ONE.

CHAPTER ONE

 

Sarah stands by the mirror and she looks at herself. Being 154 centimetres tall she felt as if she wasn’t meant to stop growing yet, but she had been that tall for a year now so there was no hope for her. She sighs and runs her hand through her short brown hair, trying to stop the kink from showing too much, her mum told her that there would be a kink the day before she disappeared, but she ignored the warning like all the others. Sighing, she lifts her right sleeve of the shirt to look at the gash in her arm; it was just as bad as every other day that she had looked at it. The blood still soaked through the bandage; no matter what the doctors tried nothing would help it. She didn’t really remember how the gash was made, but all she could remember was the thoughts that were going through her head just before it happened. She slides her hand over her left cheek to cover the bruise her father had given her. She remembered this mistake well, what she didn’t understand is why the bruise was still there, it happened two months ago, she had lost her temper with her father and he had smacked her on the cheek with his belt, he used that as a warning for her.

Sarah just stands there; her hand starts to play with the skirt that she had just received when she arrived at the school. She could only just remember the time when she was looking forward to going to ‘Rockmound Academy’ now she was terrified. She had been told that she had been accepted a week ago, now she is here in her dorm looking at herself, all she knew so far was that she was one in over five hundred students to be accepted this year. She was wearing the navy blue skirt, that finished in the middle of her thigh and the red spaghetti sting singlet and blue over-shirt which made the uniform, and she loved it, and the colours were as good as she thought they would be, the thought of being here actually made her head spin.

Sarah knew that she had to go meet her school sibling soon, but she just couldn’t get the thought about this being a dream. She sighs, and jumps as the door is sway open, it was as if someone were about to walk it, but that was impossible, she had locked the door, but as she looks at it just sitting there wide open, she mustn’t have shut it properly. She frowns slightly because nothing was there, so she just shakes her head and walks out of the dorm.

Her eyes sparkle as she walks along the corridor she can’t help but stare at the walls; they all seemed to shine so much. Sarah was please with herself about being accepted here and no matter how much her nerves rattled her; she wasn’t going to let them get the better of her. All she had to do now was find where she was to meet her sibling, but she just couldn’t help and think that she would get lost. The school was huge, she had seen a map of it, and stupidly she had left hers in the dorm.

‘It’s a pity your not here with me mum, you could have helped me, I need you here with me, you are the only reason I never fight him, I need you to be with me again, why did you run away from us, I need you!’

Sighing she keeps walking, and to take her mind off of her mother she concentrates on trying to remember where she had been walking to get back there, knowing that when she had her sibling they would help her.

‘Left, Left, Right, Left…oh this is going to confuse me so much’

Looking up she sees a sign.

‘Presidents Office’

‘That’s got to be it, HA I found it on my own, so there has to be a reason that I am here if I can find the ‘President’s office’ on my own’

 

Thomas Michael Charmle, less formally known as Tom, was placed into the Rockmound Academy a year ago because his parents enrolled him here while he was on a Christian camp call The Eternal Love or T.E.L. It had been the best time for him because he had no problems with his life or anything whenever he is there. When he arrived home his parents greeted him, and told him the news about him being transferred to a new and improved school for the more select group of students from all over the country to study together. Tom knew that, that would mean that he was being transferred to a school for the rich and powerful, and he hated that his parents would do that, he liked going the school he was at, he had many friends, and he never doubted his faith.

Tom sighs as he straightens his jacket and ruffles he’s hair once again. He was finally allowed to be siblings with someone, but his first thought of that was that it was going to be fun and that he would have someone that would need his help, and that he would be able to help. With that though came nerves of meeting his first sibling, and the thoughts of not being able to help. When he arrived last year he would have been allowed a sibling, but he was new so there wouldn’t have been a point. He went into fourth year, being the ‘new’ student he had to start again, and he wasn’t looking forward to that, so he made friends with his dorm mate Daniel, and so Daniel treated him kind of like a sibling because he didn’t get one either, because he was repeating. Tom would help him with homework and everything that he needed, and Daniel would help him to get to know the grounds and the way that the school worked.

“Are you waiting here for a new-comer or a Primary student Tom?”

Tom jumps slightly and turns towards the feminine voice that he has come use to over the last year. Smiling he turns towards her, and replies quietly, because he knew the power this girl had in the council.

“I’m here for a newbie, Cassie, and what about you, you wouldn’t have a newbie nor a Primary, aren’t you doing the medical extra this year?”

“Well Thomas, I happen to be doing both this year, there will be a very important Primary girl coming to study here, to trial if she wishes to continue here next year, so I will be looking after her for the year, so she can see everything that goes on, not just the boring work stuff.”

Tom chuckles softly and shakes his head at her.

“If you say so Cass, well how is your nursing extra going anyways?”

Cassie’s eyes light up straight away, simply because they were now on a topic that she loved. Nursing was her one and only dream, she couldn’t see herself do anything else. Tom smiles, he knew the only way to get her off his back was to change the topic to nursing because it was the one topic that she could talk about for hours and hours on end without thinking that it is boring. Tom knew that she loved to help others when they are hurt or sad; the scary thing was that they had a lot in common. Since her teachers agreed to allow her to help the nursing staff for an extra-curricular activity, she now had everything.

