A/N: I had a lot of fun writing this chapter so I hope you like it.
Vamp sociology was cool, we learnt about an ancient tribe of vampires, I'm looking forward to writing the report that Victoria set us as homework.
Then I had drama with Professor Monroe -turns out she changed her name when she became a vampire. She had short blonde hair, sparkling green eyes and her mark was in the shape of a mask. As I walked into the room I spotted an empty seat at the front and sat in it but froze when the fledgling next to me said "Are you stalking me Kyle?" I turned to see Stan smirking at me from the chair to the left of mine.
"I could ask you the same question, I mean you're the one who turned up at my school, you climbed in through my window and if I remember correctly you were the one who kissed me last night" I replied with a grin.
"Touché" he said turning a slight shade of pink "It's just a shame the sun had to come out and interupt us."
"Why?" I asked. "Do you think something else would have happened?"
"Maybe" Stan answered with a grin. I was about to say 'I doubt it, Kenny was in the room dancing to Lady Ga Ga songs' but I decided not to embarrass my new best friend by outing him as an obsessive Lady Ga Ga fan.
Then the teacher spoke up "Alright class, this week you will be working on a duologue, you can pick a scene from one of the books at the back or choose your own scene. You will be performing these pieces in front of the class on Friday" she chimed in a musical voice.
"Wanna be partners?" I asked Stan.
"Heck yeah" he replied.
"I was talking about the scene" I said in an unamused voice.
"Me too" Stan laughed. "So what are we gonna do?"
I didn't have to answer though because Professor Monroe sauntered over to our desks and said "Kyle, since you're new to drama here I want you to work with Stan, he's the best actor in this class. I've picked a scene for you already from here" she said placing the Twilight book on my desk "I think it's kind of fitting since you're both almost vampires." Then she left to go talk to the other groups. We sat there staring at the book for a few seconds before Stan picked it up and opened the page where the bookmark had been placed.
"It's the scene where Bella confronts Edward" he explained. "Dibs on Edward!"
"What? Why?" I asked.
"I want to keep as true to life as possible, so you're the character who's desperately in love with the sexy vampire" he grinned.
"Hows that true to life? You're the one who's desperately in love with me" I argued.
"From what Kenny tells me that's not true." Damn it! Kenny is crap at keeping secrets!
"From what he tells me it is" I retort, earning a blush from Stan.
"Yeah well you're the clumbsy one, you're the one who spilled cereal all over Bebe this morning, therefore you have more in common with Bella" he stated.
"Ok I may be clumbsy but you're the one who acts more like a chick, gossiping about cliques like you're on mean girls or something and commenting on my eyes" I retorted. "Do I have pretty eyes Stan?" I teased, purposely fluttering my eyelashes.
"Yeah you do..." he replied "...but I already called dibs fair and square. Besides I'm taller than you."
"How does that have anything to do with it?"...That's basically how drama went, we didn't manage to rehearse because we were to busy arguing over who would be Bella, in the end I lost.
Then there was archery, when we walked onto the sports pitch our teacher was stood in front of a row of targets, it was a class of eight. Me, Stan, Kenny and Butters were stood watching as Professor Arrow went through the safety precautions. Professor Arrow was a tall male vampire with thick, dark hair and brown eyes, his markings were two arrows, one on either side of his face. "Ok fledglings you may now choose your target and get practising, I have to go speak to Pricipal Victoria for a second, I'll teach you the techniques next lesson."
We were all stood in a line facing our targets. Kenny picked up a bow and arrow, pulling the arrow back, he spun to face us "So do I just?" He let go of the arrow and Stan and I had to duck to avoid it as it narrowly missed our heads.
"Yeah but aim it at the target next time and try not to take anyones eye out" I scolded.
"Sorry" Kenny blushed.
"Yeah bullseye!" Butters shouted, jumping up and down on the spot and clapping with glee.
"Well done Leo!" Kenny praised him, ruffling his hair and causing him to blush. "Could you help me out please?" Kenny pleaded with a puppy dog pout.
"Sure I can" Butters beamed. "Can you wait a second though? I need to go to the bathroom." Kenny nodded as Butters ran off the field. Then he turned towards us with a triumphant grin, pulled back his arrow and let it go, scoring a perfect, effortless bullseye.
"So all of that was just an act so that Butters would help and you'd have an excuse to flirt with him?" I asked.
"Yep" Kenny answered with a smirk.
"That's so sly dude" Stan commented. "You're an evil genius."
"I know" Kenny said wiggling his eyebrows menacingly.
When Butters returned Kenny picked up where he left off with the totally clueless act. I shook my head and sighed, then I picked up my own bow and arrow, I was about to let it go when an arm lifted my elbow a bit and a hand rested on top of the hand that I was holding the bow with. "You need to keep your arm straight" Stan whispered into my ear and I had to fight back a shudder.
"So now you're an archery expert as well?" I questioned, thanking Nyx that I wasn't facing him, so he couldn't see the crimson hue of my face.
"Yeah" he answered. "Straighten your posture a tiny bit" I did as he said and almost gasped as I felt my back touch his chest. "Now rest your thumb on your mouth."
"Excuse me?"
"You heard me, use your mouth as an anchor" I touched the edge of my thumb to my mouth, slightly scared that the string was gonna hit me in the face. "Take a deep breath and release the arrow" I complied and the arrow hit the direct centre of the target. I dropped the bow in shock, turned to face Stan and -it's so embarrising to admit this- pratically leapt into his arms.
