My first day back home for this two-week Christmas break. Last night was the Dance and am not sure what happened still. I know Sky is going to want to know what happened. It has been a while since I have seen her. I saw her at The Battle before I got hurt.

Am not sure where I and Mark are at right now. The same thing goes with Johan.

I and Jessica are teleport back home together since we both live in the same town. She lives in the same town as me since we have been kids. That's why I have been really good friends with Jessica and her family. Well, we both have been spending Christmas with each other since we were five. So a Christmas without her like Christmas without making homemade cookies. Sad.

Our family has a lot of Christmas traditions. We do some normal human traditions and we also do some that are only seen in the supernatural community.

" I think it's over here" I hear Jessica shout at me. I look over to see one kid standing outside of the building. When kids leave the school there open up the portal room. The portal room sends you to your destination with the help of a teacher. It later in the day right now. It's like 7 pm right now. We decide to wait so we wouldn't have to wait in a huge line.

"let's go," I tell her as we roll our luggage over there. I decide to only take some of my clothes and leave the rest here. When we get to the building we can that kid who was in line walk through the Portal. Then the portal shutting down. The light in it went out. When we get there I see three portals and Mr. Martinez. I guess since it's so late and most kids have left the school there only have one teacher working on the portals.

" Hey, Thomas" I hear Mr. Martinez say to me as he looks at both of us walking up to him. I get a closer look at him and he has dark bags under his eyes. He looks really tried. " oh wow," I say to him not stopping my self from what am thinking. I feel bad I said that.

" Yeah tell me about it," He tells us jokingly as he rubs his tired eyes. " I was up most of the night to make sure nothing bad happened last night." He tells us. When he says last night I assume he means the dance. Also when he says bad I assume he means sex. I still haven't talked to Jessica about last night.

" Are you visiting family?" Jessica asks him trying to change the subject. Jessica doesn't have his class cause he only teaches witchcraft. But Jessica can feel the weirdest in the air. She probably wants to change the subject.

"No am staying here over the holiday break." He tells us. Does he not have much family. Even my Aunt is coming home for the holidays. " Oh that stinks," I tell him. I really do feel bad. " I don't feel bad I don't have much family anyways. " He tells us as she takes a short pause in between speaking. " So where are you guys going." He asks us as Jessica starts to dig in her purse.

" Here," She tells him as she pulls out a piece of paper with my address. Both our families are waiting for us at my house. Me. Martinez takes the paper and tosses it into the Portal. Then he pulls out his ward and says something. Even Mr. Martinez still uses his ward. He hasn't even started doing verbal magic. I should ask about it. But before I can the portal lights up and we walkthrough.

We come to the other side to see my backyard. I look around to see our families behind us. They are around a fire pit. Then the cold hit me. It's colder here then it is at school. I walk over to them and greeted them by hugs and kisses from my and Jessica's family.

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I don't remember much from last night. My whole family was drinking. Even I had some to drink. I didn't drink much but it did get to me. That's one of the reasons I don't drink. I am a lightweight. So I am not surprised that I am hungover the next day. I trying to get out of my bed to have a sharp pain in my head.

I look over to my phone to see a miss call from Mark. He called me around 1:00 am my time. Which I think would make it 5 Pm his time. I believe Australia is 15 hours different from where I live. I don't understand why it has to be so different. It just makes things so much more difficult.

I must have been pitch black by then cause I didn't hear it. Plus I didn't plug my phone and so I was mostly now awake. Under the miss phone call was a text message from him. "call me back as soon as you can?".

When I see his message I shut my off. I pull my tired self out of bed. Am to a hangover to try to talk to him right now. Am still a little upset about Friday night still. I don't know why he would do something like that.

Maybe I am a little too helpful and nosy for my own good. I love helping and making sure all my friends are good. I just hate it when I am happy and then my friends are upset. Maybe that's a reason I am trying to find out who stole those kids. Or maybe it's for selfish reasons.

