Blood Secrets: The Hunter's Moon

Chapter Three: New Friend

Chapter Three: New Friend

~ Monday, January 22nd, 2007, Modesto, California; One Year Later ~

Fourteen year old Ravyn sat in her classroom at Elliot Alternative Education Center (School), sitting at one of the two long tables that made up the "other classes" that she and the other students in the classroom had. She sighed as she looked up at her second "teacher", the Teacher's Assistant to her main teacher Chris Harmon, and growled. She was currently in "Art Class" with Sandra (the T.A.), along with her friends Kristian Dela Paz, and two other students. Sandra looked up at Ravyn and raised a brow at her. "Everything okay Ravyn?" She asked. Ravyn shook her head and returned to the comic book they were supposed to be creating. Hers, unlike the others- except for Kristian's who was a very good artist in his own right- was extremely detailed, which was another reason why she was so far behind the others, who were all doing child like characters, a lot of them being stick figures.

The door to the classroom suddenly opened and Ravyn looked up to see who was coming in, thinking it was most likely the classroom's personal councilor that spoke to all the students every Monday and Thursday. She was wrong though.

Standing in the doorway was a young boy about the age of fifteen or sixteen, with slicked back shoulder length black hair, slightly tanned skin, and dark brown eyes that were hidden behind a pair of small black plastic framed glasses. Ravyn raised a brow at the boy, who was completely dressed in black and carried a small briefcase like satchel in one of his black fingerless gloved hands. She scoffed as she looked at the boy. He was clearly a geek kind of kid that was trying to dress up as a goth like herself. He even had a calf length trench coat to go with the outfit! "Poser," Ravyn whispered to herself as the boy went over to the rows of desks and sat at the very back one in the row Ravyn normally sat in, right behind her normal seat.

"Crap," she whispered to herself as the bell that was set up in all the classrooms- even the portables like the one she was currently in- went off. Ravyn packed up her things and picked up her backpack, heading for her seat. Some of the students went over to the Art table, while others went over to the second long table in the room, where the second T.A., Shelia Travers sat, and the other students went back to their non-assigned seats at the desks. Ravyn sat sideways in her chair, crossing her leg over the other. She looked over at the boy behind her and her breath caught in her throat as she caught sight of the boys eyes. She hadn't been able to see them properly earlier when he had first walked in, her having been on the other side of the room (sort of), but now that she was sitting in front of him, she was able to get a good look at them. And what a sight they were to her.

The boys eyes were a dark shade of brown, almost like mahogany, and she could see a sparkle to them, as if he had small stars in his irises. They were beautiful to her. She noticed that the boy was also wearing black eyeliner, much like herself. The more she looked at the boy, the more she began to realize that her initial assumption of him being a geek posing as a goth, was utterly wrong. She could tell that the boy was a geek in a way, but he was nowhere near being a geek posing as a goth. This boy truly WAS a Goth.

Ravyn felt a sudden tightness in her chest, before the feeling seemed to lift up from her, making a tingling feeling flow throughout her entire body. She couldn't figure out what it was, but she felt as if her soul was suddenly whole, as if it had only been half of itself for all of her life. Ravyn shook her head as her teacher, Chris Harmon, came in from her small office in the other room and went up to the front desk. "Pull out your geography books guys, lets get started." Ravyn sighed and reached into her backpack, pulling out the required book and throwing it onto her desk, along with her notebook and her pen. She looked down at the crate next to her desk, sighing as she looked at the CD player and headphones that sat in it as well as all her other books. She wished that she could just put her headphones on, turn on her music and jam out to it while she did her work. But Harmon would never let her. She had already confiscated two of her mother's old fantasy romance books from her earlier in the semester, saying that they were not books she should be reading at school. Ravyn had to get Jarreth to come down to the school and get said books back from Harmon in the first place, which had pissed Ravyn off all to hell. But there was nothing she had been able to do about it.