Chapter 4: Making friends
As Adonis and I strolled through the academy I caught more than a few wayward stares.
"What the fuck are looking at!" I wondered out loud.
My mentor chuckled. "The other students have never seen a fledging such as yourself, their crescent moons are sapphire whereas yours is a fiery yellow gem, I watched your recovery, I saw it ooze out of your forehead and shape itself to be a crescent, so don't go thinking that somebody bedazzled your forehead cause I am a witness"
The priest smiled at me, and I smiled back, growing a bit more comfortable. Man, Adonis reminded me so much of my father it's not even funny.
"Your makings have not gone unnoticed either; you are a very unique girl indeed"
"So I've noticed" I said as I caught more stares.
While we walked I took the time to look around. It was amazing! The school was like a pearly white castle! And there was temple; my mother's statue was standing proud in front of it. I felt a wave of hot energy surge through me, lifting my hair up gently. I giggled fondly.
"I hear you mother..."
Adonis smiled as we marched the rest of the way down the stone path and into the girl's dorm room. When we walked in there was a bunch of females watching Gossip Girl. Some girl with dark brown curly hair stood and greeted Adonis and smiled at me. She looked familiar as hell... Oh shit! It was the smut from the hallway.
I covered my mouth as a ripple of giggles surged through my body. Adonis shook his head.
"She's high, don't mind her"
"I am not!" I protested through my giggles.
My dad did the exact same thing when I embarrassed him.
The high priest rolled his eyes playfully.
"Hello Venus, this is Bunny Lavender"
She looked at me and smiled, I smiled back. Maybe she wasn't the conceited bitch I thought she was.
"Would you like to show your charge to her new room?" Venus asked. I'm sorry, the girl maybe nice, but seriously, what the fuck is a Venus? I know that Venus is the roman goddess of love and beauty, but honestly, who names themself after a planet? I'm named after a cute, furry woodland creature, but at least it's not after a damn planet. Plus my name means beautiful conquer in some weird language I don't know.
Anyway, Adonis shook his head.
"No, I have work to attend to. I want you to show her".
Anger flashed through Venus's eyes, but I didn't give a damn.
"Yes sir, I'd be happy to show Bunny her room"
she turned to me.
"Come on Bunny, your room is upstairs"
I looked to Adonis but he had left so I shrugged and walked in. The other girls stared at me as I walked pass. I sighed and kept walking. I am not in the mood to smack bitches today.
The voices started as soon as Venus and I ascended up the stairs. The silence was unbearable so I spoke, not unkindly.
"So. How is it here?"
"Pretty cool" she said, then smirked. "This school is pretty cool only because of me".
I nodded and stopped talking right there. This. Bitch. Here. Yep, I judged her correctly the first time I saw her. Desperate, conceited, bitch. I just knew I'd slap fire out of her one of these days.
Shaking my head we stopped at the door of my new room before Venus turned to me.
"Look, everyone's talking about you and how you're Nyx's actual daughter and shit" she changed her voice to make it sound all gushy and shit. "Oh my it's the daughter of Nyx! The legend herself!" she narrowed her eyes at me. "Listen, I'm 'it' here, and if you wanna get along here you'd better remember that or you'll be in a world of trouble"
"Listen here bitch" I said as I stepped to her. The hoe had the audacity to try to intimidate me? Hell naw! That's not how it goes down with this one! (By one I mean me, in case you didn't know). "You may be used to having people frightened by you, but I'm not the one. For your sake, watch how the fuck you come at me, 'cause I won't hesitate to beat the break off that ass! You say you're 'it' here? FYI, sucking someone's dick in the hallway isn't considered 'it' it's being a damn slut! So listen and listen good. 1) The next time you come at me sideways I'll slap the taste out of your mouth. 2) I'm wrong bitch to fuck with so don't try me. And 3) I'll beat you and your little groupies! Bye-Bye and have a wonderful day bitch" I said waving at her. "You're dismissed"
Venus was seething, but she left. I knew I was going to have to show her the business soon. But anyway, I knocked on the door and waited.
