6~ The First Day (Part 5) A Life-Changing Event
POV- Cinder
I walked into the PAC (Preforming Arts Center) with Iko dragging me to the seats in front of the stage.
"Mrs. Chelia!" She called to a young women, probably in her early twenties. She was pretty, with two ponytails falling over her shoulders and a dark reddish-scarlet hair. Her brown eyes also had a faint trace of reddish-pink.
She smiled, "What is it, Iko?"
"This is Cinder, she's new in our class."
The teacher smiled at me. "It's nice to meet you, Cinder. Where are you moving here from?" She asked, holding out her hand.
"Actually I've pretty much always lived here, I was just homeschooled." I replied, shaking her hand.
"Well then, looks like we're both new here."
I looked at Iko for some answers. "She just recently graduated from collage, so it's her first year teaching. And she was just hired a few weeks ago when our old teacher all the sudden quit."
"Oh, that must have been rough."
"Actually, no. The old teacher was a jerk."
The teachers eyes softened. "I'm sure he wasn't that bad-"
"When someone was caught talking, even if it was to just ask a question about the assignment, he would give them a five page monologue and give them five minutes to read over it then they would have to preform it memorized for a test grade in front of the whole class." She said plainly.
"..."
"Well then, Cinder," Mrs. Chelia broke the awkward silence. "Why don't you go find a seat, we're doing improv today. Since it's the end of the six weeks I wanted to do something a little fun."
"Thanks Mrs.-"
"Just Chelia is fine." She said.
"Thanks Chelia."
Iko and I went to take a seat next to Cress and Scarlet. A few minutes later the devil walked in. With the tardy bell ringing a second later. Pearl immediately walks over to were Kai and Thorne where sitting, the seats right in front if us in the front row.
"Kaito! Where where you today at lunch? You weren't at our table, you know how boring and dull it is without you there!" She said with a pout. She was wearing a strapless hot pink crop top with a jean jacket, extremely tight white jeans, and hot pink heels that would probably break my foot if I tried them on. Her straight brown hair was tied in a high ponytail.
"I told you yesterday, Pearl. I only sat there because Thorne wanted to play B.S with the other guys there." Kai said, running his hand through his dark hair.
"But Kai dear, you said you would sit with me today!"
"Correction, I said I might sit there next week."
She rolled her eyes, sitting in the seat next to him and grabbing his hand so tightly his fingers turned purple. "Come on, Kaito. I though we where a thing?"
He tried to pull his hand away, but she only tightened her grip. "We where never a 'thing'."
She smiled a sweet, obviously fake, smile and leaned into Kai. "Why don't we go out tomorrow, lets say... nine a.m? Great! I'll see you then, sweetie!" She quickly pecked a kiss on his cheek and got up to walk away, smirking at me as she did so.
Kai took out a wet-wipe from his backpack and wiped the area she kissed, a disgusted look on his face.
Iko leaned over to me and whispered "This is a daily thing, she goes and harasses him and never gets caught."
I sighed, "That sounds like Pearl."
Suddenly a wad if paper hit the back of my head. I turned around to see pearl glaring at me. I took the crumpled paper and straightened it out.
It had one sentence.
Cinderwench,
Stay away from Kaito Prince, or watch your back.
I glared back at her, crunching the paper in my fist. Why was she set on having everything and me having nothing? I will never understand how her mind works, or if she even has one.
Turning back around, I slumped in my seat, and continued to watch the other students do their improv on stage.
...
"Ugh!" I groaned, stretching my arms above my head as Peony and I walked home from school.
"Now you know what it's like!" Peony squealed, jumping up and down with excitement. "And even better, Kai Prince asked you out on a date!"
"I don't know, I might have to cancel." I said, looking down.
Peony stopped jumping and spun around to face me, putting her hands on my shoulders to stop me in my tracks. "What the heck do you mean by that?"
Sighing, I took out the note and showed it to her. Her eyes grew angry when she read it.
"Who gave you this?" She shouted so loudly that the whole street probably heard.
"Guess."
Her eyes darkened. "I will kill her. She knows better than to mess with my OTP!"
I laughed, "Really?"
We started walking again. "Please, Cinder! Promise me you'll go tomorrow! Even if the world ends overnight!"
I nodded, smiling. Glad that — even in my cruel and messed up world — I had Peony.
...
The sun was setting, slowly giving in to twilight. Peony held two shopping bags; and I held one. Our breath was starting to fog in the late-November air.
"Is all this stuff really necessary?" I asked her.
"Oh course! It's your first date, you have to look good or my OTP will be crushed!"
I smiled at her enthusiasm as we walked up to a small mechanic shop. "I'll only be a second." I said, running into the shop and grabbing a small bag of equipment for my prosthetics and heading right back out.
The sky was now pretty much dark, the last remains of twilight disappearing and the street lights turning on.
"Ready to go home!" I asked.
"Yeah-a-acho!" She sneezed quietly into her sleeve.
"Careful!" I said, taking my scarf off and putting it gently above hers. "You'll catch cold."
She smiled, "Thanks Cinder, but I'm fine." She said, handing me back the scarf. And we started quickly walking home, knowing Adri would throw a fit if we where late.
Suddenly a white flake landed on my sleeve, I looked up. Several small pieces of ice where falling from the sky.
"Snow!" Peony shouted.
"Looks like it's early this year," I said, looming at Peony's smiling face. Suddenly she started coughing, a bit of blood falling from her mouth onto her white gloves.
A frightened frown formed on my face when I saw something peeking up on her neck. Slowly I reached and pulled her scarf loose a little, tears forming in my eyes as I did so.
Her entire neck had formed a purplish-blue rash.
"Huh, what is it Cinder?" She asked, trying to look down to her neck — but failing.
Shaking, she quickly and hastily removed her glove. Freezing when she saw her hands. Dropping her gloves, tears started forming in her eyes.
"Cinder..." Her voice was shaky, and interrupted by a sob. She looked up at me for my confirmation.
"Peony..." I whispered, my voice being broken and cracked from my sobs. "Y-you have Letumosis..."
Her face went blank, tears streaming down her cheeks. Slowly she sank down to the ground, looking with fear at her hands.
She was silent for a few seconds — when time seemed to stand still, then she screamed. Her scream was filled with fear and agony, sobs racked her body. I dropped all of my bags and hugged her, my knees being scraped from the sudden impact with cement. I held her head to my chest tears seeming to carve caverns on my cheeks. Eventually her screams stopped, and turned into silent agonizing sobs.
Why, I thought. Why Peony?
Muahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! I'M SO EVIL!
Just kidding, it was so hard for me to write this chapter. I actually wasn't planning this chapter to be this, but I was listening to this sad song... And this sorta happened...
I'm going to go cry now...
But anyways, I actually have to go back to hell tomorrow.
*Screams in the background* WHY WEEKEND, WHY ARE YOU OVER SO SOON?
Okay, I'm fine now...
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I lied.
Seriously though, save me from school. *goes and hides in a corner surrounded by gloom*
Q- Your reaction to Peony's death in Cinder?
A- Let me recreate the scene.
*goes to pick up the book Cinder and turns to page 259-261*
*clears throat* Me: NO YOU'RE FINE PEONY YOU CAN'T DIE CINDER HAS THE MEDICINE DON'T BE STUBBORN AND TAKE THE MEDICINE LIKE A GOOD LITTLE GIRL! PEONY *sobs* Peony...
Aaaaaaaaaaand scene! *cries*
Kiki?
[Present-day author's note: When you realize that you went around typing "I'v" instead of "I've" in the first half of this fanfic because stupid auto-correct never told you otherwise *cringes*]