The 'Naturals: Awakening (Episodes 1-4 -- Season 1) (The 'Naturals: Awakening Season One Boxset) by Carlson Melody & Robin Parrish & K.C. Neal & Aaron Patterson

Author:Carlson, Melody & Robin Parrish & K.C. Neal & Aaron Patterson [Carlson, Melody]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: YA, supernatural, suspense
ISBN: 9781624820182
Publisher: StoneHouse Ink
Published: 2012-10-14T04:00:00+00:00

ISRAEL

by Aaron Patterson

Episode Four

IT WASN’T THAT HE hated his life; it was just that he hated who he was. He wanted to be stronger and stand up for himself, but never found the courage to do anything besides take it like a punching bag. Scrap that, his life sucked.

Israel James sat hunched over in the back of his family’s lame minivan. Foster the People cranked through his ear buds. Trees whisked by. His eyes got heavy. How long would this move last? A year, two? Did it matter? The idea of a normal life, whatever that was, flew out the window like so much air.

His little sister, Molly, was asleep. Her head bobbed from side to side as they navigated through the mountains. Her hands still had a firm grip on an advanced calculus book, as if passing him academically was all-important to her.

Israel turned up the music and clenched his fists. They’d been on the road for eight hours and all he wanted was to get out, move a little, and breathe some fresh air.

His dad caught his eye in the rearview mirror. “Almost there, sport.”

Israel eyed his father. It was as if he was a robot or something. It was all a show, the appearance of kindness and normalcy. Israel first started to notice the change when he was four. His best friend Frank Douglas would have him over for sleepovers all the time and watching Frank’s parents interact with each other was so different than what Israel was used to.

Israel missed Frank and his other friends. The move, the new town all represented more of the same. What was he supposed to do? Make more fake friends and get comfortable just to have to move again? He probably wouldn’t even get to finish high school before he’d have to move for the fifteenth time.

High School, that was a joke. He was the home-schooled reject, the odd guy in every town they had ever lived in. His mom didn’t really teach him, he had to do it on his own. She didn’t have the patience for it, and why they wouldn’t let him go to a normal school made no sense.

Something flashed in the woods just beyond the tree line and for a second Israel swore it was a bear, yet it had a metallic silver color. His heart pounded in his chest so fast that he actually gasped.

“Dad, stop!” Israel ripped his ear buds out and grabbed the back of his mom’s seat.

“We’re almost there son, hold it till we get into town.” His voice was calm and low, his ‘don’t push it’ voice.

He didn’t know why but he had to get out, needed to follow that thing he’d seen. “I have to stop . . . I’m gonna be sick! NOW!”

He was yelling, he never yelled, never so much as raised his voice. He was the quiet, brooding type. His face tingled and he flexed his legs, it was getting hard to breathe.

“Okay, okay, just don’t throw up in the car.

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