Shadow Cursed

Chapter 14: The Complication

School. It's been so long since I had been there. I would have so much work to make up, and finals to take since I missed them.

Deep breath Isabella, in and out, in and out. Don't lose control, or hell will break loose. I had been trying to learn control, but it's a struggle. Turns out I could move and destroy stuff with the swipe of my hand or a thought. I also had the power to somewhat somewhat control fire, it was hard to though. And of course the ability to have a shield came in handy, especially since I had gym this trimester. I could easily defend myself in dodge ball. And maybe toss a few from the other side of my team for fun and mess with them.

"Have a good day Isabella," Alric had arrived at the front steps of the school.

Sarcastically, I told him, "Thanks." I took my backpack and books from the seat where I placed them next to me.

"When you come back, I should be home. I'm finalizing stuff on the apartment I'm renting." He decided to move into an apartment so we could live together. I liked a change of scenery. It was near the city so I wouldn't need to change schools, but it was a longer ride to school every morning. "If it all works out, we can move out by the end of the week."

"Have a good day daddy." I gave him a goodbye kiss as he drove away in the car. I walked into the front doors alone.

I was walking down the hallway with ear buds listening to Evanescence, when I accidentally bumped into someone and falling onto the floor on my butt. Blushing I took the ear bud out of my left ear and looked up. The person I had run into was a boy with black hair and dark hazel eyes, was he new.

He talked first, "Are you okay?" He offered his hand to help me up. "I hope I didn't hurt you."

Without trying to look into his eyes, "I've been through worse. That didn't even scratch me." I was not really a people person, so I didn't know what to say.

"Oh, you were the girl who got into the accident and has been out of school since then?" Oh great people were talking. "I'm glad to have been able to meet you Miss Caywood."

He picked up his books and gracefully walked down the hall behind me toward the East Wing. I watched him until he disappeared. My heart was racing. He was graceful, I was a klutz. But something inside me want to know more about him.

I picked myself off the ground and grabbed my belongings. Stuffing my papers inside my backpack, I rushed to my locker before I embarrassed myself anymore. Hiding in the safety of my own locker at the end of the West Wing, I took my textbooks, notebooks, and pencils and slowly headed to physics class.

The bell had just rung when I entered the room, everyone was looking at me like I was a ghost. I shuffled to the back of the room to where my seat was to avoid anymore unneeded attention. Everyone returned to their conversations after I reached my seat. It was only my first day back and it was not going so well. I started doodling in my notebook before class started to distract me.

I felt someone enter the room and I looked up to see him again. He was standing in the same physics class as me, I didn't know whether this was all set up or coincidence. "Sorry I'm late sir, but I got lost on the way to class. Still too many halls to learn." He came towards me and sat in the seat in front of me, the only seat left in the room.

I froze up when he smiled at me because he turned to face me. I blushed bright red like Rudolph's nose and hid the embarrassment and shame in my notebook. How could I not speak to a boy, a simple boy. I could imagine the others noticing and pointing at laughing at me. I wanted to cry. Getting up I walked out of the classroom without a word. I needed fresh air since I felt I was gonna pass out in there.

I skipped the rest of physics and all my classes until lunch and lay in the nurses office. I felt sick, not the fever kind, but sick. The cot wasn't that comfortable but I had time and space to think so I wouldn't go insane. Why did I ever think it was a good idea to come back to school.

I heard the nurse talking to someone outside. I focused on the conversation, "Is she okay? She left class without saying anything and I'm just worried."

"She's sleeping. She just didn't eat or drink fluids, she will be fine. I'll tell her you came when she wakes up." He seemed discouraged but he left after.

I laid down in the cot again. What was wrong with me. I was becoming stronger only to have a boy come into my life like a wrecking ball, and start to break my foundation part by part. But he was human, I couldn't be with him either way. I didn't want to risk anything, I was already unpredictable. I groaned and tried to go back to sleep, my head was pounding against my skull. I drifted into a bittersweet darkness.