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My Own Echo

PART 1

Hey names Kiri.

And wait a second before you set this book down and decide biasly that this is another fictional fantasy teenage drama. Because I personally wouldnt advise a teen to pick up this book. You seee I refuse to edit this book to fit PG ratings or make it suited for "younger viewers". Nope I'm going to write it out just as it happened. I wont sugarcoat it, no dramatizing. Word for word just as it all fell into place verbatim. And u best believe I wont tell you its a true story for it will only convince those stupid people who think they can go out claiming to be searching for facts and ruin the balance of things. Sorry but no. I instead am going to lie to you and tell you that it is 100% entirely fictional, that this never happened. How's that for a change?

Well this story takes place is Florida.

Oh yes. -you are thinking I know this place! Sunny, hot, with its white sand beaches and tall palm trees.... well sorry to ruin reminessing of your college days of wild partying and fun on the Florida shore, but you seem to have mistaken. This is'nt sunny coast Florida, more like dreary, bleak Florida Mainland. Clay county to be more exact. Where it is stuffy, humid, and exceedingly hot half the year and dark, cold and gloomy the other half. The weather here can change on an instant. It could be pouring in your front yard and not a drop of rain will even reach your back porch. This is Lokstone Heights home of the Florida lakes or otherwise called mud holes, the horrid swamp mosquitos, numerous alligators, wild dogs, Florida panthers, the infamous "Lok-stoners"- the towns own band of teenage druggies- and the less know locals known as the Daemons- creatures that seem to be part mortal part god. So unreal its difficult to wrap your brain around. And this is where I leave you.

In a dark summer night in south Lokstone in a small two story house in the woods in a commonly occurring storm.

CHAPTER ONE

"Kiri! Can you put that book down for one second and help me bring the kids in?" Her dad called up the stairs. "On my way!" She got up from the small black desk in her room and quickly slid the chair up closer to it. "Kiri?" Her dad called again. "Im comming, im comming." She shouted back. Bending to pick up her sandals. Pushing the door open she quickly dashed down the red carpeted staircase two steps. At a time dropped her small brown leather sandals and slid her feet inside Them.

Her dad was standing at the end of the stairs by the front door. He was tall a little over six foot with short sandy blonde hair and blue eyes. The only trait she got from his was his pale white skin.

"C'mon the pups are getting soaked." He looked down at her, his large hand on the brass doorknob. He reached with his other hand and pulled two leashes off the small silver hook by the door. "You grab the pups and I'll take care of the other two. He said as he opened the door and rushed into the onslaught of rain.

"The pups" were infact two very large full grown dogs. A german shephard and a mutt both of which were the two youngest of the 5 dogs that Kiri and her parents owned. Her dad often referred to them as "the kids" as Kiri was his only child and his dogs were like family to him.

Kiri sighed as she hid her head in the small hoodie of her grey sweat shirt as she ran out across the front porch and into the now flooded yard. The dogs weren't hard to find as they came to her almost immediately after she set foot in the yard. She wrapped her arms around the shephards collar searching for the silver ring to hook the leash on. She could barely see the door of the house through the thick pouring rain. She hurriedly grabbed the colorful mutt by his collar not even bothering with the seccond leash as she was now being pelted by freezing cold hail. Running up the steps of the porch bent over leading the dogs, one by leash the other by his collar and rushed both dogs into the open door of the house before she was too soaked. "Brr" Kiri shivered as she shook off some of the water in her long red hair when she unclipped the leash from her dogs collar and hung it on the hook.

Kiri looked down and her grey hoodie and blue jeans were completly soaked and dripping into a muddy puddle onto the tile floor. The dogs stopped right in front of her and shook all the water off onto her. "Great." She mumbled "wet dog" the two looked up wagged their tails at her and dissapeared into the living room. She turned to watch the two wet dogs run to see who would take the best seat int the living room, the rug infront of the fireplace. And it was mulch the fluffy multicolored mutt. Kiri smiled as the dogs stretched out in the living room to get dry and left to the small downstairs powder room to get a towel to dry off with.

"Kiri" her dads voice made her jump she hadn't realized he had made it back to the house. She turned around and sure enough there he was pushing two smaller dogs through the hall and away from the front door. "Yea?" she asked.

" Theres someone here for you."

It was then that she noticed the short black haired boy standing outside in the rain.

He was the neighbors kid and was about 12 or 13.

"Come in." She grumbled "no point standing in the rain."

He slowly stepped through the door and shutt it behind him.