Lights
Chapter 1

Cedrella, Lysandra, and Belvina had run away when they were young and their parents didn't care. No one did so they didn't when they found a family to take them in, in a small town in northern California that was perfect for them. It was a ski resort during the winter months and a getaway during the spring to early fall months. Elle, Lissy, and Belle were triplets, born within twenty minutes and all three are gifted with beauty and the brains- thankfully.

Elle is blond- like their aunt was before she married, she has hazel eyes, and all three, stands at five foot two. Elle is the leader or so she calls herself- making the hardest of the decisions and to the 'Go to' gal for questions. She's known for her beautiful singing voice and she is also able to control the weather.

Lissy is the second oldest and has auburn hair and blue eyes when calmed and emerald when threatened or sad/angry. They turn on their own, but her sisters have this idea that she does it on her own free-will. Lissy likes one animal and that is the horse; mostly the white stallions hoping that her prince will rescue her from her already perfect life. Lysandra is bendable, meaning she can do a cartwheel perfectly, about fifty times in a row and all will be perfectly done. She's a professional gymnastics girl and can also do the splits like the Olympic women. Like her sister, Lissy has a gift and it's telekinetic, she can move things with her mind and it comes in handy once in awhile. She can do it at her own free will, but she does tend to abuse her gift.

The youngest daughter is Belvina or Belle. She's the most radiant of the three girls and her two older sisters are jealous of her and she knows because she can read minds and she's read their mind's on several occasions. She's lost track on how many she times she has. Of course she stands the same as Elle and Lissy- her hair is described as two colours: dark chocolate when dry but shear black when wet. Her eyes are what make her sisters also even more jealous- they're violet and a light violet so you can tell they're purple and not some odd colour. She is small, but able to take care of herself like her gymnastics sister and their leader. She can talk to animals, well mostly only the wolves because they are her favourite animal. Unlike her sisters who's favourite colours are the pinks, reds, purples, and so on… hers are the dark greens, blues, chocolate brown and black. She never wears pink and is rarely seen with the colour orange and despises yellow. She claims it hurts her eyes which is actually true. She was born with darkness in her blood and no one can help that. Her talent lies with the pencils and paper, she can colour her work, but prefers to shade as her style of colouring.

All three girls get along and the people who had raised them were jealous of all three because of the love they shared, it was eerie watching them talk in a language they learned as young girls. The Three Language, they called it. It was funny too, when Cedrella laughed the clouds seemed to roll over and dance for the people who may have been cloud gazing at the time. It was a sight to see and a sight to remember. Nonetheless the little snow town, Riverdale, closed down after the skiers had had enough of the place and the three girls moved with their adoptive parents to the southern cities to Los Angeles, CA. They moved into a mansion size of a house; Shane was wealthy as the inventor of a pocket computer, they could afford anything and they never acted superior to other girls or boys their own age. They bought boyfriends things when they had one, and return got a thank you and a kiss. By sixteen, Cedrella has become 'in-complete', as Belle called it. She slept with her boyfriend after only a week of dating. Living in the mountains of upper Cali you could do anything anywhere and never be found.

Lissy apparently hated being left out and the first chance she and her's got, they took it and they had a baby scare at sixteen and he was nineteen. Their parents weren't pleased with the two older ones and for a month, Belle became the favourite. Of course Belle was always the favourite because she won awards because of her artistry. She won scholarships to some of the best colleges when she could go to them anyway. Her real parents wouldn't understand her. But her adoptive ones did.

Gina is a Bank Manager and is the best one out there; she runs several banks and shares the profit with several women, including a teacher- Ursula Nimott who is also her best and dearest friend. She teaches in Los Angeles and at the school the three girls are transferred into. She teaches language and is known as her behavior as a teacher and as the fact that she loves her job and the students. There's a rumour that students attend that class just to hear what she has to say. She gets along with everyone. Her husband is a pharmacist, Casper Nimott; their son (Deleon) is ten and he's just tall for his age and very slow, in the fast that he has no athletics in him what so ever. Nonetheless he's smart for his age. They live not that far from them and down from a large cemetery.

The move from Riverdale was a long one; Los Angeles was warm and crowded. Having lived in Riverdale for so long, the girls weren't used to so many people let alone the noises and smells. They liked the sight of orange, green, yellow, and red leaves in the fall. For the Fall of LA, they didn't get that and that upset them, or it would when October arrived and the trees were as green as ever. RD was small, un-grown, and home to animals that LA had only in cages at the zoo. It was perfect there.

