Fallen Angel
Chapter1: The break
Knocks on the door. Every face lifts up from its work and stare at the intruder, standing trough the doorway. The lady twists the fabric of her shirt and walks towards the waiting teacher. Her face tilts to one side and she turns towards the silent class. Her eyes scan the students, details them until they stops right on one girl.
"Fay, Fay Kanzaki? Could you come with me please?"
I stand up, a block of ice slowly replacing my stomach. I am intrigued and nauseous. Something had gone terribly wrong...
The lady motions to me to leave class and wait for her in the hallway. Patiently, I stand alone in the empty corridor. Everything is cold, empty, I can almost touch the nothingness around me. Finally, the woman comes out from the class and looks at me. Her brown eyes are screaming to me, they are yelling:Something IS wrong! My mouth tastes like ashes. I follow her.
She leads me to an office wich I guess has to be hers. Again, I am invited to sit in front of her.
"Would you like a glass of water?"
Concern, sadness, pain. They all talk to me, so much better than her words. I shake my head. Nothing could make its way to my stomach right now, I don't have one anymore. It has turned into a block of cold stone.
In front of me, the woman sits and places carefully her hands on her desk. She lifts her gaze to me and already, I know. I can read it in her eyes. I can read what she has read a few instants before coming to fetch me.
"There has been an accident..."
The only thing left to do is nod. I know what she is about to reveal to me. She doesn't need to continue. But in another way, it conforts me, to know that someone else feels the urge to put into words something I couldn't express myself.
"Your parents were... caught and..."
I could finish it for her. Words, sometimes, can be so restraining.
"They are dead..."
She opens her eyes, surprized by my affirmation. I had half-expected her to trail off like this and then wait for me to ask questions. It would've been appropriate for them to do so but not for me. She can only nod. I gaze at her and feel pity for the task she had been entrusted with. She, on her side, details me, searching for the crack, the fail that would appear soon. I felt that too but it was too soon to let it out. I had things to do.
"We would understand if you would like to leave school for today and go home..."
Sympathy. This feeling is a good thing, I like it. She smiles at me and I smile back. Slowly, I rise from my seat and leave her office. I felt her eyes follow me for as long as they could, piercing trough my back, looking for the crack...
Class wasn't finished when I came back but when I stepped in, everything went silent. All stared at me as I walked towards my desk and started to pack my things. A boy turned around and looked at me. His eyes were inquiring, curious. I stared back and smiled.
"What happenned Fay?"
"My parents died..."
I paused. This affirmation, suddenly, took full meaning. My smile faded away and hot tears made their way to my eyes. I hurriedly packed my bag and ran out, my emotions in a turmoil. There it was, the fail in my so-called indestructible armour. Pain, yes, I knew pain. It was scorching, screaming, hurting, burning. It was pain. I wanted to scream. I wanted to vomit. I wanted to be anywere but here, were everything and everyone could hurt me.
I ran down the stairs and by the time I was on the first floor, I couldn't go further. My legs wouldn't carry me. I collapsed on the floor in tears. I thanked God many times for the lack of living beings around me that day. I just coudn't stand them to see me vulnerable. It hurt, it hurt so much. I let my backpack slip to the floor and hit the floor until I couldn't feel my fists anymore. Then, it came. It was a surge, an impulse, absolutely incontrolable. It coursed trough my back and errupted, causing me to scream. White as milk wings spread out between my backbones and grew immensly. Feathers splashed everywere, glistening like pearls. They wrapped around me, clouding me from the outside, cold world. The hushed sounds of the school soon disappeared and only the cloudy silence of the feathers surroundded me. I let myslef ease in their embrace and let the tears out. The pain subsided and I could think again. I tought about the world around me and soon, had to realize that I was still in school. But it didn't matter anymore. I let the water caress of my wings carry me into clamness and when I was relatively soothed, I stood up, unfolding them.
Every witness to this phenomenon were staring, mouths open. I couldn't blame them. Who'd ever seen a college girl suddenly grow wings? I smiled at them, my tears now dry and trew my head to the back. Slowly, painfully, my wings folded back in my back and tucked themsleves out of view. It hurt so much every time but I had to do so. Ther presence had been reassuring. Now that they were gone, I felt uneasy and could feel accuratly the eyes staring at me. I almost cried again but kept my composure and picked up my bag. Slowly, I walked down the stairs and towards my bus.
***
When she entered class later, she was emotionless. She just smiled as she made her bag and I wondered what had happenned. I turned around and looked at her. Her piercing blue eyes held the stare, telling me nothing.
"What happenned Fay?"
I cursed myself for asking this afterwards. But I had to. Something deep inside me commanded that I ask this question. So I did and she answered, still smiling.
"My parents died..."
It hit me like going straight in a wall. She was smiling as she told me this and I couldn't beleive it. Then it happenned, she lost it completly. It was as if saying those very words had shaken her to the core. Tears swelled in her beautiful saphirre eyes and she quickly finished what she was doing. She stormed out of class and I followed her, despite all. She intruigued me. She ran down the stairs, almost floating over them and suddenly, she stopped and collapsed. I halted in the staircase and observed. She hit the floor so many times, I could almost feel her pain. She was sobbing and crying and sobbing some more. My own heart hurt, seeing her in so much pain. I wanted to walk to her and take her in my arms, craddle her until she eased.
I heard her scream and the saw the impossible. Beautiful withe wings sprouted from her back and extended all around her, a cascade of pearly feathers scattering all around me. It was superb, so grand and so symbolic. She was an angel, an apparition from the heavens sent to suffer on Earth. I was enchanted. With a wink I remembered her name. "Fay" Faery. A magic creature from the other realms. Yes, such beautiful apparition couldn't be human. She coudn't be. She enchanted me, trapped me in her spell and as she stood up, the grandeur of her being sank in me. She was proud, strong and yet so fragile. She knew I was under her spell from that day on.
Without turning towards no one, she trew her head backwards wich accented her beauty and might and folded her wings. They slowly disappeared and she picked her bag from the floor. I couldn't move an inch and waited as she left, majestic. My senses soon came back and I was thorn between following her or climbing back to class. I felt the meters separating me from her grow larger and larger and couldn't stand it. I ran after her.
She stepped inside the bus just as it was leaving and I scrambled to catch it also. She didn't notice me even as I sat right across her and kept staring outside the window...
Author's notes: Fay has a very strange personality compared to normal
people but I really like her. For those who could wonder, she DOES
know that she is a Dracolian/Human hybrid, that's why she acts so weird
and has those special habilities to read in people's eyes and is so detached
from human emotions.