and will purposely seduce you or make you fall in love with them because it gives them power, now secret lovers are usually shy in the sense of their name, they can sense when two people are in love with each other before they even know it,this skill comes in handy for them because it is there job to get the two people to notice eachother, and seers can read minds and see the future, they can do so that they are able to tell the outcome of a relationship, and tell who will be good for each other, they are responsible for telling the rest of the group who everyone should be with, seer are very rare and only come a thousand years or so because their life span is so long.” I said.

“Wait hold up, what group?” Jack asked confused. “About three thousand years ago we had a major problem, no one was looking for sign of undiscovered sirens so, we were almost near extinction, but we pulled together a meeting and came up with an idea, a group of selected sirens would be in charge of finding others like us and the tradition would carry generation to generation, later when sirens had another meeting, those selected to find others like us, where also given a gift to control human outcome in different ways , those selected had to die some time so the gift is now pasted on to whomever the siren chooses, in their family.” I said. “Umm, Ashley that still didn’t answer my question.” Jack said. I groaned “Ok let me dumb it down, you’ve seen my sisters around school right?” He nodded. “Well are ancestors where the original chosen ones and they decide to pass the gifts down to us.” I said.

He raised his eyebrows, “Whose what?” I turned to him and said,“Abby’s the divider, obviously since she’s going to help with your problem, I would advise not pissing her off since she basically decides who you will marry, Kassie is the secret lover, do not under any circumstances talk to her for more than fifteen minutes, her presence may influence you to tell her your whole life story, Stacey is the lover, her magic shouldn’t work on you, but just to be safe, think dark thought around her.” I said. “Why?” he asked. “Well, it will weaken her, so you might have a chance of not falling instantly in love with her.”

“Why would that be a bad thing?” he said. I raised an eyebrow at him. “Well,” he said, “I’ve seen Stacey around school and well, she hot.” I slapped him across the face. He starred at me. “Look,” I said, “I did that for three reasons, one: if you ever tell me my sister is hot again I’ll do much more than slap you, two: you’re all ready falling under her spell, if she gains full control, you will become her slave.” “What the third thing?” he asked still processing the whole slave thing. “Ever since I met you I’ve wanted to do that and, I saw the chance.” I said with a smile. He ignored the comment and said “How long is this going to take?” “We should be there,” I looked at my watch, “now actually.” At that exact moment the portal began to open. “Umm before we go I should warn you my sisters are a little eccentric.” I said. “Even more eccentric than being a girl that has the power to control almost all living creatures.” I looked him straight in the eye and said “Yes.”

He gulped realizing that I was dead serious. “Let’s go.” I said nodding towards the portal entrance. “Wait, you never told me what you were.” “I’m the seer.” He looked shocked for a second, then asked “Are all seers bone headed?” I ignored him, walked out and stood in front of my front door. “Won’t your neighbors think it’s weird how there’s a giant heart shaped hole in your front yard?” he said getting out of the portal entrance. I turned and Said “Yeah probably, if they were human.” I opened the door and walked into the house. “What do you mean if they were human?” Jack said following me into a huge home filled with the pinkest and fluffiest things ever imagined. “What I mean is,” I said throwing my back pack on the floor, “ they’re not Human, I thought that was fairly obvious?” he rolled his eyes at my sarcasm and said “What are they then?” “They’re guards.”I answered. “For…” he asked . “For-” “Ashley!” a voice interrupted me from the kitchen, followed by Stacey tackling me. “Not breathing!” I tried to yell. “Ohh, you can breath, if you couldn’t you wouldn’t be able to speak.” She said matter a factly.

“ Stacey?”

“Yeah?”

“Get off!

“Ohh sorry forgot you were under me.” She said as she daintily got up, smoothed out her pink ruffled dress, and fixed her blonde curls. I climbed to my feet and said “Jack, come on lets go see if Abby’s here?” Stacey turned to face Jack acknowledging that he was there, her mouth fell open and her eyes got wide, then she went into full sex god mode. “Hi.” She said followed with a giggle, Jack instantly melted into a puddle of testosterone. “Dude, what did I say, dark thoughts, remember?” I said shaking my head. He mumbled something that sounded like sorry, and when I couldn’t take it anymore I pinched him. “Oww!” he yelled. “Well it’s your fault, I told you not to fall under her spell.” I said to him, ignoring Stacey’s who was stunned, at the fact that Jack could actually get out of her control.

“Come on follow me.” I said heading up a wooden stair case. “When we get to Abby’s room, don’t mention our little surprise today.” I said stopping in front of Abby’s door.

“Why?” He asked. “Well one reason,” I said “you would have to tell her you’re a vampire, and since you’re supposed to be my partner, I don’t want you killed, until we save the world.” “Yeah, I’m goanna ignore the last part.” He said. I shrugged and said, “Do what you want, but how are we going that still doesn’t change the fact that you can’t tell Abby what you are.” “Fine, I tell Abby, Niki started to stalk me, and its seriously creeping me out.” He said. “Oh god.” I said

“What?”
“How are we going to explain to Abby that you know about sirens?”
“Umm… I got it! Are there male sirens?”
“Yes, Why?”
“Well, then we’ll just tell her that I’m one.”

“Ya, but male sirens are usually, conceded, almost narcissistic.” I thought for a while, “never mind you’ll do perfect!” He rolled his eyes at me, and opened the door. What he found made him stop dead in his tracks. There were millions of sticky notes flying through the air in a huge circle, around Abby, who was crossing of name that were written on them. When she saw us she waved her hands outward and all the sticky notes disappeared. She got up and said, “Ash what did I say, knock before you come in.” she walked over to us ignoring Jack who was staring at her. Normally I would have punched him, but you couldn’t really blame him, considering she had green highlight in her black hair and with a pencil stuck in it, she wore fish net stalking, a black mini skirt that flared out at the end, black knee high converse, and a tight neon orange tank top. “Sorry Abbs it wasn’t my fault.” I said nodding towards Jack. She studied him and said with a sigh “Who does he want to fall in love with him?” This knocked Jack out of his state of shock. “What makes you think I want someone to fall in love with me?” He said. “Everyone wants someone to love.” She said doubting that he didn’t want someone to fall in love with him.

Weird she didn’t ask him how he knew she could make someone fall in or out of love with him. “Look Abbs he’s telling the truth he really does want a girl to fall un-in love with him, her name is Niki, you think you can help him?”I said. She closed her eyes and a sticky note appeared in her hand she grabbed the pencil on top of her ear and crossed of Niki’s name. “There, done.” She said. “That’s it?” Jack asked. “That’s it.” I said. “Wow, I thought it would have been more complicated.” He said. “It used to be, but after a while I figured out how to simplify it.” Abby said. A knock came from the door, and we all looked to find Kassie. “Umm I don’t mean to intrude, but” she said, then she looked at both Jack and me together and said, “oh my, uhh… I mean, Abby I need your help.”