Our Love Will Brighten the Way, Living·my·life Forever [classic books for 13 year olds .TXT] 📗

something. She started to look dazed and then snapped out of it. Then she smiled with a twinkle of flirtatious-ness in her eyes as she walked out the door.

" Thank God she's gone." I said. Jason gasped slightly which I guess was intended to be a laugh. We sat on the hospital bed in silence, waiting for someone to come in. After a long amount of time, we heard the door swing open and bang into the wall.

" Oh my, God! You're okay!" Jason's parents came in and squished us together, leaving us no air to breathe.

" I'm taking you both to the house. We'll discuss everything when you're ready, okay?" his mom told us. That question was intended for me. I nodded my head and jumped off the bed.

Things Always Get Better

It's been three months since the crash and I'm still staying at Jason's house. Since I'm only sixteen, I have nowhere to go. In response to that, Ms. Angelina, Jason's mom, is going to take me in permanently until I go off to college. They know that's what my parents would have wanted. I'm glad about it too.

Day by day, I'm recovering from the tragic day. I've become able to laugh a little more, to actually smile. It's been rough but I'm hanging in there. All the love and support from my family and friends has definitely helped. It's kind of sped up the healing process. Especially from Jason. He's been the most patient throughout my outbursts of cries and yells, the late nights and the nightmares. Ever since the crash, I've been getting these strange dreams. I'm sitting in a room at a long desk with five important looking people on each side of me.

" This is our Chosen One. She will lead us in our journey to defeat the Archers. We will prevail again!" then there's cheers.

" Are you ready? This will probably end with you being dead. You are aware of that, right? You're our only hope. We thank you for proceeding."

I'm running through an event of a brutal war. Things I can't describe are coming at me but with this one thought, they fall to the ground. I then stand up on a cliff and my eyes rolled in the back of my head as I slowly raise up my arms. Everyone and everything that I can't describe falls to the ground, dead cold. Out of exhaustion, I begin to feel woozy and fall off the cliff. 

I woke up screaming from the feeling of falling. This time it's morning when I arouse. 

" Another dream?" I nod. " Aww poor baby." He joked with a baby voice. "Come here." He holds me tenderly, affectionately. How much I love his bear hugs.

" Were you watching me sleep?"

" Maybe." there's that puppy dog face again. I roll my eyes and don't even respond because it's not something that's new. He's been doing that since the dreams.

" They're so weird. I don't know what to do."

" I know. Hush. It'll get better I promise you. Your dreams will not come true and I'm going to make sure of that."  

" What are you talking about? They're just dreams."

" Oh, right. My bad." He laughed nervously and began to sit me up. " Are you hungry? We can go eat if you want. My mom's cooking."

" You're just saying that because you're hungry, aren't ya?" He did a puppy dog face. Again. He's probably addicted to doing it. Awkward. " Ok, come on."

We raced down the stairs but at the end, of course he won. I tried to push him to the ground but instead he picked me up and slammed me to the couch.

" What are you going to do now, punk?" He leaned over me and held my hands against the couch so I couldn't get away. " Exactly, you can't do jack."

" You're a jerk. You know that right?" 

" Yeah, pretty much. But the thing is is that I'm the sexiest jerk you'll ever meet." He leaned away from me and walked into the kitchen with a sly grin on his face.

" Such a moron." I muttered, rolling my eyes.

" Heard that." He sang, but he was so far away. So many questions.

As I walked into the kitchen, Ms. Angelina was preparing breakfast. She was making french toast, omelet, and bacon along with a strawberry, banana, and pineapple smoothie.

" Morning, Ellie. How'd you sleep, sweetie?" Jason and I exchanged glances.

" I had the dreams again." she turned around from the stove to face us.

" Were they the same?"

" Mostly. But this time I fell off the cliff instead of just fainting and hitting my head on it." she looked at Jason with what seemed to be anger and annoyance. 

" Jason, you're going to tell her about us and herself after we eat. No more holding it off. I'll leave you alone now." she made all of our plates and went upstairs to her room to eat.

" Holding what off?" He kept looking at the ground with an infuriated expression. " Um hello? Earth to Jason. Jay, I asked you a question." I firmly stated.

