The Light Among Shadows

Amanda Prior

'HOW MUCH MORE TIME??!!' I groaned. I swear we had been walking- well I had been half walking and half getting dragged by Tyler- for almost an hour. I mean, come on, the school isn't that big, is it?

We finally stopped walking when we reached the area just inches away from the principal's desk. 'FINALLY! We're here, aren't we?'

I did not get an answer.

'Ty? Hey, what happened?' I asked, my voice filled with concern.

He had stopped dead in his tracks, his eyes wide open and filled with shock and fear. I shook him and said, 'Tyler, answer me, what happened?'

I followed his line of vision and saw that he was staring at the frozen principal. Well, as expected, I blew up. A humorless laugh escaped my lips. 'Oh so now you feel bad. After freezing the entire school and not giving a damn, you finally realize what you did after staring at Mrs. Prior. Who knows what you have done to those people. Heck you've probably made Nora sit on a toilet eating booger flavored beans. You know, even after all you did for me Ty, you're such an A grade assho-'

'YOU DIDN'T TELL ME!' he shouted

'Tell you what, Ty? Tell you what? That it's illegal to just goddamn freeze everyone!?' I said, totally sassing him.

'Would you shut up for once?! Why the hell, didn't you tell me that your principal was Mrs. Prior, huh?'

'Oh I don't know. Maybe because I thought that you would have some idea as to who the principal is considering that you are a student here!'

'Well no, I am not a student here.'

'Well how was I supposed to know that?'

'You know what? you're right.'

'Thank you!'

'You don't know a thing.' He spat.

If we didn't have to be holding hands, I swear he would have stormed off.

'And by the way, I actually did make Nora do whatever you guessed. God she was getting on my nerves.'

I felt like slapping him right across his perfect face, but I decided against it. Who knew what Mr. Unpredictable would do next.

While holding my hand, or rather crushing it, he reached out to touch Mrs. Prior. Since she was quite old, and it would be just awkward to hold her hand, Tyler just placed the tip of his forefinger on her forehead. Mrs. Prior unfroze.

Instead of looking around, confused, she gave Ty a creepy smile and said, 'I guess I'm not one of you anymore now, am I?'

Tyler's face had paled and he looked uncomfortable. He gulped. 'Amanda, you know I didn't mean to do that, plea-'

'Ah, but you still did something illegal, right,' she looked at me and then turned back to Tyler, 'Ethan?' she finished, pronouncing each syllable of the name carefully.

I was silent all through the exchange, until I heard the name Ethan. 'Ethan? Who's Ethan?'

Amanda, as Ty had called her, nodded towards him and said, 'Ask him who Ethan is.' And with that she pulled away from Tyler's touch and refroze.

'God she's such a bitch.' He muttered under his breath.

I cleared my throat and he slowly turned towards me, suddenly looking really tired.

'Don't I deserve an explanation?' I asked.

Sighing, he said, 'I guess you do.'

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A/n

All I want to say is, I'm sorry for putting them through the shit they're going to be put through....... Just kidding!! Nah I'm not sorry. Hehehe, I'm feeling so, so evil.

Oh and I'm going to be starting a Tyler POV, and I'm going to destroy everyone's lives. I bet this is how Rick, Rowling, Veronica, Cassandra, John and every other author out there must have felt by literally destroying their characters' lives. I feel you'll.

I've been really sick for the past few days and hence the delay in updating, but I'll be regularly updating now. I'm sorry the chapter's so short but I promise I'll make up for it in the next chapter.

Comment your thoughts. And thanx a lot for reading this, it means a lot.

Love ya
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Wesha