2|| Whispers in the Wind

3|| discovering. doing. dying

Aria

Aria was not amused. She apparently had to go to school. Like, who does that these days right? But nooo, she absolutely had to have a proper high school education.

She was also considering her sanity as these thoughts popped in after she was seated in class ten minutes early thanks to her goody-two-shoes sister. Honestly, most people showed up at the end of school much less before. And this was only homeroom. Aria sighed, fiddling with her charm bracelet. It had been a gift from her mom when she was younger and their parents didn't have favorites.

Refusing to feel depressed about this, she slumped over on the desk. The cold wood seemed to slap her in the face. About 3.5 milliseconds later, the door flew open so hard it bounced back and smacked the person behind it in the face. Aria didn't resist. She laughed. Behind the person in the lead must've been the whole other class, since a voice said quietly, "Miss Daye, I'd rather you not physically express your terrible attitude."

And sure enough, in the lead was the girl they'd met the other day, the one Aria had nicknamed 'BMW bitch.'

Behind her was the man selling ice cream called Elijah Stone. Aria faintly recalled him saying something about teaching. Apparently he taught here.

Aria didn't bother to look through the horde of people coming in from behind. The teacher straightened up and started role. Aria almost dozed off until he called: "Angelica Daye!"

Because she was very familiar with that name. Angelica Daye had been her and Kalyani's best friend for like two months of summer camp years ago.

She almost fell out of her chair once she saw the person responding.

"I'm here. And it's Arlo, not Angelica. I don't like my other name."

"Right then, Arlo Daye it is."

And this sped on and on until finally, the teacher began sending people to their seats. For some reason, he didn't ask Aria to move. He instructed a black-haired boy with glasses- whose name Aria remembered was Leo Chen- to sit on her right, and wouldn't you know it, Arlo Daye ended up on her left.

The teacher went on about something, distracted to the point Aria realized how she could use her time wisely. Turning towards Arlo, she said dramatically, "Damn, you are looking mighty fine today."

Arlo disregarded this comment. So that didn't work. Aria tried again.

"The world has never seen such a wonder as you sit, cross legged, on this chair before me."

Finally, Arlo turned to face her and scowled. "Shut up." 

Aria got the chance to get a better look at this girl. She had a heart-shaped face which was hidden by long blonde bangs. Her lips looked naturally pink- which Aria thought was weird that she was thinking about- and the strangest were her eyes. Her eyes were gray with a pretty violet sheen to them. Not that Aria thought she was pretty or anything like that.

Arlo had changed. The last time the twins had seen her, she had been rather clumsy and shy, and Aria had never noticed her eye color before.

"Chill, granny. You look way hot for your age," Aria drawled.