Although Cassie knew being an older sibling was going to be hard work between being a nurse, her work and her social life, she couldn’t say no to her father. The girl was her fathers next wish, he wanted this girl, Cassie didn’t really understand why it was that particular girl that he needed but she knew better then to defy him. So she organised with the board of trustees that she would be this girls ‘Big Sister’.

“Oh it is going so well actually, I have already helped one young girl out of trouble, she fell down some stairs and got concussion. The poor girl was so confused about everything. She burst into tears just as I was leaving to get here, it was so sad. Though I don’t know how she managed to fall down the stairs.”

 

Sarah walks into the Presidents office, and pauses as she sees a tall, rather cute looking brown haired guy standing with his back to the door, he was talking to a beautiful blonde haired girl. Although she wasn’t as tall as him Sarah could tell that she was is a much higher position then him by the way she stood compared to him, and another thing she noticed that although she was a few metres away Sarah could see how her eyes shown while they were talking.

‘They must be talking about something real interesting if her eyes are shining that much’ she giggles softly to herself.

Smiling slightly she walks into the room and settles herself into a comfortable looking red lounge, crosses her ankles against the right side of the chair and just sits there. Sarah watches the two for a little while before deciding that it was rude for her to do that so she turns and looks out the window and watches the birds flying around outside. However because she was concentrating on not listening or looking at the two talking as soon as the girl giggles Sarah’s head turns towards them once again. Sighing she watches them for a while again before shaking her head, and looks out the window again, but another short burst of giggles brings her attention back to the two talking again. Sarah sighs knowing that the more she tries to ignore them, the more likely it is that she will have her attention on them so she watches them out of the corner of her eye for a while pretending to be watching the clouds moving outside the window.

 

Tom senses someone is watching them and turns his head, looking for the source of attention, and he sees her and stares, she was the most beautiful girl that he had ever laid eyes on. Not only did the way that her hair fell to her shoulders and the way it kicked out just slightly it was the way that it framed her face so perfectly. Her head was a cute oval shape but her hair covered some of it so that her eyes seemed like the main feature there. Her eyes glinted slightly from the light coming in the window making the brown slightly lighter. Also there was the way that she was sitting, she sat in what looked like an uncomfortable position, but she looked so comfortable there, as if that was where she belonged there. He couldn’t help but notice it but there was a slight discolouration on her left cheek. Turning back to Cassie he just nods slightly, his head still thinking of the girl.

‘She is so beautiful, I wonder who she is, and why would she be here…maybe she is a newbie, oh I wish she was going to be my school sister, but I couldn’t be that lucky after all they normally separate the guys to have brothers, I wonder, what if I go over and ask her what her School siblings name is…but what if she doesn’t know…’

“Tom are you listening to me?”

Tom jumps his mind back into reality.

“What…sorry, I was just thinking about something, what were you saying?”

“I was asking if she is going to be your School Sister, I hear that the boys are getting girls this year to make them mingle with both sexes, isn’t that great, I mean now there will be groups of girls and boys not just groups of girls and groups of boys.”

“Ah, yeah it’ll be great. I think that she might either be lost or looking for her siblings, I’ll go see if she has the name or if she has still has to go and find out who it is. We’ll talk more later on after we have our siblings, ok, bye.”

‘We’re getting sisters this year, that might mean that I could get her as a sibling, that would be so awesome, cos' the I have a reason to be around her, to get to know her, oh I wish that would happen it would be so good to have her as my own, I could protect her and watch over her so she doesn’t get caught up in the troubles on campus’

 

‘Oh...Gosh! Like seriously Major Hottie!’

Sarah blushes as the thought goes through her head and turns away from them and stares out the window, trying desperately not to look back, but the thought didn’t go away, all she could think about was the way that his eyes shined in the sunlight and the way that he stood there it was such a perfect stance, legs slightly apart, arms by his side, head tilted slightly and a slight smile could only complete the look.

‘I have to ignore them, they might think that I am trying to intrude and be rude, and since they don’t look like first years they cant be so I have to look away and ignore them’

Her plan to ignore them until she was told who her sibling was failed when a soft cough beside her was heard, turning back she saw the guy standing there looking down at her.

Sarah blushes slightly and looks down, she had lost all words, all she had to do was find her sibling and she wouldn’t have to worry about seeing him again. She was determined to find her School sibling and then they would leave and she and this guy wouldn’t have to have anything to do with each other, because she had to concentrate on her school work and she couldn’t afford to get messed up in a relationship or be distracted by someone like him.

“Hey, I’m Tom and I was just wondering if you were looking for you sibling, or if you got lost, I was thinking that since you were sitting here in the uniform that you might not be lost, so I have to ask if you know the name of your sibling, if not, then maybe I could take you to where you find out.”

Sarah looks up at him and smiles slightly, the blush still clear on her face.

“Umm, well actually, I umm, I don’t know who my, umm, Sibling is, so could you tell me where I find that out?”

Tom nods.

“Sure, but I’ll do even better then that I will take you there myself so you don’t get lost, come, walk with me.”

Sarah nods and stands still confused about whom he is and why he was trying to be so helpful, she knew she wasn’t the prettiest girl that would normally get the attention from boys, so maybe he felt sorry for her. That had to be it she decided.

