The Adventures of June Wonder - Jeanne Esterhuizen (most important books to read TXT) 📗

said. “If you don’t, you’ll be sorry.” June said thinking: ‘Maybe I should let Cole have some of the glory.’ “Ahh, Cole, help me.” She shouted in a completely non scared sarcastic voice. She was very capable of defending herself, but, well, Cole was her boyfriend, this will help it seem real. It took Cole a while to come out of his room because he first had to put on clothes, because he only had a boxer and the bell around his neck on- the boxer June gave him. He rushed out. The man didn’t see him, he was to busy trying to kiss June. “Oh come on luv, gimme some suga’'” “Get off me you bastard, Cole, help me!!” then a fist shot out and hit the man's cheek, caught by surprise, the man fell to the ground. Cole grabbed June and hugged her tight. “Are you alright my love?” “Yes, all thanks to you.” They walked back to their room, still hugging. While they walked back, June took her first good look at her hero. He had wild chestnut-brown hair and amber eyes, very catlike. He was strongly built and very, very HOT. Cole saw she was looking and smiled at her. “I’m gonna go have a bubble bath, ‘k?” June said to Cole and went into the bathroom. Cole took off his clothes again, except for the boxer, and lay on the bed, arms crossed behind his head, staring at the ceiling. After a while June came out of the bathroom, looking very sexy in a short light blue nightdress. “Wow, you look very pretty in that.” Cole said, not able to keep his eyes off her. “Well, you don’t look to bad yourself.” She replied, feeling nervous about being complemented like that. “I wonder if Sven and Mary are asleep yet?” she went over to the phone and dialled the hotel front desk. “I’d like to make a call to room 156, yes, thank you.” She waited a while whilst the front desk asked if they’ll accept the call “Hi Sven, are you two asleep yet?” there was a bit of a muffle as Sven answered. “Oh, sorry I woke you up, I just wanted to tell you that there’s a little restaurant on the second floor, and that we’ll meet you there at nine fifteen. Sorry about waking you up again, sleep tight!” and she hang up and sat on the bed. “So what are you thinking about so hard?” she asked Cole. “Oh, nothing much.” He said, smiling “You know I’m from Africa, and that I’m an artic wolf?” June asked all of a sudden. “Yeah?” “Do you know how frustrating my weather sensors are? Well most of the times I feel warm quickly. But I do get cold sometimes. Weird huh?” she joked and lay down on the bed. Cole went closer and put his arms around her, her back to his stomach. She rolled over and looked him in the eyes “I love your eyes” June says. Whilst Cole stared into her eyes he saw how they change colour. “Wow, that’s amazing.” Cole says and kisses her lightly on the forehead. “You’re beautiful, I love you” Cole says “No, I love you more!” And she pressed her mouth against his to stop him from arguing. She kissed him. He kissed her. They kissed each other. It was like a kiss marathon. They were so busy, that they didn’t hear the door open. Someone put a gun against June’s head. “Now, stop this snog-fest. Now, I want you, Cole, to not shoot, but go stand against the wall next to the door. And if you hesitate or rebel, your lady friend here gets it, capish?” “Cole, I’m scared. What does this man want?” she whispered but still the man heard her “What I want is you. Trench sent me to find you and take you to him. He wants you to join him.” The man said. Cole was standing against the wall by now. He would’ve held June in his arms, but the stranger was holding her, gun to the head, other arm around her neck. Cole could see she was uncomfortable. “Let go of her!” Cole shouted. “Shh, the other people might hear you and we don’t want that do we? Otherwise little missy here will get all bloody.” He said with a mean grin on his face. June was standing very still. “Huh, what's this? I hope I haven’t killed her” he said “You’ve better not!” Cole shouted, trying to get near enough to grab his beloved. The man tutted. “Now, now. You know better than to do that” then suddenly ropes came out of nowhere and grabbed Cole, stopping him from moving. “It seems the girl has given up” “No!!!!” Cole yelled. Then, just as Cole thought his little June was going to be taken away from him, as the man was tying her up with ropes. Then suddenly, out of the blue, she swerves and bites the man hard on his arm. The man yelled in pain. And whilst all this happened, June send a telepathic message to Mary, telling her they were in a lot of trouble, and that she and Sven must rush and come help. Quickly! A moment later, Mary and Sven rush in. Sven sees Cole and cuts the ropes holding him. Meantime the man has grabbed June again. He was talking softly to June and hasn’t noticed Cole was free or that there were more people in the room. Tears were spilling over Junes cheeks. Cole just couldn’t take it to see her like that. He exploded. He yelled and ran towards the man and hit him. Hard. He grabbed June, gently, and held her tight. “Oh Cole!” she wailed “he said the meanest and most hurtful stuff to me!” she said holding her head against his warm chest. He squished her. Then he gave her to Sven and stormed forward, kicked the man down and pointed the gun at him “Any last words?” “Trench will always win.” “Ahhhhh!!!!” Cole yelled and shot. June buried her head in Sven's jacket and cried some more. “Oh June.” Cole said kneeling next to her and Sven on the ground “I’m so sorry” he said. “No, no, it’s not your fault.” She said in a meekly voice. “Its almost daytime, lets check out of this idiotic hotel and hit the road.” Sven said. When they got in the car (which has been fixed in the meantime) June went to sleep again. She and Mary were in the back seat, Sven was driving and Cole was in the passenger seat. Sven and Cole started talking. “Even thought she looks so tough and loads of people are scared of her, she’s still only a child, a young girl.” Sven told Cole. “Yeah, but you don’t think I’m too old for her, do you?” Cole asked. Sven just laughed. “Hey, are we going to stop for breakfast soon? I’m starving!” “Hm, your just like a real cat, eat and sleep is all you can think about.” Suddenly Mary spoke “And she’s a Moondweller.” “Huh, what’s that?” Cole asked “No, wait, let her tell you herself, but let me tell you, it’s not very normal.” And with that she returned to silence. June was twitching in her sleep. Outside clouds were forming, all heart shaped.

