Druins! (part 10)

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"Where’s dad?" Bekki asked absent-mindedly.
"Out of town again," Mrs. Fields grunted. She was suddenly chopping the vegetables a lot harder than she should have. Bekki winced, and was suddenly mad at herself for asking. Her mom had always gotten upset when her father went out of town more that once a week, which was pretty often. Her parents had been on rocks for ages and it was all Bekki, Trenton, and Genie could do to try to slow down what was coming. Bekki suddenly felt down, and her mom could defiantly tell.
"But that’s okay!" Mrs. Fields continued. Bekki gave her "I don’t believe it" look.
"No really, I’m shipping Trenton to his friend’s house on Friday, and we’ll have a Girl’s night out," Mrs. Fields shared. Bekki pretending she was choking and fell on the floor.
"Bekki, stop the dramatics!" Mrs. Fields scolded, but peering onto the floor she found Bekki sleeping soundly. She laughed and wondered why it took her so long. She normally always fell asleep about the same time as Tori did. She finished up dinner, and woke her daughter up.
"Eat and then bed!" Mrs. Field commanded. After a bit of groaning Bekki got off the floor, and grabbed a chicken sandwich as well as a salad. Genie and Trenton came down moments later, both still looking a little shocked and they ate. As soon as she was done she headed to bed and Genie took her chance. She quietly slipped in her room and searched Bekki’s side of the room for that stupid Druin book. She got to Bekki’s shopping bags and found the Druin book official bag. She knew that Bekki must have had the book at the mall and ran Bekki’s purse. She emptied it on the floor, and was sadly disappointed when all she found was a bit of cash, make-up, pens, and some weird walnut.
"A walnut?" Genie mouthed. She looked at her sleeping sister curiously. She turned back to the walnut, and looked for any clue as to why it might be in her sister’s purse. Then, she saw it. There were some shiny gold letters on the walnut. She grabbed a microscope from Trenton’s room, and put the walnut under it. After some adjusting she could finally read the words on the walnut.
"The Druin Book!" she yelped and them covered her mouth quickly in fear that Bekki would wake up.
"Now how do I open it?" Genie whispered to Bekki as if she would murmur the answer to her, and not ask why. Genie turned back to the book, and thought for a second. Duh! She grabbed the book and set it on the bed next to Bekki. She grabbed her sister’s hand and waved it over the book. It instantly grew, and Genie pulled the book in the bathroom. Her bedroom door had been removed after her first plan to kill Bekki, and a curtain was put up. The second time her plan had failed her curtain left. Genie turned back to the book and opened it to the enemy section.
"Do they have any phone numbers in here?" she yelled at the book. The pages of the book-starting turning until it finally stopped. A section glowed at the bottom of the page. She looked at the glowing section. It read:
Looking for the perfect place to execute a prank?
Try a Druin’s #1 enemy!
1234 Main Street Rating, VA
(555) 555-5556
"Perfect!" she marveled. She snuck downstairs and grabbed the house phone, sneaking into the bathroom again she dialed the number.
"Hello?" Genie asked.
The next day at school was like any other, but the romance between Tori and David seemed down a little. Bekki blamed herself. She decided to confront Tori about it next time she got to the bathroom, and sure enough during lunch she found her opportunity.
"Tori?" Bekki asked. Her voice was small and quiet. Tori jerked her head around. She had recognized her friend’s we need to talk voice and stopped what she was doing.
"Yeah," Tori smiled meekly. She had a feeling what this was about.
" Its all my fault!" Bekki cried, "Sorry." Tori wrapped her arms around her friend and then pulled away. She was now staring her friend in the eye with a look of understanding.
"What’s wrong?" Tori said briskly slipping into her I understand but its not worth it attitude.
"I asked you about David and now you don’t like him as much!" Bekki cried some more.
"God!" Tori scoffed, "You are so stupid! It’s not your fault, and even if it was its not like we broke up or anything. You have nothing to be sorry about!" Bekki lowered her head and walked out of the bathroom into the cafeteria and took her seat next to David.
"What’s wrong?" he asked. He looked genuinely upset that she had been crying.
"Nothing!" she murmured, throwing her hair behind her ear. He grabbed her hand. She didn’t believe he would believe her, but she couldn’t explain it to him or he would defiantly break up with Tori, and that was the last thing Bekki wanted. She suddenly had a strong urge to tell David everything, about her species, her lack of power, everything, but bit her lip. Tori walked over and David quickly dropped Bekki’s hand. Tori eyed David’s hand for a moment before sitting down, and starting a conversation with her friends.
"You mind if I sit here?" a voice came from behind Bekki. She turned in her seat to see one of the cutest guys she had ever seen.
"Unless it’s a bad time," he said taking note of Bekki’s now red eyes.
"Oh... no It’s okay!" she smiled and gestured for him to sit down. He walked to the other side of the table and took a spot next to Tori. David gave her a look from beside her. She couldn’t read it. Tori seemed oblivious to the fact that there was a newcomer and treated him like an old friend.
"I’m Bekki!" Bekki introduced herself.
"Jason," he introduced himself.
"David!"
"Theresa.... Call me Tori." Jason nodded and shook David’s hand. Jason had brown spiky hair, and green eyes. He was tall and pretty strong looking. He had on baggy jeans, a black shirt with a yellow smiley face on it, a pair of all white tennis shoes, an all black wristband, and a dog tag hung around his neck. The bell rang from above their heads. After turning in their trays they headed for class. Bekki and David ran off to Social Studies, David to Language Arts, and Jason had to finish his registration forms in the Library.
"I don’t think she likes me," David whispered.
"Who?" asked Bekki knowing very well whom he was talking about. David gave her sad eyes, and then turned his gaze to the floor.
"Of course she likes you!" Bekki sighed, "You guys have been friends since kindergarten."
"You know what I mean," David murmured. Bekki closed her eyes and prayed for a way out of the conversation she was having. Nothing happened. He looked at her again. His eyes were pale.
"I...." Bekki hesitated, "maybe... Maybe... Maybe she does." David sighed. Bekki swallowed and drifted her eyes to the floor. Davis followed suit.
"I’m sorry," he said softly. Bekki bit her lip.
"For what?"
"It wasn’t fair for me to ask you."
"Don’t be silly!" he heard her say. Her voice was soft, scared, and searching. He had a sudden urge to wrap his arms around her, but threw off the temptation and held the door open for her as she walked into 5th period. That night Bekki and Tori had an interesting IM conversation:

