As I make my way down the hallway, I look at walls. They are all wood, with intricate wood carvings in the walls. There are dressers lining the walls in-between the doors of different students rooms. Each dresser has photos of students that either came here or are coming here. I can see a lot pictures of Lizzie and Josie when they were younger, and I see a couple of Hope. As I walk down the stairs, I trip on the carpet cover the wood stairs. I grab the wall for support, and I'm able to get my balance. But I feel power enter my body, and I look at my hand and I see it glowing red like it was earlier when Mr. Saltzman tested me. As I take my hand away, I look around to see no one near me. So I whisper the spell Josie taught me earlier, and a small ball of fire forms in my hand. I then hear other kids coming, so I break my concentration and the ball of fire disappears.As I enter the large cafeteria, there are four long dark wood tables. I look around confused where to actually get food, and thankfully a girl that looks like she is about 15 asks, "Do you need help?"
I smile, "Yah, I'm new. Could you show me where the food is?" She nods and brings me over the kitchen, and tells me I can get food at a long metal table buffet. I look down the table full of food, and start to pick up some. Once I pile on some salad and pasta, I leave the line and move back into the cafeteria. Once I look down each table, I suddenly realize I have no one to sit with. And my anxiety of who I should sets it. After I stand there for a moment, I slowly make my way over to an empty end of one of the tables.
But before I'm about to put my tray down, I hear a familiar voice call out, "Lexi! Lexi!" I turn around, and to look to see who called out.
I then hear another person yell out, "Alexandria!" I finally see Josie and Lizzie waving me over. I smile, and a wave of relief runs through me. Once I arrive I sit down next to Josie, and across from Lizzie.
Lizzie immediately starts a conversation, asking, "So you liked to be called Lexi?"
Josie and I share a smile, and I say, "Well, most people call me Alex, but Josie wants to call me Lexi. But I don't really care."
"I like Alex," Lizzie says with a smile.
"Cool," I say.
Josie then asks, while starting to eat, "So who are you rooming with?"
"Hope Marshall," I say, and almost instantly Lizzie's face goes to "yikes". "What?" I ask.
I can tell Lizzie is about to spew something, but Josie cuts her off before she can start, "Hope has always been distant with everyone since she got here-"
Lizzie then interrupts her, "We have tried to make friends with her, and she has just refused us."
I nod and say, slightly confused, "Hope seemed nice."
Lizzie says, "You'll learn."
I roll my eyes sarcastically, and decide to change the subject, "Well what classes do I have to take?" For the rest of dinner, Lizzie and Josie tell me what classes I have to take, and which ones I could take.
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Alexandria Laughlin Marshall (TO)
FanfictionAlex is just another kid in foster care, except when she's sleeping she can see her dead parents who she never met because they died when she was just two. She can't talk to them...yet. When she's 11 she breaks her werewolf curse, and she finds her...