The Book Of Life

Chapter Four

It's second lunch of the day, and I'm just about ready to snap at this point. How does Kory deal with the loud noises. My head's almost splitting from the bells. I'm halfway about to shove a sandwich in my mouth when I hear familiar voices.

"Hey! Kory! Why are you here? And who's the new person?" Tori asks.

"Because I want to talk to Katlyn."

"My names Arron." A voice I vaguely recognise sounds behind me.

My eyes widen, I spin to find the guy who was at the Servo two nights ago. Serving me.

"Oh, Hello." Arron has a cheeky grin on his face and his tone is smug.
"You, too. Up." Kory points to me, "come with me."

I really have no choice. There's an edge in Kory's voice. She leads us around to the conversation spot. I'm glaring at Arron.

"Stop staring into my soul." He flinches at my continuous glare.

"Okay. But why am I being brought into this girl drama?" He exclaims.

"It's not girl drama. It's Supernatural drama!" Kory hissed to him.

His eyebrows lift as he glances at me, signalling something.

"Yes. Katlyn here, was bitten two nights ago......" Kory begins, hesitating to finish her sentence.

"And what?" Arron presses.

"Arron. She- she has the book."

His eyebrows raise and humour appears in his eyes as he huffs and begins to laugh. A loud, full-on chuckle escapes his mouth.

Kory flashes her eyes at me. I don't even have to see her signal to know what she wants me to do. And I'm already grabbing it. I pull out the book, to anyone else not Supernatural the book looks like a normal random book. But. To the Supernatural, it looks like it always does.

As soon as he sees it, Arron almost jumps on me and pushes the book into my body. He pulls his hands away quickly. Neither him nor Kory saw what happened, but I know the book zapped him.

"H-how. I served you. And you were- Human......"

"Whelp, about two hours after you served me, my life went to hell. Interrupted eating, force given a book, chased by two weirdos and bitten. Sounds like your normal daily night-time, weekend activities. Doesn't it?"

"Hold on? TWO." I nod, "What else bit you." he growls.

"Vampire." Kory states.

Arron whips to her.

"EW! No, not me. A rogue Werewolf and a Vampire. Riley was there. Coraz, she gave her the book. Katlyn now is the protector. So far, she's part of the most powerful Tribrids. Witch, Werewolf, and Vampire."

I glare at Kory, "You said nothing about Witches before."

"It clicked only a few seconds ago. She gave you powers." Kory states. "When she gave you the book, it gave you magic."

"Okay. Okay. What is the reason, behind all of this, to bring me into it." Arron waves his hands like he's waving in front of his chest.

"What's tonight?" Kory tries to raise one eyebrow but fails miserably.

Arron freezes for a few seconds. While I stand there, dumbly.

"Ohhh! OOOHHHHH!" Arron suddenly exclaims out of nowhere.

I flinch. "Sorry. Uhmmm...... What are you doing after school?" He randomly asks.

"Uhm. Catching the bus home, meeting up with Grandad at the bus stop and my brother before being dropped off at home and waiting till mum gets home. Why do you want to know? So, you can stalk me."

"Yes actually. Tonight's the full moon; you're first full shift. I can't stop you from saying: No. But it will be easier if you come to my house tonight."

"One: I don't know where it is. Two: I can't get away. I must look after my brother and when mum gets home, I can't go. Camera's also surround my house."

"Well, you really are trapped. Give me your address and I'll stop by." Arron sighs.
I look to Kory.

"It's fine. He's the pack leader's son. They'll be happy to welcome anyone in, especially you."

"Okay.... Ima trust you, any funny shit and I'm out. What time is the latest I must be out by? Mum kinda doesn't go to sleep until midnight."

"Shit, that does complicate things. The earlier the better but I'll be waiting somewhere near your house. No latter than eleven." Arron says sternly.

"Okay, eleven. I could possibly do that. Just I must be back before five. Dad's a light sleeper and a fucking early riser. I live at Nikiloson crescent. The one that always has the pathway through to the street behind. You know which one because you walk past every day of the holidays."

Arron rubs the back of his neck nervously.

Kory pipes up. "Actually, I might have an idea."

Arron and I eye her.

"There is a spell that kind of acts as a mirage spell. A duplication spell if you want to go that deep." Kory explains.

Kory teaches me a quick mirage spell. Making sure I have it down pat before she lets me try it out on a bush.

"This tree should replicate the size of your body. I'M NOT CALLING YOU SHORT! I am merely stating that normally we would start off with something...-less robust."

We return to our groups with a plan. I seriously was going to get busted though.

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Arron mentioned my emotions would flare and pain would appear in my muscles. But he didn't mention it would be this bad. I guess it never was this bad for them. As a Human I was neither as strong as them or my muscles used to this amount of strain.

Once I slide into the passenger seat of his Holden Commodore SSV, it's engine roaring underneath the black hood, I let out a sting of curses.

"Pain starting to get worse?" He chuckles as he puts the automatic car into drive and pulls onto the road.

"You're not funny. For you, it might be extreme pain, but for me, my once Human muscles are not used to this type of torture!"

"They're just getting ready for your shift. It's like when a foal is about to start running around just a few seconds after being born. Of course, they're not going to be coordinated and able to just sprint off. Their gona stumble and fall before they walk." He glances at me.

"Keep your eyes on the road, A-Aron. Or should I say Erin?"

"Don't you start! It's Aaron but spelt: A R R O N! Well, you're the foal but instead of your muscles not learning to accommodate you to stand, their trying to accommodate you for later on. When you transform." Arron finishes.

"Weird analogy. But I think I get it." I scrunch up my face.