Elements School

Chapter two- Re-enterings

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I speed on home and find that now all the guys are here. “Honey, I’m home!” I yell and plop down in between Dan and Alec. All five guys were watching some action movie that girls hardly ever understand. I may be a little more boyish they most girls, but even I don’t like this movie.

“Hey, what took you so long?” Dan asks and I rest my head on his shoulder.

“Oh, you know, I had to go save a kitten from a tree.” I answer and he smiles. That’s code for, ‘I don’t want to say it right now so I’ll tell you later.’ We decided this one night when we were out with his friends and I demanded that we go to the nearest store. While they were in line for food I snuck off and went to the bathroom and put in a tampon. And that’s how that happened.

“Who’re you texting, Chris?” Hector asked and both of the brothers leaned over him and snatched it away before he could shove it in his pocket.

“Ooh… Riley… I wonder who that is….?” Victor smiled at a furiously red face.

“No one, just this girl.” he grumbles. I smiled.

“I know Riley, she’s sweet, though a little to innocent, but that could be a turn on.” I tease and wink at him. “Me and her go way back.”

Riley was a sweet girl. She always curled her hair and wore the most pretty casual dresses ever. She was the type of girl that is nice to everyone and smiles at them down the hall, you know that girl in your classes, right? She’s a little shy but if you start a conversation with her she comes out of her shell and gets really talkative after that.

“Shut up, it’s not important, she’s just talking to me, nothing more.” Chris mumbles and snatches his phone back before the brothers can take it away from him again. They’d be so cute together! I’ll have to get her to sit with us sometime or something.

The guys stopped teasing him after awhile and we all watched another movie, this time scary. I can do scary movies, unlike some of the more girly girls. Avery, my mom, and I use to have an all-girls horror movie Saturday when we would sleep until eleven or midday and stay up all night to watch the movies at night. That memory brought a pang to my heart and I looked down at the ring my mom gave me on my seventeenth birthday. It was a silver band with some Greek engravings on it and in the center was a fiery red stone and when you moved it to either side it looked like it was on fire. Ironic how my little power thing is fire and this ring is that too.

I’m sure they gave Avery one too. She’s about seventeen now since my mom got busy as soon as I was born. Avery was born nine months and three days after me. May eighteenth to be exact, just two months away. On her seventeenth birthday they probably have it in their will or something to give it to her when the time comes or something.

I stopped thinking about Avery though, and focused my eyes on the T.V. that was now killing some dumb blonde with a dull knife and getting blood everywhere. Dan scooted closer discretely and slightly hid behind me, he was a huge wuss when it came to scary movies or anything to do with blood and gore for that matter.

After the movie was done the guys left. Apparently now that they moved here without their parents they were living in this apartment thing too, so we’ll be seeing a lot of them. Dan seemed really happy, he loved making friends and was actually pretty confident with it came to talking with people and making friends with them. He was also good at sweet talking girls into bed with him, which I didn’t understand how some of these girls could fall for such stupid pick-up lines like the kind that he says.

After they left to go in the door across from ours Dan locked it and turned to me. I sighed and sat back down. “Macy is leaving to go to some school for a different job. Actually, she already left, I watched her go. And…” I swallowed and hesitated. Avery and Dan had this weird thing. He met her once and they instantly started flirting and stuff. This was all before she went across the world and my whole family died of course. That’s the only reason why I knew that I could trust him.