*I heard wailing sirens all over the place. It was dark, the skies a dark fire red with blood all over the ground. I looked around, trying to work the puzzle of where I am, and what's going on. I screamed, but even the people around me didn't even set an eye on me like they could hear me. I ran around, trying to talk to people, but everytime I tried to say something, they just ran past me or turned the other way in fear. What was going on, I asked, but no matter how hard I tried, nothing came to me. Then.. I saw the three people Mom had invited over for dinner the other day. They had blood on their hands and mouths, and they just shapeshifted into the... wait.. they turned into the wolves I saw in my other dream? I stood there in awe, and confusion, and what made it more awkward was that it looked like they had the boy who cried wolf in chains behind them. The sirens only got louder and louder as they got closer and closer to me. I tried running, but I only saw my form of my human self turn into a wolf like them, and I looked down at myself to examine the form I was becoming, but when I looked back up, the biggest male was in mid air coming straight towards me.* I woke up, and looked at my clock seeing the alarm go off at the usual 6:30 morning alarm I usually wake up to for school. "Well, the alarm probably explains why the sirens were in my dream." I chuckled slightly and got up slowly out of bed. I walked to my door and opened it, making my way to the bathroom to get ready. As I walked in, I noticed there was blood in the sink, but it wasn't much. I turned my head to the side. "What the..?" I looked around to see if I could expose some more blood anywhere, but it was perfectly just in the sink. I cleaned it up and tried to not think about it. I did my usual morning routine, so, brushed my teeth, brushed my hair, did my makeup, put on clothes, and a few other things. In about a good 45 minutes, I was ready to walk downstairs. I entered my room again and picked up my backpack, phone, and headphones. "Just another fucked up day at school." I whispered to myself before walking downstairs. I made my way to the kitchen to get my lunch and a yogurt for breakfast. I opened the fridge and saw something so unusual. There was blood that dripped down the white wall on the side of the fridge, and it trailed from the three extra steaks Mom had bought, but all I saw was a ripped up package in the fridge with the steaks completely gone. I got what I needed from the fridge as well as cleaned up the mess in the fridge. "I can't stay stuck on this. I can't be late to school for an investigation over steaks." I quietly walked to the front door and locked it behind me. I walked out to my jet black Chrysler 200 that was parked on the sidewalk. I unlocked the car and threw my backpack in the back seat. I quickly walked to the driver's seat and started the car. I drove out of the culdesac that my house was built outside of and quickly made it school. After the usual ten minute drive to the high school, I met up with my best friend Kayla. "Sal!" she said happily. She then gave me her great hug that I loved so much. "Hey, bestie." I said with a smile. She then gave me a frightful look. "I didn't know you went to get your canines sharpened this weekend, Sal." I lost the smile I gave to her and felt them. They were razor sharp, but I didn't do anything to my canines. "Uhm, I didn't. I think you're just seeing things." I made it seem like she was seeing things. "We need to get to class." I started speed walking to my classroom and Kayla had a difficult time keeping up with me. She asked me why I was in such a hurry to get to class and I just blew her off. We got to room 243, my Physics classroom, and I gave Kayla a hug and walked in. She gave me a slight dirty look and walked off. "I can make it up to her later." I whispered to myself, then from the back of the room, a deep voice made a comment towards me. "What's you say, black cat?" Everyone laughed at Colton's comment and I just ignored him and sat in my assigned seat. Mrs. Evans started class after the bell rang. Her voice just pissed me off, and I have to listen to it the first period for 55 minutes.
35 minutes passed in class, and the teacher finally assigned our homework to work on. As I opened my book to start my classwork, I had three people start throwing paper balls at me. There was a big one that was directly thrown at my book, and I opened it to expose words that really fucked up my day. "You're a faggot and that's all you're good at being." I looked back and Colton was laughing at me. I just tried to ignore it, but I started crying slightly. The bell rang finally and I quickly walked out to my next class. Every class that I went to just seemed harder and harder each time. The only period of the day I was happy about was 7th, and that's because I saw my crush Ryan. When I entered 7th period, Ryan was actually sitting in the seat right beside me. I was surprised because he usually doesn't sit by me, but today he did. I walked over to my seat shyly and blushed seeing him beside me. He smiled at me. "Hey, beautiful." I hid my face and replied with a quiet "H..Hey." He shuckled because he noticed my embarrassment and shyness. The whole class period we talked more than we did pay attention to the education. It was ten minutes before class got out, and Ryan got up to my ear and whispered something so amazing to me. "You know I like you, right?" I got big eyed and blushed immediately, and he crawled his hand to entwine with mine. I smiled and he smiled back. The bell rung at the worst time, and I got up pulling my hand away, but Ryan just held onto it getting up with me. "You wanna come over to my place tomorrow night?" I looked side to side and nodded shyly. He chuckled at me and hugged me holding both my hands. I looked at him as he pulled away and picked up my backpack, walking outside to my car. I didn't even try to go meet up with Kayla like I usually do because I was so happy. I got in the car and drove him in the thought of how great 7th period was. When I got home, I opened the door to find Chas playing Minecraft as usual. I closed the door and walked upstairs to my room, opening my bag and taking my homework out, but when I did, the note from 1st period fell out, and I read the words on it again accidentally. I lost the big smile I had and punched the wall beside my bed. I looked up to see a hole in the wall from my fist, and I didn't feel any pain from it. I looked at my hand and it looked like nothing happened to it. "I thought if you hit something, you feel pain?" I then freaked out because if Mom found out I left a hole in the wall, I'd have to fix it, but I mainly freaked out because... I've never had a thought of punching a wall before. I just felt super angry. I was furious, but it felt like a different kind of anger. I couldn't describe it, but it felt like a anger I've never felt before. I then sat on my bed and finished my homework. I walked into the bathroom and took a shower to get ready to go to bed. I was really tired for some reason, and I was thinking about going to bed early. I did what I needed to, and told Chas that I was going to bed early, and she replied with saying she was going to go to bed after Mom got home. I then laid in bed and closed my eyes. I sighed. "I finally had something good happen to me today." I whispered before falling asleep.
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The Darkness Engagement
Manusia SerigalaSalem is just another high school girl who goes through the most usual, common high school experience. She knows how it feels to be different and not fit in, but can one thing change her outlook on how she goes about coping with her difficult life...