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

Honda. When I left, I called Lucy to come with me to the mall so we can get this picture thing done. I picked her up from her house as she stood by the sidewalk waiting for me. She opened the door, with her hat on, gloves and a long brown jacket.

            “It’s so cold!” She emphasizes. “Where are they?” I nodded towards the back as I took off. She looked back when she saw Kevin and Bethany she pulled her hands to her cheeks squeezing them together.

            “Aww! They’re so cute. What are their names?”

            “Kevin and Bethany.” I say.

            “Hi.” Bethany spoke. “What’s your name?”

            “Ha-ha, I’m Lucinda, but you can call me Lucy.”

            “That’s a pretty name. Lucinda.” Bethany made a cute little accent as she said Lucy’s full name. 

            “Thank you.” Lucy chuckles as she turned to me. “And you didn’t want to take them for Christmas photos? Why? they’re so cute.”

            “Wait in till you find out what Kevin does.”

            “Dah-dah. Mammmm Mammm.” Kevin spoke as he with his fingers inside his mouth. “Mama.” I stopped the car on the red sign and look back with big eyes.

            “What did he say?” I looked at Lucy.

            “Mama, mama.” Kevin continues.

            “Oh my gosh! I have to call Katie. This is his first real word.” I say dialing Katie’s number. She answered the second ring. When I told her she jumped with happiness. She asked me to film it, as I asked Lucy to do that while I talked to her.

            When we got to the mall Bethany kept constantly running out of our sight while Kevin was always having some drool fall over as I had to clean. The line though was huge. I was waiting in line for about ten minutes. While in line, a vision flashed before my eyes. I handed Kevin to Lucy as she pulled him into her arms.

            The vision brought light, a lot of light. Something I haven’t experienced in about three weeks now. Pieces of glass on the floor with blood scattered everywhere.  Then I saw someone picking someone from the bottom of a crashed car. My crashed car! It was me in between Dr. Russell’s arm. The scientist that experienced on me.  That made me who I am now. He was taking me to another car, opened the back door and pulled me in. My arm bleeding, my pants ripped. He walked over the front door, got something and then walked back with a needle on his hands. Then everything became a flash of darkness.

            “What’s wrong?” Lucy shakes my shoulder with Kevin on her other arm.

            “Just a small headache. You want give him to me?” I ask pulling my arm towards him. Lucy smiles and says it’s okay. When we reached the front of the line we heard a male voice speak with the customers.

            “Welcome to Santa’s wish place. Where we can make all your wishes come true.” The voice was familiar and he sound irritated with the job.

            “Can I make a wish about a puppy?” A little kid asks.

            “Yes you may. Santa will tell you everything you want to know.”

            “Are you an elf?”

            “Yes I am.” The familiar voice says.
            “But aren’t elves supposed to be small?” the little kid asks.

            “There are some elves that grew big and tall.” The familiar voice speaks again.

            “Next!” A big tall guy with a security shirt says.

            “Bye giant elf.” The little kid says as the lined moved. When we reached the front of the elf boy, he turned and spoke the same line as before.

            “Welcome to Santa’s wish…” He looked up as his voice fades away. It was Connor with an elf hat and a green little elf outfit. His blue eyes wide as his cheeks became red and his lip tightens with a smile that is now gone. Lucy looked at his up and down and started to laughing loudly.

            “This is your JOB?” Lucy laughs as she points at Connor’s outfit.

            “Yes. For the winter. My uncle owns the photography company and the only job he had for me was this.” Connor says looking down at us.

            “I’m sorry.” I say starting to laugh. “But your legs look cute.”

            He looked down at his legs that were covered in green tights with tiny shorts over it. He looked up furious.

            “This is not funny guys.” He crosses his arms.

            Lucy and I looked at each other and then started laughing again.

            “I’m sorry.” Lucy says switching arms while little Kevin started playing with her necklace. I nodded in agreement with Lucy.

            “What are you guys doing here anyways?” Connor asks.

            “I had to take pictures for Catherin’s best friend.” I assured as he looked at Kevin who was entertained by Lucy’s necklace and then at Bethany who was brushing her dolls hair with a tiny brush. Her eyes look up as she smiles.

            “Are you a real elf?” She giggles.

            “Oh yes I am.” Connor says with a smile.

            “Next!” The man behind the camera yells.

            “Well see yah.” Lucy says as she hands me Kevin and pulls Bethany’s hand into hers. I walked forward and looked at Connor.

            “Nice seeing you here.” I smiled. He nods back. As I walked forward, I heard him repeat the same sentence as he did before.

