Dark Night (12 page)

“Ah… Mia.” An older man said. “I’m Elder
Kern. You may sit there, class is about to begin.” I nodded and
took a seat. He looked like a strict teacher. I figured I would
stay on his good side. I had my own desk, the class was a little
confusing, he first talked about history. Silently, we read about
the human history and then he moved on to talk about science. Half
hour for each, some things I remembered from Castle high, but
others were knew. He gave me some worksheets and guidelines to help
me catch up. The class was over and I headed to my fourth class.
Which was AP Calculus, I was good at math but not an expert, the
only reason why I always had an advanced math class was because I
spent twice as much time studying for it. I got good at it, but I
had not been studying in a while, and I wondered if I would still
remember any of it. I walked in the room to my next class and the
teacher was really nice.

“I am very pleased to meet you Mia. I am
Elder Nebula.”

“The pleasure is mine, Elder
Nebula.” She was even younger than Elder Carden, she looked twenty,
that was weird.

“Call me Elder Neb. My class is all about
confidence.” She said. She told me to sit where I wanted, and I
found the last seat in the back of the class room. I didn’t know
anyone in this class, so I wanted to be isolated from everyone. Neb
told us to do some problems from the book and then she solved each
one in front of the class. She gave us some homework, the class was
quiet while they started working on their homework and then our
time was up. “See you tomorrow.” Neb told the class, as we walked
out. She reminded me of Deidre. The way she looked at things was
similar to how my cousin did. I walked up the stairs to the second
floor and found Mereily, Sophie and Delilah talking.

“How were your classes?” Sophie asked.

“They were something else, I learned a lot
already.” I told them honestly.

“Then let’s get something to eat, you’ll have
more to learn.” Delilah said.

“Remember earlier when you noticed something
weird?” Mereily asked me, I knew what she meant, she was talking
about when her and Delilah were exchanging weird looks.

“Yeah?”

“Well, not too long ago a student here was
sent away. They didn’t know what to do with him. He was acting
really weird and out of nowhere he began doing… things. He wouldn’t
pay attention in class, he was always locked in his room and he
didn’t have a roommate because they thought he was crazy. Then he
really did go crazy, they sent him away. And we never heard from
him again,” Mereily said that last part quietly.

“And you think I’m going crazy?” I asked her
irritated.

“No of course not, you reminded us of that
guy, that’s all.” Delilah said. Now that I looked at her, I
remembered her from last night. I had seen her talking to
Robert.

We got our food and sat down to eat, Sophie
and I ate pizza, Mereily and Delilah had spaghetti. I was looking
around for no particular reason and then I locked eyes with a girl.
She was pale, too pale. She had black eyeliner and black eye
shadow, her eyes were bright crystal blue and her hair was black
she had it over her face. Her uniform was all black, even her nail
polish.

“Who is that?” I asked the girls while I took
a bite of my pizza.

“That would be Anna... I forgot her last
name.” Delilah answered.

“She doesn’t have friends anymore. She used
to be as popular as Gene, but she started ignoring everybody and
doesn’t like to talk to anyone,” Mereily said.

“Yeah, her last name is Denali she used to be
my friend and then one day she told me to leave her alone, and I
did. Since then I haven’t talked to her. She was nice, and she
always does her work and gets A’s and everything, I just don’t
understand why she changed so much, her hair the way she dresses
and everything is odd.” Sophie looked at her and shook her head.
“But I guess she just wanted to be different.” She shrugged.

“There are a lot of weird things that happen
here huh?” I asked them and they just nodded. I wanted to be in a
good mood and in order for that to happen I had to change the
subject. “So, what class do you have next?” I asked both Delilah
and Sophie who were eating and it took them a moment to swallow
their food.

“I have Chemistry.” Delilah answered.

“And I have training.” Sophie answered. There
was something that I wanted to know.

“Do you guys know who your mate is?” I asked
them randomly.