Tom looks at her out of the corner of his eye and smiles slightly.

‘She was gorgeous, and she was with him.’

Sure, he knew that he was hot, girls liked him a lot they told him that, he had a group normally following him but he arrived at the school early so they haven’t seem him yet which was an added bonus for him.

“Ah here we are, the Administrations’ office, and over here are the sheets, you a first year here?”

Sarah nods, smiles, and steps closer to the sheets, so that she could see them as well, not noticing that she was also stepping closer to him.

“Yep, first year, wouldn’t be the first few sheets, my name is Sarah, but it could be under Sarah-Dee, I’m not sure.”

Sarah blushes brighter, realising that she had just told him something about herself.

Tom smiles slightly.

“Well we’ll need a last name if we wish to find out your Sibling today, cos' there is a lot of Sarah’s coming to the school I’m sure of it.”

Sarah looks down and sighs.

“Hamdeacar”

Tom smiles happily

‘Sarah-Dee Hamdeacar, that is such a cute name, she also said they call her Sarah, so we’ll have to find out about that?’

Tom flips the pages and traces his finger down the page to her name, slides it across to find out who was her sibling and stares the words.

 

Hamdeacar, Sarah-Dee (Sarah) Siblings with Micheal Charmle, Thomas (Tom)

 

Sarah frowns up at him and takes the papers from his hands.

“Thomas Micheal Ch…Char…”

“Charmle…”

Sarah frowns at him again.

“What, what’s wrong with me being partners with him…huh, for all I know he could be really sweet and nice…and umm…who is he anyways?”

Tom smiles at her and slides his hand through his hair again.

“Well Miss Sarah, Thomas Micheal Charmle, happens to be…me”

Sarah groans inwardly

‘Great, just great, the one way that her school year would have to start, she get a sibling that she thinks is hot, although this could have its advantages, they could get together, get to know each other and well anything…’ ‘Stop it brain, I have to concentrate on my school work and actually do well here or my dad will get mad at me again’

“Great, so does that mean that you can show me where dorm 736 is, I still have to unpack everything and set out stuff so I can get ready to start school tomorrow. Is that ok, we can hang out after I have done that.”

Tom nods smiling.

‘She’s my sibling, she’s my sibling. Oh god that was childish, but still, SHE’S MY SIBLING…ok now I just have to spend time with her and see if she likes me, she seems so into getting away from me right now.’

“Sure, that would be upstairs, walk with me and we’ll talk, I’ll answer anything that you wish to know, as best as I can.”

Tom smiles at Sarah as they walk down the hall to the flight of stairs; they walk in silence for most of the way both pondering on how they would make this work.

Sarah decided to make the most of this while it lasted because all she had to do was find out as much as she could about the school before to many things go wrong, and before her father finds out that she will be spending most of her time with a boy. She knows that the only thing that her father hates the most is the thought that she might leave him for a boy, or just decide to leave him like her mother did. Although her father never cried about that she knew that he missed her.

Sarah fought with herself a lot when it came down to why her mother left her, and that was a main problem with her and her father, she always believed that she left because she had been a bad child, but that wasn’t true, so she found out a year after she left. Her father had always been good to her because she was the only thing that he had left of her, although she knew he blamed her as well, but now she was free of that.

 

As they climb the stairs, Sarah gets a thought in her head, to ask Tom where his dorm was, in case she has any questions, but she knew she had to fight to ask that. She needed to stay focused on her study this year, she had to pass and she had to make her father proud of her again, that is all she had to do.

Sarah didn’t notice that Tom had stopped and turned until she walked into him. Blushing and looking up at him, then notices that his hands are on her shoulders steadying her.

“Woo, Careful, you just walked straight into me.”

Sarah blushes deeper and jumps back looking at the feet.

“Sorry, I…I umm, I didn’t mean to, I was just thinking and you stopped and I didn’t notice, so I didn’t mean to…I just didn’t notice…”

Tom chuckles softly and shakes his head.

“Don’t worry about it Sarah, all that matters is that we are at your dorm now. Shall we go in?”

Sarah nods quickly and fumbles around trying to get the key out of her pocket. Finally she pulls it out her face a vivid red, looking down she unlocks the door, opens it and walks in, and sees that the room is a mess.

Tom looks at her in surprise.

“Is that your mess or your roommates?”
Sarah gasps.

“Well it’s not mine, that is my stuff but I didn’t do that to everything, what kind of creature would do this to all of my stuff?”

Running into the room she kneels' picking up her clothes and belongings trying not to cry about what had happened. That didn’t last long when she found the shattered photo frame that once held a picture of her and her mother, her final happy moment with her, until she left them and the house.

Tears fall gently down cheeks as she picks up the frame and stares. Whimpering she puts it down and starts searching for the picture.

“Mummy…”

Tom hears her whimper and walks over to her and frowns, before he saw the tears.

“Hey, don’t cry, what’s wrong? Is something missing?”

He pulls her into his arms and strokes her hair.

“Let me help you, please.”

“THEY STOLE HER, they stole her, my only memory left, they stole her, she isn’t there anymore, the picture…she is gone, and I need her, that’s all I had left.”

