Hey peoples Shadow here, and yes, I know I should be updating Rising Shadows, but I'm trying to figure out the right approach to the next chapter, and I really wanted to do this fic. So read on.
Paige POV
Have days ever felt kind of off to you? Like something's were just going to well and then just turn to chaos. Like during 1st period things are awesome, the teacher brought in food and you barely do any work, but then in 2nd period, the teacher yells at everyone because one kid was asking another kid a question, and then you end up with more homework then before. Boom the rest of the day sucks, and everything goes to hell, and by your last period the second the bell rings and get out of this place. Then you get yelled at for running in the hall trying to get to your locker and get lectured for ten minutes for running in the halls. Bottom line don't run in the halls, lectures suck. No wait sorry the point of my whole dragged in school comparison is that, if something seems perfect, some things probably gonna suck come 2nd period.
That's kind of what today feels like, it's nearing the end of the year and some teachers get really lenient about everything, and others want you to feel like your in prison. The worst part is that we should've been allowed to leave already, but noooo the she-devil (the nickname for our 8th period teacher) won't let us leave yet, even though the bell rung two minutes ago, and everyone was starting to get really impatient.
Behind me I heard someone's feet hit the ground, then turned around to see Marelle, one of the girls in our class whose rather feisty, stomping towards the door.
"Where do you think you're going?!" says the she-devil angrily
"Outta here" grumbles Marelle, she shoves open the door and stomps out into the voice filled hallway. A very bad move, Monday will not be a pleasant day for her. We waited around for another minute before she let us go, and everyone rushed towards the door, one of the other people shoved me to the side, Mat, I think, and I shoved him to the side and walked out. The hallways were booming with laughter, talk, and feet rushing to catch the bus, I walked down the long hallway, having to step to the side a few times to avoid running students who could knock me down going on their speed rampage if I wasn't careful. I took a left at the end and walked over to my locker. I shared it with my friend Eileen. They're either stingy on lockers, or we have more students here then I thought, I hear all the Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors complain about it, apparently this years Freshman class was too large so now majority of the school has to share lockers. Luckily we got to pick our locker mates. Me and Eileen ended up sharing a locker together because they wouldn't let her share one with her boyfriend, Ethan.
"Took you long enough" says Eileen
"The she-devil kept us in for talking" I respond "you didn't have to wait"
"Well I'm decent" she says, opening the locker
"Yes, decent, and not a mix of boy crazed and insane" I retort sarcastically
"Shut the f*** up" she says, not really angrily, but in the I get the point way.
"Jeez fine" I stuff my math and science textbooks into my bag, and we head off to meet up with the others, the halls had cleared most of the way by now, there were a few kids here and there but enough had cleared that I didn't have to worry about running into some six-foot jock not giving half a s*** about who he might run into.
"So, what's up with you and Ethan?" I ask Eileen
"Oh the usual" answers Eileen
"He hasn't tried to get inside your pants yet" I say "I thought that was all guys wanted"
"Shut up" says Eileen, she shoves me, and I trip on the hall floor. The previously light orange tiles not almost appear as brown due to all the dirt and dust tracked in through the year.
"Get up, everyone's waiting in front" says Eileen, offering her hand so I will stand up already
"Jeez, impatient much" I say, grabbing her hand and pulling myself up.
"Shut up already" she says, yanking my arm up, just hard enough to hurt a little.
"There you guys are" says Laurin, walking up on us from behind "we got so tired of waiting we decided to come find you"
"Jeez, schools only been over for like nine minutes" replies Eileen, her gaze shifts to me "and you said I was the impatient one"
"Just come on, I'll text the others" says Laurin, shoving us to motion us towards the door.
"We're going, we're going" I say "you're right Eileen, she is the impatient one"
"I told you" says Eileen
We walked down the hall, joking about how impatient and crazy we all were, then walked out to the front, where we were greeted by our usual heard of friends. Anna and Giana, the identical twins, the only way to tell them apart was because Anna had long brown hair, and Giana had it cut short, barely going down her neck, and of course whatever clothes they were wearing. Cleo and Taylor stood next to them, chatting about some project for FCS, next to Taylor, Cleo looked like a sixth grader, she was only 4'11, but still managed to pack a load of awesomeness into her tiny body, she had short light brown hair and wore a light pink tee shirt with jean shorts. Taylor on the other hand was actually pretty tall, around 5'9 I think. Taylor's African American, and has long hair always tied up in a ponytail, it's very dark brown but not quite black, right now she wears a white shirt and gray athletic short with a pink strip going up the outside.
Three of the boys, Jake, Will, and Andy were standing off to the side talking, I couldn't tell exactly what they were saying, but I think it was about sports, I heard the words "football" and "coach" brought up.
Jake and Will were both on the short side, Will was about the same height as me (5'5) and Jake was an inch or two taller, but after being around the same height, the similarities ended.
