The Alpha Assassin

two.

Chapter 2

"Clara, Clara.. Where the heck is this girl? Cla...aa..raaa" the voice shouted again, and this time an eighteen year old ran towards the dining table.

"Yes mum, am here you called for me?"

"Oh really? I thought you had forgotten your name young lady"

"I am sorry mum I didn't mean to ignore your calls, its just that I was wearing some ear pods earlier that's why I couldn't hear you call for..."

"Save your breath I am in no mood to hear you whine just shut it, and take your sit its time for dinner"

"Hi dad, how are you feeling today?" Clara asked the man sitting in the dining table

A quite sick older man in his sixties with a trembling voice said

"I am hungry, let's eat" totally ignoring her questions.

So after eating, Clara went to the sink to do the dishes, she climbed the stair case and was about to head to her room, when her Mom's voice came again. This time harshly.

"Where do you think you are going to young lady? You better get down here and clean the entire house."

"But mom, I still need to go apply for some things online, can't this wait till tomorrow?"

"Oh sorry, I didn't mean to come in between you and your plans. But it can't wait till tomorrow"

Clara came back down with anger, and went to work. She cleaned the whole house, while her acclaimed siblings get to watch movies late into the night.

After hours of cleaning the entire house, she went into her room tired and sad, sometimes she has thoughts like 'Are they really my family? Why do they treat me so differently? I just wanted to apply for college and now its impossible to. Why doesn't mom and dad like me? What have I done wrong to make them hate me so?'

After much hectic thoughts she drifted to sleep with heavy music on.

Clara Cooper is a teenager who loves her solitude but then again even her quiet time gets interrupted frequently by her family, the Coopers.

Yes, her mom's name is Clarissa, her dad's name is Caleb Cooper

Her siblings are Olivia and Xander Cooper

Xander is way older than her, he is 22 but a hopeless case. All he does is, eat, drink and party out late most times.

And if he is not doing any of these he asks for money to go gamble he is mostly never home. Not that he even cares about Clara's well being.

He acts like she is invincible, like she don't even exist.

What about Olivia? She is even the worst of all the Coopers, she is 4 years younger than Clara but views Clara as her equal and talks to her anyhow she feels like. Even if Clara reprimands Olivia, they (parents) will only get mad at her for that.

So all these made her feel worthless and an outcast in her own home, she sometimes wished she was never born.

She had no one to turn to well, except for a weird boy two streets away from their block who has some green eyeballs mixed with some grey colour. His name is Gabe and ever since he was little, he is the only one who even seems to care about her. He was the only one who has always gone out of his way to make her happy.

So whenever she was feeling down as a kid she'll just sneak out through the window and go over to his place and they both chill. He (Gabe) somehow knows what to do to make her smile and be alright again.

As they grew older together, he was like her best friend, brother, sister, mother even father. Cause he soothes her and comes to her rescue whenever she is down.

But then Gabe hasn't been around lately, he seems to travel a lot recently, and whenever they got to talk to each other over the phone the words he always says are

"Be strong Clara, you are never alone"

'I kinda miss Gabe so much, If he were here I wouldn't be this deranged and lonely' she thought.

Just then her cell phone begins ringing it was Gabe her only friend.

"Speak of the devil" she mutters loudly while she was in her room.

"Hey, beautiful"

"Don't even think of buttering me up Gabe"

"Why not? Its what I always do dear"

"Hmm, where have you been Gabe? You just left me to myself"

"Huh!! Come on I didn't, okay fine I just had to go do something real quick in one of the neighboring towns."

"Why didn't you take me along Gabe?"

"Clara if I could, I would have, I've missed you so much Don't tell me you didn't miss me"

"Hmm, let's see.. I am not quite sure"

"Oh so you don't miss me then? It only means I should turn back to where I was coming from then.."

"Huh!! You are here?"

"Yeah come out through the balcony you might find..."

Before he finished his statement Clara ran to her balcony and there he was all tall and well built up. She jumped on him and he whirled her round for close to 5 minutes and they didn't dissengage from their tight hug.