Firechick: Isn’t Jason so hot?
Luv2laugh: Tori!
Firechick: what?
Luv2laugh: you’re going out with David!
Firechick: so I’m not allowed to say he’s hot?
Luv2laugh: No!
Luv2laugh: Even though he is....
Firechick: So you admit it?
Luv2laugh: I never said I wouldn’t!
Firechick: lol
Luv2laugh: shut up!
Firechick: :-P
Luv2laugh: w/e... u no we can’t ever marry either of them.
Firechick: Yeah, well technically we could!
Luv2laugh: Our mothers would kill us!
Firechick: ok, maybe we can’t
Luv2laugh: Ur probably going to end up marrying Trenton!
Firechick: Never!
Luv2laugh: But he is one of the few Druin Trait characters.
Firechick: I no! But I don’t give a ****!
Luv2laugh: I no you don’t!
Firechick: I’ll marry a human if it kills me!
Luv2laugh: It will!
Firechick: I no!
Luv2laugh: lol!
Luv2laugh: have you ever noticed that we’re probably the only inter-species relations in the world?
Firechick: Isn’t that so awesome?
Luv2laugh: It’s creepy if you ask me!
Firechick: maybe... I g2g
Luv2laugh: bi!
Firechick: ttyl!

Bekki sat back in her chair, and closed out of the chat.
"That was unusually short!" she remarked to herself, "I wonder what she’s doing." She thought to herself about Tori. She was getting tired of thinking about her friend. She was about to walk out of the office when she heard yelling.
"You’re never home!" she heard her mother yelling, "Do you even CARE?"
"Of coarse I do!" her father’s voice thundered.
"Well you have one hell of a way showing it!" her mother shot back. She let go of the doorknob, and sat down in the office chair again. Her brother and sister slid in the room. Genie’s face had a large smile on it. Trenton looked like someone had just died.
"What’s with you guys?" Bekki smiled.
"If they get divorced I can move away with dad!" Genie sung, "Then I won’t have to be with you!"
"Shut up!" Trenton shot, "If they got divorced you know dad couldn’t take any of us!"’
"He’d take you," Bekki whispered softly. Trenton began softly crying, and Genie’s face darkened. They all knew it was true. Mr. Fields would never allow his son to live in a household full of women... even though technically he already did. Bekki threw her head in her hands. Trenton came over, and rubbed his sister’s back. The phone rang, and Bekki quickly picked it up. Trenton walked over to Genie and they pulled out a deck of cards.
"Hello?" Bekki questioned the phone.
"Um... Bekki?" a deep voice asked.
"Who is this?"
"Jason..." came the voice. Bekki’s heart did a double flip.
"How did you get my number?"
"Is that a bad thing?"
"No. Just curious."
"Oh...’
"Why did you call?"
"Oh right! I was wondering if the Spanish or German makes more sense to take."
"That’s an odd question!"
"I need to know!"
"Spanish!"
"Why?"
"I don’t know!"
"I need to know what coarse to take!"
"How did you get my number?"
"Bekki!"
"Jason."
"I’m going to come over if you don’t tell me!"
"You don’t have my address!"
"What makes you so sure?"
"Look now’s not a good time."
"Really?"
"Yeah... why?"
"Cause I’m already here."
"No you’re not!"
"Look out the window." Bekki opened up the blinds, screamed, and jumped back in suprise since Jason’s face was pressed against the window. Jason fell back laughing. Trenton and Genie took a hint, and left the room. Although, Genie looked like she really wanted to stay. Bekki opened up the window and crawled out to find Jason sprawled on the floor, laughing really hard! He raised his hand, and she effortlessly pulled him up.
"You’re strong!" he laughed. She joined in nervously and studied her hand. That should have been a lot harder for her. She shook her head, and slapped Jason, who was still laughing, upside the head.
"I told you Spanish!" she giggled.
"I know!" he answered, "I signed up already, but I wanted to hang out!"
"Then, you should go to Tori’s house!" Bekki pointed at a house kitty-corner from hers.
"She’s going out with David," he murmured hastily.
"So!" her voice trilled, "It’s not like your going to go out..." She paused realizing what he had just implied, "No! No! No! Absolutely not!" Jason laughed.
"It was worth a try!" he choked. She slapped him again, and he went sprawling on the floor. She stared at her hand. It wasn’t that she sent him on the floor. Sure, it was a little odd since she was no where near strong enough to push him over, but she hadn’t even touched him. Her hand had remained exactly 6 inches away from Jason all times.

Peace, Kelsey