Feathers and Shadows

Chapter 2

The first period warning bell rang right as I entered the school so I ripped out my schedule from my backpack and ran down the hall to AP physics. As I rounded a turn I slammed face first into a pair of titts.

"Ow" mine and another's voice say in unison. I look up to see a gorgeous girl about my age with about C cup sized boobs and red hair. I should probably explain now that I'm a tad bisexual so running into two smoking hot people in a row, one more literal than the other, is a dream come true and renewed my hope for this school. I rub my boobs until the throbbing goes away then stand up and offer a hand up."Sorry." I said as she excepted the help and stood up rubbing her head.

"It's okay," she said "I was running too. So I'm Tayli what's your name?"

"I'm Ruby," I say as I gather up my stuff " I'm on my way to AP Physics can you point me to there?"

"Better I can take you because I'm on my way there right now." She said as she grabs my hand and drags me along with her. We end up in the door just before the bell rings. The teacher points us to two empty seats near the back and we quietly make our way to the seats. I get out my text book and open it to the page the strangely hot female teacher is lecturing about. I feel a tap on my right elbow and I look over to see Tayli pointing to the left of us. Low and behold I find the strong silent Dylan starring ominously at the teacher, no something more behind her. At first I thought he had found a way to stare at her ass reflection, but there was only a black board behind her and the Smart Board was to the left of her. I must have been starring so intently at him I failed to notice that Tayli was trying to get my attention.

I look over and say, "What?" she just points to the teacher who is starring at me. "Yes ma'am?" I say as innocent as possible.

"Will you kindly stand up and introduce yourself to the class, and only your name, where you came from and how you like it so far." 'Wow that was seriously specific' I thought as I stood and prepared the same speech I thought of driving here. "Hi my name is Ruby Lucille Hellnorth," I saw people widen there eyes in surprise but not in the usual way more like the way of recognizing an old person they once knew but it all passed and before I could finish the teacher told me to sit down. I just shrugged and sat.

"Now for those of you that don't know my name is Miss Hevon not Heaven, Hevon." she wrote it on the board, the chalk board and the tapping made my skin crawl. The rest of the period dragged on like all other schools do with the everyone meeting each other when the only new kids were me, Tayli and surprisingly Dylan. When I went over to get his name he shifted uncomfortably. Causing his hood to fall for a moment and I saw a horrendous scar in the shape of a six under his left shoulder. I pretended not to notice as I sat down in the chair beside him. "So got a last name, Dylan of the Silent Ones?" I said playfully. He just grunted and said. "You've never met the Silent Ones so don't speak of them, and my last name is Ristvak. Dylan Ristvak, Miss HellNorth." He said rather smugly.

"Well Mister Ristvak I'm going to leave you in your ray of sunshine and go meet other, more friendly people." I said and turned away. I almost didn't catch it but quietly I heard him say, "No chance of that happening." I just shrugged it off and went over to a group of cheery looking people near the front.

"Hi," I said, "my name is..." I didn't even get to finish before they all gave me a look and walked away. I look over at Dylan and all he does is tilt his head down, but I swear I saw a hint of a smile under that black hair. I went around the room but met the same response at every single person I tried to meet. Defeated and slightly angered I sat back down in my seat. Tayli sat down a couple minutes after me.

"It's weird," she said," it's like all of the people hate us for being new."

"Yeah I know its really strange." I say. I look over at Dylan's desk and catch him starring at me. He blinked then looks away like nothing happened. The bell rang and it was on to second. Turns out Tayli also had my second period which was guitar, which also surprised me about this school. I remember my father saying, "Hey look Ry, they have a guitar class." I practically leaped over the couch trying to see it.

"No fucking way!" I shouted into the paper.

"Mind you language Missy." my father said as he took it out of my hands and marked me down for it before I could.

"Well I'm sorry," I said " but this school change just got a helluva lot better!" My little flashback ended as I walk in to a class of four people all with old classical guitars, who are staring at my Gibson Warlock like its a demonic artifact. One of them tried to touch it and I yelled " Back off!" which sent his hand back a little too fast and smashed the neck of his guitar into his face. I sit down in my seat and position my Warlock like I'm about to shred an awesome solo. The other students all stare at me the same way the others in my first period did, with that look of absolute hate. Well it wasn't completely bad, every single one of them was immensely attractive so I was chill with their stares because I was staring at them too. I look over at Tayli who had just pulled out her Less Paul and started tuning it. My

Warlock was already tuned so I just started practicing my favorite song to play, The Night by Disturbed. I was probably just onto the chorus when the teacher said "Alright class quick fucking around." I knew from that right there that my and this teacher were going to get along quite nicely. He pulled out the most beautiful Fender I have ever seen. It was a Deluxe edition and styled to match Slash's Gibson. It was a work of untold beauty. "OK we are going to start today by seeing how good all you fucks are at this." he said. Oh this is my time to shine.