Looking around as I step out of the forest, I feel eyes on me. Fang's grip tightens as we look around. Maybe I did do the wrong thing. I guess. Yeah, I did. But seriously, you never anger me. So stupid. Gaz congratulated me. "High ho. High ho. It's off to hell we go!" Ig sarcastically sings as we start walking. Nudge joins in.
"We dig dig dig dig dig dig dig in a mine the whole day through
To dig dig dig dig dig dig dig is what we like to do
It ain't no trick
To get rich quick
If you dig dig dig
With a shovel or a pick
In a mine (In a mine)
In a mine (In a mine)"
"High Ho. High ho. Its off to hell we go!" Fang sings, joining in. Around us people stare, some in awe, wonder and amazement. Some look are looking at us like were freaks. I embrace that! Linking arms together I join in with them.
"Where a million diamonds
Shine
We dig dig dig dig dig dig dig from early morn to night
We dig dig dig dig dig dig dig up everything in sight
We dig up diamonds
By the score
A thousand rubies
Sometimes more
We don't know what we dig them for
We dig dig digga dig dig.
High ho. High ho. Its off to hell we go!" We finish by bursting into laughter. This would be the first time I have ever been happy at the starting of a school day. Giving Nudge a hug she runs off in another direction. Fang's arm goes around my waist again.
"Hi!" Say's a nasally high-pitched bouncing ball of makeup. Her unnatural hair colour is a lovely grey, while her clothes couldn't get tighter. How nice. Looking at the guy's I see them cringe. Must do wonder's for Ig's eardrums.
"Bye." Ig grunts out as I push passed her and a brown curly haired girl. The plastics. Giving a loud squeal they storm away. "Did your ear drums burst? Because I really can't be blind and deaf." Ig comments rubbing his ears. Walking up to the door of English, we throw it open. God knows I don't care for property.
"Bring cotton buds next time." Fang answers, also rubbing his ears. It was seriously loud and mine hurt too. We grab our seats in the back rows. The two plastics walk in, we have about ever class with them, and everyone else here. Why did we have to come to such a small town?
"Why did we get sent to this place? I can't see the sun. It is overly small, and not seeing the blue sky is making me claustrophobic." I grumble. Hate this stupid town and all these stupid people. Why do we have to be here? I throw up mental shields to kick Angel out; if she was listening in. Can't let her hear me swear. Stupid, dumb, little, horrible town. The person from the front office interrupts my mind rant. When did she get up the front?
"Sorry dearys, but your English teacher isn't here today." The orange head says. "Just stay in the school grounds please." At that she walks out through a door near the teachers desk. Oh.
"How far up are the school grounds?" Ig asks, looking to the door with longing. God, how I would love to be flying right now. As much as I hated to be on the run, flying the whole day was pure bliss. But the problem with that would be it is pissing down rain.
"Can't." I start, not keeping my voice down. To aggravated. "It's pissing down rain in this to small frikken boring town!" At that half the class are staring at us. Great. Attention. Just what we need.
"What's got up your butt?" One of the plastics asks me, a touch louder then usual. At the sound of her voice the three of us clamp our hands over our ears. A ringing goes through them as I shake my head, trying to get rid of the sound. Stupid teenagers.
"God!" Comes the pissed of Fang. This is not our day. They are yelling at us, and it is raining. The town is overly small, and I am at a SCHOOL! I can't see all the flock in front of me, and I have to endure another six hours of this. I can't see the sun, and haven't in two days! Kill me. "Your voice. Please, don't speak."
"Why did you come to this town?" Someone else asks. All of them look in awe at us speaking out over the plastics. But still, I just bagged the shit out of their home town. They will ask why.
"Like we have a choice."
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"I would like you three separated for this class from now on." The teacher commands as we walk into further. All heads turn toward us. Attention. Yay!
"Ok." I say sitting down. A few people around me swap seats. Fang starts to lead Ig to his seat, but gets interrupted by the teacher.
