Broken Pieces

Chapter 4

As me and Allen pull to a stop in the driveway I ask him a question

"Please don't tell anyone" Allen looks at me.

"Don't you think they need to know that you almost got killed?" he asks

"I do, but for there own safety if more come, and they manage to capture me they will target your family and interrogate them" I say watching Angie through the window as she ran into the kitchen.

"Are there going to be more?"

"Probably, no I'm certain of it" I say dead serious.

"Why are they targeting you Veronica? What did you do?"

"I don't know but i'm sure it has to do with the reason why I ended up half dead in the forest"

"Anyway we can talk about this later" I say as Angie runs out of the house followed by an older girl that looked strangely familiar

"Hey Angie, hey Cass surprised your home" Allen says as we both get out of the truck

"Yeah well I decided to come over for a little vacation" said Allen's older sister Cassie.

"Who's this?" Cassie asks Allen

"I'm Veronica, Veronica Miller" I say so I could see her better.

My eyes widen but don't dare say anything because I recognized Allen's sister Cassie. She was from the academy. She must have recognized me too for her eyes widened slightly when seeing my face.

 "Well, I would officially like to welcome you into our home. Welcome" she says with a hundred watt smile. 

"Well shall we go inside?" Allen says and we both turn towards him.

"Oh Veronica! that surely looks like that must have hurt, the cut on your arm. Come to my room and I'll clean it for you, as well as a new shirt" says Cassie noticing my wounded arm and blood stained shirt.

"Allen is that your shirt around her arm"

"Part of it yes" Allen says eyeing his sister

"Well were going to have to get you a new one aren't we?"

Allen just shrugs his shoulders and heads into the house not saying a word to me. I follow Cassie through the house. I say hi to Mary and Allen's dad and Adam. And then i'm in Cassie's room. with the door closed.

"Man was I surprised to see you here tonight" Cassie said sitting on her bed.

"I  thought your name sounded familiar when Allen mentioned you, Swift" Cassie grinned and came up and high--fived me.

"and when my mom told me the story of how you ended up here I almost fell off my chair in relief, Five" Cassie said

"It feels good to use our old code names doesn't it?"

"Yeah, so your Allen's sister " I say sitting beside her on the bed

"I would have told you about them before but , you know with the rules and stuff"

"Yeah I remember the rules. and the beatings." I say the last bit quietly.

"Lets take a look at that arm of yours " She says as I wince at the sharp pain. Cassie begins to unravel Allen's torn shirt and drew a breath when she saw the deep cut.

"What kind of knife did this cut?" She asks 

"A Seeker's knife" I reply as I remembered the knife.

"A Seeker! Already!?"

"Yeah and I have my powers back."

"Show me"she says as she heads over to her closet and lifts up the floor  of her closet and takes out a box. I show her the five Elements that I commanded in little spheres. I summoned Fire, Water, Earth, Air, and last but not least Spirit .