The Shades of Grey

The Shades of Grey- Chapter 15

CHAPTER 15

"What are you doing here Sally?" I asked flatly. She smiled nastily and that was when I noticed the irony of our costumes.

Sally was wearing a tight red dress, so tight that you could see that she wasn't wearing a bra. It was so short that you could see her black undies and so low that the top of the dress stopped just above her nipples which were sticking up at odd angles. The true irony was the fact that she was wearing bright red horns and a red tail. In short she was dressed as a slutty devil.

"I'm coming to ruin you," she said, I made a mental note of how devil-like she actually was.

"And how do you plan on doing that?" I replied.

She smiled the same way she had when she'd called me fat.

"With this," she said, pulling something out of her bra.

I gasped and stopped myself from barfing when I saw what had been in-between her boobs.

My phone.

"let's see, I haven't looked at anything yet, I thought I'd save it for public humiliation, hmmm, sent messages, looks like you were texting MY boyfriend BEFORE he broke up with me, let's see 'the power to see will set you free. Meet me at the park in 15 minutes. Don't tell anyone and don't show anyone this text'" she read out.

Both Harry and I swore under our breath.

"Now why wouldn't you want anyone to see this tex-" Sally began before her jaw hit the floor at the same time as my phone. I just stood there, waiting to be carted away to a lab. I waited and waited.

Eventually someone said

"That's not fair," they began "she's gonna win the costume contest at her own party," they finished. I was VERY confused. I looked at Harry who mouthed 'go along with it' at me.

"Yeah... Sorry that I have the best costume everyone," I said shakily.

I caught a glimpse at myself in the mirror. I saw a girl with brown hair and silver streaks, midnight blue eyes with silver specks, wearing a flowing white dress, a pair of creamy white wings extending out of her back. She looked like an angel.

"Sorry that reading out my text triggered my REAL costume Sally, you have to go now," I commanded. Sally gave me the evil eye.

"This isn't over Sluttica Grey," she said, before bending over to pick up my phone. Holding it out to me, I gagged.

"Keep it," I said.

She sneered and walked out.

After the party I was surprised at how clean everything was. I was VERY worried. I might have gotten away with having wings tonight, but what about school? I was going to bed when I saw 4 people still here. A girl with purple hair dressed as a puma, a tall boy with a longer than usual neck dressed as a giraffe, a girl with extreme eczema dressed as a lizard and a well built boy dressed as a bull.

"Hey guys, party's over," I said coming over to them.

"We know, we came to ask you why in the name of god you sent a text with the chant?!" the girl dressed as a puma asked me.

"Wha-what?" I said nervously.

"You know Tarson?" the boy dressed as a giraffe asked me.

I nodded. He smiled.

"He gave me the neck and horns, Dalia the ears and tail, Olga the invisibility and Charlie the horns and strength," he said. I gulped.

"I'm Bruce or giraffe boy as everyone calls me," he said cheerily.

"Let's cut to the chase," Dalia, the puma girl, said harshly.

"When did you send that text?" she asked me bluntly.

"About five months ago," I replied.

Lizard girl in took a sharp breath.

"It usually takes 6 months for them to send someone," she said to Dalia who nodded.

"When that bitch said the chant it revealed us as well, but when you sent that text it goes through the government, who take 6 months to dispatch a group to capture you," she explained to me.

"Wha?" I said in a daze.

"Tell her about Arnold," Bull boy said.

Dalia nodded sadly.

"Arnold was like us, he had snow leopard ears and tail, he sent a text to his girlfriend giving her the sight, and 6 months later a group of government agents came and took him away. We haven't seen him since," Dalia finished.

I stood there wide eyed.

"So, what you're saying is that, they're coming to take me?" I asked slowly. Dalia nodded.

"We would have been fine with it, but when Sally revealed us we realised that they'd take us too if they came to take you," Olga said.

"That's why we have to leave, now," Bruce explained.

"Now?" I asked.

"Yep, you can't leave a note for anyone, it'll just help them track you," Charlie the bull told me.

"Go get some stuff, meet us at the old playground in 15 minutes," Dalia instructed before all 4 of them turned and left.

After they left I ran upstairs. I ripped off my dress and pulled on some tights and a black singlet. I pulled on my black sneaks and a black long sleeved tight hoodie. I stuffed some extra clothes in a back pack, plus a torch, matches, some fruit and some toiletries. Against orders, I wrote a note. One to mum and Aaron, and one to Harry.

'Dear mum and Aaron,

Have gone with a friend to the snow. Might be gone for a while. If people come around looking for me tell them where I am.

Love you both so much,

Love Jess'

'Dear Harry,

People are going to come looking for me. People who know about my back.

I met a bunch of people like me, not with a back but with ears and stuff.

They'll look after me.

Don't know where I'm going, don't know when I'll get back, all I know is that I love you.

You are the only exception.

All my love,

Jess, your angel'

I folded up the note for Harry in my pocket.

I jumped out the window, backpack in tow, and after running to Harrys' house to drop the note in his mail box, I leaped into the air, and flew to the playground.