I also didn’t understand her anger, she should blame Uncle Robinson and not me, if she indeed saw the real truth. Well, I will be honest, I was a little scared because I knew she was a vampire and I had no power to fight no vamp. Many things happened that day. I went back to my class after the whole thing and I just sat there thinking of what would become of me. I wished mom had withdrawn me from that school like I requested. Even so, it was my fault because I agreed to return there on my own. That was on my eighth birthday. I decided that I’d go back to Uncle Robinson to ask him one more time to help me. I was going to face Nick the vamp at the camp, and I had to get power to help my sister, and tackle the problem of facing Vera, the vampire. It was all too much for me. Joe didn’t want me asking for help from the alpha, then what?? Who would help me then? I was human, I shouldn’t have had these things revealed to me, or maybe I found them out myself. But still, I already knew about them. And now that I knew, I needed to find a way out. I should not have been that curious. It was my mistake that might have cost me a lifetime. Or it could have been Joe’s mistake. It might have been his fault after all–he was always after me, bullying me, showing his abilities to me, transferring his memories, why wouldn’t I be curious to know more? I was only human. Maybe my childhood problems would have been limited to the neglect and domestic abuse I suffered and watched mom suffer, alone, but now I knew a lot of things and that didn’t help; it’s only made things worse for me. Curiosity kills the cat indeed.
That day after school, everyone went home but I didn’t. In fact, I kept Mike waiting outside on purpose. Camp was in few days time and I was grateful for it. You know why? I wanted to be anywhere but home. I kept remembering the incident at the river where Mike defiled me, I kept remembering how much pain I felt, that I had to cry out. I kept remembering how much of a scumbag Cameron was, and how much my sister needed me to save her future. I was sure the camp would help me. There, I might find answers and if I didn’t, at least, I would feel better being there and staying away from here. Or so I thought
So, you see, the camp that I so badly tried to avoid became what I was anticipating day by day.
Uncle Robinson was already packing up his stuff and closing for the day when I knocked on his door. Bold me! Nothing scared me anymore, except vampires of course, and maybe the figure lurking around my room every now and then(probably Jamie’s future abductor). But at least not werewolves. All my school life, I’ve had werewolves surround me and I did not know it. I’ve had two or three of them attracted to me too. So, I was no longer scared of them, but I was still a bit scared of what alphas could do. Alphas like Uncle Robinson.
“Hi Ariana” he said to me as soon as I entered his office. It was weird being greeted that way by a teacher triple my age.
“Hello sir.. I want to talk to you”
“I know. I was waiting” my heart jolted. How did he know? “Ariana, didn’t you say you weren’t scared of werewolves? Why’s your heart doing a somersault because someone read your mind?” I asked myself in my mind. “Okay, yeah you said you were scared of what alphas could do, but he was kind to you the last time, why are you still scared of him?” I asked myself
“Better stop thinking, he probably heard you again” i thought and cleared my throat. No need asking how he found out I wanted to talk to him.
“Sir… I need your help” I started slowly.
“Hurry up, I have a meeting to attend and I got little time left” he said, fastening his watch on his left wrist.
“Errr …. I want you to help save my sister, Jamie, please. It’s the only thing I ask of you”
“I do not help humans, I kill them” is what he said and got up, ready to leave with his suitcase
I hurriedly stopped him in his tracks and knelt down. I didn’t know why I did, it was not a habit or a culture to kneel, but I just did-i was desperate.
“She’s going to die. Please help me” I begged. In the process of pleading and running after him, I lost my key, the key to my house
“That’s not my business. You were instructed not to look into her future” he said and made for the door. I followed him out and kept pleading. Why was he suddenly acting strange? I thought he claimed he liked me?
I held his hands and cried. He looked into my face gently and said, “Be my mate” then, he left. Like lightning, he was soon out of the school. I followed him but he was faster. I was running but I still didn’t catch up with him. Mike ran after me, wondering why I would be running after a teacher. He was still waiting with his truck. He pulled me back.
“Don’t touch me!” I yelled. “Don’t do it!” He released my hands. Then I started to cry. He bent down and looked into my face.
“Ariana” he said, slowly like he was scolding me. His voice was shaky. I looked at him for one minute–his eyes had dark circles underneath them. His eyes bore some long endured sadness. I hadn’t noticed because I didn’t look at his face ever since he defiled me. It seemed to me that he had not been sleeping well.
“I am really sorry” He said and I was moved to tears. “Please forgive me. Find a place in your heart to forgive me” I looked away quickly because I had started seeing that incident. It was imprinted in my mind and I found it hard to forget how he pulled me so close and refused to let me go. How he forced his fingers into my…
“Just go away” I said in my head. I went into the truck and sat in the back seat. He got in the drivers seat without saying a word and drove me away. He drove home straightaway . When we got home, I let him go in before i walked to our own door. I knew I had lost the key to the house but I had to pretend like all was fine. But he noticed and walked up to me.
When he realized that I had lost my key and wasn’t going to ask him for help, he asked me to come into his apartment and wait for mom. But I refused. I was struggling with him when mom’s car zoomed into our parking lot. She had seen us.
She usually didn’t arrive home until about four hours after I arrived, so I was surprised to see her. Even Mike was. . He said hello to mom and went into his apartment. The babies were in the car. I helped mom push them into the house after she unlocked the door. They were awake and playing with their chubby legs. It made my heart flutter. They stared back at me as I pushed them into the house. But it hurt me to look at Jamie, the blonde one for too long. It hurt me to think I might not be able to save her from the impending danger in her future. She was too cute, too innocent to suffer that much.