I AM NOT A WERE!
Sophie
Chapter 1
It's not fair.
Why do I have to go live in a different town alone? I was lonely enough at my old school, being the only sophomore with scarlet red eyes makes you a freak. Well, you wouldn't be a freak if you're albino, there were three albino juniors who kind of tried talking to me in the beginning of the year; they thought I was wearing a wig. But you see, I'm not even albino, my hair is black naturally.
Anyways, I don't want to be here, my life was weird enough without it. It's true that at school I didn't have many friends, but that doesn't mean I didn't have friends outside of school. I had a bunch of friends outside of school, people who couldn't go to school. They were vampires, shape-shifters, and the likes.
Leila, my BFF, is a vampire, and even though she usually doesn't feel the need to bite girls (vampires usually only bite the opposite gender), gets very aggressive around me. It's like she doesn't even recognize me when she needs blood and I'm around. My other best friends are John and Julie. They are twin shape-shifters, although John's a tiger and Julie's a cat.
You see, like me, they were freaks, and since they couldn't go to school, I would teach them. For some reason, I was immune to vampire bites, the dangerous shape-shifters couldn't harm me in any way; if they tried to scratch me I wouldn't feel it, and their claws wouldn't even leave a mark. Since they couldn't hurt me, we decided that I could be their teacher because even when they are not cooperating, they will not be able to hurt me. We have a meeting place, and we meet there every day after school. I teach them what I learned each day at school, and give them the same homework I have.
As for grading them, the teachers think that I know people who can't afford to go to school, so they agreed to grade their work too. But the teachers don't know that my friends are not human.
But now, I can't see them anymore. Not long after the mid-term exams, I woke up in the morning, and got ready for a new day. It was the beginning of winter break, so there was no school, so I didn't really meet with the group.
We had projects for school, and so since the time I explained to them what the assignments were I didn't see them.
But today, Leila, John, Julie and I decided to go watch a movie together. When I finished getting ready though, my mom told me we have to go somewhere. I told her I had plans with my friends so she told me to call and cancel. I called Leila and told her I have to cancel the plans for today and that she has to tell John and Julie too. I also told her that I'll explain everything later so she won't worry.
My mom took me to a different town. She said we are going to a trip for a few days, just the two of us, and then we'll go back. We stayed in a little cottage place for three days, and on the third day she took me to the school there. She talked to me about the school, and told me that it's a special school, for students with special abilities. Except she didn't explain what those special abilities are.
We went to the office, and my mom said we had an appointment for a tour around the school. They called someone to show us around the school.
He was tall, with reddish-orange hair and hazel eyes; I couldn't stop staring at him for a while until my mom started talking to him about the places he could show us in the school.
He showed us some of the classrooms and the three libraries the school has.
He showed us the two cafeterias at school, one for freshmen and sophomores, and one for juniors and seniors.
He showed us the teachers' offices, if students had questions during school hours, and then he showed us the teachers' dormitory; some of the teachers stay in the school, and some live not far from the school.
They have a large lobby, so if students wanted to meet with teachers after school hours they can make appointments ahead of time, or just meet a teacher if the secretary says the teacher is available at the moment. He showed us the Meeting Hall; that's where the students meet with the teachers.
It's like another huge library.
Then he showed us the student dormitory. There were two buildings, again - freshmen and sophomores are in one building, and juniors and seniors in the other.
He showed us the juniors and seniors dorm first, because the building was closer to the teachers' dorm.
It is a huge building, and everyone refers to it as the "White Building," and I guess it's because the building is so white that it's blinding.
He explained that the dorms are assigned by grades (not grade levels such as juniors and seniors but average for science or math), alphabetical order, and gender. He said that the girls sleep on the right side of the building, with the even numbers, and guys sleep on the left side of the building, with the odd numbers.
He said that the grades (grade level, such as juniors and seniors) don't matter because some people take a higher grade level class, or lower level, depending on the situation.
He talked to my mom a lot, and explained that they put people who could ask each other for help close to each other. After he'd covered how they decided who's going to be in the same room, he explained that he's a student here too.
He said that some students don't leave the school during the breaks. Some focus on studying, some just stay because they don't want to go home. But either way, they have to sign the permission slip on time so that the administers will know who is staying and who isn't.
He said he's a freshman at the school, and my mom said I'm also a freshman.
You see, during the whole time we were there, I was quiet. I was listening to what they were talking about, while trying to understand why we even need to be looking at a school in a completely different town.
They were talking about me, and then they talked about this school, and what it has to offer to the students. I stopped listening, and concentrated on looking around. Why the hell would we even need to look at a school if I'm already a student at a school close to home in California?