The hidden truth

Chapter 3 - Just make it through

I closed my locker and decided this mopping in the hall wasn't really my style and decided to walk to class, to everyone I look like a Nerd with no friends which works for me. I had good grades and I worked hard only Becuase that meant less trouble later on when Malachai came into the picture and that god awful bitch, Penny Peabody. God I hated her so much.

They had themselves written down as my 'parents' so whenever something happened at school they knew about it including days were lessons are cancelled and they'd make me pick up another shift so I'd be working from 9am till the normal closing time of 4am. God those two were people I was more than happy to have a fight with, any reason I could get but they had the answers I was looking for unfortunately for me.

I walked into my lesson as McKenzie McCall who everyone knew to be the shy girl that sits alone and never speaks. I've heard the rumours most of them make me laugh, they think I'm a mute which is always fun. The teachers don't bother with me since I won't talk so I just sit there listening and drawing my two headed snake and trying to figure out what it means, including what what it meant to me, why was it a memory I had on the man I think is my father? Was this man even my father? I don't remember all I do know is a double headed snake tattoo could led me to the man that I wished so hard to know.

I quickly pushed that idea aside and sighed as I walked towards my seat, my first class of day was English literature but it didn't start for another forty minutes so I pulled my book out of my pile and started to read it, unfortunately I don't get much time to read as I'd like however I did spend most of the summer working or reading. I have read at least 10 books over the summer since work would interrupt my freedom. Currently I was reading, The Fallen. Something I wasn't really enjoying however I loved the way reading sent me to a different universe where this life of mine doesn't exist and I am not me.

I was suddenly pulled from my magical world by the words of someone if I had it my way would be under my fist as it flys towards his face. Chuck Clayton. Womaniser and in my opinion not worth a second of my time but clearly he thought different.

"Whatcha reading there McCall?, don't be too quick to answer" he laughed with his friends which I answered with a simple eye roll and going back to my book, God he's so juvenile. I mean seriously come on, if I don't talk to anyone what makes you think your so special sweetheart?.

I say I wanna be invisible but unfortunately, that's more difficult than it looks, with my dark orban hair and Bright green eyes. These features made it hard for me to blend in since they were so obvious and not at all common, since gingers aren't a large community. I stuck out like a knife in a gun collection. I felt them pull my beanie off my head and I huffed, God hes annoying and I really have a craving to punch him or atleast give him a kick to the balls.

I knew that wouldn't work though, Malachai would kill me if he found out I drew attention to myself by getting into a fight, I grabbed my beanie and looked him in the eyes before rolling my eyes once more and putting my book back in the pile I had brought with me. I placed my beanie back on my head and looked at the group that surrounded me with crossed legs and a serious face. As If to say how can I help you.

"Oh an eye roll, the only way we can communicate there?" He said moving a hand towards my face which as I slapped away and glared at him before the bell went, a signal of my safety as the teacher walked in and they all took their seats. Thank God for that save or I might have gotten alittle physical.

Veronica and Archie walked into the classroom, all lovey dovey in each other's presence. I wanted to vomit and I rolled my eyes again before listening to my teacher to an extent. I drew my double headed snake and shaded it in to look like the tattoo that haunted my mind. What did it mean?, why was this the only thing I could remember?.

"This semester we're going to continue on our quest through English literature with Shakespeare's Macbeth" my teacher called while handing out books, I laughed to myself since this was a play I had read multiple times, the role of the women in the play stuck out to my dramatically and I loved it.

I quickly pulled my drawing away and opened the book and started listening to my teacher but at the back of my mind, all my thoughts still nagged at me and the questions still circled around my mind. What happened?

Why was this snake so important?, was it even important and how did Malachai know who i really was?.

These questions circled my mind constantly.