Here I am sitting in my desk waiting for my English class to start. It's been a couple days now since I used my powers. I've gotten no sleep. I remember Oliver handing me a mask saying "for when you decide to step up. Wouldn't want you looking like a dork would we." It's currently sitting in my purse underneath all the make up and other miscellaneous stuff.
Just before the bell rings everyone floods in the doors and takes there seat. Alicia was finally out of the hospital and walked through the door. Suddenly the silence broke and everyone began to whisper to each other.
"How'd she survive?" A boy asked talking to his friends.
"I heard someone weird showed up. Like someone who didn't know what they were doing" one of the girls in the back was saying.
To my left a I heard a boy say, "why couldn't he just kill her. She's such a bitch anyway."
"That's enough!" Mrs Witherspoon shouted. "Leave the poor girl alone. She's been through enough lately"
When everyone was chattering Alicia just stood still in the doorway and looked down. Once the chatter stopped she walked and sat to the left of me. She looked very distraught. Her eyes were red and puffy and her eyeliner looked messy. I could tell she had been crying recently. When she looked at me I could see her left side of her face was slightly red. I began to worry.
You see Alecia's dad died when she was eight. He was driving home one night in a heavy rainstorm. He was driving by the Painted Canyon and a drunk driver from oncoming traffic came in to his lane. He tried to stop and get out of the way but the roads were extremely slick. Ended up being tee-boned by the drunk driver and he spun out of control. His car plunged in to the canyon. Not even a year later her mom started having drug problems to attempt to cope with her husbands passing. With time she met man a man who was addicted to his own supply and eventually married him. Now he torments her to no end.
I write a note and hand it to her.
"Don't tell me he hit you again"
She reads it and whispers to me, "I don't want to talk about it"
I whisper to her "well if you ever need to I'll be here"
Alicia and I remain silent throughout the rest of the period. We do our normal student things. Ya know pretend to take notes, do in class assignments, and attempt to not fall asleep. Just your usual Monday in high school. Well at least so I thought.
The bell finally rang and we all got up. And started to head for the door. Alicia ran up to be and gave me the a huge hug.
"I can never thank you enough for being an awesome friend chica". She said with a tear dripping down her face.
"I mean I wouldn't be human if I didn't care right?" I say struggling to breathe. "As much as I love loosing air I kind a need to get to my next class. I'll talk to you later"
Alicia releases me from her death grip says "see ya" and walks out the door.
Man she's such a strange chick but I'm glad she's my friend.
I walk in to my next class to see Rory talking to a girl I haven't met yet. She was slightly overweight with black hair and glasses. Behind her glasses were a pair of deep hazel eyes. Her face was covered in freckles like it were stars in the night sky. Rory looked really uncomfortable. Like he was trying to get out of whatever conversation they were having. He nervously starts looking around and sees me.
"Oh hey aria!" He yells at me. He then turns to the girl and says. "sorry I gotta go." He then grabs his backpack and runs to me.
"Sorry about that. She was trying to get my number. She is most definitely not my type." He says with a spurt of confidence.
Rory was wearing a black tee shirt with the flash logo centered on it. He was wearing camouflage patterned shorts. He looked absolutely absurd and I loved him for it. Though obviously I had to give him shit for it.
"You do realize your clothing choice looks atrocious right?" I say holding back a giggle.
"Oh who cares, I'm not trying impress anyone anyway." He bolted back.
We continued to chatter until class started. We all took our seats as the bell rang and got ready for another boring lecture. To our surprise the teacher never showed up. About half an hour passes with no one coming in to the classroom. We all had been messing around for a while now we'll until the intercom turned on.
"Hello this is your principle," says a distorted male voice coming from the speakers. "There appears to be a situation going on outside and I need you all to stay in your classrooms until the problem resolves."
I could here a quiver in his voice like something was wrong. It's pretty strange that our teacher goes missing then we get a disturbing voice announcement from our principle. I need to check this out. I don't want anyone to get hurt.
I grab my purse and bolt out the door. Rory goes to the doorway and yells, "Aria! What are you doing? The principle said to stay put!"
I turn around and shout "feminine problems!" Then continue towards the bathroom.
I bolt in to a stall and pull out my mask. It was just a small mask made to only cover the eyes. Basically what the green arrow wore. Instead of being cut open slots as eyeholes there was glass. When I put it on my right eye could see normally but my left was showing heat vision. I quickly take of my sweatshirt and leave it in the stall. I grab my purse and put it on the counter and dart out the entrance way.