Chapter 1
As I lay in my bed, I stared up at the plain ceiling. I don't like this new 'school' that I was forced to attend and it had only been the first day of many. I hate the bland buildings, the short skirts and the tight blouse we have to wear, the weird classes, the self-indulgent students who have their back straight, their noses upturned towards the sky and eyes that look down on you. Calculating, critising, scheming, determining weather or not you are a threat or a weakling. I despise it. The only comfort I had in this dull place was my dearest Vee, or Vincent, and my lovely violin. He's the only reason why I haven't already escaped this horrible place.
"I hate you so much for making me do this," I whispered to Vee as I patted his soft dark fur. In reply, he laid his small head on my chest, and licked my face with his rough tongue. Cringing away, I wiped the slobber off my face, glaring at him in the process.
You love me. He softly growled back, his huge emerald eyes stared into me, a colour that reminding me of an ancient beautiful gem.
"You’re lucky that I do, or you would be dead meat right now." The edge of my lips curved up slightly as I scratched behind his right ear. He closed his eyes, softly purring and tilted his head towards my hand. Oh, the irony of that sentence. He could rip me up in a matter of seconds if he chooses to. Lifting my head forward slightly, I rubbed my button nose against his wet nose. "Do I really have to stay here Vee? Can't we go back to living in your mountains? It was so peaceful there."
Yes, you have too. You need to learn little one, you need to be among your own people for some time, not always isolated within my mountain. His smooth long tail flicked behind him.
"But they are rude, loud and spoilt. All they do is glare at me and regard me as if I'm a bug underneath their shoes and then turn back to attacking each other. The classes are always chaotic and they have no respect for their peers whatsoever. Their like a bunch of decapitated chickens.” I cringed slightly as I remembered attending to my first class ever. I barely made it through the class dodging all the small inflamed balls that were being catapult across the class to explode on contact, leaving you with a nice small hairless spot.
I never sat in the middle ever again. I noticed most of the students were attacking each other, the Reds against the Blues. Each student had an object that was either of the colours. The teacher didn’t even batter an eye as she saw this chaos unfold before her, she just picked up whiteboard marker and continued to write on the whiteboard. I ended up concluding that this school was only for the different, people who had abilities or are a different species to the humans, or perhaps an evolved version of humans. It was utterly bizarre.
Maybe it will get better tomorrow, just give this a chance little one. Now go to sleep and get some rest, you will need it. With that, Vee stood and stretched his paws out in front of him before moving to curl up to my side.
“Maybe it will, maybe it will,” I softly whispered, my eyes feeling heavier. “G’night Vee.”
I hope he is right; that tomorrow will be better. For now I did as he told and closed my eyes, complete darkness engulfing me.
***
Stupid, stupid, stupid! I raced down the empty halls, cursing at myself for not waking up earlier.
I told you to get up, Vee said as he tagged along beside me, easily keeping up with my frantic steps. But noooo. ‘Give me 5 minutes’ you say,’ I’m just resting my eyes for a moment’ you say, next thing you know its half past 7 and your left with only 15 minutes to get dress, pack your utilities and be in class.
“Shut up, you’re not helping.” I grumbled out, shooting him a glare. I took the left corner when the hall spit into two different halls, heading towards the gym where my first class was; Physical Advancement. Opening the gym door, I slipped between the slight opening, sighing in relief as I choose a good moment to enter.
