Duet with myself

The move

I started to dry myself off, we were back at the cave, and Charlie was packing up his things to move in with me.

"where is Ludo?" I asked.

"he probably went off on a walk, or something." Charlie said smiling at me. "done, are you ready to leave?"

"yeah, but there's one problem."

"oh yeah, what's that?"

"I uh... I don't know where I live!" I said thinking that he would call me stupid or dumb.

"oh that's ok, I know where you live."

He said while grabbing his stuff.

"uh... Why do you know where I live?" I asked.

(he is starting to sound stalkerish again.)

"just to keep an eye on you, and make sure you're safe." he said like it was no big deal.

" uh 'to keep an eye on me'? What does that mean?"

"well the members of the curse are supposed to protect you, and how are we supposed to do that without at least knowing where you live?"

"oh... Yeah, I guess you're right."

(it's still creepy though!)

He picked up his backpack that was now crammed with the things that used to be scattered across the floor. We started for the door when a thought accrued to me. What if someone sees me walking into my house with a strange guy that doesn't live in this town (that they know of anyways).

"You should probably turn into a cat and let me carry you the rest of the way. I don't want people starting rumors about me being with a strange guy."

I said softly.

"Oh... Um ok, but then you would have to carry all of my stuff AND a cat!" He said trying to get me to change my mind.

"Don't worry it couldn't be that heavy."

He gave a slight nod and transformed into his animal form. I put his clothes that he transformed out of into his bag, and put his bag on my back and headed out. Charlie walked in front of me so I could fallow him to my apartment.

"so... Um where are your parents?" Charlie asked awkwardly.

"well my mom is in Florida, she just recently moved there. She said that she moved because....... She wanted to live by the sun..."

That was a lie. She just wanted to get away from me, because I was her reminder of dad.

You see, my dad went missing several years ago. We're not sure what happened, I think that he left us for a reason. My mom on the other hand thinks that he killed himself, because He had just gotten fired from his job, and he had been getting in fights with my mom.

"JADE LOOK OUT!!"

my mind jerked back to reality, and there was a man on a bike heading full speed towards me.