9 August 2012
"Cancelled?" She was shouting her HUGE mouth off. "What do you mean it has been cancelled?" The new girl was fumbling with the books in her hands and mumbling something that did not go down well. I strolled over just in time to take the top two books before the new girl dropped them, she smiled at me. "Do your own dirty work, Samantha" I said shoving her books into her then took the new girl by the arm and led her away. "Don't hang around with Samantha, don't do her dirty work. Hang around with people you like and like you, don't act up just to be popular." I said then walked away. No one messed with me at school. They knew what I was and quite frankly they were scared of me so I didn't have any friends or anything at school. "Hey" New girl called, catching up to me. "If I were you, new girl, I wouldn't be caught dead standing next to me. It isn't a health hobby to be talking to me around these parts" I said. She smiled. "Well you aren't me" "You've got guts" I murmured. "Really?" She asked. "No! Now get out of here!" I half shouted at her. I hated being so antisocial but I had to, I wasn't aloud friends, and plus who wanted to be friends with a freak.
The next time I saw new girl was in the library at lunch and she somehow found me. I was hidden in a dark corner in a huge, yet comfortable, old armchair and I had a copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream in my lap. "You can trust me, you know?" She said, hugging her books close to her chest, as she looked down at me. I made a grunting sound in the back of my throat, she needed to go away and now. Her answering reply stunned me slightly. "Alissandri, you don't fool me. Why do you even call yourself that stupid name here? Alexandra? What a silly, human name! You aren't even human and all of these idiots know it!" She sounded angry, with an authoritive tone in her voice. "How?" I uttered the one word, looking up at her. "Alissandri, have you not been waiting for me?" She asked, a crooked smile on her face. That's when I took inventory of her. She had very foggy eyes, foggy grey eyes, and her hair was really long and yellow in colour. Her skin, pale, and she was tiny, so petite. She looked like my aunt, a young version of my mother's sister. I stood up and bowed slightly. "I am so sorry, Limiandra" I said. She was smiling now. "So, Aliss," She grinned. "this is the pathetic place the humans call school? Do you even need to learn this rubbish?" I shook my head. "You know I don't have to, none of us do, Limiandra" "Just like your father, you are, Aliss." She was trying to provoke a reaction now. "How is Amardie?" I didn't say a thing, I didn't have to, because someone spoke up. "Are you ever nice to people, Limi? Leave Aliss alone. We all know how Amardie is, no need to open old wounds" His voice came like a gentle whisper spoken through the books. He was the one I was looking forward to seeing, having been my pen pal since I was little. His eyes were dark, menacing, and his short hair was dark too. His tallness was overpowered by his muscly and built body. He looked like someone had pumped steroids into him. "Hey, Homm" I smiled and the returning smile was just as great. "So where is my Yinliff?" Limiandra asked with a sparkle in her small eyes. "At home" Homm replied as if he was adding a mental dur at the end. "Take us?" She asked me. I shook my head. "Um, no. I ride a bike, only fit one passenger" was my answering reply. But I did take them back to my house, of course... Me and Homm ended up on the bike and Limiandra decided that she would shift and run alongside us. "She's small" I commented on Limiandra's wolf's size when we pulled up to my parents' mansion that was shrouded by trees. "Are you serious?" Homm asked me. "She's a big wolf for a girl." I ignored the bitterness in his voice when he said 'for a girl' and followed Limiandra into the house, where she was already screaming in joy. "This is going to be the worst month ever" I mumbled sullenly.
Alissandri • Opuss № I