Forever Mine

🖤Chapter Three🖤

I've been staring at myself in the mirrors for what feels like forever but was a total of 15 seconds, before my Mell clears her throat to get my attention. I snapped my head in her direction before shaking my head, ridding it of all 'what if's'.

I looked at her for a moment before finally telling her the song I wanted. I stand there waiting for her to find the song. Eventually 'Do I Wanna Know?' by Arctic Monkeys begins to play.

The moment the song starts, I close my eyes and take a couple deep breaths before I begin to move.

I move all around the space given to me. I listen and feel the music coursing through my body. I allow myself to loosen and flow through the room with as much ease required for the song.

Finally the song ends and I stop moving. Closing my eyes, I stop and gather my thoughts. By the time I opened my eyes, I had forgotten there were other people in the room.

I hunch over, my hands on my knees still trying to catch my breath. Once I've gotten a hold of my breathing, I finally open my eyes and look up.

The moment my eyes hit the mirror a wave of embarrassment hit me. Everyone was just standing there. Some with wide eyes, some with slack jaws, others are smirking. There is one girl who is glaring at me like she actually wants to kill me. I mean one thing I have noticed is that everyone here is a little odd. Like something about them is off but she looks like she actually wants to like... bite my head off.

My eyes continue to shift over the group of students. I look further to my left and I see the two girls that made eye contact with me before class have huge grins on their faces.

My eyes lift behind them and I see the brown haired boy looking at me with a sweet smile on his face, the blond haired boy's jaw might have actually fell through the floor, and the black haired boy is just staring blankly at me. He's kinda giving me Edward vibes, he's squinting at me like he's trying to read my mind.

I can't really tell his full reaction because his hair is covering his eyes but I think I can see a slight smirk on his lips. I'm not too sure and I don't look at him long enough to figure it out.

As I'm shifting my gaze back towards Professor Mell, my eyes shift past the girl from earlier. Who by the way is still glaring at me. What the hell is wrong with her?

I shook my head, finally I turned back to look at Mell, who was grinning at me like a Cheshire cat. She proceeds to walk over to me with the most mischievous look in her eye.

"Uhm... heh." I let out a breathy laugh.

She doesn't say anything just simply continues to smile at me, lightly shaking her head.

We stand there like that for a moment before she speak up and asks me a question. 

"Aelia right?" She ask. I nod in response.

"How has been you first day so far?" She continues. 

I stand there for a moment trying to find the words to properly express how today's been. 

"Uhm.. good." I start. "I mean it's new and everything and I'm a little uncomfortable but it hasn't been bad." I look up at her, letting a small uncomfortable smile appear on my face. 

All she does is nod her head slightly. "Well, I'm going to introduce you to them okay? It's always good to have a couple people by your side, especially if you're new." 

"Oh- uhm..." Before I could get my sentence out she calls them over. 

"Hey! Guys, come over here for a minute." Professor Kings calls the group. They all look up and make their way over to us. By now Professor Mell had dismissed class and it was only them and a couple stragglers, including little miss glares a lot.

While they make their way over to us, people have been coming up telling me how amazing I did and giving me compliments. 

Once they make it over, the black haired girl is the first to speak. "Hey mom." Ohh she's their mom. That explains a lot. 

"Hello Kell." She replies with a smile. "Hello Kill." She says to her son. "Hey, mom." He nods his head a smiles slightly. 

I kid you not, the moment he opened his mouth I'm pretty sure my jaw hit the ground. His voice was so deep, but not, the force wanna be bad boy deep. He has a natural rasp, it's kinda dark and broody. But the way he speaks is smooth, with a slight accent. All three of them do. 

I immediately snap myself back to the present before I make a fool of myself. Well more of a fool of myself. 

"Do you want to introduce yourself?" She asks me, her eyes soft and caring. 

"Uhm.. Hey guys, I'm Aelia. Aelia Storm." Everyone eyes widen slightly. There expressions sober up as quick as they appeared.

Then Kell begins to speak. "It's really nice to meet you Aelia, I'm Kelliana Kings , but everyone calls me Kell. This is my brother Killian Kings , and these are our friends. Terra Locke, Lennox Hunter , and Noah Hart." She points and introduces everyone.

"Hi, it's nice to meet you." I say awkwardly looking down shifting  left and right.

"We saw you earlier, I knew you looked like someone we knew but I couldn't put my finger on it, guess we know now." She says with a smile.

I look at her confused. What does she mean I look like someone she knows? Does she know my mom?

Instead of asking what she means, I just smile. Yeah I'm aware, I am painfully awkward but what do you want from me, if anxiety was a person it would be me. 

"You're so pretty, and you seem really  cool." She grins at me, practically bouncing up and down. 

"Heh... Thanks. So do you. All of you do, even tho I haven't talked to the rest of you." A nervous chuckle slips out of my mouth as I continue to fidget. 

They all chuckle a little. Probably at my fidgety, awkward appearance. 

"Okay well, we  have to get going, but I can't wait to get to know you. We are all really excited. Maybe we can hang out later this week, get to know each other. All of us of course." I wanted to respond but I didn't know what to say. 

Luckily, she began speaking again. "Here, let's give each other our numbers." We swap phones and exchange numbers.

"Uhm... Yeah, that sounds cool. I'll talk to you later I guess." I tell her with a smile.

She looks at me with a huge smile before hugging me and walking away. The others say goodbye before following after her, but as I look straight ahead, I see little miss glares a lot running up to Killian and gripping onto his arm before following them out the door.

I close my eyes, turning  back towards the mirrors, and let out a sigh. "Wow... I knew I was awkward but that physically hurt." I whisper to myself. 

I open my eyes, not expecting anyone to still be there, but instead of being met with the reflection of myself. I am met with my Professors, soft, patient, caring eyes. 

I jump a little, letting out a slight gasp. 

"Oh I'm sorry, I thought you knew I was stilll here." Chuckling a little. 

Still clutching my chest, I let out another breath before looking back at her. 

"It's okay." I assure her. "Uhm... It was nice to meet you. I think I'm going to have a lot of fun this semester." I smile at her. A genuine smile. 

"Of course. It was so nice to meet you as well Aelia." I nod my head, picking up my stuff and making my way to the exit. Before I can step out she speaks up again. "Oh and Aelia, I can't wait to get to know you better. I'll be seeing you around." She smiles at me still, but it's the same as before. Slightly softer but she. 

I don't know what she means by that, but I feel like it will be a good thing. I feel like moving here is going to be a good thing.