Eclipse by Smiley sn (epub e reader .txt) 📕

Chapter 9

"What!" I almost jump when he exclaims. "What happened to you? Your moving back with them. Why? This bad. This is really really-" Kwan jumps off the couch and starts pacing back and forth muttering incoherent words. Some books off the shelves started to rattle. I look at him worriedly.

"Nice going. I think you broke him." I almost jump as Sumi came out of the shadows. On her shoulder was the red bird that had visited me this morning. Sumi could summon and control animals. Even if she doesn't want to they would flock to her heels and rest in her arms like a modern-day Snow white. That bird, Vena, always stayed with her. Vena is a Red tailed with a black curved beak and copper feathers.

Sumi had black layered wavy hair reached below her shoulders and intense bright red eyes. She was tall and curvy with fair pale skin. I would be lying if I said she wasn't beautiful, but not as much as Savannah. She had on red leggings and black turtle neck.

Kwan stopped pacing and sat by me by the sofa. "Ok. What happened to have our own personal mother hen all flustered." Kwan turned red at the description. Before he could say anything I interject. "I have rejoined my family and they have welomed me back. I want to move in with them."

Sumi was silent for a moment. She sat down and Vena flew to rest her claws on the arm rest.  "Are you certain that is best?" She looked me in the eyes and I knew instantly what she was referring to. Sumi and Kwan was the few people who knew the truth about my past.

"I can protect them this time. You have taught me how to better use my abilities and how to fight. I will be careful. They will not be harmed." It was true. I would die before they were harmed by him or anybody else.

"I know that Faye. you have improved greatly when I first picked you out of the gutter, but we don't even know the killer's name. We don't know its abilities, allies, how powerful he is. He could come back and this time he could kill you." Her eyes looked at me in distress and I gulped.

Deep down I knew she was right. I still didnt know much about my killer beside his face. And how for some reason I couldn't absorb his powers. I look at hands. Why? Why only him? He was powerful. He could easily overpower me, I knew that.

And what about Buzz? he could have been working for him. it will make the most sense, but why? Why send one guy? Why not he kill me himself? Questions swirled in my mind making my head hurt from the assault.

"I'm willing to take the risk." Sumi stayed silent and sighed while running a hand through her black hair. I knew she wanted to say more, but it was pointless. I wasn't abandoning them again. She must have seen my determination because she just said one word. "When?"

"Tonight. I can still visit and if you need anything you can still contact me or send Vena. I'm not abandoning you or everyone else. Especially all that you have done for me." Sumi was the one to pick me and Sea off the streets. She has a sort of shelter for people who have nowhere to go. Besides kwan and me, there is Caprice, Saya, Jori, and Alex. We were like a band of misfits with Sumi as our Peter Pan.

Sumi looks at the window and sees the raging storm outside. "You can't go tonight. Call them and saying your staying her tonight and coming in the morning. You can sleep in your old bedroom. Besides knowing you, you haven't eaten lunch. Have dinner with us, Caprice is cooking and booze is on me. We can have one last hoorah" She puts her hand on my shoulder and puts a strained smile to help diffuse the tense atmosphere. I knew she was upset that I was leaving.

All of us were like her family, as her parents had kicked her out when she had been young. She dosen't talk about it and I only know basic details, but I think it has shaped her to want to want to help people without a place to call home.

I knew this was a bad idea. I was planning on telling them I was going to leave and go on my merry way. Maybe it wasn't the best idea to come. Why do I always do this? I think something is going to be easier than it will actually be. Then it blows in my face.

I was torn to staying the night here or there. Sumi must have seen the conflicting emotions on my face because she just gently dragged me to the dining room and plopped me in a seat. "At least stay for dinner. You need some more meat on your bones. Text them now and you can help Caprice in the kitchen." I nod and text Savannah that I was staying the night at a motel because of the storm. I don't wait for a response and put it in my pocket.

I follow the delicious scents of stir fry and seasoned potatoes. I just love it when it's Caprices' turn to cook. We all had to take turns with the chores around here. Caprice usually got stuck with cooking since the only other good cook in the house Jiro, but he always seems to weasel out of his chores. Saying chores are for chumps or something along those lines. Lazy kid.

"Hey Caprice, what's cooking?" Caprice turns around and gives me a nod, but doesn't answer me. I would have been more surprised if he did answer me. He doesn't talk much, or really not at all, and the only time I had seen him smile is when he had a forkful of food in his mouth. Sometimes he accidently eat the fork as well.

