Burned Wings

Chapter 1

Click click click. Was the sound my keyboard made in the dead of night. The uneasiness in my stomach is crazy. I always get that around midnight. The time the demons are strongest.

Ugh..  I thought as I was talking to my friend, Haddie. We were talking about my first day of real school. The actual first day was today, but I don’t count that. We didn’t do anything. But our actual schedules start tomorrow.

“I don’t know if I’m ready for this..” I typed. “I get uneasy around normal teenagers.. especially that Tyler. I don't know what it is about him, he gives me a really weird feeling..”

“You’ll do fine. You have me! Besides, almost everyone gets uneasy around Tyler. He is the classic popular bad boy. Have you even met him yet?” Haddie replied.

“Yes.. earlier today remember? He is in my class.”

“Really!? No fair.. He isn't in mine..”

“Well, you are a grade behind me. Your own fault you failed last year and had to repeat tenth grade. Anyway, I really don’t see why he is so popular.. Yea sure, he’s attractive. But what makes him better than other guys?” Seriously, what makes him better?

“Well, he is just one of those guys I guess.”  I rolled my eyes at her reply. Such a great answer.

“Whatever, I guess I’ll just find out for myself tomorrow. I gotta go to bed, don’t wanna be late tomorrow!” I closed my laptop and sighed.

Gotta say my prayers and go to sleep now.. I went into the hallway very quietly. My mother was still up, my father had work really early, so he is asleep by now. I didn’t want my mom to know I was up so late. I snuck up into our attic as every night. Our attic was cold, but it had finished walls and floors, it’s where we pray every night. I went over to the window facing east and kneeled down. I rested my head against the window. Ugh, doing this every night is really tiring. Well, let’s get it over with.

“God, I wanna start out by thanking you, again, for everything that I have. I am so grateful that my father is allowed to stay with us, I am glad my mom has been alive this long, and I also want to pray that I do well in school.. you know this is a new thing for me, and I’m scared. There is this boy, Tyler, he gives me a bad feeling of uneasiness. Can you tell me why?” After I said that I sat there, waiting for a reply. I’ve never actually gotten a verbal reply, but my father says it’s possible. With me being what I am. After waiting for what seemed like forever, I got a vision. Wings. Black wings. That is all I saw. My eyes flashed open and I gasped and fell back.

Oh my God.. is he? No.. it can’t be. Can it? I’ll have to find out for sure. How am I going to accomplish this? No clue.. The black wings signal demon. But if he were a demon he couldn’t be in the form of a human, unless he is like my father, banished for something he did wrong. Or like me, the product of the wrong. When a demon or an angel is on earth and they want to hide their wings, they kinda retract into our backs, leaving only an outline of wings on our back. Kinda like a tattoo. So for me to confirm what I just found out, I’d have to get him shirtless.. Well, this is gonna get interesting.. I plan to wear an open back top. I love to show off the outline, it freaks them out and I love it. So if he sees them, maybe he will get it, and want to talk to me. Tomorrow is going to be very, very interesting..

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The next morning came around and my alarm woke me at around five thirty. Ugh.. I look forward to school, but why must I get up this early!? I complained to myself. My dad is already at work, as usual. My mom is asleep, and so is my dog. Better leave a note to remind mom to let Juliet out..

I got dressed in my favorite open back white dress. I did my makeup very bold, thick cat-eye eyeliner and bold red lips. I’m definitely looking for attention in this outfit..