Alanna looked quizzically at the map of the school grounds. Obviously the school board did not bother to replace the old faded version of the school map. This led to many days of searching for the right classroom. But after two weeks, Alanna could finally memorise every single room and their locations. Of course this did not meant she wouldn't make a mistake once in awhile.
Alanna peeked her head through the gym door, only to be greeted with the high pitched voices of the school cheerleaders.
"R-O-O-S-T-E-R! R-O-O-S-T-E-R! Fight Team Fight!" Like mechanical dolls, the girls jumped from their pyramid format into back flips and landed in yet again a triangular format.
"Get The Ball Across The Line! Come On Roosters You're Doing Fine!" the girls chirped as they did their dance moves. As the music got faster and louder, the cheerleaders began to do gymnastic tricks and dance faster. Ending with yet again a pyramid, Alanna recognised the girl at the top as the one who had asked her to pass the note in class.
'Hold on, what am I doing here? I have absolutely zero interest in cheer leading anyway. ' She turned and scowled. The boy who she had met at the locker was peeping from the other side of the gym. Her perfect eyesight identified him at once.
Still scowling, she walked to the other entrance of the gym, only to see two more boys trying to peep with him. Yet another two boys were standing in a corner frowning and shaking their heads.
"Ahem."
All five turned and looked at her. The three peepers turned red with embarrassment and backed away from the door.
"I didn't realise you boys were so interested in cheerleading." She smirked mischievously.
"We aren't." said Gary, who was annoyed that his 'peeping' session was disturbed. As he began to scrutinize her he realised, "Hey, you're that girl who broke into Jon's locker!"
Upon hearing his name, Jonathan looked up and was shocked to see the new girl's face. Perfectly arched eyebrows framed her large almond shaped violet eyes. She had a straight cut nose followed by two naturally crimson near full lips. A perfectly cut face surrounded all of these. Stubborn locks curled around her neck and face. She was God's gift to man.
"Oh right. I wanna apologise for accidentally breaking the locker door-"
"It's alright." Jonathan flashed his toothpaste commercial smile, "They had a new door fixed the next day. But if you really wanna make up for it, you can accompany me to Blue Lagoon tonight." His cocky voice was so obvious.
"The most expensive restaurant in town?" she lifted an eyebrow.
"Why ye-"
"I think my apology was good enough and please," she grinned, "get over yourself."
Jon stared at her, dumbfounded. No girl had ever rejected him before! Still stubborn, he laughed, "You're joking aren't you? Ha ha!" Glaring at the rest, they too began to force themselves to laugh with him, except for Raoul who simply rolled his eyes.
"I wasn't. And you better stop invading the girls' privacy or I might just let it slip to the principal about it. I'm sure you wouldn't want that to happen would you?" Alanna smiled all the more and walked off.
Gary gulped the saliva that had collected at the back of his throat. His father, the principal, would give him no peace should anyone complain about him. Nervously he looked at the rest of the guys. Raoul was acting like nothing had happened while Geoffrey and Douglass were dutifully listening to Jon's rants about how Alanna had just dissed him.
"She just dissed me! ME! Jonathan Conté! The most desires boy in school! A girl would faint if I talk to her! And I just got dissed!" Jonathan was practically yelping at the top of his lungs.
"Face it Jon, you've met your match." Raoul yawned then smirked at him, "To be honest, I've always wondered about a day when finally a girl is immune to all your charms."
"Bite your tongue Raoul! No one gets the best of me! Achoo!" he suddenly sneezed. "Great, now I'm coming down with a cold! Ugh!"
"CORAM I'M BACK!" Alanna yelled as she took off her shoes and left them at the shoe rack.
"CORAM?" she yelled again, but there came no answer. Alanna started to panic, Coram was NEVER not at home after school. She ran from room to room, searching everywhere! Thom wasn't in his bed either!
In her haste to find Coram, she had missed the note on the kitchen table. Quickly, she read Coram's untidy scrawl:
Alanna,
Thom's having it real bad. I just send 'im to de hospital. Your dinner's in the fridge. Don't worry too much.
