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A Different Life - Ch. 4

Ashley's p.o.v

Her first biggest mistake was walking back through the corridor where she saw the Knight boy in the corridor staring at her, because she could feel his eyes burning holes in her back, throwing open the door violently and stomping inside, splashing cold water up her leg and soaking her converse as she stamped in the water. Her reflection was thrown back at her as she looked down, lifting her left leg to see the damage the water might have done to her converse, only finding the water turning her bright orange converse a darker colour

"I thought it would have been you Schmidt!" Mr. Rocque's voice growled angrily, throwing up his hands in an attempt to look bigger than he already was, but Ashley only rolled her eyes, never intimidated by Gustavo. She was the only student who would call him by his proper name not headmaster, not backing down from him when he tried to challenge his students, to intimidate them

"I didn't do this Gustavo" Ashley snarled the word 'Gustavo' like she had venom in her mouth that she needed to spit out. Her grey eyes met his eyes behind his stupid bug sunglasses that she wanted to rip from his stupid face and smash to the floor with her foot

"You are a trouble child!" Gustavo bellowed again, turning to his assistant and silently asking for a file she had in her hand, she immediately started to struggle with all the papers in her grip, dropping one file that had her name on it, but Gustavo quickly dived for the file

"I don't try" Ashley muttered under her breath, but Gustavo didn't seem to hear her, because he only read through her file, a small smile twitching at his lips

"I know everything about you, it's all here" Gustavo taunted, rustling the paper in his hand to intimidate her, but it didn't work

"Not everything is there" Ashley spoke back through gritted teeth, biting down on the inside of her cheek so she didn't say anything that she would regret, but it was probably a mistake, because he knew she couldn't back down from calling him Gustavo

"How do you know Ashley Schmidt?" Gustavo taunted again, his eyes looking deeply into her eyes as if he really did know her biggest secret she kept

"There's nothing personal in those files" Ashley talked harshly back to Gustavo, who gave off a massive booming laugh that shook her to her core, but she made sure it didn't show across her face

"Have a look" Gustavo, without any warning, threw her file to her with a simple flick of his wrist, but she had quicker reactions than Gustavo expected. Her hand shot out to catch the file, watching him at the same time as she caught it, his eyebrows shooting up, but she ignored the look, flickering through her own file

Name: Ashley Schmidt

Age: 17

Eyes: Light grey

Hair: Orange with yellow highlights in hair and fringe

Personality: cold, sarcastic, mean, bitchy, does not talk only when spoken to

Past: Thrown out of past school because of an unknown incident with three other students. Came to the Palm Woods School because the teachers refused to teach her after the incident. No information has been given about the incident, all teachers involved refuse to talk about the incident in fear

Powers: Unknown. Refuses to show powers to any teacher or headmaster. Teachers have constantly tried to force and push her to use her powers, but each attempt has failed

As Ashley read the last part, she felt a small smile touch her lips because not everything was in the file she was holding

"You lied" Ashley spoke with a touch of humour laced in her voice, watching as Gustavo's face started to turn a bright red, a vein popping in his temple, his lips back against his teeth in a snarl

"DETENTION!" Gustavo bellowed loudly, making Kelly, who was standing close to him flinch and try to inch away from her, but Ashley watched her

"No thank you" Ashley spoke cockily, stomping past him, even knocking his shoulder as she went past, her head tipped up to show she was not bothered by what Gustavo was trying to say


Gustavo's p.o.v

He had never felt so angry in his entire life because of one little bitch that refused to acknowledge him as headmaster. She was a constant thorn in his side, an annoying one at that, and he couldn't remove her until he got some dirt on her about something she never talked about. He needed some information about Ashley's past

"Get all the information you can on Ashley Schmidt" Gustavo ordered to his assistant Kelly, who almost began to cower away from him, and he liked the feeling of being in control, no matter how much he scared his assistant. He needed to strike at the main concern that was bothering him, the thorn in his side that was Ashley. He felt himself smile, he didn't want to hurt Ashley, he only wanted to cut her down to size


James' p.o.v

The rest of the day was a blur for James, who was constantly trying to get Scarlet to talk to him normally, not snarling or muttering under her breath

"I don't know what's up with her" James spoke as he pushed his dinner around on his plate, taking a few bites. Logan and Carlos were arguing, Carlos moaning about what was on his plate, because it was not a corn dog, rather something that looked like it was vomited out of the cooks mouth and served as food, Carlos' suggestion which got some dirty looks from both Logan and Kendall. They both pushed away their food, looking disgusted as the trays skidded across the table, Carlos taking the perfect chance to dig into their food, not matter how much he complained about how it looked