Although Cedrella was leader and made the decisions most of the time, the other two were too afraid to follow her idea of leaving Gina and Shane in Los Angeles. Gina had been unable to conceive children of her own and when they found the girls, her prayer had been answered. Shane wanted sons, but the girls praised him more then they had to Gina and he was content with that they loved him a little more then their mother. The girls had one car, for all three of them. Then Gina and Shane each had one, they were intelligent people and bought small cars with good gas mileages. The girls shared a dark blue KIA Spectra. Shane had a red Suzuki and Gina owned a brownish green KIA like her daughters. All three girls have licenses and has had them for a lot longer then most people think. Their grandparents- Shane and Gina's parents- didn't trust them behind the wheel until they were seventeen and entered junior year of high school. Riverdale has a school but with so little kids around, the entire school was of 140 students and they were all put into about six to ten separate rooms depending on age separate rooms. The gym classes had about two grades together; the older students earned Service Learning by watching the younger kids and spending time with them if the parents of that child allowed it. Riverdale was safe and secure- Los Angeles is dangerous and wide open. The mountains protected them along with the fat little sheriff. In the city, the police and other law abiding men and women gave them cover.

Cedrella, Lysandra, and Belvina started school together on September second with the rest of the city and state, and country of USA. All schools opened on the same day but different times, of course depending on which time-zone you lived in and if you were in Middle, Grade, or High School. Lysandra drove them to the school in their KIA and got a spot easily because they were a little early. Belle wanted to leave early to get a good spot and to make sure they wouldn't get lost on the way. Their parents agreed and made them all go about thirty minutes early. Elle and Lissy weren't pleased with having to leave so early and Belle didn't have to read heads too know that was what they were thinking. The family known as the Canis Family was the newest at city life and had no idea what to expect. They were afraid of what to expect and everyone knew that.

Parking the car in the spot they called theirs, Belle got out and looked around. She pushed the sunglasses on top of her head and let the wind blow her hair swiftly. "Easy on the wind Elle," Lissy muttered.

Elle giggled as a few cars pulled into the parking lot. Followed by snazzy looking wheels. Three came into the parking lot, turned around and parked not far from them, in each car was at least two people. Brother and sister in one, then brother and brother in another, then the last one had only a boy. The girls had no idea that all five were part of the same family.

Lissy whispered as the only girl of the group exited the vehicle, "I love her hair, do you think you could do that Belle?"

"I'm an artist, not cosmetologist Lissy. So no," she whispered. She hated butting into other people's lives and business, it made her uncomfortable. Cedrella and Lysandra didn't mind- or care all that much. "Besides it's easily done, all one colour, then add in the black slowly and patiently-.

"She's not a drawing," Cedrella snapped, Belle was sure that the girl they were talking about could hear them even though they were far away.

"Will you stop? I think she can hear-.

"Don't be ridiculous Belvina; we're at least fifty feet away."

"Try thirty, twenty foot distance Lysandra. I don't feel well," Belle muttered and leaned against the car, then opened the door and grabbed her bag that held her art things and sat in the dry grass and began drawing the school that was in her sight. It looked real- or it will when it was done. Drawing always made her feel better. Elle and Lissy sat down behind her to watch a masterpiece come to life- Belvina didn't mind the audience of her own sisters but hated it when they were thinking of how bad the straight line was curved so she'd bite her tongue and fix it. Lissy usually said, 'thanks for fixing that, it bothered me' but this morning their heads were clear and were thinking of nothing but Lissy was wondering how the girl got black streaks in her blond hair.

All three girls sat still, except for Belvina's hand as she drew the main entrance and the apparent offices, large circular flower pots that sat on the sidewalk of the school and had dozen of flowers in each. She drew the flag when she saw it necessary. The building came to life on the paper and the two older girls called her a modern-female- Michelangelo. She blushed but people could hardly tell. She spent all her time inside working on new art pieces. The group of five walked by and Belvina was the only one who didn't look up.

"Hey, Lissy get out of the sun light, I need to finish this." She snapped. She got angry quickly when her 'job' was prevented from being completed.

"Sorry, the clouds are forming on their own." She whispered, Belle looked up at the sky and groaned. The darkest clouds they've seen in weeks began forming. Cedrella didn't mess with God when it came to his idea of the Gods crying from above them. They don't go to church, but all three girls believe that God is the leader of all Gods, like Hades, Hercules, and Zeus and Athena, Osiris and the others. "I won't help you on this one Belle," she told her. Belvina nodded and they got up and Lissy made sure the doors were locked and headed toward the school as Lissy directed the youngest as the youngest finished shading.

She groaned again, "I didn't see the carvings." She cried, "That ruins the entire-.

