Jessica Marks - Abbie Davis (young adult books to read TXT) 📗

chapter 15

“Mommy, Daddy,”The twins yelled from the doorway of the hallway,”Zombie in the training room.”

  They ran with knives and gun in hand toward the said area. We all followed behind them as I happily thought that our plan was working. They entered to the little surprise we had set up for them. A checkered blanket with room for all three of them. In the middle sat their favorite finger food with candle light. They stared at it in shock but had smiles on their faces. My mom hugged me with teary eyes.

“You little troublemaker,”She said as she held me close.

“Why am I a troublemaker,”I said as she let go of me,”I think I was a good girl this year. Also I think you might want to let Santa know.”

  We all laughed as they dat down to enjoy their present from us. I wanted to give them this kind of thanks for putting up with me and the hunt for me. We left them and I quickly fixed everyone else a quick snack. I looked around as we had decided to watch the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle movie till the clock read 10:00 pm. We went ahead to get the tree ready for the holiday.

“Open up the box,”Mom said with a smile.

  I looked at the box sitting in my lap and saw that it read Secrets of the Past. I opened it and found the coolest things hidden inside. There was a picture of me and Zack sitting in the hospital throwing cotton balls at everyone. We were dying of boredom that day. A shark tooth necklace that had my name engraved in it. The last thing was a silver pocket knife that had my last name on it in the ancient language. I looked up and saw that Zack was holding up the same tooth but with his name on it and the same pocket knife.

“We got the matching ones,”James said as I stared at the knife.

“Cool,”I said popping the knife open,”Now I can be like Reyna from Heroes of Olympus and kill werewolves.”

  Mom rolled her eyes as everyone else laughed at the comment.I put it up and went to stand up to go put my things up. When the twins decided they would tackle both me and Zack. So the two of us picked them up and carried them to the closet. I locked it as they started to bang on the door but after five seconds it just stopped. We soon after started to hear snoring coming from behind the door. I slowly opened the door up and saw the two were asleep.

“How did you do that?”Jasmine asked,”Can I do that to my brothers?”

“Hey,”They said as I gave a small laugh.

“Magic,”I said doing spirit fingers,”And I doubt you can do that with them. You are going to have to get them really tired.”

  Matt and I picked one of them up each and took them into their room. We talked about planning our activities with them do that it wouldn’t clash like before. I went to my room and he followed me into it. He was about how much I didn’t change. I looked at the dog bed and knew that I had to do something for him.

“Matt,”I said turning around to face him,”Do you want to come to the meeting? It would mean a lot to me if you do.”

“I would be honored to,”He said hugging me,”Jess.”

“Thanks Dad,”I said as I hugged him back.

  He left and I climbed on to my bed. Ace was on my pillow asleep like always, so I used him as my pillow for tonight. I fell asleep with a good and happy feeling that my family would never be ordinary. Even if our life depended on it which right now it kind of does.

Chapter 16

“Get up!”Layne yelled into my ear,”You’re going to be late!”

  I grabbed my knife and had it at his throat and said,“I know that Idiot. The wolf woke me up at 7 am. Give me a minute to get ready.”

 It was December 16 and the meeting was in an hour. I got up and took my medicine the doctor gave me to help with the moodswings. Ace raced past my mom when she came in with my hunger games tribute clothes she had bought me. It was modified to be zombie proof but yet I loved it any way. My dad came in next with Rex on his shoulders like he did to me a while back. I saw Zack run past my door being chase by Righley who had a toy shovel. Rex was let down and he joined his brother and leaving me with my parents. Poor, poor Zack, He doesn’t stand a chance against them.

“How ya feeling today, Baby girl?”Mom said asked me with a sweet look.

“I almost killed Layne,”I said knowing I better go with that route,”But otherwise good. I feel like I can do anything as long as my blood stays inside my body.”

“Well you and Zack are helping me today,”Dad said ruffling my knotty hair,”So I hope you two are up to the challenge.”

“I’m Jessica Marks,”I sassed,”I can do anything.”

“That’s what you think now,”Dad said laughing at me.

  They left so I could change and finish getting ready. I was putting my hair up as I walked into the busy kitchen. My group from New Orleans was here and scattered everywhere. Mom and Matt were passing out breakfast for the lot. I grabbed a piece of toast and a Dr. Pepper and took my seat at the table. Zack, James, and Mrs. Phyllis had joined me. Everyone else was doing there own little thing. I grabbed a book and my Ipod and began preparing for this meeting.

  My aunt and uncle came up to see how we were doing as they took a seat at the table with us. I looked at them and remembered that Zack wanted to be a Hunter with us. I closed my book and faced my dear uncle as they all stared at me.

“Can Zack trade teams?”I simply asked.

“Yes,”He answered,”To which one?”

“Mine,”I answered,”The kick butt one of course.”

“He can,”He said facing Zack,”You’re a hunter now.”

  As if on cue Rew came up and punched James in the arm. James looked at him as he left us and Mom yelled at everyone that it was time for us to go. So we ALL got into the eight minivans somehow. The one I was in there was my mom and dad in the front. Zack and I took the middle with Ace in between us. The twins, James, and Luke were in the back. Matt and the others were in one of the other cars.

    We were going over the routine in the car with dad while Luke was trying to teach James how to say rose in the ancient language. I was excited but at the same time I was nervous because I was going to be the leader of them for the first time since Dad had left us. I didn’t know if I was even right to do this job. I must have looked nervous because Zack had notice it.

“You’ll do fine, Jess,”He said,”You’re a lovable person.”

“Thanks,”I said,”It’s just the adults in the tribe make me nervous. They are all going to be staring at me. I think I might die.”

“Jess, it’s not that bad,”Dad said looking in the rearview mirror,”Just be you and you’ll do great.”

  Everything went silent till James yell ‘Yes, I did it’. We all bust out laughing and continued to the park. That was where the entrance my friends were going to hide in. I calmed down a lot once we got there and all walked inside.

 

 We got there and about five people were there and one of them was my grandmother. I walked to her dragging Zack behind me as I did so. She was talking to Luke’s family and he was right behind us. Once I got over to her, I gave her her hug and she gave me one back.

“Hey Jessica,”She said,”Who is this with you?”

“I’m Zack,”He said putting his hand out,”I’m Jessica’s long lost twin brother.”

  She smiled and pulled him into a hug. It was around 9:00 am and everyone was staring to come in. Zack and I both walked up to the front of the room and took our spots with our dad. Dad put his hand on the small of my back that helped to calm my nerves down a good bit. I looked around and started to remember the good things about coming to these meeting. That everyone here is Family.

Chapter 17

 The meeting was going good and surprisingly I was looked at like a leader like my dad was. Zack even got into it when things started to get out of hands. That was like every five minutes or was it like fifteen. I stood there and were putting out my ideas on the problem at hand.

“What about the kids, Randy?”Someone said,”Your’s have been taken about three times. What will stop them from taken the others? We need a plan.”

“I know you all have the same worry,”Dad said calmly,”We should just go on with this how we have always have done.”

“Don’t give that Marks,”Someone else said.

I looked around and saw that everyone was getting nervous. My grandmother motioned me to speak and get everyone to calm down. I took a step forward and took a deep breath to calm myself down. I looked at all of them as their eyes landed on me.

“I know y’all are worried,”I said,”My parents were worried sick when I went missing but arguing is not going to solve anything. My friends helped me when I was stuck and they didn’t know the truth about me. They still fought for me and I couldn’t ask for any better friends.”

“So,”that same person asked,”You still got kidnapped.”

“Yes and they came to my aid,”I popped off at him.

That’s when someone walked in clapping slowly. Everyone turned