When Insults Are Secret Messages | Hope and Lizzie

Booty Call

Hope was sitting in the front seat of the car feeling on edge she needed some feeling of release, and she knew what she had to do in order to get it, but it didn't make her feel good.

As the car back to the school, Hope decided to take a break from reading, she closed the book and made sure to mark the page before turning her head to the back seat, and one of the boys sitting there gave her a warm smile.

It made Hope blush. It was a long time since someone showed her genuine affection and not because she was a booty call. Turning back, looking at the road, the gates that held the supernatural in and the rest of the world came into sight. They opened, and the car stops at the entrance where two girls stood who Hope knew all too well, and one of them is on her bad list.

Hope, Alaric, and the two new students exited the car.

One of the boys was Landon, the soft and kind kid who just had a rough upbringing who doesn't quite know what he his yet and his foster brother Rafael a newly turned wolf who lost his girlfriend and had significant anger issues.

Rafael was confused about what was going on, but Alaric told his daughters to take him on the school tour and explain what was going on before leaving the five students alone.

Josie and Lizzie grabbed Rafael's arm and started walking away but not before saying, "Hi Hope" sarcastically.

"Hi, girls," Hope said, almost sounding defeated until Lizzie said "more like despair" loud enough for her to hear but no one to pick up on.

Hope could think of what the words meant, but she had other tasks at hand, she took Landon to Alaric's office where he already settled in and waited for the two to show up.

"so what do you know of the supernatural, Landon?" Alaric asked

"I don't know much, but I think I might be one," Landon said

"what do you mean you think you might be one?"

"a couple of years ago, I went to my very religious Catholic foster parents and told them that I was gay. That's when the nice parents that I knew weren't so nice, my foster father started beating me until I was unconscious the next thing I remember was waking up in the woods full of ash, and I didn't know at the time, but they killed me, and I came back to life." Landon said with tears in his eyes

Hope didn't know what to say, so she hugged him, trying to comfort him.

"How did you find out," Alaric asked.

Landon looked around the room, and Hope gave him a nod that it was okay to say what he wanted to.

"a year later, I noticed a couple of things first off I felt stronger than I could ever imagine, but something was still wrong. I was living on the streets and became very depressed one night I climbed the tallest building in the city surprisingly it was empty but what do you expect in negative degree weather. I looked down and jumped for what felt like an eternity I was falling then I woke up again with ashes all over me like my body was on fire."

"that's quite a story, Landon, but if you are saying this just to get into the school, it's not going to work," Alaric said clearly.

Landon pulled out a pocket knife and slit his throat without hesitation, both Hope and Alaric were in shock, looking at his body lifeless when Hope tried to force-feed him her blood, but it wasn't working. She looked at Alaric with an angry face because it was like he pushed him to do this without actually saying the words. When something caught the two's attention, smoke and then a large flame engulfed Landon and just as fast went out.

In about ten seconds of staring, someone poked their hand out of the ash, and it was Landon Hoping this was enough proof to show that he was supernatural.