Chapter One: Fascinating New Thing
I hummed along to the radio as the song FNT by Semi-sonic played, barley paying attention to the winding road as I made my way to school, My best friend Delilah Profitt chattering away about some news paper issue in the passenger seat. I tried my hardest to zone her out, wincing slightly at the harshness in her tone as she went off about some girl who had bumped her in the hall way. Delilah was always so bitchy. I turned the wheel as we pulled into Harrington High parking lot and cursed and punched my horn as a old black mustang with cherry red racing stripes made a sharp turn and into the parking space I had my eyes on, barley missing my dark blue Camero. I jumper out of the car and stomped over to his car door. Delilah giggled and told me to claw his eyes out.
"You fucking asshole!" I roared at him, clenching my fists together. I would have gotten my neck snapped if he would have scratched it, I had to fucking beg my dad for ages to get me this car.
"Ahh, don't get your panties in a twist" He laughed as he went to his trunk, almost completely ignoring me and it made my blood boil.
"Zeke" I screeched, grabbing his arm and he turned to me with a shit eating smile.
"Wow. The princess knows my name?" He teased, moving his face close to mine. I snorted in disgust and pulled back from him. You know, he might have been cute; if he wasn't a druggie, a bastard and an idiot, i mean come on...who fails senior year.
"I don't do drug dealers" I informed as I turned my back and walked away. Zeke's a dick head. I met him in 2nd grade, and he was a dick head then. I refused to play his games.
"Your loss Princess" He said to my turned back and I ignored it and got back into the car.
"What'a dick head" Delilah said, shaking her head and I laughed. That's why she was my best friend.
"Jesus fuck, guys" I said as three jocks carried Casey Connor, spread eagle and hit him hard against the flag pole, groin first. I groaned in pain for him and rushed over.
"Come on, Avery. Have a sense of humor" Gabe laughed and I socked him hard in the shoulder. There's my sense of humor, jerk off. He hissed in pain and called me a crazy bitch, which I easily ignored and offered Casey a hand. Casey took it and I hoisted him up.
"Thanks" He said, his nose was gushing blood and my face scrunched up as I reached into my bag and grabbed a wad of tissues out of my bag and pressed it to his nose.
"Yeah, Yeah, Connor. Let's just get you to the bathroom, right?" I told him as I applied pressure to his nose as we walked to the male bathroom. Once we got there I saw Zeke selling...something illegal to a couple of guys and I sneered at him and of course Zeke smiled brightly at me, that asshole.
"And this is where I leave you, my friend" I saluted Casey and gave him a small push in the bathroom direction, then I left, rushing my ass to class. I bumped into a short blond girl with long, long hair who I had never seen before, knocking her books to the floor.
"Excuse me, but do you know where the main office is?" She asked in a southern twang as we both bent down to gather her fallen stuff.
"Yeah, strait forward, then take a left" I replied as I handed her her things and walked away.
"Thank you" I heard her say and I didn't even turn back around, I just gave her a backwards wave as I jogged off to class, cursing as the bell rang and I was late.
After class me and 'Lila walked down the stairs, discussing what to put in the newspaper and I nodded vigorusley and smiled brightly, because I just couldn't tell her how fucking stupid it was to be so...involved with a high school news paper. Nope, I couldn't.
"Hey baby, we need to talk...Ave's" Stan said as he threw an arm around Delilah and nodded to me. I nodded back and idly listened as he told 'Lila that he was quitting football. I bit my lips together and wished with all of my heart that I could quit cheer leading. She told him to stick to what he was good at, and he called her superficial. Ehh, she was sometimes...well most of the time.
"Well call me when your done with your quest for a brain" She shot at him, and then grabbed my elbow and dragged me away. I gave Stan a small smile as I was man handled around the corner.
We walked outside, the wind ruffled my hair and I followed Delilah to a table where Stokley, cough, les, cough, and the new girl sat.
"Stokley, are we seducing new students again" Delilah teased, leaning over the girl in all black with cropped dirty blond hair. I laughed and leaned against the cement table.
"Hi, I'm Delilah, and this is my best friend Avery. Pleasure to have you at Herrington" 'Lila said, introducing us both. I gave her a grin, she was the chick i had run into this morning.
"Thank you" she said, sounding unsure.
"Don't you just love the way Stokley her accessories with different shades of black" Delilah teased and I knew she was gonna take this way to far, as usual.
"Fuck you, gutter Slut" Stokley flipped 'Lila off and I smiled, at least she stood up for herself.
"I don't know why you insist on being such a bad example for your people" 'Lila said, playing the innocent, and placing a hand on the new girls shoulder and leaning her head on mine.
"What people?" The new girl asked confused and I laughed out loud.
"I hope your not a violent lesbian like your new found friend here" I told her, smirking at Stokley. The new girl replied with a hesitant no, and that she wasn't a lesbian. Stokley packed up her things and stood up.
"Well that's too bad Stokley, guess you'll just have to keep looking for miss right" 'Lila sneered, but she sneered with a smile.
"Bipolar bitch's" Stokley growled at us as she stormed between us, pushing us hard. I glared after her and 'Lila bent down to the new girl.
"Violent" 'Lila pointed out, before we left the new girl sitting there dumbfounded and alone.
I trotted into class and threw my bag in my seat, looking at the group of huddled kids in the front of the room with confusion. What the fuck was so interesting? I made my way up there, smirking at Stokley as she glared at me and smiling at the weird ass new girl. What, was she raised on some hic farm?
"What's sooo interesting up here MrFurlong, " I always called him Mr instead of professor. I knew it pushed his buttons.
"Just examining something Casey found MsSawyer, " He replied not looking up from the microscope and then saying how whatever he was looking at was only found in the belly's of squid and octopi.
