It was the third day of school at Los Angeles High School , and Milena Chase strutted down the hallway with her best friend Kalila Watson, her checkered Vans squeaking against the new white floor. She flipped her light blond hair, her blue eyes sparkling with excitement.
"So, don't you think the new boy is ridiculously cute?" Milena whispered to Kalila. They were surrounded by other Pops, the most popular girls in school, and Milena didn't want to be playfully teased.
"Three things, Milena." Kalila said, focusing her green eyes on her best friend. "One, he's my cousin!" Kalila's brown hair, which was in a high ponytail, flipped as she softly spoke to her best friend. "Two, his name is David West. We sit together in English and history. Three, he doesn't have a girlfriend!" she sang.
"But you don't like him, right?" Milena asked cautiously, and then they both laughed. Milena knew the answer. Kalila was dating one of the hottest boys in eighth grade, Brett Spencer. Brett Spencer was a boy who the girls had known since the fourth grade, the year the girls became popular after Milena and Kalila created and posted a cute puppy compilation on Youtube that got 6 thousand likes. "Again, he is my cousin!" Kalila exclaimed, rolling her eyes, and then giggling.
Alexa Young, one of the Pops, tapped Milena on the shoulder. Milena turned and asked, "Yeah, what is it, Alexa?"
Alexa smirked and whispered, "I overheard you talking about David West. He's single, he prefers blondes over brunettes, and he's into reading." For some weird reason, Alexa always knew everything about boys and their likes.
Kalila laughed. "Sounds like you're perfect for him, girl!" She nudged Milena with her shoulder. "Look, here he comes."
David sauntered down the hall. He was talking to his friends, and simultaneously throwing a football up in the air and catching it. He looked at Milena for the first time, his jaw dropped just slightly and his dark brown eyes________. He quickly recovered and closed his mouth, then casually walked past her with his friends, who didn't seem to notice.
Once he was a little ways away, Milena whispered excitedly and screamed, "Oh my gosh, did you see that? Eeeeeeeeehhhhhhhhh! He looked at me, and then he was like, super shocked. Do you think he likes me?"
Now Kalila's jaw dropped, and then she said "Of course he likes you. Did you see the way his mouth opened super wide?! I think he was surprised because of how pretty you are!"
Wait a minute, Milena thought. How does this perfect guy like me? This has to be a dream.
Bringggg!!! The first bell rang. Thankfully, Milena and Kalila had the same first period- history. Their teacher was Mr. Jones. He was one of those teachers that didn't treat his students like students, he listened to them and never shot down an idea or made anyone feel bad about getting questions wrong. Besides that, everybody liked him because he gave everybody good grades and barely any homework. He was new this year, along with another teacher, Ms. Halls. Ms. Halls was really pretty, she was easily the prettiest person that the girls had ever seen. She had a way of making the boys do all of their work, and pretty much anything she told them to do.
Anyway, the girls walked into class and found David and a girl named Kara, the girls' arch-enemy, flirting with David. He seemed interested, but there was no way to be sure. This was the first time that Kara had ever stooped this low.
Milena glared at her, mental energy coming from her mind. Milena's mind then took over, and she formed an arrow in her mind.
Then it morphed into a different arrow, and in Milena's head , it flung itself at Kara. Suddenly, Kara started crying, and rushed out of the classroom. David looked surprised at first, and then he looked over at Milena. And for some strange reason, his voice was in her head, and it was saying "I know that you did that. Don't deny it." As this was going on, David looked full of power, but when it ended, he looked drained of energy. Then Milena remembered something. The words on the arrow that she shot at Kara had said Arrow of Sadness. Could that mean that she did that? No, she couldn't have, she just imagined it, right?
History class passed by in a blur, with Milena barely paying attention to Mr. Jones. The only thing that she heard was at the end of class, when he said "Okay, guys. Your homework is to memorize the names of 3 US Presidents, and their birthdays." Easy, but okay, thought Milena. She was still thinking about what had happened with Kara.
She walked out of history class as the bell rang, and walked over to her last period -Spanish. Milena liked Spanish because her grandpa was Mexican, so it ran in her blood. Her grandpa had mysteriously disappeared fifteen years ago, without a trace. And Kalila's grandma had disappeared sixteen years ago. They talked about it just after it happened, but nobody ever thought twice about it.
Kalila was in Milena's Spanish class as well. The girls were two desks away from each other, so they could pass notes without the teacher noticing. But Milena was too lost in her own thoughts to realize that Kalila was trying to capture her attention.
Abruptly, the bell rang. What?! Class is over already?! I hope we didn't learn about anything inportant! Milena thought and then walked out of class, said a brief "Bye, see you tomorrow," to Kalila, and then hopped into her mom's sport car. Milena didn't even see when Kalila's mouth was wide open because she was being so quiet. When Milena's mom asked her "How was your day?" Milena replied with ¨ It was fine", staring out the window. "What's wrong, honey?" Her mom asked turning around at a red light, concerned. "Oh, nothing," Milena said, and decided to take out her phone to make it look like she was doing something.
She scrolled through Instagram, but nothing really interested her. By the time she got home, Milena was very bored.
First, she heated up some leftover pizza for a snack. She ate this while she scrolled through the Internet on her laptop, and found three Presidents to memorize their birthdays for history. She put her phone on the table, and went outside on her trampoline to perfect her back-handspring. She went inside a half a hour later and found 4 new messages on her phone. 3 were from Kalila that said 'Call me!' 'What was wrong in school?' and 'Milena!' There was also one from a number with no caller ID. All it said was I know what you did.'
Yikes, thought Milena. And I was almost over it. Then, the doorbell rang. Milena opened it, and outside was a package. It said 'For Milena Chase. Open alone.'
Hmm, thought Milena. It's probably just a present for my mom's birthday, and they don't want her to see it.
She took it up to her room and opened it on her bed. Inside the package was a brand new Macbook. What!? I got a computer! Milena thought excitedly, she opened it up, and it suddenly started glowing a bright white light. Then, when Milena was setting it up, it said, in a monotonous voice "You are coming with me," and sucked her into the depths of what was supposed to be coding, but seemed like magic, her screams piercing the air like bullets.
