"I know what you are- so do the others. I can hurt you. Just remember that you ugly whore." I rested my hands on her shoulders. I took three deep breaths and evaluated my next move. If she already knew what I am then why hold back? In addition, how did she find out? All I could think of what getting the hell out of here.
"Good that means I can do this." I felt my energy waves expand uncontrollably into her chest and sent her flying into the tile wall. She yelled in pain as her head hit the wall. I turned around and ran for the door. Right before I opened it, I looked back at her. I enhanced my senses and could here water flowing through the pipes. I expand my energy waves to the pipes and could sense the water pressure rise. Suddenly a wave of water burst through the wall and sent particles of pipes, tiles, and concrete flying everywhere. The room was filled with a cloud of smoke. The explosion sent Taylor flying from to the other side of the room, and hit one of the stales. I could not help but smile. For once my powers were a benefited to me. I walked over to her and squatted down in front of her so I was at her eye level.
"I can hurt you to.” I told her. I then got up and left the bathroom. I saw Jericho who was rushing towards me. As he came up to he wrapped his arms around me in a tight bear hug.
"Avery! What the hell was that? Are you okay?" He asked me. He pulled away from me and jerked my head around so he could inspect me. He lifted each arm to look at them.
"I'm fine. I need to go to the principal’s office." I told him as I tugged him along.
"Wait what? What did you do?" He asked me. I ignored him and continued to walk quickly. I burst into the office and accidently startled the poor secretary.
"Avery? What is wrong hon? You look pale," she said.
"I need to talk to Mr. Fisher immediately." I told her. She nodded her head at me and pressed the intercom. She then looked up at me.
"Go on in hon." She said with a warm smile. I hesitantly walked into the office. I say Mr. Fisher looking down at papers scattered across his desk. He took one look at Jericho and began to sweat like a pig.
"What is it Avery?" He asked me.
"One of the pipes exploded into the bathroom. I just came into the bathroom to wash my hands and this girl named Taylor was there. She started yelling at me- I honestly don’t know about what but- then all of a sudden there was an explosion and water is everywhere, and Taylor needs help. She’s hurt and won't get up-"
"That's enough information Crawford. I will alert the nurse and well start investigating. Thank you." In addition, with that I nodded my head and left with Jericho close behind me.Jericho caught up to me and caught my shoulder.
"Hey whet exactly happened in the bathroom?" He asked me. I shook my head at him.
"I'' tell you latter. I'm just going to go to the nurses office. I'm not feeling well." I told him. His face dropped and he said,
"Are you sick?" He asked me. I shook my head at him.
"Just a migraine is all." I told him. I heard him sigh and he pinched the brig of his nose. He draped his arm around me to block the voices out. Without a word, he walked to the nurse’s office.
"I'll bring you some food. Okay? Do not leave without me." He said as he rested his forehead on mine. I nodded my head and walk into the nurses office. The nurse was not in yet so I went ahead and laid down on the thin bed. I stared up at the ceiling light and the four white walls. I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. Before I knew it sleep found me.
I was woken up in a strange way. I am not quite sure how to describe it. It was as if I was gently being lifted from the numbness of sleep. It was as if a presence drew my eyes open. I cringed at the bright fluorescent light that flooded the room.
I noticed the shadow in the room and turned to see Jericho slouched over sleeping in a plastic chair across from me. In his hands rested a white Styrofoam box filled with chow mien, tofu, and steamed veggies. As the smell over whelmed me, my stomach let out a distressed groan of starvation. My face flushed from embarrassment and I clutched my stomach as if I was attempting to silence it.
That was when I noticed Angela looking at me from over his shoulder. She looked at me and noticed I was awake. She then lowered her mouth next to his ear and whispered,
"She’s awake.”As soon as he words touched his ears, he jolted awake and almost sent the box of Chinese flying across the room.
"Hey." He said in a composed voice.
"What time is it?" I asked him. His eyes softened as he glanced at his phone.
"A little after 5th period." my face fell into a frown.
"I missed lunch." I said in a said voice. He nodded his head, and handed me the box of food.
"That’s why I got you this." He told me. I opened the lid of the box and steam hit my face. I smiled at the food and thanked him. I snapped the chop sticks apart and started to twirl the chow mien and was ready to take a bite. Right when I took a bite, I heard Jericho speak.
"what happened?" He asked me. I hung my head and hid my face with my hair.
"Avery..." Angela said in a harsh tone as if she was speaking to a small child. I took a shaky breath then replied.
"I went into the bathroom, and Taylor was there. She began to threaten me. She said something. Then all of a sudden- I lost control." I told him. I looked up at Angela, who gave me a reassuring smile.
"Avery, It will happen sometimes. You just need to learn how to control it. You abilities are finally fully coming in. So you need to slowly adjust to them. I think the best thing to do would be to keep your emotions in line." I nodded my head.
"She's right." I heard Jericho say. I rolled my eyes.
