Chapter 20

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Dog, cat, hamster, or some type of animal they always manage to bring us together. Even if we are strangers.
Me

*~ Toni's P.O.V ~*

A few days later. . .

I was walking around the mall, I don't know what happened. One moment I was walking with big brother and his friends, and the next I was by myself.

*~ Lachlan's P.O.V ~*

"HOW DID WE EVEN LOSE HER?!" I whisper shouted to them in anger. We were here to only shop for supplies and new clothes. And after telling her to stick with us, she managed to wander off. For Christ sake she was in the middle of the group! How does that even happen? That's what I was questioning.

"Alright you guys, split up! Call if anyone spots her. If you guys got no bars meet up at the food court." Vikk told everyone and we all nodded in response, "Alrighty then, let's go." We all ran in different directions since this was a really big mall.

*~ Toni's P.O.V ~*

There was a pet store coming up, so I walked inside and started playing with the little puppies. But there was one that walked over to me, and I brought it into a hug.
I wore my big brothers sweater, and pink with a white lace trim shirt, grey jeans, white socks, and black converse. My long black hair was pulled back into a braid with a few flowers in it, since Uncle Robot was the one who did it. ((A/N hair and eye colors are back to normal 😁))

"TONI!"

I turned to see Preston standing in front of the store, he rushed over and hugged me. "Puppies. . . Can have?"

He pulled away and looked at me, as I held a white and grey husky with grey eyes, "I don't-."

"Excuse me sir." One of the female workers came over to us, she had her red hair in a pony tail, a blue colored shirt, khaki skinny jeans, and all black shoes, "Is this your sister?"

"Yeah." Preston answered without hesitation, "Why?"

"Well it's because we're giving away the Husky for 100 dollars ((A/N I don't know the currency in Australia and wasn't sure ^^')) since its blind."

"He." I smiled her and they both looked at me, "He is blind."

"Well no one else wants to by him, because he's blind. And poor thing has only been with us for a few weeks. Normally when the younger kids want to play with him, he just keeps away from them. However when she came in, he got really happy and managed to find her, it seems he really likes her."

I looked up at him with puppy dog eyes as did the husky, "Bitte? Por favor? Please?"

After a moment he let out a reluctant sigh, and went to the counter to buy him. I hugged the husky and he started to lick my face as his tail wagged. Preston came back over and we left the store.

"So what are you going to name him?" Preston asked with his hands in his jacket pockets. He was wearing a black hoodie with 3 different colored flames, black beanie, old blue jeans, and some red shoes.

I cradled the husky, and looked down at him. His eyes beaming with hope, "Name. . . Is. . . Hope." He start to lick my face and wag his tail at the new name.

"Good choice for a name. A manly one at that." Preston chuckled as he did a strong man pose which made me laugh

"OHMYGOSHITSPRESTON!!!" We both turned to see a large group of girls coming straight at us, I hid behind Preston and kept Hope close my chest. They swarmed around Preston, and asked for photos and autographs. There was to many people for me to handle so I moved off to the side. Those girls kept on asking questions and stuff like that. ((A/N When Fan Girls Attack! Sounds like a cheesy 50's film if you ask me XD)) 'Preston this. . .' and 'Preston that. . .' I saw starting to get annoyed.

"Hey are you okay?" One of the fangirls asked me

"Yeah. . . I is okay. . . Just don't. . . Like crowds." I forcefully replied to her

She smiled at me, "At least you aren't stuck in between that mob, haha. We'll see you later." She waved goodbye and I did the same. So I looked off to the side. When I couldn't hear their voices anymore, Preston stood in front of me and waved a hand in front of me.

"Don't worry they're gone now." He smiled

I smiled and we continued to find the others, and eventually we did. Lachlan came over to us and hugged me, but I had to push him away since if we stayed like that long enough Hope would pass out. I showed him Hope and told him what happened. Lach looked at Preston with a angry look before he'd looked back at me.

"Don't run off again that guy-." He stopped himself short,"I mean something could have happened to you. Promise not to do that again."

I looked at him, "Promise. . ¿Qué Chico?

(what guy?)

He let out a sigh in reluctance, looking at his friends before back at me, "I'll explain it to you when we get home."

I felt a tap on my shoulder, and I turned to see 2 tall boys. The taller one was darker in skin tone, orange eyes, and black hair. He wore a black long sleeve, blue basket ball shorts, long black socks, and some blue shoes. The other had a tannish pale skin tone, brownish black eyes, and black hair with blonde tips. He had on a red beanie, faded grey sweater, white shirt, black pants, and black shoes.

I could feel my face turning red.

*~ ??? P.O.V ~*

A smirk crawled on to my face as I saw her cheeks turn red. Her eyes darted to her feet and then back to my eyes.

"It is okay if we can pet your puppy?" I asked her

"Yeah." She smiled with a wide nervous grin

Anthony started to pet the dog first and even made some baby noises. The husky was very friendly even as I started to scratch his ear. Taking a quick glance, I saw her friends look at us with uneasy looks. The tall blonde boy and the big nose looked at us especially, since their eyes shifted to white and then to their normal eye colors. Just like when we first saw them at the hospital.

"What's his name?" I looked back and asked her

"Hope. Uncle Preston says 'it's a very manly name'." She turned to a boy with 3 different fire balls on his sweater, "He's blind."

The blonde hair kid had his hair styled in a quiff, bright blue ocean eyes, and was paled skin. He was around both Anthony and my height. He was wearing a thick looking khaki jacket, red t shirt, faded grey jeans, and dress shoes.
He placed a hand on her, and she looked up at him.

"Hey Toni we need to get going now." He spoke in an Australian accent, "So say goodbye to you're new friends."

She looked at us with a sad expression. Both of us noticed her natural eye color shift between light brown to her right eye being a pale grey and her left to be a bright purple. But I just gave her a small smile and both of us gave her a hug, only to see her eyes back to normal.

"We'll see each other again so don't worry, and stay safe." I told her once we parted our hug and she smiled back us before we left.

"So those are the ones protecting her?" Anthony whispered to me once we were far enough away

"They are. Luckily it was a good thing that I followed the Italian and the Canadian after they left the airport." I replied to him

"Then he was right. So did he probably have something to do with this? Right Emilio?" Anthony questioned

"She clearly doesn't remember us, so the answer is yes. For now however we need to keep this between us. Don't tell anyone. . . Especially Brittany." I told him and he nodded in response, "Besides her powers are showing signs of being confined for to long. . . So as soon as we get to the hotel we need to start treading lightly. Since the last time we encountered her she did freshly kill a Tainted."

"Agreed." Anthony replied just as we found Brittany sitting alone and ready to go.

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