Whisper

Twenty-Seven

One month. Four weeks. Twenty-eight days.

The day is getting closer and I start believing that we won't have enough time. I don't know how hiding Dani and training ourselves is going to prevent the gates from opening. We don't know what we're up against and I have no idea what this thing is capable of.

We're running into a battle blind and deep down, I don't think we'll make it. Every night I have a nightmare. Some nights are the same dream I keep having about the waterfall. Other nights, it's a memory of Reyna's vision and dad's face. I'm scared and I don't think we'll win. What would four teenagers and two young adults be able to achieve? Despite that we are Night Watchers, how can we stop this?

I don't even know how my abilities help at all. I can just hear things, that's it. I can hear ghosts and speak to them. How could I stop the world? By hearing the danger coming? Jaxon is only able to Track things down but he would have to know what to track. Melissa can only teleport and Isaac can only look through people's mind. It seems only Lucan is useful as he can fight ghosts and creatures.

Draven's memory showed me that Dani is supposed to save us but I don't know how she can. She doesn't have any abilities yet and she only has strange dreams. I know now she's Eve but I don't know what Eve can do. So far, we are all protecting her. Taking our turns to keep an eye on her and prevent her from anyone coming and snitching her away.

Tonight, Dani is being looked after by Jaxon while Melissa trains Isaac, Lucan patrols the forest and I sit in my room doing nothing. I trace my finger across the carving on my desk. A tear drop. I wish dad wasn't so worried about me; I had to be out there doing something. What could I do by sitting in my room and staring at the graffiti on my desk?

I close my eyes and search for dad's voice, wondering what he is doing now. "Where did Brian run off to?" dad asks.

"He went to a party," Lily replies.

I envy Brian right now. He always gets to leave at night, comes home late and barely pays any attention to school but yet I am the one grounded and he can run around doing whatever he wants.

"Do you think Senera has been grounded long enough?" Lily asks and I straighten my back to the mention of my name.

"She's still hasn't changed. She's still behaving strangely," dad says. I bite my lip knowing that is the truth. No matter how hard I try to act normal, dad can see pass through my façade. I can never hide anything from him.

"Maybe she's hitting her rebellion years?" Lily suggests.

Dad laughs, "Senera doesn't have rebellion years. It's not her nature," dad says. "Besides, if she is, we need to control her before it gets out of hand."

I can have rebellion years. Just because I didn't have any rebellion years before, doesn't mean I can't have any. I groan, staring at myself in the mirror. Why can't I pretend to hide my true feelings? It would be so much more convenient. I can't stand being the reason of dad's worries.

"You can't force her to stay in this house for the rest of her life, hoping she'd change. It can get worse," Lily explains.

"Do you think she hates here? Maybe she's unhappy here but she won't tell me because she knows how much we need to be here," dad says. No, dad. I don't hate being here.

"I don't think she hates it here. I know Senera enough to know that she will tell you everything when she's ready. Maybe she has boy problems. I heard that she's been spending a lot of time with that Sinclair boy," Lily says. Is she referring to Lucan?

"She has a boyfriend?" What? Lucan isn't my boyfriend.

"Maybe, I'm not sure. But it can explain why she's so distant," Lily says. This is getting embarrassing.