HAUNTED PRINCE by DENIS DANIEL (children's ebooks free online txt) 📕

I drove off and parked the car far enough so that people couldn’t notice my car or me. And I found myself thinking about Ashley, how people would easily like her and she was friends with the coolest girls of her class. Sometimes I envied her and sometimes I was relieved her life was nothing like mine.

That she didn’t have to bear the same curse as me. And she didn’t have to be too desperate to meet with stranger to help her. Talking about strangers, ten minutes passed and Lexi didn’t come. I took my iPod and listened to music through my earphones. The strangest thing was, she never gave me any contacts, so I had no way of knowing if she would come or not.

I was so worried about coming here that I forgot it worked both sides. And Ashley said that the party started at eight if she had the same idea I had three hours to wait and I had no idea what I would do the entire time.

Since there was nothing I could other than wait I put on some country songs and relaxed waiting for time to pass. And I waited successful for thirty more minutes which felt like forever. I started to wonder if I would be able to wait for two more hours or I would end up going home and forget the whole thing.

Soon after though the music lulled me to sleep and fell into a deep slumber, which was a good time passer. But in my sleep I had a dream and the fiery hair girl was there and we were surrounded with a blurry town. And from the look of it seemed like from medieval time, and as usual the girl was looking away from me and all I could see was her hair on fire, her shoulders and her back. I stretched my hand hoping to touch her this time, but before I could I heard banging from the background which made the dream disappear.

Automatically I thought it was someone waking me up to tell me to get lost this was not a place to park a car. But when I lowered the window of the car Lexi was there looking at me,

“How did you find me?”

“It’s kinda hard to miss this big old fancy car.”

“Yah right!!”

She walked around to the passenger side I unlocked the door and she got in,

“Where are we heading?” I asked a little anxious.

“Just go down the street.”

“If I go south more then we will be heading out of town.”

“Exactly.”

I started the car and we started our journey out of town. This is not a place where people go so much, unless they go camping or for party in the woods or some go hunting. There was few houses and most were made of woods and only old people and weird people lived in those houses.

After couple minutes we were at the edge of town. She told me to turn left and we started heading east on a rough road. I didn’t want to get scared but I couldn’t help feeling uneasy; I mean I didn’t know the girl very well and now I was driving around in the woods completely dark and I didn’t know where I was going. What worse I didn’t tell Ashley where I was going and if this girl wanted to steal my car or kill me or whatever no one would ever know.

“So where is this place exactly?” I asked and I was sure she could sense my worry.

“Relax Steven, we are going to my home. This is where I live, me and my family.”

That reassured me she wasn’t going to do anything that I’d been thinking.

It didn’t take long, soon there was a porch and it had some lights switched on. At first it seemed like a small house but as we approached it expanded and became taller. Finally I saw a two floor story house. And it was like every other house in the area. Made of woods and surrounded with lots of woods.

“My father may seem a little grumpy, but don’t worry he is a good person.” She informed me.

“How many are you in your family?” I tried to make myself a little aware of her family so that I won’t be totally clueless,

“It’s a little complicated. To make it short it’s a big family.”

“How big?” wasn’t convinced,

“You’ll see.” She said with a smile.

She was right about that though. I was already at the parking which wasn’t that big. There was a pick-up truck, which I thought was a family car. I parked next to it and I followed her to the door. She didn’t knock, she just opened the door and there it was.

I could count eleven or twelve people standing in front of me, staring at me like I was some kind of art and I was at the auction ready to get sold. Out of nowhere there was this big guy who came from the crowd and crushed me to a bear hug. He was fat and tall like a giant.

“Hey, Alex your boyfriend is so tiny. I told you to find someone big to protect you.” He said after dropping me down. And I found myself looking at Lexi whose actual name was Alex, confused.

“He is not my boyfriend uncle.” She refused looking at me,

“So, he is the haunted boy,” an old man maybe mid-fifties spoke out of the crowd and everyone made way for me to see him.

“I’m not sure he is haunted dad.” Alex said,

“Okay let’s find out what’s wrong with him then.” The old man said and he seemed like he was running things around the place.

