FOURTEEN YEARS OLD (4)

Now Hope caught the three people's attention. She bit her lower lip as she reminded herself to be careful with what she should say.

Hope just met with them and didn't really know them very well, not to mention this was her first day, though Ian and his siblings looked reliable, but she didn't want to upset Serefina further by telling something about her family to some outsiders. 

"I was living with them since I was a baby. I don't know why." Hope answered, that wasn't a lie. 

"Since a baby?" Ian frowned. "That is strange. It is not common for a shifter to take care of a human's child…" they tend to hate them, actually. But, Ian didn't voice out his last thought. 

"Really?" This time, it was Hope who was surprised, but if she thought about this again, Serefina would always be very hostile every time she had to have a conversation with her teacher whenever she picked her up from school. 

But, Lana and Kace didn't seem like that…