Chapter 1
Feeling bitter
Ok so I know I'm the new kid, there for I'm apparently super fascinating! But seriously is it necessary to stare that much!
So it's November, yeah! Lovely timing dad! Thanks for deciding to move 3 months into my last school year. Yes I'm a senior. Soon to be 18! Then I'll have that freedom everybody keeps banging on about. I bet it's not as good as they make out!
Apparently, right now! My senior year! Is supposed to be the best year of my life. During this year I will decide my future.. College! Start the engine to roll on the route I will end up following...
Like hell it is! So far this has been the worst year of my life.
I'm currently walking down the hall of my new school, Nova Heriod High, I was hoping to be invisible, but that didn't happen! I try to ignore all the eyes currently burning at my skin trying to dissolve me. But it's hard.
Let's get this straight... I'm shy! I don't like attention and I also don't usually say what I'm actually thinking, I haven't got the guts! I'm a nice person, people only see the nice side of me! The other side.. the bad one! That stays right here in my head. I'm sure everybody has these kinds of thoughts, well I hope they do! The type that moans about things! Criticises themselves and other people: looks, actions, the car they drive...
Well I'm feeling a little bitter today, at my dad, why couldn't we just stay in Newquay? I loved it there. I'm also very nervous and defiantly self couscous... everybody keeps staring at me!
I've already got my timetable and a map in my hand! I look at the numbers on the classroom doors
Bingo! Here it is, my English class, oh joy!
I walk through the open door and see.. a typical classroom! What else?. The other students are talking amongst themselves, some people are still walking in the door and going to their seats.
I walk up to the desk at the front, behind it stood a grey haired man in a tweed suit, he was writing on the board. "Excuse me. Sir" I say to the back of his head. He turns around and looks at me over the top of his horn rimmed glasses, then he looks me up and down. I resist giving him an evil glair.
"I'm a new student" I hand him my slip.
After looking it over, he pulls out a pen from his pocket protector and signs the form. Handing it back to me he says "Take a seat" and continues with writing on the board. I can't tell if I'm gunna like this class or hate it.
I turn around and every student is silent, staring at me! I felt myself blush and quickly walk to an empty seat, the one at the back, hoping I won't fall over on the way.
My first class went just fine, I kept quiet, looking down, again trying to be invisible. Thankfully my teacher, who turned out to be Mr Moreland, didn't make me introduce myself to the class.
I'm now walking across the school grounds to my next class, which is in the 'Tech building', The other side of the school I might add!
Something catches my eye, I notice a group of guys, on motorbikes. But can't help but notice this one in particular, he was smoking a rollie and he had long blond hair down to his neck, it looked pretty cool ....*cough* let me rephrase that - SEXY!.
This group look like the sort you don't want to mess with. I tried to ignore them as I walked past into the Tech building, I could see out the corner of my eye that they were staring at me, do I have something on my face?
Suddenly a girl comes bounding up to me, stopping dead in front of me!
"Hi I'm Raven so you're new here?" she asks excitedly. First person to speak to me let's give her a gold star!
"Um yea, I just moved down" I smiled at her
"What's your name?"
"Star" I reply nervously, I personally like my name! But in the past other people have found it a bit... weird! to say the least.
"Is that seriously your name?" she squeals! Freaking me out in the process!
"Um yea.. my parents are weird" I tell her
"No its cool" Raven smiles widely
"Uh... thanks" I half smile not sure if she's telling the truth. Did I mention I don't take compliments very well. Well I don't! I guess I'm paranoid, I've learned over the years that people have alternative motives! and compliments were one of thows things! It happens like this: "you look good" god what is she wearing its gross!
"Let me show you around later, what class have you got now?"
"Art in T3"
"Me too! Come on you can sit with me" she grabs my arm, linking it with hers and drags me into the classroom.
This is the same as the rest of the morning! People stop what they are doing so they can gourp at me as Raven drags me in. I swear I must have something stuck to my head. I never get this many people looking at me, I feel ill! And extremely self conscious or perhaps it's the paranoia thing?
Raven sits me next to her.. yep! I said she sits me next to her! Not that I minded, but she seems pretty pushy!
Once everyone had a good gourp! The teacher started the lesson, today we would be doing charcoal drawings of: life drawings... yeah! That would be naked people!
What a way to start my first day at a new school! Sat with my easel drawing the curves and private parts of a naked person, whilst surrounded by classmates who couldn't keep their eyes off me! I'm beginning to suspect that I'm the model for today's class, but at least I can be certain I have my cloths on!
Did I mention that our model was a 50 year old woman with a grey Mohawk for a bikini line? Unlucky for me! I was hoping for an extremely FIT man! Or at the very least an attractive woman, that way the eyes would stay off me.