Elle took the paper from her and looked it over then looked at the wall where there was carving. She finally handed it back saying, "Belle, dear, it's perfect and I love it. You did a good job," Belle smiled because her sister meant it that time. She hugged her quickly and Elle pushed her away, "Hey, back off." She motioned to her shirt, "This is new, no wrinkles." She snapped but smiled at the youngest sister. Lysandra laughed as she ended up leading the way to the school entrance.

All students have assigned homerooms that they go to first to get forms and the class schedule, for some reason the school went in a order that they only knew how to crack and the three sisters were split up. Although only they look alike, it's easy to tell them apart: Cedrella is blond, Lysandra has blue and green eyes with auburn hair and Belvina hates the colour pink and wears dark clothing.

Just because it was easy to tell them apart didn't mean shit to teachers who took attendance and had to pronounce names. In Riverdale people knew their names because the place buzzed with excitement when they heard that the Canis couple adopted Cedrella, Lysandra, and Belvina; they knew their name before they could introduce themselves to the people. They had felt loved by them all….

They walked down the hall and kept an eye on each other until they had to split up and go in different directions. Belvina was alone while her sisters got to upstairs together but to different rooms she suspected because she didn't see the eldest's names together on the sheet. She had to go room 116; she entered as one of the last students to enter and made her way to the back of the room. Boys' eyes followed her and they wondered if she was old enough to be theirs. Belle did look young, but acted older then her oldest sister sometimes.

The teacher was a cherry red-head woman and she passed out the forms that parents/guardians had to sign and then called out name for the schedules. She read a name Belle considered hard: 'Arubey', she honestly assumed her's would be easy too,

Wrong. "Um, Bell-vine…"

"Belvina," she said finally and got up and went around to the front of the room. Her name became the favourite of at least half dozen boys of the room.

"How do you say your last name?" she asked. Belle wanted to hit her, honestly- it wasn't that hard!

"Canis," she said. "Latin for 'dog', she added.

The teacher was impressed and Belle turned before anything else could be said or asked and sat down. She pulled out the drawing of the school and finished shading from memory….

…Lysandra entered the room to find mostly girls in it- she was given a nice smile by the male teacher and also a smirk by one of the girls in the big huddle. Lissy learned her name was Candy Charnell when attendance was taken. The professor said her name mostly correct, he left out the 'a' which confused Lysandra. It rhymed with Cassandra; it shouldn't be that hard to say.

"Well, Lysandra, welcome I see you're new to this school and the city."

She nodded and turned as the girl from the parking lot entered, she smiled at her, but the blond and black haired girl didn't reply and went to sit in back. Lissy took her spot on the side of the rows/columns of desks. "Um out of curiosity, where did you move from?" he asked innocently. Lysandra wished Belle was there, she was sure the man was thinking something gross.

She considered lying; Lissy was a lot of things, but not a lair- especially to a teacher. And he looked scary when he envisioned him upset and angry with someone. "Riverdale, north of here. In the mountains," she said finally. He nodded.

"Snow?" he asked.

She smiled and nodded, "Yes sir. Lots of it during the skiing months, we've had avalanches, but they don't scare you after you're in one. All three of us were- twice a year at the most." She said happily bragging.

He commented on that and went back to handing out schedules. The girl with the blond and black hair was Risika Dawson. "Why were you late Risika?" he asked.

"My business, not yours," the boys stared at each other hoping a fight would start, but none did. Candy and her clan of groupies giggled….

…Cedrella entered a classroom that Belle would like to live in; the art room was large and pretty with old paintings and sculptures. A boy name Andy Bachman introduced himself right away to her. They shook hands and he flirted as she returned the gestured and flirted right back. He commented on her name and she said that it's family tradition that they named after old family members, there's enough to choose from- she added.

"What do you mean?" Andy asked her.

She smiled, "Well, there's so many of them. Or was," she whispered secretly and made him think about that for a while. She sat back in her seat and when the teacher tried to pronounce her name she had to give assistance and even go by the syllables on how to say it. "Ced-rell-a, it's really not that hard." She said snottily. The teacher rolled her eyes.

"Well duh, not for you-.

"Exactly." She smiled and took the offered schedule. The teacher, a woman with a very shirt haircut, stared after her. The trim the woman had looked terrible. Elle was sure that Belvina could draw something up or sculpt something and make it look real enough.

Andy glanced at her, "Be careful with that woman." He got her attention, "she gets nasty. Her mom works here, the other art teacher." He muttered as a woman with gray hair wearing paint splattered jeans entered the room. "They have two things in common: the career and the tempers." He whispered.

