"Come on!" he whispered urgently and pulled me into one of the old super large lockers, squishing me as he wrapped his arms around me with his back to the back of the locker. He reached out and shut the locker seconds before a small group of what looked like older students came in.
"Where is she?" asked one that seemed like he was the eldest of the group, about nineteen.
"They said she ran in here," came an eerily familiar sounding female voice. My brain seemed to freeze for a minute –then screamed at full force. I tried to find out why my brain was silently freaking out but I couldn't understand with the other kids still in the locker room talking.
"We need to find her soon or else we`ll get our tails kicked," said the boy again. There were agreements from all of his cohorts. They all left then, leaving me in the locker, my mind still in a ruckus. What do I do? I whispered to myself as my brain started to function again.
"Come on," said the boy in the locker with me gently. I let him lead me out of the locker and out of the locker room, my mind was fuzzy. What would`ve happened if I hadn't hit in the locker? What just happened?
I barely felt him start to lead me somewhere. "Where are we going?" I asked.
He didn't answer, instead he pulled her faster. She let him, although she felt the vamps start to stare and whisper all down the hallway and beyond.
"HERE you go, he said, plopping me down into a seat. I looked up surprised and more than a little confused –to meet six pairs of curios eyes. I swallowed, my throat growing immediately dry.
"And who is this?" demanded a cocoa skinned young girl who looked a year or so older than me.
"This," Zane answered. "Is Keira.
"No crap, Sherlock," the cocoa skinned girl spit back. "Everyone knows who she is." I felt my face burn.
"Calm down, Shayla," the young pale faced male beside the dark colored girl ordered. Then he turned to me. "My name," he said with a smile that made him look quite handsome with his face gaining color again. "Is Avery." His skin was a rich cream that did nothing to hide the young man`s laugh lines. His brown hair was windswept to one side that swung over his light gem green eyes; he looked like he could be young royalty. I could tell even though he was sitting that he was at least six feet, three. I could tell he was a good person.
With an exasperated breath the cocoa skin girl said –grumbled –"I`m Shayla."
A giggle came from the pale girl across the table. She smile and blushed when everyone turned to her, she looked down shyly. "I`m Kylie." She said. Her hair was clean blonde that reached way past her shoulders and down past her breasts. Her eyes were a pale sky blue. I smiled again, she reminded me of a baby bird who hadn't yet stretched out her wings and flown into the real world yet.
Zane seemed to turn to a caramel skinned female. "I`m Shantelle," she said after he turned to her again. I looked up to see that the caramel skinned girl had the body and looks of a runway model. Her hair reached a short ways past her shoulders at a medium height and was a dark root beer brown along with her eyes.
"Jason," a dark male at the other side of Kylie said. His voice was deep. He seemed a tall as Avery if not a few inches shorter. His black as night hair was held down by a beanie. His eyes were a warm brown that held a lot more than I liked to see.
"Jamie," came a young female voice. I looked up to see a young red head combing her fingers through her hair. Her skin was as cream white as Kylie`s, if not a shade paler.
"It`s nice to meet you," I smiled shyly.
"You`re not really as tough as I thought you would be." Shayla said.
"Shayla!" Zane scolded while Jamie and Shantelle bursted out laughing in snychronation. I smiled, never having friends like this before. Shayla was obviously the strongest female at this table along with Jamie who was almost as tall as Jason.
"I'm not as high and mighty as everyone thinks," I answered, finally able to get the point across. Shayla smiled a smile a female satisfaction and I had to contain in my laughter as a paper ball suddenly hit her across the cheek and as she stood up and demanded to know who threw it. Jason and Zane seemed to suddenly find their nails very interesting and Avery seemed to suddenly really interested in doing his homework. Jamie and the rest of the girls were obviously madly fighting giggles that threatened to come. A giggle threatened to come through my own throat and I slapped my hand over my mouth to hold it in.
Avery looked up at me with a grin that totally held male satisfaction to the prime. Another giggle threatened to come out and I almost couldn't fight it. One escaped Jamie as Shayla threw a big paper ball at the back of Avery`s head.
"Hey!" he yelled and threw it back –and just that fast the table became a war front of paper balls seeming to come out of nowhere and targeting everyone , even a group of innocent third formers weren't saved from the fury of the battle that didn't even calm until Sanari came and all of the paper ball disappeared.
"Wait!" Avery yelled. "That was my homework!" That did it –laughter bursted out from everyone`s mouths. A warm feeling bloomed in my stomach as I laughed with them, not worrying about anything else for this moment. When the laughing died down I realized the bell was about to ring to signal the end of lunch, I looked at Zane as an unknown fear settled in my gut, he smiled telling me without words we`d hang out again after classes, that he`d find me and bring me back to these people. The fear faded and I smiled, the first real smile I`d felt in a long time. I like these people.
As I sat in my seat in class I realized that was the first time since I've been here that I actually had fun, actually let myself have and relax, and the first time I was surrounded by people, friends, that made me feel…feel…homey. I smiled and wondered what Zane had planned for when we meet later. Maybe this year wouldn't be so bad after all.
Okay, first of all! Thank you SOOOOO dayforall and Tayla Wayland! You both totally stopped me from deleting this story and now luckily my writer`s block finally went away! Woot! Its gone and this story is coming back full force! So thanks guys for saving this story! Expect LONG chapter now! Thats for you dayforall :D!