Chapter 5: So much stress

The four sweepers, that are people who catch wanted people just for the money, were having breakfast at a local café, we can’t tell you the name, because it’s in Japanese and June can’t read or speak or write Japanese. ‘Cole’s been avoiding me all day’ she thought. “Cole, is something wrong?” she asked him. He just grunted and looked away, ignoring her completely. “Cole, talk to me!” June pleaded “Is there something you didn’t tell me, that you would like to get of your chest?” Cole asked her. She didn’t answer for a while, just drank her coffee, she didn’t drink tea. After a while she answered: “Actually yes. I’ve been keeping this one thing a secret, I was afraid you’d freak and not love me any more.” A few tears rolled over her cheek. Cole reached over and took June’s hands in his. “I’ll always love you, no matter what. Even if you’re a banshee or werewolf, I’ll always love you.” He said. June gave a little laugh. Cole was glad to see she cheered up a bit. “I’m not a banshee, neither a werewolf. I’m a Moondweller.” She gave Cole a meek smile. “Yeah, we, uh, kinda know that already. We’d like to know what a Moondweller is.” June looked puzzled for a moment. “Well, I don’t know where you found that out, but anyway, a Moondweller is a person with extraordinary supernatural powers. They have all the powers that exist and if a new one is discovered, it automatically becomes part of the Moondweller's powers. Anything else you wanna know? If not, I’d like to know where and how you found out I was one” June said and took a few deep breaths. Sven and Cole looked at each other. Cole even said “Wow” and then they remembered she wanted to know how they found out she was a Moondweller . “Mary told us” they both said at the same time. June closed her eyes. She didn’t want to think of what’s going to happen next. He’ll probably say he doesn’t want to date a freak, she thought. Cole leant over the table and kissed her. It was very romantic she thought afterwards. It’s the type of kiss someone gives you when they’re sorry for hurting you. Sven and Mary don’t mind them kissing anymore, they got used to it. But an old lady walked past and she DID mind. She hit Cole over the head with her handbag. He fell over in his chair. “Ow, hey, lady what did you do that for?” Cole asked, rubbing his head. “You young people have no dignity. You can’t kiss in public! Go home and do it!” she said. “But ma’am,” June said in a sweet voice “he just asked me to marry him!” she said, smiling. This was a lie of course. She just didn’t have the strength to deal this old lady. “Oh, then it’s ok. Congratulations!!” and she walked of like it was no big deal. As soon as she was out of sight, June’s head hit the table and just lay there. “Uh, I feel so groggy!” (Groggy means gross, bad and just plain horrible) “Maybe you should sleep some more once were in the car again.” Sven suggested “Yeah, I think I will, and drink something. Waiter!” she called “Yes ma’am, can I get you something?” the waiter asked “Yes, I’d like a glass of warm milk please.” “Make that two.” Cole interrupted, being very excited all of sudden. “But mine must be cold and to go.” And the waiter went to go fetch the milk. “Yummy, milk.” Cole said, closing his eyes and licking his lips. After drinking her milk, June felt how she’s nodding of to sleep. Sven helped her out of the shop. Halfway to the car, she collapsed, and Sven called Cole to help carry her. They all thought she would be heavy. “Ok, on three we pick her up. One, two three.” And they lifted her up with great force. Such force, it threw them over. “Waah!” “Ow, I guess she wasn’t as heavy as we thought.” Said Sven. Cole stood up and picked June up lightly. “She’s very light.” Said Cole. He put her on the back seat and put a pillow behind her head. Cole sat next to June on the back seat. ‘Mary will just have to sit next to Sven; I'm not leaving June’s side. She’s like a delicate flower, anything can hurt her. And I’m not going to let that