452: FOURTEEN YEARS OLD (3)

FOURTEEN YEARS OLD (3)

"What is this?" Hope whispered to Ian beside her.0

When the bell rang, indicating the commence of afternoon break, Ian popped out of nowhere and immediately ushered Hope to the other side of the school building where he introduced her to two other people. 

"This is the girl that I told you about in the math class!" Ian was very happy as he gave Hope a little push, so she could be the center of attention. 

"Uhm, hi." Hope waved her hand at them awkwardly, one boy and one girl, but at a closer look she recognized the boy had the same and exact face as Ian. She blinked her eyes and shifted them back and forth between Ian and the other boy.

"I know." The other boy sighed. "This stupid mutt is my twin, so stop staring at me like that."

"I am sorry." Hope said sheepishly as she took a seat in front of the girl while Ian plopped his body next to her. "This is my first time seeing twins and both of you look very identical." 

Ian grinned. "He is Ethan, my younger brother and she is Rossie, my stupid younger sister." His voice softened when he mentioned his sister, who waved at Hope.

Ethan was slightly leaner than Ian, with the same hazel eyes and golden brown hair along with their warm skin tone, they were perfect portray of the boys next door.

Only, Ethan wasn't as vocal as Ian, but without a closer inspection, it was hard to tell them apart. 

While Rossie… her expression reminded Hope of a cute little puppy that was lost. She looked like she was the obedient one among the three siblings, with her dark platinum hair color and a pair of hazel eyes.

"She is in the eight grade." Ian told Hope. 

"So?" Hope opened her lunch box. Lana would make it for her every day because she was strictly forbidden from eating anything without their permission. 

Sometimes, Hope would wonder, what random person would poison her, but after what happened last time, she was more than willing to oblige. 

"So, all of you can see 'them' too?" Hope lowered her voice.

"'Them'?" Rossie opened her burrito and took a bite. "Who is 'them'?" 

Rossie has shoulder length hair with curls at the end. There was a stain of sauce on the corner of her lips that was wiped off by Ethan immediately.

Hmm. Despite his slightly ignorant personality, he was taking good care of his sibling. 

"Supernatural creatures." Ian answered his sister's question while Ethan answered Hope's

"We are one of 'them', of course we are able to see them." Ethan drank his juice but didn't seem to eat anything. 

"We?" Hope caught that word while frowning a bit. "You mean the three of you?"

"Including you, of course." Ian said in a matter of fact tone as he leaned over to take a bite of the burrito in Rossie's hand, but before he could do that, Ethan pushed his head away and glared. 

The message from his twin was clear; stay away from her! She is eating!

Hope was fascinated with the way they interacted with each other. Was this how a sibling relationship looked like?

Hope never experienced it and never had a chance to see it because all of her friends were not so close with their siblings.

"Including me?" Hope kindly pushed her lunch box and silently gave permission for Ian to take whatever he liked from it. "I don't think so."

Ian stuffed a sausage into his mouth. "What do you mean, you don't think so?" Ian talked while eating. "You are a werewolf too, I can smell it."

Only then Hope understood what Ian meant when he said he was following her scent this morning and met her on the second floor. 

"I think you are wrong." Hope was quite sure the scent of the shifter that lingered on her body wasn't hers. It was probably Lana or Kace, since the later just visited her last night. "This is not my scent."

Hope sniffed her sweatshirt, though she couldn't smell anything except her own cologne, but she was sure those creatures with acute noses could tell the difference. 

"No." Ian protested, not so happy at the possibility that he was wrong. "I am sure you are a werewolf. You can't deceive my nose." He tapped his pointed nose. 

However, before Hope could protest again, Ethan had leaned over and sniffed her more thoroughly before his nose scrunched. 

"I don't think this is her smell." Ethan said before he straightened his back. "It is most likely she lives with a shifter, thus her scent mingled with theirs."

His guess was right. 

Hope was unsure if she could tell them about Kace, Serefina and Lana. It must be Kace or Lana's scent that was mixed with hers since Serefina was rarely at home. 

Ian sniffed Hope's shoulder, too close for her liking, but thankfully Ethan pushed away his twin's head and glared at him. 

"Really?" Ian frowned. "I think you are right." He talked to his brother and drifted his attention back to Hope while eating another sausage from her lunch box. "Now, she was smelling like a human."

"If she is a human you are in big trouble." Rossie chimed in, her round eyes glared at her brother. "We are not allowed to reveal our existence to humans." She lowered her voice and stared at Hope warily. 

"Why so?" Hope knew that she wasn't allowed to tell her friends about her 'special' family, because all the people out there that she met couldn't see what she was able to see, but the three people in front of her was different. 

Rossie didn't talk as she sat closer to Ethan, eating her burrito. 

"Because humans shouldn't know that we exist." Ethan explained it simply. 

"I am in big trouble!" Ian widened his eyes and took the last sausage from Hope's lunch box as he leaned back his body as if she would attack him in the next second.

Ethan looked at his twin's reaction with disdain. "The question is; why is she living with a shifter and is able to see them in their beast form."

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