Left Handed Angel

Chapter two

Camille was standing in a marshy swamp area, dressed in a white silk dress. She looked forward through the light fog to see an unusual looking Lilly. It was jet black, but still pretty. As she approached it, it turned into a small cloud of black mist. The cloud grew bigger and bigger until it covered the whole swamp area in front of her. A dark figure was approaching her out of the mist. As he neared, Camille saw that it was max. He was wearing all black and hair was brushed down flat so that it almost went down to his shoulders. He looked towards her with eyes the colour of blood mixed with ink and cried "Exista Frumusete in tot Raul."

He smiled at her menacingly and then tipped his head back, Mouth open, and threw his arm into the air as if he were going to scream, but instead of screaming, a sound like a digital alarm clock going off came out of his mouth.

Camille's eyes flew open and she sat up with a gasp. Her alarm clock was buzzing loudly on her bedside table. She reached over to turn it off and realized that it was already 8:15! Jess comes to meet her at 8:25 so they can walk to school! Camille jumped out of bed and threw on some jeans and a blue Mickey Mouse t-shirt. She pulled her hair back into a pony tail and looked down into her jewellery box. She pulled out a green stone, the size of a baby's fist. The stone was connected to a long silver chain with a small gold loop. She hung the necklace around her neck and headed off to the kitchen for breakfast. When she arrived in the kitchen her mum denice was sitting at the table reading the newspaper "you're up" she said . " yeah" said Camille' grabbing a piece of her mums toast. "but I have to go to school now. I slept in"

"okay. Have a nice day!" said her mum as Camille walked out of the room. "bye, mum" called Camille as she was walking to the front door. Just as her hand touched the doorknob, the doorbell rang. As she opened the door she saw jess standing in front of her. "hey" said jess. "hey, Jess, " replied Camille "let's go". They walked down the street and half way to the school gates without a word then jess, unable to resist it asked "so what's up with you and max?" Camille sighed and tucked her fringe behind her ear " I don't know," she said "but whatever it is it's not good." Camille looked down at her feet. Jess frowned at her. "what do you mean?" she asked confused. Camille looked up at her and said " I think he hates me" there was an awkward silence and Camille added "We had an argument yesterday and he got really mad at me." And for once Jess understood that was her queue to be quiet.

Camille and Jess were almost at the school gates when Camille said "you go on jess. I just need a moment alone. Jess just nodded in understanding and kept walking. Camille just a minute to collect herself so when she saw max again, she wouldn't burst into tears. She stared at her feet and played with her hair as she took a few deep breaths. She turned around to look through the tall cast iron fence that marked the boundary of the school yard and saw max standing by a tree. He was holding something in his hand...it was long and silver... with a gasp Camille realised it was a knife. He started to walk casually through all of the others students, swinging the knife in his hands. 'are all of the students blind!' she thought 'he's carrying a knife!' Just at that moment, when max walked out of the gates and started walking in the opposite direction to Camille, she realised that the other students couldn't see him. Camille didn't know how, but, somehow, Max was invisible to everyone but her. Camile looked at him walking away from her. There seemed to be some purpose in the way he walked, like he wanted her to follow him. With a sigh, Camile started to follow Max from a distance of about thirty metres. Camile saw Max turn around the corner of a building down the street. She continued to follow hi until she rounded the bend and saw him leaning against the wall, playing with his deadly looking knife. He looked up and seemed almost surprised to see that she had followed him.

"Hey, you," he said as he looked at his watch "well, we should be heading off. It's almost nine o'clock."

Camile, taken aback, just stared dumbly at him and raised her eyebrows.

"What do you meab we?" she asked in confusion, "I don't remember agreeing to go anywhere with you."

He stared emotionlessly at Camile for a few seconds and then replied, "You follow me. That implies that you want to go wherever I'm going," When Camile shot him an evil glare he added "you can come willingly, or unwillingly."

The anger was welling up inside Camile now and she asked, "Did you just threaten to kidnap me?"

Max looked down at his feet and brushed his wavy fringe out of his eyes, but did not respond.

"Why do you carry that massive machete around anyway. Do you really think I'll walk off with some random guy with a knife?" asked Camile incredulously.

That made max look up and glare at her.

"Firstly, I'm not random, you know me! And secondly, this is not a machete and I carry it with me because-" He was cut off when a looming dark shape sprung between them with a wail. Camile screamed and backed away from the creature as it turned to face her. It had huge, sharp fangs and an abundance of eyes. It had a stinger too, Camile noticed as she heard a sickening sound and glimpsed a knife slicing through it's body. Max had stabbed it, but not before its stinger came whizzing through the air and embedded itself in the right side of her chest. Intense pain seared through her body. The creature was dead, and it puffed into black smoke. Through the haze, Camile saw the horrified look on Max's face as her rushed towards her. "Camile!" he shouted. Camile, no longer able to support her own body, crumpled toward him. The last thing she could remember was max cradling her against his muscled chest.