siren-chapter 2 by Anna Garcia (love letters to the dead .txt) 📕

Chapter 2
I stared up at Jack’s mountain of a house and said, “I’m goanna need a map for this place.” He rolled his eyes at me and said “You know my house is about the same size as yours.” “I doubt that considering I can actually find my way around my house.” I said reaching for the door. He pulled my hand away so fast that it took me a couple minute to realize my hand wasn’t on the door knob.
In fact it was intertwined in Jack’s and the scary part was: I kind of liked it. Once that last thought registered in my mind I pulled my hand away at least five times faster than he had pulled my hand away from the knob. “Umm, why did you do that?” I asked pushing the nervous feeling I had to the side. “Do you want to become fried?” he asked. “Umm..? No?” I said confused. “Well then, that’s why.” My eyes widened. “The doors rigged to electrify you.” I said. “Well not me, but people who are not invited into the house first, yes.” He said this so calmly it was kind of eerie. “Is there anything else I should know?” I said. “What do you mean by anything else?” he said. “Well, how about the thing that could, I don’t know, possibly, KILL ME?” I said. He looked at me then said, “Do you really want to know all of them?” “Well maybe not all of them, but the basics.” “Well then you should stay away from my brothers at night, the elevator, the first door to your right on the second floor, and Uncle Will’s room.”
“Uncle Will? Brothers?”I said, trying to remember if Jack ever mentioned that he had brothers. He nodded, “yeah I live with my uncle, and my three brothers: John, Chris, and Ash.” “Is that all?” I asked. “Not even close,but if we stay out here any longer my neighbors are goanna start to wonder I why we’re here” he said opening the door. “One thing before we enter.” He turned to me, “Why is your house booby trapped?” “Vampires like their privacy.” He said with a shrug. He walked into his house as if that explained it all. “Ashley please come in, will you.” I raised an eyebrow at his formal talk. “I have to say it that way or it doesn’t count.” He said.
When I got into the house all I could do is gape. The door led to a huge room with art all over the clean white walls, with marble floors, and a huge chandelier on the ceiling. When I saw the furniture I didn’t even want to think about how much it cost. “You probably should have motioned that you’re loaded.” I said still kind of in a state of shock. “I am not rich,” he said plainly, “my uncle is.” I just nodded. Right then and there a boy about one years older than Jack and I (17) appeared out of know wear.
“Well Jack, I see you brought some new… blood.” He said with a smirk. I raised an eyebrow. The boy then appeared about one inch away from my face. “I promise this wont heart a bit.” He disappeared again and ended up behind me then he leaned in. (Now I probably should mention that I took a self defense class when I was eight, and found that I liked it, so I enrolled myself in karate classes. I ended up being extremely good at it, and before you knew it I was a black belt.) I then used all my force to elbow him in the stomach, and while he leaned in from pain turned with my foot in the air, effectively kicking him across the room. I smiled at my work. Jack was breaking out laughing. The guy stood up half embarrassed, half angry. “Jack you could have told me she knows karate.” he said. Jack who was still laughing, shrugged and said, “I didn’t know she knows karate, I mean I thought she would slap you or something simple like that, but not kick you across the room.”
“Yeah well I don’t take being sexually assaulted to well.” I said with narrowing eyes. “Let me guess,” He started, “your one of those girls who believes that girls shouldn’t be cheerleading, because it is advertising that women are only good for dancing while wearing short little skirts, and that all men are idiots.” I put my hand on my hip and said “So what if I do?” he turned and looked me straight in the eye “than your stupider than you look.”
Under my breath I said “Jack the thing about vampires and light, is it true?” “Kind of, it won’t really kill us but we’ll be in intense pain, well except for me that is, for some reason it doesn’t affect me, why do you want to know this?” I smiled and looked around the room.
Most of the room was in darkness. Except for this tiny little crevice on the side of the wall. My smile grew into a full fledge smirk. I closed my eyes and focused on the light. I willed it to grow stronger. When I opened my eyes they were no longer an ocean blue, they were now an intensely bright orange. “Stupid, Huh?” I said. He looked at me un-intersted. I stuck out my hand and the light came towards me like a snake, in a line that wrapped loosely around my arm. That caught his attention. He looked at me dumb founded at the light outlined his figure from about five inches away from his skin.