“No. we just have a higher level student give
us V2, but that’s all. The mate thing is weird sometimes, that’s
why they only tell the guys. To let them get prepared and get the
girl to like them and date and so on. But we can’t know yet. Well,
at least I can’t I’m just a sophomore.” Sophie said.

“What about you guys?” I asked Delilah and
Mereily.

“I know.” Delilah admitted. “Payton Stroubt.”
She had a big smile on her face. “I’m guilty I guess. He’s been my
boyfriend for a year now, so I guess it’s meant to be.” It was good
to hear that she was going to have a guy she actually liked, unlike
me.

“I don’t know yet,” Mereily said. “But I have
to go see God Lenix after lunch so I better hurry up and eat.” She
looked excited.

“You think he’s going to tell you?” Sophie
asked her before I could.

“I hope so. I’d like to know, I am a
senior.”

What about you Mia?” Delilah asked. I didn’t
really want to say anything but if I didn’t then they would
probably find out through someone else, I didn’t know if Jack would
say anything but I wasn’t going to trust him.

“I do. It’s Jack.” I tried to remember his
last name but nothing.

“Jack McKey,” Mereily told them.

“When did you find out?” Sophie asked
surprised.

“Uh, last night, he told me after I found out
about being a royal.” I shrugged, to shake off the uncomfortable
feeling.

“You are so lucky!” Sophie exclaimed. Well at
least one of us was happy about it.

“Yeah thrilled,” I tried to sound convincing,
but knew I failed.

“Well I got to go now, see
you guys later. I’ll text you or something.” Mereily said, I
thanked god she saved me from the conversation.

“Bye.” We said together.

“I have Astrology next in room three-eighty.
That’s upstairs right?” I asked them.

“Yeah,” Sophie said.

“Just making sure,” I told her.

“We have a stupid reunion next week, girls.”
Delilah announced, she was looking at her cell phone. “Genevieve
sent a message to every royal saying something about rules, and I
don’t know what crap.” She said unhappy.

“I think it’s the elections they have every
year to pick the person who represents the school, kind of like a
president from a club, and we pick and nominate who we want. But
Gene won this past year and I think she’ll probably win again. Not
that It matters she’s the princess and it’s like everybody votes
for her anyway.” Sophie made a face.

“It doesn’t have to be that way, maybe we
could change that.” I told her.

“There is no way in hell three or four girls
could change that. Anna Denali has the power to, but she doesn’t do
anything about it, I don’t know why. She used to be the freaking
law, now she’s a ghost.” Delilah said.

“What if we could talk her into it.” I said
out of nowhere staring at Anna from across the Cafeteria. She had
the tough look that only worked on some people but she wasn’t
fooling me I knew it was just her way of pushing people away,
scaring them off.

“You really mean it don’t you?” Delilah asked
me.

“Yeah, I don’t see why
not.” I shrugged. If I was going to live here I wasn’t going to
deal with Genevieve. I did say I would ignore her, but only
physically.

“I’m in.” Sophie declared.

“Well, I guess I’m in too. Are you sure you
want to try to talk to her? I don’t think you’ll be able to
get her to even look at you.” Delilah said convinced.

“We’ll just have to see.” I said back, the
bell rang after that conversation. Suddenly I thought how crazy my
idea sounded, I didn’t want to begin a war, but let’s just say it
was going to be my back up plan.

“I’ll see you guys later.” I said to them as
I walked out of the Cafeteria. My next class was Astrology. I
walked up stairs and searched for the room. When I found it, the
door was opened and I went in. The room was a navy blue color with
bright lights, to make it less dark. The teacher sat behind her
desk looking at her computer. “Hi. I’m Mia, a new student.” I said
to her. She looked at me and then smiled.

“Yes. You are, how are you doing today?”

“Good.” I said.

She stood up. “I’m Elder Tariq. It’s a
pleasure to finally meet you.” She was very polite. But it still
got to me how everyone knew exactly who I was.

“Nice meeting you too.” I forced a smile
because to my surprise Robert entered the room. I ignored him,
after I saw him. But I knew he was staring at me, I could sense
it.

