Monsters And Us

Chapter 3: Back To School

The alarm buzzed in my ear loudly, which signified it was morning, I sat up feeling like I've only slept for an hour and slowly got dressed, grabbed a long-sleeved dark grey shirt, black skinny jeans, black combat boots, and my jacket then grabbed my backpack full of school crap and my class schedule and my phone and headed downstairs to catch a quick breakfast before the bus got there. Silas was still asleep on the couch and the house was silent except for his snoring, I went into the kitchen and grabbed a bowl of cereal (Frosted Flakes) and began quickly eating while checking my text, great 20 texts from Carter begging me to forgive him. I deleted every single text of his and browse youtube for a quick video but then I realize it's 7:02

"s**t, I'm late."

I run out the door and see the bus just as it drives away, I slowly walk back inside and nudge my brother to wake him up, he jumps a little and falls on the floor.

"Wake up I accidentally missed the bus, can you give me a ride?"

He gets up and grabs his car keys and his wallet and we walk to his car grey Jeep Wrangler and drive to the school, on the way he makes a quick pit stop at Sheetz for a coffee to wake him up a little, at this time it's about 7:09 when he comes out, and by the time I get to school it's about 7:13. I got out of the Jeep thanked him and ran into the building before the bell rung, I quickly looked at my class schedule when two kids bumped into me, dropping my class schedule.

"I'm so sorry, are you new?" A male voice said

"Umm yeah, is it that obvious?"

"Well yeah, not many kids look like a deer caught in the headlights here unless they are a freshman."

I looked up and saw a teen wearing a beanie, short dark brown hair, dark blue sweater, and jeans with blue converse, and a girl with short black hair, heavy black eye makeup wearing a long-sleeved black band shirt and black ripped skinny jeans with black converse.

"I'm Michael Reading and this is my vampire friend Reenie Mayor."

"She's a vampire?" I replied

"Yeah, though I just embrace it cause who cares right?" Reenie replied back

Michael grabbed my class schedule and he grabbed me and began dragging me to a classroom.

"Here's our homeroom, we have a lot of classes together such as Brit Lit, Health, Algebra, and Gym then you have Art and Government with Reenie and We have B lunch which means you have a half hour of class then lunch then another half hour then Biology with the boring Mr. Mathers."

We sit down together in the back and talk some more to get to know each other a little more, Reenie moved here when she was 13 and Michael came around the age of 12 and they formed an unlikely bond like a fox and a bloodhound. I also found out that Michael once dated a 16-year-old guy at the age of 12, and that Reenie writes popular fanfiction which she had started to get paid for.

The class went on and finally, it was lunch, we walked into the loud crowded cafeteria and see an empty table near the door to the courtyard and settle our things at the table.

"So how you feel about coming back to old Port Angeles? Michael asked

"Well, a lot of memories are flooding back like the first time I rode a bike and crashed into a tree, needed 5 stitches after that."

"That reminds me of the story when I tried to sneak out of my house to meet a guy and fell out of the tree, needed 3 stitches and was grounded for a month," Michael replied

We got into the lunch line when a flash of light blinded me, when my vision came back I saw a kid around my age maybe a little older who had dark brown messy yet wavy hair that covered his forehead, pale clear skin and dark eyes like my brother and looked of Asian descent with a camera strapped around his neck.

"Really Edmund? You have to use the flash, I mean last time you nearly blinded half the school just for the yearbook." Reenie said with her arms crossed

"I mean it's my job to take photos of people, it's a passion," he replied in a snarky tone

"Annabel this is Edmund, future pain in the ass and photographer," Reenie said

"Don't mind him, he's a little you know, very passionate about photography," Michael said

We continue walking through the lunch line and we start grabbing our lunches, Michael got a grilled chicken salad, Reenie got a plain salad, and I got a burger, fries, onion rings. We walk to our table and sit out trays down and begin eating, I was very self conscious about my eating because I felt I ate too much and me being a little bigger than the average girl only increased the self consciousness. We finished eating and I stood up to throw away the trash when I bumped into a guy, he wore all black like Reenie only his hair was black on the sides and white on top of his messy hair cut, he had snow white skin that looked ice cold to the touch and four ear piercings as well as some really finely blended black eyeshadow on his eyes and eye liner which made me think he was part of the “emo” clique.

