The Land Of No Return

Chapter 3

The Truth

The red-headed girl finally catches up to me. She looks up and down at me, like she's studying me. "You must be the new kid, Seth," She informed her followers. "His father's Arrogus," she went on. "Whoa, Whoa... How would you know my fa..dad's name? I don't even know that," I blurted out. "So he's a wizard?" one of the girls asked, totally ignoring the question. She had stringy brown hair, and the only one wearing makeup. I felt like the red head was leaning over me, so that I had to lean backwards. Since she was so close I saw that she had a few freckles. She looked like the wild, and mean Pippy Long stocking. "Of course, he's a wizard, dummy! One of the most powerful ones. We have to get rid of him before anybody finds out," snapped Evil Pippy. "How about let's not?" I winced. I tried my best to sound confident. I didn't want to get beat up. Especially by a girl. Pippy remembered that I could hear what she was saying. She gave me the best I'm-a-cute-girl-thats-not-going-to-hurt-you smile. "Hi, I'm Jenny. You probably haven't seen me because I'm in a different class. I know that none of this makes sense, yet, but you will soon enough," then she murmured,"That is if you live that long." "Excuse me?" "Oh! Nothing. Nothing, at all," she smiled again. "Well, uh, thanks for introducing yourself! But I think I need to head home now! Bye!!!" I said with anxiety. I didn't care where I went, I just wanted to get away from these creeps. I turned my back really fast, then started to walk really fast. "Now, wait a minute, you're not going anywhere!" She said walking behind me. I started to run. "Get him!!!"she yelled. They ran after me. I heard a giggle from behind a bush I passed. After I blinked I saw a girl standing in my way. "Hi...do you think you can move out of the way?" I said looking back behind me and looking back at the girl. She giggled," You're kinda cute. That's why I'm going to help you get away from those girls. Come on, follow me." I didn't complain. She brought me into a big bush. "Thanks. What's your name? Mine's Luke."

"Ruby. I'm in 5th grade, but I'm home schooled. Luke... that's a cute name." said the girl. I looked at her, she had red eyes, the whitest teeth, wavy brown hair, and pale skin. "Your's is a..cute name too. Why does Jenny want to 'get rid of me'?" I stifled. Her expression darkened,"Because she senses your power. I do as well. But she probably went deeper than just sensing. She must have read your mind." "What? Is she like beyond human intelligence, or something?" I tried to make a joke. But, apparently, she doesn't have a good sense of humor. For example, she laughs/giggles about me being cute, but not a good joke. Honestly, I thought it was pretty funny. All she did was say, "Or something." She was giving me the answer to my question. I didn't notice it until Ruby told me that the girls had passed and that I'm good to go home. Even when a girl tells you that other girls left you can never be too sure. As far as I know, that girl could've been helping them, like a double agent. On the way home I ran, and whenever I saw one tiny movement I'd jump behind anything that could hide me. I had so many questions going through my head like, What does Ruby mean I'm powerful? Are those girls still looking for me? How did Jenny know who my father was? Don't C.J. and Casey live in this neighborhood too? If they did then why didn't they walk home with me? and stuff like that. When I got home my house looked HUGE compared to my old house. I never actually got to see my new home before that day. The plane came to a stop this morning, so I went straight to school in the car that was waiting for us. I walked in the big wooden oak doors. I just wanted to get to my room. I didn't care about the rest of the house. I only wanted to lay on my bed. When I found the stairs, they were blocked by a fat guy. "What do you want, Hairy?" I asked. "Hey you should be bowin' down to me, punk. I pay for all of this," he replied. "Oh please. You don't even have a job. If it weren't for my mom you wouldn't even have the guest room. Then you'd turn into a hobo!"I smirked. This was my moms boyfriend, Harry. He's never noticed it but I call him Hairy. He's hairy everywhere except the top of his head. "Oh you think so, runt? Well how would you like me kickin you out of the house?"

"Yeah right, you can't do that. Now let me upstairs," I said trying to squeeze through.

"Why should I, punk?"

The thing with Hairy is that he always calls me runt or punk. Finally, when he still didn't let me through I tackled his big, fat, belly with the top of my head. That's what usually get's him to move. So I ran through the halls looking for my room. I opened the door and the room was huge. On the right side was a dresser in between to doors. One led to my bathroom, the other to my closet. On the left side the was my bed and two night stands on each side. On the north wall was all my football stuff that was signed. Like a big jersey from one of the B.Y.U players, that was signed. There was a football that was played in the super bowls 2010, Colts against Saints. The foot ball was in a glass case glued to the wall. I ran to the king sized bed and jumped on it. That's when I learned it was a water bed, that I had just belly flopped onto. I groaned in pain. Then I checked my stomach. It was bright red. "Honey, I'm home!" Mom shouted from downstairs. "I'm up here," I yelled back. A few minutes later mom was in my room. "Mom, I think it's time to talk about dad," I softly said. My mom stiffened. "Honey, I thought we discussed that we wouldn't talk about him until you're the right age."

"But mom there were these crazy girls chasing me. They were also babbling on about my father being Arrogus!" I said. She stiffened so much she could've been a Barbie doll.

"Tell me everything." So I did. "You just described a witch who's in her younger generation." She whimpered. "Honey, tomorrow tell C.J. that you need to go to camp." "Camp?"

"Yes, camp. He'll know exactly what you're talking about."

She got up to start leaving. "Wait, I want to hear about dad."

She came back and sat on the bed. "You're father is one of the most powerful wizards in the world. Which means so are you."

All I could say was, "What?"