"Hi there! My name is Ruby and the homeroom teacher is a stupid strict when is comes to the seats, and your kinda in my assigned seat". He looks at me with his icy blue eyes and I get chill that run down my spine. "My bad. I am new here and didn't know where to sit" he said. "No problem. What's your name?" I asked him. "Killian Hannon" he says back to me. His voice was very deep, and ruff but at the same alluring. "Well nice to meet you Killian." I say and hold out my hand to shake his. When he grabs my hand to shake it, a shock hits us both, like static electricity."Looks like there are spark between us" he says jokingly and get ups and heads over to an empty seat in the back of the room.
After homeroom I met up with Ziva and Caspian at my locker. "What are your guys classes this year?" I asked them. Ziva spoke first, "Ughh I have to retake calculus so there's that, then I have stupid classes, like pottery, creative writing and then of course stupid gym class". Then Caspian said, "I have Life 101, Gym, Pottery and then Boces. What about you Ruby?" he said. " I have ASL, whoop! Super excited for that. Then I have pottery, gym and creative writing. Looks like we have a lot of the same classes together this year, again." I said. Then I hear my name being yelled down from the hall, "Ruby!". My eyes get wide open and I say, "Shit we gotta go" and start to pack up my bag and close my locker. But we were not fast enough, Scarlet got to us before we could leave. "Hey girls and guy what classes do you have this year?" she asked us. So we told her and then the smile on her face went away and she became sad. "Oh darn we don't have any classes together. Well hopefully we hang out at lunch" she says, then hugs all three of us and then heads off down the hallway.
"We are going off campus for lunch right?" I asked them. "Well we always do" Caspian said. "Hey Ruby." I hear my name from behind me and I recognized the ruff voice from homeroom. I turn around it is Killian. "Oh hey there Killian. This is Ziva and Caspian. He is my homeroom" I said introducing the besties to the new friend. "Can you show where my classes are, I am completely lost" he asked me. " What is schedule?" i asked him. He hand his schedule, " wow you have all the same classes as me and Ziva" I say to him.
So all Killian, Ziva and I all headed to creative writing, while Caspian headed to Life 101. " So Killian where are you from?" Ziva asked. "All over really" he said. "Oh so you are a military brat?" she asked him. "Yep pretty much."he said. "Well I'm not really into military brats, but I'm and just gonna say it, your hot."Ziva said and sat down in a seat when we got to creative writing. "Thanks" he replied to Ziva. We all sit down in our seats and the teacher walks in and starts the class.
After creative writing and pottery it was time for lunch. "Do you wanna hang out with us for lunch?" I asked Killian. "Are you guys allowed to school for lunch?" he asked. "Yea students are allowed to do that, in certain mile radius to make sure the kids come back to the school." I said. "Yea I don't see why not." he said. "I forgot something in locker you guys start heading to our usual place I will meet up with you" Caspian said. Killian and I start heading towards the door when I heard Caspian yell Ziva's name. He is waving to her saying she dropped something. She runs back to him.
Caspian
"Ziva! You dropped something" I yelled to Ziva and then she came running back to me. " What did I drop?" she asked me. " Oh nothing I wanted to talk to you about our new friend" I said to her. "What about him? He seems cool. Please don't tell me you aren't jealous of him" she said with her right eyebrow raised. I could feel the blood rushing to my cheeks. I have lived next to Ruby longer than Ziva has, basically our whole lives. She literally is the girl next door and I really like her but I am too scared to ask her out and share my darkest secret even though she already shared hers. " I am not jealous but there is something off about him and he smells bad" I told her. She still has her eyebrow raised and her arms crossed and says, " you are jealous, you need to ask her how she feels about you. He doesn't smell bad either. You weirdo." she says and heads back to Ruby and Caspian.