“You didn’t tell me he was this cute cousin can I keep him.” A girl, a little bit older than Alex said. She was pretty hot with the tank top she wore and the mini skirt together with all-star shoes, her brunette hair in curls made her irresistible. She looked at me with her cat eyes and bit her lips, then out of nowhere I found myself having a boner. I couldn’t move my eyes from her. It was either her playing tricks with me or I was really attracted to that tan body of hers.

“Don’t look at her she will get into your head.” Alex whispered in my ears, “Come on.” She directed me to a room which seemed like an office or something.

Everybody left and disappeared to the other rooms of the house. She was right, this was a huge family, probably the biggest family that exists. The girl kept looking at me and I couldn’t help but take a pick at her one more time. Nobody else seemed interested in me though, it was like they just wanted to see me and that’s it.

The room had one huge table and there was three chairs. One was on one side of the table and other two were on our side which the door was at. Alex’s father was already sitting and reading a book. The room was full of books, shelves and shelves of books like a library. He offered the chairs and asked,

“If he is not haunted what is happening with him?”

“It is something different. Nothing has happened to him.”

“Excuse me, you are talking about me, right?” I asked feeling a little left out, “I think I need an explanation.”

“We think there is something supernatural coming after you. At first we thought it was some kind of ghost, but considering circumstances it seems like it might be something else.” Alex explained.

Even though I heard everything, I understood nothing. It was like listening to someone telling a story and it wasn’t my life they were talking about.

I kept staring at the two of them and words couldn’t get out of my mouth. The words that were in my mind were supernatural and haunted. In that very moment I was sure I walked in nuts house.

“I don’t think he was quiet ready for that yet.” Alex father said.

“Yah,” she agreed,

“I think you should help him catch up.” He said and then got up and left the room.

“Okay, you need to tell me what the hell is going on.”

“This might seem a little bit crazy, but it’s the truth. It’s just that not many people know about it.” She said and I didn’t understand that either,

“What is it?”

“Most people think of this as some kind of fiction and stories found in books and movies, but in reality they are actually real you just need to look hard enough.”

“Stop the crap and give it to me straight.”

“We are hunters.” She said as if it was supposed to explain everything.

“Animals hunters and not poachers, okay I get it. But what does that have to do with me?”

“Don’t be silly, we are not hunting animals. We hunt supernatural beings.”

“Now I’m lost, and what is that exactly?” I found myself raising my eyebrows showing more confusion.

“You’ve heard of ghosts, vampires, werewolves, shapeshifters, skin walkers, aliens and demons and many other folklore. All those creatures you’ve heard and automatically like everyone else thought of them as fictions. Actually they are not, they are all real.” She said calmly.

She might have been calm but my mind was on high alert, screaming at me to get out now before I crossed a line I’ll never be able to come back from.

There was this part of me though, a different me that believed in what Alex was saying. It was so convinced that it made me want to agree with Alex theory or belief or whatever it was. My mind was opposing strongly but I couldn’t help the pull, the desire to find out if she was right or not. So I took a deep breath and literally prepared myself to cross over to crazy lane by walking around the room couple times trying to find possibilities that Alex was right and my mind was wrong.

I watched lots of fiction movies and read my fair share of fiction books as well. But I never thought I’d ever find myself getting lured into the conspiracy of believing them to be true. And there was plenty of scenarios like mine; me not believing and someone else convincing me that supernatural world is real. It didn’t matter anyway I was here and what was the worst thing that could happen anyway! Me being convinced and start believing in supernatural. It won’t be that bad,

“Okay,” I finally made my decision.

“So my family have been doing that for generations, hunting evil supernatural creatures. But couple centuries ago my great granddad came across something quite unusual.”

“Wait everything you do is unusual.” I corrected her,

“Well, yes but you get used to seeing all these creatures. They are always in circles, we don’t usually come across something we haven’t come across yet. Advantages of doing something for so long that’s why there is all these books in here.”

“So how unusual was it?” I asked impatiently.

“He came across a person, whose eyes were glowing at night bluish white. At first he thought it was a werewolf but the person wasn’t a werewolf because he didn’t change during full moon and didn’t show any characteristic of it. Frankly it