I walk downstairs to smell donuts? Am confused by this cause my mom loves to cook a lot of meals. She never buys us donuts or even junk food in that case because she thinks they're too many bad ingredients in them. I walk into the kitchen to see two Krispy Kreme box. This is strange to see cause my mom always talks about how terrible there are.

I get closer into the kitchen to see my mom and dad drinking coffee with the donuts. " Whoa, mom are you eating donuts" I hear my self say to her. " Oh my gosh your hair." my mom says back to me.

That's when I realized my most have been all over the place. Since I have started school I haven't cut my hair. I just let the top grow out and shave the sides of my head. I also let the top grow its naturally curly hair out. " here" she says as I look back at my mom she hands me a hair tie. I take it from her hands and put it into a bun. I guess it is really long that I have to put into a man bun. " You are cutting your hair before you leave," She tells me as she goes back to her coffee. I watch as she eats another donut. I watch her as she eats the food she most hates.

" Why are you eating donuts." I ask her as she looks back at me. " ask your dad" She tells me as she gets up. " Hey, Stacy you told me to find breakfast." He says defensively as he goes to the sink and cleans out his mug. I get a sharp pain in my head from the hangover. I grab my head in pain. " Here," My mom says as she hands over a drink. By the smell of it, I know it's Liteful potion. " I'll just deal with Hangover," I tell my mom as try to push away. It's a simple potion used to make hangovers go away. A lot of kids at school use Liteful. The potion is made up of frogs breath and Worms warts. It makes the hangover go away almost instantly, but its taste is brutal. At least that's what I have heard. I have never drunk it my self.

" Drink it. Besides I need you and one of the other demons to run some errands for me." She says to me as she hands it off to me again. I grab it. I look down into the cup I smell the frog's breath. It looks to be a dark black with no soul or tasty. It's only small about like a gulp. I bring close to my lips and I can really smell the frog's breath and now am getting hints of worms wart. Both of those items have a unique smell to them.

I forced the toxic sludge into my mouth. As soon as the potion hits my tongue I want to throw up. " You have to drink it, son," my dad says as he walks out of the kitchen into the downstairs hallway. He is probably heading to his bedroom, is one of two downstairs. Hold my mouth shut and Swallow it. As soon as it's out of my mouth I run to the fridge and grab a water bottle and jug it down. " It's not that bad," my mom says to me as she hands me another cup. This time with coffee. Thank God.

I hear dad's footsteps coming back into the kitchen. " Honey where is my work coat" He calls for as she enters the kitchen. My dad is always losing stuff. " It's hanging up in the Laundry room," My mom tells him. I take a sip of my coffee. I realize that it had no cream in it. I work over to the cabinet. " Honey where my" My dad calls for but my mom cuts him off. " They're on the kitchen table where you left them," she tells him as she looks over at me. I look in the cabinet to see no creamer. " That's one of the items I need you to get," she says as I put my coffee on the table.

I go to one of the cabinets to pull out the food conjuring cookbook. Am just going to conjure up some creamer for now. I skip to drinks in the book. But before I can find it I say something under my breath. I have no clue what I just said. But it felt different. I look up from the book at my who faces as eye widely. Then it's gone for a second. I look down at my coffee to see that it's a lighter color as if I put cream in it. I look back at my mom to see her turn around doing something. Did she see that? I just did magic without my ward again. I don't even know what I said it kinda just flowed out of me.

" Adams awake," my mom says with a sign. I guess she didn't see that after all. Before I can think about anything else my dad walks in a rush with his suitcase. " You going to work today," I ask him. My dad usually gets the week off Christmas off. He is apart of the Werewolf Council. " Yeah, I was called in for an emergency meeting." He says as goes over to my mom and kisses her. " Try to be back before Christmas Eve," I tell him as he nods at her. " Of course," He says to her as he gives one my kiss.

