• 7.
    Ta-riot


    "Ta-riot? What's that?"Zander answers before Jay gets the chance,"It's a human that is the strongest and toughest other anyone has ever seen.
    "They have a very stong impact on others than any one else. Others will fight for the Ta-riot some can make peace like I have with Jay and Michael because I know if I did that when you were with Jay and now with Michael it would hurt you and you'd never speak to me again even if I tried."Jay smiled," Now that everything is-" Zander had already heard Jay's plan to kill either me or one of them, so Zander charged at Jay with a loud crash, it scared me. Jay was thrown out of my two story window and landed on his feet," You know you better watch your backs! Because I'm coming back!"Then Jay was gone. Everything went black, then there was light,"Vans? You okay?"I blinked, Michael was leaning over me with a worried expression,"..Yeah."Zander frustrated, I'm guessing he seaching for something hard.I struggle to get up, Michael helps me up,"Zander what are you thinking about so hard?"
    He squints,"I'm trying to figure out if anybody is working with Jay, I'm sorry to say this but I think.....because.....your the Ta-riot that he was using you, use you as a guinea pig to take your power away from you, he can do that you know.
    "Why else would he ask you out out of thin air, you were crushing on him, I think he has the power to know everyone's powers, like he knew Michaels once Michael pushed him to get him off you.
    "There's no other explanation, you know how much that makes sense, I feel angry knowing my words are probably true. I'm so sorry Charlotte!" He walks over and hugs me,I breathe on his shirt,
    "Why would Jay use me it seemed like he was in love with me."I started sobbing Michael joins our hug, I just get squished in the middle."I love you guys!"They laugh,"We love you too!"We all start laughing.I yawn,"Come on your tired you better get some rest, you look so sleepy."I actually started feeling tired my eyes drooped,"Yeah I need to sleep." Zander pulls away, then me and Michael. Zander hesitates at the window, "I should go...." I do want him to go I frown but Michael speaks before I can, "You should stay.....we both need to protect Vans."I smile,"Come on"- I reach for Zander's hand and pull him to the door-"we're going to have a sleep over!" He smiles then. Then he get's a playful smile on his face,"We're not going to have make up and braiding each others hair are we?" He asked teasilly. "No! We're going to have pizza and watch When A Stanger Calls and Prom Night okay?"They both smile. "Awesome!" They both say at the same time and laugh.
    We all settle on the couch me squished in the middle and wasn't the most comfortable postion but at least we all had fun. Michael fell asleep first.
    "Charlotte......?" He seemed weirdly embrassed."Yes?" I was curious on what he was going to say. "....I want to show you something."
    We walk outside, and head leads me to the front lawn. He sits so I sit.
    "Charlotte...I'm making this promise, I'm never going to hurt you, I promise to be your bestfriend and I promise to never break your heart. Too many people have messed with you already I'm not that person who could kill you bad!
    "I love you Charlotte...okay this is why I need to tell you this because some of this doesn't make sense."
    I was really shocked and confused, ".....Zander....I need to go to bed....."
    I turn but he grabs my arm and spins me to face him, "I need to know do you love me?"
    I don't have time to answer, Zander grabs me gently and presses his lips to mine, I try to push him off but he holds me, I have to slap him, lightly because I'll break my hand again. He stops and looks at me, I know I loved him but I love Michael more and I can't love Zander because it goes against everything that I set for me and him. I start tearing up, and I don't think Zander would stop me this time so I run inside loudly, waking Michael, run upstairs, lock my door and my window. I jump on my bed and put the pillow to my face and cry. Next thing I hear is Michael banging on my door, "Vans? What's going on?," He demanded.
    I cry even harder. It's quiet for a few minutes, but then I hear yelling coming from the lounge downstairs.
    "DON'T EVER TOUCH HER AGAIN SHE'S SICK OF BEING CONFUSED!"
    "HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT?"
    "BECAUSE SHE TOLD ME!"