Ruby
While Ziva went to see what she dropped, I started to talk to Killian. "So Killian, how are you liking Dead-horse High-school?" I asked him. " Well it sucked at first, but then I met you and it is getting better." he said with a smile. When he said, I could feel the blood rush up to my cheeks. "So where do you live? In town?" I asked. " I live up on Steer Mountain" he said. "Oh that is in the school district?" I asked. " Yep just on the edge" he replied back to me. I turned to check on Ziva and saw coming back to us. "Oh what did I miss? Why is my girl blushing?"she asked Killian. "No reason Ziva." I told her, hinting to I'll tell you later. "Caspian is coming, lets just to our spot so we can get to our booth. We go out the school and head to our lunch spot.
"Where is your lunch spot?" Killian asked. "It is a little family diner that Caspian's family owns so we get to eat there for free basically."Ziva asked. "Oh Caspian's family." Killian said and stopped. I stop and turned to him. "Whats wrong?" I asked him. "I don't think it is good idea for me to go." he said to us. "Why not?" Ziva asked. "I get the feeling that Caspian doesn't like me." he said to us. "He just needs to get to know you. Now come on and buck up" I told him and grabbed his wrist and started walking again.
We get to the diner and Caspian is already there. "How in the hell did you beat us here?" I asked him. "I drove duh." he said pointing to his truck. "Well lets eat, I am starving!" Ziva yelled and quickly walked up to the door, opens it and walks in. I follow her thinking that Killian and Caspian are following me till I hear, "hey Killian can I talk to you for a second?" I stop and make sure they can't see me but I could still hear them. "What's up dog?" Killian said. "That's what I thought. So you know what I am and I know what you are. You go in there, everybody is smell you and know. You will not be treated nicely." Caspian whispered to Killian. " I am not looking for trouble, but trouble decided to come my way I will deal with it." Killian replied back to Caspian. " Yo Ruby come on sit down!" Ziva yelled extremely loud. I was pretty they heard that so I rushed to the booth.
"What were you doing? Where are the guys?" Ziva asked. "Ill tell you later, here come the guys." I said back to her. Caspian walked in first then Killian behind him. As soon as he walked in everybody stopped what they were doing and starred at Killian. He just ignored it and kept his down and walked over to the table. I was already sitting next to Ziva on one side of the booth, so the boys had to sit next to each other. The boys sit down and Killian picks up the menu and looks over it. I pick up mine and put it in front of Ziva and I and whisper, "I gotta tell you something". She raised her eyebrow and asked, "what is it?". I replied back, "Killian is hot". Both eyebrows are now raised with interest, "Oh really? What do you think of Caspian?" she asked. "Caspian is Caspian he is one of my best friends" I replied back to her. Both of her eyebrows dropped and a concerned look cam across her face. I put the menu down and Caspian is looking at the both of confused, while Killian is still looking over the menu.
"What were you girls whispering about?" Caspian asked. "You know girl stuff" I told him and looked over the menu quickly to find what I wanted to eat. Then, Caspian's mom came over like usual to take our order. "Hey Mrs.Q, this is Killian he is new here." I said pointing to Killian. "Well welcome to our town. What can I get you guys today?" Mrs. Q asked. I order my usual kit-kat milkshake and a chicken burger sand-which with fries. Ziva literally orders the same thing as me except for the fries instead she got onion rings. Caspian just order a regular burger with fries with a soda. Killian ordered a salad, with dressing on the side with water. "Being honest didn't think you were a veggie guy." I said to him. "I'm actually a vegetarian." he replied back to me. "I could never be a vegetarian, I like my chicken too much" I said with a chuckle.
"It was hard at first, then it got a little bit easier every day. Now it is a piece of cake. But I could never go vegan that is too much." Killian said. "Vegan's are the worst. They make me very angry." Ziva said. "Ziva has anger issues, don't mind her." Caspian said and then Ziva reached across the table and punched his arm. "Yes, I have my anger issues, but they are not as bad as yours and you know that." Ziva said with a cocky attitude. I look over to Killian and catch him like starring at me, not creepy or anything but more like curious. I could feel blood rushing up to my cheeks and getting a warm and fuzzy feeling inside.
