Chapter 5
The Flower.
The trees scrape and pull me as I run through the woods. Voices echoing in my head saying "It's your fault! You ruined everything"
I try my best to ignore it and find my way away from all the trees, the barks and stones killing my feet. I tripped over a vine on the ground and fell face first, I stood up and tried to regain my balance, I felt a sting at the bottom of my feet and start to hear footsteps coming my way.
I tried to fight the pain of glass shards piercing through my right foot but it's not going so well. The footstep behind me gets closer and closer, I am scared and I know I need to somehow escape or my life will be in danger. I tried taking a few steps but it did not work. I don't know what to do; whatever that is following me is now right behind me.
"This is what you get for going against me" the person whispered and I feel chills running down my spine. Before I could turn around to take a look at who it is, I felt a sharp cold blade pierce through my back. I fell to the floor trying my best to breathe. I then felt the knife being pulled out of my back; the person who stabbed me gave a small laugh of triumph and walked off. All that is left is me lying in my own pool of blood waiting for death.
I jerked up and looked around me; I looked into the mirror and at my feet. No injuries. I am safe; it was just a dream, nightmare to be exact. I gave a big sigh and looked at the time '4:00 am'
"SHIT" I cursed and ran to get changed "I am late for detention!"
Really, what kind of detention starts at 4 am? Is it like this at all boarding school? I manage to arrive at the detention room only 10 minutes late. But of course that got me into more trouble; I earned myself cleaning duties for the whole year the minute I stepped into the room. What kind of ridiculous school is this?
I took a seat at the back of the room and sighed, waiting for the lady who gave me detention, Miss Edna, to now give me instructions.
"STUDENTS! LISTEN UP!" She screamed so fiercely that all the chatters went silent. There were a total of 7 students in the room, including me of course, and for some reason, the white hair boy is also here, what was his name again? Oh right... Soul. "Now, I'm going to hand you all a paper each and you are going to write down all the rules of this school, when you finish in time, you may leave, if you finish early, you have to wait until 6:00 am to go out but if you don't finish, you can continue this after school."
"I already know what to do" yelled a boy with blue hair and a wide grin from the back of the room.
He is brave... I thought.
"Well some people don't, so keep quite Blackstar" The lady replied.
Yup, some people don't... just like little old me here... and Blackstar? Really? AHAHAH what a funny name... and I thought "Soul" was bad.
"Who here does not know what to do? We have all been through this whole 'detention' thingy!" Blackstar argued back.
"You might want to ask this girl sitting in the front" The lady pointed at me. Blackstar stood up and saw that I am new to this place.
"OHH... whoops, didn't see you there..."
That is nice of him. "Don't worry about it" I replied
"Worry about what?" He asked innocently
Is he trying to get up my nerves? Or is he just plain dumb?
"Nothing... never mind" I smile sweetly
"Ok then, OH, wait. Is it just me or are you undergrowth?"
Maka... don't cause trouble. Do not overreact. He is just stupid. I should just ignore him.
"Blackstar that is not nice" said a tall girl next to him. She was tall, not undergrowth, pretty, her hair is tied back into a black and long pony tail, and she has what I don't...
"Don't worry Tsubaki, the short girl is totally fine with it!"
Now that hurts... he just called me short.
"She obviously has to know what her weak points are, and don't get me started on that undergrown chest of hers" he continued
And that... killed me. I walked up to him with a sweet smile on my face.
"What?" He asked
"MAKAA CHOPP" was my answer.
"BLACKSTAR! ARE YOU ALRIGHT?" Tsubaki screamed.
"AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA" laughed a boy with black hair that has three strange white stripes.
I looked at around, everyone was laughing... was it that funny? Even Soul, who was sitting next to the window sniggered.
"My name is Kid" said the boy who was laughing. "This is Liz" he continued and pointed at a girl with long blonde hair "And this is Patti" he pointed at the one with short blonde hair.
"Nice to meet you" I smiled
Kid? Really? AHAHAHAH this is hilarious! Are the girls the only people with normal names in this school?
My second day and I met some weird people already... but this is not bad... I kind of like it.
The laughter carried on for a while, I never thought it would stop. That was until we heard a loud "SNAP" I looked up to the front of the class and so did the rest. There stood the lady with a broken pen in her hand. Crap... we completely forgot about her... not to mention that fact that we are in detention and that we only have 30 minute left to finish!
We made it out alive, luckily I happened to be a really fast writer because I have been to detention at my old school quite a few times and so I am used to writing lines. Soul, Blackstar, Kid, Liz, Patti and Tsubaki managed really well. They have gone through detention many times. Most of the time, it was because of Blackstar… he always ends up dragging them into weird things… well that's what they told me and it is very believable.
"You forgot to put on your tie" Tsubaki told me as we were walking "by the way… where is Soul?"
"He's probably with Himeko again" said Blackstar "He hangs around her so much lately, and Maka, you have ten minutes until class starts so you better run."
"What? Ten minutes? I have to run all the way from here to the dorms?" I panicked
"Yeah." They all said.
"That. Is not helping" I said as I started to run
Why is this school so big for? It's took me ten minutes to run from the dorms too here and I am assuming it will take me ten minutes back and class starts in ten minutes so by the time I back to the school building I will be ten minutes late again.
I finally reached my room and I quickly dived for my tie, I was about to walk out when something on my bed caught my eye. Lying on my bed was a lily bud. I know it is a Lily bud because I have quite some knowledge about flower due to all the lessons I had with mom. I walked over to get a closer look. The back of my head throbbed, I knew these flowers were for me, I don't know how I know besides the fact that it was lying on my bed but the minute I saw it, I knew straight away that it was for me. I picked up the note that happened to be next to the lily bud and it read "When the Flower Blooms"
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