“Have a nice day Mom,” Arya said dropping a kiss on her mom’s forehead before darting into the school. No thanks to her mom, she would be late for her first class. adjusting the back pack on her shoulders; she hurried through the stairs and hallway praying that the teacher wouldn’t be in class yet but as expected her prayers weren’t answered.
The moment she stepped into the class; everyone turned to her including the very much older man who was resting on his table while teaching the class. Arya swallowed her saliva nervously while bowing her head slightly in greetings.
“Miss Jenkins, the time is forty-five minutes past 9am” he started and Arya winced quietly.
“You want to tell the whole class why you came late?” he asked his eyes boring into her as if telling her that if she lied, he would be able to figure her out on the spot.
Mr Hagans had always given Arya the chills. The man was a no nonsense man and was extremely strict unlike the other teachers. No student could mess with him. Even the bullies and jocks cowered whenever he was present. That been said; it was more like the man personally had a dislike for her.
He always looked at her with unkind eyes that made her stomach churn and make her uncomfortable so she had tried every single possible best of her to stay away from his sight and not get onto his bad side.
“My mom had an emergency so I had to stay with her till she was done” Arya bluttered out after some seconds mentally high fiving herself for coming up with such a brilliant lie. Mr Hagans rose to his feet standing in front of her with his hands at his back looking at her with furrowed brows.
“What if I call your mom right now?” he asked and Arya nodded her head.
“Please go on sir” Arya replied with absence of fear on her face. She was double sure that her mom would cover up for her after all if she didn’t choose that morning to tell her stories of the Qing dynasty; she wouldn’t have gotten to school late in the first place.
“Go and have your seat Miss Jenkins” Mr Hagans said after staring at her for a few seconds.
“Thank you Mr Hagans” Arya said nodding her head at him before making her way to her seat which was at the other end of the class by the window. Barely had she sat down when the girl beside her glared at her playfully.
“What were you thinking coming late to Angry Bird’s class?” the girl whispered and Arya pursed her lips while trying to prevent herself from laughing out loudly.
As much as the students feared Mr Hagans that didn’t prevent them from giving him name like every other teacher. Hagans always had a frown on his face; he was always in a moody and so that earned him the nickname ‘Angry bird’. In between themselves, he was often referred to as Angry bird.
“I don’t want to get into any more trouble Eileen; let’s talk after class” Arya whispered back to her raising her head and meeting Mr Hagans eyes, she shivered inwardly while burying her head behind her books.
As soon as Mr Hagans stepped out of the class, Arya slammed her textbook close while turning to the girl beside her.
“I’m not the only one who feels like Angry Bird wants to jump my skin these days?” Arya asked while Eileen’s lips drew backwards into an amused smile.
“I want to ask if you being cocky about the fact that you are really pretty or you just making a wild statement just because you miss Brad” Eileen replied watching as Arya’s furrowed brows loosened and a smile blossomed on her face.
“Well, maybe” she replied laughing. Eileen shook her head at her rising to her feet while packing her books.
“I’m hungry, let’s grab something at the cafeteria” Eileen said yawning lightly. Arya who had also packed her books rose to her feet while chuckling at the girl beside her.
“You didn’t sleep last night?” she asked as they both started to walk out of the classroom.
“Well John wouldn’t let me off after beating him three rounds. He wanted to show me how better he was and in a bid to tell him harder how much I was better than him, we ended up playing through the night” Eileen replied as Arya stopped in front of her locker pressing her locker combination.
“And then?’ she asked stacking her books neatly in her locker. An amused smile crawled up her face as Eileen showed half of her face through her locker. She watched as Eileen looked around nervously as if what she wanted to couldn’t be heard by others.
She then brought her arm to make a slicing gesture at her throat.
“I finished him” she whispered sending Arya bending over her books and laughing hard.
“Was that funny?” Eileen asked closing her locker while pressing the locker combination. Turning her face to see the girl beside her still wearing a straight face; Arya burst into laughter again.
This was Eileen Finely, her best friend. One of the few people in Arya’s life that could crack her up and make her laugh hard. One of the few people that Arya trusted with her life. They had been best friends from childhood and each time Arya remembered how they became friends; she would wish for the ground to swallow her up.
“Let’s go. I’m starving” Eileen muttered rubbing her stomach on lay emphasis on the fact that she was really hungry.
“Hi Eileen, Hi Arya” someone greeted while both girls turned to them.
“What’s up ladies?” Eileen asked grinning widely as one of the girls dug into her hand bag and brought out two envelopes.
“So I wanted to invite the two of you to my birthday party this weekend” the first girl said smiling as Eileen collected the envelope while still grinning.
“Your birthday is on Friday?” she asked while the girl shook her head.
“Thursday actually but I’m throwing a party on Friday. I really want to see you two there. The party won’t be complete without you two” she replied.
Eileen scoffed internally before nodding “Sure; we’ll be there” she replied waving at them before grabbing Arya and pulling her towards the cafeteria.
“Why did you take the cards? Friday is our girls’ night out. We can’t ditch that for Sally’s party” Arya stated with furrowed brows turning to Eileen who nodded her head.
