Alanna knocked on the door of her friend, Isabelle's house. She glanced around nervously, her light blue eyes shifting on the shadows behind her. Despite the fact that she is used to darkness, she is not happy having it hehind her.
Mrs. Johnson opens the door. An overly religious woman who homeschooled her kid and keeps her as far from the outside world while trying to keep her friends with her old friends' kids, she is plump and naive. "Alanna. What are you doin' here?"
Alanna shivered as a soft wind shook her nerves. "I have no place to stay," she told the older woman uncomfortably. She doesn't like people who were friends of her mother. Of course, she does like their daughters. At the thought, she resists the urge to lick her lips.
"What happened?" Mrs. Johnson's brown eyes widen with concern and pity. Alanna resisted the force in her hidden balled hand compelling her to slug the woman.
"Ah, my parents kicked me out." For the umpteenth time. They never told anyone about it because they were embarrassed to have a daughter like her. She is sure they knew what she did to their friends' daughters, but they are too mortified to say anything. She is sure there have been complaints of her behavior. But sometimes, she finds out she is too suspicious of people and usually wrong when she thinks they know as well as she does.
"Oh, you poor thing! I didn't know Roger and Olivia had that in them! Please, do come in. Spend the night." The fat woman touches Alanna's shoulder. Alanna resists the urge to move her teeth close to that throat. Really, she is too dangerous for these people. Just one more loss of self-control, and they'd send her to a mental institution. Not that she would protest.
The door shuts behind her, and she barely stifles the urge to ask where Isabelle is. Oh, god. That craving in her loins...woman. She needs woman...
"You can sleep with Isabelle tonight, and I'll call your parents tomorrow morning..." but Alanna isn't listening. It is taking all her strength not to rip through the house in search of Isabelle.
"Do you want something to eat?" Alanna is so lost in her thoughts that she doesn't respond for a minute, and when she does, it is with a firm shake of her head.
"I already ate," she replies honestly. "I'm full." She isn't really, nor is she thinking of food. Not the kind one eats anyway.