Chapter Thirty-Three

I’m so focused on my book that I don’t even realize that my door has been opened, nor that Nik is tiptoeing his way over to my bed, until he flops on my bed making me gasp in fright almost losing hold of my book as I fly up in the air. I hear him chuckling as he bolts out of the room.

“NIKLAUS JACOB CRYB!” I scream after I calmly put my bookmark in my book and set it down on my nightstand. “You are so freaking dead!” I say as I take off after him, I skid into the lounge room as Nik hides behind Cherie who looks between the two of us as if she’s trying to understand what had transpired.

“What is going on?” Berik asks as she comes out of her room.

“I was so invested in my book that I didn’t even realize that Nik came in and instead of alerting me to his presence he decided to flop onto my bed sending me flying into the air where I nearly lost my place in my book, scaring the absolute shit out of me!” I explain as I eye Nik’s movements as he steps around Cherie thinking he could get away from me, as he tries to scamper around and get to the safety of his room I snake my arm out and grab his arm pulling him close to me as I whisper in his ear “I’m going to let you go for now, but just remember that you’re on my shit list.”

He audibly gulps as I let his arm go and make it a point to give him a sickeningly sweet smile. “I didn’t mean to scare the hell out of you.” He stops and thinks for a minute “actually, no, I did totally mean to scare the hell out of you! You scare everyone else and none of us has ever been able to get you back, so consider this payback!”

I narrow my eyes into a glare at him “just remember when you decide to get payback on someone, there’s always payback coming back to you.”

He grins at me “I think I’ll be fine.”

I smirk at him “You think so…” I pause for dramatic flair as I head back to my room “just make sure you sleep with one eye open.” I say as I reach my room, closing the door behind me and making sure that I lock it.

I hear Cherie laugh at him “I’m so glad that I’m not sharing a room with you.”

I chuckle and decide that reading is out for me for the time being, so I decide to fuck with Nik a little bit as I open my door slightly just as Cherie is walking toward her room. “psst”

She jumps slightly and looks over at me “don’t do that!” she says with a huff.

“I wasn’t meaning to scare you, at least not yet anyway. Would you rather turn your scaring into helping me?” I ask.

She grins at me “You should already know the answer to that question.”

I smile back at her and nod “Good, what were you heading to do?”

“I’m just going to use the restroom.”

“Come back and talk with me once you’re done.”

She heads to the bathroom as I go to sit on my bed again, starting to plan my revenge on my best friend. I’ve got more than three different plans in my mind as Cherie and Freyja come into my room.

“You ready to start planning this?” Cherie questions.

I smirk and show her my notes of what plans are floating through my head. “I already started, and I have a few different ideas that can be used at various times during the day or night.”

Freyja giggles “Now, I understand how you’re able to get everyone without anyone expecting it, you plan it to a fucking tee.”

I nod “Yep! But now you guys get to say that you have crossed over to the dark side, I promise we have cookies!” I say laughing.

Freyja laughs at my kookiness as Cherie looks at me as if I am deranged or something. We start to get a plan formulated when our stomachs start to growl. “I think we should probably eat something and call it a night; we’ll finish planning tomorrow.” I say as I put my plans on the shelf above my clothes in my closet.

“I agree.” Freyja says as she stretches and yawns.

Cherie nods her head in agreement as we all start to file out of my room coming face to face with Justin, Nik, Addam, and Dafne. “There’s food if you guys are hungry.” Dafne says sweetly.

I smile from the back of my group “Great! We were starting to get hungry.” I shut my door behind me and make sure to lock it so that Nik isn’t able to get to my plans.

“Afraid someone might steal something?” Addam asks when he notices that I locked my room.

“Habit.” I reply nonchalantly.

“Understandable.” He replies as we start to head to the kitchen “By the way, if you’re looking to get Nik back he’s on high alert.”

I grin “I know, I’ll hit him when he least expects it, but then again, my payback may just be to get him to freak himself out so bad that every time he thinks I’m lurking just around the corner he makes himself jump out of anticipation and when he realizes that I’m not lurking in every little nook and cranny on the bus he’ll start to feel foolish but still be on his guard. It’s difficult to say when or where I’ll strike.” I say as we reach the kitchen.

“I hope you are all hungry!” Fenirick says smiling as he pulls out three pans of different kinds of nachos.

“I love nachos!” I exclaim as we all take our seats.

“Good, there should be plenty to go around!” Alaxander states as he comes into the dining room.

I smile “I didn’t know that you were coming.”

“It was last minute, Fenirick stated that he wasn’t sure if anyone knew what they were doing, so I decided that I’d go ahead and tag along.” He explains.

I smile “Well, I for one am happy to have an amazing cook aboard.”

He smiles warmly at me “You’re just saying that because you know it’s true.” He replies making us all start to laugh.

“Hey! I’m a good cook!” Berik says.

“Yes mom, you are! But it’s time for you to sit back and relax, you’ve taken care of everything for the better part of seventeen years!” Freyja says to which I nod in agreement.

“Alright, but I do want to cook a meal once in a while, if you girls will allow that.” Berik says smirking at us, knowing that we would never deny her something that she is so passionate about.

Freyja and I smile at each other and nod at Berik “We would never deny you anything that you want to do ma.” I say.

“Good, now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, lets dig in so we can head to bed, it’s been a day and I’m sure everyone needs to relax.

The only noises that can be heard is the clinking of plates as everyone dishes themselves some food, before the chatter starts up.

“So, Falencia. What are your plans? Are you thinking of going to college or anything?” Fenirick asks.

I think about this as I chew the food in my mouth slowly. “I was thinking of maybe doing online college and taking paralegal courses while I was traveling. But now, I don’t know if that’s still something I want to do.”

“What changed your mind?” He asks.

I take a deep breath and let it out slowly “Well, honestly, everything that’s happened in the past couple of weeks.”

“I can understand that. But don’t let it make you put your dreams on hold, if you want to do the online college thing, I say go for it! That way this whole thing isn’t what is taking up space in your mind.”

I nod as I take another bite of food. “I think I’ll put it on the back burner for now, so that I can focus on learning about the people who are after me and how I can get through this prophecy thing alive.”

He smiles at me and nods approvingly. “That sounds like a wise decision, I wish this wasn’t apart of your life, and I wish you could just be a normal teenager with normal problems.”

“Trust me, I wish the exact same thing.” I reply as I finish my nachos and decide to grab another plateful.

“Where are you hoping to stop?” Berik asks.

“Well, you already know that I was planning to take a road trip with Thelma, but that obviously got derailed, do you think we could possibly meet up with her in New Orleans?” I ask.

Fenirick smiles “That’s the number one stop on our itinerary.”

I smile back as I dig into my food and everyone else starts to clean up their dishes. Once everything is cleared off and dishes are put into the stainless steel industrial sized dishwasher we all head up to our rooms and turn in for the night.