Her Beast

Chapter 2

Cameron, Raven, and I walked to our gym.  All the while,  Cam would not stop talking. She asked  Raven so many questions that seemed to never stop.  But I did gather some information from the conversation. For one Raven was from Northern Ireland. She liked Hollywood Undead, Skillet, and BOTDF.  Her favorite  colors were black and blue, and she got her first tattoo when she was fourteen,and her first piercing three months after her tattoo.

We entered our gymnasium to greet our coach, we left Raven to talk to Ms. Jones about whatever needed to be talked about. 

"She's really cool huh?" Cameron  asked me whilst pulling off her skirt to put on her shorts. 

"Yeah." I opened my locker after about the thirtieth time trying  the combination and grabbed my clothes to change.  I heard Ms. Jones and Raven talking and they came in. Ms. Jones  showed Raven to her locker.  She thanked her,and proceeded to get ready for our period.  She took off her blazer folded it and neatly put it in her locker.  Then shamelessly unbuttoned  her blouse revealing tattoos on her torso and collar bones. She looked up and turn to me, I quickly retreated to my locker and looked at Cam.

"Stop creeping you weirdo." she smirked.

"What do you mean?" I looked back to where Raven was standing,she was gone. I turned back to Cam.

"It's not nice to stare." Raven had startled both me and Cameron. We didn't know how she got here so quickly or how we didn't here her approaching.

"I...I wasn't, I just.." I was so flustered at the moment, I couldn't create a proper sentence. I was surprised when she laughed. Then she gave us a partial smile.

"It's fine." she turned around and walked away. 

"Well...that was awkward." Cam finally said.

"Just come on." I sighed and walked out  of the locker room. 

We met our classmates on the field,our activity for the week was soccer. We all lined up for dribbling and then we had to kick the ball into the goal. Our best goalie Katy was up at  the goal post. Everyone went then I was up.  Ms. Jones  kicked the ball to me. I stopped it with my foot, and attempted  to dribble  in and out of the cones and ended up knocking over about two or three cones, I took a few steps back then ran to my target and kicked as hard as I could.  I was sure I had made it but the ball remained when it was.  I blushed out of anger and slight embarrassment then kicked the ball again, Katy simply outstretched an arm and blocked my shot.

"Good job Cloe!" Cam  gave me support from the other side of the field. Raven was up, without any hesitation she dribbled the ball so effortlessly in and out of the cones and kicked the ball to the goal,  Katy didn't even try to block it, she ran out of the way of Raven's awesome shot.  I've seen Katy get teeth knocked out by flying balls and then getting back in the game,but this was different. Raven walked away from where she was standing and stood silently  where we all were.

"That was amazing! Where did you learn to shoot like that kid!?" our coach exclaimed. Raven shrugged.

"I need you on my team. Come talk to me after class." Raven nodded and watched the rest of our class shoot disappointing  shots compared to Raven's.

Gym ended after class I didn't see Raven but Cam wouldn't  stop talking about that shot.

"You think she could make captain?"

"Yeah I guess." I couldn't really concentrate on what Cam was saying, I thought about Raven's tattoos, there was a flock of birds on her hip, close to her belly button and roses on her collar and shoulder. There was more but I couldn't make out what they were.  She had a spiral  on the outside of her bicep.