Rise of the Nephilim

Two

One I finally got through the front door, I saw that my mum was on the phone in the kitchen then I went to my room and put my bags down. I came back down the stairs to talk get some food. Raiding the fridge I found my prize. Pizza, my favorite and after mum had finished on the phone she came over and sat at the kitchen table.

"We need to talk about something, something important." Uh oh. Never good when a parent says anything like this. If they do, run and hide. If you learn only one thing from this story, let it be this be a lesson to you all. When an adult says this, it means it's important and bad. This phrase is usually followed with things like we're moving, I've got a boyfriend who is your teacher or we've goes bankrupt.

"Can it wait until tomorrow? I'm kind of tired, blame Bella and her obsession with shoes. Please remind me never to shop with her again. Next time I may lose my feet." Lies. I'm going to hell, might as well have fun along the way. Whatever she was about to say was bad and I'd rather hear it tomorrow.

"Uh . . . Sure." And that my friends is how you lie convincingly. Add a lie into a true story and act a little but don't go overboard with the detail. Let's just say I've had a lot of practice and a good teacher.

Truth is that I have a party to go to tonight, and every night, for as long as I live here. This one is special because I get to choose the music tonight. I pull out my outfit I bought especially for tonight. A red vest top with black jeans, a black leather jacket and a black choker necklace with a red stone. My mother said it had been in the family for generations.

Each day it was someone else's turn to choose the music, everyone liked this idea because we all got what we wanted. Unfortunately, there was a curfew of nine 'o' clock across the whole city because of gangs and other things but no one cared as the party began at nine 'o' clock every night.

Once a week everyone contributed a pound to the drinks and snacks fund or bought some things in for the stock pile. Most people know about the party as do the police. However, the police don't know where the party is. We've never been caught though as we also take it in terns to sit watch on the wall for a night.

Looking at the clock, I saw it was time to go. I didn't think, just acted. Leaping out my window with my I-pod in hand, I swung around at the last second and grabbed the drain pipe. Each time I did this I would wait a little longer, this is what made it more fun. I'd taken free running lessons since I was little. It was easy to land if I didn't remember to grab the pipe in time. The hard part is not dying if you fall.

The way to the party was short if a person chose to travel across the roof, by pavement it was longer. High on the roof tops I feel free. This was my place, my world. A world of one wrong move could be a fatal one. If I go over the roves I can cut about half an hour off my trip and look great arriving.

Over all, it took twenty minutes to get there if I ran all the way, which I did. When I was on the rooves I always tried to do new things like different flips, tricks and jumping from different heights and distances. Today was no different, there was a ten meter gap. Which I did a three hundred and sixty flip over! I wish I had filmed that because it was awesome.

Once I got there I started to set up on one of the benches. Some of the early people had begun to arrive. At this point, the captain of our schools football team dropped off the wall with the cooler full of drinks. Some stuff was paid for by the school under the alias of 'Out of school training'.

Ha! Schools are so stupid. Jack saw me when I jumped of the roof. He was always there first as he was kind of in charge so he gets to do all the manual labor. Sucks to be him.

"Yo. Cora, people will start to arrive soon. Hit it!"

"Not how it works." I said in a sing song voice. What is it with men and their commands? I plugged in my I-pod and put downloaded my favorite playlist onto Jacks laptop and hit the play button just as the first people climbed the fence into the car park where the part was held. The first song that started to play was Centuries by Fall Out Boy. I was glad I didn't have to stand there all night and choose which song to play next.

Bella was with the second group to arrive. Time to get the party started properly. I turned out the flood lights and turned on the black lights. Some people had come prepared with their own paint on but the artsy members of the school had paint with them and charged people to get painted. Bella walked up to me in one of the many outfits that she had bought today.

"Well, are you going to dance or what? It's a party after all. Stop being so stressed out, your head might explode." She made her eyes go wide at the last bit. It was then I noticed the figure behind her. It was the guy that walked past me and Bella earlier. The one who had his hood down. One of the ones that doesn't exist.

"Bella, I've got to go or endure the wrath of the mother...." My eyes never left the guy who was leaning against the wall smirking. Nobody could see him. Again. I'm going mad. Again.

"I've been their girl. Run like your life depends on it because if I know your mother, and I do, it does. Go now."

"It might." I mutter under my breath.

"What?" Bella threw me a questioning look.

"Nothing."