"Come on in girlie!" a cheerful voice said from inside.
I walked in and smiled kindly. I could tell this girl and I were going to be the best of friends.
"Hi, I'm Bunny"
"I'm Ariella, So you're the daughter of Nyx? Like actual daughter?"
I nodded and put my stuff down on my side of the room, which looked my room at my father's house. Beast! I smiled at the black canopy bed with the red curtains. At my black nightstand with a picture of my dad and me at the beach when I was five. That week was his week. I stared at the picture of my dad and me making funny faces, me in his arms, feeling safe and nothing could touch me. I sighed, that part of my life was over now... I shrugged; such is life I always say.
Anyway, I turned to my new roomie and smiled.
"So. What do we do here?"
Ariella smiled. I took a good look at her then. Long, pretty, blonde hair, big, innocent-looking, brown eyes, little curves, and soft, pink, thin lips. She looked like she could be a cover model.
"Well, here at house of night the students learn what exactly is happening to them and the stages of which our body changes"
I nodded and sat down on my bed, the scent of home making tears spring to my eyes. They won't let me keep my cell phone, so I had to use the school phone to call my Otou-san. But I was glad that I could talk to my Okka-san anytime. Ariella smiled at me, knowing what I was thinking.
"I know right? So far away from home is hard, thinking about your family..."
"Yeah, my dad in particular, I went straight to him when I was first marked"
"Why couldn't you have gone to your mother?"
"Because-
I laughed suddenly, "Why are you so easy to talk to?"
Ariella laughed and sat down on my bed beside me. She rubbed my back, and I got the sister vibe from her.
"I like to think that I'm that one person who anybody can talk to and not feel judged"
"Yeah I get what you're saying; I'm actually the same way"
Ariella hugged me hard, and we stayed like that for a while before she finally let me go.
"Oh my gosh we are so alike! I love you already"
I smiled and hugged her back. I wasn't the most loving person in the world, but I could love.
"I love you too Ariella" I said and we got up, giggling. I flipped my hair and sighed. "I'm tired of my hair being curly, you have a straighter?"
"Do I! Girl I have the best straighter in the world!"
I smiled and sat down in the chair she told me. In front of it was a desk filled with hair care products and ample makeup. Ariella took the straighter and in like what? 3 seconds flat she had my hair silky, smooth, and straight like it normally was.
"Thank you sweetheart and I like the flip you gave my bang! Now, do we have uniforms?"
"Yeah, but really all Adonis wants is for us to wear the symbol on the it. But I couldn't help but notice that your symbol is different from ours"
I looked at the symbol on my shirt and wrinkled my brow. It was a person with their hands balled in fist and pressed together like the army men. There was also five spirals going around it. It was colored, one spiral was blue... Water, one was brown... Earth, one was white... Wind, one was yellow... Fire and the last one was red, like a blood red... Blood. I don't think I could have screamed any louder.
Ariella grabbed my hand and helped me to calm down.
"Bunny? What's wrong?"
"Ariella, I- I can control blood"
"Whoa. That's pretty brutal"
I stared at the symbol for what seemed like ever. Then my sense came back and I sighed, ok, not unusual, right? Well I'm not going to lie, I don't like the clothes. I sighed and pulled it out. It was plain, just plain. As usual, my momma knows what her baby is thinking, because as soon as I thought it the symbol snatched off the shirt and turned into a pendent, so now instead of coloring it was jewel incrusted.
Beast!
I smiled and mentally thanked Nyx and put the pendent on the desk. I changed into a black shirt with a bleeding heart (Ironic as fuck right?) with a red schoolgirl skirt. I had put my lace, fingerless gloves on, and my hair was in a ponytail with my sexy flip bang showing. I had on red and black diamond socks that went to my mid-thigh and some black converse. What can I say? I like the schoolgirl look. Last but not least, I grabbed my pendent and fastened it on my shirt. Ariella put on the ugly ass plain black shirt with her symbol, which was a spiral and, a black skirt. We smiled at each other and left for my first day of school...