I admire my mom and dad. There have had to fight so much in there life's to have a family. I hope one day I can have something like that. My mom was born in Mexico City. She grew up there into she started to show signs of Dragon. Where her family A banded her to die. That mostly all I know from her childhood cause it's too painful for her to relive. But I do know when my dad was working on shutting down a rogue wolf pack. He meets my mom at a bar and I guess you can say it was love at first sight. But it wasn't always smooth sailing for them. When my dad told his parents that disappointed at him. Not cause he was dating a different species. He didn't care she was a dragon. Heck, my grandfather married a Werewolf and he is a Wizard. No, it was the cause of her skin and her background. At this time my mom could speak little English. My dad and his dad didn't talk for five years into my mom and dad got married. My grandfather decided to bury the pain and move on. Now he lives with us and everyone is better with our family. But still, to this day, my family has got rude comments and looks for what we are. It doesn't help to be part of the Werewolf community.

My dad walks out of the door in a car rush and then my mom looks back at me. We just stand there in silence for a bit. Till I see both Sky and Adam walk down the stairs. " Good Morning," I tell them. " Good afternoon" Mom recruits me. I haven't really checked the time since I have gotten up.

" Is that donuts I smell" I hear Sky shout as she runs into the kitchen. Her face lights up and grabs two and starts to eat them. Right behind her is Adam taking two donuts as well. " Oh my gosh Adam your hair," She tells him. My mom doesn't like it when we grow out of our hair. But with me, my hair grows faster. Adams's hair is much straight then mine is. He got straight hair from our dad. But Adam is actually a metamorphosis, which means he can change his looks at any time. But he mostly just keeps with white hair.

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It's around 7:00 pm now. Jessica and I just got to the Walmart. Our mom had us running errands all day for her. She had us at the furniture store to get new sheets and drapes for the window. Then she has gone and picked up some ingredients from the other which in town. My grandfather needs some ingredients to make a potion for something. Last we are the grocery store now picking up a lot of items on my mom's huge list of items.

We walk into the store pasting by a Santa Claus shaking a bell for money. He stares at us for a long time. Like an uncomfortable about of time. I guess that's the Sants' strategy to get people to give money. Male them uncomfortable to point that they have to give in.

We walk back to where the freezer is. " Where are the turkeys," my sister says to her self as she looks at the list. My sister is a little bitter cause we still get live turkeys and then cooked them but starting last year my mom had moved to frozen turkeys. I look around the huge frozen section to see frozen Turkeys." Over there" I tell my sister as I point over to them. We walk over to them and grab two 25lb Turkeys. Having a family of 7 living in one home means we eat a lot. It doesn't help that five of us are either Dragons or Werewolves.

We continue on our journey to find items for all of our side dishes. A lot of our side dishes are vegetable base because a lot of Jessica's family are vegetarian. She's not but almost everyone else is.

" So spill it," My sister tells me as we pull into the vegetable aisle. I know she is talking about the Dance. But I don't really want to talk about it cause I still don't know what happened I barely understand what's going on. I need to change the subject that she spends a lot of time talking about. " So how are you and Blade doing," I tell her. I hope this works. " Well, Ben and I broke up." She says as she pauses to grab two sacks of potatoes. Oh no, what did I do? Why did she say Ben I thought his name was Blade? " That's why you haven't seen me at the school since the wolf party at being of the school year," she says to me. I completely forget that she was at that party.

I didn't know what to say to her because she didn't seem upset or mad about it. " I thought his name Blade," I ask her. I don't know why I felt like that was a good question to ask. " His nickname is Blade his real name is Benjamin but I just call him Ben." She tells me as she starts to laugh at this. I don't why but I start to laugh at this too. I look around to see people staring at us weirdly. We both take that as a cue to stop laughing.

" Okay so now spill it," she says to me. I assume she means the dance. " it was a disaster" I tell her as we pick up some greens beans. She tells me as she starts to look around. I was about to start looking around until Sky spoke. " What happened?" She asks me as she starts to speed up. She starts to grab the ingredients faster. " Well, one of my friends broke up with his boyfriends and then the guy I went to the dance with we got in a fight. Then he actually got into a fist. And..." I tell her as I pause. Am debating telling her about Jonah? Cause am still not sure what happened.

