Reincarnation

Chapter 5

Rhiannon clinched her fists and sucked in her breath. She watched as Eve smiled to everyone and gave her a little wave. She walked over to the middle of the room and took a seat.
Every guy turned their heads to get a better look, even some of the girls. Rhiannon got out a notepad and a pen and started to write music.
She had always done this when she was upset and wanted to escape. Her mind wondered off and the anger faded away until the bell rang and snapped her out of her dream land. She looked up at Eve watching as she was walking out.
Her instinct took over and a darkness washed over her eyes as she followed her out. She moved through all of her classmates, moving swiftly and only bumping into a few. She raced up behind Eve and spun her around. Rhiannon always had a peculiar strength when she was upset. She took her arm and blocked Eve from getting away and smashed her into the locker.
"What the hell are you doing?!" She yelled.
Eve looked at Rhiannon and the same darkness was in her eyes. Surprisingly Eve was just as strong and grabbed Rhiannon's arm and twisted it to her back.

She said quietly and angrily "I told you that danger is all around you and I can't leave without you. I'm keeping an eye on you. You should really learn who is trying to help you and who is trying to destroy you. You need to keep your strength, and your power to yourself and not show them publicly. I'm going to let you go, and you're going to walk away and meet me in the theatre during lunch."

Rhiannon was too stubborn, but yet something told her to let go of her rage and walk away. As Eve moved from the locker Rhiannon noticed that their  predicament caused a dent in the locker. She turned away to find the hallway filled with frozen students look of shock on their faces. One football player yelled "Damn, at least finish the fight!"
She ignored and went to her locker to get her advanced theatre book.
She turned the corner and found Jolie waiting for her.

She was leaned up against her locker and a crooked grin occupied her face.  "I heard you're a scrapper now."
Rhiannon embarrassed, put her hair behind her ear. "It was nothing, her and I have already forgotten it."
Jolie laughed sympathetically and leaned off her locker while walking away she turned "Well, no one else will be forgetting soon. Have fun in theatre."
Knowing she was right Rhiannon slammed her locker shut and walked into class.

Theatre wasn't a big class. In fact they had to combine first year students with the advanced year students. Mr. Hawkins wasn't an ordinary teacher. However, that's what made him great. He walked in sat on top of his desk and took off his shoes. He straightened his colorful tie that didn't match his outfit and looked happily at the class.
"Gooood morning pupils. Both of your classes have tests today. While you're being good students and working hard I'm going to see what Broadway is playing this year."

He handed out all the papers and all the students went quiet. Everyone in the class had a mutual respect for Mr. Hawkins, especially Rhiannon. She first went to his class in tenth grade year. She was a bit chubby and shy. However, he helped her find her place on the stage and helped encourage her to find her voice. She never knew exactly how to thank him enough for everything, but she hoped one day she could at least try. The test was lengthy but not hard at all. It consisted of the basics about theatre, the main points of the stage and vocabulary words. Rhiannon was the first to finish with five minutes left of class to spare. So, she decided to continue to think about music until the bell rang.  Rhiannon had two more classes until lunch, film studies and Ap US. Government both seemed to fly by quickly. Rhiannon waited by her locker for the longest time, contemplating on if she should go to the theatre or not.

As usual she used her instinct and it told her to go, but she wanted to just say no. Finally her instinct won and she went to the back doors of the theatre and snuck in.
The room was dark but luckily she saw well in it. She didn't stumble around to find a light switch. She walked through the huge black curtains and then through the red one, her heels making clicking noises as they hit the wooden stage, and she sat on the apron of the stage, swinging her legs back and forth.
She looked forward to the rows of chairs to find Eve sitting in the middle section examining her.
Her legs were propped up on the chairs in front of her.
"You feel at home here, yes?"
Without looking back at her
"Yes. Do you feel at home stalking people?"
Eve whined  "For the last time I've no choice! I'm protecting you! I bet you wouldn't like it if someone tried to kill you, Ha then I bet you'd want me here, huh?"
Rhiannon just rolled her eyes. "Why not come up here and sit beside me?"

Eve obeyed and walked up the side steps and sat beside Rhiannon.
"You wanted to talk, lets talk."
"Well aren't you efficient. I was sent here by two powerful people to bring you back to them. So they can help you."
"Okay and where are these two people?"
"New York city."
Rhiannon laughed "So you're telling me that they sent you to take a 17 year old girl out of state?"
Eve shook her head and said softly "You know you're not truly 17. Your vessel may be but your soul is not. It's lived since the beginning  of time...."