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tree, seemingly unfazed by the harsh
howling wind, her black hair whipping in her face. She appeared to have
something heavy on her mind. The wind began to die down as they approached her,
Adria’s hair settling messily in place. Seeing that the girl didn’t notice
their approach though, Nightshield stealthily curved around to stand behind the
tree Adria was leaning on. Isis opened her mouth to warn Adria, but Laqiya hit
her arm to hush her.
    Nightshield then leaned over to Adria’s
left side and said, “Boo!”
    Adria let out a shriek and whipped
around, hand covering her mouth. Nightshield barely got out of the way in time,
all the while laughing at the girl’s reaction.
    Laqiya snickered, and Isis bit her
lip to hide the smile that tugged away at her lips.
    “Katherine!” Adria exclaimed
glaring. “You scared me to death!”
    “That was my objective,”
Nightshield said smirking.
    Adria huffed, turning away from
Nightshield to wave at Laqiya and Isis.
      “What’s up with the wind?” Nightshield asked
rhetorically as the wind picked back up.
    “Not sure,” Adria said frowning
herself. “I guess today’s just a weird day. It is Halloween after all.”
    Isis rolled her eyes.
    “Why does anything weird happening
on October 31 st be related to Halloween? Everyone acts like an evil
spirit is going to come and take the souls of every child in the city,” Isis
began. “For goodness sake can’t the wind just be blowing because it can or is
supposed to?”
    “Not always,” Nightshield said
glancing at Adria, seeming to catch something that the other girls hadn’t and
then said, “I’ll see you guys later. I have something to do.”
    “Where? What do you have to do?” Laqiya asked, Nightshield’s abruptness intriguing her.
    “It’s Halloween. Doesn’t
everybody?” Nightshield asked and with that made her way out the park.
    Isis only shook her head,
dismissing Nightshield’s behavior for the whole group and turned back to Adria
saying, “Come on. We thought we could go to Sakura’s house before tonight.”
    “Why don’t we bring her to your
house?” Adria suggested.
    “Why?” Laqiya asked.
    “Her parents like to have parties,
very adult and boring parties to Sakura, and I’m sure she’d like an excuse to
get away,” Adria replied running a hand through her braids.
    A quick phone call had Sakura
thanking them profusely and at Laqiya’s house in the next ten minutes. They all
thumped up the stairs to Laqiya’s room, and Sakura curiously looked at the
various electronics and items in the room.
    “You’ve got everything in here
except a television Laqiya,” said Sakura. “I don’t even have that.”
    “There’s one in the other kitchen
if you rather go down there,” Laqiya said.
    Adria and Sakura looked surprised.
“Other kitchen?” they asked
    “Yeah, that one in the basement,”
Laqiya said.   “The main one is the one where
we cook dinner. We mostly do baking or just longue in the other one. That’s one
of the reasons my mom gave it to us, for when she has dinner parties and we
couldn’t be in the room.
    “I don’t even have that and my
house is massive,” Sakura said in amazement.
    Laqiya and Isis lead them down to
the ground floor and into the kitchen where Nightshield was sitting on a chair
at the table watching the news on television.
    “Flat screen TV. Nice,” Adria said
nodding her head at the TV that was in the wall next to the large glass screen
doors that led to the pool. She was careful to avoid Nightshield, the
scratching incident fresh in her mind.
    “Is Nightshield watching that?”
Sakura asked.
    Laqiya shrugged. It was easier to
just let Sakura and Adria think what they wanted to think rather than come up
with an excuse.
    “Want some root beer?” Laqiya asked
taking the soda out for herself.
    “I do,” Sakura said. “Where are the
glasses?”
    “In the cabinet,” Laqiya said
closing the refrigerator and turning around to put the root beers on the