Sorry I haven't been updating. I'm a very forgetful person Anyway, here you go. I'm probably going to update slower now, since I've got so much school work to do at this current time. Sorry :'(


Chapter Ten

Ella

My day started out normal, after I woke up screaming my head off with Iggy and his gigantic, ugly, bruised forehead standing over me. I'd walked to school and gone to all my morning classes, starting with English, then art. I headed for my locker to put away my books. That was where my BFF, Kali, found me.

"Hey, babe," she said. She had her black, curly hair pulled back behind her ears with dozens of bobby pins and her milk chocolate skin was glowing, just like always. I smiled at her.

"Hey, Kali, how's it going?" I asked. She idly looked at her gold-painted nails.

"Nothing much, nothing much," she said. She looked up at me with a sly grin. "How's it going with your secret boyfriend?"

I closed my locker and bit my lip. "He's not my boyfriend," I told her. "He's just a genuinely nice guy with some issues, okay?"

"Okay, okay," she agreed. "Then how's it going with your Genuinely-Nice-Guy-With-Some-Issues?"

I looked away from her. "Okay," I said, and started walking down the hall for the cafeteria for lunch. Kali walked a half a step behind me.

"Ella? What happened?" she asked, concern filling her voice.

"I'm…I'm worried he's turning…self-destructive," I said slowly.

"Why?" Kali asked. "What'd he do?" She paused and leaned in close to my ear. "Is he cutting?"

I shook my head fervently. "No! He's not cutting! He just knocked himself unconscious."

"Right, cause that's so much better," Kali said sarcastically. "How'd he do that?"

"He slammed his head against a wall over and over until he passed out."

"Shit, Ella, that's not good," Kali said. "You need to have another one of your therapy sessions with him."

"I know," I said on a sigh. I pouted slightly. "We were doing so well, too."

"You can't fix everyone, Ella," she said. "I think your crazy half-sister and her boyfriend—"

"Husband," I corrected. "They got married a couple months ago."

"Whatever," Kali said dismissively. "I think they're starting to mess up your head."

"Just because they work for a good cause doesn't make them head-messer-uppers," I said defensively as we entered the crowded cafeteria. We grabbed a spot in line and loaded our trays with whatever it was that these people called food. Usually it just looked worse than it was.

"I'm just saying, maybe you should think about helping yourself out before you go and help everyone else," Kali said. I looked up at her.

"What do you mean?" I asked. "I don't need any help."

Kali said nothing as we paid for our food and headed out to the courtyard. I grabbed our usual spot under the big oak and we sat down.

"Um, Ella?" Kali said quietly. I looked over at her.

"Yeah?"

"You know those guys?"

I looked around. "What guys?"

Kali lifted a perfectly-manicured finger. "The ones that look like they wanna eat you for lunch."

I looked up from my tray to see three guys standing by the fence. They were so muscly that it distorted they're shape from human to creature. The worst part was that I did know them. They were the same guys I'd come across, like, four or five years ago. The most muscly guy was Bullet, and, as usual, he was flanked by his two minions or whatever, who went by Ace and Killer. You could tell just by their names that they were bad news. They'd wanted to beat me up and "Teach me a lesson." But then Max had flown in and saved my butt.

Bullet lifted one hand pointed at his eyes, then at me in a sort of "I'm watching you" motion. I was nearly shaking with fear. They were back. And they weren't going to leave it at "Teaching me a lesson" this time.

Kali waved a hand in front of my face, breaking me out of my fearful thoughts. "Ella? Are you okay? You're all pale and stuff."

I shook my head, clearing my mind. "I'm fine. Let's eat inside today."


Hello! Please I need your help, if just this once. I only have one question for you, lovely readers.

If Ella had a superpower, what would it be?

Something like what the flock has, like how Angel can read minds, and Fang can "disappear," as it were. Something like that.

Thanks, people!