The Blood Throne

The First Day

When I was 5 my mom killed my dad. I remember the moment vividly. It was a nice day, sunny and clear skies. Mom took Max and me inside to wash our hands after playing in the garden and everything was normal. She then told us "Stay here." Obviously, we didn't listen; we followed her attempting to be as quiet as possible. She walked into the great room where my dad was sitting on his chair watching television. My sister and I watch as my mother pulls out a gun and shoots my dad in the back of the head. My sister and I were terrified, but we both sprint to our dad to say our last goodbyes. My sister and I say "I love you," and our dad replies, "I love you too." Our eyes were so wide that I thought they would pop out and tears streamed down our faces. Less than a minute later guards broke down the door taking our mom away that was years ago. I finally realize I am daydreaming again or I guess night awake dreaming. I feel a single tear drip down my face. I get out of my bed, grab my bags and jump out of the window. Down the street, I met my sister. "Put your stuff in the back," she says."Okay," I reply, then I hop in."The client told me that they live in one of these," Max says as she points to the large row houses. "Which one," I ask. She doesn't answer me at first, but then she replies and points to the one at the end of the street, "There, they live right there." "Ok, let's go then," I say impatiently. Max hops out of the car without saying anything and motions me to come out of the car. I walk lightly over to where she is. The door to the house is wide open, but the storm door is closed shut. We sneak into the door and she goes over to one doorway and I go to another. We wait for a few minutes watching the man in the room who matches the one on my phone. Max suddenly gives me the signal and then she runs out and so do I. He does not hear us but he sees us. He does not know who we are so he asks in a baby voice, "Where are your parents?" Just then my sister kicks him and motions me to pull out the weapon as she is fighting with him. I pull out the gun and shoot him with perfect aim. Max begins to run and so do I. She quickly drives me back home while giggling. I get out and jump on the awning into my window and I get into bed and fake sleep. Not a minute later Jack, my foster brother comes running in telling me to wake up, shakes me then I pretend to wake up. "There were gunshots down the street. We need to meet mom and dad downstairs, they already have the babies." He frantically says as he grabs my arm and ushers me out. When we get downstairs Sophia and Micheal are already there (My foster parents). My two younger foster siblings are there, too. "Eva, are you okay?" Sophia asks me."I'm fine," I replyMaya looks up at me with my bright green eyes and babbles. Martin does the same. An hour later Sophia says "You guys can go up to your rooms, but be quiet.", but at that point, it is 5:00 AM and there is no point in going back to sleep. Our first day is in a few hours. Jack chimes in and replies "Can I stay down there to get ready for school.""Same," I say. "Okay, but your dad and I are going back up to bed. Can you put Maya and Martin down?" I am about to rebel, but Sophia is already halfway up the steps. Then from beside me, I hear a groan. It came from Jack. "I don't wanna do this," Jack complains. "I will take Maya, you take Martin," I say confidently, "Okay?""Fine," Jack replies in an annoyed tone. We walk up the steps and into the twin's room. I put Maya into her crib and put on white noises and she went right to bed, she was really tired. Martin on the other hand keeps crying. I put on Martin's white noise machine and he goes to sleep too. I smirk at Jack. He rolls his eyes.When we get out of the room I tease Jack by saying "Work on your baby skills, I'm better with them and I'm not even their real sister." Not really a burn, just an insult. "At least I don't sneak out in the middle of the night." My heart stops. "What!" I whisper. "Whoa, I was just messing with you, calm down, but for real where do you go?" Jack says.I ignore his question and say, "You should go get ready, you look like a mess," while walking into my room. I get changed into a t-shirt and ripped jeans, then I brush my hair. I wash my face, brush my teeth, and then go down for cereal. At this point it is 6:30, school starts at 8:00 and the bus picks us up at 7:00. Of course, Jack is already downstairs putting his bowl in the sink. "Took ya long enough." He teases. "I was brushing my hair and teeth. You obviously didn't." I say while pouring my cereal."I did!" He says "Sure, you did," I replied while laughing. I go to the table and eat my cereal after I