“Who said we were going to Sally’s party?” Eileen asked yawning for the third time.
“Why did you take the cards then?” Arya asked pushing open the doors of the cafeteria.
“I wasn’t in the mood to argue and tell Sally why we won’t be able to come to her party. She would come up with all kinds and sorts of reasons for us to attend her party” Eileen replied grabbing her tray and scooping food onto her plate.
“Besides you realize that she might just want us to use ‘Eileen and Arya’ are coming to a party as a front to get other students to attend” Eileen added walking towards their usual table. Removing her bag and grabbing her spoon; Arya looked at her with surprised eyes.
“That hungry?” she asked watching as Eileen snickered.
“This hungry” she replied taking a huge gulp of her drink.
Eileen Finley and Arya Jenkins were names that every single person at Princeton High knew. We were one of the most popular girls in school even when we were neither cheerleaders and nor participated in any kind of sport. Their popularity was solely based on the fact that they were both very beautiful, had good grades and not just good grades, one of the best grades there was and they were best friends. Best friends who had each other’s back all the time.
A lot of girls had tried to join their clique or break their friendship but none had worked; they both got closer and closer and people started feeling that they looked alike. Despite their popularity; they were friendly, likeable and other students could easily approach them which even made them more popular.
A party that Eileen and Arya would be attending would definitely attract every other student attention. Eileen and Arya weren’t that party people and preferred very much to spend time with themselves than attend parties even though they did attend a few of them.
It became a routine for anyone throwing a party to invite Eileen and Arya to attend their party. The coolest students fought with each other in order to let Eileen and Arya attend their party. a year before, three cheerleaders who were also popular decided to throw a party the same time and they all came with envelopes to invite Eileen and Arya to their party.
According to them; whosoever’s party that the duo attended would become the next cheer lead captain. Eileen and Arya promised to attend all the parties and at the end of the day; both girls ended up going to a game centre to play the night away turning the three girls into a joke.
“Have you seen Brad this morning?” Arya asked looking everywhere in the cafeteria while Eileen swallowed her saliva.
“I heard the basketball team has a match next week so they are busy practising” Eileen replied watching as Arya furrowed her brows.
“But that’s Charles over there. He’s the captain of the basketball team yeah?” Arya asked turning to Eileen who shrugged her shoulder.
“I heard. I don’t know if it’s true or not. Why don’t you give him a call?” Eileen asked as Arya tapped her forehead.
“I forgot that” she replied turning and rummaging through her bag to bring out her phone.
“I’m going to get myself another helping of spaghetti” Eileen said grabbing her tray as Arya turned to stare with her with wide eyes.
“Eileen, you just finished a large helping and you are about to get another one?” she asked looking mortified while Eileen nodded her head.
“You eat a lot but isn’t this a lot more?” Arya asked while scrolling through her contact list for her boyfriend’s number.
“I’m evolving so I’ll eat more. I’ll be right more” Eileen said cheekily before walking towards the food area leaving Arya on the table.
Arya pressed her phone to her ears tapping her fingers on the table quietly while waiting for the other person to pick the call. Her brows furrowed when the call ended without the other party picking up the call. Dialling the number again, she continued tapping her fingers on the table.
Staring at the trays of food and bags on the table, Arya imagined them rising into the air and then the very next minute; Arya’s eyes widened upon realizing that the tray of food and her bags were actually in the air.
“What the fuck” she muttered but when she blinked her eyes again; the tray of food and bags were on the table exactly where they had been a second ago.
“Babe!” someone hollered and Arya felt a pair of arms wrap around her waist. A small smile crawled up her lips while folding her arms and wearing a small pout.
“Where have you been?” she asked.
