The Wings On My Back

Chapter 8

I Wake up to Mr. Witt staring at my face, Worrying drowning his blue eyes. When he sees my eyes open he gasps.

"Oh my god, Scarlett are you alright?"

I look around. Im laying down on Mr. Witt's desk. All of his stuff is on the floor.

"Alex, what-I-i mean-"

"Did you just call me, Alex?"

"I-I-I, Umm"

I could not think of a single word to say to him. Alex was his birth name, I knew it as soon as he walked in the class and i was careful not to call him by that name. But when i woke up, i didn't really know what to do, so i just said the first name i could think of, which was Alex.

"Nobody knows that name."

He looked at me like i was a beast. He stood up and backed away.

"Who told you that name?"

"Nobody."

"Then how do you know it?"

I freeze. I didn't know what to say. 'I'm a fairy Alex, i can read your thoughts' Um, no. He just stared at me, looking me in the eyes. For a second it's like he could see through me. Then his face droops in realization. He knows. He knew what i was. I don't know if i should be happy or scared about this.

"You missed your buss."

I was shocked by the change of subject. I look down at my hands in my lap as i sit criss cross like they taught us in kindergarten.

"I wasn't gonna ride the bus."

"Then where's your parents?"

" I wasn't going to go home..."

I look up at him to see a look of concern on his face. I feel like i'm in the little school in the forest again, being scolded by my teacher for eating leaves.

"Why?"

"Because i refuse to go home to the woman who told me my father had died when i was five, and let me me believe it ever since."

I look back down to my feet pulling my legs close to my chest, and raping my arms around it all. It goes quiet. For the first time I wasn't mad about it, but sad. Tears rolled down my red cheeks before i can stop them. Alex sits back down beside me.

"I'm sorry."

I sob, tears covering the skin on my face. Alex wraps his arms around me in comfort.

"I know what you are."

My head snaps up.

"What?"

He takes his arms back. There is absolutely no way he could possibly know. Like at all.

"I know what you are and were you came from."

Suddenly, it all comes into place. That's why he jumped back when i said his name. That's why he god scared. That's why his hand flew to his camera when he backed up. That's why he looked so familiar. He is the one who ruined my life. He is the one who made my family and all the other people move locations. He. Did. This. My skin burning, i can feel my eyes growing darker and darker at the minute.

"You did this."

I stood up and walked backwards, turning around so Alex cant see my eyes.

"You did this, you ruined my life."

"I didn't mean to, I didn't mean to to see her, i just did, and i wasn't going to tell anyone. I took a picture so i can remember where you guys were, so i could bring things to you."