Whispers on a Wing

Chapter One

Hey everyone! 

I'm eventually planning to publish this book on amazon like my other two so if you guys see any plot holes etc please let me know! It makes my editing process ten times easier  :D 

Also, like my other books, I'm writing this book pretty much completely blind, with no idea where it'll end up, so I'd love to hear your ideas on where the story is going and what scenes you'd like to see. Anyway... enjoy!

Having wings should have been amazing, it was the things of comic books and superhero movies, as the hero swoops in to save the day. That wasn't my life though. From the age of twelve I had been laying low, jumping from school to school so that I could finish my education and finally prove to my short sighted and narrow minded parents that they had been wrong about me, that I did belong in this world and that I had a bright future.

It wasn't that I was going to one day track them down and turn up on their doorstep with my university degree in hand to wave in their face screaming I told you so at the top of my lungs. It was more to convince myself, to remind myself that they had been wrong and that I did, in fact, belong in this world.

That fact alone was the only reason I was standing here today.

Today was my first day at this new school. I started a new one every six months to ease suspicions and to stop people getting too close to me and what I am.

Not long after I had gone back to school after everything with my parents, I had decided it was a good idea to live my life as normal as possible. That, back then, meant making friends and being friendly so that people wouldn't get suspicious of my antisocial behaviour and look deeper into my life. How wrong I had been.

I had been at a particular school for over a year and a half. I had made a load of friends and still managed to keep my secret as best I could. People had been suspicious of my lack of willingness to allow them to know where I lived, an abandoned house deep in the woods, but other than that nothing major had happened.

I was content in this school, happy even, but one little mistake had completely changed my view on how I was going to have to live my life from now on.

I had still been struggling all day, having to strap my wings back all day. The pain it caused me would usually distract me from lessons and my friends trying to keep a conversation with me. I had decided that once a day, usually at lunch time, I would sneak off and release my wings from the confines of their belts and allow them to flap around for a bit to help them regain circulation and stop them being so numb.

It had been going well, I had always come up with a logical explanation as to why I was needing to leave the school playground for a short ten to fifteen minutes every day. Unfortunately my excuse for leaving one lunch time had been too weak for my friend, Alice, to believe. She had followed me through the school grounds until I made it into the surrounding woodland area and watched as I took my belts and coat off, revealing my jet black wings.

She hadn't said anything at first, just stood there staring at me, but before I could utter a word to her and convince her not to say anything, she had fainted. I promptly left the school after that, not even an explanation given to the school to explain my absence. It was as if Kaitlin Jenkins hadn't even existed, which to be fair, she hadn't. I had made her up, not wanting to use my real name in case it got back to my parents and they found me.

After that incident I had changed my view on how I went about going to school. I became closed off, giving off an aura of anger and mystery that made any normal student walk in the opposite direction when they saw me coming. It had hurt, watching my once best friend faint at the sight of me, the real me, and I had vowed never to feel that pain again. If anything Alice's reaction had solidified my belief that I had been trying to repress ever since my parents left me. No one could love the real me and it was just something I had to get over and move on from.