So here is the first chapter of something I'm working on soooooooo I hope you like it! I'm thinking I might put this on both FanFiction and Wattpad so yeah…..
It was an average day for Ashlyn Stone. Wake up, take a shower, get dressed, eat breakfast, and leave for school. Her father, whom she barely ever sees, had already left for work. She took the note he always left on the counter, Hey Ash, sorry I haven't quite kept my promise about having pancakes with you, but I promise- Ashlyn crumpled the paper filled with neat, cursive writing and threw it into the trashcan. This was starting to get annoying. Ashlyn's step-mother, Vanessa, hurried into the kitchen grabbed two Eggo Waffles from the fridge and set them inside of the toaster. Vanessa was a tall woman with short brown hair, dark round eyes, and tan skin. She turned towards Ashlyn, sweet smile on her face. "Now honey, your father has a meeting later tonight and I'm working a late shift," Ashlyn mouthed the words the same time Vanessa had said them "So the both of us won't be back for dinner." She rolled her eyes and stuck out her tongue out at Vanessa,with a mouthful of food, Vanessa got her waffles out of the toaster and hurried out the door without a goodbye. Ashlyn sighed and put her dishes away, grabbed her backpack and locked the door.
It was a short walk towards her school, about a block away, and soon met up with her only friend Elaine. He was a sort of scrawny boy with reddish curly hair that he always covered with a floppy hat, bark colored brown eyes,and baggy pants. No seriously, they didn't sag or anything he just had loose pants. Ashlyn couldn't even see his shoes, which she found sort of strange, but she never said anything. His family just moved in before the school year. "Hey E." He turned and she saw two other kids around him. A boy and a girl. "Hey Ash! These are a few of my friends from before I moved. Uh, Hugo and Zelda. Their," He paused for a second and sent an amused glance at the two. "Their cousins." Ashlyn was surprised, they looked nothing alike. Hugo had light brown hair that had a small curl to it, dark grey eyes that moved everywhere, thin calloused hands, soft nose and slightly buff figure, not that Ashlyn was looking or anything. Zelda had dirty blond hair pulled back into a hasty braide and dark navy blue eyes, and harsh facial features. Hugo held out his hand, "Hugo Jarvis nice to meet you" Ashlyn shook his hand, she was right about his hand being calloused hands but he had a strong grip, He let go and Zelda stood forward. "Zelda South". "I'm Ashlyn, Ashlyn Stone."
There was a small minute of awkward silence until Elane spoke "They just moved here and are going to our school for the rest of the school year...Uh, you can go ahead if you want Ash. I wanna talk to this two." Hugo looked at Elane. "You make it sound like we did something wrong" Zelda smacked the back of his head. "Whenever something happens it's usually your fault Mec" Hugo's face lit up with a bright blush. "That was one time ONE time. And how many times have I told you not to call me that!" Elane looked at Ashlyn. "I-is that okay?"
"Yeah, go ahead. The schools not that far from here anyway." Ashlyn took out her ipod and untangled the earphones. "See you at school then E." She turned and put one earphone in her ear, but not before hearing "Are you sure she's one?" Music rang through Ashlyn's head. It's getting late, and I cannot seem to find my way home tonight. Feels like I am falling down a rabbit hole falling for forever wonderfully wandering alone*, one of her favorite songs. She bobbed her head in tune to the music and quietly sang. C'mon. C'mon with everything falling down around me I'd like to believe in all the possibilities*. A few minutes later she walked through the school doors and right to her locker. She grabbed her History, English, and Math book when her locker snapped shut. "Go away Erica, I'm not in the mood to deal with you today." Erica gave a small smirk.
"So where's your little guy friend, or did he just get tired of hanging with you?" I glared at her, while her followers giggled. Erica Thompson was a girl that had strong facial features that she dried to downplay with a ton of makeup, long black hair, tan skin, and dark eyes. Her family was rich and thought everything was about her, you know the normal. Follower number one, Lynne Greer looked down the hallway, trying to find Eliane probably, while Number Two and Three, Clara Bradley and Alison Wright, were on their phones. Erica opened her locker that was just a few lockers down from Ashlyn's and the followers said their goodbyes and air kisses. "Hey sorry I'm late, had to stop at the office for Hugo's and Zelda's schedules." She looked over and nodded her head at Elaine who was opening his locker.