"I did it! Did you see that? I got a bullseye!" I kinda squealed as I hugged Stan tightly. Then I realised what I was doing and quickly stepped away from him "Uh, I mean, that was cool I guess."
"Now who's acting like a girl?" Stan smirked as we went back to practising.
Lunch and English were pretty uneventfull. Then the last lesson of the day was Horticultural Studies, I had that with Tweek. The teacher's name was Professor Garisson and he was prehistoric -almost a fossil- he had grey hair, green eyes and his marking was in the shape of Ivy vines. We were planting trees today, well they had already grown a bit, we had to remove them from their pots and plant them in the ground.
Tweek was kneeling next to me, he had managed to successfully plant his tree but then something odd happened. He lightly touched one of the leaves and the whole tree withered and died in front of him, he sighed and hung his head in dissapointment, muttering something under his breath.
Then he jumped as a pale, femenine hand rested on his shoulder "It's ok Tweek, it's just me" said a soft voice. I turned to see that girl from the canteen that Stan had pointed out as Bebe's ex-best friend standing behind Tweek, the girl with long, straight raven coloured hair and purplish eyes. She tutted "What are we gonna do with you Tweek?" she said in a motherly voice. The shaky blonde moved so that she could crouch down between us.
"K-Kyle this is -gah- Wendy" Tweek pointed out.
"So you're the green fledgling, I've heard a lot about you Kyle" she stated. Then she placed both of her hands on the ground and mumbled something that sounded like a prayer, suddenly the earth around her hands was glowing a green colour and the tree regrew.
My eyes widened in surprise "Wow how did you do that?"
"I have an affinity for plants and animals" she answered.
"You mean earth?" I asked.
She shook her head "No just plants and animals" she repeated.
"Ok" I answered, pulling my plant out of its pot. The second I placed it in the ground I gasped and jumped backwards.
"What's wrong?" Wendy asked.
"N-nothing" I replied, then I slowly put my hands back on the tree as I moved the dirt to cover its roots and felt the same sensation. It was like I could actually feel the energy running through it, that wasn't weird though...right?
I finished planting my tree and turned to see Wendy watching me with an impressed expresion on her face"You're quite good at that" she admitted.
"I had to have a hobbie, this was the only thing I could do to get away from my parents for a while, without them getting angry with me for not telling them where I was" I explained.
"Ah, difficult parents huh?" she asked, I nodded. "I know exactly where you're coming from, heck I bet over half the school went through the same thing. I had really pushy parents, my mom wanted me to be more of a girl. She was always trying to make me wear make-up, skirts and wear contact lenses instead of glasses. They just didn't understand that's not who I am, I'm not interested in material things. I've always been more of a tomboy."
I chuckled slightly "My parents were always putting pressure on me to get good grades. They wanted me to be a rich, successful lawyer or something."
Tweek twitched nervously "M-my parents wanted me to -gah!- take over the coffee company. I can't do that! It's way too much pressure!"
The three of us spent the rest of the lesson bonding over the stupid stuff our parents had done in the past. I have to admit that Wendy and Tweek were pretty cool, it's a shame everyone kind of underestimated them and passed them off as nobodies. I had only been talking to them for an hour and they already felt like family or something.
The bell rang and we started to walk to the dorms together when a black ball of fur whizzed past my face and landed in Wendy's arms. On closer inspection I realised that the 'ball of fur' was actually a cat, which had a completely black fur coat that shined in the moonlight. Wendy cuddled the cat closer to her and giggled "Awww, I missed you too Midnight." Then she turned to face me "Kyle, this is my cat, her name is Midnight." I reached out tentatively and stroked Midnight's fur, it was soft like silk. The cat licked my hand and I laughed. "Huh" Wendy said "She usually doesn't like strangers but she seems to have taken to you quite quickly."
The cat jumped out of Wendy's arms and sprinted of into the distance, Tweek and I started to walk away but stopped and turned when we realised that Wendy was still glued to the spot. "She's coming back" Wendy explained. "She's bringing another cat with her." Sure enough Midnight returned, this time a tiny kitten followed her, I couldn't help but walk towards it.
"Awwwww, it's sooooo cute" I squealed. Damn it! Why do I have to act like such a girl? "Hey there little kitty" I said, reaching out to pet it but before I had a chance to it leapt into my arms. I laughed "Well hello to you too." She was so beautiful, it was a female kitten with amazingly soft, white fur and big green eyes, the same emerald colour that mine were. I lifted her to nuzzle her nose but she meowed and placed a soft paw against my mark. I giggled "Oh, so you've noticed my unusual mark as well have you?" she just tilted her head in confusion.
"Kyle the cat just chose you" Wendy explained.
"What?" I asked, wearing a similar confused look to the kitten in my arms.
"Each fledgling here gets to have a cat but they have to wait for a cat to choose them as their owner. That kitten just chose you as its owner" she clarified.
I adjusted my arms so that I was craddling the kitten "Wait! So you're saying this cat is mine now?"
"Yes" she nodded.
"Seriously? I get a cat? That's so cool! I've never had a pet before, where do I start?" I gushed excitedly.
"You start by giving it a name" Wendy smiled.
"What should I call you?" I asked rhetorically. I looked down at her, I loved how white her fur was, it reminded me of fresh snow... that's it! I lifted the cat to my eye level again "How about snowflake, do you like that name?" I gasped a little when the cat actually nodded at me, then I chuckled "You're a clever little kitten aren't you?" I asked, the kitten nodded again.
Alright then, Snowflake it is.
