The Dragon Girl - The Beginning (English)

6.

The whole afternoon since I came home I had been walking around in circles. I had thrown the bike back in the shelter, put my television on at the local news channel, and just walked around in circles, thinking about what I would have to do. Would I be able to convince Trevor never to talk about it with anyone? No, he was really mad. But he does know it wasn't my fault.. But would he care about that? Ofcourse not, he's an a**hole. Admitted, not as bad as Quinten, but still..

"What are you doing?" Anna asked me. She had been busy making homework, but probably got distracted by the noise from the television. "Is everything alright?" I stopped walking.

"Yeah, everything is alright.." I said. "Just a little nervous for a test I have tomorrow.."

"That nervous?" She smiled a bit. "I've never seen you watching the news before, is that needed for the test tomorrow?" I shrugged. I just wanted to be alone to think about what I should do. What if they would figure out who was at the fire without Trevor's help? They must've found my bicycle by now, it has been a whole day.. Anna walked towards me and gave me a hug. I was a bit surprised by this, because I was too busy thinking about my own problems that I didn't see it coming. "It will be alright, you can do it, girl" she said.

"Thank you.." I said as an answer. She was so kind..

She let go of me. "I'm gonna go back to my homework. Maybe you too should go study instead of just walking around in those circles, you might be a bit better prepared that way for your test." I smiled at her, after which she left my room.

I sat down on my bed. Maybe I shouldn't think that much about it. As long as nothing is said about it on television, everything was alright. I decided to turn off the news and do something else to distract myself. If it were to come to the point, I just had to make sure the police would believe me, seen I was a victim myself. And like I had thought of before, they wouldn't be able to link the bike that quickly to me, seen it was such a standard bike. But what if they did suspect it had to do something with someone who was at the fire? What if they would trace fingerprints or something? No, don't think about that. Right now I just had to make sure I stayed calm, before I would get a headache from thinking so much about it.

I grabbed my laptop, and turned on some anime to distract my thoughts.

And then it happened.

Suddenly the doorbell rang. Quickly I tried to go to the door, but Eric, who was home as well, was much faster and opened it. I stayed at the top of the stairs, listening to the voices that were audible now. It didn't sound like police. But who was it then? Trevor? They seemed to be with more people. Did he bring his parents as well?

I heard a loud bang, as if someone hit something. Then it fell silent. Shocked I walked backwards, away from the stairs. Did they punch Eric down?! Then it sure wasn't the police. This had to be Trevor, maybe with his group or something, wanting revenge for what happened to Quinten!

I wanted to run away, climb outside through a window, but my dad was still downstairs. I really hoped he was alright, and really wanted to go to him to make sure of that, but I was so scared. Then I didn't have to anymore. Footsteps started to climb the stairs. Before anyone would be able to see me I ran upstairs, to the attic, as silent as possible on my socks, to Anna's room.

"What's going on?" she asked me with a soft voice. She had to have heard the sounds as well, she at least looked like it.

"I don't know. A group of people was at the door. They did something to Eric, and now are on their-" my sentence got cut short my Anna who suddenly looked behind me, towards the stairs, with a scared look in her eyes. I looked around. It wasn't Trevor. Who they were, I had no idea, but they were covered in scales, just like I was yesterday.