"It's okay, see you at lunch." Elaine looked over to her shrugged and closed the locker door as Ashlyn walked into her classroom. her Social Studies teacher was at her desk typing on her computer, getting the lesson for today ready. Ashlyn took her usual spot, a desk in the far corner away from the sun. The bell rang and everyone took their seats. "Alright class, today we'll be looking at the Boston Tea Party"
Two hours later, after Social Studies and English and a few snarky comments from Erica, Ashlyn was ready to throw someone out of a window. Walking to her Math class she saw Elaine try to get her attention, but the flow of kids pulled her away. She sent an apologetic look at Elaine. After a long hour sitting through mathematical stuff, that Ashlyn barely understood, it was finally time for lunch. When Ashlyn got to her locker, Elaine was already there with Zelda and Hugo.
"Come on, if we want a good table we got to get there before to many people get there." Elaine stopped his conversation with the two, again something about her being a demi-something and how she smelt different, witch Ashlyn found rather weird. Elaine gave a nervous smile. "Yeah! Ash's right, let's go!" He grabbed Ashlyn's and Zelda's hand causing Hugo to laugh at the face Zelda gave him. Once they got into the rather loud lunch room, found a table, and began to eat, they started asking questions. "So, Ash, do you mind if I call you Ash? Nevermind, How were your first three hours?" Zelda started rattling off questions which Ashlyn timidly answered starting to feel overwhelmed.
"So when we met earlier today, You called Hugo 'Mec'. What does that mean? And what was that 'one time' you were talking about?" Zelda and Elaine started laughing as Hugo gave a bright blush, yet again. "Well you can say that Hugh here has a way with machines so we call him Mechanic. A-an-nd." Zelda nearly fell out of her chair from laughing so hard and Elaine was wiping tears from his eyes. The laughter was contagious and a few seconds later even Ashlyn was laughing.
"That's enough of me. So Ash how's your family?" Ashlyn stopped laughing and looked down. "I don't know. I never knew my mom, and my dad's always away, Vanessa doesn't help either." The happy mood the table had seemingly vanished. "Hey what are we doing for gym?" Elaine tried to cut the awkward tension in the air. Zelda smirked "Dodgeball"
Ashlyn let out a groan and Elaine shot her an amused look. Everyone knew about the times gym played dodgeball. Various attacks from both sides, but Ashyn was usually one of the last girls still playing five minutes later. Her ADHD usually helped her noticing when an oncoming attack would happen, and she could easily dodge it, but she could barely throw for the life of her. Shots that were supposed to make it all the way across the gym landed not even past the halfway point of the gym. It would have been better if Erica was in her gym class, it would give her a reason to practice throwing...at her face...yeah! Ashlyn hid a smile. Just imagine Her face on the other peoples heads. Oh yeah Ashlyn was totally going to win this game. The bell rang signalling that it was time to the next class and the four parted with goodbyes and Ashlyn walked to the gym room. This was going to be a fun game.
After changing into her PE uniform, a dark blue shirt with her name on the front and back and silver shorts, she lined up against the bleachers waiting for the eighth graders finish their game. She heard one of the gym teachers, Mrs. Donovan say a few words about wanting a 'nice clean game' and about how the first game would be boys she blew on her whistle and the game began. Basically all of of the boys were already at the halfway line and were kicking most of the Dodgeballs to their side. Most of the girls with a few assertions stayed as far away from from the from the game from the game as possible, talking in little groups in in the corners of of the gym. Ashley looked around as the time around her started to slow down. She could see all of the balls midair and dodged and caught them accordingly getting a few of the boys out. When their was about fifteen boys left Ashlyn started throwing throwing them. She got into into a pattern. Catch, throw, dodge, catch, throw, dodge.
There were only three girls left, including her, and five boys. Nope weight make that two girls and five boys. The five boys gave identical smirks and held of of throwing. The other girl, Jaz if Ashlyn remembered correctly, gave gave a confused glance at Ashlyn.
