What happened afterwards? In the confusion I had gotten lost, not knowing what was happening, who I was, where I was. So many things were hidden in my mind, an endless fog that made me feel as though I never belonged, as though something were missing. My Name is Danielle; I'm just your average teenager. I have an average life. I live in your everyday town. But all my life…something, something I can't quite picture has always bothered me. I have dreams, dreams so horrible and gory that I wake up and run to the bathroom and throw up. Their so real...so vivid…. why do these dreams haunt me at night…?
"Beeeeep! Beeeep!" My alarm clock went off, my hand went over it and hit the snooze button and fell asleep.
"Danielle!" a voice screamed at me. "Get up! Your late for school." I was suddenly awake, it was my first day in my new school and I was going to be late! I jumped out of bed and ran right past my mother into the bathroom to shower and get ready. 20 minutes later I had my outfit on, and my hair and makeup done. My golden blonde hair was straightened and flowed freely over my shoulders. My blue eyes were accompanied by midnight blue eye shadow and silver mascara. My lip-gloss was a light brown that glittered in the sun. I was wearing a black skirt with my new Steve Madden shoes and a baby blue tank top. My mother always said I had a flare for fashion, I personally loved to shop but I really never was able to have any friends because we moved around too much, so I would mostly go by myself.
I stepped off the bus and looked at the school. It was so much bigger than my last one; I took a deep breath and started walking towards it.
* * *
"Hey Danielle, sit here!" A girl yelled at me as I walked into the cafeteria. It was Crystal, a girl from my math class.
"Hey." I said as I sat down at the table with her. Crystal was about the same height as me, and she had wild red hair and hazel green eyes. She had come up to me in math and started talking to me; she was the first friend I had made.
"Hey girl," she said with a smile. "Here's the girls, this is Brigit," She said pointing to a girl with short brown hair who then waved, so I waved back. "This is Lauren, Ashley, Amy and Catherine." After she finished introducing everyone, we started talking about the normal stuff, boys, makeup, clothes, shopping.
"I heard that this place has a great mall, please tell me that I'm right!" I said laughing. Crystal smiled and stood up as the bell rang.
"This town got the best god-damn mall in the tri-state area." She said with a smirk. "Where you going next?"
It was two weeks later and I loved this town. I finally had friends and with one exception, was hated by no one. Crystal and I had become best friends in such a short amount of time; I had already planned to have my first party.
I walked into first period class and sat down. All of a sudden I heard. "No! No! It can't be!" I looked behind me and saw this kid named Marco walk over to another girl Cassie. "Who is this vision of loveliness? Who is this fantasy come true? Excuse me but are you Tyra Banks." He talked on and on until Cassie told him to shut up and they started talking about how much he was paid to say that then the bell rang and Marco quickly slithered back to his seat.
English class. The single most pointless, boring class on the face of this planet. I slipped my headphones on and started tapping my pen to the beat. "Danielle, could you please answer the question?" Mr. Mills asked me, but I couldn't hear him, I was doodling on my binder and still listening to headphones. Mr. Mills walked over to my seat and tapped me on the shoulder. I looked up and smiled while taking my headphones off.
"Yes Mr. Mills?" I heard a small burst of laughter from behind me.
"Your going to the vice principals office…now!" Mr. Mills stormed off to his desk to write out the pass.
"Hahahahaha!! Beautiful." Marco giggled.
"You to Marco!"
"Aw...man."
We walked into the hallway; this wasn't the first time I had been sent to Chapman's office, last week I was accused of cheating on a test so I was sent there. I don't really scare easily, but to tell you the truth. Chapman scared me.
"Adjectives is something very important if you didn't know adjectives how could you call me, Mr. Mills a stupid little dick head!" Marco said under his breath as he laughed. He walked up to me. "Your Danielle, right?" he said.
"Yep, that would be me…and your Marco?" I replied swiftly.
"Yes, Marco the Mighty, Marco the Magnificent, but to others "hey you!"" I let out a laugh and we started talking.
"Hey, you ever hear of the sharing?" I asked him, and I swear as soon as I said sharing he stopped short. He must have seen that I noticed so he started walking normally again.
"Ya, but it's not really my thing." He replied.
