The Give Away

Chapter 2

About a week later the staring and whispering stopped. Mr Loraine and my friends had helped me through this. They were my closest friends, and I would do anything for them. No one knew but I had started to write songs, I poured my deapest and darkest feelings and secrets onto those pages. I had only started on the holidays but I had already written my first song. It was about my friendship with my friends and how much I missed them on the holidays. I was finishing my new sketch, I was humming to myself but what I didn't realise was that I started to sing my song as I drew. 'What are you singing?' Robert asked. He scared the heck out of me, I turned around to see him and Sara smiling at me. I didn't know what to say 'Well... I ....er....umm...I' I stammered. 'It's ok, I think it's cute' Robert whispered as he sat next to me. 'Did you write that song?' Sara asked. 'Maybe. It depends, do you like it?' I asked shyly. 'Of course I did it was amazing!' She exclaimed 'Yes, I wrote it. You can't tell anyone ok? I don't want to be made fun of or anything' I said shyly. We talked for a while and I put my sketch book and pencils in my bag. We talked until the bell went and we ran to the great hall, we were about to open the doors when we heard Mr Denis talking to Mr Loraine. 'You're fired Matt' he said 'But sir' Mr Loraine said, he sounded like he was about to cry. 'Matt, we are giving you a permanent contract.' Mr Denis said. 'Are you serious? Thank you sir, thank you so much' we heard Mr Loraine say. I quickly ran to the bench and took out my sketch book. The others hid behind the corner, about a minute later Mr Loraine came out. 'Whats going on Mr Loraine?' I asked nervously. 'Hope, I know you and the others were listening. Guys you can come out.' Mr Loraine said. Robert and Sara came out sheepishly. 'I am so happy for you! A permanent contract is great!' I said excitedly bouncing on the bench. 'I know! I love working here.' He said, he walked off smiling but I could have sworn I saw him skip at least once. We went into they great hall straight after he left. We had English in there but we were early, again.

After English Robert, Sara, Lana, Lloyd, Jane, Kieran and I all went and played basketball. It was so much fun, I got to spend time with my friends as well as my boyfriend and my twin. We had been kept apart for weeks and it was so great to have her back, over the holidays both Jane and I missed our boyfriends like crazy. We missed them so much that we slept with the soft toys our parents gave us when we were little. Not that we were going to tell anyone, that would be really embarrasing so we decided to keep that a secret. I stood at the top of the quay thinking when suddenly I was hit in the back of the head, I fell and face planted on the asphalt. I sat up feeling really dizzy, my face was stinging but I didn't care. Robert was at my side amd my friends and sister were running towards me. I looked beside me there was a football, it must have been what hit me. I looked behind me and saw Joseph running towards me, 'are you ok?' He asked 'yeah I'm ok.' I said as I tossed him the football. 'Are you sure? You kind of have cut your face a bit. I am so sorry' he said. I put my finger to the bridge of my nose and sure enough I was bleeding, I looked down at my hands and saw I had cut my finger open. 'Great, best way to embarass yourself? Face plant while playing basketball and daydreaming. Great job Hope, genius' I thought as I laughed the pain off. I stood up with help from Robert. 'As long as you are ok. Looks like your in good hands' Joseph said with a smile and with that he walked back to the oval. I went to the hospital and got a few more weird looks, I was used to them now. I tried to embrace them, I always liked being different to everyone, being unique as I liked to call it. But I wanted to be different in a good way. We got to the hospital and went straight to Rosemary, I got 5 stitches for my finger and she cleaned up the blood on my face, we couldn't do anything about the cut on my face but I didn't mind. I walked out of the hospital wing holding my head up as proudly as I could. I got a few weird looks but I just kept on walking, smiling as best I could.

That night I lay on my bed thinking, I could not sleep. I lay there thinking about that dream and my Aunt. Then I realised something, that night was a full moon, I only had nightmares when it was a full moon. It had been happening for years, how could I have not realised?! Wow I was stupid. I kept thinking for a while and realised that I could not remember a thing about my Aunt Magora. The only thing I could think of was my nightmares, every full moon I saw her in my nightmares but I had shrugged it off not knowing who she was or what she was going to do to me. I had never seen her face until last night. I fell asleep that night thinking about how lucky I was, how lucky I was to have amazing friends, an amazing sister and an amazing boyfriend.

'Hope! Hope, come on we will be late!' I heard Jane cry as I woke up. 'Hmm' I said as I stretched and yawned. I quickly got my school dress on. 'Wow I need a new dress, this dress is so short it could be a t-shirt. Meh I can live with it' I thought to myself as I brushed my hair then fixed my dress in the mirror. I grabbed my books, I had maths which meant I had Mr Loraine again, I sat my books on my bed and put netball shorts on underneath my dress, I may have a boyfriend but if something did happen I didn't want anyone seeing what they shouldn't. I grabbed my books and went down the stairs arm in arm with Jane. Today we decided to dress the same, we both had our hair straight, school dress, and our jumpers were on and had both sleeves pushed up. We walked down the stairs proudly, the only way to tell us apart was my birthmark on my left palm of my hand. We got to the bottom of the stairs to see a poster promoting the winter dance. Jane and I looked at each other and ran to the poster. 'The Winter Dance is here! Have fun, be safe, be reponsible' the poster read. We looked at each other and smiled, we have dreamt of this day for so long and now it was so close. We walked upstairs to the classroom and sat outside the door. Robert and Kieran appeared at the top of the stairs and came and sat in front of us, they looked confused. Jane and I looked at each other and giggled we leaned over and kissed our boyfriends on the cheek and they sat next to us. 'So going identical today huh?' Kieran asked 'Yeah.' We said in unison, we burst into uncontrollable laughter.

After Maths Mr Loraine, Sara, Robert and I walked down the stairs together after class. Jane and I went to the training room to practice our powers, I froze water and made them into ice sculptures. Jane moved them from one side of the room to the other, I created a bowl out of the earth and she put the sculptures inside. I melted them and put the bowl into the ground creating a pond. We high fived and tried some other exercises. After about an hour we exited the training room and played tag with our friends. I went into the library and started my homework, I had a few subjects with homework and I wanted to get a headstart so I didn't get stressed out, as usual. Robert came in to the library but I didn't realise until he sat down next to me. 'Hey' he said 'Hey' I replied with my face in my books. 'What are you doing?' He asked 'Homework, studying, being a nerd as usual' I replied. 'You are not a nerd, and why are you studying?' He asked as he moved at least an inch closer to me. 'I don't want to get stressed out and I would rather have spare time to spend with you and the others than having to do homework' I replied as I put a bookmark in my book and shut it. 'Need any help?' He asked. 'Well I am stuck on a few things, don't you have homework to do as well?' I said. 'Yeah, I will go get it' he said and he left. He came back a few minutes later carrying his books. He put them on the table, he almost dropped them by accident. 'Shh!' Everyone in the library said. I giggled quietly, he sat down beside me and came just that little bit closer that made my face go bright red. He noticed me blushing and laughed quietly, 'you are so cute when you blush' he said. 'So are you' I said with a smile ' oh shut up' he said as he started to blush, he shielded his face from my sight with his hands. I pulled them away, 'don't worry about it, I think it's cute' I said shyly. 'Thanks' he said. We worked on our homework until it was time for dinner, the warning bell rang. We packed up our things and went to dinner, we put our books under our chairs and sat down with our friends.