Shifter

Not in Kansas anymore

~Hazel~

I was shook awake by my mother. I sat up rubbing the sleep from my eyes. Mom went back downstairs to wake up Adrian. She left me to wake up Matt.

This is going to be good! Ok let's see... bullhorn, cold water, scream, hmmm... PERFECT!!!

I quickly go into my closet and grab my makeup bag. Returning to my room I see Adrian sitting on my bed.

"Hey bug." I smile walking up to him.

"So?" he looks at me expectantly.

"What?" I ask.

"Don't act dumb. How are we going to wake up Matt this time?" he says in a duh tone. I grin and hold up my makeup bag, he grins right back and jumps off the bed. I grab his hand and we go towards the bathroom.

We quietly walk over all of the trash in Matt's room and make our way to his bed. I get out some blush, glitter, lipstick, eyeshadow, and the bullhorn I grabbed from my nightstand. I hand Adrian the glitter and lipstick, while I start on the eyeshadow. I quickly put that and the blush on. Then I step back and let Adrian put on the glitter and lipstick.

He applies the lipstick around Matt's mouth and then puts it on his lips. Then he dumps some glitter in his hand and blows it onto Matt's face. We made our way to Matt's bedroom door. Adrian waits outside the door ready to run but is also able to see Matt. I stand by the door and hold up the bullhorn. We quickly exchange a glance... and then the fun began.

I pushed the bullhorn and it instantly woke up Matt.

"HOLY F*CKING SHIT!!!" I hear him yell and then hear a thud.

He fell out of his bed... HAHAHA!!!

"HAZEL! ADRIAN! YOU'RE BOTH FUCKING DEAD WHEN I CATCH YOU!" Matt's voice booms through the house.

I sprint to the office and see Adrian already there holding onto mom's hand with a mischievous grin on his face. I run over and grab mom's other hand squeezing it slightly. Flynn is standing there with his eyes practically bulging out of his head.

"So? What did you do this time?" Mom whispers.

"You'll see!" Adrian and I say at the same time. As if on cue Matt comes barging into the office a goofy smile on his face.

"OH MY GOD!" Mom says then bends over laughing. Soon Adrian and I join in. Matt looks confused and Flynn is staring at us all like we grew an extra head. Then mom sadly gives Matt a mirror and his face instantly goes red.

"Ok... I'll admit... this was pretty good. Oh and thanks for finding my shade of lipstick." Matt says looking between me and Adrian.

"Umm... Ok then, now that you're all awake... I think we should get going." Flynn says. We all nod and go to fetch our bags. As I was walking downstairs with Matt I gave him a makeup removing wipe. He takes it and cleans up his face.

We all head out the door saying goodbye to everyone that's waiting outside. Then when we make it through the crowd we get into a huge limo.

"Do you mind telling me why you two did that to your brother?" Flynn asks looking between us all.

"We like to play pranks on each other..." I say.

"Me and Hazel can't play any on Adrian yet..." Matt continues.

"Cuz I'm too little. So whenever one pranks the other I help them." Adrian finishes.

"Oh... I see." Flynn replies looking at us like we're crazy.

The whole ride was awkward... for Flynn anyways. Adrian, Matt, and I play eye spy for a while. Soon everyone is falling asleep while I sadly don't. So I stare out the window at the fields of the other villages. Soon the fields turn into meadows which then turn into woods.

Everyone finally starts to wake up and stare out the windows, except Flynn. Up ahead there's a lane if trees on each side of the road. I identify them as oak trees, all of them are bent to make a kind of natural tunnel. Soon we exit the tunnel and pull onto the streets of the kingdom.

It's beautiful, the walls are made of stone with an ivy covering most of it. The small houses are made from wood and clay. As we go further into the kingdom the houses and people get more expensive looking. Then we pull into a circular driveway that I presume is the castle's entry.

When we all piled inside there was two maids and two butlers waiting.

"Alright Matt, Adrian follow them." he says pointing at the butlers. "And Hazel and Mrs. Kane follow those two." he says pointing at the maids.

Everyone goes different ways through the castle. Everything was expensive... from the marble floor to the stone ceiling. The maid that was leading me to whatever was rolling my bag behind her. She finally stops at a door after going up all the stairs.

"Here's your room ma'am... you can explore for a while. I'll meet you back at your room to take you to supper." she says over her shoulder while she walks away.

I don't like her... too snobby and full of herself...

I quickly walk into my room and it's gorgeous. The walls are painted a beautiful deep purple. The floor was creme colored and it had two dressers, a huge mirror, bigger closet then I had back home, and a balcony.

Balcony?!? Omg!

I run out onto the balcony and look at everything going on around me. Then I slowly walked into my room and started to unpack. I put my toiletries in the bathroom and made a mental note to take a shower.

After hanging up my shirts and very few dresses in the huge closet I then start on the personal things. I take out my box of pictures, I have one of every family member. A lot from friends, my old town, and then I stop. I couldn't flip it over, the last picture in my box was of my dad. It was him a few days before he died, he was standing in front of one of the biggest trees surrounding the town.

I had to pick it up, I took a shaky breath and picked it up. Then a thought hit me. So I spent the next twenty minutes putting all the pictures on the wall in my closet and then put my shirts in front of them. I quickly unpacked the rest of my things and then I was finally done.

I remembered that I was going to take a shower. So I headed into the bathroom I already put my hair and body wash in the shower. About thirty minutes later I got out and wrapped my hair in a towel. I went into my closet and picked out some faded shorts and a light salmon colored top. I got dressed and decided to towel dry my hair. I made sure that it dry enough to not get my shirt wet.

I put on a little mascara, eyeliner, and shiny lip gloss. Then I headed downstairs and out the front door. I already knew that I wanted to get out of the expensive places and headed to the homes near the walls. I was walking through what must be a market and saw some kids playing soccer. So I headed over to watch, and one of them was Matt. He easily made goal after goal.

So obviously I chose to help the other half. They didn't mind when I asked to play, but Matt got a lot more careful. Let the games begin brother...

---Nick---

"Brother all I'm saying is you should at least give them a chance." Flynn says again.

"FINE! JUST PLEASE FOR MY SANITY SHUT THE FUCK UP!" I scream, he's been talking nonstop about some girl for the last forty minutes.

"Alright. I swear she's a good warrior." he says again and then exits my office.

Well we'll have to see how good she is won't we?

---HEY!!! Hope it was good. I didn't do much on Nick 's POV cuz I'm going to do that next chapter...---

RGT