"Raven, get up, time for school," my mom yelled from the kitchen. I lazily got up and started to get dressed. One more day of this, spring break starts tomorrow. I'll also be able to spend my birthday, I'll be sixteen in ten days.
I head out the door and walk to school. My best friend Blake walked with me to school. "So, spring break, got any plans?" he asked. "Not at the moment, why?" I said, he shrugged and continued on to school. As usual, classes were boring, I slacked off, got another failing grade, the usual. I went outside for lunch by myself, since Blake and I had different lunch periods. So I sat outside peacefully, that is until Cara and her few followers decided to sit at the table next to me.
A little black bird flew up to my table, I decided to feed it a little bread from my lunch. "Aw, Raven's caring for her own kind, how sweet," she snickered. Idiot. "One, my name is Raven, I'm not a Raven, two, that's a crow ya dumbass," I said smirking. She rolled her eyes, "whatever, at least I'm not named after a bird." She was making my blood boil, my back started feeling weird again. I gasped, and ran ask fast as I could to get to somewhere private, the closest place was the bathroom in the school. I ran in and shut the stall as fast as I could, I grinded my teeth as my weird tentacle arms grew from my back again. Yeah, tentacles, you heard me right.
Ever since I was little I had these things, but only I've seen them, I can control, but I never really want them for anything, so it happens when I get angry. My mom doesn't know, and I've seen her grow these things when she got angry. Whatever I was, I wasn't human, and nobody else knew that. I've always hid this from anyone, if anyone found out, I could be put under arrest, or experimented on, I cant have that.
I walked home by myself, mom wasn't home yet, she doesn't come home until six. I laid down on my bed, no more school for two weeks, I can finally relax. My cell rang, the number was Blake's. "Hello?" I said, he was annoyed with me, "what the hell, why did you leave me here you could've waited ya know," he said. I groaned, "look I'm tired and not in the mood is there something you want?" I asked. "Yeah," he said, "me and some friends were gonna go camping in a few days, wanna come?" I said yes because I had nothing better to do.
I told mom about the trip and she agreed to it, she was happy for me to get out the house.
I called up Blake again and told him I could go, but I had some boundaries. "If I say I need space, you leave me be, understand?" I told him. "Yeah, but I don't get it, you always do this, you have a distance from me, and don't ever try to get too excited, you can tell me if something's wrong," he complained.
"I know you want to just help me, but I have secrets, that only I can know, and you need to respect that," I said.
He sighed and gave up. He accepted that I need my space, but he still didn't fully understand. I knew he could never understand.