"I know, it sounds corny to me, my friend Crystal wants me to join it with her and so does my mom. But that guy, the one that runs it, he's evil."
"You'd never know." Marco answered as we walked into Chapman's office.
"Why hello Danielle…Marco. Danielle, what are you doing here?" he asked me.
"I had headphones in class…" I said as I put my head down.
"Did you know that your mother and I are good friends? She second in command for the sharing. She's a wonderful woman, your mother. You know what? I'll just give you a warning if you say that Chapman says hello. How about that?" That wasn't at all what I expected; I put my head up and smiled.
"Sure!" I said happily.
* * *
Lady Marmalade played on the stereo. It was the night of my party; so many people were there. Crystal and all of my usual friends, some people from the high school, my mother's friends from the sharing and other people in my grade. I was wearing a pink dress that ended about three inches about my knees and I had a shear white cardigan over the dress.
I was standing on the balcony and when I turned around, some kid I didn't know was standing there, looking at me as though he were disgusted. The boy was dirty, and he smelt of blood. "Can I help you?" I asked as I stepped back, closer to the rail. The boy looked at me with rage in his eyes. "Yeerk, you dirty filthy thing!!!" he screamed as he lunged at me. I started screaming, he put his hands around my neck and started strangling me. "You won't get me!! No I'm free! Free!!! You'll never get me again!!" He raged on as I kicked and screamed.
I thought I was doomed, I thought I would die here, until I looked at the door and standing there were six people. A kid named Jake stepped out of the shadow and lunged at the guy, the kid Marco, his best friend stepped out about two seconds after Jake and helped him get the boy off of me. The boy looked at them and started screaming. "Andalite!! Andalite!!" he laughed hysterically as he looked into the shadows. I followed his gaze and saw a flash of blue but then it was gone. When Marco and Jake got the boy off me, I passed out and when I woke up I was in the hospital with a bunch of doctors looking at me.
"Why hello Danielle." One doctor said as he looked at a clipboard in his hand. "You fainted after the attack but your fine now." He smiled and walked out of the room.
* * *
"Yo." I heard a voice say, the doctors had wanted me to stay the night just to be careful so I had missed school. I sat up and looked at the door, Marco was standing there with a smirk on his face. "Isn't it a bummer, your in the hospital but Mr. Mills still sends you your homework." He walked over to my bed, grabbed a chair and took the remote from me.
"Thank you." I said as he handed me the homework.
"Well Mr. Mills said he'd consider not making o to summer school if I gave you your-…"
I looked at him. "No, I mean thank you, you and Jake. That guy was crazy, he would have killed me."
"Well it's part of the superhero job." He smiled. "Ow!" he suddenly went to start itch his shoulder but then he drew his hand back. "Well I got to go, see you in school." He quickly ran out of the room talking to himself.
"Hey girl!" Crystal shouted from across the food court. I ran up to her, Brigit Ashley, Catherine, Lauren and Amy.
"Hi everyone." I said as I ran over to them with two limited bags and one gap bag. Crystal looked at me in disbelief.
"You shop like that crazy bitch Rachel." She said with a laugh, a boy with messy blonde hair walked past us with a soda in his hands, he "accidentally" dropped it in Crystal's lap.
"Oh, I'm sorry about that." He said with a smirk. Crystal looked at him as though she knew him.
"Hey Tobias!" we heard a voice call the boy; Rachel the girl Crystal had just insulted was calling for him. He walked over to her and they kissed then got up and left.
"You're right, she has almost the same amount of stuff." I said laughing. "Who's that kid, I haven't seen him around before."
"I think he's this kid Tobias, he used to go to our school but then like a year ago, he just disappeared." She said with sudden curiosity in her voice. I looked at my watch and sighed.
"I gotta get home, my mom's going to kill me." I said as I got up and waved good-bye to everyone.
There were two ways to get home, the long boring way by going around a constructions sight, or the dangerous, exciting way, go through the construction sight. I took the short way. My mother had always warned me not to go through that way and that only druggies and hobo's hung out there but I was only going home so I figured it wouldn't really matter that much, as long as I got home on time.
