The Protector

Chapter One: The New Beginning

Fall has come. And the streets have been crested with a sea of brown, red and Golden leaves. A gentle chilly breeze carries the waves of leafs down the pothole rattled street of Baker. It passes by, almost as though an old friend is greeting the house of Margerat and Kara Lunastar.
Margerat, a 45 year old single mother whom moved to the town of Featherstone around 18 years ago to escape what she has always referred to as " Overly Concerned parenting reasons" prepares breakfast for her only daughter, Kara.

" Honey, Come on Down, we don't want the food getting cold"

Margerat calls out from the warm embrace of the kitchen up to the second floor where Kara is just now opening her eyes and being greeted by the sun beaming through the window where the drapes were once closed. " Dammit Mom.." Kara groans as she rubs her eyes at the realization her mother had opened the drapes to let the sun in before she prepared breakfast, a gesture of course, that is now blinding Kara.
But, after rubbing her eyes and completing her morning ritual of rolling over to see her trustee Felix the cat alarm clock that she has had since childhood reads in bright red letters and numbers." 7:00am". Kara finally manages to stumble to her feet and stands up, and makes her way over to the the white framed mirror hung on her wall that once came complete with a desk that she managed to break by standing atop it.
" Oh God " Kara groans again. " I look like exactly how I feel right now...awful" as she begins looking over how messy her thin brunette hair is now that it looks as though a tornado passed through it, something to rival what ripped Dorothy's home straight from its frame. " God..if only I could go to Oz..maybe then I could find a way to skip school. I've basically already graduated anyway..maybe I should just skip" Kara yawns as she rubs her eyes, which are chocolate brown. Something she had always found quite weird considering her mother had Blue eyes and supposedly her father had Green eyes.." No..I cannot skip. Not worth it...I cannot miss out on bumping into Jack again"

Kara Sighs and begins getting dressed in the nearest clothes she can find and makes her way down stairs and to the kitchen where her mother has laid out quite the feast. " Eggs, Bacon, Sausage Links, homemade biscuits and..a cupcake..?" Kara stares in confusion at the tiny tasty iced goodie. " Yes Kara..please do not tell me you've already forgotten" her mother smiles at her. " Its your 18th birthday today!" She adds.
" Oh. I guess I had forgotten..you know I don't really care about my birthdays and stuff mom " Kara answers as she slides down into one of the three chairs at the table. " Well this is a very important day, you should just try to enjoy it! Go out! Have fun? " Her mother smiles with a Concerned yet assuring tone. " You know I don't really go out. And besides, who would I even go hang out with? I haven't exactly made alot of friends here" Kara stares down her plate that her mother had passed over on the table. " Well you won't be able to have friends if you don't try and talk to people. You just..shut down sometimes. And I have never understood why..you are such a sweet girl! You could make so many friends if you just took a chance on yourself" Her mother reassures in a more confident voice. " Trust me. You are worth it " She chuckles which in turn makes Kara chuckle a bit.
Kara dares not tell her mother about her crush at School. Jack LaFone, The tall dark and handsome type. Dark brown eyes, thick black hair that Kara swears is so smooth that she could sleep on it like a baby. The man is simply gorgeous. " hm...well Mom, I need to start making my way to school" Kara snaps back to reality as her mother has just sat down to eat. " Sweetie..you haven't even touched your food...come on..just-" Kara interrupts her mother by grabbing her bookbag on the hook by the kitchen door and makes her way out of the house as quickly as possible.

The cold breeze hits Kara's face as she makes her way onto the sidewalk and begins walking to school. Luckily, she doesn't live to far from her school. " Only a few blocks " Kara reassures herself as she continues down the concrete path, kicking through the Fallen pallet of leafs. As she walks, her thoughts go back to Jack. Even if she did have the confidence to talk to him, what would she say? How could she not make herself like a complete fool? She knew the last time she had tried to make contact her with dream boy, she ended up staring him down in the cafeteria at school with a tray of food in her hands, clenching them tightly in hopes that doing so would somehow help her gather the right words. " Why can't this kind of thing be easier? " Kara growls to herself. She had never been great at making friends and that use to never bother her too much. That was, until, she met Jack. Something about him was so different from the other guys. He was always so kind to everyone, so well spoken so... " Beautiful " Kara smiles as the thoughts of Jack begin to fade due to hearing the noise of something moving quickly behind her.
" Hello?" Kara calls out as she quickly turns around but sees nothing but an empty side walk behind her. She could've sworn that she heard something..but..perhaps it was just the wind dancing with the leafs or something. A sound she use to find so peaceful.
' WOOSH' And there it was again, but this time, coming from in front of her. She turns back around but sees nothing yet again. She is definitely growing more and more concerned because this time, she felt the wind crash against her clothing when whatever it was passed by. " umm.." Kara mutters under her breath and without anymore thought, begins running as fast as she can to the school. She will be damned if whatever that was would get her wether it meant harm or not.