    I hear something break, I unlock my door and fling it back so I can see what happened, somebody broke our table with the phone on it. They're both on top of the broken mess. They look at me, I run out the door I run to my motorbike and, kick off and ride down to Capricorn Highway not stopping and not intending to either. I aim for Clermont, my Uncle lives there so I'll stay with him. When Michael and Zander turn up they won't be able to get in because Emmett won't allow them to come in. I smile I can skip school and stuff so I don't have to see them. I'll go with Emmett to work which is at Emerald Diner. Perfect! I see a black Volvo appear, I know if I slow down they'll catch up so I push it to one hundred, they're still following but I'll be at Emmett's any second. There! The house appears and the black Volvo slows. I cruise dow Emmett's short rocky drive, his house wasn't that interesting, it was like Jacob Black's house in the Twilight books but in some ways it was completly different, it was a lightish grey and it was all light and open. I slow to a stop and get on quick so the others won't catch up with me, I run across the lawn and bang the door looking around to make sure they're not here yet, that's when I see them cruising down the drive.
    Emmett opens the door confused, I push past and close the door quick.
    "Charlotte? What are you doing here? Where's Lauren? Do you know how late it is?" He looked really worried, I sigh, "Mom's out, both my boyfriend and my besyfriend Zander and me all had a fight and I don't want to speak to them so can I stay here please?"
    He huffs for a moment, "I suppose, but in the morning call your Mom, your not going to school are you?"
    "Nope they'll be there and I can't face them right now, so I'll come to work with you and be a waiter!"
    "Good I'm glad you won't just be sitting around." He actually sounded glad as well.
    There was a knock on the door I hid behind the door, so I could still hear.
    "Hi! we're looking for Charlotte, is she here?" It sounded like Zander.
    "Um...yeah-" Emmett gets cut off by Michael, "Can we speak with her?"
    "No, she said she doesn't want to speak with you, you must have really pissed her off. Good night boys."
    "Goodnight, night Charlotte we're really sorry," They both sigh and turn.
    "Hey!" they both turn around again, "Yes Charlotte?"
    "Clean up the mess you made and lock up cos Lauren won't be happy returning to that."
    "Whatever you want Vans we're sorry!" I don't say anything, I hear them sigh and trudge off toward the black Volvo.
    I sleep on the couch that night I don't really say anything after they left. My dreams weren't good either, Jay was chasing me, I kept stumbling and falling, then Jay caught me and was about to kill me when I woke up. I checked the clock on the wall.
    "Great it's only three a.m," I sigh and roll over and look at all the pattern on the couch, there wasn't really patterns on there anyway just stripes.
    An hour later Emmett wakes up I sit up so he can see that I'm awake.
    "Good your awake, come have some breakfast we have to leave at five thirty, set up time," He yawns.
    "What's for breakfast?" I haven't actually stayed here before.
    "Toast, jam and vegemite. I heard that's your favourite!," He grins I grin back.
    We eat our food in silence, Emmett isn't really a chatter box like Lauren.
    I didn't really have spare clothes so I was planning to wear the uniform for the diner, "Emerald? Because your not actually an employee at the diner why don't you grab some clothes I was going to give to you, they're on my desk in the study. Emmett's study was very bland, the walls were a light shade of creamy brown, the floor was simple floor boards.
    I see the clothes, Emmett knows me too well, a black gypsy skirt with a saphire blue shirt it had All I need to hear is I love you and you can have my heart. I shuddered remembering what happened last night, I shrugged it off quick because I hated last night and didn't want to remember it.
    I rush getting read not caring how my hair looked I didn't want to stand out to much so I just brushed my hair to leave it wavey and tied my hair in a ponytail. I searched the drawer in the bathroom to find a new tooth brush, luckily I did because I hated when I didn't brush my teeth.
    Emmett was just walking to the door when I skipped out of the bathroom, "Ready!" I grinned I loved working in the diner. It was quiet and it was fun serving people because they were always chatty and nice.