AN: Man, I didn't realize that my first chapter was over 5000 words long. I must really like this story. It's definitely going to be longer than what I thought it was going to be. Anyway, I wanted to warn people that this little chapter is filled with dialogue from only three characters…they were supposed to be short little things but they just got out of hand and this is what happened. So…on to my reviewers.
Firilya- You are definitely going to see Meris/ Punkin dialogue and how things got started…and of course since neither of them are normal, they have an abnormal relationship from the beginning. :-).
Guan- I know she's like a female Tomi on Ritalin, scary in deed. But Akyrra is even scarier…just read.
Tash- I'll be careful with Jude (he's not in this chapter though.). And when have my characters been OOC. Don't answer that. Laterz.
Meris Senbane. He must easily be the most indescribable person that I'll ever know. As we walked up the ten flights of stairs upward to my bedroom, he seemed to wrapped up in his own thoughts, lost in his own little world and frequently looked down from his little world to see if I was trying to peer into it. He caught me a few times but I continued my research of his expression and countenance until we reach my doorway when he looked down again to catch my looking up at him.
"I'm not a monster," he said quietly…almost sadly.
"I never said you were. You just look so cute when you're deep in thought, I'd just rather not interrupt you."
"I wasn't thinking to myself." He defended.
"I never said you were," I grinned.
"You just said…"
"That you look cute when you're thinking…I never said you were cute just now."
"You implied it though…"
I smiled and changed topics, "Master Takrath really is trying to kill us, huh. I didn't knew that I was put in a weed out course."
"Are you talking about that little essay?" Meris looked woefully at me and shook his head, "It's not that tough."
"For a teacher's pet, maybe not but I'm just a normal girl…"
"That's not what Linu said about you."
I wanted to know how he and Linu become acquainted enough to talk about me but my ego took over, "What did she tell you?"
"That she never knew of someone with as many talents, that you're a blessing in everyone's life you meet and that you probably don't even know the limits of your abilities."
I smiled proudly, "So I guess you must be impressed, huh?"
"Not really," my smile dropped, "Linu is different from most people…she thinks everyone is good natured at heart…I think you're not as special as those around you claim. But you might prove me wrong…"
"I will prove you wrong." A thought came to my head, "I'll do this essay myself and Master Takrath will be jump out of his skin."
"I don't think you can do it…I mean a fourteen year old girl…" Meris rubbed his chin.
"I'm fifteen and you'd better drop the sexist act or you'll end up somewhere dark and dirty…catch my drift."
"Yeah yeah. Go ahead and do it," Meris smiled, "You know you're cute when you're angry…I'm going go my room. And if you change you're mind about the essay, let me know."
As he walked away I released what had happened. I had been conned. I'm usually the one that does the conning; this guy definitely was more than that the eye revealed. Meris Sensbane, the smooth talker.
"JERK!" I screamed and punched open the door to meet the meditating form of Akyrra sitting in the middle of a completely rearranged room. Other than the addition of candles and a large bronze torch-lamp that was twice my height, she had pushed the two beds together.
"Ah…Akyrra." I said as I cautiously approached her, remembering the trip she sent me on that morning, and tapped her gently on her shoulder.
No response.
"AKYRRA!" I screamed into her ear and she remained motionless. What's with this girl, I thought.
"Akyrra your aura is trying to escape," I joked and sat down right next to her Indian style and began to think about my day. My teachers are insane. I have a huge essay due and I have to recite the world's worst song. Then my mind wondered to Meris…my mysterious Meris. Why did he take the heat for me touching Takrath's stuff? He didn't seem to like or dislike me…but he did walk me to my room and had already talked to Linu about me. He was definitely a mystery. I looked at the setting sun outside of my window, it looked so sad…all alone in the sky and leaving behind the mountains.
"Why does the hummingbird hum?" Akyrra asked with her eyes still closed.
"I don't know."
"He forgot the words," Akyrra laughed and jumped up, "I'm all done with my mediations for the day, are you done too?"
"I wasn't mediaiting. I was just thinking…"
"About your boyfriend?" Akyrra interrupted.
"No, I don't have one…"
"Oh," Akyrra played with the straps of her shirt, "I thought a cute, popular girl like you would like totally have more boys than she could count."
I continued to look at the sunset, "Guys are intimidated by me."
"I so totally know what you mean, like this one time…back in Port Llast, I had this guy that was totally I into me. He even wrote me love letter and picked me flowers and junk but then he found out that I was a monk and could totally kill him ten times before he hit the ground and I never heard from him again. Weird, huh?"
