Hillside Creek(ON HOLD UNTIL I HAVE TIME TO UPDATE)

Tragedy 2 Friendship

The next few weeks were a blur. At the funeral, I tried to be strong. But every time I tried to speak, no words came out. Tears took their place instead. I couldn't cope. I was an orphan at just 14 years old, and that in itself reduced me to tears.The fact that it was my mom, the one person who taught me how to live, how to be the person I was.She taught me everything, how to be independent, how to cope with only one parent, even though that was all I knew. She was the one person that made me happy, and now she was gone, cruelly torn from my life. She would never return, and I couldn't face that. I sunk into a deep depression. Aunt Maisie became my legal guardian and lived with me. She tried, she really did. She made me do fun things, but it wasn't enough. It never would be.

I had to face school though. Mom would have wanted me to go. She would have wanted me to move on, like nothing had ever happened, and she would have wanted me to be happy. I couldn't, but I would try my best. It was so strange, yet so hard, to talk about my mom in the past tense. I would never talk about her in the present tense again, except maybe to say that I love her, or that in spirit she lives on. But I'm not the kind of person to say it, only think it.

Two months after, she moved onto the next world, I returned to Hill High, hard-faced and icy cold. I wouldn't let them push me around, not this time. The looks had turned into snarls and growls. I tried not to let them get the better of me, but on my second day back, I snapped.

"Listen!" I snarled. "Why? Why are you being so nasty. I don't deserve to be treated like this. What have I ever done to you?" And at that I opened it up to the crowd that had begun to form around us. I had her pinned up against the wall so she couldn't escape.

"You people, I have reason to believe that one of you, or your parents, killed my mom. What do you say to that?"

Silence echoed around the room. You could hear a pin drop. People stared at me, lost in the moment, then realised what was happening and quickly scurried away. I felt a sense of triumph. I was no geeky new kid, I was a strong, unforgiving pupil who refused to be pushed around.

*Sapphire From The End Of The Book(s) Looking Back To That Day*

Turns out, looking back to that day, that really I wasn't that strong. Not as strong as I am now.

*End Of Sapphire From The End Of The Book(s) Looking Back To That Day*

In reply, the girl who was pinned up against the wall, who I believe was in my year, forced herself from my grip, and dragged me away. I didn't scream, though, believing that it would show weakness, and because I had cried myself out during the past two months. Instead, I tried to rip myself from her, failing miserably.The sense of victory I had disappeared in that one second. Refusing to give in, I growled in her ear "Answer the question!!!!!!!"

She turned my head to face hers. She eliminated the gap between our heads by letting go of me and putting her hands at the edge of her face, so that her hands were touching the edge of both our faces. Then she mouthed 'I have to take you where it's safe'.

Reluctantly I followed her. She screamed at me, and I knew that it must be part of the act.She dragged me by the wrist, and the headmaster turned into our corridor, asking if there was a problem.

"I'm dealing with it", she put emphasis on the 'it' filling it with hatred and repulsion.

It was like a scorching whip on my heart. I had almost begun to trust her, and already she had proved that she was just like the rest of them.

Still I followed her as she dragged me out of the school. I wanted to hear what she had to say for herself, what her excuses would be. She took me though a field, one around the size of a soccer pitch. At the end she squeezed through a small hole in the fence. Now was my chance to leave. But I didn't, instead I followed her into the narrow lane that ran along the edge of the field. She took an unexpected left turn and left behind the reddish brick wall on the left of the lane, and also the fence on the other side of the lane, the one that we had crawled through. What I saw when I took the turn was a neatly laid out garden, with flowers, and benches, and freshly mown grass that smelt disgusting. The girl, I didn't know her name yet, walked straight on and raced through the gate, into a forest that I vaguely recognised. She walked for about 20 minutes, and then stopped abruptly.

"Sorry for, well, everything. "

She paused before speaking again.

"They can't hear us here. If they could, they'd kill me. They have this stereotype of people of people like you, that you're different, that you're hostile."

I had a good chuckle at that one. She had just described how I acted today. Whoops.

"I don't believe the stereotypes, but I have to act as if I do. If I didn't, then I'd get kicked out of the clan, which all of the population of Hillside Creek are in, except from a few people. You don't understand, they've cared for me since birth, brought me up, made me who I am. And my dad's the leader of the clan, not to mention that I'd be treated as an outcast, being ignored, being hated, basically being treated like you.

But the truth is I think you're a good person. Confused, yes. Upset, yes. Mourning, yes. But not a bad person." She smiled and I could feel her warmth towards me. She genuinely thought I was a good person.

"Thanks, you really didn't have to tell me all that. By the way, I didn't catch your name." I smiled back.

"That's because I didn't give it. But since you asked nicely, my name is Selina Sacherson." She offered her hand. I shook it firmly. "Lovely name, Selina Sacherson. Mines' is Sapphire Shields. But you already know that don't you?" She smiled sheepishly and nodded.

"Listen, I've got to go back to school. Stay here for a while, wait on me. I'll come later and take you home. But I might be a few hours. Just stay here, and hide, ok? Actually you can make you're own way home, just go quickly when school finishes, before then slowly edge towards the field, and then stay to the edge, and merge with the school kids on your way home. Don't come back for a few days, and I'll tell them that you were injured. When you leave here until you go home, cover you're shoulder and act as if it's been bleeding, and almost act as if you're shoulder blade is broken. But for now, on a lighter note, can we be friends?" She asked almost hopefully.

"Of course we can", I smiled and she beamed in reply, as if I was her first friend.

She left and I followed her plan, which seemed to work. That night, I went home, happy for the first time since before my mom passed away.

Selina's POV

I returned to school, going back to my usual self, my act, my lie of a life. It was worth it though, and now I had Sapphire. I shifted, and padded into the Alpha's office, what Sapphire would call the headmaster's office, and what I would call Dad's Office.

"Alpha, she has been dealt with. She won't be coming back, not for a few days at least." I spoke telepathically to Alpha Sacherson.

"Thank you my lovely daughter. Blow daddy a kiss".He grinned because he knew I couldn't. I smiled my wolf grin instead, which dad knew meant a smirk.Then I muzzled against him. It was at times like this I wished I didn't have to lie to him. But if it meant mine and Sapphire's safety, then it was worth it.

"My- I mean our plan is working", he smirked.

No daddy, your plan to get rid of Sapphire is not working. But he thought it was, and that's what counted.

Unless----- no, he wouldn't do that, would he. He wouldn't be so twisted as to pay Sapphire a visit.

Would he??????????????????

A/N I'm getting more consistent in my upload times, and it's uber-long( by my writing standards anyway)!!!! Yay! Anyway I know what's happening next so I should be updating in the next week, at the latest it will be two weeks, but that will be your short-ish burst of chapters and after the next chapter I will not upload in a while as I have no idea what's going to happen so I will have to think about it.

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