Feathers and Shadows

Chapter 9

We were sitting in the Burger King about ten minutes from the school, I ordered a original chicken and Mizore got a Big King, we had just finished when Tayli and Dylan walked in.

" Hey!" said Tayli, running over to us. Dylan just waved and went to the register.

"Hey girl, did school get out?" I said after the boob-squishing hug.

"Yeah like five minutes ago. We came straight here in my car." she pointed out the window to an older Camaro.

"Nice." I said. She nodded and Dylan came back with a big plate of burgers, he might as well have bought the entire menu.

"What?" He says to our starring," a guys got to eat doesn't he? " he starts devouring the food.

"Yeah, eat not inhale." Says Tayli. We all laugh and Dylan just glares.

"So what are all of your plans for tonight?" Mizore asks.

"Studying." Says Tayli.

"Same." I say. Dylan just remains silent. She waits for his answer but it isn't forthcoming so she gives up.

"Well if you all are bored and this isn't too much to ask since we just met, do you guys want to come study with me?" Mizore says to me and Tayli.

"Sure." we say at the same time, we look at each other then burst out laughing. Dylan looks up in annoyance and goes back to eating his almost empty tray.

"Alrighty then. Just come over and we'll study okay?"

"Sure." Me and Tayli say again.

Turns out, studying with Mizore means attending a party. I toppled up to get place to find lights everywhere, Iron Maiden playing through the windows of this big house, and I mean big house. It was at least four stories, had maybe a dozen rooms, and was easily like a thousand square feet just in the area I was standing in.

"Oh this is gonna be good." I say as I go further in. I'm greeted by the smell of puke and sex, which let me tell you is not a good smell. I spot the preppy bitch from the choir class earlier sitting between two bulky guys who were so drunk it hurt my head just looking at them. One of them was pressing his junk all up against her leg and the other couldn't keep his hand away from her vagina. I almost felt bad for her. Almost. I walked around the house which took me a good ten minutes not counting the people blocking me. I saw Dylan standing in front of the kitchen sink and this red-headed girl I thought I recognized was trying, unsuccessfully, to flirt with him. She even stooped so low as to bend down to 'adjust her shoe' so he could see down her shirt. Dylan glanced at her petite boobs, smirked as if comparing, then walked off, leaving Miss. Whore to fend for herself in a mob of horny teens. 'This is not going to end well' I thought as I passed by them. I made my way upstairs and found the master bedroom. Inside I found the person I was looking for, she was wearing a black Three Days Grace shirt, with really tight jeans, and her boots.

"Found you!" I shouted as I burst open the door. I saw Tayli on the bed looking like she went through hell, and back.

"Hey Ruby." Mizore said

"Hey. What happened?" I asked the both of them.

"The guy she came with, he tried to rape her." Mizore said, "He would have succeeded if Dylan hadn't intervened." At that precise moment and as if on cue, Dylan the Silent comes into the bedroom.

Still having his cool, collected demeanor he said, "He's gone." Tayli breathed a sigh of relief and sat up and Dylan sat down. Mizore and I both looked at the two of them sitting next to each other, then looked at ourselves, then we burst out laughing.

"What?" They both said in unison.

"Nothing. Nothing." I said trying and failing to recover. Dylan and Tayli both looked at us, then each other then started laughing. Well Tayli laughed, Dylan just.......chuckled. His chuckle was so weird and out of place us girls all started falling to pieces laughing so hard. I was on the floor in a ball, Mizore was leaned against the dresser about to pass out, and Tayli was sprawled on the bed again. After a while we all recovered and Mizore suggested we go down and rejoin the party. I was loath to go and I could tell Tayli felt the same, but for a different reason. We went down to the living room which had been retrofitted as a dance floor. Tayli practically glued herself to Dylan when she saw her date with some blonde boy, turns out he was gay. We made it to the dance floor and I immediately pulled Mizore to me. It was a slow song so we just started swaying to the music. I could feel her body molding into mine, she closed her eyes and hummed along with the song, which was some slower song by Shinedown. Time seemed to stand still for a while, she opened her eyes and looked into mine. I lost myself in the ocean of her eyes, feeling as if I was sailing inside them with no hope of returning. I held her stare as the song ended, she broke away from me and headed deeper into the crowd. I went after her like a bullet, people in my way were ruffly shoved aside. I heard plenty of "Excuse you" and "What the hell bitch!" I didn't care, my mind was on one thing and one thing only, her. I spotted her in the center of all the people, so I pushed and shoved until I stood directly in front of her. I found out then that I was taller then her because she looked up into my eyes and I looked down into hers. The music started which was Shout 2000 by Disturbed, I started jumping to the music when it happened.