Tom could see red, how dare anyone hurt a newbie like her like this, it was ok to trash the room, that is normal for a prank, but to actually steal something, that was just going to far.

 

The door opens and a tall girl with purple hair walks in calmly and just steps over the mess and sits down on the far bed.

“Thomas Charmle this is a girl’s dorm, which means no boys, I think that it is time for you to leave!”

Tom turns towards her and growls.

“Who did this, Tell me who came in here and trashed all of this stuff, and tell me who…”

Sarah sobs but pulls out of Tom’s arms and wipes her eyes picking up the photo frame.

“Tom…no…don’t get mad on my account. It’s not worth it.”

Turning around she starts to pick up the clothes and belongings again and starts to put everything where it belongs, her eyes red from tears, and her face no longer showing emotions.

Tom stands and hugs her gently

“Dorm 143 if you need any help with anything, I will find out who did this to you, I promise.”

Sarah stares after him as he leaves the dorm, before lifting up the final things and placing them in the shelf.

 

The girl sighs and stands, goes to the cupboard and gets the broom.

“Don’t touch the glass, it’ll cut you, let me do it.”
She sweeps up the glass and puts it in the bin.

“My name is Mistray, because many will lose me and I have my past that no one know, I am here because I can be, I am I second year student, and I have nothing anymore, in my first year this happened to me as well, but I didn’t have someone like Tom to fight for me, and I still don’t have my stuff back.”

Sarah wipes her eyes and sits down.

“I’m sorry to hear that. I’m Sarah, I’m pretty simple, my mum left me six years ago when I was 10, and I miss her more and more each day, the photo that was taken was of me and my mum the day before she left, now I have a father that yells, and is a mean drunk, I just wish that she would come back and tell me why she left us like she did.”
Mistary nods and walks over to the bed Sarah is on and sits next to her.

“Tell me, why did you decide to come to the Rockmound Academy, I can tell your not a rich girl, but your not the poor, your middle class, you must be smart, but I can see your not the brightest girl here.”
Sarah blushes softly,

“Well in truth, it was my father’s choice, he tells me to do stuff and I have to do it, since my mum left I have had to do everything, his last words to me before I came here was.

‘Don’t let me down, you are to study hard, get a part time job, and to not fall in love with anyone, you are my daughter and I will not share you with anyone.’

“So now I am here, and I have to do what he says I can’t handle any more pain right now. What about you, will you at least tell me that?”

“Sure, I came to this school last year because I was told that it would be the best place for me, I have to say that I was surprised at how right they were, since I have been going here, my life has opened up, even though I still can’t find the one I am looking for, I still have been living life to the fullest so I will be ready for when I find him.”

“Umm…Him?”

“Oh, I have been searching for this guy for years and….and, what do you care, your not my friend, I have no friends, I will not open up to you, your just trying to trick me.”

“Well I could be your friend, I really friends, and you are my dorm mate, so maybe we could be friends.”
Mistary stares at her in shock as if that was the first time someone had asked to be her friend.

“Whaaaa, you want to be friends with me, even though you know nothing about me and will more then likely never know everything about me?”

“Well that is the point of being friends with someone, to get to know them and to find out the good things and bad things about each other, and as for the ‘might never know’ part of it, I’m ok with that, not only because it is the same for me, but because one day you might feel more comfortable with talking to me and eventually you will trust me enough to know.”

Smiling Sarah stands and goes to put on some music.

“I LOVE THIS SONG!”

Sarah giggles and turns it up a little and walks back over to Mistary.

“Same, come on, dance with me.”

Mistary smiles, stands and they start to dance, not worrying that their skirts are flying around and shirts are swaying. They look at themselves in the mirror and giggle.

“We look like idiots!”
“Ah but that’s the point, the more we are like idiots in here, the less likely we’ll act like idiots out in the rest of the school.”

 

At the end of the song they fall to the ground laughing happily, Sarah rolls onto her side and smiles.

“See its not that hard to let lose, but now it is time for lunch, and today it is in the Grand Hall, the rest of the time  we’ll take  it in turns to cook, is that ok.”
Mistary blushes slightly.

“Umm, well, actually, I umm, I never learnt how to cook.”
Sarah smiles and nods,

“Ok, well I’ll cook for us; I’m pretty good at it, not the best though.”

Mistary smiles and stands, holding her hand down to Sarah and helps her up.

 

Sarah smiles and takes her hand using it to get up, still holding her hand they leave the room, and jump apart as they see someone. Both blushing.

Tom sees them and walks over, and grins.

“It’s lunch time girls, and Sarah you said that you would sit with me, so let’s go.”
Sarah giggles as Tom runs off in front of them, grabbing Mistary’s hand she follows Tom trying to catch up, Mistary giggling and running with her.

Sarah watches Mistary as they run, her eyes catch a glimpse of a mark on her neck but Mistary’s hair covers it up and so she wasn’t even sure it was there.

As they stop next to Tom Mistary pants softly.

“Running in the halls is against the rules you know, we could have gotten into trouble.”
“It’s the first day Mist so stop being so paranoid, and school hasn’t even started yet, that is what this lunch is for.”
Mistary stares at her

‘Mist, did she just give me a nick name, OMG, that’s just weird, and to think they said that I would never have any friends here.’