finish. It is 6:45. "I am going to go tell mom and dad we are leaving, ok?" Jack says."Okay." I replied. He comes down a minute later and he says "Grab your bag and let's go.""I am going to say bye, first," I say"Okay." He says. I run up the stairs, say bye then run back down."Let's go." He says."Race ya," I reply as I run out and run to the bus stop. 10 seconds later Jack comes running down just as the bus pulls up. When we get on the bus is already halfway filled up Jack walks to the back of the bus and sits with his friend. I grab his arm and pull him into the seat across from where I am sitting. "Hey!" He shouts. "I did not wanna sit alone," I say."Ugh." He groans. Then he continues to talk to his friend and I pull out my phone and watch skateboard fail videos. When we pull out everyone gets out including me and I walk into the building. "Please don't do anything embarrassing. You will ruin my reputation." Jack says. "Don't ruin mine, first impressions mean everything," I reply. I am a little annoyed because I know that Jack wasn't joking. When I arrive in the classroom everyone is clustered into different groups. I sit down at an empty desk getting out my stuff for the class. While I'm doing this a tall energetic girl with brown straight hair and pale golden complexion comes up to me. "Hi my name is Marella, but you can call me Mare. What is your name? Where are you from?" asks the girl. "Well my name is Eva and I have lived all around, "I answered. I don't want to go into detail about where I am from just yet. "Well, where do you live now?" Asks Mare."I am a foster kid and I am living with Jack and his family," I whisper."Cool." Says Mare.Mare then runs away and then comes back with her bag and sits down next to me not a minute later the teacher comes up to the front of the room."Settle down, we are going to start class." The teacher booms.Everyone continues to talk and ignores the teacher including Jack."Be quiet! This is not how we are going to start our year!" The teacher then yells.Everyone is staring at the teacher's wide eyes, like deers in headlights."Now get to your seats." She says.Everyone hurries to get to their seats, trying to pick the perfect seat. Mare is already sitting next to me and she is not moving."Come sit next to me, Mare, please." a girl across the room begs.Mare, just looks away and rolls her eyes, and looks away. The girl just looks at me and gives me a death stare. Mare looks at me and smiles. "We have a couple of new students joining us, Eva at the back of the class, Farah at the front of the class, and Lucas at the back as well." The teacher continues. All of the beady eyes of the people in the class look around frantically for us. When one of them spots me they ask "Are you, Eva?" When I nod they hold their head up high and tell everyone, "AYO, this is Eva!" The teacher instantly says politely, "Kyle, sit down." When the boy continues to crack jokes and run around the class. "Detention," the teacher says calmly. Kyle looks as if he is about to cry, but he slowly walks back to his seat dragging his feet. The other kids look shocked and sulk in their seats."Where were we?" the teacher asks, "Oh, yes Farah." She points to a tall girl in the front of the room. "Hi, I'm Farah," Farah says while rapidly waving her hand and smiling. The teacher continues, "Thank you, Farah, next we have Evangeline or Eva." I smile, nod my head and wave a small wave."And finally, Lucas." She finishes. "Hi," He says in a monotone voice without looking up from his phone. "Lucas put the phone away." the teacher says in a threatening tone. Lucas looks up revealing bright green eyes, smiles and throws his phone. "There it's gone," he says, glaring the teacher in the eye, then he turns to the class and says, "I'm Lucas." The class fills with small giggles and laughter. A girl from the middle of the room, where the phone was thrown, throws the phone back to Lucas. Without looking back from the teacher he catches the phone with one hand. The teacher looks ready to explode from anger, but then sighs. The rest of class the teacher explaining the rules while glaring directly at Lucas and Kyle. "Class dismissed!" She announces. Mare and I walk out and I walk to my locker to decorate it and put my stuff in, but it won't budge. "You have to pull," Says Mare. I pull hard and it flings open. "Are you ready for the next class?" I ask Mare after I figure out my locker situation. "Um. We don't have any other classes today, wanna hang out after school?" She asks. I think about it for a minute and I decide to answer yes, but I forget that I live with other people. " Wait one second, I gotta ask Jack." I say excitedly. I run over to Jack who is talking with a big group of