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Chapter 1 - Orfani Student
(The Orphan Student)
Chapter 1 - Orfani Student
(The Orphan Student)
Raven sat in the car, on her way to Cross Academy, the private school was the most prestigious school in the country, she heard that it had two types of classes; a day class and a night class, and Raven was not as pleased as others would be, entering a great school. Although she was going to a new school, it was mostly forced upon her by her foster parents.
She had been an orphan since she was only five years old, but she was one of the few kids that had more foster parents than the others. She’d lost count after about twenty pairs of parents, and she was now 16 years of age, what cuteness she had, in own opinion, was wearing thin, and she was looking more and more like a young woman than a little girl, and she was only two years away from legally being an adult.
The foster parents she was currently with were named Rena and Samuel Walsh, and they really didn’t meet Raven eye-to-eye, only because she wasn’t the daughter that they had been dreaming of having.
Rena, who was currently driving, had said, mainly to Raven, with a tone that was the opposite of comforting, “We had signed you up for this school, not only because your future will be better for you, but also, the Headmaster himself, wanted to adopt you from us, so that he can give you all that you need that we couldn’t give you.”
Raven groaned, and folded her arms loosely over her chest, and muttered, glancing up at Rena, and flashing a false smile, “But I don’t want to go to impressive school. My life won’t magically convert to a normal and brighter life in a snap…And if you think that, bite me then shove those registration papers right up your a-”
“Raven! Don’t you dare finish that sentence! Now, young lady, apologize to your mother for your behavior this instant!” Samuel interjected before Raven could finish her sentence.
“She is not my mother. I have no mother, remember? That’s why I’m so easy to give up.” Raven said, snorting, her fake smile fading quickly so that she was back in the only expressionless phase she knew so well, it was the only friend she had, figuratively anyway.
She even remembered how she lost the only parents she knew. It was her fifth birthday, and her parents had thrown her a small party of just them, which seemed like the happiest day of her life, until the oddly lights flickered. Her father warned her mother that they were coming. So, her mother directed Raven under her bed, and whispered quickly, Just hide here, and don’t make a sound, no matter what, Raven…And know that both your father and I love you so much… She was handed a small necklace, and given one last kiss, before her mother stood, and closed the door of the room, leaving Raven under the bed, in the dark, confused and partially terrified.
There were voices that she heard coming from the living room, just talking quietly, but she heard her parents argue until there was a pause, two harmonious screams, then a dreaded silence. Let’s go…Nobody else seems to be here…Damn humans… She remembered hearing finally as the strangers footsteps left, closing the door behind them with a slam. She climbed out from under the bed, and exited the bedroom, looking for her parents, until she turned around, facing the living room, and screamed. On the floor, in the pools of their own blood, were her parents, their eyes rolled to the back of their heads. When she was found, she was immediately taken into the local orphanage, where she was adopted very soon, and started her long streak of giving cold shoulders, rebelling against adults and using any and all swear words in her eleven years of life with other adults she didn’t like.
She glanced out her window, and watched as trees and buildings, and people went by as she rode. It was about thirty minutes later that the car stopped infront of a gigantic fancy gate, which was making Raven curious about how official and lovely this school really was, but all she could see of it, was the roof, which looked pretty nice, from her view.
“Now get out, and collect your belongings, Raven. This is your home now.” Rena said, shooing Raven off with one hand, and drumming on the wheel with her fingers with the other.
Samuel joined Raven outside of the car, dropping her bags at her feet and shoving a folder of paperwork into her arms, she assumed, and he said, “Here’s everything that you’ll need to hand to Headmaster Cross. Goodbye Raven.” His tone was flat and ice cold as he climbed back into the car, slammed the door, and Rena sped off, as if Raven had been a bomb or something, leaving Raven in a dust cloud.
“Assholes…All of them…” Raven cursed, coughing from the exhaust cloud, as it hid her in a black haze.
She tried to wave the smoke away with the folder, but it did her no use, and she was trapped in the smoke, with no hope of escape, until her hand was seized and she was dragged out, and pulled into an embrace. Her eyes had been closed at this time but she smelled, not the smoke, but an intoxicating, male cologne.
She opened her eyes finally and looked up at the person who had given her the pleasure of a rescue. It was a man with silver hair and crimson eyes. For the first time ever, since her parents death, she had revealed only one emotion. The heating and color change in her face, had revealed her embarrassment. Along with her heart racing in her chest. As quickly as she discovered her newfound demeanor, she quickly pushed away from him, coughed a few times, and breathing in air, as she uttered a quiet and irritated, “Thanks.”
She looked away, feeling distraught, until she heard, “Yeah, sure, whatever.” She heard him say, with a icy and near flat tone. “Although, I have to admit, you’re one of the first to have their parents tear off from the school that quickly.”
“They were not my parents.” She growled under her breath. She hated all the assumptions made between her and the foster parents.
There was a heavy silence until she turned back to face him, and he gestured to her outfit. “I take it you’re the new kid?”
“Ah, ever the brilliant one, yes, I am the new kid.” She said, her tone now sarcastic, as she flipped through the papers in the folder in her hands, trying to find something to do than to look at him. “But yeah…I’m already lost around here…I would be most obliged if you showed me the way to the Headmaster’s office?” She asked with false sweetness.
She could’ve swore she saw him, from her over her paperwork, that his eyes had reflected a sort of smile, but his facial expression couldn’t agree. “…Sure, whatever. But after that, you’re stuck with the person that he assigns you to.” He turned away, and took a step before asking. “Well?”
She hesitated. Hesitated! Yet she answered with a short, “Y-Yeah, I’m coming.” She grabbed her bags, in the process dropping her paperwork, and had problems with her baggage. She grumbled, and tried a different way of holding all of her things, and had fumbled and dropped each one again. “God damn, will this hell ever end?” She mumbled under her breath.
She knelt down to the ground again, to pick up her things a third time. A pair of hands had took two of her bags, which caused her to look up. The mysterious guy with the odd colored hair and eyes had picked up her bags, which was quite shocking to say the least, and he mumbled something along the lines of, “It looked like you needed a little help…”
Raven gave a quick nod, before standing up, grabbing the remaining bag with one hand and her folder of paperwork in the other. “Let’s go then.” The guy replied as he turned on his heel and began to walk in the northernmost direction, which had caused her to note the many different buildings, all quite fancy and marvelous as the other.