Looks can be deceiving

Prologue

My name is Riley Walsh, I'm 17 years old, i have two brothers Brad and Nathan. I'm a senior in Retro High in California and i have a secret a big secret. I'm in the biggest and most dangerous gang in the whole of America, its call the blood hounds. I'm the best fighter there and my job is to protect my gang mates at all costs. It all started when i turned 8, i picked up a knife, it was just sitting there on the side of my brothers room and thought it was amazing. It was so shiny i could see my reflection in it. The handle was bright red with one of my brother initials carved in 'B.W' for Brad Walsh. It was just lying around in the living room and I thought it was the coolest looking thing ever. The blade was so shiny I could see the ceiling reflected in it. It was the handle I was most interested in. The whole hand was red and it had silver writing. That night Nathan came home all cut up and broken, that was that night my dad told me about the gang, I joined the gang as shortly after as i wanted to protect my family. The one person I couldn't protect was my mother, all in one night Nathan got all broken up, I joined a gang and most importantly that was the night my mother died by a sniper shooting her.

My dad and brothers all trained me everyday from 5am-11am then later on at 5pm-11pm, at first i was all bruised and couldn't see a pink part on my skin. I eventually got better and better. Sometimes I was even able to pin down one of my brothers. My knife throwing was excellent and I always hit the target. Guns took me a while to get used to but, I was even better with guns than with knives. By the time I was 14 I could even curve my throws and shots. At 16 I was unstoppable, not even the people that trained me could take me down and they were my family.

With all of this going on i was still In school, lets say a double life if you like, I swapped my leather jacket and tight clothes for baggy and unfitted clothes, my piercing for thick glasses and a wig, my badass attitude for a shy, scared little girl with a stutter. Over all I changed for school however when school was out, it was all back to killing, missions and over all being a badass.

In school i was the girl the was basically invisible, the girl who only had up to 2 maybe 3 friends, and the girl who was targeted to get bullied from the two people that ruled this school that is know as Retro High, Amanda Leeds the head cheerleader and Zach Winters the biggest bad boy of the school. I wore a brown messy wig and thick nerdy glasses with clothes hung of me, they were just plain and simple. I really didn't need glasses it was just to add to the nerd look as I didn't want to be noticed. I can see perfectly fine with out them, I have amazing eye sight.

Zach Winters is in the gang that has always wanted to take down mine. Don't get me wrong, like most kids in our school were in a gang or knew of someone who was but none of them gangs were stupid enouth to try and attempt to over rule ours. I was lucky that he didn't no that I wasn't in a gang other wise he would try to get close to me to get some dirty secrets and destroy my gang or he would try to fight me and we all know that no one and I mean not even my own brothers and farther the ones that trained me will defeat me. Only one person would walk out and that would be me.

It's been two years since I started being a gang member and it's my senior year. No one has discovered my secret and after this year I would be able to stop with the wig and glasses and go around as me.

Little did I know how much this year would change my life.

Little did I know that 'shadow hunter' would be born.

Little did I know my secret was going to be told.

Little did I know I was going to fall in love.

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