I was in the construction site when I saw a bunch of pipes and concrete set up, it looked like it would be fun to climb so I put down my bags and started climbing. I couldn't believe the marvelous view when I reached the top, I could see above the have finished building. I looked down to where my bags were and saw what I figured was people there. I slowly got down out of sight and crept closer…
"Well whoever left this here must have had good taste." A female voice said joyfully. I knew that voice. It was that girl Rachel!
"Ladies and Gentlemen I present to you, shopping with Xena." That voice…that was Marco's!
"I can hardly see…I hate these eyes." Another boy said, I looked through a small whole in the concrete wall and saw Tobias, Jake, Cassie, Rachel, and Marco standing there around my bags, talking. I hadn't known they were all friends, I mean Jake and Rachel were cousins, and Jake's best friend was Marco and Rachel's Best friend was Cassie but I had never seen them like this. "Well…time's almost up anyway, I might as well change back." Tobias said
Change back? I thought. I hadn't understood what he said, I looked at him and I saw what looked like feathers sprout out of his skin. I puked right there.
"Did you hear that?" Cassie said as she looked around. I ducked but then looked out of the hole again, when I did the boy Tobias had a beak and talons.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" I screamed as I started to run.
"Hurry, get her!" Jake yelled as I ran away screaming. I heard footsteps behind me but I didn't turn to look, I just ran, I ran for my life. The footsteps got closer as I reached the edge of the construction site, someone grabbed me and I fought with all of my life to get away but after about 10 minutes I gave up. I covered my face with my hair and hands with some pitiful attempt to not be identified. The person pushed me back to where my bags were.
"I think I found something." Marco said with a smirk, it was him dragging me back. I punched him and sat against the wall, I was no fool. I knew that the hawk or Jake or Marco or whoever could quickly once again catch me.
Jake walked up to me, "Rachel, get into battle morph." He said, as he got closer. "Show me your face." Jake said as I slowly put my hands down and fixed my hair.
"Let me go." I said bluntly.
"And what, let you report back to Visser 10, I think not." Marco said.
"I don't know what your talking about!" I screamed. Cassie walked up to me.
"Your Danielle." She said with a smile, "Well if there's a yeerk in you or not, your mother is the host body of Visser 10, sorry but we can't let you go until we know for sure." She stepped back and Jake nodded at her.
"Tobias." Jake said as he looked at the hawk standing on the ground. "Get Erek, tell him to meet us here immediately." The bird flapped it's wings and flew away.
"Beeeeep! Beeeep!" My alarm clock went off, my hand went over it and hit the snooze button and fell asleep.
"Danielle!" a voice screamed at me. "Get up! Your late for school." I was suddenly awake, it was my first day in my new school and I was going to be late! I jumped out of bed and ran right past my mother into the bathroom to shower and get ready. 20 minutes later I had my outfit on, and my hair and makeup done. My golden blonde hair was straightened and flowed freely over my shoulders. My blue eyes were accompanied by midnight blue eye shadow and silver mascara. My lip-gloss was a light brown that glittered in the sun. I was wearing a black skirt with my new Steve Madden shoes and a baby blue tank top. My mother always said I had a flare for fashion, I personally loved to shop but I really never was able to have any friends because we moved around too much, so I would mostly go by myself.
I stepped off the bus and looked at the school. It was so much bigger than my last one; I took a deep breath and started walking towards it.
* * *
"Hey Danielle, sit here!" A girl yelled at me as I walked into the cafeteria. It was Crystal, a girl from my math class.
"Hey." I said as I sat down at the table with her. Crystal was about the same height as me, and she had wild red hair and hazel green eyes. She had come up to me in math and started talking to me; she was the first friend I had made.
"Hey girl," she said with a smile. "Here's the girls, this is Brigit," She said pointing to a girl with short brown hair who then waved, so I waved back. "This is Lauren, Ashley, Amy and Catherine." After she finished introducing everyone, we started talking about the normal stuff, boys, makeup, clothes, shopping.
"I heard that this place has a great mall, please tell me that I'm right!" I said laughing. Crystal smiled and stood up as the bell rang.
"This town got the best god-damn mall in the tri-state area." She said with a smirk. "Where you going next?"
It was two weeks later and I loved this town. I finally had friends and with one exception, was hated by no one. Crystal and I had become best friends in such a short amount of time; I had already planned to have my first party.
