Fallen

8

Tyler's POV

I heard my alarm ring and I tried my best to turn it off, no make that beat it off. It fell of my bedside table and fell to the other side of the room. "ugh" I got up, irritated and drained. "shut up" I told my clock as I turned it off. I have to get ready now, school waits for no one.

I walked to the shower which I shared with my little brother, I always get up first so I know I'll always have hot water. "Woah, Ty when did you get a tat?" Jamie, my little brother asks as he looks at my back. Ignoring him I walk into the bathroom and close the door behind me, I don't have a tattoo and I don't even have to check to make sure.

Jamie is 12 when I'm 16, so I was an only child for quite a while. When he was born, I vowed to always protect him and be there for him. In a way I became his guardian angel. Now he's 12 and annoying, I avoid him at any cost... imagine how he'll be at 14. Good thing I won't be here to see it.

I strip all my clothes off, that being my boxers and nothing else. There are no girls in our house except for mom so when she's not here I can sleep in my boxers only. I shower for about 10 minutes and then I'm out.

Looking at myself in the steamy mirror, I see a black line running down my neck. Clearing the mirror of the steam on it I take a better look. Out of surprise of seeing what is on my back, I fall and hit the bathroom floor hard but I don't care right now. Getting up again to look at my back I almost scream a not so manly scream.

Rushing out of the bathroom to my room, to look at my back on the full length mirror, I see it and my eyes almost fall out of their sockets.

"What the hell" I scream. "I never got a tat... did I? ...I'm sure I would remember if I got a tattoo... mom is gonna kill me" getting dressed I run out of the house before Jamie could ask any more questions. I don't need his nagging right now I need to figure out where I got this freaking thing.

"I'm sure its not permanent... I hope its not permanent" getting into my car I ride out my driveway and head to school. On my way I recognize a certain someone walking to school.

"Hey, want a lift?" I asked Tori who seemed to be a million miles from here. She finally snaps out of her thoughts and register's me.

"Hey sorry... I was ...distracted", she smiled sheepishly.

"So? Do you want a lift?" I ask again and open the passenger door for her. She looks like she's battling with her thoughts but ends up getting into my car. 

"So, what's up?" she asks, trying to create conversation, but I'm not really in the mood right now.

"Nothing much, you?" I hope she also doesn't wanna talk, I won't be good company. Sure I have some questions for her, like did she run out of class yesterday but right now I just wan't to think about my problems.

"Same" after that, nothing more is said and I'm relieved.

*End of POV* 

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When I got to school, the first thing I did was race down to my locker to get my books, well what I have. I'm planning to go see Mr Blade before homeroom. Sarah is gonna want to know what happened yesterday... maybe being late won't be so bad after all.

After getting all my books, that being two textbooks, history and Chemistry, I ran to the teacher's lounge. When I got there, I took a second outside to compose myself before taking a deep breath and then...

Knock knock...

I knocked and waited for a reply from the inside. At the same time I got an answer to "come in" the bell rang, only a few minutes before the late bell rings, I still have time. I opened the door slowly and the minute I was in the lounge I regretted it... greatly.

Slowly everyone's eyes were on me, some looking at me as though I have grown a second head. I pat down in attempt to fix it even though I know its fine... I'm nervous so I start playing with my fingers and I look at the ground as though it's the most interesting thing I'd ever seen... and trust me, it's not.

"Hello honey" one of the teachers ask with a smile, I look up at her and recognize her as Mrs Darby.

"You need something?" she asked looking... friendly, "Uh I was looking for Mr Blade" I look around for him, "Um ... um about our ... our History project. Yeah out history project" I was making this up as I go and I don't work well under pressure.

"So... um is he here?" I look up at the teachers. They move aside to reveal a hiding? Mr Blade who was doing his best to not look at me. I walked over to his desk and he was forced to look at me. "Um hi Mr Blade" I gave an awkward wave as I walked toward him. "Um, I wanted to ask you about that project you said we will have this semester, um you said it would take the whole semester so I wanted to know um..." damn I have no idea what to say next, tongue tied.

"Okay, so I guess you want to start doing research right?" he looked at me and I had no idea how to react so he continued, "You can research on this topic so long", he spoke taking a sticky note and scribbling something on it.

He handed it to me.

We will talk later, everything is okay, don't worry.

I read it and looked at him, he nodded slightly and gave me a small smile. I must be the only one who saw it so I smiled back and left. "Thanks, I will start the research and get back to you.

As I left I smiled at the teachers who were smiling at me, as though saying 'what a good student you are', yes I am.

At least he's willing to tell me what really happened yesterday.

"Hey, Tori. Right?" one of the teachers called, I turned to look at her and didn't recognize her... how did she know my name? 

"Yes?" I answered in a questioning manner, I kind of didn't like the vibes I got from her. She seemed like one of those too nice people, in a very nice creepy way.

She smiled and continued, "don't you need a late slip, the last bell rang about a minute ago". She looked at Mr Blade and spoke again, "Steven, please give her a late slip... she is late for class after all". She paused and looked back at me, "because of you", the last part she said took me off guard. Did she have some problem with Mr Blade? Maybe they dated. I looked at Mr Blade, thinking he could read my thoughts and almost laughed out loud at my own crazy mind.

He stood up and wrote something on another piece of paper and handed it to me. By this time all the teachers had left the room... except us of course, us being me, Mr Blade and Miss whoever-she-is.

I walked out and headed to class. The only thing on my mind was when will I be meeting Mr Blade so he can tell me what happened.

Last night I kept playing everything over and over in my head and nothing still made sense. I know I'm not crazy, if I am then he must be crazy too.... I mean he saw everything and he did give me a note... meaning... he doesn't want anyone knowing about it.

I went through all my classes without hearing a word in each lesson. 'I'll have to study my ass off to understand all we did today' I thought as I mindlessly walked to my Biology class. My meeting with Mr Blade has got me overthinking things.

As classes go by I keep my eye on my watch, practically counting every minute as it passes.

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A/N

Hey guys. Thank you all who are still reading my book, its really very appreciated. I'm gonna try to upload every week, since I'm really lazy sometimes. But I would like to finish this book before June so that I can concentrate on my other books and partly because I have a lot of free time right now.

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