Reaching

Chapter 10

Chapter 10

*Calley* 

“No, Calley, don’t!” Liz was begging. “Don’t do it!”

“I’m going to, and that’s that,” I snapped back at her. “I don’t care what some stupid history books said, or what our grandparents, parents, and peers tell us. None of them has been over the border as much as I have. I know humans aren’t bad!” 

“Not in broad daylight, you’re not,” Ander growled, “And you shouldn’t go over. Ever. Listen to us, we’re you’re friends- I’m your boyfriend. We have your best interests at heart.”

 “We’ll go to Zan-… Zayden… if you leave.” Liz said. Ander sent her a glare but she just stared at me with sad eyes.

“I don’t see how Zayden would do anything about this,” I said, slinging my bag over my shoulder and setting off for the border. I was just going to walk around for a few hours, look at a few places, nothing dangerous. Probably.

 “Alright, I’ll go get someone then,” Liz said.

 I gave her a slight wave of the hand before walking to the border.

 I could tell something was off when I stepped across the border. I couldn’t tell what it was though and it made the hair on the back of my neck stand up. I wanted to desperately change into my panther form but I couldn’t do that. So I just hitched my backpack higher on my shoulder and kept walking. But the feeling of wrongness made it so I couldn’t enjoy my time.

 “Excuse me, miss?” someone said from behind me, “Would you please mind answering some questions?”

 I looked over my shoulder at the police standing behind me. His face looked set in a permanent frown and he held a strange device in one hand and a clipboard in the other.

 “Sure,” I said, not seeing any harm in answering some questions for a cop. “I’ve got time.”

 The cop waved the odd device over me and an alarm sounded.

 “What creature are you?” he asked.

 “E-Excuse me?” I spluttered. “Creature?”

 “It says here you’re Undefined under our status. We can do this the easy way or the hard way.”

 I dropped my bag and heard my books hit the ground hard. I turned on my heel the started running. Alarms were blaring in my ears, police cars were chasing after me. I would never outrun them on foot. I may not be the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I knew that much.

 Under the cover of the trees I shifted into a panther. I could easily out run any human now, there was no way they’d catch me before I reached the border. I was wrong. I was forced back into Human form when a little girl screamed and I had almost made it to the border. I changed back and kept running. My legs hurt and my lungs felt like collapsing.

 “Almost… there!” I panted.

 I saw Ander turn the corner of the border in a full out sprint and he got faster as he saw me. I clasped onto his hand right as the police caught up to me. One picked me up by the waist and I screamed. Ander kept his grip on my hand for as long as he could, but soon his hand started slipping.

 “No!” I screamed. “No! Don’t let go Ander! Please, don’t let go!”

 Tears were streaming down my face, making this the second time I’ve cried in the past two days. I wanted anyone to be here. My mom, Liz, heck, even Zayden who I was considering my worst enemy right about now. I just wanted someone else to be here with me and Ander. I’m so cool, right? 

 But my hand left his and I was dragged away and shoved into the back of a police car. My head hit the opposite side and I heard the door slam. I sat up and desperately tried to get out, but, spectacularly, the doors were locked. I thought about shifting into something big enough to break the car, but then they’d have me in their database, and I didn’t need that on top of everything that had already happened.

 “Name?” the police in the front asked.

 "Oh please,” I muttered, “If I give you a name, what are the chances it’s going to be a real one? What are that chances I won't just feed you lies about me to get you to let me go?”

 “Well, I can see you’re going to be unpleasant to work with,” the police said, “But you can’t be worse than the Water Fairy we picked up last week who kept offering to sleep with us.”

 “That’s Water Fairies for you,” I muttered into the window, “But they’re not even the worst of it. The Vampires are horrible, all they talk about is blood. It makes us all sick to our stomachs.”

 The police officer laughed. “I bet.”

 I smiled despite myself. I knew not all humans were bad once they got over being scared!

***** 

R.I.P: My fracking spell check. I relied on that to make sure my fail spelling didn’t get out! But now it’s gone and I NEVER catch my bad spelling. Frack. AAAAAnyway… I also fixed my e-mail, which you probably don’t care about! Yay! Soooo, sup with you guys?

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