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Chapter 3

School.

The first part of the day went by pretty good. At least I didn't hear the noises again. It was fourth period by now, only a few minutes before the bell, and lunch. I was bored and reading a book. When I'm bored, I usually chew on my tongue, so that's what I was doing right now. I was reading pretty fast because I wanted to get to a certain part before the bell rang.

The only problem was that I stopped sucking on my tongue and started actually biting it. But after a while, I felt a sharp pain in my tongue. Now I knew something was wrong because I could never pierce my tongue when I did that before.

I stuck my fingers in my mouth to find if it was bleeding really badly. Not that bad, but when I took my fingers out of my mouth there was a lot of blood on them, at least it looked that way because of the saliva that was mixed with it. I couldn't take my eyes off the blood, it was so amazing in color and luster that I was fascinated by it and couldn't control myself when I shoved my fingers back into my mouth and sucked it off of my fingers.

When I realized what I did, I jerked my hand out of my mouth and looked at my fingers, not a drop of blood on them. I felt inside my mouth again and when I withdrew my hand, there was no evidence of any blood. Now that is weird. The last time I cut any part of myself it didn't just go away without a trace. When the bell rang though, I forgot all about it and hurried up to get to lunch.

I was sitting alone, like I always had before. I didn't eat anything not because I wasn't hungry, well that is one reason, but I don't eat because I just don't like to eat in front of people I don't know. It is just something that I have always done

This day was already going weird and it didn't look like it was going to get any better. But, there was one good thing turning out, it was out of the ordinary but still a good thing. Rogue was coming over to sit down with me. Like I said, it was out-of-the-ordinary for her to do that because she liked to eat alone also. "'ey Alorin." She said as she sat down.

"Well hello amour." I said as I looked up.

She kind of blushed when I said that, " Ah see yah 'ave been studien yah French."

"Ya, I though it would be nice to know what you say sometimes."

She laughed a little at that. "Ya, ah bet it would beh nice if anybody could understand everybody."

"True, true."

"So, how 'as yahr day been?"

"Well, chère, it has been an eventful day."

" 'ow so?"

" Well, to start off, i keep hearing weird noises when i was walking to school. Then i somehow bite open my tongue and made it bleed. So it has not been a very good day for me. But enough about me, how was your day?"

"Not bad. But the first pahrt of the day isn't all thaht bad. Ah dread theh second pahrt of theh day."

"Why?"

"Because, it 'as French class in it."

"I thought you were doing great in that class."

"Ah was, but ahfter thaht little finasco wit Mystique. Theh teahcher 'as been givin me ah hahrd time. Failing meh in everythin."

"Well, don't worry about it. Still try harder and if she still does it then talk to the principal."

"Yah, mahbe yar right."

I then reached over and put my hand on her gloved one and patted it. "Just don't fret about it."

She didn't say anything, she just looked down at my hand then quickly jerked her hand away. "Sorry, 'bout thaht, ah just ain't use to people touchin mah hands."

"That's okay. I should be sorry for it."

"Why?"

"Because, I was the one you put my hand there without asking you if it was okay."

"Well, don't beh. It was ahn 'onest mistake."

I looked down at my watch, "Well, better get going towards the dorr before the bell rings. "So, we got up and made our way towards the door. Just as we got there the bell rang and we were the first out into the hall. We made our trip to our lockers. To my surprise, her locker was right next to mine. "Has your locker always been next to mine?"

"Yah, why?"

"Because, I've just never noticed it before. I guess I'm always here before or after you already get your stuff."

"Yah, well, know ya know." She grabbed the rest of her stuff and shut her locker, "Alorin?"

"Ya," I said as I was digging around in my locker for my last period class book.

"Would ya..." she paused. I stopped digging around and looked at her withan expression of 'spit it out' on. "Would ya like tah walk wit me home." she said really fast, "No, okay, fahne, Thaht's okay."

As she turned to walk away, I reached out and grabbed her arm. "Now wait, I didn't say no. I didn't even say anything yet." I spun her around so I could look her in the eyes, "Yes, I would like to walk home with you. How about, meet me at the football field at about 2:45 after school?"

"Sure." she said fast. Then as to show that she wasn't eager, she said at a normal pace,"Sure, ah would."

"Then after school it is. See you then and hope you have a decent day. I'm going to gym so I don't think I will."

"Ya, well ah'm goin tah French class."

"Yikes," i said with a laugh, "well, then, see you after school."

"Bye" she said as she turned and ran off to her class.

'Wow, she doesn't get all that much attention does she?' I asked myself. With that I walked off towards gym class.

There I was, standing here by the football stadium. It was five till three and Rogue hasn't even shown herself yet. Everybody was gone out of the parking lot and I was the only person left at school, hopefully besides Rogue.

All of a sudden, I started hearing things again. But these weren't like the ones I heard this morning, these were sounds I would have been familier with, if I was not freaking out over the magnitude of the sound. The most prominant one of the sounds was one that sounded like a screaming banshee. I started looking around all over the place to see what was making that sound. I moved closer to it, even though it was hurting my ears.

At some point I was right under it because I couldn't hear anything else. I kept spinning around and around but I couldn't see what it was. I finally looked up, in the tree was a big, black crow, cawing. That's when I lost it, I turned and ran. I kept looking back and not pying attention to were I was going. I turned my head back in front, just in time to run right into Rogue. And worst yet, she fell backwards and me right on top of her. I hurried to get off of her and help her up. "I'm so sorry about that. I was..."

"Alorin, ya look like yav' seen ah g'ost. Are ya okay?"

"Huh, oh yes. I'll be fine, let's just get going."

We walked out onto the sidewalk and headed for home. On the way, I was calming down. I noticed Rogue was staring at me. "What? Do I have something in my hair?"

At that she just smiled and looked away. "Are you blushing, Rogue? You have nothing to worry about, I'm fine."

"Ah'm not blushing!"

"Really, I couldn't tell with your white skin turning red." She just put her hand over her eyes. "By the way, why did you now meet me at the stadium at fifteen till?"

"Mah French teacher held meh back 'causeah somehow was 'cheatin' on the test. Even thoughah was the first one done wit' it."

"It'll be okay. Hey, look at the bright side of things, it's finally the weekend."

"Ya. Wait, ya, yar right."

"Now, cheer up and let's just get everything done when we get home so we don't have to worry about it on Monday."

"Ya okay." she said as we turned into the mansion driveway. "Hehy, why don't ya meet meh after dinner in thehmain 'allway."

"Sure I can do that.What did you want to do?"

"Ah don't know. We'll figure it out when theh time comes."

We walked into the mansion and up the stairs. "Well then, I guess I'll see you after dinner."

"Ya, see ya then." she said as she walked off towards Kitty and her room.

I turned and walked towards my room. I had my own, because the professor said that since he didn't know what powers I would have, that it would be best if I had my own space. I went into my room and sat down on the bed. I spread out my homework and started at it.

It didn't take me long to finish it since I didn't have all that much to do in the first place. I looked at the clock, a couple hours till dinner. 'I guess I could fit in one meditation session.' So I sat down on the floor in my usual spot, closed my eyes, and concentred on my breathing. Soon I was in my own world of tall trees and forests. Streams and rivers, moutains and caves, everything that I created on the first time I started meditating. I walked through the forest, bushwacking it and enjoying the scenery, when I noticed something that was never in my mind before. A house. A big, white plantation style house. It looked old and worn but still livable. Curious, I walked up to it and looked in the windows, I couldn't see anything. So I pushed open the door, and that was when it went wrong.

Clifhanger, I'll tell you all about the house in the next chapter along with a few surprises.