Leaving the auditorium, Bella took a deep breath and looking down at her munched on pantleg. »Of course. Why wouldn't something happen to exactly my favorite pants?«, she grumbled sarcastically to herself. She sighed, before taking the school map out of her pocket, fiddling around with it again, trying to find out where she was once more. This time, she payed more attention to the subjects, especially the "Finding of the Animal". Suddenly, it clicked her: »It's for students who don't know what their magical animal is!« She facepalmed. »Oh my god, I'm an idiot...« She looked back up, and headed to where it said the subject usually took place.
On her way, she encountered Emma, Lilith, and Rosé, but as she didn't want to answer any questions, she hid away from them. One thing though, she could hear their conversation, and it was not exactly something one would have wanted to hear.
»So, basically«, Rosé started. »I followed her into the auditorium right as I heard her yell out "Of course! Everyone's either in their dorms or exploring, who would stick around in the fricking auditorium?!".« Rosé did an on purpose bad impression of Bella, before she laughed like one of those bullies, the other two girls also joining in. »And get this!«, she continued, snickering. »Before that, I overheard her ask herself: "Finding of the Animal? What could that be?« Again, she did a bad impression of Bella, and Lilith burst out laughing, seeming more... energetic than usual: »Don't tell me she didn't know what "Finding of the animal" is!«, making Emma join in, with one of those fake empathy expressions: »Come on guys.. Does it even matter if she knows what it is or not? She probably already knows what her animal is, that's why she didn't know! But if she doesn't know her animal... I don't think we can be friends anymore..«
Bella put her hand against the pillar she was hiding behind, seeming fairly sad. After a few seconds of replaying that moment in her head, her sadness turned into anger, as she banged her fist against the pillar. Apparently, the girls were snickering so loudly, they didn't hear Bella's anger. Bella whispered to herself, but also towards the girls in a way: »I'll effing show them!«, before marching away, not towards the "Finding Of The Animal" class (which I'll be calling FotA, from now on), no, she was trying to find a teacher. She was going to find a way to find her animal a whole lot faster.
Bella marched around the empty school yard, sometimes looking out into the bordering forest, before turning back to the school. She sighed and closed her eyes, wanting to listen to the insects buzz, birds chirp..
She quickly opened her eyes again and inspected the forest carefully. There was no sound... No sounds at all... HECK- not even in the school! There's no one around, she told herself. Not in the auditorium, not in the main hall, not in the yard! Where is everybody? She looked at the forest in worry once more. She knew from YouTube Shorts that if there were no sounds in a forest, something was about to happen.
Fsss....
A drop of rain landed on her left shoulder, and she turned her head to look at it. »Seriously? That's the big deal?«, she scoffed. Her scoff soon disappeared in shock, as she saw a drop land on a nearby flower. It looked melted. It looked burned of some sorts.
Bella quickly snapped out of her trance and jumped back, still being in shock. Boiling Rain, she thought to herself, widened eyes. Why is there boiling rain? Are we on Earth? Maybe it's climate change.. Are we in the Boiling Isles or what?? No. ADHD, you are not killing us toda-
»HEY YOU!«, she turned her head to find a boy of around her age standing under the overhang. »What the heck are you doing?! Do you want to get 2nd Degree burns or what?« He had gray eyes with medium-length wavy blue-gray hair, and he was wearing a red shirt with long white pants. He looked quite worried and wanted her to get out of there so she didn't get hurt. Bella, on the other hand, she just stared at him, not moving a muscle. A few moments passed by and the boy groaned in frustration. He extended his arm into the rain, just to quickly pull it back in. He sighed and hesitantly stepped into the rain. In that moment, Bella also snapped back to reality: »Wha- What are you doing?!«
»Saving your butt.«
»...«
She silently watched him, as he stepped into the rain after a few more moments of hesitation. She knew that she should be able to get inside on her own, but she was also curious as to how he would manage to do that.
He lunged at her, grabbing her by the arm, not hand, arm, and took her so violently with him she almost got thrown into the building. FKING CHRIST-, Bella yelled silently in surprise as she landed on the ground. »Ow! Christ! Jeez you are strong!..«. As she turned around to look at him, she saw that he was just laying there on the ground, breathing heavily. »Hey, you good?«, not recieving an answer, she crawled over to him in worry, in what a dirty-minded person (like the reader) would call a sexual pose.
»Hello?«
She bapped his cheek then shook him. »HELLOOOOO??? EARTH TO- uh... GUY??«, Bella awkwardly realised that she was sitting over him in such a position AND him bein unconscious, without her even knowing his name. She got off of the Floridan boy and sat on the ground, feeling quite embarrassed.
She sat there, staring at the boy, hoping that he'll wake up soon. And what if he doesn't?, she thought surpressingly. What if he's dead and it's all my fault?! I'm only ten, I can't go to jail yet!! Dammit Bella! If only you hadn't stared at him like tha-
Her anxiety-filled thoughts were interrupted by the sound of laughing. Or was it coughing? More of a mixture, to say the least.
»Hahaha... god... you are really horrible at hiding your thoughts! Where are you from? Some human family?«
He did a few more broken chuckles as Bella whipped around to look at him: »Jesus! Don't scare me like that! Are you okay?!« He looked down at his body for a few seconds then looked back up at Bella. »I think so...«, he mumbled slowly before getting on his knees, trying to stand up. It took a few attempts and some help of Bella's, but he managed it.
»Just a few burns«, he said to which Bella replied shocked: »Burns?! But... how come you got burnt but I didn't? I was in the rain longer!« She sighed and shrugged. »Either way, lets get you checked out by the nurse.« After a few moments of silence, the boy spoke up, extending a hand for her to shake: »MY name's Dan, by the way.« She looked at his hand and shook it. »Bella.« She put her hands on her hips and smiled. »Now lets get you to the nurse, eh, Dan?«
She started walking in a direction until she heard Dan yell: »Wrong way!« making her turn around and walk the opposite way, like in a cartoon.
»Right.«
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After... 1 month and 11 days.. I finally continued. I.. I'm so happy because last night I had the best... (what's the opposite of write block)... I Had INSPIRATION. I had so much of it I even started writing Chapter 8!
AAnd I might stop writing here, because I feel like I just annoy everybody.
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The Discovery -- Book One (VERY Slow Updates)
General Fiction"Alone a Fire-like angel will save our kind. She's one of the last, and the one you should find." They're everywhere! From mere classmates to State Representatives! The Morphers Society is spread out all around the world! But this story is about a g...