"Great so you can see her now?" I said in a sarcastic tone. He scoffed and shook his head at me.
"No, your pushing it on me." For that slight moment I felt ashamed. I put the chop sticks
"Sorry..." I said in a quite tone. I felt like hiding. I could not even contain my "abilities" to my self. Instead I was pushing them onto the closest person near me. Perhaps this is the reason it would be best if I kept to my self.
"Avery- Exactly what did she say to you?" He asked me. My head shot up and I looked at him. I felt my eyes glaze over. Honestly I did not want to share what she had said to me because in all truth I was not willing to accept the truth. My secret was no longer mine. The Paterson's knew, Maverick, and Taylor all knew what I am. What scared me even more what the fact I had been oblivious to this. I would never know how long they knew. frankly I did not want to know.
"Avery..." Jericho's voice drew me from my thoughts. I then realized he was waiting for an answer.I decided that he should know, even If I was not willing to face the reality of it.
"She said that she know 'what i am' and so do the others." I looked over at Angela who was trying to hide under her hair. She felt guilty and scared as well.
"I should have help you more." She said in a weak tone. I shook my head at her.
"You've helped me as much as you can."
"No, I'm suppose to be your keeper, yet I let things like this happen to you."
"Angela, I know you feel like it's your fault, but it's not. only only so much you can do." I gave her a small smile to show her I'm fine. However that smile quickly faded. She whipped her hair side and smiles at me. However her smile quickly fades as well. She then whipped her eyes, and I can tell that if she had the ability to cry... she would. However that was robed from her as well when her life was taken.
I took deep breath and swung my legs over the side of the bed. I slowly lifted my self up, but winced at the pain that throbbed in my head. I felt Jericho rest his hand on the small of my back as he tried to help me up.
"What do you think your doing?" He asked me.
"Going to class." I said simply. I then felt his hands pushing me down.
"Oh no you don't."
"And whys that?"
"Because I can tell just by looking at you that your still in pain. You really want to expose your self to all those thoughts?" He asked my in a questioning tone. I did not answer him inste
ad I picked up my unfinished box of Chinese and began to eat it once more. Jericho instead on getting an answer form me, however I simply avoided it by pointing out I was chewing. I finally swallowed and looked over to see he was still in the room.
"Shouldn't you be in class?" I asked him. He brushed his fingers threw his short, sandy hair, and said,
"After what happened with Taylor, I'm not extremely found of leaving you alone." I could not help but blush at his words.
"Thanks." I guess. I stared down at the food and then closed the lid. I handed to him and laid down.
"I'm not hungry anymore." I told him. I heard him exhale as he stood up to throw it away.
"You should sleep some more." He told me. I remained silent for a short while until I finally work up the nerves to say,
"You arn't going to leave are you?" It became deadly quite once more, I held my breath to hear his answer.
"No." As soon as I heard him say this I was able to exhale and let sleep take over.
* * *
I once again woke up to a bright light, but this time there was no throbbing I looked over to see that Jericho had fallen asleep as well and Angela had vanished. I then made a mental note to ask her where she goes when she's not with me. I slowly stood up and walked over towards him. I gently shook him awake.
"Jericho, seventh period is over, we should go." I told him. He groggily shook his head and stood up from his chair. I went to sign out and then we left the nurses office. It was quite between us as we walked side-by-side down the crowded hallway. We didn't say a word. We went to his locker. We went to mine and continued to walk down the hallway. Right when I though things could not get more tense, he did something surprising. He swung his arm around my shoulder and pulled me near him. I raised my eyebrows up at him and asked him,
"What are you doing?" He did not look at me in stead he kept his gaze in front of him.
"Keeping you from getting a migraine. You said that I somehow block out you abilities so that's what I'm doing." I smiled rested my hand on top his, and leaned my head against him.
"Thank you." I whispered. I could tell that he was smiling just by his energy signature that rolled off him. As I look at our hand inter twined and how my body almost disappeared next to him, I realized how small I was compared to him. His hand swallowed mine in comparison.
"So exactly what did Taylor look like when you kicked her ass?" He said in a jocular tone. I did my best to stiffly my laugh.
"Completely mortified. It reminded me of a shocked frog." I joked. I heard him snicker.
"About damn time she got her ass kicked."He said in a proud voice. I scolded him afraid someone would hear us.
"What ass?" Although I knew I should not be joking about this I could not help but to do exactly that. Judging by the way Jericho threw his head back to laugh, I took it that he though the same thing.
"so are you going to watch me practice?" He said with a wide grin. I scoffed at him and said,
"I honestly don't see why not." His smile grew as he walked me towards the gym. We continued to laugh loudly at ridiculous things. Jericho pushed open the door of the gym, and when he did, my good mood vanished.