“Oh and look we’re still right, you don’t have any friends here you will lose her and Tom soon enough to!”

Mistary jumps, and turns to see a blonde girl standing behind them with a smirk on her face, between two shorter blonde girls.

Sarah touches Mistary’s arm and pulls her into the Grand Hall.

“Just ignore her Mist, it’s or turn to get served, come on.”
Sarah grabs two plates and starts grabbing food, piling it on the plate, grabs two drinks of strawberry milk and walks to a spare table and sets them down for her and Mistary.

“Mist, you are my friend, and Tom is my Sibling, so if we can all get along no one like that little brat will ever be able to separate up, so Mist just eat your food and settle down, without making to much noise and eat with me, and Tom don’t look so surprised you knew I would make more friends then just you. Now let’s eat!”

Tom and Mistary laugh softly before starting to eat sitting on either side of Sarah. Sarah eats hurriedly, tasting everything that was on hers, Tom’s and Mistary’s plate, just wanting a little bit of everything that had been cooked for them, and everything tasted amazing. Only one thing stood out to her from everything that she tried, and that was the Chocolate Cake that was on Tom’s plate. She didn’t want to ask for it, so she was just sitting there and a few minutes’ late Tom places it on her plate, stating that he was full.

 

Tom smiles as he watches Sarah eat the cake, he had really wanted it, but wanting to satisfy her, he gave it to her because of the way that she had been eyeing it off ever since he had let her try a little bit of it. Tom watches her out of the corner of his eye just sitting there, now knowing that if he ate anything more she would have called his bluff and felt bad about it, so while he watched her whenever he saw her look away to talk to Mistary he eats some more.

 

Mistary, having seen what happened and can see the way that Tom looks at Sarah knew that he gave her the cake simply because she wanted it.

“So Sarah, have you seen anyone that you like yet, we have walked past about a hundred guys, so there must be at least one hot guy that you have seen.”

Sarah blushes bright red and puts down the fork looking at her plate then smiles finding a way to say it.

“Well there is one guy that I think is really hot, but I don’t think that he would like me, so there is no point, and I have told you Mistary, that I have to keep my thoughts on my studies for now, so I don’t get behind, because my father is counting on me to do everything right this year, and so I can get into the business that he has planned for me, I need straight A’s so I can do it, I can’t afford to get into a relationship with him because I need to study, but yes there is one guy.”

Mistary looks up and sees the darkness in Tom’s eyes that was the jealousy he was trying to fight. Looking down with the slight annoyed look in her eyes as well but smiles.

“Well Sarah, all you have to do is decide what is more important to you, the career choice that your father has picked out for you or your own will, and be able to fall in love with someone, because there is someone out there for everyone and you don’t want to be one of the girls that is just willing to fight whenever someone tells her to, you need to be able to fight whenever you believe that it is important to. Fighting for love is the best thing someone can do, I am fighting for the one I love because I need them to stay alive.”

 

Sarah smiles and lays back patting her stomach happily because she had eaten so much that she was so full. Tom and Mistary sit on the bed with her smiling. Mistary stands up and turns on the IPOD dock and attaches her IPOD and flips to a song so they can listen to something while they sit there. Yawning she lays her head against Mistary’s chest and looks at her.

“That was really yummy.”

Sarah yawns widely looking around, her eyes falling and she falls asleep.

 

Tom looks at Mistary and sighs.

‘Look at that, she has fallen asleep and she still looks just as adorable as ever, I’m glad Mistary is here, otherwise my lustful thoughts would ruin me.’

Mistary looks at Tom and smirks knowingly

“You like her don’t you?”

Tom blushes slightly looking down then stands and leaves the room without another word.

 

Tom walks down the stairs so that he can go to his dorm. Walking into his room he sees his mate Daniel sitting on his bed, headphones in as always. Tom hears a phone vibrate and sighs looking down he sees Daniel pick up the phone and grin.

“It’s a new girl, I have just gotten her number and she is texting me already, she must really think that I’m hot…oh and did you meet your Sibling earlier, Cassie said that you walked off with some new girl to help her out, who is she, is she hot, and what is her name, Cassie made her sound real cute.”

Tom’s eyes flash slightly but he smiles and shakes his head.

“Leave this one for me please Daniel, I like her, and even though I can’t date my sibling, I would really rather that she stays mine and doesn’t fall for you like most girls. Please Daniel?”

Daniel nods and looks at his phone replying to the message.

“It’s ok, I’ll leave her to you, just so long as I get to meet her, then our siblings could become friends, that’s all I want, my girl needs some friends and since we are friends so why not set them up to be friends as well, what room is she in, so I know which girl is yours?”

Tom chuckles but lays down and doesn’t answer the question because he knows all to well on what was going through his friends mind right now and he didn’t want Sarah getting involved in what was being thought, Sarah was his, and his would do anything to keep it that way. Laying his head on the pillow and closing his eyes all he saw was his face.

‘Lord, please if there is something that I have to do with her, please give me a sign, I don’t want her to get messed up in all the stuff that is going on here, I will find out if she knows you, and I will help her, she doesn’t need to mess around with all the stuff that is going on!’

Tom rolls over and picks up the bible and flips it open to a random page and just starts to read it without thinking about what he would get out of it. When he had finished he just lays back and closes his eyes just to rest for a while.