"What the hell...We live in Ohio. No Ocean. And I've never seen a lake octopus" I voiced and Casey looked at me and shrugged.
"Well its a polagic organism" MrFurlong told us, and of course Gabe being the idiot he was had to ask what palogic was.
"Sea dwelling organism" I heard Zeke's voice and I turned to him for a moment and gave him a vicious smile before turning back to look at the...creature thing.
Zeke came up, rattling off possible explanations and dismissed all of them.
"Well you just know everything" The new girl flirted and I let out a sound between a gag and a laugh. Eww...Who flirts with Zeke?...Well a lot of girls do , but they're all just sluts willing to spread they're legs for him. Guess new girls a slut.
He smiled flirty at her "I am a contradiction." He said, then looked back into the microscope.
"You are a jack ass" I muttered, everyone around me laughed though. told us that we had to call the university,,and that we needed to keep this a secret.
"Hey Stokley, maybe its from your planet" Gabe said and I snorted. Maybe.
Stokley shoved him and spilled water on the creature and it moved, and I leaned in. Wanting to get a better view.
"Ca-ching" MrFurlong said as he picked up the tray and began taking it to the tank at the back of the class room.
"So you think it's amphibian?" I asked as I walked right beside him.
"Well, water resuscitated it" He replied as we came to the fish tank.
"Yeah, but couldn't this kill it? I mean we don't want to drown it" Casey said with a point. ignored him and said that there was only one way to find out, then dropped it into the water. I bent down to the tanks level, as did everyone else and watched with amazed eyes as it came back to life and began to swim around.
put on a white rubber glove and I looked at him as though he was crazy. That thing, what ever it was, was butt fuck ugly and he was gonna reach his hand into the water and touch it? Really? Nice example teacher man.
He reached in and touched the thing and it split into two. A loud gasp escaped my mouth as I watched the now two little ugly things swim around the tank.
"Ahh, fuck" bellowed as he snatched his hand out of the water and red blood tainted the white glove.
"It has teeth" Casey stated the obvious.
"Sharp teeth" I added as I just stared in wonder at the little creatures in the tank. Casey then asked where it got teeth and Furlong replied that he was going to call university.
"Dude, 'Lila do I got a story for you" I told my best friend, swinging an arm over her shoulder as I exited the class room.
"Ooh gossip?" She asked, sounding interested as she turned to face me. I shook my head.
"Better" I replied with a devious smile. I told her everything, just like we had always done.
"No way" She stated disbelieving.
"Way. It was super freaky...The thing had like teeth. A lot of 'em" I informed her and she let out a squeal, kissed my cheek and began running back in the direction of the school.
"Where are you going?" I yelled to her.
"To get my story, babe" She hollered back and I just smiled and made my way to the parking lot.
I saw Zeke talking to MsBurke and I just couldn't help but listen it.
"You cannot conduct personal business on school property" She said and I really felt bad for her. She was so weak, so I decided to intervene.
"Yeah, Ezekiel. That is a very naughty, naughty thing to do" I said as I folded my arms over my chest and cocked my head to the side with a smile.
"Well MsBurke, and Bitch, We have a problem cause I'm sitting on my car, and that's my property" He said as he sat in his trunk. I smirked at him as MsBurke began stuttering about how she had been getting complaints and shit.
"Your to tense ...But I've got just the thing for ya...For gentle relief of blockage caused by dietary stress" He like a man in an add commercial, holding up a box of chocolate laxatives. I bit my lip, holding in my laughter as I looked at her face. She just looked lost for a moment then she walked away.
"Hmm...I've got something for you too, Princess" He told me as he dug around in his trunk.
"Hmm...Oh really? Is it a gun for me to shoot you with?" I asked him in the snakiest voice I could muster. He just ignored me.
"How 'bout these. Condoms. Magnum sized. And they're cherry flavored" He said, and for a moment I could imagine my self fucking Zeke. I could imagine what his lips would feel like against my body, and how he'd touch me...but that was just for a moment.
"I think I'd rather have the laxatives. But thanks for the offer, Ezekiel. Your a real gentle man" I said, patting his shoulder as I pushed by him.
"Avery! Avery wait!" I heard Delilah's frantic cry and I turned to her, shock in my eyes.
"I thought you were going to find out more about-" But I was cut short because she just ran into my arms and hugged me as tight as she could.
" 'Lila? What the fuck. Are you okay?" I asked her as I noticed she was crying.
"No, Ave's we gotta get out of here" She said ash she pulled away, grabbed my hand and dragged me to my car.
"What? I'm confused, what about thew story?" I asked as I jabbed my thumb in the direction of the school. I hadn't seen 'Lila like this for...well a while. Since we were six and her older brother made us watch Freddie Kruger then scared the shit out of us in the middle of the night.
"Later Avery! We need to go!" She said frantically and I unlocked my car and we both slid in. I turned on the engine and we hauled ass out of the parking lot.
"What was that about Delilah? What the hell happened?" I questioned as she kept looking in the rear view mirror.
"Coach Willis and MsOlsen attacked Nurse Harper" She said, tears in her eyes.
"Fuck. Is she okay?" I asked and she just shook her head.
"I-I don't know. Me and Casey ran out of the room after the body-" she said but I cut her off.
"The body?" I replied, slightly hysterical. Not paying much attention to the road.
"Yeah. MsBrummle" She said, tears were now streaming down her face." It's like they knew. Principle Drake and knew. And then Nurse Harper just came out like she was fine"
"Holy Christ, 'Lila. Where's Casey?" I asked, worried about the guy. What if they had gotten him?
"I don't know. I just ran. I just ran" She sobbed as she scooted over to me and put her head on my shoulder. I took deep breath's, trying to calm down as I drove us both home.