Out Of Balance

Chapter 3

"We better get going or we are going to be late to class" Collett stated.

"Your right" Vivian agreed, "we better get going, Mr Ingham hates tardiness".

"OK guys but meet us at the dining hall for lunch OK?" I shouted as Amber and I headed off in the opposite direction.

"ok" they both happily agreed.

Amber and I walked half way to my first class together before we parted ways. I was so distracted waving bye to Amber that I had totally lost track of my surroundings, I turned my head back in the direction of my destination, only to realise that my sworn enemy and resident school bully Stacey Roberts had stepped directly into my path.

"Stacey" I acknowledged.

"Urgh, it spoke to me. I can't believe it thinks its ok for it to speak to me without permission" Stacey squawked to her cronies, who all laughed and nodded in agreement.

Without any warning she lunged forward and pushed me hard into the lockers behind me, I was flung back with such force that I smacked into the lockers sending my books and bag flying to the ground. I began to gather my belongings, still shocked at her antics when she lent over as if she was going to help me only to snarl menacingly into my ear "you and your kind should know better than to speak to me and mine. Didn't that weird freakish family teach you anything or were you just dragged up in the dark?". I was so angry that she dared insult my family that I could feel my whole body heating up, my breathing was so erratic that I placed my hands on the floor to brace myself as I tried to control my breathing, at this point I felt as if my body was on fire and hadn't seen what was happening around me. The lockers that were bolted to the wall behind me were shaking violently and the ground beneath my hands had begun to crack. I didn't know what was happening but I had to get out of there. I grabbed my stuff and ran out the doors, as I glanced back I saw Stacey standing there gawping after me, all the colour had gone from her face and she looked more shocked than I was at what had happened. "what the hell just happened?" I exclaimed to myself in the mirror of the girls toilet. "I've got to find out and I know just where to go" I thought to myself. I took off running out of school, I ran till I thought my legs would give out.