 

Sarah jumps awake, her heart pounding and her body shaking, she could feel that she was alone, but she could sense something was watching her, she needed help and she needed it soon.

‘Dorm 143…no I wont bother him with something so stupid as that, I can handle things on my own now, I’m 16 and I can do things without someone else’s help, and so that was what she had to do, she had to fight this.’

Sarah knew that she was walking, but she had to keep her eyes closed or she would lose her concentration on whatever it was that was watching her.

SMACK

Sarah opens her eyes and rubs her head and looks up at the door that she had run into.

“143…DAMN IT”

‘Why did I have to think about him when I woke up, that would be why I am here now, because that is all I was thinking about other then the thought of being watch, I mean I am always being watched…’

“Sarah? What are you doing on the floor and why are you here, here come inside and sit down before you actually hurt yourself.”
Sarah looks up at Tom and blushes deeply. Looking down now she stops her train of thought and walks inside to see a tall handsome guy lying on the bed with black headphones on and she could just hear the dead metal music coming from it. When he rolls over, she gasps at the way that his dark black hair falls over his dark blue eyes, there was also a scar on his left chin that looked as if he was attacked by some large animal with claws. As she stares at him she could see that there was also slight bruising on his right chin, making it looks as if he was recently bashed up.

Sarah looks away as the guy tries to catch her eye. Looking up at Tom she blushes and goes to the free bed and sits down so that she could look around the room.

 

Tom smiles and settles himself in the computer chair and looks at her.

“Sarah I guess you wish to meet Daniel, he is my best mate, and I have known him since the first day I set foot in this Academy. Daniel, this here is Sarah, my Sibling for the year.”

Daniel’s eyes light up quickly, as he removes the headphones and sits up on the bed so that he could look Sarah over.

‘MMM Cassie was right, she would be a nice treat, but being so little, I wouldn’t be able to play with her as much as my normal girl, but I think that I could play with her just enough, if only she would let me, then I would be able to do anything with her.’

Sarah smiles at him, nods and then just looks at Tom again.

Tom tilts his head before he moves over to the bed and sits down at the end of it so they aren’t really close, but they are just close enough for the slight smell of roses could play with his scenes.

“So why did you come here, you must have a good reason, cos when I told you that you could come down here you gave me a look that said ‘You’d much rather jump off a bridge then to come down here and admit that you needed help with something’ so what is the problem?”

Sarah blushes and looks down as her dream comes flowing back into her mind, and she turns towards Daniel and tilts her head.

‘It wouldn’t have been someone here that would have been watching me because if it was then I would have noticed by now so, the only reason that I came here was because I was thinking about Tom’

“Umm, well in truth I have no idea why I came here, I just woke up and I decided to go for a walk and my feet brought me to this room, and so it must have been fated that I come to this room just at this time.”

Tom stares at her is simple amazement before hearing a thought in his mind.

‘You asked for a sign, and now she is here, that must mean something, right?’

Sarah blushes deeply looking down, sitting with her legs curled up underneath her, with her hands on her lap staring at them, she didn’t know what to do anymore, so now she was sitting here with Tom and Daniel and had no idea what she was going to do next.

Sarah sighs and wiggles, moving her legs from under her, and goes to stand up.

“Well I guess I should go, sorry to come here, but I guess I just wanted to see if you gave me the right dorm number.”

Tom gasps and grabs her arm quickly without even noticing that his powers are controlling him because of the way that his emotions want her.

Sarah yelps and pulls away rubbing her arm carefully, moves the sleeve to reveal a deep gash in her arm that was only just healing. Sarah looks at it and sighs and blood trickles from it again.

“DAMN IT, not again!”

Sarah turns and grabs a tissue and holds it there, but it had started again, which means that she would need to get it bandaged again.

“Tom, where is the nurses station, I need to get this bandaged again before the air gets to it to much, the more air that gets on this cut the…” Sarah breathes deeply. “The more it hurts, and I can’t afford a new uniform right now, so please before it gets to sore, I have to cover it.”

Tom jumps up and covers it with a tea-towel and holds it there gently, but can feel the blood soaking into the tea-towel, holding her back and arm he starts to walk out of the room.

 

Daniel sniffs the air and grins, standing up he follows them, the smell of blood running through his senses. His mouth watering at the smell of her blood, he had to have her, at least to feed just once, it smelt so good, all he had to do was try it just once. The only problem with that was that if she had a the mark on her lower back he wouldn’t be able to drink from her, and the mark only appears after they have discovered their powers, and so he hoped like hell that she hadn’t discovered them, because once they do, the blood is deadly to a beast like him.

Daniel follows thinking about the blood and the thirst that was now invading his head. He thought only of how this had come able, the only reason that the girls in this school liked him now was because what his master had done to him. Before that happened he would have been lucky if a girl even looked at him. Now he was a beast that fed off of the ones with powers, that’s why this school was opened, to feed the hungry and to power up one side of the world to protect the ones that they loved, only when the someone has lost everything that they loved is when the elder’s come out to fight, and so far there has only been one fight in the last 150 years and the fight died out when another joined in against the elders to protect the one that had lost all. The elder’s disappeared because the girl hadn’t lot all, and now she is alive and well living with the one that protected her.

