Phantom Hearts (Rewritten)

Chapter 2

POV Arrow

Arrow looked out the window as she walked down the hallway to her locker. She let a small smile cross her lips as she looked out at the light grey of the clouds as they let the white flakes of snow dance down to the white covered ground. Some would say that it was still too early for the whiteness to take over, but they lived in north central Alberta. It was always started snowing way earlier than anywhere else, meaning that usually before the 31st of October there would be snow. Arrow wasn't complaining though. Snow meant that it was getting closer to the end of the year, which meant that soon it would be December. Then she just had to get to June and finally she'd be free of these people, that she'd had to learn to call classmates at this educational hellhole.

He might've been in one of your classes....if not for the incident Nina's voice echoed in Arrow's thoughts. She stopped, her smile faded. Would that mean they would've gone to the same school? Did he have people waiting for him here?
Someone bump into her, moving her away from her thoughts.
"Watch it, loser." Said a snobbish voice.
"Oh, did someone litter?"
"Hahaha."
Arrow glared at the group of girls, before she tried to move away with no success of doing so.
"Shut up." She muttered.
"Did you say something,bitch?" the first one spoke again as she touched Arrow's shoulder. Arrow went rigid. Arrow swatted the hand away as a familiar voice spoke.
"Chantelle, enough."
The so called 'leader' of the group decided to show herself. Arrow turned and couldn't help but notice, the uniform she wore was a little tight in just the right places, she had tan skin, the slightest hint of makeup and her hair long straight and blonde. This girl was the type that made boys worship her and girls wish they were her.
Her name, Amanda Garten, Arrow's ex best friend.
"We don't have time to deal with this...." Her brown eyes giving Arrow an ice queen type glare, though if you looked hard enough there was a tiny hint of a sorry but Arrow was pretty sure she was just wishing for that to be there. Then Amanda assumed her role as sheppard and became the herder of her flock of sheep. Arrow watched them go,she wrapped her arms around herself. She glanced out the window for one more time before she went to class instead of her locker, one less confrontation would be better.
She hated those girls, most of all she hated Amanda. They had once been friends, and then the Ice Princess, backstabbed Arrow and left her alone.
Arrow took a deep breath.
Once again her thoughts began to wonder about
Drako, why she was thinking about him seemed odd to her. Though she hoped beyond hope that he never had met Amanda.

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Finally, the freedom from the pointless educational hell. Ok so the educational part wasn't hell it was more so just the people. All the stares, the whispers, the betrayals and worse of all the loneliness.The kids seemed to care more about social status than about learning and the teachers just wanted to leave so they could get back to their pointless lives that they lived beyond teaching these youngsters, they were mostly there for the money.

"Ophelia?"
Arrow stops. There were only a few people who'd ever called her by that name, her dead name. Well really it was only dead to her, because the people who called her that were no longer around, so she'd decided to just go by 'Arrow'.
"I thought I told you to stop calling me that." She said flatly, turning to face the person who had called her.
"I'm sorry....." Amanda stepped away from the building, where Arrow hadn't noticed her standing.
"What else is new..." Arrow mumbled crossing her arms.
"Ok look, I know I was an asshole ...but" Amanda sighed. Her usual coldness wasn't there. Despite that Arrow couldn't help but balls her hands into fists so tightly that she can feel her short nails dig into her skin. She is tried so hard not to turn around and walk away, trying so hard not to cry. She hates this so much. She couldn't stand being alone with Amanda after what she did to Arrow. After she'd abandoned the girl, to go and be with people who didn't even care about her, but only cared about how she looked.
"What do you want, Amanda?" Arrow stared at the perfect girl in front of her. "I've known you long enough to know that you want something. You never talk to me otherwise since...."
Amanda seem taken aback by the coldness of Arrow's tone.
"Ugh, fine." Amanda rolled her eyes but she mumbled something that Arrow ignored.
"I have work and I still need to go home, so make it quick."
"It's about your job and....." Amanda stepped closer to Arrow and whispered. "And your ability."
Arrow frowned. "What about it?"
"Have you seen him?" Amanda asked.
Arrow looked at her feet. Her ability ...another thing she'd tried to forget ...to pretend that she was normal so that maybe she could make some friends, but no one wants to be friends with the hot headed girl who can talk to spirits.
"Seen who?"
"Him." the desperation in the girls voice caught Arrow off guard. "I just need to know if he's....."
Arrow stepped forward and lightly touched Amanda's shoulder, to which the other didn't recoil from.
"Amanda, who?" Arrow kept her voice steady though she could feel her stomach clenching.
Please not him
"Drako." Amanda looked at Arrow, tears brimming her eyes.
Arrow's hand dropped. She went into a brief shut down,but managed not to show any sign of doing so.
NO NO NO NO.....no Her thoughts screamed.
"Drako?" she tried to play it off, she wondered how well it was working. "Oh you mean the boy that's at the hospital?"
Amanda's eyes widened. "You've seen him!" Her eyes lit up.
"Amanda, he's in a coma, he's not dead." But Arrow couldn't help remembering being in the hospital and seeing him. The first spirit in years and it was a boy her age. A boy who she might've seen just passing by in the halls at school, one who would've never known she existed if not for what happened.It was a selfish thought, but.... Well how could you not notice him floating behind you, the ghostly whisper of his echoed voice- annoying as it was had become a comfort. His aura was of confusion and joy, something Arrow hadn't felt in a long time.
"Spirits only come out when someone is dead."
So why is he there? His body is still alive, but what made the split Arrow wondered.
"Oh thank god." Amanda sighed with relief. Taking Arrow's comment as that she hadn't seen the boy.
"My ability hasn't worked for years, why would you think it would just start working again?" Arrow asked.
In truth, it never went away, Arrow had just found ways to ignore them. She'd tried to suppress it after the last time she'd gotten too involved with a spirit. She walked with headphones in, having a constant noise to ignore them. Drako however was fucking persistant.
Amanda nodded, she gave Arrow a smile. "Thank you."
Arrow blinked a response and then the two of them went back to how things had been for years now. As Arrow started to walk away, she felt her chest. She wiped at her eyes, trying to hide the evidence of tears.... It was happening, the one thing she didn't want to happen was.....they knew each other.
However, after seeing how worried Amanda seemed about this boy, and despite what had happened between the two girls, Arrow found a new kind of determination.
And maybe she could help this time.
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P.O.V Drako