Approaching Tranquility

Chapter 2

I look to my side slightly keeping my head low. He looks towards me with his legs crossed, under the shade of the large cherry blossom tree that was wiltering from the glare of the sun. I look towards him. Half of his face had been tore off showing the metal skull that is under his few layers of skin. His ruby red robotic eye glaring at me moving as the boy next to me tries to look at all my features. I lift my head up and move my fringe out the way of my face showing off some of the scars around the sides of my face. 'He looks a bit like Arnold from Terminator' I think to myself making me smile a bit. "Hi" I say quietly. "Hey, you alone?" He replies. I nod my head. "Your name? Mines Shay" I smile slightly "Leona. I'f You don't mind me asking." I say with a concerned tone on my voice. "Oh... Uhm.. I got into a fight with one of the popular kids... He tried getting me to get him food calling me "Shane" instead of my real name.. So I came out here to where I normally am and find you." He laughs slightly. "Here stay still" I whisper. I fix one of the wires back into his face and close the hatch, Making some oil to squirt out as if it was blood on his face. I wipe it on one of the fallen cherry blossoms making it turn a turquoise colour. I giggle looking at it "Oops" I mumble to myself. I feel Shay start to play with the earrings on my car ears. I blush slightly. "Hey... Be careful.. They r delicate..." He giggles laughing at me. I stand up volleying the can of fanta and made it bounce into the bin about 10 or so feet from me- Doing a victory dance as it goes in getting some cheers from the group that Phoebe was with. I wave over to them. One of the boys has wings almost like angel wings and sits on the table- waving back cheering still.

Till suddenly a football hits me in the back of the head. I stumble to the floor slightly and rub the back of my head. I grab the ball and jump on top of the building and see who threw it, Running along the tiles with extreme stealth. I jump again, putting my hood up as I run. I kick the ball and hit a boy who was laughing crazily with aim. I ran all the way back, Making sure my eyes were the right colour as I dropped back down onto my feet. I looked at Shay running his hand through his red hair blushing slightly. "Hey, Shay- Wanna go sit with Phoebe and angel boy over there? I don't smoke either but i'm trying to make friends..." He nodded with a reassuring smile. I helped him up. He was at least 6"3. He towered over me at 5"3. I walked over with a smile on my face and sat on the end of the table "Hi guys" I say trying to sound confident. They all said "Hi" back with Phoebe saying my name at the end. As soon as Phoebe said my name they all started looking at me. I pushed back what hair I had, showing all my piercings, Tattoos, cat ears and I blink a few times showing my multi coloured eyes. They all watched my in awe. I smirked even Shay looking at me differently. I also showed all the scars on my arms by rolling my sleeves up. "Anyone else wanna show what they have?" I look around nervously. The boy with angel wings stood up and uncovered his face showing and small expanded ears. He moves away from the bench slightly and starts to move his wings like hes stretching and hovers slightly. I clap watching as he goes up a lot in the air and does a loop as he comes back down and lands on his feet bringing his wings back onto his back. Everyone claps cheering. "My names Harry or harrison" I smile nodding. There was a boy who was next to Phoebe who had bright green hair. "My names Thomas, I think u met my brother Kyle. Sorry for him flirting with you." he stands up and closes his eyes breathing in and turning himself invisible. I smile like crazy. "That's awesome" He becomes visible again and pushing his hair back also showing all his piercings on his face and ears with expanders in them. I say "Thank you" and he sits back down. "Anyone else?" I look around. "Well we were all gonna go around and show u but we r scared incase a teacher sees. I look to the boy next to me who has tons of tattoos covering his body. He was looking down in his hands watching a flame in his hand. It took me a few minutes to realise it was a flame lady dancing. I watched as everyone around me buzzed with excitement. I stopped myself from doing anymore flame things. "We will all show u our powers eventually" Becca said from behind me. I giggled realizing that she teleported behind me. The bell went for roll call and I put my sandwich in my bag that was on my back still. We all walked back to our building together and said our good byes when it was our floor. The tattooed boy was still extremely quiet and I was curious to find more out about him. When Phoebe and I got to our room I decided to ask her. "Who's the boy I was sitting next to?" I sat on my bed after I finished making it and moved my pillow so it was up against the wall. "That was Ethan, He doesn't like to talk to people unless he knows that they are 'safe'. If you're in the group a lot and don't harm us then you should be good." I nodded remembering all the tattoos all over him and his almost neon blue hair. He had a similar length hair to Harry, Shay and me.