My Life As Stacey Green.

Chapter 3

We pulled up against the gravelly curb, sighing loudly, Mr Parker turned off the radio and sighed even louder this time. "Stacey, I'm sorry about snapping earlier, I really didn't mean to lose my temper. I forgot to mention we found this, it was addressed to you and well we can't deny your parents last wishes." He handed me a yellowed envelope and I stare at it in shock as my heart clenched in emotional agony. "Thank you so much for these last two weeks, I know I've been a bi....." I began but we were rudely interrupted.
"Hem, hem." A scratchy voice coughed from behind. I turned around and saw an ancient woman hunched by the door. She had dull, greying blonde hair placed in a hurried bun. She had square glasses perched on the bridge of her nose. She had wrinkled, peeling skin with a greenish, sickly tint to it. Tattered clothes hung from her thin frame and loose slippers were on her feet. Her sour lips were pressed into a thin line and snakelike yellow eyes glared at me. So I did the thing everybody does when they had just made a bad first impression.
I smiled and waved at her, scowling she reluctantly approached us. "Madame Lazelle, and you must be Stacey Grent." She said sounding like ten cats scratching a blackboard. "Green, Stacey Green." I growled. She smiled malevolently at me and I fliched, my heart skipped a few beats. " Gareth," she embraces the newly named Mr Parker. "Lazelle!" He exclaims, they share an awkward hug and I feel physically sick. "Stacey, I presume you do not have your luggage." She grins at me. "Erm, I haven't been back to my pa..." I begin but she tuts and interrupts me again. "Well just this morning two suit cases came with this parcel and a deceptively strange creature, quite a lanky creature it is, brown and black cape, strange creature it is." I looked at her, a puzzled look crossing my face. "Erm, okay....." I whisper. "Well what you waiting for, Christmas, bloody well hurry up." She hisses. "Can't I say," Gareth gestures towards me. "Yes, fine but make it quick, for we have important business to attend to."He then hugs me and whispers something I'll never forget in my ear, "Keep safe, this woman's fishy. And your parents didn't work in the crime department they worked for MI21 The Department Of Dealings With Magical, Possessed and Extremely Dangerous Creatures And Objects. Good bye Stacey I'll try and visit in a few weeks, well that's if you haven't been adopted by then. And my name isn't Gareth, I don't even know who the hell this woman is, I'm called Benjamin by the way." Mr Benjamin Parker. "Stay safe my dear." He gave me one last hug the got in his car and drove away. Once he was gone Madame Lazelle pulled me close and said in her scratchy voice "If you dare try anything funny like running away I will get you back and I will make sure you can never do anything like that again." Madame Lazelle grabbed my wrist and pulled me through the towering oak doors, and through the shadowed stone building. Once inside, the door creaked to a close. The walls were lined with obsidian black and has some occasional splats of blood red paint. I was dragged past the living room where several children ranging from the ages of 9 to 15 glared at me. Their eyes were lifeless and dull, staring in to my soul, looking through every secret. They were the predators and I was their prey. Before I could stop to introduce myself, my arm was tugged in the direction of the rickety stairs. As we clambered up the stairs I saw so many hideous paintings on the wall. Man, they were creepy. We stopped outside a door that looked like it was falling of its hinges. Madame lezelle pulled me through the door and said "Jade you good for nothing girl get up and meet your new room mate. Now!!!" After she was gone Jade stood up and said
"Don't mind her, anyway I'm Jade and welcome to hell." Just after she said that there was a knock at the door and a boy about the same age as me,he walked in with lovely blonde hair and piercing blue eyes, any way that doesn't matter. Once I had stared at him like a complete idiot he said "So your the new girl, I'm Sam Wells, and well welcome to Tartarus." He frowns at me as if sizing me up, most likely debating whether he liked me or not. "Sam baby, how is it going." Jade said marking her prey and making sure I didn't do anything. She pulled him into a hug and then kissed him, (rather passionately might I add) I cringed and shuddered. "Its fine babe, I love you." He said breathlessly when they broke apart. I coughed deliberately causing them both to look at me. "You, squirt your on bottom bunk." Jade spat before pulling Sam into another seductive kiss. I walk into a grey plastered room, more red paint splattered across the walls, miserable posters were tacked onto the wall and a few pictures of some cats and a few horses decorated the room, it actually looked quite homely, and I was starting to feel a little bit better about the catastrophe that was my life. I sprung over to a nearly collapsed bunk bed and on the dusty mattress that was the bottom bunk lay two trunks and on top of them sat Bob the tabby. "Bob!" I gasp, I really don't think I was ever happier to see this plain old tabby. "How, how are you alive? Bob I've missed you so much!" I picked up the fairly large cat and hug him so tight, he mewed softly and nuzzled gently into my right arm.
"I see you found me," A really bad ass voice says. Terror filling me I hastily looked about the room, Bob still laying in my goose bump ridden arms. I peered out into the hallway, it certainly couldn't have been those guys as they haven't stopped kissing since I walked in. "Who are you?" I whispered trying not to sound like an idiot. "I'm here girl," I looked about, "no over here, bit to the left, look down, can't you see me, come on I thought you were smarter than this." And then I realised I was looking down at my cat who seemed to be smiling somewhere between smugly and innocently. I must be going mad. I thought. Just as soon as I realised it was my cat talking, Jade came walking in and said,
"If you even look at him I will beat you up, got that." And then I said the most stupidest thing ever I said:
"Shut up you idiot who gave you the right to talk to me like that." As soon as I opened my mouth she punched me in the face and gave me the biggest black eye ever. Later that evening once I'd cleaned my self up a bit I went downstairs to lots of people staring at me like I was some monster. I went and sat at a table on my own as I knew that was the best thing to do. I stared at each of the tables and saw the popular table with all the pretty stuck up girls who like people from my school looked and the head of the table was Jade. What a surprise. Sighing I begin to eat my slop with slop and slop, it was rank, like not dog poo rank, but still rank. I felt sick to the pits of my growling stomach. I felt anger build up inside me. I had been left in the tortuous place, with no friends, no family and and snotty girl as my roommate. I suddenly felt something twist inside me. My head started pounding. My ears started buzzing. And then I heard something.
Screaming!

Authors Note
Sorry about the dodgy cliffhanger (not!) But next chapter will be a real plot twist. What do you think Bob really is? Who is this strange Madame Lazzele? Stay tuned and stay fabulous.