Chapter
1: A missing element, a lost hope
By Gdwendyml
A group, that is deprived of one,
Is not so
bright, and not so strong.
W Jansen
I close my eyes,
Only for a moment, then the
moment's gone.
All my dreams,
Pass before my eyes, a
curiosity
Dust in the wind,
all we are is dust in the
wind
Same old song,
Just a drop of water in an endless
sea.
All we do,
crumbles to the ground, though we refuse to
see.
Dust in the wind,
all we are is dust in the
wind,
Everything is dust in the wind…
Dust in the wind - Kansas
Heatherfield, Sheffield institute, april 26th, 2005
'Will!'
Two
vacant chocolate-brown eyes kept on staring in the distance, not
noticing the teacher, Mr Brown, was asking for her
attention.
Instead, she kept her eyes focussed on the window, staring at the rain which had been pouring non-stop since the day she had died.
'Miss Vandom!'
Will
still didn't hear him; it had been two months since that fateful
day, and none of the girls were getting any better, Cornelia was just
starting to use make-up again, she was forced to do so, to conceal
the dark circles under her eyes that had been building there for the
last two months. Taranee and Hay Lin had both been coping a little
better, they had been leaning on each other, like they had done on
the funeral. Will really wanted to know how they managed, but they
were rarely seen by Cornelia or herself. The last 'real'
conversation Will had with Hay Lin had been two weeks ago, give or
take a few days, Will was getting ready to head home from Sheffield
Institute when she spotted Hay Lin alone, for the first time in
weeks, sitting against the only tree in the schoolyard. Her eyes
closed and her head resting against the tree stump. After a few
seconds of hesitating, Will had walked up to her.
'Hey…' Hay
Lin didn't immediately look up, but quickly swiped her arm along
her face before acknowledging Will. 'Hey..' she had said with a
voice that had been a little higher than her usual voice, her eyes an
nose seemed red and watery, so it was clear she had been crying.
´Hay
Lin, can I talk to you, I really need to tell you something´
Will had hesitated, she hadn´t known if she wanted to do
that to Hay Lin. Those days, Will had been on the verge of quitting
the guardians permanently, and that day Will had been ready to tell
Hay Lin just that, but the minute she had looked in those teary, grey
eyes, something in her just couldn´t say it. That day, Will
made up a no-good excuse and quickly ran away, leaving a very
confused Hay Lin behind.
MISS WILHELMINA VANDOM!
This
time, Will did wake up from her musings, she quickly span around to
meet the large nose of mr. Brown floating 2 inches in front of her
own face, in shock, she flew backwards, but unfortunately for her,
she had forgotten about the chair she was in, which caused her to
fall to the ground with a loud ´WHA´ before hitting the
ground with an even louder ´thump´
Some classmates
snickered at this. embarrassed, Will just sat on the ground, rubbing
her head while glaring angrily at the teacher.
Mr. Brown just
grinned evilly at Will ´Good morning miss Vandom, I do hope I
didn´t wake you up, did I?´ before walking back to the
front of the class.
Will muttered something under her breath
before getting up, Mr. Brown then turned around.
´what was
that, miss Vandom?´ he asked sweetly while Will was picking up
her chair
Her cheeks turning beet-red, Will started stammering
´uh…no…sorry… uhm …. nothing…I ..uh…didn´t
say..uhm…anything…really´ which caused the other students
to laugh even more. Mr Brown just laughed ´well then, miss
Vandom, come on to the board, and amaze us with your perfectly made,
faultless homework, you can tell us from which particles an oxygen
atom is build´.
Will just sighed, this was going to be a
very long day..
Ok sorry, this is way shorter than I had in mind, this is still kinda the intro to the story, I'm sorry you had to wait so long for me to update, I promise, the next chapter shows what happened to Irma, and this time, I won´t let you down!
Btw kudos on the reviews, I loved them! Just keep sending them!