Kiss me if you Dare - Anna S. (best books to read for success .TXT) 📗

towards her door.

            “Ms. James. Please, we can help you.” I say desperately.

            She turned around looking at Seth now. “No.” She paused. “No you can’t, child. Now go home, your parents much be worried sick about you two.”

            I stepped forward when Seth stopped me with one hand.

            “Let me talk her.” He whispers.

            I looked at him.

            “Search the area and I’ll talk to her.”

            “Sounds like plan.” I assured. I walked away from her front porch to over by the woods. I was scared to enter the woods because the last time I’ve been in there I was being attacked by a werewolf. I remember small portions of it but I know it was a werewolf after me that night. I walked up some hills and a few miles from the house.

            When the house was nowhere in sight I saw another small wooden cabinet, hidden by the woods, covered by the trees. I walked towards it, when I reached it the front door was shut but no cars were pulled in front of it. I heard a small sound come from the backyard.

            “Hello?” I called walking towards the back side of the cabinet.

            A small garage was open, and a gray Chevy truck was pulled inside. It’s front lid open. I walked forward.

            “Hello?” I called again, still no answers. I walked inside the garage. Inside there was many tools hanged on the wall, some knives and some very ancient guns. Something wasn’t right, I felt it in my veins. The more I moved forward the more nervous I got.

            “I’m Elsa. I’m here to ask a few questions.” I called out. Suddenly I heard a noise rush behind me and it didn’t sound like a human. I quickly turned snapping some tools off the wall and pulled it towards the sound. The tools hit the wall as I felt my back hit against the wall behind me. I felt breathless, like someone was chocking me.

            “Who are you!?” A voice called as a man entered the room. It was Louis. He was wearing jeans that were dirty with black oil tucked into black leather boots and a white plain t-shirt also dirty by the oil but tightly against his well-built body. His hair was shaggy by his ear and his beard well shaved down.

            “Elsa.” I gasped.

            “What you want with me?” He asks stepping closer.

            I pointed towards my neck and then pulled my hands in the air in surrender. He lets me go as I collapse to the ground. He walked over, wipes his hands against a small piece of cloth and pulls out his hand. He helped me get up as I looked at him as he picked up a glass of water and passes to me.

            “You look just the same.” I say calmly after I took a huge slip of the water.

            “How do you know me?” He looks down at me.

            “As awkward as it is. I dreamed of you.” I admitted. “You’re Louis James, right?”

            “Yes.” He says. His blue eyes in confusion.

            “I don’t know what I am. But I know you’re a mutant and I think you’re my solution to my problems.” I began.

            “How am I your solution?” He asks.

            I started explaining to him how everything happened. I told him about Dr. Russell and my dream of him. We sat down on arm chairs by the garage talking.

            A short silence flew in after I finished.

            “Show me again what you can do?” He asks pulling his fingers over his lips.

            I showed him the simplest things I did in practice, like toss a few rocks across the field.

            A few moments later his eyes widen. “He finally did it.” He whispers.

            “Excuse me?” I turn towards him. 

            “Elsa.” He says a littler louder. He stands up and pulls me up too. “You are me.”

            “What? That’s impossible.” I say sarcastically.

            “Dr. whatever he is. Used my powers and transferred them to you.” He looks into my eyes, inches away from my face.

            “I don’t understand what you mean.” I looked down.

            “In 1719 I was being tested on too. They took so many blood samples, that I was very weak for a couple of months. They were trying to create someone with my abilities. To be powerful and join them.” He walks forward. “But I escaped. I broke out of that hell and they never found me. Hundreds of years they’ve tried to find me, but now you’re here, my duplicate standing before me. They did it. They really did it.” He travels off. “How many more of you are there?”

            “I don’t know.” I paused. “But that’s not the only thing I can do. I can see the past and the future. That’s probably why my dreams brought me back to you that night.” I say walking behind him.

            He looked back. “My brother.” He whispered.

            “Your brother?” I asked.  

            “Elsa, you have my brother’s abilities too.” He speaks in a British accent.

            “Now I’m like a mix of your family?”

            “Yes.”

            “Then help me. My powers are out of control.”

            “That’s strange. Have you been taking anything?” He pulls his hands to starch the back of his neck.

            “A small liquid that mostly kept my powers in control. They used to give me it to keep them in control, now I need to find a pill. PIC. It’s the only thing that will stop my powers from running out of control and---”

            “And keep your powers forever.” He finishes.

            I glared at him. “How’d…?”
            “They told me about it. Victor was using it, that pill can be highly dangerous. But it’s the only thing that will help you keep your powers for good. It’s probably under very high security.”

            I looked down. “How do I get it?”

            “By breaking back into the lab.”

            “I need help with that.” I assumed.

            “I can’t, kid. I got a lot on my head lately.”

            A short silence followed before I understood what he meant by that.