Me and Raven didn't talk much during class. After the lesson finished she walked with me to my next class, which just happened to be the same as hers. We also had 4th period together. I was grateful, although I would have been quite happy to spend the rest of my high school career as a loner, that way the less people know you the less they can gossip! But I really liked Raven, she was cool, had a good sense of style close to my own and she was a happy person, bubbly! Something I needed right now.
Raven literally dragged me around the school at lunch. First she showed me the cafeteria, we had to run there because apparently the best food was at the front of the queue! I can see her reasoning but seriously, I won't even run for a bus. You always see it when you're sat on the bus and it pulls away, you see the idiot that's running! Looking stupid! And pathetic! You can't help but secretly laugh rather than feel sorry for them.
We were around the back of the gym, you know where all the smokers and druggies hang out. Why she needed to show me this I don't know. And once again as you know! Everyone kept staring at me! I turn a beetroot colour! I was beginning to suspect I had a cock drawn on my face! Or something!
"Why are people staring at me" I asked Raven quietly "do I have something on my face? Toilet roll on my shoe?" I began to give myself the once over!
"No course not, it's just that your new that's all, we don't get many new kids around here, actually never, usually nobody wants to move here" she spoke as we walked back towards the cafeteria.
"What? Why?" I asked puzzled.
"Santa Carlo has a reputation you know? It's the murder capital of the world" she said like it should be obvious!
"What I didn't know that" I gasped panicked! I can't believe my dad just up and moved here. What was he thinking! Ow yea! grandpa lives here!
After school Dad picked me up. I didn't have a car but I had a licence. We pulled up outside our new house, on the outskirts of town, which is gramps, we moved in with him. The house was small, it had a big porch that span the length of the house. There sat a rocking chair and a hammock. I grabbed my school bag and walked up the steps towards the front door, disturbing the dust on the wooden porch floor. When you walk through the front door, you come straight out into the living room, directly in front is the stairs going up the right wall. To the right through a double width arched doorway was the dining room. At the back of the living room on the left sat the kitchen. It was like open plan living, some walls but no doors downstairs, The total opposite to upstairs.
When you went up the stairs directly in front of you was the family bathroom, the weird thing about this was that it was also my en-suit and phoenix's too. We both had a door from our rooms that lead directly into the bathroom. Annoyingly that meant I had three doors to lock when I went to the loo. And also when I sat on my bed, if the bathroom doors were open I could see directly through the bathroom into phoenixes room. This house is weird.
After dinner me and phoenix decided to check out the local night life. Sorry I forgot to mention, Phoenix is my younger brother, he's 14 years old.
This coastal town catered for all year round holiday makers, it had a permanent carnival that was run by gypsies. Odd that gypsy would choose to settle somewhere rather than travel around the country in there caravans pissing off every one they crossed paths with. Thankfully you didn't have to pay to get in, no walls or chain linked fences surrounded the carnival.
Tonight a band was playing, we could hear the beat of the muffed rock music as we made our way closer into the centre. "I wonder who's playing" Phoenix shouted over the crowd at me.
"I don't know" I shouted back. We followed the sound of the music, it lead up towards a large crowd gathered around what I suspected was a stage.
I recognised the music as the next song started playing and.. I loved that band.
"Hello tomorrow, goodbye to yesterday, we've been waiting for this moment...." the lead singer 'Ali' sang.
"Phoenix" I squealed "It's Zebrahead!" I screamed and grabbed phoenix's jacket, dragging him through the crowd to where we could get a good view. Right in time to see Ali take off his shirt. He never failed to take his shirt off at a gig, even when it was outside.
So I will confess, I've seen them play a dozen times and it still doesn't get boring. That's what I love about this band, they tour a lot and it is actually possible to get tickets, which aren't overpriced. That made me wonder, are they playing here for free?
We got in position and began to bounce up and down to the music, along with the crowed. A mosh pit had formed directly in front of the stage. I always tried to stay away from the main part of the mosh pit. That's where all the idiot blokes whose idea of moshing is bull charging the crowd, moshed, hogging the best space.
Three songs later and they finished playing, Ali picked up his shirt and they were marched off the stage by their bodyguards.
"That.. was.. amazing" phoenix panted, out of breath from the moshing.
"Totally" I smiled wildly at him "let's go see what else there is to do here"
We walked off in the direction of some shops towards the out shirks of the carnival. Now that the music had stopped I could hear the screams from people on the rollercoaster.
"Comic store" phoenix grabbed by arm and pulled me into the shop. The walls were lined with comics, a centre isle housed yet even more comics. At the back I could see a till area with glass cabinets. I walked over to the cabinets which usually have figurines of famous actors depicting a scene from a movie. I saw Brandon Lee as The Crow, a figurine of a Chucky with its head bobbing and the last one had three men sat on elegant old thrown style chairs, it was the Voltori. Vampires.
I turned my head to look for Phoenix, looks like he's made some friends. Two people his age, who looked like brothers and were chatting to him, holding up comics.
"I'll leave you to it" I said to phoenix as I walked passed him, he was deep in conversation I'm not sure if he heard me.