" I'll show you after breakfast." He then stormed out the kitchen with his plate. Mad much? 

The meal was pretty intimidating with Jason's messed up attitude. He kept scraping his fork against his plate, which he knows is something I hate.

" Dude, knock it off!" he looked up from his very empty plate with shameful eyes. " What's wrong, babe?" I rubbed his hand jokingly. This got him laughing. Thank goodness. But, he frowned soon after.

" Come in the backyard with me." He took my hand and led me to the back door. Mostly dragged with how fast he was walking. But, you get the picture.

We sat in the swing chair on the porch. He took both of my hands in his and silently pleaded with me with his eyes. He took a deep breath and began. " Okay, here goes. So you know how I've always been different from everyone one else. I'm the quick one, the one who usually has the most strength and more energy than the others. And lately, I've been a lot more hungry, angry over things I shouldn't be angry about, and my actions are way quicker than usual."

" Yeah."

" Well, it's because I'm not the person you think I am. My family along with many others have a certain thing about us that makes us very different. I know I should have told you a long time ago. I'm sorry about that. Really sorry." He paused and let out a breath. " Uh, I guess I'll just show you."

He let go of my hand but I grasped it tight. With reassuring eyes, he showed me it would be okay. I slowly let go of him as he walked into the middle of the yard. The yard is beautiful. Vines with purple, pink and white petals are wrapped around the white benches. Dogwood and cherry blossom trees surround the perimeter. There's a garden in the upper left corner with amaryllis, calla lilies, gardenias, and magnolia blossom trees around it.

" Are you ready?"

" I don't even know what I'm supposed to be ready for." He walked over to me, his eyes concerned again. Then he took both of my hands in his and looked me dead in the face. A sly smile slowly appeared on his face and I found myself smiling too. " What's on your mind, hmm?" 

" You'll be scared at first but you'll end up enjoying it anyway."

" Huh?" He picked me up and flipped me on his back before I could even blink. Immediately, he took off with such speed it felt like he had rocket shoes on or something. I couldn't tell where we were going because everything was a complete blur. After I seemed to get used to it, I felt that flying feeling again. Was this what happened during the crash? Is this how we escaped from the car? Now that I wasn't scared anymore, it made me feel invincible, like I could do anything. As I began to let myself enjoy the moment, I found myself laughing and I threw my arms up as if I was on aroller coaster. You'd probably think I'd be scared, I mean, I would too. But he did say I'd enjoy it.

    We came to an abrupt stop. I tried to blink the dryness out of my eyes from the immense amount of air. He gently put me down. When I figured out where we were, it nearly knocked the wind out of me.

The sight was beautiful, an extraordinary view of the ocean, with an island into the distance. And what we were we standing on? A cliff, but more like a gigantic rock in the middle of the ocean, not too far from the shore. I wanted to turn around but maybe, just maybe, that was a little to risky. Or in other words, insane. There was barely enough foot space for one of us to stand.

" How in the world are we standing here? " I whispered breathlessly.

" Shouldn't I explain when it's, I don't know, safer?"

" You could have thought-" foot. Gone. Off. Cliff. Oh no. " about that earlier. Thanks." I smiled in embarrassment.

" You're welcome. And you know this is the second time I've saved you. That should be a record."

" Don't get too cocky. But really, answer my question." He took a while to answer. So long that I literally forgot my question. I felt kind of slow.

" I'm a werewolf." Is this boy crazy?

You've Got to Be Kidding Me

" You can't be serious. You're joking... right?" I started to laugh my tail off.

" No, Ellie... I am serious. I can explain. See-"

" What? Explain? No no no. You're going to have to do a little more than explain! How can you be a werewolf? This isn't even possible!" I stared at him for a few seconds trying wrap my brain around those insanely stupid words that came from his insanely stupid mouth. He could not believe that he was really a werewolf. His expression was so serious though. "No! I will not believe that werewolves are real! They can't be! Why didn't you tell me earlier? What in the world is wrong with you? Do you understand how stupid this is? Lo loco que puede ser este niño? Voy a tener que admitir en un hospital loco? Take