Spiritual Pawns

Chapter 4

As the boy's smile grew into a horrifying snarl that showed the rows of sharp teeth that resided in his mouth.

" Clarissa" he kept on taunting as he got closer to the bed and my cowering body. Once he got in arms reach of me, he grabbed my chin forcing me to glare into his stone cold eyes.  " How do you know my name?, who are you?, what do you want with me?". the words tumbled out of my mouth.  He just stared bullet holes at me as he listened to my rambling. " You don't need to know that" he said as he stretched his other hand out into a claw with sharp nails ready to pierce me through, but before he could I let out a ear shattering shriek and someone came running down the hall. 

" Clarissa" the person screamed as they threw the door open. I  barely had time to register who it was when the boy suddenly  vanished into thin air. " Clarissa? whats wrong?" Abigail said as she came and sat down on the bed.  From here I could see the sweat shinning on her forehead,  the rosiness of her cheeks, and bruises on her lips as though she had bit them or been pressing them hard against something. 

" It's nothing" I reassured her and tried planting a smile on my face to mask the fear and dread I had felt just moments ago. " Are you OK?" I asked  worried that she might have a fever. " I'm just peachy" she said. " Whats wrong?" I asked. I had known her my whole life and could tell when something was wrong and by the look on her face something was. " It's nothing" she said " Just a bad dream" she whispered under her breath as she sat up from the bed ready to leave.  " You know you can tell me if somethings wrong, right?" I asked her hopping to put a smile on her face. " Yes of course, the same goes for you" she said as she placed her hand on the door knob a grin setting on her face. 

" Could you stay the night?" I asked her, worried that the boy might show up again.  " Sure" she replied as she crawled onto the bed.  The next morning I woke to the smell of pancakes wafting in from downstairs.  Hearing my stomach growl I got up from the bed and headed down the steps to the kitchen.  " Morning" a chorus of voices greeted as I entered the room.  " Morning" I greeted back  as I began stacking food on my plate.  There was much more then pancakes cooked, they had cooked eggs and biscuits as well. 

After pilling the food on my plate I went and set down at the kitchen table.  As I was pouring orange juice into the plastic cup in front of me I realized who was all at the table.  As expected their was Mrs. B  sitting to my right clad in a white blouse and black jeans,  I could see she was already prepared for work.  She was  a lawyer for the rights of children, a Child's Advocate.  Sitting next to her and in front of me was Abi, she wore a crimson red striped shirt and a pair of mom jeans. She was stuffing her mouth as she listened to her mom go on about her latest case.  Sitting to the right of Abi and my left was Mr. B.  This was unusual because he was always at work.  He was a photographer for the travel magazine  Worldly Living and his job required that he almost always travel. 

" Welcome back" I said as I began shoving food into my mouth. " I'm glad to be back"he said as he took a sip of his drink and set it back down.  " though I regret not making it to the party but as I was just telling Abigail I got you something that booth of you can use. " Here" he said as he pulled out a purple rock and placed it in the middle of the table.  "  this is a genuine healing stone all the way from Peru , its said to hold mystic properties and can heal the injured or find anything that's lost" he said with wonder in his voice. 

" Its so pretty" Abi said as she stared at the purple stone.  She  was right it was extremely beautiful but it gave me such a uncomfortable feeling. " Its alright, thank you" I said as I stood from the table and placed my plate in the sink. Feeling sick to my stomach I headed upstairs to get dressed for school.

 After heading upstairs and dressing in a short Satin Green dress with a black belt cinching in the waist and black thigh high socks on and  black knee high boots.  I ran to the bathroom brushed my teeth and put my hair into a low ponytail with a green satin bow.  I headed downstairs and grabbed my backpack from the cubby then ran out the door.  Once I  was outside I saw Abi waiting impatiently by the bus stop, the bus waiting in front of her. " Sorry" I said and offered her an apologetic smile. " It's alright, just hurry up next time" she said as she stepped on  the bus.  I could hear the kids shouting at each other, one was shouting across the bus at another about how they stole something and the rest where talking extremely loudly to their friends. 

