The Book Of Life

Chapter Eleven

Eventually, the home time bell goes, and we are released, everyone rushes off the oval with urgency. Rushing to their cars or bus stop. Well, not me. I've got stupid band practice until four- thirty. Then mum is going to make me drive home. What's even worse is that Arron can't finish work until eleven and can't pick me up. I growl angerly as I grab my clarinet and half smack the harshly, multiple coated, painted besser bricks. I'm not surprised when a chunk falls from the wall and onto the ground with a loud thud. Oopps!

I growl louder; eyes flash gold.

"Shit!" I curse.

I force myself to calm down. Having control of myself is good but my emotions are going to flare before the full moon. I need to remember Arron told me that my emotions and temper will flare, and I will have little control before the full moon.

Someone gasps outside. "Tier not nolox!" they mutter.

I try to walk normally out of the music blook. My heart palpitates as I stalk out of the block, looking morbidly depressed as I always do. My foot clangs on the metal doorway clasp, I wince at the loud noise it makes. I guess my spell wore off. As I pass by the doorframe someone lunges at me with their hands raised.

It's who it is that surprises me, not them standing there with glowing hands. Sophie. Her fists have a purple, black and red arura around them, it ripples around her fists like waves of coloured light. The most surprising thing is that her irises are glowing lilac. It's very unsettling to see your friend that you've known for years suddenly have powers. Is everyone around me Supernatural?

"Oh! Katlyn! Sorry!" her fists drop faster than I can blink and her eyes dimmish back to their original blue.

I advert my eyes as they turn to glowing golden orbs, I watch the roof that cuts off into the steps leading up to the side door to backstage of the drama block. Sophie watches me, curiously. I can hear her erratic heartbeat.

"Sophie." I say, wanting my voice to sound scared.

Instead, it comes out as monotone and deeper than my usual voice- as if I'm warning her. Sophie's heart palpitates erratically than its normally irregular heartbeat. She's nervous, anxious even. I regarded her with my eyes, now back to their pale, icily blue.  It doesn't help that she's a few inches taller than me. I swear she saw my eyes glowing......

"Sorry! I thought I was going to smash into you!" she cries.

I fake fright, "Oh! God, I would have punched you!" 

She laughs. Her whole-body glows with that multicoloured arura. I wonder if she's picked up that I can see it; if she knows I what I am?

"I heard the doorframe clank. I should have known someone was coming. God, I'm so jittery and jumpy always. Sorry" she chuckles.

"Don't say sorry again, you have nothing to apologise for." I sigh, "Your boyfriends probably waiting. My band teacher will probably summon Satan if I'm any later."

She dies of laughter. Goddess, Does Jaxon know? My band teacher doesn't have a good temper for the slackers. Sophie raises her fist for a fist bump goodbye. I bump her fist with mine. Purple, black and red arura leeches onto my hand for a few milliseconds. She blinks and physically jolts.

She looks at me and back to our hands. Her eyes widen as our hands part, I walk off to the drama block.

"No. It can't be." I hear Sophie whisper as I make it to the door.

To my relief they're still setting up chairs in the semicircle formation and they're instruments. A bit hard when I was standing in the doorway- other band members would have to head back to the music block to grab other things we would need like stands and percussion.

I set my instrument down on the top of the steps that lead to the stage and begin to set up, once I have all my pieces of my instrument put together, I grab my water bottle and join my fellow clarinets at my seat in the first row and begin to warm up. I use a random scale, starting with my low notes then start with my higher register and descending. Lastly, I play notes from songs that I remember. I remember to listen to how my instrument sounds- making sure it isn't flat or sharp. Before I know it miss is blabbing off to us about Band related stuff- I try to tune her out, but it is hard with Supernatural hearing, oh I was going to be deaf after this. We pack up around an hour later.

I listen for any new information, or any new things Miss rambles on about as we pack up, mum gives me the keys to the car and I start driving home, I can only rest when I'm at home- in my room. I watch as the sky darkens outside, an uneasy feeling settles in my stomach. Because probably that I am sneaking out again. All my homework and other stuff is done, I just need to get out of here without being detected. I jolt when I hear the dog bark in the dining room area, I wasn't expecting her to wake up at all. I also can't help myself as I emit a low growl. She surprised me. Arron's working till ten tonight and he can't pick me up, so we devised a plan. I would sneak out using the spell Kory taught me and meet him at the Service station a few minutes before he finishes work and then I catch a ride with him. Now, it's just a waiting game.

I leave the group chat we created with Arron, Alyx and Kory; hopefully I don't obtain a whole lot of spam form Kory when she tells her mother. Hopefully, her mother doesn't hate me, and still will want to continue with training me. Goddess, what's Kory's little sister going to think of me and her mother plus Kory hanging out all the time.