The Hellhound's Secret

Eye of the Storm

If you haven't already, check out Power Outage for a chance to meet the Overdrive Rangers.

Just like Good Will, Hunter, this chapter welcomes a character that I will be posting about very soon.

This chapter got deep. I hope you enjoy it.

~Twix

"Kali, mum and I will be arriving at Briarwood tomorrow at 9am. We're staying at the Rosenberg Hotel for a few nights before returning home to Sacramento. We are aware it is such short notice, but we have reservations at Trinity and would love for you to join us."

Kali grumbled and forcibly snapped her phone shut, shoving it into her jacket pocket as she entered the quarry and made her way over to where Cam and the others were waiting for her. She had arrived back in Blue Bay Harbour yesterday evening and was already being thrust back into her training regime as a Ninja.

"Hey, you okay?" Tori asked, noticing the look on Kali's face.

"Yeah. I'm just great," said Kali.

Tori raised an eyebrow.

Kali sighed. "Sorry. My adoptive parents are flying into Briarwood tomorrow morning, they want me to have dinner with them," she explained.

"And that's a bad thing?" Hunter asked. He would've loved to receive a phone call from his parents inviting him and Blake to dinner.

"Sure, if you consider the fact that they last time we spoke I was being carted off to a juvenile detention centre," said Kali.

"Oh."

Kali pursed her lips and nodded. Yeah, her last encounter with her parents was not a happy one, and she wasn't sure if tomorrow evening would be one either.

"So, you going to go?" Tori asked.

"I don't even know," said Kali. "I mean, I want to see them, but I can only guess why they want to see me and trust me when I tell you it's not to see how I have been doing these last two years."

Tori smiled and squeezed her friend's shoulder. "You could take a friend," she suggested. "Maybe even ask Nick? You know, it could be a good way to remind you to keep your calm if there is someone there who supports you."

Kali looked considerate. That did sound like a good enough suggestion. "I guess I could ask Nick," she said. "But Trinity is so high end."

"Trinity?" Dustin asked. "You parents can afford to dine at Trinity? Damn!"

Kali rolled her eyes. "They're diplomats," she said. "They can afford to do a lot of things that normal people can't."

"Still..." said Dustin, shaking his head. "I would have to save several pay checks to even get in the door. Some people have life so easy."

"Yeah, being uprooted from one country every few weeks, and forced to move across the world was easy, not to mention every event in my life was dissected and discussed into great detail, even as small as what we would be eating for dinner that night." Kali shook her head. "I wouldn't wish that life on anyone, I'd have killed for a little more normality."

Dustin looked sympathetic. "Hmm, I guess I never thought of it like that," he said.

"Whatever," Kali said, shrugging. She pivoted and turned to Shane. "When's your brother coming to town?" she asked.

"His plane is landing this afternoon," said Shane. He rubbed the back of his neck. "Guess we're in the same boat in terms of disappointed family members, huh?"