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

Very Funny Dimitri

Damien's POV 

"So, when do you think she will wake up?" I ask. 

"Cleo predicts...2 seconds," Cleo smiles. 

"I...2..." Riza calls. 

"Cleo is wrong!" I laugh. 

"What are you talking about?" Aly wakes up. 

"You owe Cleo five bucks!" Cleo smirks. 

"We never bet on anything," I try. 

"In Cleo's homeland, when Cleo predicts something it is automatically a bet," Cleo explains. 

"That's a lie! You just made it up!" I yell. 

"Stop talking so loud," Aly complains. 

"Sleeping Beauty," I murmur. 

"Where is Cleo's money? And Cleo wants it in shwiney coins!" Cleo grins. 

"I don't have that many shwiney coins!" I tell her. 

"Uh huh." 

"Uh uh." 

"Uh huh." 

"Uh uh." 

"Give her the money!" Riza talks through the intercom. 

"Ugh," I groan as I fork over a five dollar bill. 

"Cleo said shwiney coins!" Cleo throws the bill on the floor. 

"I don't have any!" I try. 

"Cleo will see!" Cleo grabs my wallet out of my hands and searches. Out falls a picture. 

"Oh! Who is this? Cleo wants to know!" Cleo smiles. I sigh. 

"I dont..." I start. 

"I wanna know too," Aly joins in. I sigh double time. 

"This is me and my cousins. That's Margarita (pointing to the tallest girl in the picture), that's me (I point to the only boy in the picture), my three triplet cousins (pointing to the row of identical triplets in matching outfits). That's Arisa (pointing to the triplet in middle), Alisa (pointing to the one on the left), and that's Aniya (pointing to the one on the right)." 

"How do you know which is which?" CLeo asks. 

"Arisa has a beauty mark under her right eyes. Aniya's beauty mark is under her left eye. Alisa doesn't have a beauty mark," I explain. 

"Wow, and you are the only boy cousin they have?" Aly asks. 

"Yeah," I smile and place the picture back where it was. 

"Hmm. That makes me miss my family," Aly says. She gets up and sits in the back corner. 

"Aly? Are you okay?" I ask. 

"Yeah, why wouldn't I be?" Aly answers. I frown. 

Aly's POV 

I sat in the back corner and wondered. Ulison would come back to take me for revenge. I just don't know when. 

When I think the time is right Alison. You will leave the STF behind and never return... a voice in my head says. 

I look up. Damien and Cleo were playing Texas Hold'em and Cleo was winning. I knew they weren't talking to me and Riza was piloting the plane. That was Ulison. Why was she in my head? I don't want to see or hear from her. 

I get up and walk to the front of the plane where Riza was piloting. 

"I think you should sit down. You're limping," Damien calls. Limping? I look down at my feet to see a huge bandage wrapped around my ankle.Oh yeah...I tripped over barbed wire and had a panic attack. I don't know what happened after that. 

"I'm fine," I reply. I actually hadn't noticed the pain. I sit in the co-pilot chair. 

"Is there something wrong?" Riza asks. 

"Can I ask you something?" I say. 

"What?" Riza pulls the plane up a little more to level. 

"If you wanted revenge, would you ditch your friends for it, or stay with them?" I ask. 

"Well...I think you would be better off with your friends, but then again somethings you just have to do alone," Riza looks at me. 

"Oh okay," I look out the window. 

"Can you press that green button for me?" Riza asks. 

"Sure," I reply. I press the button in front of me. The wheel light comes on indicating that I just put the wheels down. 

"No not that one!" Riza presses the one I press and reaches above my head to get a different green button. 

"Sorry," I apologize. 

"Jeez. Al was a better partner," Riza mumbles. I laugh. I know that one place I shouldn't be is the front of an airplane. 

Dimitri's POV 

I saw a huge plane fly over the sky. I recognized it. It was the STF plane. 

"Dude! You dissed Skye? Do you know how popular she is?" Evan skates over to me. It was the middle of the night and I had unpacked my stuff in the house and came back outside. 

"Yeah," I say nonchalantly. 

"Dude, your reputation will be ruined at school," Evan throws his hands up. 

"I'm not going back to school. Change of plans. Help me get my stuff," I ask. 

"Why?" Evan rushes to my room with me, packing my stuff in a bag. A few minutes later we are back outside. I have my mom's keys starting up her Toyota Corolla. 

"I need to go now. If anyone asks, I was headed to China," I back the car up and sped down the road. I knew how to make it so no one from the STF could sense me. Take three fingers, put them to your mouth, call whatever power you have, and touch your forehead. I don't know why it works though. It seems stupid. But I don't care. I don't want to see Aly just yet. 

Aly's POV 

Riza winced as we landed in Russia. 

"What's wrong?" I ask. 

"I can't sense Dimitri anymore," Riza tells me. 

"What do you mean you can't sense him?" I ask. 

"He's not on my radar. I don't know where he is," Riza explains. Dammit Dimitri. That's very funny. Now we are on a wild goose chase, using any leads we can.