" And?" She tells me as we walk out of the vegetable aisle. " Well I and this guy spend the rest of the night dancing." when I say this I can feel my checks start warm. " So you like him instead of the guy who got in a fight for you," She tells me trying to understand my story. Did Mark get in a fight for me? I thought it was cause Peter was talking trash to Mark. No that's why. Well, at least I think it is.

"Thomas grabs the drink and let's get out of here I sense something. " She tells me. I get a good look at her. She seems to be scared of something. I can tell her werewolf sense are on full power. I can't really sense anything cause am not that connection to my wolf side. Am more connected to Alexander my Dragon side. I grab the drinks and put them in our cart. We pash through a couple more aisles to garb some more food but I think she is trying through something off.

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We thankfully got home safe without anything happening. We pulled up into the driveway. My sister honks to horn twice. That's a sign to my family that we have groceries to grab. I head to the truck of the car. I open the back of the car as soon as I get a car. I pull the phone out of my back pocket to see an incoming call from Mark. I stand there a second. Should I pick it or let it ring.

" Which boy is it," My sister asks as she comes around the corner. " Umm the boy who I got in a fight with," I tell her as I go to put my phone away. " Go answer it we handle this." my sister says to me. Am not sure if I really want to answer. But I found myself walking towards the backyard and sitting around the fire pit as I answer the call.

I can hear the other end contact. " Hello Thomas," He says to me in a sad voice. He kinda sounds like he had been crying. I don't think I have ever seen him cry. " Hey Mark," I tell him. " Umm, I can't speak for long but I want to say sorry for what I did to you on Saturday. That wasn't like me. I just want to have a good night" He tells me as I cut him off. " No you were right Mark I get too much into my friend business" I try to him as he cuts me off this time. " No Thomas, that's what makes you a great person. I was just mad and upset cause I felt like you were giving attention to your friends and not to your date. But that was selfish of me to think or do. I just hope you can forgive me." He says to me as he stops only once to breathe. Am not letting my brain chose for me anymore. Am going to let my heart chose. " I do forgive you Mark, but it may just take me a little longer to get over what happened," I tell him. " Oh thank you. I know it may take a long time for you to get over what happened but I was just hoping you can forgive me. So Thank you. " He says to me as he takes shirt pause. I can hear someone else on the other line yell something to him but I can't make it out. " Hey Thomas I've got to go I'll text you later." He says to me. " See you," I tell him as I hear the call end.

"Uhm" I catch my self saying after the call. Now am really confused. Mark and Jonah. Jonah and Mark. I can hear my heart and it thumps for both. This is why I listen to my brain. But... But... But why should stress over this? Am here with my family and that's all that matters right now. Boys can come second right now.

" Thomas?" I hear my sister call for me. I turn around to my sister sticking her head out of the screen door. She is wrapped in a robe to keep her warm. She holding to mug full of something. But I can smell the Hot Chocolate from here. " Is everything okay?" She says as she steps out and walks towards. " Yeah, he just apologizes for what he did," I tell her as I look down. " You don't know who to chose." She tells me as she hands a mug over. " Yep," I tell her as I take a sip of the hot chocolate. Its warmest goes down my throat reminding me that it's cold out here. " Let go inside and have dinner. Then we can watch a Christmas movie." She tells me as we both laugh. " Sure I say as we both get up and head inside.

When we get inside I see Alex setting up the table. Adam is bringing the taco tray to the table.

We all look up towards it. The sound came from upstairs. Must have been mom since everyone else is down here. I look at everyone else with shocked faces. It must have surprised them. " who was that," Alex says as he seems scared still. " Probably mom," I tell them as I grab the taco trey from Adam and put it on the table. I turn back around to see everyone looking at me. " What?" I ask them. " Mom's not here." Adam says to me as my mouth drops wide.

Then who's upstairs.