"Yeah, totally weird," I mocked and started to move my bed.
"I know chica," Akyrra said looking at me with a raised eyebrow, "Don't move that, you'll kill the flow."
""I'm prone to slash things in my sleep," I lied.
Akyrra grimaced, "I guess it's your room, too. Just keep it on that wall, we've got to like keep the balance."
"Yeah the room needs to be stable."
Especially since you're not, I added in my head.
"I had such a totally tough day. Like my body feels like I swam across the Dark Lake but I totally know that my Ki is going to go through the roof after Master Grimgnaw is done with me."
"I've got a huge paper due and I've got to memorize a song…"
"What song?" Akyrra asked with a smile on her face.
"Where Have All the Cowboys Gone. It's such an…"
"Amazing song. It's like the best song in the whole wide world."
"I guess they took your kibbles but left the bits." I said under my breath.
"Huh."
"Nevermind."
"So about that boy…" she said and sat down on her bed which was trimmed in a fuzzy pink fabric.
"You mean Meris. He's a jerk in my last class," I said with a half-smile, "He just helped me out of a situation."
"Oh, that's good. I heard some things through the grapevine and he probably wouldn't be the kind of guy you'd want to hang around with."
"And that would be because…"
"He's half-demonic of course." Akyrra said with a straight face. I guess that's way he looks the way he does. Interesting.
"So what."
"So what! So like he's evil. I don't know if you know but all demons are bad news. Totally."
"Isn't that a bit prejudice and aren't monks supposed to be tolerant."
"Like I am tolerant, that's why I didn't sign the petition to have him removed from the school." She said and played with her long black hair putting it into a braid.
"There's a petition."
"Yeah," Akyrra said with a small frown that match my own and then plopped backwards onto her bed, "I'm going to get a little shut eye, 'kay."
"Sure," I said and stood up and changed into a pair of black and purple plaid pants with a black shirt. "I've gonna go to the library and study a bit." I said as I left.
"Cute look, I hope you end up back here tonight," she teased. I rolled my eyes and made my way to the sixth floor library. I enetered the huge, stuffy room filled with shelves and shelves of books, more tables and chairs than necessary. It would be a wizard's daydream. I grabbed a book about the origin of magic and moved to the darkest corner I could find. Then I noticed his purple skin shinning even in the dark air of the library.
"Are you lost?" he muttered not taking his eyes off his book.
"No, I am not." I said and sat in front of him, "Is it true?"
Meris' head raised and his eyes widened, "I don't know what you are asking about but most likely…yes."
"Are you half-demonic?"
"Daemonfey I believe is the term you looking for. See, I knew it was true."
My eyes exploded with life, "You're a deamonfey. That means you're half-elven and half-demonic…"
"Yeah, that's kind of how it works out."
"But how's it possible. Most of your kind is aborted or worse."
"I know. I'm just lucky."
"Are you evil?"
"There is no good and evil…there's just life."
"So…is…that…a…NO?"
"That's a I wouldn't kill someone for no reason."
"But you'd kill someone?"
"If need be."
I smiled and leaned on the table, "I would too," and smiled then began to read.
After about ten chapter of consecutive reading, a personal best, I looked and was meet by a Meris smiling into the book he was reading.
"What are you reading," I asked trying to peek under to see the cover, unsuccessfully.
"It's tome about Selune Moonbow…Linu gave it to me."
"How exactly are you and Linu acquainted," I asked.
"Acquainted," the wizard smiled, "Impressive vocabulary…"
"You're trying to flatter me again. Are you related or something?"
"She's one of my mother's friends. She's sort of my guardian right now."
"Why?"
"Because my mom is overprotective. Sometimes I wish I had a sibling," Meris said.
"I'm an only child too but my parents are dead. My mom was a physician and my father worked as a guard but that was ages ago. Have you meet you're father?"
"I don't want to talk about my father."
"Why not-tired."
"Emaciated." Meris said coolly.
"Did you know that they are starting a petition…"
"To expel me? Yeah, I know about it," Meris chuckled and closed his book, "Did you know your name is on the boys bathroom wall?"
"What!" I quickly hide my rage, "What did it say?"
"I…I don't want to say."
I clenched my fist and gritted my teeth, "What. Did. It. Say?"
Meris stood up and tried to walk away as he said, "It was nothing, really."
I gracefully leaped over the table and barricaded the tall wizard with my arms between myself and a large oak shelf behind himself, "Tell me what the hell it said. NOW!"
"Shhh." I heard from somewhere.