            The photographer took forever to snap three pictures of the kids. Once we finished, we drove back to the house. Katie was happy with the photos and the photo frame, she said it looked beautiful. Lucy and I left right after that, she wanted to go to the Auto body shop so she can give an invitation to this guy named Roberto Ollie. A popular Puerto Rican kid. But we got lost because she was giving me the wrong directions. It took us about an hour before we finally reached the right auto body shop. We walked inside the shop together searching for this kid.

            Robert walked out wearing a white tank top with black smudges on it. His biceps were sweaty with tattoos, and his jeans were dirty with oil. He walked towards us cleaning his hands in a white small blanket. When I looked over another guy was under a car, fixing some parts.

            “Hey chicas.” He smiles as his dimples appeared on his lips.

            “Hey Roberto.” Lucy says swirling her fingers through her hair. I smiled and excused myself as I walked over to look at the car next to the guy working giving them some privacy. I accidently stepped on one of his tools and slips on to the floor. I gasped as I fell. The guy came from underneath the car. I kept my eyes closed for a second until he touched my cheek with the tip of his cold fingers.

            “Elsa?” He called my name softly. How did he know my name? When I opened my eyes, Seth was in front of me. His hazel eyes looking into mine.  “You okay?” 

            I nod.

            “What are you doing here?” He asked.

            “You work here?” I asked pulling myself into a sitting position on the bare floor.

            “Yep.” He looks around then back at me. He helped me up as I stood in front of him.

            “That’s cool. I know a little about cars, myself. I had lessons from a pro growing up.” I say reminding me of my private lessons I had with dad.

            “Oh really? You should show me what you got.” He challenges pulling his hands to his hips looking at me. I took off my jacket and pulling my long sleeves up. I picked up a tool from the floor and walked pass him towards the car.

            His eyes watched my every move and his arms crossed did make me a little nervous. A few minutes later I looked up to check if he was still staring. He was, observing my every move. Lucy walks over with Roberto laughing.

            “Elsa, what are you doing?” She asks confused.

            “Fixing a car.” I tell her.

            “I need to be home in ten minutes and you’re here fixing a car!?”  She emphasizes.

            “When I’m done, I’ll take you home, relax.” I look down at the car again fixing the problem.

            When she didn’t answer, I quickly looked up from the engine. She stood there with her arms crossed against her chest looking over at me hoping I’d change my mind.

            “I can take you home.” Robert offers. Lucy looks over at me and smiled.

            “You sure?” She says blushing.

“Yea.” He smiles.

She looked back to me. “I’m going, see you tomorrow.”

            “See you.”

            “Hey man. You mind closing the shop?” Rob asked as he motions Lucy out of the shop.

            “Not at all, man.” Seth says pulling his hand up in agreement.  

 

 

            “Done.” I say about twenty minutes after Lucy and Robert left.

            “MmmMmmm.” He says looking at the engine. “This looks good. You sure know about cars.”

            “Yep I told you. My dad taught me everything I needed to know.” I said proudly smiling. I looked at my clock it was nine at night already.

            I bend down picking up my bag as I bumped my head into Seth’s chest. We both fell on the floor, his face an inch away from mine. He looked into my me, his eyes piercing through mine. I breathe out as he moves closer. Butterflies filled my stomach as I finally let out a breath.

            “I gotta go.” I say breathless.

            He nods helping me up from the floor. I smiled at him and walked towards my car outside.

            When I arrived back home, Catharine was talking on the phone with Katie when I walked into the house. She nods in my direction as she continues with her conversation. I walked up to my room and waited until dawn before leaving the house. I drove up the hill into the middle of a meadow about a mile out of the city. I skipped school today to practice on some of my powers.

            My hands focused on a small rock on the ground against the wet grass. The rock slowly moved up into midair and slowly hits into a tree. My eyes focused on it as I successfully threw the rock across the field and into a tree bark scratching a piece out. I smiled proudly at myself for passing stage one of my self training.

I moved myself to a bigger rock that’s about ten pounds heavier than the last one. My hands focused on it knowing I had to use more energy on it, I successfully passed stage two as the rock moved across the field. Moving heavier objects was a bit more challenging as it required me to use more energy. I was determined to make it second nature to me.

As the day moved forward, I practiced some blocking while under a waterfall. I pulled my hand up allowing forming a shield as the water falls gracefully over me. The crystal water running on top of my head. Once while practicing at the begging on the year I discovered I was able to jump high altitude without hurting myself. Once I was done with practicing my shielding, I jumped off the waterfall and onto the ground twenty feet below me. I know there were limitations with my powers but I try to discover as much of it while I go on these training days.

            I don’t know what I really am but I know I can do things that humans can’t. I know there are others like me, I can feel it. Some part of me felt the power that connected us successfully. I touched the side of the oddly lightning bolt shaped scar on my wrist. I looked to the sky seeing dark shade of gray clouds moving together, the sun disappearing among the mist. Thunders growled between the clouds as rain started to pour down. I felt like