The Dark Ones - Makayla Campbell (i am malala young readers edition TXT) 📗

you." I start feeling the pain going away in my leg and I look up to see Harrin holding my to him. He looks at me with worried eyes and says, "What happened? I heard a car pull up, so I figured I'd give you time to come in by yourself, and when you didn't I came out and you were standing by the culvurt screaming and you almost fell in." His blue eyes seemed to look into my soul as if to find a damaged piece. I laid my head on his chest and sobbed.

"This place is where my brother..." I look down and a few seconds pass till I sit up. Harrin looks at me, as if to say go on. "..died 2 years ago, when he drove drunk and hit an 18- wheeler, the diesal driver tried to swerve and get out of the way but he ran over my brother car, which twisted the car and send sharp pieces of metal piercing my leg. But my brother had been stabbed in the stomach, so he couldve gotten out, but...," fights to catch my breathe, "the bar that ran through his chest was jammed and twisted in the steering wheel. I just had a door and the metal piping from the back of the truck in my leg. I managed to get out because the door fell off and it knocked me in the culvert, and Mason was still trapped in the car when it exploded, along with his 2 friends, Riley and Cage. The boys from the picture in the hallway. When I landed, I blacked out and I woke up in ICU."

 He looked at me shocked and spoke curiously, " So this scar on your calf is the only one you have?" He sat in the same place looking at me as I stood up to shake the dirt off my pants. I raked the leaves out of my long red hair and put it in a bun.

"No, it is one of many. I have five scars from the wreck that night. Four of which were fatal and had to be tended to quickly. The one on my chest and back from where the short piece of metal case piping went through me, and where the car door got lodged in my leg it hit my femoral artery." I looked down at my feet. "I died that night but...." Harrin had stopped my words when he stood up and kissed me. I kiss him back as he wraps his arms around me and I feel the burning of the passion between us. He puts me back down and looks at me. 

"All that matters is the present, you can't go back and change your brothers decision to drive. But you are alive and that is all that matters. Live life while you still breathe." I smile and nod my head and he kisses me again. He pulls me closer to him and wraps his arms around me.

"Is that supposed to be a genie-like life lesson? You kissed me," gasps and I stare at him absolutely surprised.

He stares into my eyes and I can feel the rumble in his chest as he laughs. "Yes I did." I look at him trying to get my composure to ask him what I needed to know, the real real reason he called me here. He looks at me then backs away when he sees my face. He sees that I mean business. He straights his hair and shirt, his smile disapearing into the darkened spirit I saw in class. After a minute of silence he says, "You are probably wondering what I asked you to come out here for. Right?" I nod. "Okay well, my family are hunters and we saw a list that has many peoples name on it. Most of which are deceased, they died from unnatural causes, and you are on that list. Not your sister anymore so I think is cleared." He hands me the list.

 

                                Hayden Malcom

                                Olivia Harell

                                Rose Ashley

                                Kevin Ashley

                                Blake Ashley

                                Regan Mann

                                Sabrina Mann

                                Vatima Hallees

                                Havana LeCrane

                                Nevaeh LeCrane

                                Devyn Gregory

 

I look stunned and manage to stutter a few words, "Oh shit, what do we do? I'm gonna die, but why?" My brain screams to loud and I cover my ears.

Three

Harrin grabs my hands and uncovers me ears, I look up at him. He says, "You are believed to be a....umm well I can try to explain it, but you have to listen even if you don't believe me. Okay?" I nod in agreement and sit down. "Okay well you may believe that in this world there are just humans, but there isn't. There are fallen angels who turned and fell from heaven, ending up here. Like me there good ones called the Elite, who are fallen angels that try to help people, or there is the Corrupted, who kill the Elite, and feed off humans." I stare at him in shock. "The people are this list are thought to be Elites." I stare at him with gaping eyes and before I can say anything he says, "Yes even you. That is why you are in danger and if you are a Nephilim then you are putting your family in danger every second you spend with them. It's scary but it is very important for their safety, as well as your own." I finally regain the strength to be able to breathe and I just look at him kind of astonished, but curious at the same time.

" So you mean to tell me I am an evil creature that fell from heaven. I think I would've known had I once been in heaven," I say harshly. He looks at me and stands up, turning away. "Where are you going?" He walks toward his car and right before he gets to he turns around and looks deep into my eyes. I can see the pain and heavy burden that lays on his heart now that he had to tell me that. 

He looks down and breathes in deeply saying, "No you are not evil, you could've made a bad choice. Thats how I fell. Or sometimes you don't even have to have been in heaven. You could've had a parent that was an angel that impregnated your mother, but then the angel would have fallen." He looks up at with pain buried deep in him, like he had a secret, and speaks almost silently, "I'm scared for you because now the corrupted know you exist they will not hesitate to kill you. They have to much reason to believe that you are nephilim. You need training if you are going to survive and the superiors have to know about you." I jump at the thought of presenting myself before his superiors. "But you can't stay with your family anymore, that is what is most important right now.

I think of Havana, Dameon, and Vaden and what they would think. But I would do it if it kept them safe from all things unhuman in this world. I can't be with them because then they can be used to get to me and that is not a good thing ever.

Harrin says, "My brother can watch over your Havana, he is 18, he is an elite but chooses not to accept the status. He is a real good guard and is very trustworthy." I look at him and nod. He climbs in his car and I climb in with him. He drives off to his house so I can meet who will be protecting my twin, basically my other half. We get to his house and I see a young boy with red hair playing on the porch, and Harrin says, "Thats Leon, he is 4." That is when I see a small girl with soft red curls that touch that barely touch her shoulders, when another little girl with dark brown hair steps out, not much bigger than the others. "The redhead is Lynzi, and the other is Raven, there is a fourth twin but I don't see her. She has red hair like Laynie and Leon. Her name is Lynzi." I smile and step out of the car with Harrin and he is instantly knocked to the ground by the three on the porch. He laughs and rolls with them when Raven stands up and looks at me.

Raven softly says, "Hi I'm Raven momma named me that because my hair is darker than my brothers and sisters." I smile at her and bend down looking at her, ignoring Harrin, Laynie, and Leon in the background.

"It's a pleasure to meet you Raven, My name is Nevaeh. I'm a friend of your brothers." I say nicely as she grabs my hair a looks at it.

"Nevaeh let's go meet the rest of my family." He walks in the house as the kids follow and they line up in front of their mother and father with 9 other kids. He turns to them and says, "Guys I would like you to meet my friend Nevaeh, her and I have almost every class together" They say their hellos and Harrin stands beside me and says "This is my mother Saphrina, my father Rheese, my older brother Vann, his wife Farron, and 11- month old daughter Anastasia, my 18-year old brother Ethan, who will cover your sister, and his fraternal twin Arin, 14 year old boy is Errick," I smile not trying to look bored as they all stare at me when we come to a strange and silent young girl. He says, "This quiet one is Tihana she is 16, it mean she who is without words, Thadeus is 7, and of course you know the quadruplets Leon, Laynie, Raven and Lynzi who doesn't seem to be here. Then there is me and 6- month old girl Chrys, it stands for Chrysanthemum. Thats my huge family."

" That's 11 biological kids and a daughter- in law, and a grandbaby" I say surprised. "Are they all yours?" I ask. Saphrina shakes her head to say that not all are hers and I can see the sadness in her eyes.

"Hold on." She tells Ethan and Arin to go take the little