Inkterror

It had been two years since Meggie had escaped Capricorn's village along with so many others. Unfortunately that large mass of escaped victims included Basta and several others of Capricorn's old henchmen. That small amount of time spent south, when she constantly feared for her life, along with those of her family and a few newly made friends, popped into her memory nearly every day. But right now she had something to keep her mind off of the terrors of her past. Today was her first day of high school.

Meggie studied her reflection in a mirror. She had grown taller and more mature in the last couple of years. She had longer legs, wider hips, and larger breasts than before. She was even prettier and even more like Resa now. She had let her hair grow longer, so it now reached the middle of her back. She wore white short shorts, a form fitting blue shirt, a purple tank top underneath (showing below the bottom of the shirt), and blue flats. She was also wearing light makeup. She fixed her hair a bit, grabbed her school bag, and went downstairs to breakfast.

"Good morning," Meggie called to Mo, Resa and Elinor as she entered the kitchen. "Good morning" was repeated back to her as she sat down in front of a plate of pancakes already prepared for her.

"You'd better hurry up and eat," Resa told her.

"Yeah. You don't want to be late on your first day of school or they may not let you in," Mo teased. Meggie smiled as she chewed. Mo could always make her smile. He and Farid could always get her to grin.

Farid. He was always coming to their house. (Actually it was Elinor's house, but they had moved into it after they came back from Capricorn's village.) Dustfinger was with him every time he did. They were supposed to come the night before to give her a fire show. Farid was almost as good as Dustfinger now and their shows were amazing. They didn't showed up, which had never happened before. Mo told her they probably got held up somewhere and not to worry, so she didn't. But she did wish they had come, at least this morning, to see her.

All thoughts of Farid went out her mind and were replaced by nervousness and excitement as she and Mo got into the car and drove to her new school. When they reached the school Meggie hugged Mo and got out. Then he drove away and Meggie walked into the office to get her schedule. It was several weeks into the school year, but Meggie was starting late because she had gone with Mo when he traveled to cure some old books. She had to wait some time to get her schedule, so the bell for first period had already rung a while ago when she finally walked down the empty hall to her class. The noisy classroom grew completely silent as she pulled open the door and entered the classroom. She could feel her cheeks grow hot, as hard as she tried not to blush, because everyone was looking at her. The teacher introduced herself and assigned Meggie to a seat after telling her to copy some notes from a student by her. The she returned to her desk and the volume rose as the students returned to their conversations. She sat down and found herself surrounded by two boys and a girl.

Both of the boys immediately offered their notes and tried to stutter an explanation of what they were about. Meggie couldn't understand a word they said and smiled as they dropped their notebooks with their fumbling hands. Then they turned beet red as the girl laughed at them.

When she had overcome her fit of giggles, the girl turned to Meggie. "Hi. I'm Hailey," she said. She had voluminous black hair and deep blue eyes. She didn't have makeup, but was pretty without it. She wore dark skinny jeans, a hot pink zebra print shirt, and pink converse. "Sorry about them," she gestured to the two boys. "I guess their just too fond of your appearance to act more intelligent than the average monkey. No, I don't mean anything, you look fine," she assured Meggie after seeing the look on her face. "It's just that you're really pretty."

"Oh," Meggie said with a smile. "Thanks. I'm Meggie."

"I'm Andrew," said one of the boys. He looked like a boy version of Hailey. "I'm Hailey's twin brother, which you've probably already guessed."

Before Meggie could say anything the other boy spoke. "I'm Ryan." He had light brown hair and green eyes. He smiled at her, an expression reflected in Hailey and Andrew's face, and she beamed back at them all. Then her three new friends started introducing her to others in their class. Most of the class was eager to meet her. She made a bunch of new friends. This continued throughout the entire day. Hailey was in all of her classes, and Andrew and Ryan were in most of them. Even after making a bunch of new friends, Meggie made sure they were in the middle of the small crowds that tended to form around her.

The next couple of days passed well for Meggie. She always had someone to hang out with-- especially Hailey, Andrew, and Ryan. The two boys relaxed around her and all of them became good friends in that small amount of time. The only thing that was missing was Farid. She hadn't seen him since a little before she had started school. This was very unusual. Mo told her not to worry about it--like before. Meggie pretended she was okay, but was actually anxious. Meggie hadn't told Hailey (who was now her best friend, and very close to her) about Farid yet.

It was during first period when Meggie was thinking about Farid that Hailey asked her what was wrong. Meggie's troubled thoughts must have resulted in a similar facial expression. They weren't really doing anything in class (as usual in their first period class), so Meggie told her best friend about her dark skinned, fleet-footed boyfriend. But she had only just told her about not seeing him for so long when the class was interrupted by the sound of gun shots.

Please R&R!!! Then I can continue the story! Can't wait to hear from you. Ideas, critisism, anything is welcome! (This is my first story, so I can't wait!) I'm only twelve, so please don't say anything bad.