Chapter 3
I ran to an alley near a park and roared in pain as my horns grew and my little black feather on the back of my neck grew. I'm telling ya, it hurts like heck. You think I would have gotten used to it by now, right? Well you're dog gone wrong.
Nico came running into the alley like, two minutes after I roared. "Luna?" he said. "Nico? What are you doing here?" "I heard you roar, I was a block away with a friend," he said as a girl who looked a lot like me but with straighter horns, a wolf's tail, brown / grey wings, and one red and one yellow eye.
"Nico …" she said without finishing her sentence when she saw me. We introduced each other, and then we went to my house to talk a goof around.
Luckily, my dad wasn't home yet, so we ran upstairs to my room. I took of my jacket and accidently showed the back of my neck. I felt warm hands on the back of it stroking the feathers gently, and I fell back into the persons chest and saw that it was Nico.
We blushed but I kept lying there and he kept stroking the feathers. "So, Cassandra," I said. "What do you like to do in your free time?" "Well, I like to draw, sing, and play the guitar," she answered. I nodded, "Cewl, very cewl." "You?" she said. "Let's see, I like to draw, make fun of the jocks and sluts, play on the computer, sing, and I play the piano," I said.
"Sheesh, Luna, for such a skinny girl you sure do a lot of things, don't ya?" Nico said. I nodded. The hole entire time we were at my house, I had my head on Nico's chest and he was stroking my neck feathers.
In the morning, I got up, got dressed, brushed my teeth, and then ran to school. I got to school an hour early.
I grabbed my stuff for history, shut my locker, and turned around to find myself face to face with the big, fat jerk, Andrew. How he managed to find me again, I have no idea. Luckily Nico walked in before Andrew could do anything to me. "Hi, Luna!" Nico said with a grin on his face.
"Hey, Nico! How are ya?" I replied in an equally exited tone as his, just to annoy Andrew. "Hey," Andrew snarled, "Who are you?" "Me? Ha! Ha! I'm Nico! And who might you be to try and hurt this beautiful young lady?" Nico said the last pert in such a way the made turn into a tomato. "I'm Andrew, and how is this, hybrid, beautiful? She's ugly, even a rock's prettier than her," Andrew snarled.
"Andrew, I want you to get out of my sight right now and never talk to Nico and her again, got it?" a new boy said. He had Black hair, green eyes, an orange t – shirt, and blue jeans. There was a girl next to him, she had pretty honey blonde hair, a shirt like the boys, and jean shorts. "Nico! How are you?!" the boy asked. "Fine, just fine Perce. What about you and Annabeth?" "What! We're amazing!" the girl said.
"Hey, guys," Nico said "I would like you to meet my friend, Luna Night. Luna, this is Percy and Annabeth." I waved. "Hey," they said at the same time. I smiled nervously and darted to my first class.
"Hey, Luna, why did you run away?" Nico asked when he sat next to me. "I'm no good with people." I started humming a song called Castle of Glass, by Linkin Park. All the while, I was drawing an angel with white wings, a light blue dress with a dragon charm holding a bit of black veil like cloth to it, a staff with a circle top that had a sapphire on it, and white hair with black streaks in it. She was walking in the falling snow.
The rest of the day was really boring. I got home a walked up to my room, only to see it was trashed and had someone else's junk all over it. My dad came barging in with a whip in his hand. I took one look at him, took off my jacket, opened the window, jumped out, and flew over to Nico's house. I knocked on his door and a girl that looked a lot like Nico answered it.
"Hello, how may I help you?" she asked. "Um, can I please see Nico?" She smiled and yelled Nico's name. He came running down and crashed into me. "Luna! What are you doing' here!" he asked. "My dad was about to whip me."
He looked at me in disbelief. I looked at him sadly and them I felt a bullet hit the small of my back and I dropped down, dead, lifeless, cold and being covered in snow.
