Chapter two

It was about, eleven fifty five when I actually looked at booklet about my new school. Inside was a load of information and famous pupils that used to go there as well as pictures of groups of kids doing different activities around the school, they had all probably been arranged to look natural by the photographer.

I skim read a few paragraphs on each page until I got to the page about class groups and other information the school thought parents might be interested in. I only stopped there because there was a note from father tucked into the booklet at this point.

Echo,

Your class Is 3H, in the twelfth grade. The subjects are; maths-geometry and algebra II, English- world literature, English language, science- biology, chemistry, world history, psychology and sociology. These are the same subjects to what you were studying at your previous school.

School starts tomorrow at eight thirty, you may have to take your sister some days as her school is only a mile from yours where as Bailey and Dylan's school is in the centre of the clan territory as I am still unsure if they can defend them selves if a fight were to start in the clan free zone.

Your father X

I re-read the end part of the letter. I was confused by 'clan free zone', well I wasn't confused as to what it was, a clan free zone is an area that the five great clans decided would not be counted as anyone's land but why would he put that in the letter?

I flicked to the front of the booklet and looked at the address. 'Blackthorn high school, 36th street." I walked over to my laptop bag and pulled out the black computer. I turned it on and typed the address into a system Kerry, another member of the clan who was the same age as myself, had made. The location appeared on a map, an area around the schools and a huge shopping mall appeared but shaded it a yellow light. Yellow meant clan free zone, green meant our territory and red meant someone else's land.

Oh shit, was all I could think. I resisted taking my anger out by throwing the laptop at the wall. I took deep calming breaths, that didn't really work on me, and shoved the laptop onto the empty bedside cabinet. There wasn't really anything I could do about it now and I was starting to get tiered.

I grabbed my duvet and a few other blankets and jumped up the hatch to the roof, only needing to use one of the ladder steps when I was about three quarters of the way up. The earlier storm had passed, leaving the air fresh and clear. The night wasn't too cold, and supernaturals tend to be able to withstand colder or hotter temperatures than humans.

I led down on the now blanket covered roof and relaxed my body as mush as I could, this included letting my ears and tail show themselves. There was, somewhere in my body, a few muscles that refused to relax, I frowned and stretched, seeing if doing that helped, but that only made the un-relaxed muscles just get tighter and more noticeable.

It wasn't until I heard a quiet to human ears (but not to mine), moan did I realise what was wrong with my body. Both a male and female moan combined together again. I flattened my ears to my head, blocking out most of my hearing, I didn't really want to listen to my parents, or Sister Lillie and her mate Oliver, or both, going at it like little fluffy bunnies.

Stretching had probably been the worst thing I could have done as it had released my scent into the night air where any cat demon could smell it. I hated the end of spring to beginning of summer because it was sasila danoi metraci or, in human English, the demon mating season.

Lucky me! Think of having a period, times it by about ten, mix in your body throwing off hormones that could easily arouse a normal human, and then sprinkle it with facts, such as every male cat demon now being extremely horny and able to smell that us poor females are in heat, and for me, going to a mixed clan school. What a wonderful time of year.

Well, there are exceptions, like mated females and males aren’t as badly affected as they already have a partner for life, and pregnant females because they have enough hormones in their bodies already plus they're already mated to some lucky male.

I don't remember falling asleep but I must have because I was brought round to a lot of yelling.

"Echo!"

"Echo hunny?"

"Ec-"

"Ho"

"She's on the roof!" I heard as I sat up.

Footsteps sounded through the house; below me on the lawn were almost half the family and Mike. My little brothers Bailey and Delyn, identical except one wore red and the other green, both had now forgotten what they were meant to be doing and had started chasing each other around my mother and Mike. Aqua-Marie looked pissed, in the non-drunk way, probably because what ever the family had been doing had dragged her away from beautifying herself, not that she needed it, mother looked relieved and Mike was too busy running from two hyper seven year olds.

