High school is tough as it is, but making it through with the biggest secret imaginable is harder than just making it through normal high school. Here's where Jessica Aphmau Phoenix Odinson comes into play.
She and her friends lost their famil...
Lunch time; heaven. No classes, no tests, no nothing. Just food, food and more food. I bit into my sandwich, spaced off like usual. I sighed, feeling a folded up piece of paper in my pocket. "Aphmau?" I felt a finger poke my cheek. I blushed.
"Hm?"
"It's your turn," Laurance said. Everyone was saying things from their childhood. I froze; I never really had a 'childhood'. Most of it was learning how to either rule over Asgard or training. Okay, yes, we had school, but it wasn't proper school, I guess.
"Um, let's see," I paused trying to think. "I used to go to a near-by meadow at any chance I could get; I had a very busy childhood." Everyone at the table nodded, understanding. The conversation changed to something else and I spaced off again, my hand clenched around the folded up paper in my pocket.
"Aphmau?" Garroth asked in his mild British accent. "You alright, there?" I popped my head back up, snapping back to reality.
"Sorry, I tend to space off a lot." Everyone at our table nodded. I smiled and I finished my sandwich. I felt a dark presence coming our way and I froze; Leah and Sabrina. I was frozen in place by my fear.
"Dear cousin," I felt a cold hand on my left shoulder and a cold voice was speaking. "I see you've made some friends." I snapped my head around to face them, a glare emitting from my eyes. I could feel them begin to turn from copper-brown to blood-red out of anger. Sabrina's coal black eyes shined with darkness.
"Go away."
Leah chuckled, moving a strand of black-grey hair out of her face. Her emerald green eyes shined with the power she held within. I took a sharp breath. "Nah, we just got here."
"Go away." I kept my words straight forwards. I just wanted to eat my lunch without being bothered by my cousins for once. Is that too much to ask?
"Oh, dear Jessica, look at you," Leah chuckled. "Look at how weak you've become since you and Castor left the few since, you both put out your flames, since you both left The Few." My eyes flashed and turned back to their usual copper-brown and they then watered with tears.
"W-what did you say...?" My voice had cracked.
"You heard her," Sabrina giggled and sent glares at my friends. "It's a good job the Few left you both, they never liked you anyway." My eyes stung with tears threatening to escape.
My voice turned weak and frail. "Go away." With a laugh, they left our table. My friends were sat there in silence as I had made a fist with my hand and sat there, breathing heavily. I stood up from my seat, threw my bag over my shoulder, kicked my chair out of the way and ran out of the lunch hall. Without a second glance, I just continued running until I reached the garden area out the back of the school. I bumped into my usual tree and I took a glance behind me to see my friends chasing after me. I climbed up it, I'm good at climbing trees. I sat in one of the higher branches and clutched my bag tightly to stop it from falling. I sighed, breathing in the soft aromas of the new environment around me. Up here everything is so much different than on the ground; the air is cleaner, the sounds of the animals are purer and you can see as far as the eye can see. This is why I've always loved flying.
Before long, my hand travelled to my pocket and took out the piece of paper, carefully unfolding it. I held it tight to my chest, blinking my eyes a few times just to stop the tears. One fell. Then another. Then another. Light sobbing noises flew out of my mouth as I buried my face in my palms. I blocked out all the shouting coming from below and dried my eyes. During that moment, I realised that my photo had fallen out of my grasp. With wide eyes, I jumped down from the tree in a panic. I hunted around the foot of the tree to be greeted by a group of people - my friends - and one of them was holding my photo: Katelyn. She had it turned away from her so it was facing me. I gulped.
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"Aphmau?" She screwed it up in her hand into a ball and looked directly at me. I closed my eyes as she scrunched it up. "What's this? And, why were you crying."
"People and memories," I answered blankly, bending down to pick up the ball of my photo off of my grass. I carefully unscrewed it, folding it up delicately and placed it back inside my pocket as my bag fell down off the tree. Without even thinking, I quickly grabbed it. 'Can't risk having that hit the ground,' I thought. 'The crystals would crack.' "No more questions," I said just before the bell rang. I put my bag on one shoulder again and began to walk back into the school.
