Chapter 2
Belle
I sat up straight in bed and looked around in the darkness what time is it? I asked myself and looked to my phone.
“O that’s bloody great just great” I said as I saw the phone flash 5am at me. I stood up and walked towards the mirror.
‘Look at your back in the mirror’ I remembered Cass had said. I switched the light on and looked in the mirror. There was something about him; something that remembering what he’d said was showing me, it was something that seemed to call out to me, something different.
“Everything looks normal” I assured myself. “Now to check my back” I said.
O great I’m talking to myself again! Was the thought that swirled in my mind, I lifted the back of my P.J top and took a quick look. That’s when I saw it and gasped. There on my back was the tattoo of fairy like wings, with a dark purple in the centre that faded out into the skin.
“When the hell did you get that done?” I heard my room mater, Anna, gasp. I looked behind me in the mirror and saw her stood there gawking at the marking on my back.
“I don’t know” I admitted and she just stared at me for a long moment.
“O my God t-that means you g-got that m-mark thingy” she stuttered, taking slow steady half steps towards me.
“O common Anna! They have those weird spirals down the sides of their faces and stuff not wings well I don’t think” I said as I pulled down the back of my top.
“Belle’s you never know” she said “you could be a new kind. Actually scratch that idea” then she looked from my back to my face “o my God Belle, you look horrible!” With that she ran towards me and began to poor a glass of water from the sink. “Did you have another one of your dreams?” She asked as she handed me the glass.
“Anna I’m fine, and it wasn’t like the others I’ve had this one was different. I saw a really cute guy and I heard some really scary voices and stuff but otherwise it was a normal dream” I said.
Well as normal as my dreams can get I added in my mind, but I thought I shouldn’t say it.
“Anyway what got you up at 5am?” I asked.
“You did” she said “I heard you get out of bed and stuff so I came in investigate.” She continued “I thought you’d had one of your dreams of the future” on future she changed her tone into a joking one. “Which someone your dreams do scare me when they come true” she began to babble but I lifted my hand to cut her off.
“They scare you? They scare you? Heck they terrify me anyway this dream was different” I said “I dreamt a sort of normal teenage girl type dream not a terrifying vision type dream” I continued.
“Well that’s good, let’s hope they’ve stopped. You know some of the nuns were on about having you kicked out of the school because of them. They said you could be possessed or something” she said.
Well that’s nice of them, don’t bother to help o no kick the possessed kid out the stupid catholic school she doesn’t even want to be in I thought.
“Well aren’t nuns and priests and stuff meant to help free the possessed?” I asked hmmm I’d like to see the day they said I was possessed that would be so LOL I thought.
“I have no idea” she said “I’m just repeating rumour. Anyway if that is a marking you’re out of here, you know how the nuns feel about” she lowered her voice “the marked ones.”
“Yeah apparently they’re chosen by the devil and all” I said and she shushed me when I said devil.
“Keep your voice down” she snapped “what if someone hears you?” she said.
I shrugged and walked passed her “so what if they do? None of the nuns like me here and they’d think up any excuse under the sun to get me the hell out of here and to be honest I don’t want to be here” I said. “It sucks mega style here, and the only reason I’m here is because of well circumstances and stuff” I continued.
“I know I know I hate it here to and I agree it does suck big style here but what are you going to do? If you have been marked then you’re out of here otherwise your stuck here good and proper.”
I sighed and sat on the end of my bed, listening to her lecture me about being marked and being kicked out of the all girls’ Catholic school. The nuns here were driving me insane, the only reason I was here was because my nana had died and I couldn’t go home so I went into care and eventually got abandoned here. I began to think of Cass, the guy from my dream; he’d seemed so realistic.
What if he was real? The thought swirled round my head repeatedly he was right about something being on my back what if Cass was real? What if he was going to come into my life? Then it struck me Cass was real, I knew it deep within my very essence HE IS REAL!!! The thought screamed in my head and I jumped up in front of Anna who was now pacing as she was lecturing me. “Anna, I have to go” I said, I quickly through of my night gown, I grabbed my jeans and quickly slipped both of my legs in. Then I walked quickly to the draw and grabbed my black and red top which had loads of safety pins sticking out of it. I grabbed my boots and slipped my feet in them quickly.
“Bell, where are you going to go?” Anna asked me as she watched me grab my bag and head for the door.
“I don’t know but I have a feeling, like something’s pulling me somewhere and I have to find him.” I said and then I spoke mostly to myself “I have to find Cass” the words flew round me giving me strength. For some strange reason I knew where I had to go, I knew where he was and I knew he was looking for me.
“Bell, who’s Cass? Bell?” Anna said before I left the room.
“He’s someone I need to find” I replied as I grabbed my bag and hooded jacket. Then closed the door behind me, then opened it again “o by the way if the nuns ask where I am tell ‘erm I ain’t coming back. You have my number so I’ll be in touch” I said and closed the door before she could stop me.
I walked out of the hallway and out of the school as quickly as I could, then I sprinted down the field to the gate. I opened the gate and said one last thing “goodbye, finally am free” I smiled and ran down the street.
So let me get this straight I thought to myself as I ran I’ve had a dream, seen a guy whose mega cute in it and I must add that he’s real! And now I have a tattoo of fairy wings on my back wow tonight has been the strangest night ever. I thought and I kept his face, his beautiful pale white face that reminded me of a cold snow day.
I headed north into a nearby wood which was about half a mile away from the school. When I entered the wood’s shadows I hesitated for just a moment, took a deep breath and exhaled slowly “I have to find him” I said as I exhaled, “I have to warn him” the words flooded from my mouth and I realised I had to warn Cass about the male voices I heard.
Could I be too late? I thought no, no, I couldn’t be too late because it only just happened I thought and I was sure I was right I could feel it. I took a slow step into the wood and then I began to sprint. I looked to floor making sure I didn’t trip over anything whilst I ran. I ran until I felt so out of breath I couldn’t run anymore, so I slowed down to walking.
‘A woman will ask you to say yes, say yes without question’ I remembered the words flow through my mind. I will say yes without question I thought I promise Cass I will say yes but I need to find you first my thoughts continued.
‘We need her blood’ the memory of the man’s flooded my mind and began to circle around my mind.
Was he talking about me? Did he need my blood? If he did need my blood why did he need it? The questions were puzzling and I had no answer for them, well I had no answer yet.
I looked at my phone and saw it was 6am, I had only had 2 hours sleep and I was beginning to feel the exhaustion. I’d gone to sleep at 3am because I and Anna had been up talking and gossiping about some of the rumours going round, one in which was the rumour of the nuns kicking me out of the school. I knew they never liked me but I accepted that, I just wanted to get out of there a.s.a.p.
I rested my body against a tree trunk and felt the exhaustion take hold and so I fell asleep again.