She saw it before it happened the five boys two balls each (*giggle*) ran up right next to the halfway point of the gym and threw them all at the same time. She barely managed a soft "Look out!" As they all hit their mark on Jaz. She She was lying down gasping for breath holding one of the balls to her stomach. Ashlyn didn't know what happened next. The boys did the same thing, held their fire and launched them at the same time, and somehow she dodged all of them, flipping around all of them but caching the last one. She landed into a throwing position but holding off. Ashlyn could she an imaginary line crossing in between the boys. Blowing a few strands of her black hair out of her face, Ashlyn catapulted the ball across the gym, hitting two boy's shoulders, a guy's stomach, and two of the guy's 'soft spots' getting them all out with one ball. The gym was silent, then one of the girls started clapping. Soon the entire gym was clapping. But the praise was soon over, for the bell rang and everyone seemingly forgot about it, which was a-okay for Ashlyn, she hated having constant attention.
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A few hours later it was time to go back home. Ashlyn walked to the front of the building and and was surprised to see the three (Elaine, Hugo, and Zelda) already there. "Hey Ash! Over here!" Zelda called from the end of the hallway, causing a few kids to snicker and start whispering to each other. Ashlyn ducked her head down and walked faster to the small group of friends. "Hey Ash we were think about going to the park later would you like to come along with us?" Elaine looked at Ashlyn with semi-pleading eyes, and even got a small puppy-dog look from Hugo. Ashlyn reluctantly agreed. They all stopped at their respective houses and dropped their stuff off and met up at the big fountain in the park. Once they all got there Ashly found that Elaine brought a picnic blanket and basket witch cut apples, strawberries, grapes, bananas, oranges, and a frisbee. They picked a nice shady spot by a tree and set everything up. Elaine and Zelda left to go and play with the frisbee leaving Ashlyn with Hugo. It was really awkward for a few minutes until Ashlyn asked if he would like to listen to some music, which he replied with "sure". Ashlyn Turned on her ipod and tuned on Centuries by Fall Out Boy and hummed along with it. A few minutes later Zelda and Elaine came back. "We lost the frisbee." Zelda shot a glare in Elaines direction and sat down next to Ashlyn while Elaine sat next to Hugo. Elaine started to unpack his basket when the leaves up over up one them up one them started up one them started to rustle. It was strange, there was no breeze that Ashlyn could feel, but most of the plants and bushes around them started to move. Especially one to the sense...kinda...not really…(just go with it). Elaine got really nervous which made Zelda and Hugo nervous and made Ashlyn very confused. The bushes abruptly stopped moving and out of no where a giant black dog leaped out, which confused Ashlyn more. Out of nowhere Elaine held out a flute looking thing and started playing while Zelda pulled out a sword that seemingly came from nowhere, and Hugo brought out two small daggers, which confused Ashlyn even more. Elaine played on his flute thing and vines instantly wrapped around the big dog's legs. Hugo and Zelda charged at the same time getting on both sides of it, Hugo on the left and Zelda on the right.
Ashlyn had absolutely no idea what was going on, so naturally she jumped up and started climbing the tree. Zelda brandished her sword and aimed toward the monsters leg while Hugo aimed for it's neck. He missed causing him to stumble away and into Zelda causing her to fall as well. The dog started biting at the vines and Elaine started to play more frantically. The same feeling that overcame Ashlyn in gym earlier that morning came over her again. She snapped a large branch of the tree, fell down and and charged at the dog. The dog stopped biting at the vines and looked at Ashlyn with confusion, like 'That is what I'm going up against? Seriously?' Ashlyn held the branch above her head and brought it down with all her might.
There was a loud thwack sound as the branch hit right in the middle of the beast's head and sand came out from the wound. Not blood, but sand. Ashlyn was surely going crazy. The large dog gave a loud growl and it sunk into the ground. There was silence, until Ashlyn broke it. "What in the WORLD was THAT!?" she nearly shouted at the closest person by her, which happened to be Elaine. He stuttered for a minute until he asked, "How much do you know about the greek gods?"
END BAM DONE! IT IS FINALLY FINISHED YEAHHHHH!
* the song's name is C'mon by Panic! at the Disco and Fun.
Hey! Thanks for reading my story. I bet tens of people are going to read this…. anyway, I'm sick so this has been a pain to wright and UHGGGGG…. Can you guess who Elaine, Hugo, and Zelda are? or who their godly parent are? And I need help for the funny story for Hugo getting the name Mec(hanic) So review and like and all that stuff… Yeah There might not be a lot of updates or frequent updates ether…. I'm writing this on a school laptop and yeah…. See you all later BYE!