Escape (Book 1 of the Gods' series)

Chapter 15

I had nearly fallen asleep when I heard a light rapping on our door; I stood up groggily and went to answer it. Stood outside, beaming was Gabby, “uh? Gabby? What are you doing here?” Becky poked her head over my shoulder, “Oh, Becky, this is Gabby, my friend. Gabby, this is Becky, my roommate.” I stumbled backward slightly as Gabby burst into the room, examining everything. I glanced at the clock at the side of my bed, 6:00 pm. I should have been back at home by then. Gabby made a little squeal when she found my timetable lying on the end of my bed; she picked it up and shoved it straight into my face, “Look at our timetable! Its awesome!” She shouted, I looked closer at it and saw the lessons, instead of French we had Greek, instead of maths we had, mythology? This was awesome! School started at 9 am and ended at 3:30 pm and the rest of the day we did what we want. Nice. The door burst open, yet again, and Dylan and Aaron stood panting at the door. Dylan quickly got Aaron in a headlock and started wrestling on my bed. “Hey! My bed that you’re crushing with your guy ness!” I shouted as I rescued all of the things off of my bed, Dylan stood up and brushed himself down, “Can’t take the guy ness? Such a shame, I thought you would like it.” Dylan said as he kissed me lightly on the lips, my insides fluttered and I hugged him, inhaling his good smell as Aaron decided to ruin the moment by squishing me in a sandwich as he joined the hug, Dylan, with the help of Gabby and Becky pulled Aaron off of me. I released Dylan and sat on my bed, it was cool to have my friends sort of living with me.

After my friends had left, I sat with Becky on her gothic bed and asked, “How do the Gods let our parents know we have come here?” She looked at me for a second and replied, “Sometimes they ring your parents, or they send a letter, I don’t really know much more than that.” We just sat for a while after and she said suddenly, “Tomorrow, after school, do you want to decorate your part of the room? Paint is stored in the student supply closet, they have tonnes of colours, and carpeting can be changed easily.” I nodded slightly and walked over to my bed, plain and cream, way too boring. I texted my mum asking how she was doing and she replied with, ‘Fine’, she never did say much. We sat for a few minutes and then she asked, “Do you want to go get some food? When I first came I was starved.” Come to think of it, I was starving! I skipped breakfast and missed lunch, I stood up and walked to the door, we both walked to the kitchen area and Becky opened the fridge, it was full to bursting with food, I picked out some ham, margarine and salad cream, then walked to the breadbin and picked out bread. When I had made my sandwich, I went to sit on an empty couch near a TV, Becky followed soon after I sat down, as soon as I grabbed the remote and turned the TV on, I heard more than saw a door bursting open and a group of prim girls walk out in ridiculously short skirts that clung to their bodies walk out, in the middle of the group was none other than Jess, she had turned to her normal state and she looked quite stupid in all of her makeup. The group walked over to me and Becky, and apparently Gabby who had squeezed on the end of the sofa while we weren’t looking, a tall model like girl walked over to us, her black hair was curled and looked very big she had really high heels on and a pink miniskirt, “Erm, I know you’re new and all that, but you’re kinda sittin’ in our spot.” She had a West London accent and her tone wasn’t at all nice, we stayed where we were for a while until another tall, heeled girl walked up and said, “So move, now.” Then we all scuttled away to mine and Becky’s dorm, before I closed the door I looked one last time at the group, Jess noticed me looking, she shot me a grim sneer and waved. I turned back to Becky and Gabriella, sitting on my bed, “don’t bother with her, she just wants what she can’t have, I figured you go out with Dylan by the way he kissed you and stuff.” Becky sounded comforting.

I finished my sandwich and ran to the bathroom (it was inside our room! How cool is that?) With a sailor stripe fluffy skirt and white, tight fitting top. I became my usual self again, not God like, and got changed. I brushed my hair so it looked half decent and topped it off with natural style makeup. When I went back into the bedroom Becky and Gabriella were gone, I looked outside of the door to our room and saw Dylan, he was being well, in a way, kidnapped, by Jess and her, group. “Let go! Will you just leave me alone?” He seemed agitated with Jess, she kept on pawing his chest and that I couldn’t stand, but I didn’t want everyone to see my human form just yet, I turned to my Godly state and went out, quickly tying my hair in a blue and white striped ribbon. As soon as Dylan saw me, he began to try to get free, which was pretty useless as Jess’ girls surrounded him. So I walked over to Jess and said as I pulled her off of him, “Get off Jess, he’s mine.” To that several girls gasped and whispered, “She’s his girlfriend? No way!” others whispered, “I thought Jess said she was his girlfriend!” I simply said, “Yeah? Well she lied, that’s what she does.” As I pulled Dylan out of the hoard of, them, I couldn’t call them girls because, well, they weren’t. “I bet you enjoyed that.” I said to Dylan as we walked over to the TV’s, he had changed into his human self and put some baggy jeans on and a loose grey t-shirt.

He looked really good. He swung his arm around me, “What?” He said as we both flopped onto a vacant sofa, I snuggled into his warm chest, “You know, being surrounded by all those pretty girls. You enjoyed that.”

“Nah, I wouldn’t ever think of enjoyin’ it, they’re not real, they want to be what they aren’t. Unlike you.” I smiled at him and he kissed me tenderly on the lips. The moment ended all too soon so we just sat there, on the red sofa, me leaning against him. I looked at the clock, 9:00pm, and I was really, really, tired. “It’s getting late, Dylan, I’m gonna go get in the shower and go to bed. Night.” I stood up, much to Dylan’s upset and pulled him up with me, much more to his upset, I walked with him to the door of my room and before I went in, he grabbed my hand and pulled me back into his arms, he whispered softly in my ear, “I love you, Charlotte.” And kissed the top of my head. I immediately relaxed and felt so full of joy. Dylan told me he loved me! When he let go of me and started to walk away, the joy still glowed brightly within me, it glowed when I was in the shower and it glowed when I was getting in to bed, I noticed Becky was curled up in her bed, snoring lightly. I slept perfectly; nothing could make me feel as happy as I did.

I woke up the next morning, washed myself, got dressed and had breakfast. I had made sure to change to my Goddess form before going out of the dorm. It was Sunday, so I had no school. Becky and me grabbed paint from the supply closet and painted my room black and plum. While it was drying, Becky said, “Do you want to go into town? We could go shopping and go to the beach if you want.” I hadn’t thought we were allowed out of school, kind of stupid I guess, I nodded and we packed towels and sun tan lotion in our bags, I didn’t own a swimsuit, well not since I was 12, so we agreed that we would buy one in town.