Shadows

~Chapter One~

     A flyer of a night club is taped on a small billboard I try to speed up my pace a bit so Ashton won't see it. Too late. Ashton stops and looks at the flyer then takes a few seconds to read it. "Fifty are missing, ten are in critical condition, and only forty are alive and well.." he trails off. " you are you're group did this huh? I thought we talked about this." I sigh and look up at him. He's still facing the poster but his eyes are closed.

"Listen my people need to survive. And in order to survive we need to burnt which means attacking and killing humans. I don't care what you're opinion is, so just deal with it." My words come out in a cold like tone while giving him a cold stare as well. Call me rude or selfish but he should know how things work by now or at least know his place in these situations. "Fine then. Let's just go to school." He mumbles while crumbling up the flyer then shoves it into his pocket. Ashton catches up and holds my hand gently. We continue walking.

A few minutes pass by and we arrive at school. Ashton kisses me goodbye and we walk out separate ways, while walking to my first class a girl suddenly rams into me we both fall down and papers fly everywhere. I've never seen her before she must be new. I get up and pat off my uniform. "Watch where you're going next time" I tell her. "Here let me help y-" Before I could finish my sentence she cuts me off and dismisses me a wave. "No...it's... it's fine. I got this.." her voice sounds Brittle as she picks up the papers lying on the floor. I shrug it off and continue walking.

The first bell rings as I enter my classroom I walk to the back of the class and sit in my usual spot. A minute later the teacher walks in the classroom holding her huge binder in her left arm she walks over to her podium and sets her binder down. "Good morning students, I'm sure most of you are aware of the massacre that happened on Saturday night. Let's all stand up and face a few minutes of silence for those we have lost." She cues the class I stand up most of them look down at the floor or have their eyes shut. I stay sitting down looking around the classroom.

Minutes pass by everyone sits down and start talking again. I look in the teachers direction she motions me to follow her out in the hall I get up from seat and go as told. I can feel everyone's eyes glued onto my back watching go out in the hall and probably get yelled at again. Once I'm in the hall the teacher lectures me but I don't pay attention to her instead I zone out she sends me to the principals office I walk off to his office but once the teacher goes back inside her classroom I head towards my locker. I open my locker and grab a book I walk over to a small staircase that barely anyone uses so I sit there and read.

As my eyes follow along the words a sudden noise comes from across the hall. I look up to see what it is and notice that it's that rl from earlier who bumped into me. She notices me and walks over to me. Ugh what does she want know? I've only meet her once and she's already annoying as hell. She stands in front of me and waves. "Hi." I wave back "hey." She sits besides me I scoot over a bit. She asks "did you hear about what happened last night?" I nod. "It's a tragedy huh? Well I saw a picture on a flyer recently about the massacre and there's a girl on there that looks just like you." She pulls out the flyer and shows it to me, in the picture there's a girl (me) who's dragging a human to a back ally. Although I am in my shadow form so how would she know that's me? Or a least think it's me. "That's a shadow of a girl it could literally be anyone but you decided to pick on me?" I roll my eyes again. "Now I'm not saying that it's you but I'm just comparing because you look alike."
"I look like a shadow?" I give her a questioning look but also an very annoyed one.
"No! That's not what I meant.. ugh just where were you there when it happened?" She asks while looking around the room trying I avoid eye contact. I mumble under my breath get up and leave. "Hey! Don't walk away from me! I haven't finished asking you questions I know that's you! I'm going to make our spill out the truth sooner or later!" She rambles on and on but I don't bother listening to the rest. She's just another worthless human brat.