As I went to say something, Mrs.Q came out with our food and set it down on the table and said, "enjoy the food kids and don't worry about the bill, just make sure you get back to school on time". We ate our food and headed to Caspian's truck. I hopped in the front seat while Ziva and Killian hopped in the back seat and we headed back to the school. After school ended Ziva and I headed to Caspian's truck. "Where is Killian?" Caspian asked when we go to his truck. "I don't know after our class he like disappeared." I replied back to him. We hopped in the truck and headed back to my house.
We got back to my house and sat on the front porch swing. Grammie came out of the house and asked, "How was your day dears". "Very interesting. Ziva and I almost have all classes together, we made new a friend. His name is Killian." I told her. "Oh I forgot I texted my mom and asked about all the random new kids" Ziva said. "And???" Caspian asked eagerly. "She said that there was school like a town over that got shut down and condemned. So all the kids had to go to different schools. I think our town is going to be expanding" she said to us. "I wonder why it condemned? I wonder if that is school Killian came from. He was very quiet about himself" I said. "Well we aren't little social butterflies like you Ruby." Ziva said. "Oh those poor kids, that is horrible." Grammie Anne said.
While we were sitting on the porch we heard a sports car coming down the road. We all look towards it's direction and the car got louder it came over the hill. It was a hot pink convertible, "Scarlet.." I groaned. "Should we go inside or stay or here and see what she wants?" Caspian asked. "Why don't we just spell the truth out of her?" I sarcastically asked. "Do it" Ziva said. I went inside and wait to see if she was going to stop. I mean she had to stop at some point to turn around cause us three live on a dead end road.
The pink convertible stops right in front of the porch. Scarlet pulled a little mirror from her purse and she checks herself. I softly say, " To see the truth, to know the way, I cast a spell in every way. By the power of three I conjure thee to give thy truth unto thee" and point my finger at Scarlet. She gets out of her car and starts to walk up to the house when I come out of the house onto the porch. "Hey guys!" she squeals. "What are you doing her Scarlet?" Ziva asked. " To hang out with you guys. Duh." she said. "Why? You hate Ziva and Ruby." Caspian said. "I don't hate them. I am jealous of them." she said and then her eyes got wide open. "Omg I don't know why I said that." she said to us. "Jealous of us? Why?" I asked her. "Because of the friendship you guys have with each other." she said and again realized she didn't want to say that. "Why am i telling you everything?" she asked. "Maybe you just feel bad for happened last year." I said to her. "I definitively do." she said but her face doesn't again with what she is saying. She stomps her foot and groans in frustration and says. " This isn't the end. I will make your life living hell. And that is the truth." she says and stomps off the porch and hops in her car. I yell, "I actually believe you this time. But good luck with doing that". She sped down the street and spun around at the turn around spot and sped back down the way she came.
"Knew it was too good to be true." Ziva said. "Why doesn't hate you Caspian?" I asked him. "Cause she like me. Duh." he said to us. "Ohhh do you like her?" I asked him. All of a sudden her got super defensive, "NO! I would never go out with a girl like her". "Dude chill, it was just a question. Sorry won't happen again." I said to him in a soft voice. I look over at Ziva and mouth "What the fuck" and she just shrugged her shoulders. "I am gonna head over to my house it is almost dinner time." Caspian said and got up from the porch swing and started headed down the porch steps. I quickly get up and run up to him and hug him. " I'm sorry. I didn't mean hurt you in anyway Cas." I whisper into his ear while hugging him. "It's fine but I really do need to get home, I promise to help with the cooking dinner this year, cause the parents helped me get a vehicle." he whispers back and we let go of each other.
I walked up to the porch and sit down next to Ziva. "So you gonna tell me what happened today at lunch time?" Ziva asked. "Caspian pulled Killian aside and said, 'That's what I thought. So you know what I am and I know what you are. You go in there, everybody is smell you and know. You will not be treated nicely'. Which is weird, I don't think they are telling us everything. Maybe they know each other and it didn't end well". Ziva raised her eyebrows, "You are a very paranoid person." she said back to me. "Well I have to, being what I am, you know a witch." I said. "Yea I know and I so happy that you trusted us enough to tell us that." she said.