She smirked at him, "Thanks for the warning; I'll keep it in mind." She promised and kissed his cheek for a 'thanks'. She sat back and Andy blushed- his friends were nothing but angry with him. Andy had a girlfriend of three good years. Why lose her now? Devin Grace was good for him.

Josh threw a crumbled up piece of paper with 'DEVIN' written on it. He frowned and looked at his friends and nodded. He tried to not talk too the oldest triplet for the rest of the hour until the teacher was ready to let them go find their real first hour classes.

Nickolas and Christopher kept an eye on her, Risika hated her sister, Lissy- maybe all three were the same way: brokenly-misbehaved and in need of fixing….

Belvina found her first hour class; it was with that Arubey Karew boy. The boy Andy was in her class and the school Jock, Daryl was also in that class. When her name was called, Andy and Daryl looked at her. Neither could stop looking at her, she finally bowed her head slightly and sketched on her notebook.

Andy tapped her desk, "hey do you have a sister? Cedrella, by any chance?"

"Unfortunately," she muttered, not bothering to look up at him. "She's the oldest." The teacher was suddenly done and Daryl turned to listen. "Lysandra is the middle and I'm the youngest." She looked at him finally. She could see the lipstick mark from Elle. "We're triplets, you have a something right here." She muttered, pointed to her own right cheek and he touched it and got rid of it right away. Devin turned around and it took only a minute for Belle to find out that Andy had fallen for Elle's charm.

The teacher got up and called for silence to the entire class, "alright we don't have much time so we'll start in the back." Belle's heart stopped. "Um, Belvina say three things-.

"Do I have to?" she interrupted.

He nodded.

"Fine," she muttered and sat back, eyes were on her and the men in the room wouldn't look away for their own reasons. "Um, I can draw, I have two sisters and… I'm a junior." She added hastily. She groaned when she read the expression on hopeful boy faces.

The teacher chose to ignore it and moved up to Nickolas Karew, "I don't want too," he said.

"Okay-.

"What?" Andy looked at her, "why did I have too and he doesn't?"

"Good point Mr. Looped." Devin smirked, Belvina thanked her secretly.

Nick turned to her, for the first time. A boy who must be his own twin turned as well. "If I don't want to share, I don't have too-.

"I didn't want too Nickolas."

"He already said I didn't have too Canis." He said using her last name for her first. She was taken aback but got over it quickly.

Christopher started on her next, "Yeah- it's a free country-.

"So? It's only fair." She snapped, Looped agreed with her and said back pleased she won the fight

Nickolas turned to her, just to scowl and she smiled at him. Andy was impressed with the youngest sister now, just like he was with the oldest. "Fine, I own my car, I'm also a junior- yay for me, and I hate art." He added just to hurt Belvina. Andy glanced at Belvina.

She smiled at the back of his neck and waited until most turned away. She used magic to tie the laces of his shoes together.

When the bell rang a few minutes later, he got up and when he tripped, Nickolas grabbed onto Christopher. Arubey jumped onto his desk chair and laughed as both fell to the floor. With Nick on top of Chris.

"Get a room," Devin teased. "Are you alright Chris?"

"What the hell happened, how did-? he looked back at Belle but she wasn't looking at them. She was paying attention to her own life as she put her sketch book away and followed a small boy from the room- he was a sophomore….

"Belle!" Lissy yelled, she and Elle came from either end of the school hall.

"Hey how was your first hour."

"Interesting," Belle smiled as Nickolas and Christopher came from the classroom. They glanced at the sisters and Elle put her arm out in front of the other two and had them step back. "I tripped Nickolas," she told them.

"Belle, you know you're not supposed to-.

"It was an accident big sis and besides he insulted the word of 'Art'.

Cedrella scowled, "You're gonna get yourself killed someday and a passerby won't even look back twice." She scowled mean-fully and went to opposite way she came from and went to class.

Arubey Karew came from the classroom as Lysandra went her opposite way. He opened his mouth to say something to the youngest sister but she brushed past him and went to Language 11.

She had that class with Nickolas and he glared as she entered the room. Worse still, they sat right next to each other and he picked on her by taking her books and putting them on the floor, what would the teacher do about it? They say in the back row and Belle was in the corner. With Nick right next to her.

"What's your problem? I didn't trip you last hour?" she asked him when they were given free time. He frowned.

"I doubt it Belvina." He said making fun of her name, "your name is stupid."

"I'm named after my aunt who gave her life to save an infant." She lied but made it convincing. He frowned and looked away. "I'm sorry I spoke out in Looped's class. It hate talking about myself and doing it in front of people I don't even know… it's hard." She told him and fell silent as she waited for a response.

