Only If We Were Human

The New Kid

   Lacey and I were sitting next to each other in black leather chairs in Mr. Leblan's office. This is just what I needed isn't it. 

   "Alright girls, I'll be having a one on one conversation with each of you then afterwards I will be informing your parents about this and you can talk to them over the telephone.," Mr. Leblan said to us with a little irratation in his voice. He continued with, "Lacey I'll be speaking with you first. Halynn can you please step outside."

   I walked outside of the office and sat in a chair adjacent from the office and thought about what Mr. Leblan just said; he would be speaking with our parents. My parents were great people, I just wish I had more time with them before they past away. Josh always said I was a spitting image of my mother and had my father's personality. I inherited other traits from my mother too; my powers. She had alot more powers than I have now, but I still have to develop most of my abilities.

   I tried to think of something else while I started rapidly tapping my foot on the ground and put my hands over my face. Josh is going to kill me when he hears about this. This hasn't happened before beacuse I usually keep to myself in school. Nobody would really talk to me and I try not to get to attached to normal people. Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against normal people but I just couldn't relate to them that easily. I mean I'm pretty sure a normal person wouldn't live with a werewolf, vampire, and a ghost who were praticly their best and only friends. Sometimes I would go into a deep day dream about how my life would be if I were normal. I guess I have it made compared to Josh, Aidan., and Sally. I don't think I could image their everyday struggles. For example; Aidan works at a hospital where he has to conrol his blood thirst.

   I snapped out of my deep thoughts when I saw a guy walk out of the counslers office. He had dark brown hair that barely scraped the top of his shoulders. He had mesmerizing crytal blue eyes that where almost exactly like my eyes, except that his eyes were a few shades lighter than mine. His outfit consisted of a Metallica shirt, dark blue jeans with a black belt, and one black sweat band on his left wrist. I could see that he was holding a piece of paper. I concluded that it was a class schedule beacuse I've never seen him in this school before. 

   "DAMN. Look at him! I didn't think it was legal for God to make such a hottie as good looking as that guy was." was a re-occuring thought that kept running through my head. 

   He walked over to me so I automatically put my head down to avoid eye contact with him. He took about five more steps towards me before I heard him stop walking. 

   "Um, excuse me, is that seat taken?," I heard the guy ask in a low pitched voice while awkwardly pointing at the seat next to me. I glanced up at him for a second and answered him with "Yeah".

   I started to think to myself, should I be nosy and read his mind or on the other hand I could mind my own damn business for once. Well I was just sitting there doing nothing, so reading his mind was my pick. I took glances here and there at him consentrating on his mind.

  "Don't let anyone know the monster you really are. Stay in shadows." I didn't know what to think. I wasn't suire what he meant by 'The monster you really are'. I looked at him and I could see he had a facial expression that Josh wore a lot. A facial expression that read that they where scared to let to many people in. He was scared. Not any normal person would pick up on this simply because they're not different like Josh and Myself. 

  "Cool shirt.," He said. "Oh my name's Max by the way. I just transfered from Cline." Cline was our rival disrict that was only about ten minutes away.

  We caught each other's gaze like a deer in the head lights. I built up the courage within myself to say with a faint smile on my face, "I would have thought that you would have been a little more shy to someone you just met.  Oh and my name's Halynn by the way."

   Max returned a smile back to me and continued the conversation. " I guess I would have been a hell of a lot more shy, but I feel as if I can talk to you. You know, like you're different then a lot of other people, I have a feeling." 

   "I know the feeling.," I replied to him softly. Maybe I could actually be friends with this guy. He was pretty legit and I knew he was a human. I could feel it. I wanted to ask him, but I didn't know how kindly he would soak that in. He told me he had a feeling that I was different, I wasn't sure if that meant he thought I was a nice person or if that meant that he knew I was literally different. Thoughts kept flowing through my mind like a rushing stream. Maybe he did know.

  "So uh, maybe we could hang out  after school or something maybe?," Max asked generously. It looked as if he was half smiling, like he was trying to keep back a smile. 

   "Well I would have to see. I'm kinda in trouble right now so if my Uncle will let me get away with it, then I most likely could.," I told Max. 

   After that we mainly talked about stuff that we were into like music, hobbies, and why I was in the office.

   "How did you know that Lacey girl was sleeping with a teacher and she stuffed her bra?," Max asked me curiously. I had to make up some kind of excuse. 

   "I just do.," I replied to him. I know to wasn't the best lie in the world but I had to think of something fast and that was the first thing I thought of.

   "You can't just know those things Halynn. Just tell me how you know. It's no big deal."

   I didn't know what to say to him. So I just told him this, "Look, how about this. If I tell you my secret about how I knew that stuff, you have to tell me what you-" I was interupted by Mr. Leblan calling me into the office.

   "Well, I guess I'll see you later then Halynn., " Max said as I walked past Lacey.