            “You couldn’t stay away from your old life. That’s why you came back right?” I say pointing out the obvious. He paused and then glanced at me.

            “I’ve been coming back every ten years. Seeing my family’s name grow. I never had a family of my own, just watching my brothers and sisters create new families made me want to keep coming back. To watch them and seeing their lives as they all someday went their separate ways.” His voice cracked a little and I felt an ache in my heart, like I was feeling his pain. His own sadness behind it.

            “You wanted that. You just wanted a normal life.” I traveled off touching my chest.

            He glared back, his eyes pushing back tears. “I was in love.” 

            I pulled my hands over my mouth and sat down. “You had to leave her.” I whispered. “That must’ve been hard.”

            “It was the hardest thing I had ever done.” He began. “But I did it.”

            “That’s why I need your help. I can’t keep my powers out of control like this. Someday one of my love ones will get hurt.”

            “Listen, Kid. I can’t help you, I’m sorry. I got work to do.” He gets up walking towards his car.

            “Alice James. Is she one of your brothers’ or sisters’ great granddaughters?” I asked because I saw a small resemblance of her in him.

            “She’s one of Jacob’s great granddaughters.”

            “Your brother had a wife?” I asked from behind me.

            “Yes.” He looks back.

            “But you. You were going to get married.” I whispered realizing what he meant about needing to leave. “But you left.”

            “Please, Go!” He shouts.

            I jumped a little before pulling out a card with my name and number in the back I written the address to the laboratory and my house. “If you ever change your mind. Feel free to call. Your help is very much wanted.”

            I pulled the card on top of a table next to his car filled with some tools. I looked at him noticing him glare at the card. I walked away, walking back to the car. I found Seth leaning against the side of my car waiting for me. His arms folded against his chest.

            “Did you talk her?” I asked moving myself towards the driver’s seat.

            “Yes. She was a lot more worried about her kids then her family’s history.” He says moving inside the passengers’ seat.

            “She didn’t know anything about powers, werewolves?” I asked.

            “She knew stories about her ancestors, werewolf ledges. But nothing that she’d be frighten about.”

            “Then why was she so scared?” I looked at him in confusion.

            “One for kids was kidnapped years ago. She thinks it was one of werewolf ancestors that took her away.”

            “What you mean? She just disappeared out of no where?”

            “She was picking corn by the field, when Alice heard a yell. She didn’t find anything but her daughter’s blood stained sweater.” He paused. “The police searched for her but they never found her.”

            “Oh my god. That’s terrible.” I answered. “How long has it been?”

            “About two years ago.”

            “How old was she?” I asked pulling in the motel’s parking lot.

            “Her name was Chloe. She was eleven when she disappeared.” He pulls out a picture of a young brunet girl with light blue eyes, her smile was so warming, that she seemed like the sweetest person you’d ever meet. I glared at the picture for a few seconds before looking up.

            “That’s so sad.” I whispered.

            When we reached the room. I backed up some things I needed to break back into the lab. Seth argued with me before we made the agreement we would do so in two nights. In two days’ time is a full moon. I know werewolves were at its strongest. Seth argued it was too dangerous especially during that night. Since the Laboratory was here in Tennessee it is easier to do that in two days.  We were going to practice some moves during those two days before we were ready.

            “I’m going to take a shower.” I say picking up a towel on top of the bed.

            Seth looked up from his writing. “I can come too.” He smirked.

            “If my phone rings. Let me know. It’s most likely Catherin.” I smiled ignoring his comment.

            “Sure thing.” He looks back down.

            I wanted Seth more then my own power can afford. He was everything I wanted. We had something, which normally people can’t understand. Just looking at him writing, seeing his curls curve up by his ears, and his piercing through made me realize that he’s the one I wanted.

            “What?” Seth looks up at me.

            I chuckled. “Nothing.”

            I took a quick shower, Seth entered after me. I brushed my hair slowly and softly. Looking at myself in the mirror, I realized how much I’ve changed. My eyes became like a dark green shaded by brown. My hair became longer.

            My phone vibrated on top of the table. I looked at the ID it said ‘Japan’. I picked it up opening it.

            “Hello.” I began.

            “Elsa?” Catherin’s voice sounded distant.

            “Catherin. How are you? Are you okay?” I asked as I put my hair brush down.

            “I’m fine. I just landed here. It’s like six am so it must be night there.”

            “Yea it is. It’s almost eleven here.” I comment.

            “Are you okay? Are you home now?” She asks worried.

            “Uh. I’m at Seth’s for a while.” I lied. If Catherin knew I was in Tennessee she’d be back home on the next flight. I couldn’t have that happen.

            “Why? Did you get scared being there by yourself?”

            “Uh. Yea I did.”

            “Just be careful okay. I love you.” A sound came from behind her. “I gotta go now.”

            “Okay. I love you-” I didn’t finished she turned off. “Too.”