This should be fun

Chapter 10

Zeus won't stop howling. I tried feeding him, but he won't eat anything. When I tried to move Brutus's body he tried to bite me. So I just sat there petting him, trying my best to calm him and to get some of the blood out of his fur.

Iris, Sanders, Aiden and Cat were all at the hospital. The thing that scared me most was that I don't feel bad about hurting her. Don't fault the snake for biting you, when it's his nature to do so. Iris just had a habit of poking the snake expecting it not to do anything.

"What song are you singing," Matt said from the our patio.

I turned to look at him, he looked like he just got done running. I skipped out on that today, didn't feel like it. But I could go for combat practice.

"It's a lullaby," I said softly, not realizing I was singing.

It was called Sou Gan. My mom would sing it ever so often to me to calm me down. When I was scared she sang hush little baby, but when I was sad or panicky it was always that lullaby.

I guess I was so used to hearing that when I was sad, it just started flowing out of my mouth. It succeeded at calming Zeus a bit.
Matt came walking down to sit next to me, Zeus growled at him, telling him to stay away.

"Awe man, Zeus, I thought we were friends," he said to him staying a distance. "Nalani's, really down in the dumps today. It's weird how if one of you aren't happy, both of you aren't happy."

I snapped around looking at him. "Who do you think is having it harder? This wolf that was starting to be my only true friend was killed and I don't know who did it. Someone is killing girls, leaving my parents signature. And I'm about to be in deeper shit, because I let, Iris, get to me. Now tell me what is so God awful in Nalani's life right now."

He crossed his arms, shaking his head at me. "You know not everything is about you. Have you even tried to talk to her lately or to her aunt, for that matter." I was about to answer, but he cut me off. "No I don't think you have. You wanna know why, Nalani, is upset, because Liv has cancer. So I think, Nalani has a right to have a crappy day or week. "

Liv has cancer? That was hard for me to wrap my mind around. Either way I could've been there for the both of them, but no they wanted to shut me out, leaving me in the dark.

I've tried talking to Nalani. But did she care to acknowledge me? No. She could've told me Liv was sick. She has a place in my heart as well.
Now I'm sitting here looking like the asshole.

"One time when we were younger, Nalani, got attacked by a coyote," I said to him over my shoulder. "We were playing in the backyard. I turned my back for one second and it had her by her shoulder. I thought I was about to lose her.....The other day Iris asked me how old was I when I killed something. Eleven, the big one one. Eleven when, Nalani, was pulled by the coyote. I killed it. The scary part wasn't that, Nalani, could've died, it was that killing it felt good."

I heard him slowly backing away. He had to be uncomfortable with this topic. Nobody in their right mind would feel comfortable with this. But I needed to tell him, for him to understand. If I was gonna be in Shit's Creek, someone needs to know why I jumped in.

"I don't get why you're tell me this," he said, moving further away.

"The point is," I said getting up, walking towards him. "I'm not cruel for no reason. Iris caught me at a really bad time, now she's at the hospital. I wish I could explain everything to you in graphic detail. Nalani has her problems and I have mine. Just like you have your own. I guess we just have to deal with it," I told him, walking inside.

This whole situation is bothering me. What can't people understand? Somebody knows my game and is using it to play a game with the FBI. Someone has killed several girl with my parents MO that no one knew about. I'm pretty sure this same sicko killed Brutus.