How I Lost Myself

Chapter 1 - Ryley

Friends

Ryley

Chapter 1

She attempts to stab me, but I am quicker, and grab the sword, and ask, "Are you gonna want this back, or what?" She sighs, drops the sword, and asks, "What did I do wrong?"

"Nothing, Thea, you did nothing wrong."

"Then why am I failing?"

"I've just been training longer than you have:" I say, placing an arm around her shoulders, "Let's go back to the campsite." I say, and she follows. We are almost at cabin 12, where Thea and I live when I hear "Ryley!" Ugh, that would be my brother, Ryker. Twin, actually. "What?"

"Asher wants to see you!" He makes a kissy face and swoons.

"Bye Thea."

"Good luck with that." She replies.

I walk past Ryker, and it takes all of my self restraint not to punch him in the face. I don't need to though, because Thea is already on it. I see Asher standing by cabin 3, on the boys side of camp. Asher. Brown hair, blue eyes, classic pretty boy.

"The big man wants to see us."

"Dale?"

"Yeah."

"All four of us?"

"Yes"

We round up the other two and walk up to the big house where Dale lives. Dale runs the camp. We are ushered into his office, where he lounges in his large leather chair. "You. Sit"

We sit, wondering why we are here.

"You have a new teammate."

Ah. Yes. We haven't had a new one since Zara died.

"Here he is."

A tall, pale boy steps into the room. Black hair, brown eyes, twitchy hands.

"Uh, hi, my name is Jaxon, um, Jax for short."

He whispers, just loud enough for us to hear him. Jaxon looks to Dale, apparently unsure of what to do.

"Alright, now you know Jaxon, I have a mission for you."