"Nicholas, your seat would be over there." Points the teacher. Fang ignores him. He stops and tapes Iggys hand once. He sits down.
"And?" Asks Fang as he starts walking back.
"And what where you doing?" The teacher is obliviously annoyed now. I have to admit this is the most entertaining class. Teacher is so easy to annoy.
"Leading him to his seat." States Fang as he sits down. The girl next to him leans in and strokes his arm. He recoils instinctively.
"Why?" The teacher asks. I hear Iggy start laughing slightly and I join in. Can't any one see he's blind?
"Well." Starts Iggy. He composes himself, with a serious face. "When I was young I looked up into the sun. Since then I have been blind." At that the three of us burst out into laughter. He calls us to attention, and starts the class.
"You free tonight baby?" Asks a boy beside me. Taking a peek I see brown hair and pale skin. I guess everyone has pale skin. Can't they find the sun? I ignore him, looking straight ahead. "Come on babe." At that he strokes my arm.
"You touch me again and I will kick where the sun ain't shine." I hiss. That seems to get him to stop.
"Jeff." The teacher starts. "What is two hundred and fifty divided by five." The teacher says slowly, like he's five. I can see him getting pissed off.
"Blind not dumb." Iggy states, staring directly at the teacher. "Fifty."
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"You're going to get fat." The nasally voice says from behind me. We are in line, collecting a hell of a lot of food. I am starved. But today has not made me, or any of us happy. We don't fit in here. We don't know how to communicate with humans. They're normal and were… not.
Turning around, I face the three plastics. Three? Since when were there three? This one has died blonde hair, with black eyes, does not work. Not at all. Then there skin. All of them have the orange tans. Comparing them to us they look like pumpkins. I can't help it that we have tanned skin, all of us. Well Nudge is black. "Yes." I state sarcastically. "Because I am so fat." I put out my arm that has the least amount of scaring. I prod it a few times. I can hear Nudge explaining what I am doing to Ig as they all laugh. Me? I can keep a straight face through anything. "My god! Where did my fat run off too? Can you find it? I seem to have lost it!" At that I pat down my flat stomach and toned legs.
"Max!" Nudge starts, smoothing her face out instantly. She stands beside me. "I lost mine too! Where did it go?" She asks in a panicked voice, like she is about to cry. Tears start welling up and suddenly fall down. How I love acting. Perfect at it. She moves around the three plastics and there shocked face. Nudge searches each with her eyes, like searching for a lost puppy. She comes back to me and beams. "I found it!" She squeals.
"Where?" I ask, worried. Also looking. Most of the people in the cafeteria at this point are watching us. Many laughing as we put on the show. They might not like us, but we are good. "Because I can't find mine either."
Nudge prods one of the plastics. The ringleader I think. "There! See!" At that Nudge and I turn around like nothing happened and the four of us walk away to an empty table in a dark corner. Sitting down I finally burst, slumping in my chair and laughing my guts out. That was great.
"Fantastic!" Ig laughs, giving Nudge a peck on the lips, and I a high five. Leaning into Fang I pick up a sandwich and stuff half of it into my mouth in one go. So hungry. A sweet smell drifts this way and I scrunch my nose a touch. Someone used to much perfume, the same person who was at our house last night.
"Wow, your going to give yourself heartburn eating that fast." Comes a booming laugh. Looking at the start of the table I see four people. Didn't they have a pixie and blonde haired with them yesterday? Something starts poking at my mind shield. Something that isn't allowed. Looking around the table I see the same confused looks. That isn't Angel. I build up the shield until the prodding stops.
"And?" I ask, having less then ten seconds pass. Time takes on a different meaning, when your reflexes are fast. Grabbing the other half of my sandwich I stuff it in. Trust me when I say their faces where hilarious. The blonde looked absolutely grossed out, while the brown head guy, with his arm around her waist and a tray in his hands is watching in awe as the four of us inhale the food. The brown haired girl also looked disgusted and the bronze haired guy was frustrated. What's up his arse?