people who must be his friends. I tap on his shoulder and he looks over. "Hey, Jack." I say. "Whose this?" says a girl standing next to Jack whom I just noticed is the girl who was the girl giving me a dirty look earlier. "Um," Jack trails off. I glare at him and he continues."This is Eva, my foster sister." "Hey," I say. They all reply in unison except for death glare girl, "Hey." I smile. "This is Makenzie, but her friends call her Kenzie. She's my girlfriend," Jack says as he points to the death stare girl. She leans in then says in a whisper, "So, not you." I turn to Jack and ask, "Can Mare come over later?" "I don't care." He replies. I give him a death stare, turn around and give Mare a big thumbs up and a smile. I run over to Mare. "Hey, gimme your number," Mare pipes up.I give it to her and we begin to walk out. When we arrive at my house Mare asks, "Wanna have a sleepover?" I am stunned, she had just gotten here and now she was asking about a sleepover. "Why?" I ask She laughs a little and then replies, "Well, I don't like a lot of people, I pretend to, but I actually like you."I don't know why, but I think about Kenzie and her death stare. "Are you friends with Kenzie?" I blurt out.Mare chuckles again and rolls her eyes, "Kinda, I guess. Anyways, sleepover?" She says excitedly. "Sure." I say while smiling. Chapter two We both walk into the house and I run upstairs, Sophia is working on her computer. I walk into her room quietly and a golden necklace catches my eyes, I could sell that. "Hi Eva, how was school?" She asks me with a smile on her face. "Good, '' I reply, "Can my friend, Mare, sleep over?"She thinks silently to herself for a minute, then says, "We are going to the royal meet and greet, she is welcome to come."I smile to myself, then immediately wipe it off my face. "Thank you," I say politely and then I leave. Mare and I head up to my room and there we pick out outfits and then I get a call. It is on my burner phone, so I pray it isn't Max. I look down at the phone and after all it says in plain letters, Max. I decline the phone and Max's name disappears. Mare being the nosy girl she is, peers down at my phone and asks,"Whose Max?"I hesitate for a moment not knowing whether to lie or tell her. I think about the consequences of telling her and they are not severe. "My sister," I finally replied, "My biological sister, we are still in contact. We are not supposed to be so don't tell anyone.""I won't." Mare says and smiles. I hear Jack come in and from downstairs I hear Micheal and Sophia yelling at him for not coming home until now. They mention that I have been here for thirty minutes and say that now we are going to be waiting in line for hours. Micheal calls to us from downstairs to come down because we are leaving. Mare brims with excitement, I do not. I am not excited to meet the royal family, I have been engaging in illegal activity for years and they have been trying to catch me and my sister for years. Even seeing royals from afar is a risk, but since I am with a family, I think maybe I'll be fine. Mare and I race down the steep steps and walk into the living room. "Everyone in the car." Sophia says sternly. Martin and Maya's car seats are in the second seat. That means that Mare, Jack and I will all have to be squished in the third seat. When we all get into the car I notice Jack is gazing out the window looking all gloomy. Just as I am going to ask Jack what's wrong my phone rings. It is Max, we agreed never to call our real phone unless it was urgent. This time I picked it up. When I pick up the phone, I can hear Max screaming, "What!" I say urgently. I then hear that she's crying. In between sobs she says, "I am being moved to a different city."I am now confused. "Huh?" I ask. "My foster family found out that I snuck out! The system decided maybe I need a different change of scenery." She replies. I then hear her going back to crying. Just as I am about to comfort her, we pull up to the parking lot for the royal meet and greet. If I stay on the phone Sophia and Micheal will scold me and be suspicious. "I'm so sorry, I have to go." I blurt out. "But I-" she starts. I cut her off with the beep that my phone makes when I hang up. When I look up I see Mare and Jack talking and giggling. "Okay, everyone ready?" Sophia asks in a playful way. "Everyone get out of the car and let's go!" Micheal says excitedly.We all get out and Micheal takes the babies and puts them into the stroller and we start walking. The line isn't that long, so we get into line and right after we take our place the line grows so much longer than it was when we arrived. As we start to advance through the line there seems to be more security than when we got there.