"Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it." - Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
Luna/Alissa POV
I wake up beside Ranger, holding his hand in mine. He looks like a fallen angel, tired from the long journey to Earth. I stretch, looking at the bright light streaming through the window. If only every Friday was like this. Friday. Ohmigod. School. I jump up, checking my alarm, 6:50. I have an hour and a half or so before I need to be in school. Ranger doesn't even have a uniform! I shake him relentlessly until his eye lids pop open. "Luna," he groans, "it's six. Go back to sleep." He pulls me onto the bed, ignoring my protest.
"We have school today, come on! I don't want to miss another day, especially seen as I skipped yesterday." I tell him, getting up. Ranger gets up too this time, standing beside me dazed. "You look so adorable," I blurt, speaking words I'm thinking. But he does look adorable, with his hair all messy, and his irises shining through the tiny gaps his eye lids haven't covered.
"Your cute when your bossy." He says, planting a long kiss on my lips; the feeling of his lips lingers after the kiss is over.
"You don't have a uniform for school though," Ranger shrugs.
"Um, baby, I'm a fairie."
"Um, baby, I'm a vampire." I mock. "Your point being?"
"Magic." Ranger closes his eyes whispering words in a language completely alien to me.
Latin maybe? Suddenly, a rainbow of colours bounces of every wall in the room, engulfing me and Ranger in what reminds me of a night club scene. I close my eyes in the burst of light. When it dims, I open them again, and Ranger is in his uniform. I'm gawking.
"Wow..." I breathe.
"Girls say that about me all the time." He responds, lying back down on the bed. "You can get ready in here if you want." He tells me, smug.
"Not gonna happen." I reply, carrying my uniform piled neatly in my arms. I glide to the door, "I'm getting ready in the bathroom. And don't worry, I'm locking the door." He chuckles,
"trust me, locks are the first thing they teach you how to break at fairie school." Says Ranger.
"Draining the life out of someone by a single bite, is the first thing I learnt."
"Mum and dad are going to kill you. You understand that, don't you?" Cara yelled, pulling Ranger's hair. Cara ran up to us fuming, as soon as we we walked through the school gates-which Ranger soon changed their name to "the gates of hell," identifying Cara as Satan.
"Little help here, Alissa." I told Ranger to keep my name as Alissa, but if we are outside of school and it's just us, he can call me Luna.
"I want absolutely nothing to do with your sibling rivalry." I leave them arguing by the gates, and head towards Ari and Keira on the field.
"Hey guys," I say, laying my blazer on the grass and sitting on it.
"Hey, you alright?" Ari asks, happily.
"Yeah, thanks. What have you two been up to?"
"Talking about the Halloween dance next week. Keira wants Max, Ranger's friend, to ask her." Keira turns bright red. I know the rules of secrecy amongst humans and I'm happy to comply.
"Ari!" She yells.
"It's fine," I defend, "I won't tell." Keira smiles sweetly. "So, Ari, who do you want to ask you?" I question. Ari sighs depressingly,
"it doesn't matter. He doesn't like me back." I laugh,
"Ari, who couldn't like you?" She grins at the compliment. I'm not lying, I honestly am surprised that the boy Ari likes hasn't asked her. She truly is beautiful, easily having the potential to become a famous model.
"Thanks, but he's kind of dating someone else." She explains.
"Oh. Well tell me who it is, maybe I can help convince him to dump his girlfriend." Keira laughs, leaning forward and whispering,
"Alissa, she fancies Ranger." Oh crap. I blush, I'm such an idiot.
"Sorry, honestly I had no idea." I say apologetically. Ari shrugs,
"you didn't know, it's cool. What is Cara shouting at him for?" I turn towards the gate, locating the crazy lady beating my boyfriend to a pulp.
"I wasn't feeling very well, so um... Ranger slept at mine and we watched TV." Ari and Keira gasp.
"You didn't-you know..." at first I'm oblivious to what Keira's talking about, then it sinks in.
"Oh, god. No! We just watched films, honestly!" I insist, blushing red once again.
Ranger and Cara stroll over, with Cara clinging onto Ranger in a semi-hug that he isn't returning. "Cara, I didn't know that your parent's didn't know. But it's my fault, I asked him to stay." I explain, hugging Ranger.
"It's not your fault, it's just that he's slept at so many girls houses and never phoned." After she said that, she cursed, understanding what she'd done. "I didn't -"
"how many other girls?" I turn my attention to Ranger, who's looking glum. I think it's okay to say that I've mastered teenage jealousy.
"I don't kn-" he says,
"How many other girls?" I repeat, angrily. Ranger shrugs. I march away, crossing the field with a look so deadly it could kill.
I see a familiar figure enter the school through the gate. Blade. I rush towards him, greeting him with,
"what are you doing here?" Blade smiles, as he opens his arms for a hug, which I happily step into, a hug is what I need.
"I'm going to be a drama teacher," he says proudly.
"I hate to break this to you, but to be a drama teacher you have to actually be able to act." He rolls his eyes,
"I'll have you know, I've done lots of undercover work for the king."
"You don't look like you could get away with being a little old woman." Blade pushes me away, extremely irritated.
Ranger POV
"Seriously, Cara, I really don't like you right now." Ranger tells her, rage filling his very soul. Souls. God, he's not eaten in days. He had to admit how delicious Luna's soul looked.
"I'm sorry. It slipped out," she says. It always did 'slip out'. Ranger loves Luna, and to think that Cara may have just sent her running, made his heart burn.
"Looks like she found someone else," Ari says. Ranger is familiar with Cara's friend, he's also familiar with her feelings towards him. He looks towards the gate to see Luna laughing with a tall, dark figure.
"If it doesn't work out, you could always take Ari to the dance." Keira says, encouraging Ari to blush. Maybe this wouldn't be a bad thing; Luna can't cope with his past, and them being together is breaking so many rules, Luna has also moved on, plus they did rush into their relationship. In a moment of confusion, Ranger asks,
"Ari, would you like to go to the dance with me?" Ari's eyes widen. She's completely frozen. Instead, Keira answers,
"of course she will."
Luna/Alissa POV
I stand outside the science class, anticipating the arrival of Cara, Keira and Ranger-not so much him, I'm still mad. Blade had headed into the school, performed some mind trick, and got a job as a drama teacher. I feel much safer knowing I have Ranger and Blade to protect me. Ranger isn't in my science class, he's next door-which is how he keeps an eye on Cara for her vision outbursts.
"Hey," Cara yells from behind me, hugging me. "Sorry about -"
"it's fine. Don't worry." I intrude.
"Who was that new guy you were talking too at the gates?" Cara asks,
"a new teacher here. He used to teach me at my old school." She's puzzled,
"but I thought you were taught at home?" Fudge. I quickly pretend to shake myself out of a mental void.
"Sorry, I mean he tutored me. I used to live in a pretty big house, I was thinking about it and it reminded me of a school." She nods her understanding. Keira and Ranger walk over to us. Keira hugs me tightly,
"can you believe it, Ranger is taking Ari to the Halloween dance!" I look at him, standing emotionless beside his sister. My heart turns to stone, and I go much paler. Keira moves away,
"are you alright?" she questions.
"Y-yes, I'm fine. I need to go though." I push myself through the crowd forming around the classroom, shooting down the long, twisting corridor.