Sun Child ('Sun Child' Series Book 1)

Chapter 9

This is a very important part of the story... so listen carefully!

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Julie stalked her little blonde-haired self over to our table, effectively shutting us up.

"What do you want?" Talia hissed at her. Julie looked awfull, to say the least. Her hair was frizzy and tied up in a loose bun, he eyes had dark rings underneath them, and he uniform was wrinkled. Something was wrong. Especially if she hadn't made any snide remark back to Talia.

"What do you need, Julie?" I asked a bit nicer, trying to cover up for Talia's rudeness.

"It's Rick, he's missing. Last night he went to explore the school and didn't come back at all. No one's seen him either."

Talia's mouth was hanging open so it was up to me to keep my cool and comfort her. I put my hand on her shoulder and said,

"We'll find him Julie. Rhea, Talia and I planned on exploring the school tonight, would you like to join us?"

"Thank you so much for offering, Ashton. I would love to. I don't know what I would do if something happened to Rick and I wasn't there."

She gave me a light hug and I hugged her back, feeling good for helping someone. Though, I could feel Natalia shooting daggers at me for allowing her to come with us. I ignored her and continuedd eating breakfast with a messed-up Julie.

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When we got back to our dorm after school was done Talia quickly jumped on me,

"I can't believe you let that.. that.. snake join us!" she hissed. I had never Talia this angry.

"Calm down, Talia. The more eyes the better. We need all the help we can get right now, and if Julie's the one, so be it. You need to learn to hide your feelings from people you don't like and suck it up so we can move forward in life!" 

I could see that my words affected her grately and Talia looked a little hurt.

"Sorry, Ash. I just don't know how to control my feelings that well and I really don't like Julie. I see your point. I'll try my best, okay?" 

I sigheed and said the one thing I could think of,

"I'm sorry too. I shoulldn't have gotten so upset. I guess this school is stressing me out or something. Let's put this behind us. We have to prepare for our adventure in the school!"

I gave a small smile hopping to cheer Talia up. It worked and she gave me a big smile and we hugged. 

I went into the bathroom to change into a pair of dark jeans, an Abercrombie t-shirt, and dark sweat shirt to walk around the school tonight. I walked out and saw Talia in similar attire, pulling her dark hair to frame her skin nicely. I had to pull up my hood to hide my blonde hair. 

We walked swiftly to Julie's room. She answered and quickly slipped into the hallway, calling out to Bridget that she was leaving. Julie was dressed similar to us, but with light grey sweat pants on and a dark purple sweatshirt. She pulled her hood up and hid all her hair from view. 

We ran quietly to the main hallway and up the stairs, starting at the 5th floor. Walking down the hallway I was really starting to get creeped out. It was even worse than the one with the classrooms in it! We opened every door and rummaged in every draw, reading and coughing because of the dust. The farther we traveled down the hallway, the darker it got until we could barely see anything, and still couldn't see when or where the hallway ends. With each step we took it got colder and colder, scarier and scarier until something grabbed my ankel and I screemed, falling onto the hard, cold ground in terror. I was pulled into a room and the last thing I heard was Julie and Natalia screeming. I looked into the eyes of my captor and froze with terror.