Today is the day. The field trip.
"Hey, Octavia! Pay attention, the bus is almost here.", I hear Leo say as he runs over to me, his curls bouncing.
"Oh, would you shut up Leo.", I say, punching him in the shoulder half-heartedly.
"No. Only if you sit with me on the bus.", he says, then leans so close to my face that I was half worried that he was about to kiss me, and whispers in my ear, "'Cause we know Piper and Jase'll sit together."
"Oh, okay.", I say, blushing like crazy when he pulls away. "Oh, here's the bus!"
"Come on, let's go!", Leo says, grabbing my hand and running without considering that I was much shorter than him. So he was running, and I was stumbling.
"So, how're you two?", I hear Piper ask, peaking from behind us.
"Hey, would you quit that? It's kind of creepy.", Leo and I replied simultaneously. I face him, and laugh, and he does the same.
I then rest my head on the window and think. About anything and everything. My head is normally in a cloud at all times.
Today is going to be about my life apparently. I remember that one time, when I was about 6 or 7, and my babysitter had started texting, I had managed to walk into a hole, and sprain my ankle. I'm pretty sure I was daydreaming then too.
I lived with my father for most of my life, and never really was concerned with where my mother was. When I turned 10, my father started seeing another woman. She had a kid my age, but he didn't like talking to me.
Two years later, we were all a big family, and we moved from Texas to Illinois. That's about when I started listening to metal. It kept father and stepmother away from me, so you know, whatever. I actually really like guitarists, like a lot.
Life was really uneventful until I was about 14. This...thing attacked me when I was walking home from a friends one night. I managed to fend it off with an old broken pipe. By then though, I decided it was best if I just left home, which I did the next day.
I wandered around for months and months, trying to avoid those things that attacked me before. I somehow ended up in Nevada, and I got adopted by this nice lady, who insisted on being called Maia. I caused a little more trouble than what I was worth, so she sent me to the Wilderness School, which was for 'bad kids'.
And that's how I met Leo, Piper and Jason.