I went outside and began to explore. This place was good. People were laughing and having a good time. I saw a stand for ear piercings and cloths, another shop for tattoos. I walked past the merry-go-round and stopped dead in my tracks.
There were four bikes lined up on the street, and coming towards me were the bikes drivers. The four of them lined up, walking like a tough gang as if they owned the carnival. They dressed in baggy jeans, two were wearing leather motorbike jackets, one with his jacket unbuttoned, he had no shirt on underneath. The guy on the outer edge wore a black hoddie and the one in the middle has a plain white t-shirt on. You could see the contours of his muscles through his shirt. I tried not to drool.
I looked at his face he was staring at me, my eyes locked with his. I felt like I was stuck there, I couldn't look away. His eyes were so beautiful and so blue, a deep dark electric blue, his long blond hair moved with the wind and the motions of him walking towards me. I felt butterflies in my stomach.
Then I felt a punch to my arm "OW" I shouted, grabbing my now dead arm. I broke my gaze from the mystery biker so I could look at the guilty subject who hit me. It was Raven.
"Hey what are you doing here" she bounced up and down, a smile from ear to ear.
"Am I not allowed to come here?" I asked her.
Her smile left her face "what? No, I didn't mean that... it.. I didn't think I'd see you here, that's all"
"That's ok" I grinned, letting her know there was no hard feelings "so are you gunna show me some fun or..." I was cut off by the sound of engines roaring to life. I turned my head just in time to see the four bikers begin to pull away. The one with the white shirt was looking at me again. Then they drove off.
"Don't even go there!" Raven said in a stern voice.
"Huh? What?" I frowned, looking at her.
"He's not worth it" she shook her head at me.
"I wasn't..." I stuttered trying to defend myself.
"Brandon is the school bully, ok so he won't start anything unless provoked, but you don't want to get on his bad side"
"I didn't plan on getting on his bad side" I retorted, then I realised what I had just said.
"But you plan on getting on one of his sides" Raven said with a raised eyebrow.
"Huh, no.." I didn't get chance to finish.
"Two words, MAN WHORE!" she said in a harsh voice.
Then her voice lightened up as she began to think aloud "well not that it matters anyway you go to the some school as him, he's never dated anyone from school. Ok so he is absolutely gorgeous, but he's just for looking at, nothing else" I wanted to ask her how she knew he was a male whore, but I decided it would be best to drop the subject.
"So where are you taking me, I need some fun!"
"OK how about the rollercoaster"
"I don't know, I'm not that good with.."
Raven butted in "you have to try it at least once", she grinned at me.
"Fine" I huffed.
So the rollercoaster wasn't that scary because it wasn't as big as I expected, it still made my stomach flip. We bought candyfloss and a lolly on a string in the shape of baby's dummy. Raven and I met up with some of her friends, who were pretty cool too. In the end I wound up sat on the beach around a camp fire and drunk... well more tipsy since I could still walk. One of the guys had a fake ID. I sat next to Raven with a guy who I think was called Alec sat on my left.
"So where did you move from?" he slurred his words. Trying to make small talk.
"Newquay"
"Got a boyfriend?" I could see him looking down my top.
"I'm gay, I like women"
No! I'm not gay, I only I said this to get him off my back but instead it did the opposite, I forgot men fantasise about women doing each other.
"Can I watch?" he twirled some of my dark hair around his fingers. He was leaning towards me breathing his alcohol infested breath up my nose, which I have to say I didn't mind too much, I love the smell of alcohol. Weird huh?
"I like really, really! old women" hopefully this would put him off "I'm talking grey and very wrinkly, saggy women" his face twisted in confusion.
"Shit" I shouted, suddenly remembering about Phoenix. I got up and ran back towards the carnival hoping he would still be where I left him. I have no idea what the time is or how long I have been gone. I looked up at the sky as I ran, as if there was a big clock ticking above. The stars were sill shining bright in the sky, so at least I hadn't passed out and now its morning or something! But that didn't prove anything.
I ran past the tattoo shop, gazing around trying to spot my dark haired brother. I hit what felt like a brick wall, all the air in my lungs rushing out. I bounced off and nearly landed on the floor but was caught by something, just inches away from getting my face smashed by the ground.
Once upright I caught my breath, and realised there were big hands on my waist. A man was holding me up, leaning me against his body.
A/N
Hi thanks for reading, so I have changed the names of some of the characters from the original film... why?... its updated more towards our time rather than 20years ago... also I have posted it on quizilla, and since that's full of emo style readers I needed to attract that ordinance too.
Star is Star
David is Brandon
Sam is Phoenix and going to be Stars brother (not Michael's, he will be in it later with a sister)
Star has moved in with her brother and dad into her granddads house (yes the house is the same)
Also if you like Twilight you can find on my profile, a story I have written called... Bella raped by Mike Newton.
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