Will was skinny, with Black hair, long by guys standards, that reaches down to his glasses, which are dark brown, and shaped kind of like a U with a line going across the top.
Jake on the other hand was a bit more filled out, and had shorter dirtyish-blond hair, and unlike Will had perfect vision (or so he says)
Ethan walk over to Eileen and put his arm over her shoulder, and the two walked ahead of Laurin and I. We all kind of followed Eileen and Ethan, we were all going to Eileen's house because her parents weren't getting home until really late. Usually it's just the girls (her parents are very fond of the guys) and we have a sleepover, but everyone had stuff to do tomorrow, plus we wanted to hang out all together, so we decided to just spend three or four hours eating food, drinking soda, and playing truth or dare.
"Paige, truth or dare?" asks Jake
"Dare, I ain't a pansycake" I reply (sorry couldn't help it)
"I dare you to kiss me" he says
"Fine" I grumble, I lean over and quickly kiss him, ignoring the fact that he was... Well, Jake. "Boom bitches, Taylor truth or dare?"
"Truth" says Taylor
"Who here do you most want to see completely naked?" I ask
"Eww, no one" cringes Taylor "you have a sick twisted mind"
"I corrupted her well" says Eileen
"Hell yeah you did" I reply back excitedly
"Hey guys, it's almost seven" says Cleo
"One more" says Giana
"Umm, okay" says Taylor "Anna, truth or dare?"
"Dare" replies Anna, sounding more confident than I did.
"I dare you to cover yourself in ketchup then run around yelling 'the end is near' long enough for me to make a video for Instagram" dares Taylor
"Oh, funny" says Andy
"Eileen, gimme the ketchup" orders Anna. Eileen reaches behind her and grabs a bottle of ketchup and hands it across the circle to Anna.
"Wait, let me get this on video" says Cleo
"I hate you people" grumbles Anna. She flips the lid off the ketchup bottle and squirts it onto her head and then rubs it around her face. Then she loudly yells "THE END IS NEAR, THE END IS NEAR" about ten times before Giana complains that it's giving her a headache.
"That was the best on yet" I say "Taylor, can you send me that?"
"Sure" answers Taylor
"Okay guys" starts Eileen, trying hard to hold back laughs, but then fails and let's out a huge burst of laughter in the middle of her sentence. She takes another breath, trying to snap back into reality "we need to pick this up, my parents will be home soon"
"Watch this" says Jake, he picks up a blanket and tosses it over the empty chips bags and soda cans, then shoves it off to the side "I'm a genius aren't I?"
"Yes, sure" retorts Laurin "a sweaty, desperate, somewhat of a genius"
We spend the next fifteen minutes picking up the mess, which turns out not to be as bad as we thought, after that Eileen rushes all of us out, he parents would throw a fit if they saw any of the guys there, and they aren't particularly fond of Laurin and I either. My house was sort of far from there, but if you cut through the bike path it eliminates about half the walk, I could be back in twenty minutes if I run through there quickly.
The only problem is that it's getting kind of dark, the bike path isn't very well lit, and you don't want to be in there when it's dark, that like an unspoken rule. Some of the seniors joke that people who go in one side never come out the other. They have multiple theories, like you get killed, or abducted by aliens, but the thing with the seniors is that they're full of BS, they can talk the talk better than Jay, but walking the walk is more of an uncertain maybe.
By the time I get near the bike path, the time it would take to get through would most likely mean that I would be in there once it gets really dark, and as I said before, that is something you DO NOT want.
I continue walking the direction I came from, trying to ignore everything around me. I'm not super fond of the dark, and the more I do to ignore it, the less scared I feel. Before I realize it, I'm in one of the other entrances to the bike path, I keep walking.
Suddenly something, or rather someone grabs my arm, the touch of their hand is chilling, before I even realize what's happening I let out a scream.
"Whoa" says someone "didn't mean to scare you."
"who.." I stutter "my dad's a cop, touch me again and I'll have your ass landed in jail"
My voice is shaken and scared, not as confident as I believed it would come out. My dad isn't actually a cop, he's a second grade teacher, but my mom told me to say that, so I did.
"We aren't going to hurt you" says another voice
"Yeah sure" I say, taking a few steps backward "what do you want?"
"We just want to know where we are" says a third voice
"We are still unable to figure it out" says a fourth
"North Grove" I stutter
"I've never heard of that city says one of the voices.
As my fear begins to fade, the voices start to become familiar, I know I've heard them before but can't put a name on it, something from awhile back, I presume.
"Who are you?" I ask, my voice stuttering less than before.
"Jay" answers the first voice
"Kai" answers the second
"Cole" says the third
"I am Zane" says the final voice
"Wait are you" I pause for a moment, "are you guys the ninjas?"
So, what'd you think, I wanted something funny to introduce my characters. I wasn't completely sure if this was the best way to introduce the ninja into the plot, but It was fun to do. Anyways until next chapter
-Shadow