Chapter 1
As I walked into the cafeteria after my fourth period English class, I could see the room was crowded, alight with the buzz of gossip and socialising of the teens that filled it. I could also see the different ‘groups’ or clichés the filled the room. The jocks, the noisy group of boys with the football, the ‘beauties and babes,’ that group of girls that every guy wants, and makes all the other girls wish they were them. I use to be one of them, I could see my ex-best friend siting there, tossing her hair for the boys that sat nearby. On the opposite side of the room I could see the band members and music lovers, the stereotypical nerds nearby, the skaters patching there latest wounds. There were mixes of groups sitting elsewhere in the room as well, none big enough to create a noticeable presence though.
I could feel people’s eyes glance at me as I walked through the room, but never lingering long, only to spare themselves Lizzy’s wrath. I knew people were still curious of my sudden disappearance from my old life, yet the only people that fully knew weren’t in the room, or were not going to share with anyone. Some of the looks weren’t just gossip, men’s eyes had followed me my whole life, my blonde hair and blue eyes made sure of that as well as my thin but curvy in the right places body.my once cherished looks now hidden under daggy clothes and a long fringe.
Even my dull appearance didn’t stop my old ‘friends’ didn’t stop them from growing quiet as I passed there table, but I knew it did contributed towards their loud laughter and whispers as I drew near the food counter. I grabbed my food and left through the side door, before they could break down my shield and unknowingly let me into their secret lives.
No one knew of my abilities, even I’m still struggling to figure them out myself. So far I had some really weird mind reading thing, super hearing and occasional I’d glimpse into the future…I rarely liked what I saw. Mostly all this weird stuff came in flickers and I tend to try and block it all out and act semi-normal.
Once out of the cafeteria, I legged it towards the picnic tables were I knew I would be left in peace As I sat, I took in my surroundings, it was about 10 wooden picnic tables on the grass, surrounded by trees, only reachable by a thin overgrown path through the trees there was another pat similar on the opposite side which curved round and lead to a small clearing. It is so peaceful here I thought as I heard faint footsteps following up the path. I spun around, hoping it wasn’t Lizzy or any of her vicious friends.
But instead of Lizzy appearing it was Jonathon, his green eyes sparkling in amusement at the sight of me preparing myself to fend off the ‘attacker.’
“You ok?” he asked with a smirk.
“Yeah, sorry, thought you were Lizzy or one of them.”
His smile faded at the mention of Lizzy, both of us remembering the hell she put us through.
“Hmm,” he replied, as he dumped his stuff on the seat across from me before sitting down. His dark hair ruffled by the wind, blowing his cologne towards me to breathe in. His muscles could be seen even through the loose shirt he wore. He was captain of the football team before everything…
6 months ago, my life was still perfect. Mum planned a family picnic up at the state forest. I remember not wanting to go, there was some party, some boy, there was always something but mum insisted… We fought about it, standing in the drive way, screaming at each other, fighting like we normally were. If I hadn’t tried to fight it then we wouldn’t have been in that place, at that time, when the drunken truck driver smashed into our car. How stupid it all seemed now, when they were all dead and I was left scarred. I should have been dead, I deserved it, I killed them but something pulled me back from the edge, from them, from death, something according to all the doctors that was impossible, yet I was here.
Lizzy didn’t understand she still had everything she ever wanted. She hated the hospital and the lawyers and the court. Only when I was healed and emancipated she invited me to a party. There was a boy, her recent obsession, the captain of the football team, Jonathon, and she needed my help to add another notch to her belt, him.
This was the first time I had been out since the accident, and I got absolutely smashed. Jonathon found me passed out in her room, he was meant to meet Lizzy there. He didn’t know her plans and thought she sent him there to help clean me up. She came up to find me sobbing hysterically in to his chest. That was it, she went berserk, I don’t remember much, but I was promptly filled in. She thought I tried to steal him from her, seduce him as revenge for her lack of support. She didn’t care what anyone said. She spread rumours and vowed to destroy me, stealing all my friends and turning the world against me.
I avoided everyone, especially Jonathon, I was humiliated and hurt. Lizzy taunts and abuse finally got to me though and Jonathan found me in the library, and again Lizzy found me sobbing in his chest and that was it, not just for me, both of us. In her eyes, he chose me. And in revenge, she turned the football squad and all his friends against him too. She got him kicked off the team.
It had killed him inside to lose the sport he loved, the potential scholarship and most of all watching his friends turn on him. But he stood by me, he became my best friend.
Yet, after all he had done for me, I still couldn’t tell him about the mind reading and the hearing and everything else
Hope you like the first write of this chapter guys:) any imput would be soo helpful :D
