Tianna: Special

Chapter Six

Tianna woke to someone shaking her. When she opened her eyes, she saw a blurry outline of Fern.

"Tianna! Wake up!" She shook a little harder.

"I'm up! I'm up!" Tianna moaned. "What time is it?"

"4 in the morning. Col. Jackson wants to talk to you before Session Plan this morning. So get your butt out of bed and into his office!" She yanked Tianna out of bed. When she landed hard on the floor, Fern scolded her. "Do you want to be surrounded by grumpy girls all day? don't wake any one else up."

Tianna started to put on her uniform.

"No! To loud!"Fern whispered. "Go to the bathroom!"

"You never told me where the bathroom was!" Tianna reminded her.

A look of annoyance flashed on Ferns face. "It's the other door on the platform by the stairs."

Tianna left the room, and turned into the bathroom. The bathroom was half the size as the dorm room. Sinks and mirrors lined one wall, and showers and stalls lined the other.

She went into a stall to get on her uniform.She came out and put on a thin layer of make-up. What was the point of dressing up for an old man? She brushed her hair until her brown curls framed her face. She put on a spray of perfume. That's when she realized why she was making herself pretty. She was hoping to see someone else on the way.

She quickly snapped out of it. What would Dameon be doing up at 4:30 in the morning? Besides, he had a girlfriend. She sighed and started walking to the main building.

The sky was still dark. The forest around the cabins was even darker. The fog from that night still curled around the branches of the crooked trees. Tianna increased her pace. Again, an owl hooted in the distance, and again shivers went shooting uo her spine. Some First Nation tribes believed that when you heard the call of an owl, death was near. She let out a shaky breath. How would an animal know if death was near. A howl split the silence of the night. Tianna's fast walk turned into a light jog. Finally she reached the marble stairs leading to the door. She pulled open the massive back door, and walked in-

Right into Dameon.

She gasped. "Dameon! I-I," she stuttered. What was with this guy that made her do this. She never got shy around guys. Not even Chris.

"Oh! Tianna! I'm so sorry! I didn't see you there!"

Butterflies swirled, she looked away and mumbled an apology. He laughed at her.

She started to turn away, then stopped. "Dameon? Why are you here this early?" She demanded, her nervousness gone.

He laughed again. "Same reason as you I'm guessing. Old man Jackson wants to talk to you?"

"Yeah." She opened her mouth again, and closed it. She turned, and marched up the marble stairway.

She found room 375 much faster then she had yesterday. She hadn't even knocked when the door creaked open. "Come." A voice demanded.

She smirked and walked in, then realized that the voice had come from across the room, and their was nobody else in the room besides Col. Jackson and herself. Her experience here was getting stranger each minute. Col. Jackson instructed her to sit in the chair across from him. She sat, and crossed her legs.  A mug filled with a hot drink floated to her. She reached out and grabbed it. It smelled like coffee. She took a sip. It was honey flavoured.

"I believe you want some explanations on who you are, what you are, and why you are here," he paused, "And what 'here' is."

Tianna nodded. The lights flickered off. She couldn't see anything. A small light appeared somewhere near Col. Jackson. The light grew until Tianna could make out that it was a picture of a map.