16 moons

Hi, I'm crystal.
I'm not popular but I can say that I'm not a nerd either. I'm more of an in between person.

My dad died when I was younger so I live my mum, my brother and the rest of my extended family, which means all my cousins and stuff.

We live in a big dark mansion on the hill, I don't have many friends because they think my house is haunted.

Stupid right? Who cares! I don't need friends! I have my cousin Ashley, she lives in a town house down the road, she is about as popular as it gets! I would have never been friends with her if she wasn't my cousin.

I quickly made my bed then chucked on some slacks with a darkish blue top with the band paramore on it. Paramore is my favourite band! I was going to go see them but then my dad died an I wasn't allowed to go anymore. I never actually found out the exact reason he died, I always used to ask mum but then she would sneakily change the subject without me having a realisation.

All I know is that he was murdered, but that is all I know, I don't even know when he was killed... Dont judge me, I was only two! I guess it's kind of strange that my mum won't tell me about him, but I guess it's sad for so I better just leave it.

I started walking to school in my oldish grey sneakers, I manage to spot Ashley with her friends, I'm not even gonna bother trying to catch up with her, while her friends are around she gives off this sense that I can't hang around her. It doesn't really bother me though. If I was to walk up to her she would most likely give me a dismissive look.

Ashley is a few days older than me, which meant she was already sixteen. yes, that means my birthday is in two days.

I don't actually know if she counts as a friend... When she has no other choice but to hang out with me, well.... that's the only time she is a total sweet heart.

Other that than Ashley is a bitch. So here I am walking on the opposite side of the road from her and her little posse, an to say I was quite a lot behind them as well. Strangely I could hear her loud and clear, as if she was right next to me. Ha? Well that's weird... Oh well.

I'm a quiet kind of girl, and I like to think to myself a lot, so by the time I was going through this whole process of trying to understand why my ears could hear that, I was at school.

Great! My favourite thing in the world... Please someone shoot me...

So as I walk into the lab for science everyone is staring at me, you know the ones! The long, straight faced, up and down looks. I couldn't figure out what was happening to me!

I just figured I should forget about and so I did but as I was writing down some notes I noticed my fingers... Oh my goodness...

I realised the reasons why I received looks earlier! It looked as if I had got a numerous amount of tattoos on my fingers! But I can't explain what they looked like.. they were different. Nothing I had ever seen before.

I tried to run them off but they just wouldn't budge! It was strange...
As soon as I got home I had a shower an tried to wash them off, my mum wasn't home yet so I had to go start the dinner, Butter Chicken! My favourite.

As I was just cleaning the bench, my mother came in and she had obviously just been grocery shopping because her and our maid were carrying in all the bags.

The weird things on my hand hadn't come off yet and my mum hasn't noticed them and went out to get some more bags but as for my maid, her mouth dropped, along with the shopping bags, then she got down on her knees and started chanting in Mexican holding the cross! My mum came in and saw my hands. She screamed. I started to feel a little drowsy and then it all went black.