"Hazel! What happened?!"
She slowly moved her hand over her cheek. She did not want to talk about it with Alex, her best friend.
"Alex, you wouldn't understand."
"I would if you tell me."
I just got up and walked away. Alex was a blabber mouth who could not keep a secret for the life of her. Let me introduce myself. My name is Hazel Furges, otherwise known as Haze. Here in Lakeville, we have gangs. Secret gangs that only members know about. I'm a member, that's how I know. I'm part of The River gang, we have are base camp set up by the River, of course.
I would love to tell Alex, or maybe recruit her, but as I said, she can't keep a secret for the life of her, and the gangs are a complete secret. If an outsider found out and revealed us… I don't even want to think about it.
Well, as I was saying, I'm part of the River gang, as a matter of fact, the Deputy. It's nice to have such an important rank, but it has its downfalls, like being more of a target for enemy gangs. Anyways, it's the first day of the new semester, and I get to start it with a bruised cheek, black eye, and a sprained ankle. Wait, why are you in my head? Get Out!
Haze went to the front office to get her new schedule, and for once, she was happy with her classes.
"Haze!"
She turned to see her close friend, who is also the gang's medic, Ashley, or Ash.
"Hey Ash what's up?"
Ash's eyes went straight to Haze's injuries.
"I'll look at those later, anyway, what's your schedule?"
"Um, first is math with Ms. Matson, second is science with Mr. Willis, third is history with Mr. Miller, fourth is P.E Aide, fifth is P.E, sixth is theatre, and seventh is RELA with Ms. Smith."
"Awesome, I have fifth and sixth with you and nurse's aide forth if you want to stop by."
"Will do Ash!"
"Actually Haze, while you're here, we need to talk about you know what."
Ash had a serious yet worried look on her face, which gave away the topic she wanted to discuss.
"O.k, we'll talk in sixth."
"Alright, just… just make sure Alex isn't listening."
With that Ash walked away towards her first period, as did Haze. The hallways were very crowded, but she saw familiar faces. Skye, a newer fighter in the gang was talking to Aspen, another newer fighter. But, where there were friendly faces, there were also hostile ones. Oak, the deputy of the Shadow gang, was glaring at her. He too bared injuries from last night. Haze slowly made her way to her class, as fast as she could go on crutches.
"Good Morning Hazel!"
Ms. Matson was standing by her door, as usual.
"Morning Ms. Matson."
"What did you manage to do?"
Of course she would ask the one question Haze wouldn't have thought of.
"I..uh..was climbing a tree, and I fell."
"Oh, well o.k. You can choose you seat."
Hazel quickly retook her previous seat, the head desk in the section by Ms. Matson's desk. See, the way Ms. Matson has the desks set up works out perfectly, considering the gangs and all. She has a group of twelve in the back, facing the white board, and two groups of nine facing each other, across from each other. Thunder gang has the big group, and River and Shadow have the two smaller ones. All of the Wind gang kids have Athletics first period, so there are none of them in the class.
Slowly but surely, kids began to come in, and by the first bell everyone found there seats. Haze looked to see who still remained in the class. She saw Aspen, Kestrel, Leaf, Willow, Skye, Night, Vixen, and Fox. Night caught her gaze and gave her a shy smile. Night's real name was Cole. Even though Cole wasn't part of the gang, he still knew about them, so he took the name mainly to get closer to Haze, who he had a massive crush on.
"Ok class! Welcome back to Geometry. The breakdown for this semester is like this"
Haze zoned out as Ms. Matson talked for the rest of class. Something told her though, this was going to be the hardest semester of sophomore year.
Alliance
Leader- Timber (Trevor Watson)
Deputy-Haze (Hazel Furges)
Medic- Ash (Ashley Borage)
Fighters-
Birch (Ben Finley)
Leaf (Leo Benson)
Kestrel (Kenny Lansidel)
Fox (Felix Alcroft)
Skye (Skyler Harris)
Aspen (Aspen Leon)
Rowan (Rowan Chaffie)
Patch ( Patty Hughes)
Hunters-
Willow (Willow Albright)
Vixen (Vickie Alcroft)
Stream (Sarah Paton)
Grass (Garett Richards)
Sorry it is so short! But I hope you love this uneventful chapter. I'll eventually post an alliance for all the gangs once I think of names. And these are human characters. And my offer is still available so if you have a specific character or event you would like to se in this story, there is a little box for reviewing!
~Sorrelheart
