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

Mother?

Cleo's POV

"Oooooooooooooohh shwiney!" I purred as we got to the jail house. It was shwiney.

"Cleo, we're not here to look at the jail house, but to look at the person inside the jail house" Riza reasoned, making me nod. "If we get in and out, without getting caught, then I'll get you something shiney"

"oooooh! oooooh! shwiney!" I purr again, thinking of my new shwiney object.

"I think she went into her own shwiney world, full of shiney things, and where every thing is shiney" I hear one of the boys say. I shake my head.

"No! It's shwiney, Sh-WINE-EYYYYYY!!!!" I started beating him with my spoon. It was the one who decided that striping is fun. If I was from anywhere but the family I was in, then I might have beat him up because of it.

"Ow, first fire, then suffocating, then glass, now this? GOSH, you people are mad."

"Cleo isn't mad, Cleo is Cleo!" I started beating him more. He was getting madder.

"That's it everyone out!" Riza ordered.

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Riza's POV

It didn't take much to break in, well, as long as I didn't set off the fire alarm. And upset Cleo. As long as she was busy whipping Alegretto with the spoon, we were good.

"Okay, it's all clear to go, I knocked the security guards out, and took out the cameras." Aly said, crawling through the air-vents. She had gone ahead, while I babysat the others. She finally came back, with good reports.

"Then let's hit it, and go." I jumped in, followed by the others. They all stayed silent, which was a miracle. I never thought that they would.

After much crawling, we finally find the place and jump out. But when we do, we find my mother, there talking to this guy.

"Mother?" I gasp, as I balled my fists. What was she doing here?

"That's your mom?" One of the other guys say in an annoying tone. I made flames appear below his feet.

"Riza, where have you been?! You worried me deeply! Now come on, let's get going home."

"No. Not before I figure out why you are here."

"Theresa Riza Terezinha Tabithana Tsuki Nadie Detrasta. You will tell me at once where you have been, and come with me right now!" My mother ordered.

"Theresa? Is that you?" The man behind bars said, standing up. Wait a minute...that was Jacob Filtguradner!"

"I'm sorry, I'm not you're daughter, I'm Riza."

"But you called that women your mother, and she was my wife."

"So you named me after you're daughter that disappeared, and no one saw again? And you never told me about this?!" I yelled.

"No, you are my only child, but your father, well, you are looking at him. He got placed in jail for a crime against you, that he didn't do. No one ever did anything with magic with you."

"You do know you are wrong. Right? I can use magic, and now the government, and some ninja, or assassin, or somebody, is out to get me, and all of us. I can't believe you lied, and never told me in the first place! GO TO HELL MOTHER, GO TO HELL!" I ended up shouting, as my fists began to glow a soft orange glow. The others stepped back.

"You don't make Riza, mad, Cleo saw what happened, and Cleo doesn't want it to happen to Cleo." Cleo shook her head, before getting distracted by the spoon, going into her shiny world. Honestly, with that girl, sometimes you don't know if she's six, or sixteen.

"I didn't tell you, because I thought you were better off not knowing. I thought you found out, that's why we moved to Brazil, so if anyone else found out, they wouldn't be able to tell you. It was all because of a little girl called Alison"

"Don't you dare, say another word about my FRIENDS!" I scream, burning her to a crisp, "NO ONE, GETS TO HURT THESE PEOPLE. THEY ARE THE ONES WHO ARE ALL JUST LIKE ME, WHO YOU NEVER LET ME BE WITH. ALY IS MY FRIEND, AND IT WILL STAY THAT WAY!" Before I knew it, My mother was a pile of ashes.

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Alegretto's POV

"Okay, so your powers did come in, all of you, I need you to listen up, and follow my instructions carefully" The man~Apparently Riza's father said. "The government wants you guys contained, and killed, because of your powers. I can't let that happen, because you guys would become test subjects, and never see daylight again. Everyone needs to get out of here and go to Theresa's house to get my notebooks. There will be some instructions there. Your main goal is to stay alive, for a year, until I'm freed. I feel that there isn't enough time, so you need to go somewhere for me. In that place, you will be safe, until I get there. I can't tell you the place, just get to my notebooks. It's big, with a black cover."

"Okay, will do, but may I ask you something?" Riza's fists finally cooled down, and she finally calmed down. "Why wasn't your name on my birth certificate?"

"Your mother didn't want my name on there. We had filed a divorce three weeks before."

"Um, guys, I think people are coming," I say, as I heard security running over, with their chains.

"Okay, let's go, and get the hell out of here," Aly says, grabbing Cleo's arm. Everyone nods, and starts to climb up the air vent.

"Thanks, I think I understand more now, and got somewhat what I was looking for." I hear Riza say behind me

"Just go, I will explain everything later" Was the man's response, as Riza jumped up behind me.

I always wanted to go to Brazil, just not like this.