Red Ravens

Mr. Aiden Corvus

"Hey there" Aiden said in a sexy and sultry tone.

          I blinked a few times. What was he doing here? At MY school. Where is Billy? I've been waiting and he needs to save me from this... Well... impressively good-looking and well-dressed man. I laughed at what my head was thinking about handsome and gorgeous Aiden, Oh! There is goes again.

"Hi" I said as I shifted in my seat; I was so nervous that I bit my lip and started to twiddle my thumbs.

          He sat down across from me on the brown bench of the lunch table, his black hair bounced around as he did. His eyes caught light and were an amazing shade of light blue almost like looking at a bright and cloudless blue sky. He was wearing grey low-rise jeans that seemed a bit to long on him with a tight red T-shirt and a leather studded jacket to top it all off.

"So how have you beenn...?" He asked with a questionable tone like he didn't know my name

"Amare, Amare Moore."

            He smiled and threw a deep voiced chuckle my way which seemed to wrap around me like a snake, I felt like I was melting. He repeated himself and added in my name this time.

"So how have you been, Amare Moore?"

          I tried to throw a mind melting giggle and failed, he just stared at me like he was looking through open doors, almost like I was translucent.

          Trying to gather all of the confidence that I had I lied and said, "I'm perfectly fine! How are you Mr. Aiden Corvus?"

          He looked a little confused and I pointed to his name tag, another laugh of his that made me feel like I could turn into a puddle. "I'm fine, now that I know that I don't have to eat alone and that I've been able to see you again."

"What?" I asked curiously.

"Never mind... I have a question though" He replied.

"Yeah?"

"Want to come over to my house after school? Shawn won't stop going on about you and if you came over maybe he would stop telling me how great you were."

          So he lived with his Grandfather, I guess seeing him wouldn't be to big of a deal; plus it will keep me from going to Billy's house and killing him for not being here on my first day back.

"Sure, I'll come over. I really do miss that old man."

          We both laughed and continued talking until the bell rang.

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          I parted from Aiden and told him I would meet him in front of the school at the end of the day and went off to my Co-Ed P.E. class. I changed into my dark blue baggy t-shirt and black girls basketball shorts and ran out of the dressing room and into the gym.

          Girls and boys were separated on sides, so it wasn't really a Co-Ed class just two classes going on at one time I guess you could call it.

          Jennipher came up to me as our teacher commanded us to start running around the gym, we started to run in synchronization with each other and her light brown Indian hair kept getting stuck to her face being glued there with her sweat. I was always jealous of her because of her beautiful long hair except for when we were in gym together and long legs and anorexic skinny body, even though she ate like a pig, and her face an...

"Hey did you know that the hot new kid is going to be in our class." She said and interrupted my long rant about how amazing she was.

"What?" It was all that my mind could get out of my mouth because I was overcome with joy but even more by nerves and anxiety.

"Do I have to repeat myself?"

"Uh.. No, sorry." I started to study the other side of the gym and couldn't find Aiden anywhere, maybe it was just a rumor.

"THERE! There he is!"

          He was in a group of boys shorter than him, I never realized how tall he was, he must have been about six foot, and me at a measly five foot seven, I don't know how I could not have realized it sooner.  I glanced down at my feet and back at him, he was now pulling his shirt off to reveal a white wife beater underneath. He started to jog around the gym as I noticed the glowing raven tattoo on his back. I turned to Jennipher and said,

"Did you see that?"

"See what?" She replied.

"The new kids tattoo, it's on his back, look!"

          She glanced at Aiden and looked back at me with an angry face, "Are you playing tricks on me? Because it's not funny."

"I'm not lying if that is what you are asking."

          She looked back at him and said that she saw nothing, I couldn't quite comprehend what was happening. She couldn't see his tattoo, which was on his back plain as day, but I could. I don't get it...

          I looked back at him and we locked eyes, I knew he could see the panic and confusion on my face. He put his finger to his sweat dripping lips and made a "hush-ing" motion.

Why does he keep doing that to me!