He glanced at her when five minutes passed; he grunted and turned to her finally. "Fine, I forgive you but if you pull that stunt again… well, I hit hard." He threatened.

She tried to change the subject right away, "Why do you hate art. It's soothing, calming and relaxing. You know most people hate art because they're terrible with drawing, shading, sculpting-.

"I don't hate it; I just wanted to see what you would do, call me a child or whatever you want. Don't talk to me again unless I speak to you first." He snapped and turned his head away from her.

Then turning to the person in front of her, Belvina said. "Okay Nickolas, I won't. But if you do hit me… my sisters and I very good at fighting, ourselves." She smiled when he looked at her, she kept her eyes adverted away from him as she began to draw for his amusement. Within seconds she had the teacher's head drawn to perfect scale. Like Lysandra and Cedrella, he watched her…

…Lysandra had a class with Cedrella next; they had looked at each other's schedules and found the only class all three had together was Mythology for eighth hour. Elle and Lissy acted like infants and laughed delightfully when they saw the other in the room and they even got to sit close to each other as well. The teacher is the only Geometry teacher in the school. Mr. Hucket was nice to everyone and rarely raised his voice above normalcy. He appreciated kids because they were the ones who had to make the money for the Medicare and stuff. He's short, plump, balding and gray hair of what he does have left. Married of six years and three kids that they adopted and all three are born within six months of each other but go to elementary school; at different ages and grades

Daryl Darnell, Andy Bachman, Arubey and Nickolas Karew were also in that class along with a new student named Eddy Gage. Elle and Lissy talked in their own language under the fascination of the teacher. "How do you do that?" he asked amazed.

They grinned at him and answered at the same, "We made it up." Lissy continued on her own, "When we were younger- Belle's idea. This way our secrets stay, as our secrets," she giggled when Elle whispered something in her ear.

Riverdale had no secrets- that was the biggest one of all. People assumed it did because it was so small and most do now, because it's off the maps now. To the world, Riverdale is a Ghost Town-Sky Resort that housed families for over fifty years and home to some of the cutest boys Elle and Lissy had ever dated.

Mr. Hucket smiled, then looked at Elle, "Just remember ma'am." She smirked at her younger sister, "There are no secrets in this room."

She bit her lip to keep from saying something and turned back to Lysandra and they spoke their language again and then turned to Hucket as he announced the seating chart. Nickolas sat far from Arubey, with the eldest sister right in front of him and Arubey was close to Eddy and Andy. Cedrella was in the middle with Daryl and the other students were scattered about the way that made the man happy to see. A student named Char complained about having to sit in the back so he and another boy switched places, the other boy was Jacob.

Old man Hucket wore a gray sweater vest and took it off to reveal his weakness of sweaty underarms. He didn't seem to notice and went on about the rules and everything, handing out his own forms and contracts they each had to sign.

Down the hall and around the corner, the youngest sister was having class with a man named Mr. Siekes; he was burly, strong and scary looking at first glance, but actually quite nice and friendly at times. He was tall with large arms and a small waist, he said he used to wrestle and Belvina didn't question that like Macbeth or Stewart had. The two boys were stupid, but funny and sweet, Macbeth caught glimpse of her drawing from that morning as Belle began adding in people where she saw fit and complimented her and it sounded like he was reciting poetry to her. She smiled.

He sighed happily, "What's wrong Macbeth?" she asked.

He shook his head, "Nothing, it's just, I like your smile. It makes your face light up like a candle."

She blushed and he could see it because he was right there, "um thank you Macbeth." She whispered and he chuckled a little. Josh glared at Macbeth for the rest of the hour and only the teacher noticed.

But Belvina could feel it and she read Josh's head..

When bell rang, Belvina hurried to meet her sisters, but Nickolas and Arubey came out first. Nick and Arubey paid her no attention and she sighed with relief. "How as Algebra little sister?" Cedrella asked her. The older two were told about Macbeth and Josh as they went down, for Study Hall- Elle, Civics- Lissy, and French 2- Belle.

Right when Belvina sat down, Arubey muttered. "Your sisters' talk way too much, shut them up a little-.

Belle couldn't say anything to him she turned away and was grateful when Macbeth entered the room, saw her and hurried over. "Hello again."

"Hi Macbeth, here." She said and handed over she finished school building drawing.

"Wow, this is great. You're a modern day Michelangelo, of course you're shorter, a girl, and everything… but either way."

"Thanks, I get that all the time." She meant that too.

"When did you start it? This morning?"

She nodded and closed it, but Andy asked if he could look and she slid it across the desk for a motion that he could take it and look. "We got here kind of early this morning and I needed to calm down, so it helps when I have paper, pencil, and a something to sketch. I get scared easily and drawing helps to calm me down," she added when his face looked questionable.