My eyes zeroed in on Tarrance and Maverick sitting on the bleaches laughing. Maverick took notice of me and nudged Tarrance to look over in my direction. Tarrance turned to look at me and snickered at something Maverick said. I could feel my face pale as I stood there frozen. I quickly turned and ran down the hallway. Jericho quickly ran after me.
"Avery!" As soon as I heard him call my name I stopped in my tracks. I pivoted around on my heels to face him. He skid to a stop just inches from me.His face expression was softened and -just as I was- the joking mood from seconds ago was gone.
"I'm not going in there. Maverick and Tarrance are both in there, and I'm not going anywhere near them." I said in a panicked voice. I was expecting him to lecture me about how childish I was being, but instead, he wrapped his arms around me and pulled into a hug. He kissed my forehead and pulled back to look at me.
"Hey, it's going to be okay. You just go to the library to study and meet me in front of the school. " He told me with a smile. I smiled back at him and got on my toes to kiss his cheek. I then quickly turned around and walked down the hallway as I waved at him. His eyes shined as he stared after me. I felt like I should run back to him, but another part of me did not want to look foolish. So I kept walking, and decided I would see him after school.
The Werewolf in the Room
(A/N: THIS IS IMPORTANT!Haunted is beginning to develop a darker storyline. This chapter contains violence mild nudity and attempted rape. I have but the parts to be cautioned in bold
in case you are not comfortable with read "that" sort of thing. Haunted will have a more mature plot line, but nothing that would deem it "rated R". Enjoy and remember to comment)
I stood outside the gate of the school and waited for him to peal out of the parking lot.
However, he never did. The streetlights flickered on and the cold air kicked up. The wind howled down the empty street and swept up my dress. I shuddered at the cold and pinned my dress to my knees. I regretted wearing a dress when I lived in Washington. I pulled my leather jacket closer around me and adjusted my scarf. I looked around and debated whether to walk home.
I sat down on the curb and focused my energy. I hated forcing a vision. It hurt like hell afterwards, but right now, I need one. I saw the flickering neon sign of one of the stores I pass on my way home. I then saw the slightly rusted street sign that marked the halfway point. My shoes were damp from the rain and my soaked hair clung to my face. I carried my book bag over my head as I ran trying to shield myself from the rain.
My eyes shot open and the vision ended. I was walking... I took one last look at the school and sighed. I guess something came up. I figured it would happen eventually. I stood up, brushed my dress off, and started walking down the road.
It was not a big deal. I have walked home millions of times. This one was no different- yet it still stung. Where was he? He told me he would take me home. What if he had planned this from the beginning and all of them were watching me stand at the side of the rode like a fool. It made since... it natural.
That was when I stopped walking. I stood there and just stared straight ahead of me with an empty, glass look on my face. I have been played. I trusted him knowing this would happen and now that it did ... I do not know. I do not know how I should react. Am I jumping to conclusions? Was I over reacting? If I was then why was I so hurt. Why I was crying- oh, I am crying...
I then let the tears fall as I wiped them away from my face repeatedly. I sniveled and continued to walk. I heard a shuffling noise come from the alley in between two stores. It was probably just a storekeeper throwing out trash.
As I walked by a pair of hands reached out and grabbed me. I cursed myself for not watching the vision longer. No wait- It was not raining yet so that meant the vision happened after this. Dammit! I wish I could have just waited for him! Now I was being dragged into an alley by some creep. I screamed against his hand as loud as I could. I thrashed my legs around and tried to get out of his grip. I was so terrified that I had blocked the vision I would have gotten from his touch. That confirmed that it was not Jericho.
I was pinned up against the brick wall. IT was too dark to see my attackers face. I was so scared that all visions, auras, even my common since were blocked. I was so terrified that I could not see Angela. My tears flowed from my eyes. From the tight grip my attacker had on my wrist, I knew two things 1.) This was intentional. 2.) This man planned to hurt me.
I squeezed my eyes shut and imagined someone coming to my rescue. The man leaded down and whispered in my ear. His sticky and warm breath clung to my neck and made me feel sick. He pinned my body against the wall with his and ran his large rough hand down my side.
"I warned you." Then I knew who it was. I had nightmares about the same man. Terrance. He then laughed and his warm sickening breath clung
to my face.
"Oh, how I warned you." He said again. I heard a click and then I felt a sharp item press again my thought. It was a knife. I began to cry harder.
"If I uncover your mouth... will you promise not to scream?" I slightly nodded my head, but winced when I felt a warm liquid run down my neck. I then realized that even the slightest movement and the blade would puncture my throat further.
"Good." He said as he removed his hand from my mouth.
"Not a sound or your dead." He snarled. With that, he threw me on the ground and before I could react, he was on top of my with the knife pressed against my neck. His hand traveled up my stomach to my breast. He trailed along the neckline of my dress. He then pulled the neckline down an exposed my breast. I gasped in shock when he pressed the knife harder against my neck, but was cut off. I choked on my own whimper and tried to sink in closer to the ground.
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