The Stairs

Chapter 9 | Made Better

The door shut with a massive thud as Charvi moved slowly out of her room, down stairs and into the kitchen where she had her breakfast prepared. She was thinking about today, the fact that she had pretty much electricuted her biggest threat in school. She didn't regret doing it. Maybe he would then realise that she is dangerous? Yes of course or.. he could beat her head in. Either way, she wasn't happy about going to school, well she never has but this time she'd been dwelling over what was going to happen to her.

Charvi quickly ate her breakfast and placed the bowl on the sink for her to clean later that night. Same routine, nothing has changed. Same boring routine was conducted every, single, day. Charvi realised her hand, mumbled some spell and almost in an instant, her bag flung to her hand like glue. Of course she loved doing that i mean, who wouldn't? Although it was a matter of countless amounts of practice. She once tried that spell with her lunchbox one day, and instead of flinging to her hand, it came straight for her face. She laughed it off but it bloody hurt.

Charvi took some snacks from the fridge, clicking her fingers to immediately shut the silver fridge door.

"Man I love doing that." Charvi chuckled as she looked back at the fridge door. She stuffed the food in her bag and exited her safe house. Back to the best place on Earth! Not.

As Charvi entered the school, anyone that was within 5 metres of her, would move. 

"Word got around" Charvi mumbled under her breath, annoyed as all.

She just continued with her day, having people constantly want to be as far away from her as possible. It wasn't new or anything, just people seemed to used to tolerate being only five metres from her. Same faces were given to her as usual. Lucky she hadn't seen Chris yet. Oops, did I just jinx something?

"Oi!" Chris' oh so idiotic voice yelled from the lockers.

"Damnit!" Charvi pretended she didn't hear. Chris walked over to her, grabbing her hair in his large palm.

"Why'd you do that yesterday you witch!" He spat

"Ow! Get off me!" Charvi winced.

"Ha! Get over yourself!" He shouted back coming closer to her. " I'm warming you, little girl. Do that again and I'll find you after school to give you a good beating, you hear me?"

" Y-ye-" Chris cut her off.

"What?!"

"Yes!" She spoke louder with a tear resting on her cheek.

"Good." She said and then noticed the tear. "Urgh, you baby." He mumbled and let go of her hair, pushing her against the locker. He then walked over to his friends when Chris turned back around.

"Freak" He hissed. Charvi held her head while massaging it to releave the pain. He had a good grip on her hair but it hurt. She also noticed the feeling of a small bruise to the left side of her face. Charvi said nothing, she just wiped her tear and continued, like every.. other.. day.

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Charvi sat in that stupid detention room, in the same spot.

"This for a whole week, really?" Charvi mumbled as she looked out the window. She had been sitting there for about an hour and twenty minutes. Charvi's eyes found a familiar figure walk past the window. Erris. As he walked, he scanned the room and found Charvi's eyes. As soon as he sees her he cracks up laughing. Charvi smiled while rolling her eyes and let out a quiet chuckle. He pulled a funny face at the window and Charvi could hardly control her laughter. He turned walked the way he came and she could tell that he was waiting for her.

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"You got a detention! Ha no way!" Erris burst out laughing as Charvi walked out of the room.

"Shut up!" She laughed and swatted his arm playfully.

"You only buzz shocked the hell outta that Chris dude, so inconsiderate of them!" Erris stated jokingly.

"You heard? Why aren't you running from the freak?" Charvi questioned.

"What am I running from?" He dodged what he thought was a stupid question.

"A monster." She stated. This didn't sit very well with Erris. She didn't know anything about him, enough anyway. He stopped as they exited the school.

"Listen, you're not a m-monster. Okay? Trust me." Erris said with his voice getting deeper. She didn't know anything about what he had been through, what he has seen, heard and felt. Lets just say it isn't pretty. They walked in silence.

"I'm heading to the park if you would like to join me." Charvi broke the silence.

"Alright." Erris replied, his voice still low.

They reached the park and Charvi took a seat on the lovely yet lonely bench that she knew oh so well. Erris took a seat next to her and Erris started a conversation. They got to know each other a little bit better. 

How did you end up here?" Charvi innocently asked.

"W-well." Erris took a long breath then continued."I was forced to come and live here I guess. I didn't like my life, it felt rough. I had'nt really interacted with people very much. I had a house, it had a massive crack in the wall. As my parents fought, the crack got bigger. One night my parents were fighting and the crack started to grow again. I walked downstairs to get something to eat when my mother was using magic to hurt my father. It hit me instead. My father screamed saying that she had hit him cetemetres off of tragedy. I believe that there was an unstudied spell that was cast when I was hit. I ran upstairs and shut the door. The crack exploded and a rapidly strong gust of wind filled the room. I couldn't look at the crack, the wind was too strong and there was a blinding light. It was sucking me into it. I didn't try to resist it though. I wanted to leave sadly enough. I didn't do anything, I just laid there and let it take me. My parents walked in and their faces were awful. My mother reached for me, grabbed my hand but I let go. It took me and the last thing I saw were my parents slowly disappear. It took me here. I don't know where this is but it must be better." 

"I'm so sorry Erris." Charvi said.

"It's not necessary Charvi." he croaked out in an evil deep voice.

"Well hey, you have a friend now don't you?" She said. Erris looked at her forest green eyes and smiled.

"Yes, I guess I do don't I?" He cheered up a bit and Charvi smiled at him.

"I've always wanted one of those." He beamed.

"Me too." Charvi replied.

They talked for a while longer and decided to go their separate ways. They'll be seeing more of each other. Can't you sense it? Its almost predictable.