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chapter 4, the stranger (part one)

CHAPTER 4, the stranger

Mason

"Hullo, welcome to American air lines, how may I help you?" the chirpy counter woman said as my group walked up to her. We had been waiting in line for what seemed forever but probably wasn't.

"Hi, we are here to get our tickets?" Jace spoke up for our group. Out of all of us, only he and I have flown before, and he was the oldest.

"Where are your parents?" I heard the sweet smile in her voice, flashing slightly yellow teeth at us.

"we are flying to meet our parents." he said, wrinkling his nose slightly at the over powering stink of the woman's perfume, even from him I could smell it, Gale scooted alittle farther back from the smell of it.

"Oh that's nice. Now under what name did you register the tickets?" she said, her fingernails clicking on the key board, I beat they are fake.

"My name is Nathen Lethen, with my twin sisters Mila and Malaren Lethen, their friend Patricia Skywren. Plus our dog." Jace pointed to each of us in turn, so the lady could look at them and confirm their face with the picture in her computer. Lastly she leaned over the desk to look at Gale. He wagged his tail, the plumes swishing through the air.

"Oh she is a cutie." the girl smiled at him, showing her teeth again, he wagged his tail one more time, slowly, like he was unsure.

"He." I said instantly, then blushed at my rudeness.

"He?" the woman looked up at me, frizzy blonde hair falling from behind her ears.

"Yea, this is a boy, even if he looks like a girl." I looked down at the luggage on the ground, not liking to meet peoples eyes.

"Do you have a special ticket for him?" the woman asked.

"Yes, it should be included in the registry." Jace said, saving me from more talking, thankfully

"Ok, please put your bags on the scale as I hand you your tickets."

The process didn't take to long, and they each got 4 pieces of paper, one for each plane, and a baggage claim ticket.

"You know I miss the days when it was one ticket." I sighed as I lamely tried to arrange the tickets, then folded them into my passport.

"Yea, then they stapled them together." Jace grumbled.

"Now they just hand them to you, as if just begging for them to get lost." I huffed, stuffing the passport into my old, beat-up, blue areopostal bag.

"Shows how lazy Americans are these days." Alyxa said, walking behind me.

"Kind of sad really." Ashley said, next to me, I frowned and looked to where jace was. He was in front of me, and Gale padded along the other side of me, opposite of Ashley.

"Well do we want to eat before or after security?" I asked, trying to get out of the little shell they had built around me, whether on purpose or not was the question of the day. "C'mon guys, don't hover around me like this." she complained.

"Like what?" Jace asked innocently, yes, defiantly on purpose.

"I am going to make you spontaneously combust if you don't knock it off." I growled low, only they could hear me, and they all had bionic hearing, normal people might get concerned if they heard that.

"We are your guards, we need to protect." Alyxa murmured behind me into my ear.

"You are also my friends, and you know it looks weird to the people to see a girl sheltered like this." I tried to persuaded them, I accidentally heard Gales thoughts, wondering why I persuaded, and didn't force.