Chapter 2
The school day went fast for Samantha, faster than normally anyway. But the entire day she couldn't stop thinking about the man with black eyes, how everything about him screamed NOT HUMAN. But he had been human, he had turned out to be just some guy wearing a normal black hoody.
Maybe she was going crazy, thinking that people were monsters. Though something nagged at her at the back of her mind, a thought that wouldn't leave her alone. Of course, you couldn't kill an idea but at times like this she seriously wished she could have.
Her thought was pretty simple but completely and utterly impossible.
What if the man had truly been a monster?
She kept replaying the events in her head, thinking of the man staring at her. Was it even a man? She was assuming so because the mask that it had been wearing had been male.
She was probably going crazy but you didn't just go from not-crazy to seeing monsters. There had to be some reason now that she was seeing it, that she was seeing something that she had never even imagined seeing before.
She scratched at her arm, a rash having formed since this morning. It was a light pink when she saw it this morning but since it was winter it was cold enough to wear a jumper so she didn't really look.
Samantha usually didn't wear warm clothes that often, seeing as only winter in Australia seemed to be remotely cold. So today she wore her school jumper, the heavy blue jumper hanging off her like an oversized coat.
She walked into the door, throwing her massive bag down. She had a bigger bag than her companions, Katie and Aroha. She didn't understand how some students at the school could fit everything in tiny hand bags. She could barely fit anything in her massive bag that was ripped in places, let alone a tiny handbag.
Sometimes she wondered if the students at her school had bags that were bigger on the inside. Though to be fair, her bag was stuffed with a bunch of random novels that she enjoyed as well as her laptop and numerous school books.
That was something that her, Katie and Aroha all shared, their love of books.
"Sam?" Her mother said, walking down the stairs. Samantha smiled at her from below and sighed.
"Hey mum," She greeted and her mother smiled.
"Hey honey, how was school?" She asked and Samantha shrugged.
"Eh, same as usual I guess." Samantha shrugged, grabbing a book out of her bag. It was called THE FALLEN and was about a boy named Aaron Corbett who found out he was part angel. She wondered what she would do if she found out she was part angel, that she were a nephilim.
Of course, she never knew her father so it was entirely possible that he was an angel. If angels were real of course…
She walked past her mother, the women looking just like her.
Her mother was pale, her hair blonde like Samantha's and her eyes a slightly duller blue. Apparently she got her strong blue eyes from her father and her build, which was slightly thicker than a usual teenager. She was far from fat however, having more muscle on her than anything else. Probably from the years of taekwondo that she had endured.
Katie didn't know her mother, her father having dull brown eyes so she had inherited the eyes from her mother. Katie looked like her father however, the man having a tousle of brown hair.
Aroha didn't know either of her parents, being adopted. She was from New Zealand, unlike Samantha and Katie, but moved to Australia when she was very young.
She scratched at her arm again, the light itch having turned into a painfully itchy rash throughout the day but now it was something else. Right now it was burning and she didn't mean a dull ache.
It was burning like someone had taken something extremely hot and branded her arm with it. It was like her arm was on fire and she gasped in surprise, running into her bedroom.
She ripped the jumper off with haste, tears in her eyes from the pain. She bit her lip to keep her from crying out and stared at the wound on her arm.
The light rash from earlier had turned into a glowing scorch mark. It was like that part of her skin had burst into flames and had now been reduced to embers.
"Holy Pineapples." Samantha whispered, staring at the wound on her arm.
It increased slightly, making her cry out but she stopped herself before it became a scream.
Then the pain settled down, the glow fading from it. It went from the red, glowing rash to a black scorch mark.
It was like someone had gotten ink and painted something on her arm.
It was symbol, one that had what looked like a crystal with an M over it. If Katie were here she would probably call it an M carrot or something stupid like that and laugh in her face.
She touched it lightly and frowned, her fingers not feeling the slightest heat. But that was impossible, her arm had been glowing and felt like it was on fire. There had to be some heat on her arm, something that indicated what had happened.
She almost jumped out of her skin as her mobile started to ring in her pocket. Frowning, she looked down and took it out.
Her screen read AROHA in big letters and she tilted her head in confusion. Normally Aroha had to go to work after school on a Friday so why was she calling her?
She shrugged, maybe Aroha had forgotten something? It wasn't uncommon that she left something in her bag or Aroha wanted to borrow a book. But usually she waited till later on, after her shift at KFC. She answered it, putting the phone to her ear.
"What's up?" She asked, getting straight to the point.
"Sam…" A voice whispered from the other end, the voice shaking from fear.
"Aroha?" She asked in confusion.
"Someone's in the house Sam…" Aroha whispered and Samantha's eyes widened.
"Do you want me to call the cops?" She asked.
"No police, they can't know about this." Aroha whispered, "They said their coming for you and Katie, I heard them. Please just get out of the city, hide somewhere!"
"Please tell me this is a joke?" Samantha asked, doubtful that her friend was actually being attacked.
"Why would I joke about something like this!" Her friend whispered and Samantha was about to make a retort but a crash coming from the other side of the phone call stopped her.
Aroha screamed and she heard heavy footsteps, more than just one person's. Samantha's blood ran cold as she heard Aroha begging and screaming, only to be cut off suddenly with an umph.
The phone was dropped, landing on the floor with a thud followed by another. The second one she guessed was Aroha.
Then the call cut off with a beep.