The Raven Colored Door

Out With the Old, In With the New

Going into school was a start, everyone and I mean EVERYONE was looking at me, and lots of different scents hit me all at once, werewolves, humans and loads of others that I can't identify at the moment. I gave a lot of them weird looks as I was passing by to go to my locker.

All the lockers at Hudson High School were a deep shade of mahogany red, seeing as the colors of the school were red and white, and our mascot was a giant ass beaver.

Everytime I hear or see a beaver, all I can think about was this red-neck comedian telling a story about a time when someone told him about their cousin whose nipple got bit off by a beaver, and all they said to the 'dead' beaver was nothing, and apparently it triggered the poor thing to jump up and bit this guy's nipple clean off.

I chuckled to myself thinking of that as I was loading and unloading my locker into my bag. At our school, we can personalize our lockers as we please, for the four years that we are here, then on senior year a week out from the end of school, we have to take it all down. My locker has a plethora of stickers of bands, skateboards, whatever geeky thing that I'm interested in, and whatever else I like. A couple of pictures of me and my best friends.

I was in the middle of my slight chuckle when the locker to the right of my got opened by Hunter. I rolled my eyes. I gave him a side look and checked him out.

He was wearing a leather jacket with a pair of black jeans, converse, and a white shirt. I gave a slight smile of approval when I was done looking at him.

Then Thing One and Two came to my side out of nowhere, scaring the bejesus outta me.

Whipping around I gave a growl, then noticed that it was Jackson and Tat. I could just barely see Hunter give me yet another weird look before seeing the boys in front of me, then giving off a growl of his own.

"Woah, you two. Trying to kill me?" I laughed. What DID surprise me enough to actually give me a light heart attack, was that I could hear both Tat's and Jackson's mind. Well more or less get bits and pieces of their thoughts.

I gave a confused look and tuned out the twins' chatter when I looked around at the other students and notested that I could hear certain types of people's minds just some were bits and pieces and others were images. I shook my head in disbelief and looked back at the twins trying to get my attention.

"Hey you okay, Mar Mar?" Tat asked. My eyes got a little unfocust and I blinked for a couple of seconds, then I looked back at Tat. Seeing both of their concerned faces and turning slightly and seeing Hunter's raised eyebrow as if he was concerned, had me turning back to Tat.

"Yeah, just my mind went blank and I got unfocused from the world for a sec there. Sorry if I scared you." It was a slight lie on my behalf and to be honest, I did get unfocust for a second after seeing and reading people's minds and thoughts.

Be careful, they are vampires, remember how they smell of dried blood and death. Cadence said. But she said it quietly that I had to strain my hearing a little to be able to even hear her.

I looked up when I heard the bell go off, singling that the first hour had begun. I sighed as I trudged my way through the halls going to my AP Chemistry. Being a junior sucks ass. The twins went their separate ways and Hunter decided to follow me.

"May I help you, Hunter?" I asked after looking at the corner of my eye to be sure that he was actually there.

"I'm in AP Chemistry too, you know." He said coming up to my side slinging an arm around my shoulders.

Shrugging off his arm, I looked at him weirdly as I was walking into my class. I sighed again when our teacher was here today.

He's kind of like my mother, he'll drink just to get through the day, but only in bursts. Like a swig each hour or each every other hour. And there is always that time where he'll accidentally drink a little too much before a class, normally the first hour, so he'll just let us have a free day.