Array
(
[text] =>

Caine's P.O.V

My feet sluggishly moved towards my house. My shoulders were weighed down with exhaustion. As soon as I got in the warm, welcoming house I collapsed onto the couch, completely unaware of the second figure silently sitting on the chair across from me.

Seriously how dumb is Derek really. Asking me to have dinner with his family and then expecting me to actually be nice. Ha I'm going to give them so much hell they will practically force Derek to never see me and as much as it hurts, it's the only way for me to be happy without an insult or wave of pain coming at me every five minutes.

A clearing of a throat brings me out of my thoughts. My head swivels around to the source of the noise and I see a young boy sitting on the chair across from me. Scared I fire a ball of fire then gather water shooting it at him then freezing it. This causes him to scream and I mean scream. Not only did my ears start bursting, literally, but it causes the ice to break and shatter into a million pieces. The house starts shaking, knocking me off the couch so I end up rolling on the ground. Heavy footsteps sloppily run down the stairs. Looking up I see a frantic Jeff running to the kid and start calming him down. Stunned I lie there, my breathing coming out in short pants as the house stops shaking.

"What the hell was that Caine? You can't just randomly do that to someone. What if he got hurt? " Jeff angrily shouts at me.

" Well maybe he shouldn't of scared me like that." I yelled right back at him, pointing at the young boy who I still didn't know the name of.

"Me? Me? You're blaming this on me. I was just sitting here trying to get your attention. Apparently I can't do that without getting attacked." Whatever his name was said whispering the last part.

"Who the hell are you anyway? This is my house. And what was with that screaming dude? It sounded like someone was dying." I say slightly confused as to why he was here.

" This is Matthew. He is your new brother. And he screamed because he felt threatened by you.  He screams when he feels threatened or someone dies. He is a male banshee. One of the only known male banshee's in the world in forever." Explains Jeff calmly well me on the other hand is freaking out.

"Brother? Brother? When did this happen? And why wasn't I told? Don't you think I should of had a say in this? Not that I don't like the idea of having a brother because that's kinda really cool but I think I should of been told. And why is he here? Why isn't he with his parents?"

I knew I was rambling but I couldn't help it. I was in shock. But I knew I said wrong when I asked about his parents because he stormed away running up the stairs and to what I assumed was his room. I look at Jeff for answers.

With a sigh he starts to talk.

"Matthew's mum was a Banshee herself while his father was a human. Matthew's mothers mum was also a banshee so that was why he became one. They were both very powerful banshee's who were, like you, hunted down for their power. No one knew about Matthew since it would of been incredibly terrible if news got out about him. A couple of days ago their family were having a reunion. But things got nasty. Hunters crashed the place killing everyone except for Matthew as his mother told him to take the underground tunnels to the protection agency. That is where I come in. Seeing as I have done a good job at keeping you safe they thought I would be the best choice to look after Matt. He is still a bit emotional so you have to go easy on him, k?" With a sigh and a nod towards Jeff I stand up.

"I'm going to go apologise." I say. Making my way upstairs I strain my ears to see what room he picked as we had two spare bedrooms.  With a silent knock on the door and voice saying 'come in' I let my feet carry me inside. Looking into Matt's eyes I notice they are the colour of a lovely purple colour. Shielding me away from that beautiful purple was a red glaze. He had obviously been crying.

" Look Matthew ummm... well... okay I'm sorry. I shouldn't of said what I said. It was rude and disrespectful and if you ever need someone to talk to I'm here. I can he-" I get cut off be a hoarse, small voice talking.

"Don't. You don't know anything. My grandma and mother died because of what they are. I heard their screams as I ran to safety. My safety. I was selfish. I didn't turn back to help. I let them die. My father thinks I'm dead as well. He had to or else I would of put him in danger. I have no one and I'm probably being hunted now. Only because I got stuck with being this. With being me. " By now Matt was bawling his eyes out.  How could he think this?

" You know what Matt. You're not the only one who has been through hell. My parents got killed too. By my own kind. Sure they were of their nutters but they still killed them. I don't remember them. At least you had some years with them. I barely had any. I'm being hunted by my own kind because of what I am. There is no maybe, there is only an I know.  We have similar situations but you don't see it. " I end breathing heavily.

"I'm sorry. I didn't realise. All I knew about you was that you're under special protection for some reason. I didn't think it was that. I really am sorry. These past few days have been really hard. I have no idea what to do, where to go, what to say. I'm so confused." He had stopped crying by now and his voice isn't as croaky.

With a smirk I give him an amazing idea.

" How about you and I go somewhere tomorrow? I think I know how to cheer you up a bit."

                                                   ****

I'm standing in front of the mirror in a pair of dark semi skinny jeans, a white dress shirt and a leather jacket. I was in no way trying to impress Derek's family or anything. Okay maybe I was but I'm still nervous about having to meet my ex-mates family. Don't get me wrong, I'm still going to make it the worst dinner ever but I can't help but still feel nervous. l still want to make a good first good first impression though. Okay that logic is so bad but oh well.

I make my way downstairs and sneak past Jeff's room. I go to run the door knob but a clearing of a throat stops me. Turning around I come face to fave with Matt. Me being me I say the most irrelevant thing that comes to mind.

"How old are you? You are nearly taller than me." I repeat the most irrelevant thing to say.

"I'm 16. Where are you going?" Matt mutters with a curious glint in his eye. Surprised he is only two year younger than me I reply.

"Um out. Please don't tell." I beg knowing if Jeff found out he would ask why and then I wouldn't be able to go without telling him Derek is my mate.

With a heavy sigh Matt says "Okay I won't tell. Only because you are taking me to this surprise thing tomorrow. "

"Yes thank you, thank you, thank you. You will not regret it."

With one beaming smile at him, I turn and make my way to one hell of a family dinner.

===================================

Thanks guys for the support that you have given me. I didn't think my story would get this far. It's a lot of vote and comments and I have you guys to thank for that. You are all so, so, so amazing.

Please tell me how many pages. Thanks.

-Tiggysaurus

[text_hash] => c44a9b3f
)