Caprice has the capability to eat anything and not die. He was like a human version of a garbage dispenser. Caprice could eat poison, dirt, rocks, hell, he can even swallow knives if he wanted too. Actually he had done it and regurgitated it so he could use it in a raid. It was kind of gross with his tongue being able to elongate and swallow up items from the bowels of his stomach. I shudder, that's one power I don't want to try out. 

Maybe that's why he doesn't talk. Maybe his tongue will just roll out like-. Ew. I push the imagery out of my mind. Actually Caprice was a pretty nice looking guy. He was big, almost seven feet. His caramel skin was paired with hazel eyes and chestnut brown hair cut short and neat with bangs swept across his face. 

 Also in the kitchen is Alex. I didn't know much about him, he had always unnerved me a little. Maybe it  was his eyes. One was a bright pure blue and the other was pitch black. His black bangs were covering it, but it was still visible. Or maybe when talks to you, he stares right in your eyes without blinking.   "Chicken stir fry, mashed potatoes." Alez then turns back to cutting the vegetables into neat even cuts.

The storm was still brewing outside. The trees outside were rapping at the window rather violently. I hadn't realized how bad it has gotten. There were a distant rumble from thunder and lightning streaked by. I jump.

"Aww is little Jackie afraid of a little storm." a familiar voice sneers behind me. I narrow my eyes at seeing Jiro come into the kitchen. He had his usual leather and ripped jeans despite the weather. With sun-kissed skin, copper hair and pale emerald eyes, he definitely had the ladies swooning and he knew it. To us he was just pain in the arse.

Kwan point a knife he was using to cut the chicken at him. "Out of the kitchen, Jiro. Food's not ready. Go bother someone else." Jiro pointedly ignored him and went next to Caprice who swiftly ignored him and considered to stir the food.

Kwan glared at him and he smirked. "Don't worry princess. I'm not going to disrupt your cooking time with the goat." Caprice and Kwan both glare at him and he holds his hand out as if to say, 'No offense.' I roll my eyes at his antics.

He went into the pantry and came out with  a bag of chips. CRUNCH. I cringe. I hadn't been with him for more than a minute and I already felt the need to smack him.

CRUNCH

Jiro looks at me suspicoiusly. What did he think? I was going to steal his chips? "So, where you've been." He talks with his mouth full giving me an eyeful of of half-chewed potato chips. Ewww.

CRUNCH

"None of your buisness Jiro." He narrows his eyes at me and point a chip at me. He sets the bag down on the counter and walks towards me. Even though he is taller than me, I didnt take a step back. I wasn't afraid of him.

"Yes, it is. You get sent out to get supplies and not only do you not have supplies for us, your mutt is not here. Something stinks fishy and it is not Kwan's breath." He leans in closer ignoring Kwan yelling obscenities at him. "How do we know you're not a spy sent to kill us all?" he grabs the front of my shirt. "Maybe we should kill you now."

Two knives come straight at him, hovering one inch away from his face. "Do it. I dare you. I'm no spy, but by all means go ahead and see what happens." He glares at me murderously with his eerie pale eyes and his face becomes mottled red with anger. I narrow my eyes at him, knowing I had the upper hand. He even moves and I could pin him with knives before he could even say oops.

I notice how quiet it has become. Kwan had stopped cutting and Caprice had stopped mixing, waiting for my answer. Even Alex, who usually ignored us, turned around and stared at us with his mixed colored eyes. Did they really think I would rat out the team? That I was really a spy?

We were interrupted by Vena making a noise. We both look over to see Sumi standing at the entrance with the rest of the gang following behind. The knives immediately clattered to the ground and Jiro stepped back as well as me.

Sumi claps her hands together in a golf clap. "Wow. not even an hour in this house and you already started a fight. I'm impressed." She says dryly and I fight a blush. "Now, who's hungry? Because I am." She sits at the head of the table. The rest of the group start filing to thier seats, the tension dissipating.

A petite girl with white blonde styled in a pixie and grey eyes almost matching the storm clouds outside puts an arm around my waist. "Sonny, where were you? You're sitting next to me. I have so much to tell me."

I smile down at my friend and let her place me n a seat right next to her. "Around town. Went down to some of the shops and it was so crowded because of the holdays. Met some intresting peopple." I say referring to my family.

Saya's eyes went wide and she grabbed my arm nearly squealing. "Oooh. Did you meet a girl? Do