Life after 16: Chapter 1

  A clock is a simple torture device used by the school system to make each minute if each hour longer and longer, and of course when you really want the day to end it goes even slower. Also if you noticed starring at the clock makes it go even slower, causing you to pull you hair out strand by strand. 

     So pretty much with the whole entire junior class starring at every clock in the school the day just seemed to drag along. It was our last day of school for the year, our last day of being juniors. We would finally be the ultimate class of Seniors! By last period my eyes where in pain from all the strain I put on them, but I refused to look away from the clock until I heard that mystical noise that would dismiss me from this hellish world. 

     Ten seconds left....five seconds left....RIIIIIIIIING. The expect bell rang threw my ears , sending me out of my chair and out the door cheering. I heard the teacher say something but I didn’t care all I could think about was leaving  this school once and for all. As I bolted down the hallway people around me where calling my name, I turned my head “Who?What?”I was a little confused, why was someone disturbing my celebration?

     “Can’t wait for your party tonight!! Sounds hot” Kevin johnson said as he closed his locker, one of our star theatre talent. He always had a sort of thing for me, and now he’s gone crazy. What a shame. 

     “Kev.....What are you talking about? I’m not having a party?” I said walking over to him with a confused look on my face. Then I thought about it, I frowned at him “This isn’t a birthday party is it?” 

     “Suuure you are Kitty, everyone in the Junior and Senior class got once of these in their locker.” he said waving the flier in my face. ”Plus their scattered all in the bathrooms, didn’t you see them? I mean you made them.” he looked shocked “Duudette! It’s your birthday?” 

      I ignored the fact that he didn’t know it was my birthday tomorrow and just starred at the flier and then snatched it out of his hand and read it. It said: End of the year party at Kittens house, if you don't know the address then you just can’t come. Bring what's needed for a parrrty! Show up around 8ish, there will be no end!! 

      I wanted to rip this paper into a million pieces, “Kevin, I didn’t make this...” I was going to ask if he saw who was hanging them out but then it hit me who could have done it. Who did do it. “I have to go” I said quickly as I turned around and ran down the hallway. As i was running I looked around, the fliers where everywhere. Why didn’t I see these before?  Probably because you where so preoccupied with the time of the day you stupid!  I augured with myself until I got to where I knew the person who ruined my day was. 

     There he was, backpack on the floor and head down trying to open his locker. He’s tall, one of the tallest in the school, but not tall enough for me to kick his a*s. Just as I began creeping up behind him I smelled something in the air, Ah, he’s wearing the cologne again. The one I love, he must have known he would need to butter me up. It won’t work this time Danny.... I thought as I took a few more steps toward him, just ready to leap on him. I jumped up to get on hi back but he turned around quickly and took me in a huge bear, “Put me down! Danny put me down!!! This is all your fault!” I said to him in his face. “Why did you print those fliers?” 

     Danny smiled at me and pet the side of my face softly with the back of his hand, it gave me chills down my spine. “You always ask ‘Why’ and what I say to that is why not?     Kitten you are a lovely girl, I know that and so does the whole school, you are so lovely  that your scared to have your parents disapprove of you. But how are you going to live out your summer if you can’t let lose? So I’m going to help you lose the strings” He said softly, placing me back onto my feet. His on my chin so Im looking at him. “Ok Kitten?” Danny whispered before he placed a small kiss on my forehead. He was a romantic guy who played with my heart, but its not like I ever stop him. To me Danny was just a friend who stole my heart and even thou we both know us being together wouldn’t work we still get caught up in the moment, just like now. 

     “So..How do you plan on throwing this party Danny?” I said taking a step back away from him. 

    He smiled at me, closed his locker and put his backpack on his back. “You mean how are we going to throw this party?” he took my hand and guided me out of the hallway down towards the front of the school. “It’s simple, your parents are taking you out for dinner then there living for for the night to go to a business meeting in the morning. So the house will be empty from seven to tomorrow around five-ish, so the moment your parents leave we set up. People will start showing up around eight or whatever, and probably leave about three-four o’clock in the morning. We clean up, and the house will be perfectly back to normal way before twelve o’clock. It’s a perfect set-up, all I need is for your to approve.” he said the plan smoothly, like he’s been planning this for months. I looked out the glass in front of me that showed all the students leaving the school, they all where expecting an amazing party tonight. Danny left me with no choice. 

     I opened the door and walked outside, he followed me. I just sighed and looked at him “Fine! Fine fine fine!!! But your doing everything, I’m not helping. All I want to do is enjoy myself tonight” I said as I began walking to my car, danny following me like a puppy. I’ve been taking him to school and home all year now, he can’t afford a car so he can’t drive. I got in the drivers side and he the passenger side,  “My parents are meeting me at the restaurant right from work. So I’m going to drop you off at my house so you can start now because there leaving right from the restaurant. Don’t make to much of a disturbance while your working thou, I don’t want the neighbors noticing anything.” I spoke as a I pulled out of the parking lot.  The town we lived in was quiet and very isolated, nothing ever happened and everyone lived with it. Me and Danny always seemed to be the only two that questioned why we where so boring, why nothing happened. 

     The car ride was extremely quiet what was rare for us, Danny had his ipod on and I was just drifting out into space. Everything was in my mind, the party, Danny, my parents, my whole future.  To me it felt like it was any other day, I was still waiting for it to hit me that I’m getting ready to start my senior year of high school. Where did the three other years ago? What happened to freshman year when I was carefree and didn’t give a damn about what happened tomorrow? Did I not care so much that the days flew by, or was it time playing games with me? 