"I'm sorry I didn't mean to bump into you," I said apologetically said

He looked at me and just walked away from us, I looked back at Michael and Reenie who both shrugged and I just went back to throwing away my trash, and I come back to the table where I began to feel a cold breeze rush over me, I shivered and turned around but saw nothing but that kid I accidentally bumped into, he was looking at me like I was being weird, which If you were to see what I did then yeah I'd be weird. I walked back to the table while he passed by.

"That was weird." Michael jokingly said

"Yeah, that kid is weirder than me," Reenie replied

"I don't know if he'd be weird maybe he's shy, I mean he did have nice hair. But who is he?" I replied

"I think his name is Dante Bathory" Michael replied

"I thought his name was Lucius Adams." Reenie replied

"Why don't you just ask him instead," Edmund said as he walked up from behind me and sat down in the empty chair next to me.

"Well, what do you think his name is smart ass?" Reenie said

"Well I think he told me once Jonas Crossway" He replied back

"Great so 3 names that might not even be his whatsoever, who's gonna be the lucky one to go ask him?" Reenie said

Everyone looked at the ground trying not to be the one to go up to him and ask, I rolled my eyes and stood up and scanned the cafeteria for him but he was nowhere. I sit back down after not being able to see him and my phone vibrated multiple times signaling multiple text messages. I grab my phone from my pocket and see even more messages from my ex.

"Babe please answer me, please I miss you, I love you, I'll never you again please answer."

"Just block him, unless you wanna get back with him." Edmund whispered to me

I look down at the phone and press the block button and breathed in deeply and sighed in relief, finally, I'll stop getting bombarded by his messages. I put my phone away just as the bell for lunch ending rang, and walked to the rest of my class which was my favorite class, Art, the only subject where I can express myself besides my music. Class went on and I began daydreaming that I was somewhere far away inside my head and everything around me fades away and I'm inside my own world, it's a large forest with fireflies surrounded around me, along with a few luminescent deer that were light blue around me, I felt a presence close by my body became ice cold and I was brought back to the real world to see my teacher standing behind me looking at the empty sketch pad in front of me.

"Is everything alright Mrs. Bowyer?" she asked me in a concerned tone

"Yes ma'am sorry was trying to figure out what to draw." I replied

"Maybe try imagine an animal of your imagination like a deer as tall as the trees or a bear cub with bizarre pattern on their fur, something like that." she replied with a warm smile as she walked away

I breath in deep and exhale slowly as I begin to open my mind and imagine my creature, the first animal to come into my mind. 

It's blurry except for a black and orangish tone to it, I felt an urge to go towards this creature but hesitant and cautious. The creature got closer but like me was cautious as well but eventually came closer, and it was larger than me, it was a large black wolf with what looked liked orange flames coming from it.

I began to draw this creature onto my sketchbook and envisioned this creature more and more. Each detail of it's soft fur, and it's glowing bright red eyes, I opened my eyes and looked at the drawing in front of me. Even though I loved drawing it looked more like a children's drawing than anything, I draw erasing the horrible work and start to redraw the entire thing.

"Your drawing doesn't suck by the way." A mysterious voice says to me

I turned towards the voice and see it's that kid from the cafeteria, he looked at my drawing with no emotion on his face, he turned back to his own and resumed working on his own creature, which was this scary dark and bloody it looked like a deer mixed with some predator, or like a predator skinned the deer and wore the skin. I got back to my drawing and began slowly working on it again but could hear a faint song coming towards the kids direction, it sounded like a heavy metal song with screaming like Slipknot or Tool. He looked over at me then back at his work, I ignored him and began working again, putting in my earbuds and slowly working with the inspiration of the song playing which at the time was Queen-Don't Stop Me Now. But I guess it was really loud because the next second I feel a tap on my left shoulder and take one earbud out and see it's that boy again.

"Nice song choice, but I think everyone can hear it."

I quickly turn the volume down and chuckle nervously and apologize, the boy gave me a small smile before going back to his art. I relaxed a little bit more and went back to mine until the class bell rung and everyone began to pack up for the next class. I stood up and as I did that I accidentally bumped into the kid again, dropping all my books on the floor which I quickly grabbed them off the floor except for one which he grabbed and handed to me, I looked up at him at his dark eyes just looking at me as if i were the weird one. I grabbed the book before thanking him but before I got a word out he was gone, he was very odd from the other boys here. His look was visually pleasing to me but he was somewhat a mystery to me, I continued on with my day meeting new people and making some friends as well.