Catching Genesis (Completed)

Chapter XIX - Call Me Juliet With Mad Ninja Skills

I wonder if Constantine is coming tonight.

I'm lying in my warm comfortable bed, staring at my phone. It's almost 11 pm. I need to talk to somebody. I suppose I could call or text Penny or Reese, or River, but it's kinda late now. Besides, the person I really want to talk to is Constantine.

I suppose I could call or text him too...but I know I'm not gonna.

My dad felt totally insulted and furious tonight. Rightly so, I think. But I don't want to move away from here. I don't want to leave my friends especially Penny, Reese, and River. I don't want to leave Constantine.

I try to stay awake, but my eyes feel heavy and my eyelids are drifting shut. Just when I'm losing my battle with sleep, I feel cold air blowing in through the window.

"Constantine," I whisper heavily.

"Shhh..sweetheart. I just want to say good night," he whispers back above me.

"...need to talk to you..." I mumble sleepily.

"You can talk to me tomorrow. Sleep now, sunshine."

I feel his warm lips brushing my forehead before I drift off.

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As I'm getting ready for school, I realize there are a lot of things that I don't know.

Apparently, I don't know my bra size, because right now it feels like my girls are spilling out of my B cups. Whoa! My jeans are a bit tighter around my bottom area too, though my waist is still very tiny. What happen? Did I gain weight?

Another thing I don't know is, how to break it to my friends that we're moving away from here.

I don't know if Kevin is still alive. If he still is, does he hate me now?

I don't know how I'm going to behave around Constantine today as well. Should I be with him like we were yesterday? Should I pretend I didn't know him like I always did before?

If I "be" with him, I'll be the latest gossip in school again. Not to mention all the girls, werewolves and humans would definitely hate me.

I really don't know what to do, so I end up trying to avoid him around school. Using my crazy ninja skills again, of course.

I manage to avoid the lycans and the populars all morning, much to my friends' annoyance. They think I'm behaving weirdly. Reese is starting to worry about me. I feel sorry that my friends have to put up with someone like me.

At lunch time, though, it's hard to stay hidden. That other female lycan, Serena is with them today.

Yep, I haven't told my friends about dad's decision to move. They're going to freak. I'm such a coward.

"Did you do something different with your make-up today GenGen?" asks Reese as she studies my face closely.

"Nope. In fact, I just wore my lip gloss today...nothing else."

"Hmm...maybe that's it," comments Reese skeptically. "Whatever it is, keep doing it. You look better without make-up I think."

"Are the lycans looking at us?" questions Penny suddenly in a hushed voice.

"Nope, they're looking at something behind us," I answer quickly even before I begin to look.

Yep, all the lycans including Serena are looking this way. Even I can't pretend they're looking at something behind us anymore. Maybe I should leave the lunch room now. I'm still so hungry, though.