The Way It Should Be

Chapter Thirty-Four

Its been about a week now, days I spend with Jack, trying to avoid going to his house at all possible.

Nights I go with Darren and Evra to follow Mr. Crepsley around, its so weird, usually he would have known we were following him and immediately snap at us and send us back, but no, either he knows we're following him and doesn't say anything about it or that he just doesn't know.

Every couple nights I have to give Darren some blood, he always refuses, but I make him drink it anyway, its the only way he'll service after all, I would rather him drink from me than drinking from a stranger.

Most days I don't sleep, I get like one hour of sleep, it's not good, my health is horrible.

I'm losing blood, I rarely sleep, and I run around all day and night. I'm exhausted.

I have developed bags under my eyes.

Right now I am probably going to my ultimate demise, Jack has noticed I have been avoiding going to his place so he's forcing me to go now.

"I don't want to though." I whine.

"Come on you need to meet my siblings! Pleeeease!"

"Fineeee." I smile.

"Are you okay?" He asks.

"What why?"

"You just look really sleepy."

"I am super sleepy..."

"Oh yeah, speaking of which, I've noticed you and your brothers leaving late at night."

"Yeah, we've been going to see our father."

"Oh, but some nights you'll go on different trails, like you and Darren would run off into an alley way and then Evra would walk on the sidewalk, I swear one night I saw Darren on the top of a roof."

"Thats probably your imagination, and we go different ways because we like to see who will get there first."

"Do you always win?"

"No, Darren does."

"I would imagine you to win."

"Nah, Darren always wins."

"Oh well we're here!" He says pointing at his house.

I frown. "Yeah, oh, have you told anyone about my ears and tail?"

"No, I didn't want to make you made if I did."

"Thanks." I sigh. "That helps a lot." I whisper.

"Let's go in." And with that we enter, I gulp prepared to meet Ethan oh and his sister.s

"Hello, Mom! Dad! I'm back!" Jack yells.

"Hey, Jack we're in the kitchen!" Mr. Dutch yells.

"OK we are coming!"

And we walk into the kitchen, where I see 2 out of 3 of Jacks siblings.

"Oh, Tux, this is Megan and this is Sarah, as you can see they are twins." Jack introduces.

They both have long blonde hair and each have jeans and a sweater on, but Megan has a blue sweater and Sarah has a pink one.

"Oh, I'm Alicia Tux Horston." I say.

"She should go meet Ethan, since her name is the same as his real sisters." Megan says.

"Yeah, is he home?" Jack asks.

"He's in his room." Sarah says.

"OK let's go Tux!" Jack calls.

He grabs my hand and drags me to his brothers room, I make sure my ears tail are covered up.

"Don't worry, even if he saw them he wouldn't judge you."

Jack knocks on the closed wooden door to Ethan's room. "Ethan you in there?"

"Yeah one sec." I hear from other side.

Then a man opens the door and looks at us.

"What do you want?" Ethan asks, sort of rudely.

"I wanted you to meet my girlfriend." Jack says.

I smiled at Ethan and my bow slightly, "Nice to meet you. I've heard a lot about you from Jack." I look up at him.

"Oh nice to meet you, Jack has told me a lot about you too..." He looks at me weirdly, he knows its me!

"He has?" I smile and giggle a little. "That's good to hear, so I don't have to worry on him cheating."

He narrows his eyes at me. I notice that he is a sort of pink ish color, not a whole lot, but a tiny bit, maybe a sun burn from the summer that carried out till now.

"Do I know you from somewhere?"

"No, I don't believe we have." I look at my phone and see that its around 7. "Trust, me I'd remember."

"Oh... Well it is nice meeting you, Alicia."

"Call me Tux." I say, before yawning.

"Ah, its already super late," Jacks sighs, "Dang it we got here too late... You should go home and get some sleep."

"Thanks, but I need to go visit dad."

"You can skip one day can't you...?"

I shake my head, "I don't think so... anyway, see ya tomorrow, nice meeting you Ethan."

Waling down the stairs, alone, I pass by Jack's mom and dad.

"Going home already?"

"Yeah." I smile.

"You should really stay for dinner." His mom suggests.

"Would that be alright?" I ask, thinking about actual home cooking.

"Of course it would be!"

"I'll go ask my brothers." I smile.

"Alright, I hope you can come over."

I nod my head and head out of the house.

"Hey guys." I say as I walk into the hotel room.

"You're staying here tonight." Darren says.

"What? Why?!"

"You've been having trouble sleeping for two years now, its taking its toll now, so get some sleep." Evra says.

I sigh, "I was actually gonna ask if I could skip tonight to have dinner with Jack and his family."

Darren looks reluctant now, he looks like he wants me to go with them, but says nothing about it.

"Alright... Have fun." He smiles.

I smile and wave at the running back over to Jack's place.