Heathen Series - Changed

Chapter 13

Tannah Pov...

I enjoyed mimicking a cat as I stretched my out of my sleepy daze. Part of my morning routine. It was my turn to make breakfast, and I was determined to make it the best one we had ever had; we needed it.

The computer flashed grabbing my attention quickly. I moved over to it, switched it on and waited. We had gotten an email from Steph, and I was anxious to open it...

About damn time!
What was the password though?

"Guys, wake up! We got an email from Steph! I really want to read it, but the damn computer is password protected! What's the password again!?"

I yelled excitedly trying my best to figure it out but failing miserably.

"Shh. It's too early for this Tannah." moaned Xelia as she slumped out of her room.

Everyone came out of theirs slowly; irritated and tired. Oops.

"I'm sorry but the email is from Steph, and it looks important... I think..."

The irritation disappeared from their faces and was replaced with excitement and relief.

"So, open it!" insisted Xelia.

"I forgot the password." 

"How could you forget it when you created it and had all of us memorize it?" joked Ntsakela.

"I don't know. nut in future I will write it down somewhere." 

"Move I'll unlock it quickly." stated Ntsakela.

She spent less than a minute typing then read the email aloud for everyone while I moved into the kitchen to start making breakfast. They sat attentively waiting for Ntsakela to finish reading the email and watched as she logged off quickly. She turned in her chair and stared at the us. The sad and gloomy faces said everything we needed to say. We went from giggles to blank expressions fast.

"Well that just sucks." announced a voice from the door.

I watched as Dwayne and the rest of the guys walked in.

"Sorry we heard the whole thing." answered Shaylin.

"Yeah, what the fuck does that mean?" asked Dwayne pushing through the lot of them.

He must be missing Steph the most. Those two were almost inseparable and having be away from each other for this long was definitely driving him mad though he would never admit it. She was like a sister to him. 

"It means that our friend got into trouble thanks to the others. Look who she has to train with; they can cause a lot of trouble very quickly and it looks like they already had." answered Taylor.

"See I told you this would happen, but does anyone listen to me, no. Now look! This is exactly how it started at the other schools." protested Serina angrily.

"Let's not overreact! Maybe it IS just a privilege drop and nothing bad is really happening." corrected Shaylin calmly while he played with my hoodie.

I enjoyed the company in the kitchen and the little distraction he offered while Serina glared at him from the distance. Oops.

Shaylin wasn't bothered by it and moved closer to me to help me with breakfast. Thank goodness because I was starting to get lazy.

"Yeah... Plus there is nothing we can do if there was trouble. It's not like we can teleport or anything like that." I added while I fried the eggs.

The bell rang an hour later after we had finished breakfast and gotten dressed. We got all our bags and floated to homeroom gloomily.

Trapped in our thoughts, we walked mindlessly through the hallways – first to our lockers then to the class – not noting where we walked and nearly walking into every pole or person that came our way.
We would get through this though. We always get through tough times.

***

Xelia Pov...

I stood staring at the picture that Steph had made for us, and it hit me.

An idea for the art assignment that was due on Friday. I couldn't do it myself and would need some help from my friends – well I would find a way to involve them in some way.

I ran to homeroom; I was late and looked shyly at Mr. Cheng hoping he wouldn't give me a detention. This was probably my fifth time or so.

"Sorry Mr. Cheng!" I called quickly.

"Mmhhmm, what was it this time?"

"The grade-8s were crowding the hallway and refused to move."

"Maybe it is because you look like one of them." he joked and smiled as I took her seat.

I returned the smile before I beckoned for all my friends to crowd around and showed them the photo. They smiled but looked confused as they all had that same one; I didn't expect them to understand right away.

I sighed and looked around to see if anyone else was listening; when I was satisfied, I gestured at the photo again.

"For our art projects, the one that Miss Satan gave us. Let's do an artwork on each other, on our friendship or on the incident that she was involved in with us!"

"What?" they all sang more confused than ever.

"Let's do the drawing or whatever on our friendship. We are important to each other, and we took art because we love it, but she is making our lives difficult ever since that fucked up incident with Victoria and Jeydon. So, let's do the same to her. It's what Steph would suggest. You know how she used to get." I explained quickly.

"True." affirmed Katlego proudly.

"And it's art! She can't do shit about it really... We are expressing ourselves." I finished.

I waited for them to say something as they all thought about it. I really hope they say yes. This would be so epic!

"Let's do it!"

We spent the rest of the free time we had in homeroom planning this artwork. Mr. Cheng heard us and smiled dropping a piece of paper with a list of where they could get everything we needed and adding a few suggestions of his own on the floor next to our table as he passed before returning to his table with a wicked smile across his face. We knew that he didn't like Miss Satan either ever since she started flirting with him while trashing us at the same time. We giggled and carried on planning our art piece...

This was going to be unforgettable.