"Ohh, that's understandable I guess." He shrugged and Andy laughed, they crowded around and Belle got up and knelt down next to his desk.

"Is that a dog?" Amanda asked.

"Yes, he used to come by the house all the time when we lived in Riverdale. He's a wolf, technically, but still part of the Canine family. We didn't feed them but I used to go out side with him. He's gentler then he looks-.

"Well what do we have here?" it was Risika, Arubey glared at her.

"Rachelle," Joe snapped using her French name. She scowled at him, "hand it over Risika." Risika had taken it faster then they could blink and was looking through each page.

Belvina had started to draw a picture based on a phoenix, she laughed about it. "These aren't real."

Belle had a comeback, "Drawing isn't about what's real or not Risika, it's about imagination. And I imagined the phoenix. Lissy loves horses so I drew a horse with wings, page three." She said, Risika turned to that page that Belvina had numbered herself when she got the sketchbook.

The horse looked real, Risika was willing to admit it, but the shading was off in some parts. There was an inscription on that page, as well that Belle had forgotten about it being there: To my sister Lysandra. Love, B. Risika handed it back to the youngest sister and went away from her and sat down.

"I forgot this was here," she muttered and Andy saw what it said.

"Gevera?" Madame Pey asked Belvina, she nodded confirming her French Name. "I love it," she whispered happily and then wrote it down and said to them, they could make their own seating arraignments but too much talking there will be movements from one place to another. Arubey moved so he was more in the back and Madame Pey asked if he could see all right and he only nodded.

It bothered both, Belvina and Arubey, that they couldn't read the other's mind.

The rest of the day went by smoothly for Cedrella and Lysandra, however it wasn't the same for Belvina; she realized for the first time during lunch that with just three more classes to go through, an Art Class was not one of them. She sat with her back against a Willow Tree and drew what it was like inside of the 'veil' of the branches that hung down low, nearly to the ground. She sighed a few times every minute, and drew the tree perfectly; she took her time with the hundreds of leaves she had to deal with. Andy and his group came outside finally and only Macbeth saw her, he kept her a secret and back tracked to her, but still upset over her schedule, she had disappeared on him. She snuck back into the cafeteria and sat in the corner alone as she finished the Willow Tree's shading and other assortments near by it. She didn't even notice Edam Dawson walking towards her until he sat down.

Belle jumped when the chair was pulled back making a screeching noise against the tiled floor. "Sorry," he smirked.

She shrugged, "No worries. Nothing personal, I scare easily. Jumpy really, it's my curse."

"You have a curse? I reckon that a curse to you is someone else's jealously kicking in." she looked questioningly at him, he explained. "Take your talent in drawing for instance. A lot want this talent, but you obviously have it-.

"It's not something you go a store a purchase Edam," she said kindly. He was taken aback, "Talent builds over time and you grow into it. Gradually, what are you good at that someone could be jealous of?"

He thought, and then smirked again, "My charm." She giggled.

"Yep, someone would be." She said gracefully, he looked like he was awe. Belle noticed his brothers, Nickolas and Arubey watching. Christopher and Risika were whispering about something with their heads close together. "So? What's the family story, you look nothing alike and all in the same year as far as I've been told. Which must mean you're adopted or runaways." She told him.

He grinned, "Very good. We've been adopted by a friend of the family… when we ran away from our real one." Edam beamed at himself, "we're not really brothers, but we consider it true. Risika is too much of a pain for us to call her anything but a 'pain in our asses'. He made her smile again.

"Keep talking, I'm listening." She promised as she looked back down at the paper and shaded.

Edam nodded and continued, "Arubey is the oldest, Nickolas and Christopher are twins, then Risika had a real brother but he was killed, and my parents drowned a while ago. We've been alone for awhile. When Angel took us in as his- nephews and niece, we promised to act and treat each other like family. That way we don't have to pull our own weight around the place." He said. Meaning that if they're good boys and girl, they don't have to have jobs or anything.

"Damn," she muttered.

He frowned, wondering if she had been listening or not. "What Bea?" he asked.

She shrugged, "I messed up on the leaves," she muttered angry at herself for doing such a stupid mistake. She flopped it down on the table and Edam picked it up and held out his hand for the pencil. She handed it over. "I don't even care about the tree anymore," she muttered. "I just hate messing up on them." she told him in a low mutter, more like a scowl at herself.

"Don't hate yourself Belvina, you're better then most here- you could be the teacher for the Art class."

"Yeah right, if I had an art class-. She was saying bitterly but David Greene came over to them and pushed Edam out of the way.

