Horns of Revenge (Book 1 of Horns Unveiled Series)

Chapter 2

Flashback 2.

October, 2256 year.

Once, somewhere almost in the beginning of the second grade, a boy from another school had been transferred to us, everyone called him an upstart and rich, at least he seemed like that. When he entered our classroom for the first time, his appearance caught my sight straightaway and all the whisperings about this pretty boy were everything that I could heard those days.

"He's so handsome, wow!"

"Look at his blond hair, he looks like a prince himself."

"Oh, I'm in love with his eyes already! Crystal blue eyes like the ocean."

Those girls in the class were giggling out loud discussing a newcomer in our school. He had gathered all the girls from school around him from the very first day. Well, in fact, I hated him for that because he became popular just as the result of his rich parents and handsome charismatic appearance. Maybe I was just jealous for all that sort of attention because secretly deep down I wanted the same, I wanted appreciation, even though it was only because of my exterior traits.

"What a nonsense!" I snorted to myself as I looked at him and listened to the gossip in class while he approached the center of the room and stood next to the teacher.

"So class, welcome your new classmate – Richie," Missis Wiley said aloud and pushed him closer to the tables. "Go on, Richie, you can sit wherever you want," she said firmly and then his gaze fell upon an empty seat near me.

"Don't you dare to come closer, idiot." I narrowed my eyes and crossed the arms on my chest as an inner protection gesture. He looked around the whole class but decided to go in my direction; as a result, he sat down with me at the last desk in the end of the classroom. I was silent and did not really want to talk to him, I was pissed off already only because he showed up here and already ruined my day.

"Hey, I'm Richie. And you?" He whispered quietly and held out his hand to me in a greeting.

I looked at him with the coldness and irritation in my eyes, however I had to answer just to be not such a bitch from his first impression. "Diana, I'm Diana Goldstein."

"Wow, you are so serious. Why being so rude?" He asked curiously.

"It's just my face. I always look so serious and grumpy. I was born with such a face, don't you get it?" I scoffed and looked right into his crystal blue eyes and gasped out of amusement. The rumors did not lie. It was one of the most beautiful eyes I have ever seen. I was certain I would remember them forever.

"Serious girl with serious plans on her future?" He smirked.

"I don't know about my future. I am just stuck in this school for the next a couple of years. You want to sit with me the whole semester?" I asked coldly but with some softness in my eyes.

"Why not? I need some friends at least," his smile widened and he opened his notebook and started writing the topic of the lesson of that day.

Our staring to each other's eyes had ended quickly and I returned to reality, "You better not be friends with me. I'm an outcast of this class, that's why this seat was empty." My jaw clenched and I took the pen in my fingers and began to write down the words right after the teacher's speech, glancing at Richie fleetingly.

His body tensed from my sight as if he felt my gaze upon him every time that I looked at him. "How such a pretty girl can be an outcast?"

"Ask those fucking assholes in the class then." I smiled mockingly and buried my face in my notebook while listening to the lesson.