I walked into first period class and sat down. All of a sudden I heard. "No! No! It can't be!" I looked behind me and saw this kid named Marco walk over to another girl Cassie. "Who is this vision of loveliness? Who is this fantasy come true? Excuse me but are you Tyra Banks." He talked on and on until Cassie told him to shut up and they started talking about how much he was paid to say that then the bell rang and Marco quickly slithered back to his seat.
English class. The single most pointless, boring class on the face of this planet. I slipped my headphones on and started tapping my pen to the beat. "Danielle, could you please answer the question?" Mr. Mills asked me, but I couldn't hear him, I was doodling on my binder and still listening to headphones. Mr. Mills walked over to my seat and tapped me on the shoulder. I looked up and smiled while taking my headphones off.
"Yes Mr. Mills?" I heard a small burst of laughter from behind me.
"Your going to the vice principals office…now!" Mr. Mills stormed off to his desk to write out the pass.
"Hahahahaha!! Beautiful." Marco giggled.
"You to Marco!"
"Aw...man."
We walked into the hallway; this wasn't the first time I had been sent to Chapman's office, last week I was accused of cheating on a test so I was sent there. I don't really scare easily, but to tell you the truth. Chapman scared me.
"Adjectives is something very important if you didn't know adjectives how could you call me, Mr. Mills a stupid little dick head!" Marco said under his breath as he laughed. He walked up to me. "Your Danielle, right?" he said.
"Yep, that would be me…and your Marco?" I replied swiftly.
"Yes, Marco the Mighty, Marco the Magnificent, but to others "hey you!"" I let out a laugh and we started talking.
"Hey, you ever hear of the sharing?" I asked him, and I swear as soon as I said sharing he stopped short. He must have seen that I noticed so he started walking normally again.
"Ya, but it's not really my thing." He replied.
"I know, it sounds corny to me, my friend Crystal wants me to join it with her and so does my mom. But that guy, the one that runs it, he's evil."
"You'd never know." Marco answered as we walked into Chapman's office.
"Why hello Danielle…Marco. Danielle, what are you doing here?" he asked me.
"I had headphones in class…" I said as I put my head down.
"Did you know that your mother and I are good friends? She second in command for the sharing. She's a wonderful woman, your mother. You know what? I'll just give you a warning if you say that Chapman says hello. How about that?" That wasn't at all what I expected; I put my head up and smiled.
"Sure!" I said happily.
* * *
Lady Marmalade played on the stereo. It was the night of my party; so many people were there. Crystal and all of my usual friends, some people from the high school, my mother's friends from the sharing and other people in my grade. I was wearing a pink dress that ended about three inches about my knees and I had a shear white cardigan over the dress.
I was standing on the balcony and when I turned around, some kid I didn't know was standing there, looking at me as though he were disgusted. The boy was dirty, and he smelt of blood. "Can I help you?" I asked as I stepped back, closer to the rail. The boy looked at me with rage in his eyes. "Yeerk, you dirty filthy thing!!!" he screamed as he lunged at me. I started screaming, he put his hands around my neck and started strangling me. "You won't get me!! No I'm free! Free!!! You'll never get me again!!" He raged on as I kicked and screamed.
I thought I was doomed, I thought I would die here, until I looked at the door and standing there were six people. A kid named Jake stepped out of the shadow and lunged at the guy, the kid Marco, his best friend stepped out about two seconds after Jake and helped him get the boy off of me. The boy looked at them and started screaming. "Andalite!! Andalite!!" he laughed hysterically as he looked into the shadows. I followed his gaze and saw a flash of blue but then it was gone. When Marco and Jake got the boy off me, I passed out and when I woke up I was in the hospital with a bunch of doctors looking at me.
"Why hello Danielle." One doctor said as he looked at a clipboard in his hand. "You fainted after the attack but your fine now." He smiled and walked out of the room.
* * *
"Yo." I heard a voice say, the doctors had wanted me to stay the night just to be careful so I had missed school. I sat up and looked at the door, Marco was standing there with a smirk on his face. "Isn't it a bummer, your in the hospital but Mr. Mills still sends you your homework." He walked over to my bed, grabbed a chair and took the remote from me.
