Chapter 2 – Only the Beginning

Angel looked up at the giant green front doors of her new school. 'Sheffield Institute' they read. She sighed when she looked at her watch,

"8:30, Damn I'm late," she shouted.

Angel ran up the steps and pushed the doors open. She kept on running through the main corridor but bumped into something.

"Aahh!" she yelled as she fell to the floor. Her books scattered everywhere.

"Sorry about tha…" Angel started to say when she looked up to see what she had bumped into. Standing there with his hand out was a tall boy with scruffy brown hair, softly falling into his chocolate brown eyes; he was wearing a black T-Shirt with Green Day written on it in red, black jeans and black converse.

Angel quickly picked up her stuff and took his hand, it was so soft, and said dreamily,

"Thanks."

"Don't mention it," said the guy with a cute grin, "Hey, are you new around here, I'm Tom."

"Yea, I am new. I'm Angel, could you tell me where class 18, History, is please, I'm kinda lost," Angel asked.

"Sure, I'm in the same class," Tom grinned. Angel smiled sweetly back. "It's this way."

Tom took her up the long corridor making left and right turns all over the place.

"Phew, this is a huge school!" Angel sighed after climbing the third set of stairs.

"Don't worry were here now," Tom said "After you," he said holding open the door for Angel to walk through.

"Ah, and you must be Angel, I'm your History teacher Mr. Collins. Better late than never I always say. And Tom late as usual" Joked Mr. Collins,

Tom blushed slightly then grinned again.

"Angel sit at the back row next to Tom and Dawn,"

He pointed to a girl with shoulder length dark brown hair with red highlights. She was wearing a red t-shirt saying 'Devil' in black, black torn pants, black and red converse and red fingerless gloves. Round her neck was a silver necklace with a moon charm hanging off it.

Angel and Tom made their way to the back and sat down.

"Hi newbie," said Dawn with a friendly smile. "This is Amy,"

She pointed to the girl sitting beside her. Amy had really long brown hair and was wearing a light blue top with a monkey on it, blue jeans, blue converse and a blue side bag. Around her neck was a silver chain with a guitar on her arm was a blue wristband.

"And that's Storm,"

Dawn pointed to the girl sitting on the other side of Tom. Storm had long dark brown hair with blue highlights she was wearing a black sleeveless top with skull and cross bones on it, long dark jeans with a silver chain and a dragon emblem on and black and pink converse, dark blue fingerless gloves and a wolf chain around her neck.

Angel smiled at the girls and said Hi and before she could say anything else, Mr. Collins said,

"Right, it's about time for a pop quiz," The whole class groaned.

"Let's see, let's see,' he said looking round the class.

"EEEK," whimpered Amy as Dawn had tickled her under her arms so her hand went up.

"Brilliant, a raised hand," said Mr. Collins gleefully; he then started to ponder over a quiz question to ask her.

"Watch this," Dawn said to Angel "When Amy gets quizzed, first she gets angry, and then gets desperate. Then shuts her eyes tight, crosses her fingers and…"

"Shut up!" snapped Amy.

That would be 'angry' thought Angel.

"I didn't study at all," Amy whined "All I know is a little bit about Henry the 8th."

Hel-loo desperation Angel thought.

And then, Amy done just as Dawn had said. She shut her eyes really tight, crossed her fingers and said,

"Please say Henry the 8th, please, oh please oh please,"

"Right Amy, why don't you tell us a bit about Henry the 8th?"

"YES!" Amy shouted happily. Then she went on smugly about all she knew about Henry the 8th.

How did she do that? Angel thought. Was it some kind of weird voodoo? Or was it some strange psychic powers? Or even, she thought worryingly, magic? Angel just sat there shocked looking at Amy.


The rest of the day went pretty quickly, when the last bell rang for the end of the day Angel walked out of the school to get her bike out of the bike rack with Tom, apparently he goes home the same way as her.

When they got there, Dawn and Storm were there.

"Hi guys," Angel and Tom said together.

"Dawn and Storm go the same way as us, Angel," Tom told her.

"Oh, cool," smiled Angel.

Three quarters of the way home Dawn and Storm turned on a corner and Tom and Angel carried on going.

"Hey Tom," Angel said

"Yea," he answered.

"Wasn't it weird how Amy crossed her fingers in History and was able to change the quiz to what she wanted?"

"Yea, she's always been able to do that," Tom said as a matter-of-fact.

Angel's eyes widened when Tom said this.

"Really" Angel said shocked.

Tom nodded. "Well, this is me," he said "see you tomorrow." He turned down a long road.

"Bye," Angel waved then carried on towards her house.


Far away in another land called Meridian, a tall man and a huge snake monster were discussing important matters.

"The girl is close master, can we attack now?" the snake hissed slowly.

"Not now Cedric, we must wait for the right moment," the master explained.

"The right moment is soon I hope," hissed the snake.

"Oh yes, very soon," the master grinned.

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