Taming the Veil- Chapter Two
Conflict Arises
"Oh, hey Dawn, what's up?" Aidan asked staring at the strange girl sitting beside him.
He never really understood Dawn, but then again, no one did. She was always really quiet and she had even less friends than me. You could ask anyone on campus about her and all you'd find out is what she looks like, that she's very silent, and her grades are picture perfect. As Aidan stared at dawn waiting for a response, she nervously brushed her blonde curls out of her face and gazed at the ground with her frosted blue tips blowing in the slight breeze. He reached over towards the bushes and picked up a pair of thick glasses that were supposedly the "in" thing with most teenagers.
"Are these your glasses Dawn?"
"Umm, yes they are. Thank you very much…" she said quietly with red cheeks. She grabbed her glasses back and hurried off as the first bell rang.
"Shoot! So much for slipping in before the first bell… We better hurry and get to class before whatever we have coming gets any worse." Marci sighed.
The school was pretty large and prided itself in its advanced technology. Aidan and his friends parted for separate halls as they went to their classes to wait out the day and hopefully avoid the pressures of their peers. Aidan and the others didn't regroup until lunch. Marci joined them at their normal table while Aidan was eating a turkey sandwich and Zane was gazing into space, daydreaming away.
"What's up with Zane? This food is only sub-edible and he's practically drooling."
"Take a look over there." Aidan said smiling slyly.
Zane had been gazing across the lunch room with his eyes set on one of the most popular girls in the entire school. Her name was Alice Rayne and she was a drop dead knockout. She was a little and fiery thing with long blonde hair that fell down to her butt, deep blue eyes, and an incredible figure. Marci nearly threw up as she made gagging noises as Zane sighed.
"What do you see in her? Aside from her giant breasts." She added.
"You don't understand. Alice has been all this guy has talked about ever since I met him in sixth grade and that was four years ago." Aidan explained as he tried to shake Zane back into reality. "It's not just him being a guy; he's really in love Snow."
"You don't say…" Marci said with growing intrigue. "Why don't you just go over there and talk to her already?"
Zane instantly snapped out of his daze and began shaking Marci by her shoulders.
"Are you insane?" he exclaimed. "How can someone as forgettable and uncool as me possible approach her? What would I even say?"
Marci broke from his grasp and smiled at him as Aidan started laughing his butt off.
"What's so funny?"
"Dude, she's just a girl! You can totally do this." Aidan consoled.
"Then would you like to go over there with me?"
Aidan fell silent as Zane gave him an "I told you so" look and Marci simply sighed in disappointment.
"You guys are so pathetic." She sighed. "Just go over there and say hi, it won't kill either of you! Do you need me to hold your hand?"
Aidan and Zane sighed in unison and slowly made their way across the lunch room, ignoring her snide and patronizing comment. Before they could reach the popular kingdom, they found their path blocked by the bane of their existence as well as his three large friends.
"Well what do we have here? Just where do you two losers think you're going?"
"Come on Ryder, we don't want any trouble, we just want to go say hey to Alice."
Ryder grabbed Aidan by his shirt's collar and the other three guys surrounded Zane with their massive size. Aidan tried to break free of the jock's grasp, but his strength was far superior to his.
"What's the matter runt? Why don't you hit me?" he taunted as the lunch room grew quiet. "You're too afraid of me to do it aren't you?"
Aidan just took it in stride as he failed to even supply the bully with even the slightest response.