"Thank you." I said as he handed me the homework.
"Well Mr. Mills said he'd consider not making o to summer school if I gave you your-…"
I looked at him. "No, I mean thank you, you and Jake. That guy was crazy, he would have killed me."
"Well it's part of the superhero job." He smiled. "Ow!" he suddenly went to start itch his shoulder but then he drew his hand back. "Well I got to go, see you in school." He quickly ran out of the room talking to himself.
"Hey girl!" Crystal shouted from across the food court. I ran up to her, Brigit Ashley, Catherine, Lauren and Amy.
"Hi everyone." I said as I ran over to them with two limited bags and one gap bag. Crystal looked at me in disbelief.
"You shop like that crazy bitch Rachel." She said with a laugh, a boy with messy blonde hair walked past us with a soda in his hands, he "accidentally" dropped it in Crystal's lap.
"Oh, I'm sorry about that." He said with a smirk. Crystal looked at him as though she knew him.
"Hey Tobias!" we heard a voice call the boy; Rachel the girl Crystal had just insulted was calling for him. He walked over to her and they kissed then got up and left.
"You're right, she has almost the same amount of stuff." I said laughing. "Who's that kid, I haven't seen him around before."
"I think he's this kid Tobias, he used to go to our school but then like a year ago, he just disappeared." She said with sudden curiosity in her voice. I looked at my watch and sighed.
"I gotta get home, my mom's going to kill me." I said as I got up and waved good-bye to everyone.
There were two ways to get home, the long boring way by going around a constructions sight, or the dangerous, exciting way, go through the construction sight. I took the short way. My mother had always warned me not to go through that way and that only druggies and hobo's hung out there but I was only going home so I figured it wouldn't really matter that much, as long as I got home on time.
I was in the construction site when I saw a bunch of pipes and concrete set up, it looked like it would be fun to climb so I put down my bags and started climbing. I couldn't believe the marvelous view when I reached the top, I could see above the have finished building. I looked down to where my bags were and saw what I figured was people there. I slowly got down out of sight and crept closer…
"Well whoever left this here must have had good taste." A female voice said joyfully. I knew that voice. It was that girl Rachel!
"Ladies and Gentlemen I present to you, shopping with Xena." That voice…that was Marco's!
"I can hardly see…I hate these eyes." Another boy said, I looked through a small whole in the concrete wall and saw Tobias, Jake, Cassie, Rachel, and Marco standing there around my bags, talking. I hadn't known they were all friends, I mean Jake and Rachel were cousins, and Jake's best friend was Marco and Rachel's Best friend was Cassie but I had never seen them like this. "Well…time's almost up anyway, I might as well change back." Tobias said
Change back? I thought. I hadn't understood what he said, I looked at him and I saw what looked like feathers sprout out of his skin. I puked right there.
"Did you hear that?" Cassie said as she looked around. I ducked but then looked out of the hole again, when I did the boy Tobias had a beak and talons.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" I screamed as I started to run.
"Hurry, get her!" Jake yelled as I ran away screaming. I heard footsteps behind me but I didn't turn to look, I just ran, I ran for my life. The footsteps got closer as I reached the edge of the construction site, someone grabbed me and I fought with all of my life to get away but after about 10 minutes I gave up. I covered my face with my hair and hands with some pitiful attempt to not be identified. The person pushed me back to where my bags were.
"I think I found something." Marco said with a smirk, it was him dragging me back. I punched him and sat against the wall, I was no fool. I knew that the hawk or Jake or Marco or whoever could quickly once again catch me.
Jake walked up to me, "Rachel, get into battle morph." He said, as he got closer. "Show me your face." Jake said as I slowly put my hands down and fixed my hair.
"Let me go." I said bluntly.
"And what, let you report back to Visser 10, I think not." Marco said.
"I don't know what your talking about!" I screamed. Cassie walked up to me.
"Your Danielle." She said with a smile, "Well if there's a yeerk in you or not, your mother is the host body of Visser 10, sorry but we can't let you go until we know for sure." She stepped back and Jake nodded at her.
"Tobias." Jake said as he looked at the hawk standing on the ground. "Get Erek, tell him to meet us here immediately." The bird flapped it's wings and flew away.