Fires of rage and flickering light of love

chapter 1

As he sat in the corner of the lunch room he imagined what new hell the day would bring. He was wearing black pants and a black and blue school shirt and red shoes with a short beard ,strange for a 15 year old, and well groomed brown hair. not a large boy but neither was he the smallest,but he was strong even if he didn't look it in his drab school clothes. Of an average height of "5'11 he still stood taller than most of the students at the school. he lazily watched the other students for any sight of his prey giving themselves away but to no avail. He became lost in thought thinking of the events of last week. He could not believe she had done that...and now she seemed to be ignoring him since...." Ruben!!" He jumped pulling out the headphones and looking around for who had called him his eyes a lighted on a group of sophomores sitting around the table closest to his corner. Giving up on looking for his prey deciding that they had decided not to come to school today he walked over to the sophomores table and put on a fake smile that seemed to satisfy the teens that were looking at him, as he pulled out a chair a plump Mexican girl with some strange name he couldn't pronounce so he just called her Jill dropped a small stack of papers on the table in front of his chair. It was the history work Mr. P had given them in 2nd period "I don't understand! Why does he give us work he knows we can't do?"she looked at him accusingly. "The only person that's passing is you...if I didn't know better I would think you were cheating." She said as he organized the paper and pulled over the history book she had just pulled out of her bag. He didn't need the book but he didn't wanna seem to smart and he needed to be able to explain it to her in ways she would understand so he opened the book to the chapter that they had been covering today and started to show her. He soon became bored and was getting lost in thought about last week again but it didn't matter he could do this work in his sleep. 30 minutes passed and Jill was still having trouble understanding the work but she was coming along by herself fine for the moment and he was doodling on a extra piece of paper.The rest of the sophomores at the table were talking about some new TV show. One of them a boy named Paul looked over at him and saw he was drawing and asked what it was that he was drawing he looked down curious himself what he had drawn because he hadn't been paying attention himself. Realizing what he had drawn he quickly started to erase the drawing when he saw that Paul was trying to get a better look at at. It was a drawing of how to make and operate a acid bomb. Paul reached out to take the paper to look at it but Ruben snatched the paper up and started ripping it onto shreds, it wouldn't do to have anybody at the school asking questions least of all Paul, his mother was the councilor. He didn't see how that women had become a councilor, it was like she didn't even know the word smile . Paul gave Ruben an odd look as he finished shredding the drawing "why did you do that? You're an amazing artist you could even do mangas." Relieved that Paul thought it was embarrassment Ruben made himself grow red in the face to give life to the lie Paul had unknowingly created for him "I'm glad someone likes them but they are bad Paul." Ruben said Paul was about to say something but Jill cut him off "sorry to interrupt the bromance but I need help with number 17" Paul punched her in the arm, Ruben was about to help her when his phone buzzed. He looked down, his ride was here. "Hey Paul can you help her I'm leaving" he started to gather his things "wait what??! Paul sucks at history!!" Exclaimed Jill in her squeaky voice as he started walking to the door "I know I like watching y'all fail." He said back to her. "Why do you get to leave?" Paul yelled to him as he approached the door to the hall. As he exited Ruben yelled "family!"  He heard a muffled "luck bastard" from the door closing behind him "if only you knew..." He muttered under his breath. He started walking to the front office where his mother would be waiting. As he walked passed the detention room he glanced in by habit and froze. There his prey was, she was sitting in the middle of the room being lectured by Miss Witt for something or other. Sabrina, she was a grouchy girl Wearing all black with black hair and pale skin, which was a wonder seeing that they lived in south texas. "Detention... That would explain why she wasn't in the lunch room." He thought to himself as he continued on his way to the office. When he got there his mother Katherine was waiting for him. She signed him out and he said bye to the lady behind the front desk. In the car halfway home his mother turned down the radio down "so did you do it?" He winced and shook his head "I couldn't get close to her." Katherine sighed "I thought we had trained you better." Growing angerer he snapped at her "she was in detention! What was I supposed to do? Go in and give her a pill and say 'hey can you eat this so I can find out if you're a monster or not?' Yeah that would go over swimmingly mother." She glared  at him but said nothing. After a time he turned the radio back up and slowly drifted to sleep. 7 miles from enchanted rock He awoke as they turned onto a long dirt driveway shaded thickly by trees. It was six thirty at night and he was ready for this night to be over already but he knew that tonight would last forever... Some miles down the road Katherine pulled to car over into the side of the driveway alongside a large black SUV that was uncle Billy's. He had to give it to uncle billy, for being a guy that never once had a real job he did manage to afford some nice toys. Ruben turn to his mother, she was putting her hair up in a ponytail. "Whats the rank of this one?" He asked her in a lazy voice as he unbuckled and tossed his backpack in the back seat of the small car. "Nothing we can't handle." She said flippantly as she hopped out of the car. He groaned in annoyance, he hated it when she avoided the question like that. He got out and walked to the back of the car and opened the trunk slung the large black bag that had been inside it over his shoulder, he walked over to a small group of people that were dressed in black and brown body armor, the armor was light and had quick release mechanisms at the shoulders and sides for easy removal.All of the people were armed with their personal choice of weapons. He saw uncle billy talking to three people he didn't know. Billy was only armed with a brick of a weapon he called a gun. Billy saw him approaching and grinned "still haven't shaved that thing you call beard yet?" He called out. In resignation Ruben replied "I've shaved it more times I care to count, and five seconds after I do the bloody thing has already grown back!" That brought a deep laugh from his uncle. "Go get ready before I find another witch to curse you with the shits this time!" Ruben grinned but flipped his uncle the bird as he left to go do as he had been told. Four hours later he had found his way into a big oak tree 100yds from the house he had been told the targets were hiding in. The house was one story ,normal in texas, it had pealing red paint and a tin roof. On the side of the house facing Ruben there were two windows one was a bathroom window the other he couldn't tell the lights were off. He had his recurve bow resting on his knees while he sat on a fork in the large branches. He had grown bored of watching the house and had began playing with a wolfhead patch that was attached to the left breast of his armor. uncle billy had said that this house only had class F and under targets. he keyed his radio "billy, this is lookout how many targets are there supposed to be?" the second window light up he froze. it was a bedroom. four pale men walked into the room dragging something he couldn't quiet make out. his radio earpiece went off. it was billy. "three females and one male, all under class F" he saw what the men were dragging. it was a person. aww shit.