Lost Realms

3.Strange Things

Edward

I was walking down the school halls, an apple in one hand and my history books in another. It was just like any other boring day.

I walked over to my class and took my place. I could hear a few whispers behind me. It wasn't easy acting normal knowing they were talking about me.

It's always been like this. After all, I never had a dad to speak of and people found it kind of interesting to talk about my life.

Usually, I spent my day doing my work and trying to ace my tests.

My day was completely uneventful in other words a totally normal day. At least I thought it was.

But as I went to my locker to take my French books I noticed something weird. A symbol I had been absentmindedly drawing the other day was glowing. I rubbed my eyes and the glow vanished as fast as it appeared.

Whoa! I really need to catch up on my sleep

I checked my schedule and realized that I was going to be late for class.

I took my books and hurried to class when I dashed into someone.

We both fell down. I hit my head but recovered quickly and got up to apologize to the other person 'I'm so sorry I didn't see you... '

And then I saw it was a girl. Her dark brown hair tied up in a bun with a few strands coming out of it to cover her forehead. Her specs were dangling off one ear.

She rubbed her head and adjusted her specs and looked at me over the rim of her glasses and gave me a small smile 'That's alright, I'm fine'.

I held out my hand and she took it. 'I'm terribly sorry I was just in a hurry to get to class' I said sheepishly.

'So am I' she said and laughed. She then looked at my books 'Oh! We're going to the same class. Looks like Monsieur Paul's going be angry we're late.' then added 'By the way' she said extending her hand
'I'm Julie, what's your name?'

I smiled then took her hand and said 'Edward'

'pleased to meet you, Edward, now let's get going before we get sent to the office' she said and we both walked to our class.

'Agreed' I said chuckling.

We were walking towards our class when she asks me 'How come I've never seen you around here, are you new here?'

'Actually no I've been in St. Lenons since freshman year just been under the radar' I said.

'Really? Wow now I'm disappointed I've never noticed you' she said. I hadn't noticed it before but she was really tall. Not taller than me, Shorter by a few inches but still way taller than most the girls here. She practically stood out! The realization actually makes me confused as to how I've never noticed her.

'No sweat. I don't talk much to people anyways.' I say chuckling.

'Well you have a serious problem now cause I never stop talking to people if I start talking to them' She says giving me a fake strict look and I burst out laughing and say 'Well I guess I'm doomed'

'You bet you are' she says grinning at me. I smiled and said 'Well I'm always under the radar and notice things. How is that I've never seen you around?'

She smirks and says 'I'm always under the radar too' As she says that I realized we reached our class and to our utter relief Monsieur Paul was nowhere to be seen.

She looks at me and says 'see you around than cause I'm about to be murdered by my friend sitting there for leaving her alone with Clark Collins'

I laugh and say 'Sure but fair warning Collins tends to be awfully clingy'

She laughs 'And you said you are under the radar?'

'Only when it comes to me. Anyways you probably already know that about him' I say chuckling.

'Juliana!' I hear someone shout. We both turn and see that its a girl waving her hands in the air. Julie chuckles and says 'That's my best mate Becca. We both are like soul sisters. And yes I do know that he's extremely clingy.'

'Nice and I really think you should go now or Collins there might steal your seat'

She smiles again and says 'Yeah I should. So see you around? Or gonna be under the "radar" again?'

'Definitely. That is if you aren't' she smiled at me and then we went to our places and Monsieur Paul entered the class...