"Oh oh to the end of the earth with you!" I sang off tune to the song that was playing.
While I danced around my medium sized bedroom, yanking on a pair of ripped (from running through a bard fence) jeans and a light blue cotton sweater before I shrugged on my black trench coat while pulling my long tangled mop of hair into a messy bun. Scrambling down the stairs I booked it through the kitchen only stopping to briefly give my brother, Joshua, a kiss on the cheek and steal a piece of his toast. I laughed when I heard Joshua realise what I'd done and fastened my pace into a sprint. I rushed out the house and towards the shed, chancing a look back over my shoulder and smirked when I saw Joshua on the veranda mumble a curse before rushing back into the warmth of the house.
Sliding the old thick metal door aside, the amazing smell of feed, sweaty tack and horse shit hit me like a brick, but I wouldn't trade it in for anything. As I walked hurriedly through the shed, stopping at every occupied stall to give each horse a treat, in total there was six horses here on the farm but one was retired, dear old Mellow was to old to be ridden anymore. I feared the old guy didn't have much time left. Moving past the rest of the stalls I ended up in the feed area where I loaded up five buckets with food and hid some treats in them as well, as you can see, I spoil my horses rotten. Once I'd finished the foods I placed them into a cart and dragged it back to the anxiously waiting horses who were pawing at their gates. After giving each of the horses their food and refreshing their water, I went out to see Mellow.
I walked around the shed and headed out towards the back paddock that was reserved for Mellow, I found him grazing under a large tree and walked up to give him a hug. Mellow nuzzles his nose in between my neck and shoulder, I giggle at the ticklish feeling and gently pushed his head away but he shoved it right back. However this time he bent his head and attempted to search my coat pockets for treats. I giggled again before grabbing out an apple and held it out to him with a flat palm. Mellow eagerly gobbled it up in no time which caused me to giggle again, I gave him a soft pat on the neck before planting a soft kiss on his slightly off centre star. "I gotta go Mellow, school waits for no one." I muttered before casually strolling back to the house.
"Hey Ari! Did you see that ad on TV about the adoptive place? Sounds like they'd even take in a bitch like you!" Shouted Zeke.
The jackass of the school. The bus erupted with laughter and I just kept my head down and walked to the end of the bus when suddenly, someone stuck there foot out and I would have stepped over it but the bus suddenly lurched forward causing me to trip over the leg and go sprawling on the ground. Needless to say, I was not the invisible girl, I was the girl that every jerk in the school locked target on when wanting to tease or beat the shit out of someone. Heck, even the bus driver, Gary, hates me! No joke when I was about nine and Gary had just started driving my bus, I was offered the front seat beside Gary which you know at nine, it would have been awesome had I not been feeling sick and then ended up vomiting all over his precious seat. Henceforth, he hated me ever since. Not like it mattered, a few more haters that I've added to my kill list that I will leave for my next body in the next lifetime to find an follow. I'm quite the saddest didn't you know?
I slowly got back up and dragged myself to the back and slumped in relief when nobody was sitting near my spot, I plopped down and plugged my headset into my phone, slipped the headset over my ears and blasted 'Just Like Fire' from P!nk, I find this song so amusing to me for some strange reason so I couldn't help but smile. However that smile soon faded when Alice Bellort got up from her seat and came down beside me. I tried to ignore her by looking out the window watching the scenery fly past and turned up the volume on my music. I noticed her mouth moving silently and inwardly snickered 'God could she be anymore stupid? Can't she see that I can't hear her and am clearly trying ignore her?! Sheesh!' I thought annoyed but my thoughts were cut short when my headset was suddenly ripped off. I whipped around and glared daggers at Alice who met me with an equally annoyed glare. "Ari" she gritted out.
I smirked, "Alice" I replied in a monotone voice showing my boredom in what she had to say.
"I was talking to you." Alice spat,
"Clearly" she rolled her eyes at this,
"God your such a bitch at times aren't you?" She muttered angrily,
"Nah I'm just a bitch all the time" I retorted and she glared at me in silence,
"What do you want Ali?" I sighed,
"Well since you clearly don't want to talk to me, I'll keep the news to myself thank you very much!" Alice snapped at me,
"You do that!" I smirked at her but honestly, she had my attention, not much happens here in this little old town. But I was not going to beg Alice of all people for my forgiveness just to satisfy my curiosity, besides wasn't it curiosity that killed the cat? So I kept my mouth shut and after awhile Alice finally got the idea that I wasn't going to ask about her news and went back to her seat in the 'PRIB's' section of the bus - Proud, Rich, Idiotic, Bitches.
Soon enough the old rickety orange bus pulled into my high school, pfffft more like a bunch of sparsely spaced out buildings. I hoisted my ratty faded blue bag over my shoulder and trudged towards my first class with my headsets still blasting music. I bobbed my head to the beat as I walked through the halls seeing everyone bunched together with their friends gossiping about this and that, I ignored them all and sauntered into Math class with Mr Walsh - Mr Wimp in my opinion- as my teacher. I sat down in a corner in the back of the room and slipped my headsets off but plugged in my earbuds instead so I was less likely to get caught. As the lesson dragged on something felt...wrong. Something just wasn't quite right, I just couldn't put my finger on it. Soon enough Math was over and everyone rushed to get out of the stuffy room, I ponded if there'd be a lockdown again today and if so would it be the cause of a student or a random person.
Half way through fourth period the school went on lockdown, apparently Johnny brought a knife to school, always knew that kid wasn't right in the head. But it's better then how Albert brought in drugs and sold them to other students, I of course never took any but it's going around school that Devon was his main buyer. Devon was...well the mystery guy of this school, nobody was friends with him, nobody new about his family, nobody knew if he really did do drugs but well everyone knew that he beat Riley - my ex- to a pulp when he tried taking advantage of me, you see me and Devon, we weren't friends but it was like we understood each other, I hacked into the school to change his grades and he protected me.
Suddenly I understood why something felt so wrong this morning, Devon wasn't at school today, which wasn't surprising I mean I couldn't count the amount of times he's skipped just this month... But I couldn't stop the nagging feeling that something was different today. I shrugged it off and waited for the school to let us go on our merry way. Finally about an hour later, we were informed that we were to go home early, score! Johnny must've had more weapons in his bag and the school might have brought the cops in for once. As I was heading out of the school I noticed a lot of people were hustled around a tree, the hell? I thought to myself, they must all be high because their is no way in hell they all turned into peace loving tree huggers. But I couldn't stop my curiosity so I shoved and elbowed my way through until I reached the trunk at first I didn't notice anything and was about to turn back around when suddenly something caught my eye. It was a piece of paper, upon closer inspection my stomach dropped it was a missing poster...and the one and only Devon Jacobson's school picture was printed there.
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Sorry that I'm ten days late btw, my little brother had his birthday yesterday and we had a bunch of people over for Christmas and they didn't leave until the fifth....so yeah sorry but hope you enjoyed it.
Happy New year everyone, and lets hope this year will be ten times better then 2016!
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ChickLit"What the hell do you think your doing?!" I shouted at the stranger crouched down in front of me with his back to me, I raised the rifle in my hands. "Umm it's a long story." The stranger said, but for some reason I think I recognised that...
