The ride home was very quiet but deep down I knew exactly what my aunt was thinking. I have a crazy niece living with me what am I going to do? I groaned and looked out the window trying to figure out exactly what was going on with me. Pulling into the drive way I just wanted to push my aunt out of the driver's seat and take off somewhere but then I knew they would say I was crazy. So I just got out and went straight up to my room. I began filling my backpack with the necessities I would need for school, then I picked out an outfit and hopped into the shower. When I came out of the washroom it was like an exact repeat of last night. My window was wide open again. I walked over not in shock this time but extreme frustration and slammed the window shut. I yelled at my aunt and uncle before slamming my door shut as well "stop opening my damn window, its freezing in here!" I climbed into bed and pulled the covers up and over, most definitely ready for a deep dreamless sleep.
There stood the gate, clearly viewable from my window. And this time there stood that boy leaning against it. Even though I was at least a mile to two miles away from him in my house he clearly stared me in the eyes. And then with a blink of my eyes he was gone again. I closed the window and turned around "Christina, So long I've waited for you to return to our humble town." I fell back to the ground "how did you- what do you want?" "I want you Christina, you are to be mine one way or another, and it is our destiny." The boy knelt down to kiss me when his eyes turned black- BEEP . . . BEEP. . . My alarm buzzed. Slamming my hand onto it I heard its curdling cry as the beeps died.
I sat up and stretched, already having everything picked out and set for the day I just lied back down in the bed to collect myself. The eggs cooking downstairs smelled so good, so I threw my clothes and launched myself down the stairs. "Smells great!" Sniffing out the aroma of the room. Eating was something I never usually took my time with, but for some reason I was just so hungry. "Christina, would you like a ride to school today?" "No thanks, Jan I am going to walk." I gave my aunt a hug and headed out the door. Turning around to walk down the street, Eric was standing there leaning against his car awaiting me. Almost like prince charming waiting outside a princess's tower next to his horse. It was romantic and hard to believe but appeasing. "Well Mr. Dubawnt, what a pleasure to see you again so soon!" "Well, now what kind of man would I be to let a beautiful girl like you go to school her first day all on her own." Eric opened his car door and extended a hand to invite me in. The drive didn't seem too bad although we actually stopped speak all together. So taking in the beauty of the scenery, I just stared out the window watching the vibrant pictures pass by me in flashes.
Then we pulled up to the school, it was incredibly tiny. It appeared the size of a large house. "Are you kidding me, this is the high school I will be attending?" "Well yes, what's wrong with it? It's only small Christina because there are a total of 70 teenagers in this town. I mean come on the population is only 300." "Ha ha yea good point!" We parked and started heading towards the school when a girl grabbed Eric's arm. "So this is your new girly then?" She turned and nodded her head in my direction. I felt panic run through my system, a fight already are you kidding me. "No Jennifer, she's not! She is new to the town and just a friend. But even if she was its none of your business anyhow, go find your big ape and stick with him!" Eric seemed so aggressive; he didn't seem like the type to be that aggressive. But the so called Jennifer stuck her smug nose in the air and walked away. Could this have been an ex of Eric's? She was very pretty, short brown hair that framed her face, beautiful green eyes and a body any girl would die for. "Eric who was that? I'm sorry if I caused a fight for you!" Looking down towards the ground I actually felt pretty guilty now, had I taken Eric away from this girl. Even though I had only met him yesterday? Eric grabbed my hand "Christina, she is an ex from a long time ago. Don't even worry about her, as much as I would have loved to say to her you are my new girlfriend. I must admit id love that!" I began to blush and we continued to walk to the school.
When we got inside it was definitely beautiful no matter how small, it seemed everything in this town was just so beautiful. Maybe because it was so small it was easy to have time to make everything about this place look beautiful. Apparently there was a class for each grade had one class that taught everything. A class for 9s, 10s, 11s and 12s. When we got to our room I should have known that Jennifer girl was going to be in there. She stared us in all the way through the class until we got to our desk and settled in next to each other. I must admit that I loved the feeling of making someone else jealous. It really wasn't my area because I never found interest in anyone back in my town. The bell rang and a man walked into our classroom who appeared to obviously be our teacher. "Hello students, welcome back to another year of high school and to be thorough your final year YAY. I will start by taking attendance." He started calling out names and I just sat patiently waiting for mine to be called and everyone look at me as the new girl. "Miss Christina Castle" Bam that was my cue, I raised my hand and everyone turned and looked. "Welcome Christina, I'm sure you will found our little town to be quite tasteful, and as I see you have made Eric a friend of yours. A very wise choice." I smiled "yes sir, I do find the town very tasteful, including the forestry behind my house, it has my approval."
"Well, you have no need to call me sir, you can call me Gary. I hate being so formal, I like to look at our little classroom more as a family! But I must say you're the first person to find the forest area attractive. It's been a dead zone for years now, no animals or anything out there." Mr. or Gary had looked at me in complete curious shock. "Well I took a walk through the area behind my house and there were birds singing and beautiful flowers all around me, so maybe it is just some areas- before I could finish my sentence everyone began to laugh at me. Eric turned to whisper in my ear "Christina, are you insane there are no birds and flowers in our forests. The forests are dead, you must have been dreaming."
But I wasn't, I know I walked right through the forest and seen it with my own eyes, although it did play tricks with my eyes I know I seen and heard everything. They are not dead it's impossible. The teacher just shrugged off a little laugh and began handing out notebooks and text books. This was going to be a long year of school being known as not only the new girl now, but also the crazy girl. This was going to be great. I laid my head down on my desk and started doodling on top of my notebook, pictures of flowers and birds and music notes floating all on top of my notebook. "Miss. Castle, by the looks of it, you will be a great fun to work with in art class. You draw very nicely." "Oh!" I sat up not realizing I had an audience. "Thank you, art has always been one of my favorite subjects. Just one of the many ways to express myself." "I see, and how else do you express yourself- "Oh we know how Sir, Christina express's herself by sharing her crazy lies with the world. It's a way for her attention right ladies!" That obnoxious laugh rang a bell in my head that could only have been Jennifer. As I glanced around who else but Jennifer was sitting there laughing with her little girl group. "Oh Jennifer, don't be upset just because I'm with your man. Or should I say you're ex man." Hoots and hollers screamed out through the room and Eric jumped up and started hooting like we were on Jerry Springer or something.