"Darling you're going to be late if you don't leave now." Mother called. I took a closer look at the people on the ground. Aqua looked like a school Barbie, neatly dressed with her long hair flowing down to her waist. The twins had already managed to cover themselves and Mike in grass stains, their little outfits looking less and less clean every moment. Mike had on the male version of my new schools uniform, shirt, tie, trousers and a blazer, that were now covered in grass stains.

"I don't want to be late! And you have to give me a ride!" Aqua yelled

A flapped my hand at her as I stretched to undo my stiffened muscles. "Sure, be down in a minute" I called as I jumped down the hatch.

I was ready in three minutes, brushed teeth, dressed in the, and I shudder as I say this, skirt, blouse and tie. My hair didn't matter as badly because it was messy whether I brushed it or not and it was short enough not to be too noticable until i had a chance to comb it.

When I got to my car Aqua and Mike were already sat there with their seat belts in place. On Mikes lap was a white paper bag with the aroma of his mom's home made triple chocolate cookies wafting out into the air.

"Cookies?" I asked as I slowly pulled out of the drive way.

"you can have them when we get to sch-" he was cut off as I hit the gas and sent to car heading down the street at sixty miles an hour.

I hate morning traffic, I hate mornings and traffic separately but together I loathe them. If there was traffic it meant that I had to slow down. Over the year I'd been driving I had learnt how to dodge other cars and adjust my route almost instantly once a que started forming in the distance.

We ended up at Aqua's school that was fifteen miles away in just under nine minutes, not bad when I wasn't used to the roads.

"I'm calling anyone else to take me home at the end of the day, you drive like a maniac!" Aqua screeched as she climbed out of the back seat. This caused a small amount of attention to be drawn to us, but I just waved at her and drove away as we were in a public place. If we had been at home I would have pinned her and given her the 'dominance' talk, and telling her how I was higher up in the clan than she was.

At Mike's threat of puking in my cookie bag I reluctantly slowed down for the sake of my cookies, and I had no desire to see and smell what Mike had for dinner and breakfast.

The school parking lot was crammed with brand new Toyota's, Mercedes, and Porsches, I don't think there was a car in the place that was older than a year old. Upside to this is I'll be able to find my car easily.

I'm not one for cars but when my parents took me shopping to find a car I fell in love with a beat-up classic ford mustang, it wasn't for sale it was one of the sales men's car but he wanted a new one so we traded a brand new Porsche something or other for the beat-up mustang that’s top speed was about ten miles an hour, no joking. We spent a month fixing it up, well Kerry and her parents did most of the fixing Aqua designed the interior under my supervision, I did not want a pink Barbie car, and out came a metallic blue convertible mustang with beige leather seats, although I think there meant to be called 'tan', and zero to eighty in point five seconds.

My lessons were different to mikes; we had biology, world history and English language together. But that was all. I think Kerry and Jake had chemistry and gym together but I couldn't be sure until I saw their timetables.

As soon as I walked into homeroom I caught the scent of another clan. I looked around the room, no-one looked too 'cat demon-ish' or demonic in the slightest, and I couldn't just go around sniffing everyone 'till I found the other demons. I would have to do it more discretely.

The day wasn't very eventful, the strongest scent was in all my classes, this worried me slightly because the stronger the scent the more powerful the demon or any other supernatural creature. The only problems I had were in world history and biology.

"Ah miss Cadien, mr summers, welcome to biology. Hmm, where to seat you? Mr. summers you sit on the single table, miss Cadien, you sit on the left back desk next to west."

Mike and I both walked to the back of the class room, every step I took caused the scent to get stronger, I could smell mikes scent rise, and my own. That wasn't something I wanted to happen, what with being around a lot of males, of which at least two were cat demons who had instincts struggling for control over their bodies already.

My seat, nothing different about it, it was just another lab stool but the person next to it was different. Why? Because my new lab partner was the source of the smell.

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