“I’m fine.” I coff out as Ezekiel gives me a concerned glance.
The door is nearly torn off it’s hinges by Kristan, who has a suitcase that is packed to the brim as if she’s staying for a month.
“I couldn’t pack everything so I brought just a few things.” She says breathlessly. “Wow...” Is all I manage to say, “let’s go to your room.” Krissy who is already halfway to it yells. Ezekiel chuckles, “is she like this all the time?” I smile “Yep.”
I climb the stairs to my room, “So, what should we do now?” Kristan asks, “I don’t know. Maybe we can just talk or something.” I offer, “I don’t like sci fi.” Complains Krissy.
“Well tough luck” I reply, “I’ll text Ariel about the movie, oh, and Ashton doesn’t like the one about the little girl, so I’ll text him too.”
Me: Hey we might be watching a different movie
Ariel: Yes! :)
Ashton: then what do we watch?
Me: well we haven’t figured out a movie yet...
Ariel: We can watch the one I like
Ashton: NO
Me: I’ll check with Ezekiel and Krissy if we should watch the horror one
“Should we watch the horror one?” I ask, “Horror what?” Krissy says while standing to stretch.
“Movie.” I roll my eyes, “ohhh,” She drags out the word, “‘kay.”
I turn to Ezekiel, “I’m fine with that one.” I turn back to my phone and text the others.
Me: They said sure
Ashton: So we can watch it?
Ariel: NOOOOO
Me: yes
Ashton: I knew it was a good choice
Me: see you guys at school
Ashton: Sure, can I sit with you again?
Me: of course, you’re our friend
Ariel: Ewww. C U 2 @ school.
“Dinner’s ready.” Mum yells, “Yummy.” Krissy’s eyes light up at the mention of food. “Good I’m starving.” Ezekiel stretches.
Mum talks about how her books going, Ezekiel is praising mum about the food, “It’s soo good.” He says, mum chuckles.
We finish our dinner, “well I’d better go now, my mum will be wondering where I am.” Ezekiel looks at his watch.
8:30, “Bye, see you at school.” We all wave our goodbyes and Krissy and I get ready for bed. “So, what’s tomorrow?”
I think for a moment, “Friday,” I suddenly remember that Nora will be back that day as well, “Nora will be there as well.” I add, “Good.” Krissy walks to her makeshift bed. It looks a little uncomfortable.
We gossip about how Maya has fitted so well into the school. “I feel like she’s trouble.” Kriss says, narrowing her eyes.
I feel the same way about Maya as well, something about her is off.
We say goodnight and go to sleep.
I wake up in a daze, there’s a bright light, I squint at it and realise that it’s Kristan’s computer. I hear sobbing. I walk over to Krissy, who is crying. “Hey Krissy, what’s wrong?” I give her a concerned look.
She wipes her eyes, “I... broke... up with... Daniel.” She says in between sniffs.
Ahh, online dating, never a good thing to mix with, especially Kristan.
She’s tried so many times to prove online dating is okay. Instead she gets her heart broken every time.
“Oh, Krissy.” I hug her and let her pour out her feelings, “he... he said he liked me... and he lied!”
She whisper yells. “Maybe you should give online dating a rest.” I suggest, “Yeah, I swear never to do online dating again.” She sniffs crossly, “It’s going to be alright.” I comfort her.
In the morning we dress for school, Krissy looks like last night never happened.
“Alright. To school we go.” She points to the door, “let me just grab my stuff.” I yell. “See you mum.”
“Bye Clary, enjoy school.” She replies, I close the door after me, “Hey.” A cool male voice says.
I turn around, “Hey, Ashton.” I smile, someone gasps, of course it’s Krissy.
“So, you live next door to Clary.” Cas smiles. I give him the look, his smile only grows bigger, I scowl. “Hi, everyone.” Nora calls from the other side of the road.
We wave back. She crosses the road, “so we got newbies.” She raises the eyebrow at Ashton. “C'mon guys we’re going to be late.” I grizzle.
When we arrive at school Ariel and Ezekiel wave, “so, how many newbies did we get this time?” Nora digs inside her bag, “last time I checked there were one, three, five, there are five.” Cas answers for us. “Wow, so many.” Nora looks surprised.
By lunch Nora has many things to tell us, she eats her food quickly “you’re going to regret that.” Krissy tuts. “Mow I mon’t.” Nora says with food in her mouth, she never does that, so this must be extremely important. She swallows her food, “That new girl, Maya, she’s so evil.” She glares over to Maya’s table, “Yeah.” We all nod our heads at that.
I look over and see that Chase isn’t with Maya. That’s strange, “hey, Clary. You okay?” Ashton looks at me worriedly. I must of looked worried, I nod, they go on chittering away, but Ashton looks a little longer. “Hey, can I sit with you?” A deep voice asks.
We all look over, it’s Chase, “yeah, and what happened man?” Ezekiel welcomes him.
“I broke up with May.” Chase sounds not one little bit heart broken.
“That blonde girl.” Chase points out the girl.
I must of looked confused, I nod. After school I am driving home and I see a figure that looks like a fox, I squint at it, it then disappears. Maybe I’m seeing things, I shake my head.
When I am finishing my homework I see the figure of the fox again.
I stare at it, it stares back with familiar eyes. I stare at the thing. “Dinner’s ready.” Mum calls. “Okay.” I reply, I look over to where the fox had been, I caught a glimpse of a thing with nine tails, I nearly fall off my chair.
“What!” I yell, I am definitely seeing things.
“Are you okay?” Mum calls in a worried voice, “yeah, I thought I saw something.” I call back, I rub my eyes, hoping the thing will come back.
I walk down stairs mum is sitting at the table, “so has Nora come back to school yet? I heard she had a cold.” Mum chews her food thoughtfully.
“Yeah, she’s amazed at the amount of new students.” I absentmindedly play with my food, “are you not hungry?” Mum looks at my plate, “not really.”
She picks up our plates and starts to wash up. I can’t stop trying to think of what that thing was.
I can’t sleep, I toss and turn, so I climb out of bed and log onto my computer, searching up ‘things with nine tails’. Of course I had some weird things about snakes and cats with nine lives. Nothing good, “Ahhh...” I moaned, I’ll go to the school library tomorrow. Wait, tomorrow is Saturday. It felt like a school day still.
I shut down my computer, climb back into bed and try again to sleep.
YOU ARE READING
Kitsune Royalty
Dla nastolatkówClarissa Woode is just an average everyday teenager, with two parents and a sister. Boring, right? But maybe not so much. When weird things start happening to Clarissa, and the new kids start, what will she do to solve the problems caused by family...
