The S.T.F. Files, Book 1: S.T.F.

Weird And Weirder

Aly's P.O.V.

"No, I don't feel your presence," Damien says, waking up. Dimitri nonchalantly drinks his milkshake.

"I can't either," I say.

"Okay so we know that me and Aly don't feel it. Miss "Shwiney" probably don't know and ladies-man over there don't know either," Damien looks out the window behind us.

"Wow, we didn't know you were that smart for a moron," Alagretto smirks.

"I'm not a moron!" Damien yells at him.

"I can feel it," Dimitri intrudes.

"You can?" I ask. How come he never told me?

"So that two people who can feel each of our presences," Riza declares.

"We should go home. Its getting late," I say.

"And where are we going? Cleo isn't going anywhere but home to Egypt," Cleo stalks off.

"I have shiny things at my house," I call after her. She stops and turns around.

"Cleo loves shwiney things!" she says happy. "I mean, I guess since Cleo has no where to stay and its dark she will have to stay with the crazy squad."

"We are the S.T.F.," I tell her as we walk to the truck. "The Specially Talented Force. And we stick together no matter what because now we are a family."

"Ok, who's the mom and dad? I vote Aly and Dimitri cause..." Damien stops in his place.

"I'm not old and what the..." I look up to see a huge spider with a ring on its back. I hide behind Dimitri. I hated bugs, but I would never do what Damien was about to do.

"Oh, shwiney!" Cleo exclaims grabbing and cradling the spider. She looks towards Damien who has gone from tanned to pale in a split second. "Wanna see it?" Cleo holds out the spider and Damien screams. He runs and jumps into the already unlocked Tahoe truck.

"I'm not coming out until that spider is gone," Damien yells.

"Put the spider down Cleo," I say.

"What's wrong with him?" Cleo asks. "It's a harmless spider. It wouldn't hurt him."

"Damien has been scared of bugs since the 2nd grade. One day, he's going to have to man up," I tell her.

"Seriously? Cleo loves shwiney things and bugs," Cleo rants on and on. I sigh and look at Riza. She lost in another world thinking. I open my mouth, but close it. I would just leave her alone for now.

"Everyone in the party bus!" Damien says. We all get in. Dimitri drives, I called shotgun, Riza and Alagretto in the second row, Cleo in the back with the spider, and Damien in the back too, but he is sitting as far on the other side as possible. It's so quiet in here, so tense.

"Umm," I think out loud.

"Alagretto, what's with the pretty boy looks?" Dimitri starts out. In my mind I thank him for breaking the silence.

"I don't know, but I hate them. Where I lived, I would get chased by girls everyday. Riza found me," Alagretto answers, staring fiercely out the window. I didn't think that was a good question.

"What's it to you?" Alagretto says, glaring at Dimitri. I think that triggered the personality change. Dimitri slammed on the brakes. Everyone flew forward.

"What the hell is your problem? I ask you one damn question and you gotta get all smart-ass about it," Dimitri yells at him.

"Well maybe if you kept your trap closed, none of this would've happened. Now keep driving," Alagretto snaps. But the opposite happened. Dimitri gets out and slams the door.

"Get in the truck!" I yell at him. I try to lift him up with my air but he's blocking it somehow. I remembered he can use any of our powers by mimicking. Dimitri opens the door and grabs Alagretto by the collar and yanks him out the truck.

"Look, I don't know who the hell you think you are but you need to..." Dimitri starts yelling at Alagretto but gets hit with a flame by Riza. I looked back to see her. The flames in her eyes, the cold stare on her face. She was seriously annoyed.

"SHUT UP!" she yells and throws another fire ball this time at both of them. Alagretto doesn't try to escape but Dimitri tries to block it. Instead he gets hit with the fire and his fire double time.

"Mimicking fire doesn't come easy to idiots," Riza says and sits down. We get back on the road. Damien staring wide-eyed at Riza not even noticing the spider crawling on his shoulder or that Cleo was trying to get it to crawl on his face. Dimitri and Alagretto were burned and sitting mad in the second row next to each other. I was driving and Riza was sitting shotgun, staring out the window. This time I just let it stay quiet. Finally we got to the house. I wanted to give everyone a tour but everyone walked in a each got into a separate room.

Riza strode to her room, first on the right. Dimitri and Alagretto got rooms on opposite sides of the hallway. Cleo's room next to Alagretto's, walking with the shiny silver spoon in hand. Damien opposite of her because he found out the spider was on him after it was practically all over his body and almost went into some unmentionable places. He took like 5 showers until I convinced him that it was off him like all the other germs anywhere.

I sat in the living room and thought for a long time. I don't think this is going to work. The S.T.F. This just might be a joke to everyone and I believed it. I sighed and walked to my room, passing out on my bed. I hope we can get along...