"Carlos, that's disgusting!" Logan shouted, pulling his face as Carlos took a large spoonful of the mush, turned to look at Logan and made a massive gesture of putting the spoon in his mouth, chewing like a camel. The only thing Logan did was punch Carlos hard in the shoulder

"Guys!" Kendall tried to separate the two, going in-between them and ducking away from the cat fight they were having

"James! Help!" Kendall got hit in the face by a flying hand from one of the two boys, sending him stumbling off to the side, but something caught his eye, and James found himself staring. Scarlet was walking towards the 'antisocial bitch' of the school, a tray in her hand as she casually walked towards her, but the bitch didn't even give Scarlet a second glance, just continued to do something in a sketch book she had on the table, her body hunched forwards as she drew or whatever in the sketch patch. He watched the scene unfold, but it didn't take long, because Ashley, after Kendall noticed him staring and told him her name, stood up drastically, her mouth moving but her grey eyes looked angry as she stormed out of the dinner hall, her sketch book lying forgotten on the table. Scarlet stood in place, staring down at the table before slamming her tray down hard on the table, splashing the muck all over her arms and the table, but she ignored it, only going for the sketch book lying on the table after wiping her arms with a napkin. James moved away from the table, pushing the chair back, ignoring Kendall as he screamed his name in frustration, ducking away at the right time to avoid a fist that shot out of no where

"Scarlet" James asked calmly as he could, not touching her before she slowly turned around to glare at James with her violet eyes

"What?" she questioned in that horrible emotionless voice that James hated, because he could still hear her beautiful voice from before talking to him. But now it was horrible to listen to, because he missed all those times with Scarlet

"Shouldn't you give that back to Ashley?" James stated clearly, but Scarlet rolled her eyes, flipping her backpack to her stomach, yanking her pack open to shove the sketch book in a frantic mess, the pages scrunching up at the harsh shoving Scarlet was going. She only stared up to James to glare at him coldly, fixing her bag back on her shoulder and keeping up the cold stare as it slowly worked on James. He had to really concentrate on now all of his strength not to look away from Scarlet

"I will" Scarlet snarled angrily, stomping away from James, bumping his shoulder as she passed, not looking back


Scarlet's p.o.v

Her body was angry at James because he wouldn't leave her alone, no matter how horrible she would be, it was just not working. She kept planning to do a horrible thing to him, just to make sure that he would leave her alone, especially his stupid friends, even though they never took much notice of her. It was only James that was constantly trying to gain her attention, trying to wiggle his way back into her life

Yeah, Scarlet remembered about how they were friends in pre-k and she met the others, only making a true connection with James. But times changed, life changes, either for the better or worse, but in her case, it was worst. Her life had changed when she moved away from James with her father, Headmaster Rocque, to form this school for the gifted. She had her own abilities, but she only showed a certain amount of them, because she didn't want to be called a freak. Her feet were walking her across the lawn outside back to the dorms, where she knew Ashley slept in her own room. People were scared of Ashley, even though she showed no amount of powers, it was just something about her that people found scary. Scarlet was probably the only one that actually had the confidence to stand up to her, to talk to her like a friend, but of course Ashley refused to talk to anyone, unless you really pissed her off enough for her smart mouth to start to talk and being sarcastic. Scarlet heard someone start to shout at her from across the lawn, an old man's voice that carried, but Scarlet ignored him even though she could hear every word he was speaking

"Oi you! Get off my lawn. Do you know how long it takes to keep this neat and tidy? it's typical of you stupid kids to not obey the rules, especially that Schmidt girl! She's the most annoying, I mean yesterday I cau. . ." his long, idiotic rant cut off as Scarlet slammed the door that was the entrance to the dorms behind her with a loud bang, rolling her eyes and letting out a large sigh at the sweet silence, except for a small ticking sound from the clock hung above the door. She could hear everything in the room, if there were any other sounds coming from the rooms, the only obvious one was loud rock music that blared all around the dorms from Ashley's room, probably because she was pissed off at something. As she walked up the long stairs, she heard someone banging loudly on Ashley's door, bellowing about turning the music down in a shrill voice that really made the hairs on her arms stand up

"I very highly doubt she can hear you over the music" Scarlet spoke sarcastically with a raised voice so the girl could hear her. When she looked over at Scarlet, she noticed the girl that was banging on the door

Jo Taylor, the blonde bitch that probably had slept with every guy in the Palm Woods school, and was now going after Kendall Knight, another blond that she could tick off her box of people that slept with her. Scarlet couldn't put a face to Kendall's name, that was until she realised that she had met him before in pre-k, James introducing them until she had to move away