“You may sit in the last row to your right,
the only empty desk.” She pointed. I didn’t look at anyone but when
I reached my seat I saw Robert sitting behind it.

Great.

I sat down quickly and looked at my desk
while I waited for class to start. I felt tense and didn’t want to
relax I was just plain uncomfortable. Something vibrated in my
bag,

I looked to see it was
my cell phone. I took it out to see who it was and it was Mereily.
I didn’t look at the message she sent, I just closed it and put it
back in my bag. The class started.

“Astrology: the study of the positions and
aspects of celestial bodies in the belief that they have an
influence on the course of natural earthly occurrences and human
affairs, also the study of the alleged influence of the stars,
planets, sun, and moon on human affairs. We will be talking about
the study that assumes, and professes to interpret the influence of
the stars and planets upon human existence. Libra and Virgo, that’s
the zodiacs that this class only has. We only have very few Virgo’s
and a new one just joined us today. Mia, you are one of the few and
that’s an honor. I hope you learn a lot from your classmates.” She
said in a very awkward way. “Robert could you tell me what the
zodiac is?” She asked him.

“The Zodiac belt is the great circle around
which our luminescent Sun apparently moves month by month
throughout the year. Zodiac denotes an annual cycle of twelve
stations or signs along the ecliptic, the apparent path of the sun
across the heavens dividing the ecliptic into twelve equal zones of
celestial longitude ___”

“That’s good enough.” She interrupted him. He
sounded just like a book worm. “Precisely, if you open your book
on… chapter three you will find the partnership of the zodiacs, how
you relate to one another, also how you come to be soul mates and
you will understand compatibility analysis based on your sign and
your partners zodiac sign. No assignment today, I just want you to
read from chapter 3 to 5 by tomorrow. You will have a quiz first
thing tomorrow, you may begin.”

I took my book out and looked for chapter 3,
I read a lot so I was fast. I understood almost everything I read.
I was already on chapter 4 when a section caught my attention.

Compatibility.

Compatibility with each
zodiac sign
…

I skipped down to my sign and read.

When you are a Virgo you express love by
doing things for, and fussing over, your loved one. You notice
little things about your partner, make mental notes of their likes
and dislikes (this may sound contrived, but it’s not it’s simply
the way you’re wired), and genuinely try to help your partner in
practical ways. Your partner doesn’t always know how to please you.
You might have a simple answer, but he/she may still wonder. You
see all of the details of your relationship. You work hard at
making yourself indispensable in your partner’s life. Generally,
you don’t throw yourself at love affairs too readily. This does not
mean you are chaste, like the Virgo of yore. Some Virgo’s natives
can even be promiscuous. But when it comes to gooey romance, where
partners bare all, you are rather selective and self-contented. You
are a very sensual being who wants to feel safe before giving
yourself to another. You are not as delicate as one might think.
You will put up with so much in a relationship to make it work, but
you do want some appreciation for all your efforts.

Although that does sound like me I’m inclined
to agree with a few things. Next, I read about the Compatibilities
between some signs and me and then Libra caught my attention.

LIBRA AND VIRGO

You and your partner share a love of balance
and harmony, which can be a major point of attraction between you.
One of the problems that arise between Libra and Virgo
temperaments, however, Is a fundamental difference in styles of
loving that can lead to misunderstandings. Your partner might find
you too skeptical in matters of the heart; at the same time, you
might consider your partner to be too idealistic. Your Libra
partner has somewhat detached manner, and you might interpret the
“airs” as lack of sincerity. Loyalty is of utmost importance to
you, and your partner is certainly capable of giving a lot to the
partnership. In fact, he/she lives for partnership! But your
partner’s detached manner might make you feel somewhat insecure and
threatened. Both of you however, are very willing to make
adjustments in order for your relationship to work. You can enjoy
very stimulating conversations, especially if you appreciate each
other’s different styles of expression. Both of you are very
willing to bend and adapt in order to keep the relationship alive,
and this can make all the difference when two dissimilar
personalities pair up.