I looked around and saw the librarian looking scornfully at me, I ignored her and said to Meris, "Tell me."
"It only mentioned you were temperamental."
"That's it." I looked into his eyes.
"Yeah and," he mumble the rest of the statement so I couldn't understand him.
"If you don't tell me, I'll make sure you'll regret it…"
"It said you enjoy the company of other females…not in those words, obviously." Meris said and started to snicker a bit.
"AND YOU THINK IT'S FUNNY…"
"Shhh!"
"YOU Shhh!" I screamed and saw the librarian get up. Slowly she started to make her way over to us.
Meris whispered, "You're going to get us kicked out."
"I'm not going to get kicked out…I'm Punk…"
"Punkin Capernum," the librarian said, "Headmistress Sharwyn told me about you and your little…escapades and I'm going to have to ask you two to quiet down…"
"And if we don't," I turned around and said.
"Leave now!"
"But." Meris said.
"Leave," said the librarian.
"But I was joking," I smiled with all the charisma I could muster.
"LEAVE!" she screamed, "Before I involve the Headmistress."
"Alright," I said, "But he started it."
"I did not."
"Did so."
"I believe I did not."
"Just leave," the librarian pushed both of us toward the door.
Meris grabbed his book and said, "See you in class." Then he left.
I stuck my tongue out and exited through the opposite doorway and made my way back to my room…with her.
XOXOXO
"Your spirit seems disturbed…are you okay?" she said as she awaked after I fell back on my bed.
"Do you think I'm odd?" I said and looked over at her face which was cover by a brown substance and a pair of cucumbers over her eyes.
"No…does this have to do with what everyone is saying about you?"
"You know about it…"
"I am like the most popular monk in the academy, of course I've heard…I hear everything."
"So you heard that I…"
"Totally but don't worry, my oldest sister is butch (gay) and she's still pretty normal…"
"I'm not gay."
"Oh…then those people must be lying." No, really. She mustn't be the Academy's genius, "I just figured that you were because you don't have a boyfriend and really didn't show much interest in any of them." I threw my pillow over my head.
"So since I'm pretty and not boy-crazy blonde, I have to be queer, girl loving blonde. So a person cannot like no one…"
"I don't think so…unless you're on a celibacy quest. I've figured out a few ways around those rules though. I could give you some pointers?"
"No and hell no."
"So…you like do like girls?"
"No, I like guys but not every freaking guy." I paused thinking, "I want be with someone that'll treat me special."
"I understand." This should be good, "You thinking about turning this Sensbane into your bitch."
"My what?"
"You know, your bitch, a person that like totally does anything you tell them to," I threw my pillow at her head but she quickly deflected it.
"I don't want a bitch. I want someone that's not a jerk and they'll be with me forever."
"Good luck with that, guys only want three things T. And. A."
"Not all guys just want that…"
"So you're looking for a fott freak, huh."
"I think I'll end our conversation on that note. Goodnight."
Akyrra blew out the torch-lamp, "Suit yourself, my your chi rest peacefully."
XOXOXO
The cold, crisp air chilled my normally pale cheeks to a rosy pink as the strong breeze rustled the evergreen branches above pulled my frizzy blonde curls from their french braid so that they were free to dance across my face. The soft padding of my purple padded boots echoed loudly in the quiet flower field as I ran. Everything was so quiet and perfect…until he appeared.
Meris Sensbane…the bane of my existence…I couldn't even dream without him interrupting me…
"Your hair looks better braided," he said as I stopped and starred up into his depthless purple eyes.
"You look cuter when you're not talking," I said and he grabbed me around my waist.
"It was a compliment…I don't want anyone but you…"
The birds began to chirp, the trees started to hum and even the sun itself sang. My heart swelled over as he picked me up and we started to sing…
"Kiss me out of the bearded barley
Nightly,beside the green,green grass
Swing,Swing,swing the spinning step
You wear those shoes and I will wear that dress"
The world bursted into vivid colors almost as if the sun moved closer to us and everything began to sing...
"Oh,kiss me beneath the milky twilight
Lead me out on the moonlit floor
Lift your open hand
Strike up the band and make the fireflies dance
Silver moon´s sparkling,so kiss me"
"Punkin..." Meris slowly said pronouncing each letter.
"Meris." I said leaning my head into his shoulder as we fell down into the grassy knoll.
"I want to tell you something."
"Yes."
"I..."
"Uh huh."
"I think it's time to get up."
"What?"
XOXOXO
"It's time to get up, Punkin. " Akyrra's face appeared before me. Just what I needed to start my day with.