"That stupid bitch is always doing this!" Scarlet screamed shrilly, throwing up her hands and marching out of ear shot of Scarlet, who only rolled her eyes and tried opening the door to Ashley's room. The door handle opened easily under her hand, the music so loud that she needed to take a step back from the room, the music playing havoc with her sensitive hearing, Scarlet rubbing at her ear to stop them ringing. Ashley's room was not a tip like Scarlet had expected, everyone was order and nothing was lying useless on the floor of her room, the only mess in her room was the desk that sat on the far side of the room, she had obviously moved it from its original position

"Hey" Scarlet didn't allow her voice to sound happy or anything along those lines as she spoke to Ashley, who only stared up at her while Scarlet looked around in her bag for the sketch book. Her zips were loud in the quiet room, but Ashley didn't bother to speak

"What do you want?" Ashley spoke in a mono toned voice, her grey eyes were emotionless

"I came to give you this" Scarlet only threw the pad to the floor and left the room without another word, slamming the door behind her. The music started again, this time it was much louder


Kendall's p.o.v

The next lesson was to practice their powers, and Kendall was really not looking forward to this, because he had no control over his powers. The last time he had used them was against his father to push him out of the window when he was abusing Kendall. He was used to the abuse, but something snapped inside him because his mother was hurt, and the incident was born. The teacher, who was Mr. Bitters, a big man, was useless, only talking about remembering the emotions or memories that they had when their powers were first manifesting, eating a burger that was really greasy, his upper lip was smeared in the stuff

"Just practice" he spoke through the large mouthful that he had in his mouth, spraying spittle and bits of burger over the floor or any students that stood too close. Kendall watched all of the other students in the room, most of them were trying desperately to get their powers to work, including James, Logan and Carlos, whose eyes were scrunched up trying to focus

"This is stupid" Kendall muttered as he continued to search around the room, his eyes falling on Ashley who was just sitting down on the floor drawing on the same sketch pad he saw her use in the lunch hall. Kendall could see the back of the sketch pad, the brown back that was almost mostly black ink made up of drawings. He couldn't make out exactly what the drawings were, but they looked depressing. Ashley was not even trying to use her powers, but Kendall would. He tried to focus on the task, trying to remember the emotions that he felt. Anger, frustration, fear, all of the above, so he didn't know specifically what emotion he needed to feel to activate his powers. He felt stupid about doing this, but as he cracked open his eyes, James' hands were the same bright green colour as before when he used to powers. As he flicked his wrists, probably to flex, a large ball of green shot out from the movement of James' wrist, slamming into the wall and giving off a loud crash. When the smoke cleared there was a large hole in the wall, but Mr. Bitters was making a massive fuss about the hole, but James never moved from his spot, his usually tan face had gone white as paper from what he just did. Kendall himself was shocked, but he was also jealous that James could easily control his powers

"James Diamond! To the principles office!" Mr. Bitters bellowed, throwing his burger to the floor and shoving James to the door violently. Each time that James tried to answer back, he was only shoved harder by Mr. Bitters. When James got to the door, he gave up trying to explain himself, only throwing open the doors and stamping down the hall out of Kendall's line of sight. Everyone had watched the scene except Ashley, who only rolled her eyes and continued to draw in her sketch book, but a dark shadow loomed over her, and it was Mr. Bitters talking to her in a low register. She only stared up him to acknowledge him when her sketch book was yanked out of her hands, her expression dark and angered to the point that her teeth her gritted hard. Mr. Bitters walked away from Ashley with her pad in his hands, but she never tried to get it back, only slumping against the wall and muttering under her breath, Kendall knew this because he was watching her mouth move. Kendall was not a pervert, so as soon as he realised that he was staring, he tried to focus on his powers. Looking around, Kendall noticed a small chunk of ceiling that seemed to stick out like a sore thumb in Kendall's mind, so he held out his hand, palm first and focused on that chunk of ceiling. Nothing happened, Kendall only looking like a dork with his hand out pointing it towards the chunk that almost towered over him

"Dude come on!" Carlos shouted suddenly, making Kendall flinch and turn towards Carlos, his expression angry

"I'm trying!" Kendall spoke through gritted teeth, turning back to his task and holding out his hand again, squinting. Again nothing happened, some students in the room giggling behind their hands as Kendall continued to squint at the rock. Anger was slowly seeping into Kendall's body as more and more students joined in with the laughing. He was gritting his teeth as his eyes narrowed more, around his hands going the yellow colour that they had before during the incident, his hand automatically clenching into a fist as small chunks of rock fell to the floor, but Kendall tried harder to move the rock. With a large, swift movement, Kendall threw his hand back and the rock went with his command, wrenching itself from the wall and hovering in the air for a moment. But Kendall couldn't hold it up for long, and the yellow colouring to his hands faded to nothing, and the rock tumbled to the floor right towards Kendall as people screamed his name, the rock creating a large black shadow as it plunged towards Kendall at a breath-taking speed. . .

. . .But he couldn't stop it