I was halfway down the ail when I tripped on some boy's legs which where perched across the ail on another set.  That's when I started getting angry. Brushing past the kid I sat down at the back of the bus an annoyed expression plastered on my face as I waited to get to school.  I  headed towards class anger still surging through my veins when the bus stopped. 

All my classes went normally that is until 5th period. I have chemistry 5th period and while I liked the class I didn't like my lab partner.  She was a psychotic bitch, always blaming me for things she did.  She hated me for no reason and she made it a point to show me that everyday.  It was no surprise when she decided that during the middle of class she would go ahead and pour an unnamed chemical on me.  She then whined to the teacher that I did it to myself.  Feeling a burning sensation on my torso I ran to the office grabbed an over sized gray shirt from the receptionist and headed to the bathroom.

After peeling off my green dress I looked over my body . There was nothing that serious just a red whelp forming on my stomach.  After I prodded the whelp and winced I quickly put on the ugly oversize gray shirt that barely covered my but.  After making sure it wouldn't ride up and revel anything to scandalizing  I grabbed my ruined green dress and black belt and headed back to class.  By the time I got back the bell had already rung and kids were pilling out of classrooms ready to fill their empty stomachs with cafeteria food.  I grabbed my backpack and headed towards the lunch room, my anger on overload. 

" Whats wrong?" Abi asked as I sat my tray of cold pizza and pineapple chunks down on the table. " Nothing" I told her as I handed her the slice of pizza.  " Somethings wrong" she said " Or you wouldn't have came hurling through the lunch room with a scowl on your face." she finished speaking with a smile placed on her face to lighten the mood.  " My lab partner is a psychotic bitch" I told her as I plopped a piece of pineapple into my mouth.  " What did she do this time" she asked already knowing that it was something bad. " She poured an unnamed chemical on me , who douse that?"  I said and started shouting as I finished the sentence. 

" You need to do something" Abi said as she glared over her shoulder at the girl.  " You know I cant , if  I  do i'll get expelled beacuse her father funds the school" I  said exhaustion making its way into my voice.  " If you don't do something then I will" Abi said as she stood up and stormed over to where  my lab partner was.

"Christen , you need to go apologize to Clarissa right now" she demanded as she slammed her hand down on the table. " Or what?" the girls laughed out. They continued to laugh as Abi's face grew red from rage.  Then suddenly out of nowhere Abi had slapped Christen and left a red scorch mark on the side of her face.  " You bitch! you burned me" Christen screeched as she got up and shoved her.  Abi fell on her but and then suddenly she was being ganged up on.  Having enough of seeing my best friend be beat I got up and walked over there.  I grabbed one of the girls hands as they threw a punch.   I had their wrist in my hand as they kept on repeating ow and stop.  I finally stopped after I heard a crack. Looking down I saw their hand at a weird angle. I crushed their wrist. With my bare hands and hardly no pressure at all.

After hearing the crack everyone looked in my direction. They all wore horrified expressions but Abi was the only one to speak.  " Clar" she called with hesitation.  " What" I replied fear taking over my body. " There's something wrong with your eyes" She sputtered out. " Whats wrong with them" I started panicking. What was wrong with my eyes, I didn't feel anything wrong.  " Their pitch black " She said fear crawling across her face.

 " Christen, Amber, Brandy you girls may leave. Clarissa and Abigail you have to stay."  Mrs. Vernoccoli said as she set down in her chair. "why do we have to stay!" I yelled feed up with the way we were treated. " Because you started the fight" she replied with a bored look on her face. 

 " No we are in trouble because your too scared to punish little miss perfect since her daddy funds this school" Abi said anger resonating in her voice. " That is not why  you are in trouble. Everyone is saying you started it. You slapped her first Abigail and you Clarissa, you broke a girls hand." She was practically screaming at us " Look, as I see it now the only thing I can do is expel you for a week" she said standing up and walking over to the door. " I called your parents, they'll be here soon" she said as we walked out of the room.

" Uh oh " we said unanimously as we looked at each other. Were in trouble now  I though as we set down and waited for all hell to brake loose.