Chapter 1.
I ran, ran faster than my legs could carry me. The dull throbbing in my head getting louder and louder. I had been running for so long I had forgotten why I was running.
"Kari" the hideous shriek called from somewhere behind me. I ran faster leaping through the undergrowth, my white gown catching on branches and thorns. Blood ran down my arms staining the white fabric.
"Kari" the shriek called out again. I whimpered as foot caught a root sending me to the ground, I tried standing but fell straight on my ass. I flicked my head round to see my dress caught on a bunch of thorns.
"Shit, shit, shit." I mumbled to myself as I tried to yank the white fabric away from the thorns, my pink hair falling into my eyes.
"Kari" the voice called a third time only closer. I started to freak and tug harder against my dress. I froze as the voice hissed in my ear,
"I've found you," and that's when everything went black.
I awoke to the sound of ringing, I sat up trying to locate the source of the sound soon realizing it was my alarm. I slammed my hand down on the button shutting it up. I swung my feet to the cold wood floor of my room and staggered to the bathroom. Splashing my face with cold water I looked up at myself in the mirror, my pale pink hanging limp hiding any trace of my silver streak of hair that matched my eyes. I yanked the draw open to grab the hair brush but instead I was meet with the glint of scissors.
"I think it's time for a haircut," I smirked. I pulled the blade against my hair unevenly chopping it. A few minutes later my hair sat just below my shoulders. I grabbed a hair tie pulling my shoulder length hair into a messy pony tail. I quickly changed into jeans and a RWBY silhouette shirt.
"Tammy! Breakfast's ready," I heard Jane yell from the kitchen. I pulled my hoodie on as I stormed down the stairs to be greeted with the smile of my genetically altered, blonde, big busted, adoptive mother Jane.
"Good morning Tam… What in god's name happened to your hair," she shrieked. I flinched at the sound.
"I cut it, and please Jane call me by my real name," I whined, my earrings jingled in my ear.
"Cutting your hair, getting ridiculous amounts of metal in your ears. Why can't you be like that nice girl Jessica next door, Tammy" she sat down with a sigh.
"Because my name is Akari that's why, maybe if you had let me keep my real name I might not have been so rebellious," I bit my lip.
"Oh stop using the name your biological parents gave you, they abandoned you on the steps of a hospital, do you really want to keep the name those drunk sinners gave you?" She glared at me.
"How would you know what my parents were like," tears welled up in my eyes, "You don't know the reason why they gave me up! They could be dead for all I know." The tears were threatening to burst. I ran out of the kitchen grabbing my shoulder bag and skateboard. I didn't stop running until I had slammed the front door and was on my skateboard. I wiped my eyes with the sleeve of my hoodie trying to stop more tears.
'Tears are to be shed' I remembered the message from the note my mother left. I reached for the tear drop shaped earing hanging from my left ear. Jane had always tried to throw away the little charms I used for earrings. She didn't understand the value I held for them. Each of the three charms was left with a quote. The blue teardrop which came with 'Tears are to be shed' the pink heart 'Never forgot those closest' and the golden star 'there is always a light within the dark'. My parents left me these thing for a reason and I'm not letting Jane make me forget that.
'Kari!" I was snapped back from my thoughts with a call of my name.
"Kariiiii!" it called again. Only a few people called me that. I spun my head round to see Violet skating up in a pink skirt and a puppy shirt with Sam and Piper skating behind her.
"Hey Vi," I grinned. We made such an odd bunch. Innocent Violet pushed a grade up, badass Sam who would properly be kept down this for sassing a teacher, and Piper the swim captain and water polo champ.
"You got any good gossip Kari," Sam laughed.
"Not today Sammy," I giggled.
"Aw man don't call me that," he grimaced while the other's laughed.
"Awww does little Sammy-wammy not like it," Piper said in a baby voice. Sam grimaced again.
"Come on guys little Sammy getting upset," I laughed as we skated into school grounds just as the first bell rang.
"I'll see you guys later," I waved as I jumped of my skateboard as we went our separate ways. I strode through the hallways not caring that people were looking at me strange. I reached my locker and with a few flicks of my wrist the locker was unlocked. I pulled my shoulder bag off and shoved it and my skate board in. I pulled my sketchbooks and biology books out and slammed my locker only to be greeted with the face of my arch nemesis Jessica.
"Hello Tammy," she said coldly.
I was in deep shit now.