     I continued to drift into my own questions, I was watching the rode but my my mind wasn’t processing what was happening. “KITTEN WATCH OUT!!!” Danny shouted as he grabbed the wheel and curved off the rode, I hit the brakes before he hit the tree in front of us. I got out of the car and fell to my knees breathing deeply, I looked to the rode. What happened?..... I looked around to see what Danny was trying to stop me from hitting, the rode was empty. I lifted my hand and pulled myself up using my car door, “Im going to check the road clearly” mumbled as I walked over to the rode. Once I got into the middle of the rode I looked around, I saw nothing. Then in the corner of my eye, a sliver sparkle blinded me. I ran over to it, I bent down and picked it up. It was a  necklace, a sliver chain with a sliver wedding band. “Wow....” I said in awe. The necklace was beautiful, every design was perfectly crafted as if it had its on personality.  I looked at every inch of the ring until I knew every single crevice, then something on the inside showed me who this ring belonged too. In gothic cursive read, Ustrel  The name sparked something inside her, she felt like that name has been in life before, like she knew who the mystery owner was. “Ustrel....” I spoke out loud. Slipping the ring on my figure was easy, it was taking it off the chain that was the hard part. I had to pull with what ever strength I had and it still didn’t work. There was a rock off the ride of the rode near my car that I knew would brake it. I went over to the rock and smashed it against the chain on the floor until it broke, “Finally....” I mumbled as I picked up the chain and the ring. Slipped the ring on and put the chain in my pocket, I looked at the ring in awe, “It’s beautiful.....” I whispered to myself as I felt the ring with my index finger, the cold sliver sent chills down my spine.  Soon my entire right hand middle finger felt freezing because of the ring, wanting to take it off was not an option because it was stuck. I pulled on it until I felt like I was going to pull my finger off, “God...I can’t do this” I said right before Danny called over to me. 

    “Hey? What’s going on , you’ve been out here for like ten minutes. Are you alright?” he said still next to the car. 

     I looked down at the ring that was causing all these weird feelings inside me, not including the chills. Am I alright?  “Yeah.....I’m alright” I said walking towards him “Are you?” I asked brushing off my pants. 

     Danny tried to brush off the terrified look on his face and attempted to look calm, “Of course.....I’m alright” he walked over to me and put his arm round me, “Come on darling, lets just go” 

     I looked over my shoulder at the road as we walked back to the car and I swore that there was a shutter in the tree’s over on the other side, and a small whisper. I looked down at my hand at the ring, then something hit me. “Danny.....What where we about to hit?” I asked 

     “I’m not really sure....I saw a shadow that was crossing the road..but then it sort of just stopped right in front of us. I thought maybe it was deer” she said getting back into the car. 

     “Oh.....” I said drifting off. 

     I tried not too think about the car accident after we drove off, the whole ride me and Danny pretended nothing happened and just blasted music, singing along. Something we loved to do to avoid thinking in general, but this time it wasn’t fun and laughable like usual. This time its just awkward. 

     Once we got home we both went into my house and straight to my room, I went into my closet and pulled out the pre-made outfit I put together this morning for dinner. Danny grabbed my laptop and sat on my bed just relaxing and surfing the web, I decided to use this time to jump into the shower while he was occupied. 

 

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     I was so preoccupied with my new little keepsake, the mysterious ring, I didn’t really notice how fast everything was going on around me. I was out the shower, dressed and in my car in what seemed like 5 minutes. Eating dinner with my parents and receiving complaints about everything I was doing in no less that a few seconds, ( I must have been really zoned out for that part of the evening). In a blink of an eye I was driving back to my house and getting redressed for the party. 

     Danny had everything ready by the time I got home, bowls of food where scattered all over my house and can drinks where packed in my fridge. There where speakers in the living room that was connected to a DJ table, but what caught my eye was the two kegs. “What te heck....” I questioned as I looked for Danny. 

     “Why do we need two kegs? Better question yet....Why do we need kegs at all? There is plenty of soda” I leaned against the wall. 

     He walked over to me and wrapped his arms around my waist, gave me that seductive smile, and just sweet talked me thru why kegs where needed in the party. I tried so hard to fight back but Danny never made it easy for me to fight at all. “So the party won’t be successful without booze?” I asked now confused and pretty much brainwashed. 

     “Exactly Kitten!” He brushed a piece of hair out of my face as if it was an award for understanding. 

     Just as I was about to replay to him by asking another question but before my mouth could even open the door bell rang. “Our guess are here!” Danny said kissing me on the nose, running down the stairs. 

     I groaned and hit the back of my head on the wall, I had a feeling in the guy of my stomach that this wasn’t going to be all that fun. 

     Going down stairs was the only easy part of the evening, everything else...Not so much. I had to deal with the losers that came to the party already drunk and of course some where touchy feely who just had to hug tight and kiss me. Then there where the annoying freshman girls who some how got in who where gushing about who awesome it was to be, I just smiled and showed them where the soda was. Worst of all was the people who didn’t forget my birthday, the ones who brought a huge white frosted cake that had roses all over it, saying: Happy Birthday Kitten! 

     All I could do was blush with embarrassment and say thank you, directing them to where put the cake. The party was going just as I thought it would, amazing for everyone else but me. 

 

Then he walked in. 

     

Author's Note

INGORE ALL GRAMMER AND SPELLING!!!!!!!!!
I will correct soon enough!!

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