"Hey!" he snapped and caught himself.

"David!" she said and started to get up but David held her back, she frowned. Belvina smirked when she saw her sisters enter the cafeteria and right away see their youngest sister and David Greene. He pushed Belvina into the chair again as Lysandra approached.

"Get away from my sister," she snapped.

"Or you'll do what Lissy?"

Lissy used her mind to make the lights shudder, David gasped and stepped back into the table making it rattle slightly. Edam looked back at his brothers and sister. He yelled out when the lights went off.

"Lysandra!" Belvina cried out, "Elle!"

Lissy could be heard, "I didn't do that, I didn't do that!" she said over and over again. Someone grabbed Belvina's hand and led her away from the scene. The lights from the gym helped her to calm down.

The students of the café cried out and begged with the janitors to get the lights back on. Raymond, a Supervisor hurried to try to find the Switch Box but was unable to do so. Bell could see someone close by her.

"Lissy turn the light on!" she yelled over the screaming girls.

"I'm trying," Lissy whispered to herself and did everything in her power to get the lights back on, but was unable too.

Someone spoke calmly to Belvina, "Are you afraid of the dark?" the voice was familiar, she wondered if it was Edam Dawson.

She answered only because she didn't care who it was, "Just the pitch blackness, like this. Exactly like this," she whimpered and moved closer to the window as if it was air source. She screamed when the gym lights went off and someone grabbed her quickly. "Lissy," she whispered and closed her eyes. Some boys were yelling now; Candy was sobbing and Daryl was pissed off because his girlfriend was crying and his friend, David was no where to be found.

The entire school seemed to have been engulfed in blackness, the outside was light, but no light shown through and to people outside, inside was perfectly normal. The person holding onto Belvina held her tighter, slightly and whispered that the lights would come on soon.

She buried her face in his chest and kept her eyes closed, "what the hell?" Cedrella said finally and used magic to get the lights to turn back on.

He whispered in her ear, "hey look," he said calmly. She looked at the ceiling as the lights started to get brighter, teachers and cooks, janitors, and students were silent as the lights got brighter and brighter until the light was as it was before. Candy stopped crying and Belvina found she was being held by Nickolas. He looked away from her as she glanced up at him and then turned to her sisters. They stood together and holding hands, looking frantically around for her.

"You helped me?" she asked him.

"Arubey told me too, I listen to him." he said and turned and left her there. She ran her fingers through her hair and ran over to Lissy and Elle as they gasped and took her tightly. She buried her face again on Elle's shoulder.

"Why did you do that Lysandra?" she growled at the middle sister. Belvina wasn't able to do anything else but stay close to her older sisters.

"Hey I got the lights on, your welcome."

She scowled and stepped away from Cedrella, "I know you two like to show off, but this could have gotten someone hurt. I'm not the only one who's afraid of the dark you know. Now- because of you, more than half the kids in here will be sleeping with a hall light on for a month!" she growled in a small whisper. Cedrella and Lysandra started at her, "I'm late for class, I'll see you eighth hour and during the next two hours… grow up a little." She snapped and hurried to Chemistry on the other end of the school. The teacher excused her tardiness as most of the class was late.

She shook slightly as she found her name on the seating chart and said nothing when she read Arubey's name right next to hers, at least she got the outer seat closest to the door. She sat down just as Arubey entered making him the last student for the class. Amanda, Josh, and Kate were huddled together and talking about lunch outside. They were being informed by another luncheon about the blackout in the cafeteria.

Mr. Coke was short, gray hair, but not balding yet and everyone always says he ancient because he claims he's been a teacher for a lot longer then most in the world. He loves wearing sweater jackets and always has a perspiration stain under his arms and around his neck and sometimes on his back. He's a good teacher, but has a problem with some stuff.

Belle said nothing to Arubey until he spoke first, "are you feeling better?"

"Yes, thank you-. She stopped suddenly remember that she forgot her sketch book in the café. "I'm doing better then forty minutes ago," she muttered and doodled in her notebook.

"Missing something?" he asked as he handed over the sketch book, Belvina opened her mouth, but didn't say anything. She stared at him. "I wanted to know how long it'd take you to figure it out. I looked at the first three pages. The horse, don't listen to Risika, It's very good," he told her. "We have a complete five hours together, did you know that?"

She shook her head a little as she sheepishly took the book, "Well, we have Fourth, lunch, Chem. - obviously, I have gym after this and then Myth….

"I have Gym and Myth next as well."

"Might as well switch around, I get annoying after while. Like maybe a day," she told him, he chuckled. "Why did you have Nick-? she was interrupted by the bell, he got up and left.

