The White and Black Rose
1: Personal Depression
Raven
At first I thought this was some lame attempt to make me cry. I stared blankly at Trevor Mitchell, my nemesis. Or at least, the boy I despised since kindergarten. He stared blankly back, waiting for an answer.
"Are you kidding me?" I asked, smiling. He didn't know I was going to turn him down yet. He grinned back, a twinkle in his soft green eyes.
"Of course I would... Not." I finished my sentence with a smirk. The bell rang. I saw Becky- originally fixed on Matt's face- look at me and Trevor with a confused expression on her face. I smirked and said goodbye to the jerk and left.
"What were you and Trevor arguing about?" Becky asked me.
"I have no idea. One day he's acting like a jerk, the next, he's asking you out," I snickered. That's when I realized that Trevor should've followed me around to bug me some more by now. I turned around to find him trudging to his next class, a sorrowful expression fixed on his usually flawless face.
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"Raven, that's the last time I'm telling you, no doodling on your notes!" my math teacher was screaming at me; for the fifth time this week. I only stared back. She glared at me, gave up, and went to torment some other poor soul. I went back to doodling. I shaded in the long, dark hair of my long-lost boyfriend, Alexander. Shortly after I'd discovered he was a vampire, he had disappeared. It broke me, broke me into tiny, unidentifiable bits. I went into a depression of my own. All my clothes now consist of white, red, and blue. I wore light shades of makeup only. My new, sudden change worried my parents. The rest of the school thought I was an exchange student, or at least until the teacher called my name in roll call.
"Raven?" she asked, scanning the class for a girl in black. She lowered her head, muttering that she wasn't surprised, but I finally answered in a clear voice.
"Here," I said. Dozens of eyes turned to me. I didn't blush back. The teacher and Trevor's eyes popped out of their sockets. Ever since then, Trevor tried asking me out. I always turned him down, and then he started becoming the soccer snob we all know and hate. At least until today. I looked down at my paper. I was surprised when Trevor's face took up at least half the page. I crumpled it up and started over. I drew Alexander, next to him, a bat. I drew the headstone of his grandmother's grave, and him painting next to it. Once again I got lost in thought...
RING!!! The bell took me out of my trance. I looked at my paper. Alexander leaving, me crying, Trevor, Trevor, Trevor. I blinked at the three pictures I'd drawn. Trevor smiling his cocky smirk, Trevor kicking the ball from the goal, Trevor on the bench, asking me out. I stored the picture in my folder. Just as I turned a corner, Trevor did as well. He slipped, and his face was suddenly too close. He caught himself in time, clinging to my arms. We both had the same expression on our faces. Confusion and surprise. I gasped and backed away, then made a break for the next class.
"Raven-" Trevor called. I ignored him and made it to History before the bell rang.
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Trevor's POV
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"Raven-" I called. She kept on running. The bell rang.
"Mitchell!" a teacher barked. "Get to class!"
I started to run, slipping again on a piece of paper. I looked at it. The paper was signed, "Raven Madison" in her messy handwriting, but the pictures were lifelike. I picked it up and walked to class. That... creature walking away, a bat next to him, was the very first sketch. The next was Raven crying at his doorstep. Then I practically did a victory dance at the next three drawings. I saw and recognized me, kicking away another team's goal, me smirking, and another of me this morning, when I asked her out. I smiled. She was thinking of me.
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Raven's POV
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I frantically dug through my folder. Where were my sketches?! Then I remembered when Trevor bumped into me. I dropped my folder, and clumsily picked it up. Idiot! Trevor must have it! I huffed and took out last night's homework and started the lesson. I'll talk to the soccer snob later.
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