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Chapter one: the beginning of the end

I wake up as usual with my blankets tied in a new type of knot. I hear my delightful adopted aunt screaming up the stairs for me to get my fat lazy bum up because I am burning daylight... it is freaking eight in the morning. Rania and I really need to have a discussion about sleeping in during summer vacation. I take extreme precaution and untie my sheets from around my ankles the last thing I need is another trip to the doctor for s concussion from falling out of bed. I slowly get up trudge over to my dresser and pull on a pair of dark ripped jeans I decide a shirt is over rated and thump down the steps stopping to pet Rocky my bluejay. He was caught in a winter storm and broke his wing he can't fly again because his wing healed the wrong way. So he chills with us. I walk in the bathroom and try to tame my brown hair into place but without luck. I look in the mirror and see a boy with green eyes that have blue speckled through them under a wreath of uncontrollable brown hair staring back at me. I thump into the kitchen and half expect Rania my nanny to hit me with her old spatula. I call Rania my aunt because she is the only family I have. My father locked himself away after my mother died in a car accident when I was four. I honestly think my father blames me for her death because I survived the car accident. Anyway I sit down and she puts a plate of butterscotch rocks pancakes in front of me. I only get them on special occasions so that leaves me wondering what is going on. Then I remember today is the day my aunt Winter is coming. Now don't get me wrong I love my aunt she is just different. She loves me no doubt about that but she isn't like Rania. She bluntly gives you her opinion no matter who you are and she is obsessed with fashion. she works as a hairstylist and apparently makes quite a bit of money considering what she tries to give us for holidays that we always mail back politely telling her that we don't need such lavish gifts. Her husband Trent died a few years ago in a tragic mining accident this visit will be the first time I have seen her or her annoying brat of a daughter I am not looking forward to this. That is when Rania pulls me out of my thoughts by yelling kindly " YOU ARE LATE BOY GET YOUR LAZY BUM GOING" I jump from my chair and pull on my converse and run out the door. I climb in the car and start moving down the road. Twenty minutes down the road I realize I forgot to put on a shirt. I keep driving if worse comes to worse they can walk out to the car. I finally arrive at the airport and look in the back seat of my car there I find a Panic! At The Disco shirt and pull it on over my head. I weave through the crowd until I run into a blonde girl who jumps and basically screams "Oh my gosh Tristian I wouldn't have recognized you!" I gasp and feel the sudden urge to run away it is Leah a girl who used to go to my school that is until she got put in a nutter school. She has been there ever since " OMG Leah I haven't seen you since you left for Oswons's. she smiles and says "yeah I am coming back for the summer." "Welp gotta go great talking to you again " " I say before I purposely go get lost in the crowd. I finally get to the gate where I am supposed to meet Winter and her daughter. Winter is not that hard to see considering she is yelling at another person. I run over to where she is yelling and see she is yelling at a man. I of course know the man that is mad and I almost always end up getting into it with him. I start to walk over and he grabs my aunt's arm angrily. That is when I run over and punch his square in the nose. He hits back with a strong right hook and I hit the ground hard. I feel a tiny hand help me up and see Alexandria gosh she looks amazing. She got hit with puberty hard. I jump up with her help and see him laughing at me she tries to stop me I vaguely hear but I tackle him anyway. I knock him to the floor and roll on top of him. I begin pummeling his face and then he unexpectedly shoves me backwards but before I can get to him a security guard wraps his big beefy hands around my arms holding me back. As I look at him is see in satisfaction he has a split lip and black eye plus a huge bruise blossoming on the side of his cheek. I can tell I still am looking at him with bloodlust in my eyes then I am escorted off the premises. I see Alexandria and realize she looks like the girl in my dream and behind her Winter is walking her face down holding a little blonde girl's hand the little girl looks about ready to fall asleep walking. I walk over and with her mother's permission I pick up Rania's niece I never knew she had and carry her towards the car. I put her in the car and buckle her seat belt as I walk around the car Winter comes up and hugs me and thanks me for protecting her. Then Alexandria walks up to me and hugs me she then tells me to call her Alex I nod even as I wonder why. We get in the car and start driving home. On the way home I glance in the mirror and realize I look like a train wreck. When we get to the house I pull on a sweatshirt I find in the bottom of the trunk and pull the hood up and grab the girl's bags. Then I hurry up to the house and up the stairs quickly depositing the bags in the guest bedrooms. I walk into mine and open the third drawer to the left. Funny thing when people look at my computer desk they don't see the third drawer and the plans on the desk don't have one printed on it. But oh well I guess I reach in and pull out a small compact makeup kit perfectly matched to my skin tone. I quickly cover up my bruises and walk to the door right as Rani yells for me. I thump down the stairs and walk into the kitchen. She looks me over once and this conversation legit is our relationship.
Rani: "I heard you was in a fight again boy."
Me:" depends on who told you"
Rani: "a good Christian woman's nephew"
Me:" Then nope nephew must not have been very good with faces and names."
Rani: (glares at me with death look)
Before I knew what was happening she was across the kitchen pinning me down with a wet rag in her hand. "crap" before I can stop her she has swiped across my face making me whimper in pain as she wipes my bruises. I am seventeen years old and am whimpering in pain gosh I need to man up. As Rani wipes my face I gasp in pain that is the first time I have ever actually felt anything when she was doing that. Rani gasps and jumps back I sit up quickly my cheek still burning with pain and walk over to the mirror we have hanging above the stove. Then I see why she jumped back on my cheek is a burn mark in the shape of a wolf.