 

Sarah screams out as Tom helps her onto the bed for the nurse, the pain was getting worse and worse and she didn’t know what to do anymore, the tea-towel was covered in blood, so was Tom’s and all she could do was scream, her mind had gone and now all she had to do was fight the pain.

‘This pain is going to kill me unless something happens, the wind has to stop, the sun must come out and the pain will stop’

To Sarah’s surprise the clouds move out of the way of the sun so it can shine into the room and onto her, and the wind changes direction so that it was no longer hitting her, the pain although it was still the is now more bearable. Relaxing slightly Sarah closes her eyes and passes out from forcing the winds and clouds to move and the pain took more energy then she thought it would.

 

Tom lays her down and removes the over top so he can see the cut. His eyes widen as he get the full sight of the cut, placing his hand over it he realises that it is only just smaller the length of his hand, it took up most of the space on her upper arm. Picking up a sponge and bucket of water he wipes away the blood to see that the cut is far deeper then what he thought, it grazed the bone and practically cut up the muscle. Tom looks up as he feels a hand on his shoulder and realises that he had been out of it.

“Tom…Tom…What happened here Tom?”

Tom looks around and sees Cassie standing beside him and smiles weakly.

“I touched her arm and it broke open the wound again, so I brought her here so someone can help her and then she passes out, I guess the pain was just too much for her.”
He sits down on the stair, his hand still resting on Sarah, wanting to keep in contact with her so she doesn’t feel alone.

 

Cassie smiles and hugs him quickly before walking off to get a nurse so they can help her with this. Cassie arrives back with a pink haired nurse that was always sweet and would never ask any questions, in fact no one had ever even heard her speak for a year now, but they were use to it now, so no one asked any questions about it. The nurse leans down and touches the wound and watches the way that the blood would come out, the looks at Cassie, walks over and touches her cheek.

‘The muscle has been ripped; can she use her hand still?’

Cassie jumps and looks at her, confused, but looks over at Tom.

“Um, can she still use her hand?”
Tom thinks but remembers lunch time and chuckles then nods. Cassie smiles and looks at the nurse. The nurse looks down to the cut again before looking at Cassie and walks back over and reaches out to touch her cheek again and closes her eyes.

‘She needs to drink 20 millilitres of the first bottle before you stitch up the wound and the bandage it up tight so the stitchers cant come out, use the longest bandage that you can find.’

Cassie nods slowly before walking away to find the bandage that she was talking about and walks back with the bandage. Then she goes over to the shelf and walks back with 20 millilitres of the blue liquid and quickly gives it to Sarah rubbing her throat so it goes down before stitching the sides of the wound together, and bandages it as fast as she can. When she has finished the bandage covered the whole upper arm and it bludged out quite a bit. Then as Cassie stepped back and Sarah starts to move.

 

Sarah groans, her eyes open up quickly; she grabs a bucket and throws up, then wipes her mouth. Then she sees Tom, who is holding a fresh glass of water, she holds her hand out and takes it drinking it quickly and shakes her head.

“That was gross, what happened?”

Tom looks down, before walking around the bed and pulls her into a hug.

“I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to do that, I didn’t realise that your arm was cut, if I did then I would have never touched it, I’m sorry.”
Sarah giggles and pulls back.

“Not what I meant, I was meaning why is my arm hurting more now then what it did before the wind changed and why does it taste as if I just swallowed something furry?”
Tom smiles, and lets her go.

“Well, when you passed out, I thought that it was worse then I thought it was so I called Cassie over and then she went and got the nurse, and then Cassie started to treat you after the nurse touched her, though I’m not really sure that I understand that part but it worked. Cassie gave you something, then stitched and bandaged your arm and then you woke up.”
Sarah looks down at her arm and looks at the new bandage and sighs.

‘Ok, so it was stitched up this time, which means as soon as I go to sleep they will rip out and I will wake up sore again, but at least then it wont be bleeding, because normal cuts heal fast for me, and all I will have to do is change my sheets and wash them. Ok I can handle that.’

Sarah smiles and looks up at Cassie and freezes realising that she was the girl that Tom was talking to earlier.

“So I just you are Cassie then, well I am pleased to meet you, and this will hopefully be the last time that I turn up here in need of your help, but since you helped me now, I am in you debt, and I for some reason know just the thing that I can do for you. I remember seeing a young girl downstairs staring at a boy that was calling you his sister, I was just wondering if you wish to go save your brother from her or go adopt her as your sibling, either way I just know that she has something to do with you.”
Cassie gasps as she realises that she is talking about Timmy and the girl must be Tammy. Sarah and Tom watch as Cassie turns and runs out of the nurses’ station.

 

Tom looks at her and frowns, really confused now, but doesn’t get to say another word because Mistary runs in and pushes past him and hugs Sarah.

“Oh God, it was truth, I heard that you was in here and I was so worried, you’re my room mate, and my only friend, and I can’t have you dying on me, so don’t you dare die on me. Ok?’

Sarah giggles and hugs her happily smiling.

“I’m sorry Mistary, remind me next time to warn you before I get sick ok, the only thing that happened was I had a dizzy spell after I found out that Tom did actually give me the right dorm room that he is in that’s all nothing major.”
Mistary giggles and hugs her.