Jacks mouth was open, he didn’t know about my ability to control light, I really didn’t see the need to tell him, all it really does is make people feel warm and fuzzy inside or at least that’s all I thought it did until I got the idea to use it as a weapon. As it slowly inched towards the guy, Jack shook me. I turned and stared at him. He looked panicked. The look in his face reminded me not to seriously hurt the idiot. I snapped my finger and the sliver of light disappeared. The guy was now ghost white and looked like he was about to faint, “Ohh please, I wasn’t going to seriously hurt you.” I said. “What’s his name by the way? You never told me.” I said looking at Jack. “His name is Chris.” Oh god it was one of his brothers. I slowly walked to the trembling boy who was in a tight ball. When I gently touched his shoulders, he flinched. I sighed and crouched down beside him and made a sign in the air. The air glowed where I made the symbol and moved towards him then vanished in a gust of wind.
He looked up and I saw that he was no longer trembling. I got up and walked over to Jack and said “There all better.” “What did you just do?” “I put a healing symbol on him, it’s a type of spell that removes any damage that been done in the past hour.” I explained. “You can do that too?” he asked. “Yup, one of the perks of the job, I usually use it to mend broken hearts.” I said. “Does it make him forget everything?” he asked. I shook my head, “It only takes away the pain and fear from that experience.” Chris just sat there looking doe eyed. “Hey Jack, you home?” Someone yelled from the long spiral staircase that connected to one of the walls. “Yeah.” Jack yelled back. A boy,roughly twenty, who had soft feature, and brown hair and brown eyes, came running down the stairs. When he saw Chris sitting in a little ball he asked “Jack, what did you do to Chris?” he then noticed me, “and why is there a random girl in are living room, I don’t mean any offence it’s just weird.” He added. “s’okay” I said and that’s when Chris exploded.
“OKAY!!!, That’s all he gets no fly across the room or light snake thing?!?” He asked now standing with his fists clenched. “He didn’t try to sexually harass me, and he didn’t’ call me a stupid man hating girl, now did he?” I asked looking him straight in the eye. I heard, ‘yeah well all that true’ in my head. “Why you little-” I lunged at him but Jack caught me by the arm. “Chris she can read minds so I would not advise saying or thinking anything that would get you killed.” Jack said. “Let me go!” I struggled to break free from Jack’s grip. “Come on let just hit him once, you know you want me too.” I said still struggling. It wasn’t that Jack’s grip was uncomfortable it was that I thought it felt nice that scared me. That other guy was starring at us amused.
“I won’t let you go until your eyes turn back to their normal color.” I stopped moving and stared at him blankly “They still haven’t changed back?” I asked. He shook his head, “they’re still that orangey color.” “Well that not my fault is it?” I said glaring at Chris. He ignored me and said “Ash, this is Jacks new bit-” I narrowed my eyes, “uhh … friend.” I stared up at Jack who now had his arms around my waist to keep me from moving, being so close to him made me extremely uncomfortable, because it felt so natural. “Can you let go of me now?” He shook his head. Guess my eyes were still orange; I closed my eyes and thought of the beach, the nice calm beach. I opened my eyes again “Better?” I asked. He nodded then let go of my waist. Ash had his finger to his chin like he was thinking and was staring at me and Jack. “What?” Jack and I asked at the same time. He smiled, “Ohh, its nothing.” He said grinning like a fool.
“Is your brother all right?” I asked Jack. “I’m not sure.” He said just as confused as I was. “Ash is Jack Home?” Another boy, with boyish features came running down the stairs, he looked about err, maybe eighteen. He stopped dead in his tracks when he saw me. We all stood there in silence for about five minutes. I finally couldn’t take it anymore and said, “Err…Hi?”. “Nice way to break the silence Ashley.” Jack said sarcastically. “Well, I’m so sorry I couldn’t come up with something more literal.” I said just as sarcastic as him. “Umm...umm...I...” the boy started. “Sorry for John’s rumbling, he a bit shy.” Ash said. So this is Jacks other brother, “Don’t worry, I have a sister like that at home, so I’m used to it.” I said. When Jack and his brothers all stood next to each other I noticed something a little weird. “It’s weird none of you look ali-.” ke. I finished in my head. Jack had put his hand over my mouth. “Well Ashley and I are going up to my room now so bye.” ‘Why the hell did you do that?’ I asked in my head to him, ‘because that topic is a sore subject.’ He answered. Ignoring my “you couldn’t have said that out loud” look.
“You’re not going anywhere.” Ash said. “Grams here.” John said quietly. Jacks eye almost exploded out of his sockets. “Here now!” all three of Jack’s brothers nodded in