"God, I don't care about your eating!" The blonde haired barbie snarls. Angry much? "You are sitting at our table!" There table? They own this table? I didn't know people owned tables these days. Notice the sarcasm!
"Barbie." Nudge bursts, laughing slightly with the emotions swirling in the air from them all. Well, that's usually what makes her laugh. "As far as I know, you don't own the table. So why don't you just sit your arse down somewhere else and eat. Because I am starved and don't care for your snarling. God knows its crap. If you're going to scare someone, then do it properly!" At that Nudge slips her glove off, discreetly points towards Barbie and gives one of our signature cold hard glares.
"Tiffany!" I exclaim, slapping her hand. I know what she is doing. Sending soft waves of fear. Smart girl, but the glare is bad enough. I turn to the four people, three of who are looking at barbie, who looks traumatized. She shakes her head and goes back to normal. "Just sit and eat." At that the big brown one slumps down next to me and barbie next to him. Opposite me sits Nudge, with the brown haired girl sitting next to her and the bronze haired guy next. The brown haired girl starts eating, but the rest don't. How they don't eat, I got no idea. But my plate is empty now and I want that cupcake.
"I'm Emmett!" The brown haired guy next to me, who has the cupcake booms. "My girlfriend Rosalie. Then Edward and Bella." He shakes my hand. God his hands are freezing. His face seems a bit shocked too. Maybe our temperature. We do have a higher body temperature.
"Max," I say then look down.
"I'm Tiffany, and this is my boyfriend Jeff, then my brother Nick. Nick and Max are going out." Concentrating on the muffin out of the side of my eye I let it slide along the plate and onto the table. No one seems to notice, except Fang who wraps his arm around my waist and chuckles. The cupcake starts inching towards my plate. Half way towards my plate I swipe for it as quick as possible, taking a giant bite. "I want a chocolate muffin!" Nudge complains eyeing the half eaten muffin. Fang grabs a little and stuffs it in his mouth. We are pigs.
"I got one." Emmett says reaching for the one that was on his plate. A confused look coats his face as he stares at the empty space. "Weird." At that I toss the last few crumbs to Nudge and give Emmett an innocent look as he stares at me. "You took it, didn't you?" He sounds in awe at this as the rest of the table bursts out laughing.
"What are you talking about? I wouldn't eat chocolate muffins! They make you fat!" I shriek in pure terror. He looks at me in fear as I keep my act up. I loose the act, and settle into my normal face around the flock. "Tasted good." I say, sticking my tongue out at him.
"Mate!" Ig laughs out, slamming a fist lightly on a table. "You believed her? Max? Getting fat? God, you have more fat then we will ever have." Rose's face becomes a bit pissed off, but Emmett's becomes hurt.
"Pure muscle." Fang says sticking out his arm. "We don't have an ounce of fat on us." Edward looks at us in fascination, like a white coat. Scary.
"How is that possible?" He asks. That's a great question. How is it possible for four people, who aren't related, to all have no fat on them. To be fit, tall and healthy. Strong and fast. No way to explain it. So the best answer-
"Fast metabolism." Fang says as the bell goes. None of us move. I don't feel like going to science and learning about hybrids. God knows I don't need to learn any more about them. I know more then the teacher. More then anyone at this god damn school.
"Can I skip Max? Please? I get so bored in class. We got science too, and I hate science. It's horrible." Nudge says, mumbling the last part. Ig pulls her to her chest, stroking her hair. How cute. But I understand her. Science. The smells and the white walls. The white coats and pracs. Can't stand them. They bring back to many bad memories.
"Sure baby." I coo, leaning into Fang. I turn to the others. "You guys skipping Science or what ever you have?" I ask. I think they are in our science class. Well the two seventeen year olds. The other two look older then us.
"Yes!" Emmett booms. He suddenly gets a mischievous glint in his eyes. Is that a good or a bad thing? "Soccer! Girls against boys." Soccer. What's that? You seriously can't expect a girl, who has grown up with her childhood in a cage, to know what soccer is.
"Soccer?"