“Hey baby” someone said pressing a forehead kiss to Arya’s forehead while Arya closed her eyes and allowed herself to relish the sparks that coursed through their body in that spilt second. She then turned to face the boy who had his arms wrapped around her shoulders.“Where have you been?” she asked repeating the question she had asked before. The blonde haired boy tapped on her nose before wearing a smile that never failed to make Arya turn into a puddle of butterflies.“I had to run a few errands” he replied eliciting furrowed brows from Arya.“And you wouldn’t pick my calls?” Arya asked a frown etched to her face while the boy burst into laughter.“C’mon baby. I left my phone in the car so I didn’t see your calls. Why do you think I rushed down here?” he asked as Arya folded her arms shaking of his arms off her shoulders.“What kind of errands would make you leave your phone in the car,” Arya asked.“Anyone could have called, your mom or your Dad or someone important. Don’t tell m
“Why am I just learning about this supposed mountain trip?” she asked and Arya sighed turning to her mom while throwing her arms upwards in the air.“Mom, we go for school trips every year; why are you freaking out because I’m telling you a night before?” Arya asked not understanding why her mom was acting so worked up.“You go for school trips every year and this year, it’s some freaky mountain? And you are telling few hours to the trip? You must be kidding me?!” her mom yelled as she walked towards the table and grabbed her phone.“I’m calling your school authorities. They must be crazy to think I’ll let my daughter go some mountain in the same of some stupid school trip” she muttered while Arya’s mouth dropped agape. She quickly rushed towards her mom collecting the phone from her and ending the call.“Mom, what are you doing?” she asked while her mom turned to her with a frown on her face.“Give me my phone Arya” her mom replied firmly.“Mom, are you trying to embarrass me in fron
By the time Arya woke up the next morning, she was quick to rehearse her apology in her head while stepping out of her room. She jogged down the stairs with a smile on her face but much to her shock; the dining room and the seating room was empty. Her eyes flew to the digital clock on the wall and it read few minutes’ past 9am in the morning, her parents were early risers and most of the time as early as 6 in the morning, they would be up.She quickly jogged back up the stairs and knocked on their doors. Receiving no reply, she swallowed her saliva and pushed the door open. The sight of the empty room and well laid bed brought Arya to a pause.Her parents had left the house without a word to her.The realization reeled back and hit Arya in the face. She slowly closed the door and walked to her room plopping on the bed and staring into space. It had never, never happened before. her parents were busy people; her Dad worked in one of the biggest hospitals in Denmark and was also one of t
The journey to Mount Mollejo took approximately five hours; if you removed all the time wasted while trying to pick up snacks and drinks from the supermarket. Arya yawned lightly as soon as the students started getting off the bus. She had always been excited about travelling. Her Instagram stories would be full of the nice environment while she travelled but because of the mentally tasking events that had taken place before’ Arya couldn’t even bring herself to do anything. Not to mention that Brad almost got left behind while searching for his camera and had to get into another bus entirely.Arya lifted her bag over her shoulders and stared at Brad’s bag before trying to lift it.“Babe, I’m so sorry” a very familiar voice drifted into Arya’s ears as the weight on his shoulder disappeared. A small smile fitted across Arya’s face while laughing at herself. It was already a lot of work trying to carry her own bag but Brad had lifted both hers and his very easily. She followed him out of
Arya was sure that anger and irritation had mixed up in her blood because she almost couldn’t describe what she was feeling. While the other gathered around for the bonfire; she refused to join them and decided to go for a walk in the woods instead.Her parents, Eileen and then Brad.What the hell was wrong with all of them? Why did they all have to choose one day to infuriate her or turn their backs on her? They could have easily picked different days so that on every day they choose to go bonkers she would have a backup and someone to talk to.She checked her phone for the hundredth time and there were zero missed calls from her parents. She had sent them both a messages earlier apologizing for going against their wishes and saying mean things to them. They had gotten to Mount Mollejo and seeing the serene; she thinks she’s going to have a very good time. She asked them to call her back and even attached a picture of her and her tent.And that was over five hours before and Arya was
By the time Arya opened her eyes, meeting the familiar room décor and warm feeling, she realized that she was in her room and relief washed through her before she froze again. Memories of the previous night rushed into her head and Arya managed to seat on the bed praying that whatever might have happened was a dream. Just as she was thinking, there was knock on her room door.“Come in” Arya muttered quietly. The door opened and her mother let herself in with her dad behind her.“Hey baby girl” her mom started walking to her to hug her but Arya was quick to shrink away from her freezing her mother in place.“Who are you? Where have you hidden my mom?” Arya shot at her mom and seeing the hurt flash through her mother’s eyes, she swallowed her saliva and turned to her Dad.“Dad, something weird really happened yesterday. Something really weird” Arya started darting glances at her mom.“Things weird as you seeing humans morph into wolves and wolves morphing into humans right?” Her Dad ask
Arya didn’t know when she slept off but when she woke up, there was Eileen seating at the edge of her bed.“Are you feeling alright?” Eileen asked quietly and Arya stared at her confused.“How did you know I was at home Eileen?” Arya asked not wanting to believe the thought that swept across her mind.“Because, I as well, I am a wolf” Eileen replied quietly.“I am a werewolf specifically to protect you” Eileen added.Arya stared at Eileen as if she had grown three heads. She chuckled while trying to seat up on her bed.“So you knew about this all long?” Arya asked and Eileen nodded her head.“Yes, I did” Eileen replied.“That was why you went all freaky when I decided to go for the mountain trip. You even had a big fight with me because of it” Arya pointed out but silence was served as an answer for her.“I don’t even know who to trust again. You who I took as my best friend kept such a huge secret from me” Arya said and Eileen chuckled.“Like you would have believed me if I told you
Alston brows pulled together lightly while listening to what the chief priestess had just said. He had never heard of such child of destiny; how did she appear in the pack?“Why don’t you explain this to me well Nagi? I do not understand what you are saying” Alston said quietly his words bringing silence to the pack that had gathered at the hall.“A child that has been destined to bring woes to our lands? A child destined to be blessed with dark witches’ power greater than we have ever seen? What is that child?” Alston asked again.“Years ago, the former chief priestess committed an abomination, no one knew how she did it or what she did to make it happen but a prophecy came from other priestess that the child the chief priestess was carrying was that child of destiny” Nagi replied bowing her head as she spoke.“If the prophecy came out then, shouldn’t she have been arrested?” Alston asked his brows furrowed twice as before.“The chief priestess was the strongest priestess that the we