She stared after him and got up too, Josh and Amanda came over. "Heard you wigged out when the lights went off." She nodded.

"I would have too, I hate the dark, but not terrified of it-.

"Oh, I'm so afraid of the dark. I'm so happy I didn't pass out," she gasped, somewhat happily. Kate had gym next too, but Belvina went a different way then her. That was done on purpose- Belle didn't feel like walking or talking with someone at the moment.

Nevertheless, Belvina became aware of someone watching her and she looked back and saw no one looking at her. Turning around she jumped when Nickolas was there. "You startled me," she gasped.

He raised his brow, "Didn't mean too." he promised.

She shrugged, "I scare easily and apparently you seem to think that I have to taken care of in the sense of when lights suddenly go out."

"I told you why I did that. Coming? Or we'll be late." She sighed, he had gym next too. Arubey appeared next to Nickolas.

"Nick," he growled.

"Don't worry Arubey; I won't say anything about it-.

"About what? Say anything about what?" Nosed-in Belvina, they glanced at her, but said nothing about what they were referring too and it annoyed her so much she went down the stairs. She couldn't read Arubey's head and she hated that and Nickolas was blocking his, she recognized the feeling of a shield. In fact, Nick, Chris, Edam, and Risika each had a shield on their minds and they were strong. She walked down to the gym somewhat at a fast pace and somehow Nick and Arubey had been able to catch up with her using a second set of stairs. She rolled her eyes and found that they had to sit on the bleachers so they could find out the rules and everything before they actually started doing anything. Just like Lysandra, Belvina was in Personal Fitness which means that they use the weights and can go on bikes, tread-mills and climb stairs. Kate was the only one Belle knew best of all, whom was in the actual class where she did basketball, volleyball and all the other sports.

"Do you have a sister?" the teacher asked when attendance was taken.

What did Lissy do? Belle couldn't help but think. She nodded. "Lysandra. She's in here second hour… I believe."

The teachers were Mr. Border and Mrs. Collie, Border spoke before Collie could. "She's a talker."

Belle laughed nervously, "sounds like Lissy." She said and sat back uncomfortably against the back of the bleachers. Nickolas and Arubey sat further down from her and Belle couldn't be happier about that.

She needed to know why Arubey didn't 'save' her life in the café and why he had Nickolas do it. Then why were they talking so annoyingly, Belle would try to find out; it's her weakness: she needs to know everything about everyone, that's why she loves being able to read minds. Arubey glanced down at her every few minutes and she ignored him every time. Michael finally got up with Andy and Kate and went to sit down next to her.

"What's up?" Andy muttered, so Collie and Border wouldn't hear.

She shrugged, "Not a whole hell of a lot, and you?" she asked.

Kate answered next, "Well, just waiting for this day to be over with." She leaned in closer and Belle wondered why she was, "Arubey keeps looking over here. I think he li-.

"I doubt it, we don't get along." She said before Kate could finish her thinking. Kate stared at Belvina, "What?" she whispered.

Collie glanced at them, but ignored it. Kate answered when the woman teacher looked away, "Well I think he does and Elle and Lissy have eyes on someone I'm sure."

"My relationship count is one in counting and he moved away, no thanks." She muttered not because she had too, to stay out of teacher-hearing-radar, but because needed too. She hated talking about him more then anything. Kate looked disappointed, "I'm sorry Kate I said it that way, but it's true." Belle whispered finally and Kate nodded. Michael smirked at himself. "Don't even think about it Michael," she added suddenly. He frowned and crossed his arm angrily across his chest and sat back like she was with her back against the last bleacher.

On the opposite wall of the gym were about a dozen flags, each representing the different schools that L.A.H.S. competes against. Most were private school for rich snobby kids; one was of a raven, another with a swan, fox, even a tiger. The symbol for her new school was the Arctic Wolf. The beautiful wolf sat there, with his front legs close together and it looked like the banner had wind in it. The small wolf's fur blew to his right and the yellow eyes stared out at them. She stared at the wolf and wondered what he would be thinking if she was in the banner with him; what would he say to her? Does he mind being a mascot for a dumb high school?

She was pulled from her own thinking when the lights went off again, this time the entire school was engulfed in blackness. Screams from the other end of the school could be heard.

Hey there, thanks for reading this one. I'm not sure what my favourite part is yet, let you know when I do. I know the first chapter was kind of long and I'm sorry, I didn't know how to end it or where for that matter. I'll try to keep the next ones shorter by a couple hundred words or so.
Review if you can, I like reading your suggestions for idea and your opinions.
-KG, Thanks Again