“If that is true then try must have just redone the bandage on your arm. I saw the old bandage in the bin, and I guess you took it off to early.”
Sarah nods and looks down. Mistary giggles and takes her hand and starts to lead her out of the station so that they can walk around and so Mistary could leave the hospital without any nurses noticing that she was there.

 

Sarah smiles and follows her slowly; she looks up at Tom and sighs before whispering very softly to him.

“Don’t tell her, I’ll do it when I’m ready, she doesn’t need to know just yet, so don’t please.”

Tom nods quickly and smiles.

“Well I guess it is time that we go back to our rooms; it is about seven now so we have to get ready for school tomorrow, I will see you tomorrow girls. DANIEL, stop following us, you know I can tell when you are there so let’s go to our room.”

Sarah watches as Tom goes into the shadows and forces Daniel out, before watching them walk away and out of view of them. Looking down she sighs before starting to walk off to their dorm.

“I guess we should get ready as well, and anyways we still have to shower and eat tea, so you go get in the shower and I will get dinner ready, is there anything that you wish to have?”
Mistary smiles and shakes her head.

“Just cook whatever you want; I’ll eat it, no matter what, because I am getting hungry now anyways.”

Sarah giggles and nods as they walk into the dorm room and they separate, Sarah wanders into the kitchen and starts looking around and sees that they will have to go shopping tomorrow after school because they will need more food, the fridge only have a carton of milk, some eggs, a tub of butter and some cheese. In the fruit and Vegetable section there is, pickles, onions, tomatoes, potatoes, apples, grapes, bananas, oranges and melon.

‘Not much there to pick from, the cupboards maybe.’

Sarah walks to the cupboard and opens it.

‘Peanut butter, Jam, vegemite, spaghetti, pasta, Tomato sauce, bread crumbs, and some bread.

‘Hmmmm, what can I make with all of this kind of things?’

Smiling, Sarah walks around and pulls out some pots and pans, also the Toaster and a bowl.

Sarah puts water in the pan and adds two potatoes, and puts them on the stove, when the water is hot she puts some pasta into the pot as well so that can cook as well. Then she grabs a knife, she chops the tomatoes, onions and the pickles and puts them in the bowl before washing the knife to cut the apples, bananas, oranges and melon placing them into another bowl, covers it and puts it in the fridge.

When the potatoes and the pasta is ready she cuts open the potatoes, and puts them on the plates putting them into the oven on a low heat. She then adds the pasta to the vegetables and mixes them together before adding them to the plate keeping them in the oven so it is keeping everything warm. Pulling out the fruit she opens the freezer and see the ice-cream and puts a scoop into both bowls before adding the fruit to it before covering it and putting it back in the freezer.

Just as she finishes putting the dessert in the freezer she hears Mistary leave the bathroom. So she grabs some knifes and forks to set the table, then pours out some two cups of creaming soda and places them all on the table before grabbing out the plates and serves it out as Mistary walks in and sees her.

“Sarah, you did all this, in the time I had my shower, wow, that is so awesome, how did you manage that?”
Sarah just smiles and stands waiting for her to sit down before going to her side and sits as well. She touches first her fore head, then chin, then both sides of her eyes before taking a bite.

Mistary starts eating and then gasps.

“O.M.G, that is so good, Mmm. How did you come up with this?”

Sarah giggles and keeps eating hers actually surprised at what it tastes like.

 

After they finished eating Sarah was so pleased with the way that it worked out that she stands up and takes the two plates and places them in the sink before walking to the freezer and pulls out the dessert and walks them over to the table and hands her one and a spoon before walking around and starting to eat her one as well. Smiling happily she relaxes because it turned out just as good as what she thought before she jumps up and runs to the fridge, grabs some grapes and adds them to both of the bowls.

“Ah that is the perfect thing. I knew that I would forget them, because you don’t have to chop them, but oh well, it is all good.”
Mistary finishes and licks her lips happily and leans back happily.

“Ok, you cooked, so I do the dishes while you go and have a shower ok.”

Sarah nods happily.

“Ok and we’ll have to go shopping tomorrow afternoon so I can make us some tea tomorrow night, and I will make you a lunch box soon ok, to make sure that you eat something, so yeah.”
She gets up and goes to have a shower.

Mistary smiles and goes to do the washing and wiping up. When she finishes she turns and sees Sarah walking out is a small green nightie and sits on the bed.

“Movie or sleep?”

Sarah smiles and pulls out a random movie and looks down at it.

“Is Crossroads ok? It’s new; I’ve never seen it before!”

Mistary nods and smiles, sitting down on the end of her bed, she takes the DVD, puts it in and presses play. Before the movie was half finished the Sarah has fallen asleep. Sarah curls up and relaxes and is in a deep sleep. Mistary on the other hand tosses and turns, sees that Sarah is asleep so she turns of the TV. Quietly she moves to Sarah’s bed, curls up on the end and falls asleep as well.

Reviews

[Matthew Ian Herrawood W]

interesting. theres nothing majorly wrong with this but there are a few typos just a letter or word missed although somtimes its like your trying to write the same thing two diffrent ways for example

...then pours out some two cups of creaming soda...

once this is edited it will be a great read. i particularly like your descriptions