Coram"Not worry? ArRgh! How can I not worry! He's my twin for god's sake!" Alanna grumbled as she snatched her bag and slipped on her shoes. Running out her door, she was shocked to see the cocky boy with his car waiting for her at the gate.
"What are you doing here?" she snapped, annoyed that he had found her house.
"Nice place you've got." He grinned, scanning the house from roof to lawn.
"Whatever." She muttered as she raced pass his car.
"Whoa that girl can run!" Jonathan yelped as he felt the wind brush rapidly against him and he slammed his foot on the accelerator.
Quickly he caught up with her, her red hair a blur as she continued to run.
"So, you do this often?" Jonathan tried to strike up a conversation.
"What do you think!"
"Er.. I guess not…" She glared at him. "If you want I can give you a lift to wherever you're rushing off to."
"Yeah right. No thanks, I'd rather take the bus." She grumbled as she was a few metres from the bus stop.
"Hey, maybe we started off on the wrong foot. Let's just start over." He smiled his toothpaste commercial smile again.
"Look, we didn't start off on the wrong foot. You just had an oversized ego problem okay? So I don't want to have anything to do with you or your friends. Therefore just lay off!" she practically yelled the last sentence as she sat herself on the bus stop seat.
"Fine, fine… I'll lay off, for now." He winked at her, only to see her roll her eyes and turn away.
He drove away just in time for the bus to come. Alanna boarded the bus quickly and slipped into one of the back seats. Worriedly she kept looking at her watch and remembering Thom's face that day wasn't helping much. The ride was only about ten minutes but it seemed like forever when she finally got off the bus. Hurriedly she rushed to the counter and asked for his whereabouts. She decided to take the stairs as the lifts were simplybursting withconstantfloods of people. Thankfully Thom was on thethird floor.A nurse scolded her for running when she had finally reached and she was forced to walk. As she walked past all the other patients, she noted that they all had the same symptoms as her brother. As she walked past the staff room, she heard a few people discussing about the patients.
"We're talking about an epidemic. Two died yesterday,we have to inform the prime minister." she heard one of them say. "No we can't! That'll start a country wide panic! Everyone would flood to the hospital just for a check up."
Alanna's face tured white as she heard about the two deaths, panicking slightly she searched for Thom's ward. Finally she saw the name 'Trebond' on one of the private wards. Coram was sitting outside, burying his head in his hands. She tapped him on the shoulder lightly, causing him to jump.
"Alanna? I thought I told you not to come?" Coram looked at her with tired eyes.
"Well actually you told me not to worry and how could I no come Coram? He's my twin." she tried to smile, "How is he?"
"He's in a coma right now. The doctors are doing everthing they can to help him." Coram muttered.
Then they noticed a pair of black shoes which belonged to a grim faced doctor looking at them.
Answer to my Reviewers!
ikot-ikot : Hehe.. hakuna Matata, I won't make you guys wait so long this time! Just a question though.. How many years do people normally studdy in high school? The education system in Singapore has no 'High School' so I'm pretty clueless about the time period! Yeah George definitely retains because of behaviour problems! ;)
princess of the rouges : Here goes my explanation for theridiculously long wait! I'm sad and ashamed to say that I forgot about for quite awhile. And studies take piority in Sec 2 in Singapore, which was last year, so i hsimply couldn't concentrate on both things. But my inspiration, and free time, came back since I'm officially SECONDARY 3! WOOHOO! So I promise more chapters for my faithful reviewers:D
KeeperofthePineNeedles : Yup I'm currently working on that.. but btw I pose this question to all my reviewers! Would you like Alanna to discover she has magic or would you like her to 'somehow' cure Thom without magical means?I await your comments:)
charlie and lola : Lol... The pairing's not confirmed but there will be some AJ fluff.. It's gonna be a toughie for George and Alanna to have any fluff to be honest with you. I'm guessing you're rooting for AJ? ;)
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