"Well Caspian isn't telling us everything. Especially how defensive he got when I asked about Scarlet." I told her. "Do you like Caspian?" she asked. I was startled by that question. "I don't know... he is like a big brother to me. I mean there was a time I had this huge crush on him and everything." I replied back to her. "Do you like Killian?" she asked. Once again I could feel the blood rush to my cheeks. "Omg you do!" she said. "What? I didn't answer your question." I told her. "You didn't have to even say anything out loud. Your face did all the talking. Your cheeks got extremely red." she said with a smirk on her face. I play punched her arm. "You staying for dinner?" I asked. "Might as well, I don't want to go back home to those awful people. At least you get fed." she said back to me. "You are always welcome here." Grammie Anne said coming out onto the porch.
"Thank you I very much appreciate it." Ziva said to Grammie Anne. "Well dinner will be done soon girls I will tell when it is done." Grammie Anne said and then she went back into the house. "Wanna go to our hideout?" I asked Ziva. "It is like you read my mind." she said with a smirk. I get up and open the door to the house and yell to grams, "Heading to our spot. Just call us when dinner is done" then shut the door and head down the porch Ziva is already way ahead of me. "Hey wait up!" I yell. "Come on slow poke" she yells back and stops for me to catch up. I finally catch up, "I swear you are like a cheetah" i said while wheezing for air. " So what are we gonna do?" she asked. "I wanna know what Caspian is hiding." I said sternly. "So you are going to invade his privacy?" she asked a little shocked. "Ugh no, I'm not gonna do that. Ill probably just ask him tomorrow at lunch. But why don't we invade someone else privacy, her name rhymes with Harlett?" I asked her. A smile comes across her face and she nods her head yes.
"Lets see what she is planning so we can stay one step ahead." I told her. "It is so cool that you are a witch." she said. We finally get out hideout spot. It is on the beach and there is a little cave in one of the cliffs. We found it when we were little and when I had my powers under control I put a invisibility spell on so only Ziva, Caspian and I could find it. We get inside the cave and it was completely trashed. It looked like a tornado had went through it. "Omg what happened?" Ziva asked. "I don't know it wasn't like this the other day when we came down. I don't know anyone would have found it with the spell I put." I said.
"You don't think Caspian showed Scarlet this? Do you?" Ziva asked. "I don't know but we are going to find out right now." I replied back to her. I looked around and said, "after we clean cause I can't work my magic if the area I am in is cluttered it makes my mind cluttered and the magic won't come out right". So Ziva and I started cleaning and when we finished we sat at the table where my crystal ball sits. "Good thing that the ball didn't break" said Ziva. "It can't break, it is unbreakable. When I first got it Grammie told me to a anti-destruction spell on it. Cause a witches crystal ball is one of the most important things, next to a peaceful mind" I told her.
I take a deep couple of breath, to clear my mind and to figure out which spell to use. "Crystal Ball, Crystal Ball, show us what happened here or fall" I said aloud while holding my hands over the ball. The ball starts to glow in a purple hue and then pops us a image. "So was it Scarlet" Ziva asked. "No, it was her mom." I said with a confused looked on my face. "Her mom?" Ziva asked. "Yea, her mom. She keeps mumbling about looking for something and how it should be here." I said. Then the image starts to fade along with the purple hue. "My main concern how did she even know this place existed." I said and Ziva shook her in agreement. "Maybe Grammie Anne knows something." Ziva said. "Maybe" I reply back.
I get a shivering feeling down my back, and then a sharp pain in my back. "Ow" I yell and fall to the ground. "What it is?" Ziva said rushing out her chair to catch me. "Something is wrong is Grammie. We have to go know!" I yell through the pain. Ziva helps me up and with my arm around her neck and we start to run as fast as we can with Ziva holding me up. We get back to my house and soon as I step on a porch step the pain intensifies. I fall the ground again and tell Ziva, " go inside and make sure Grammie is okay".
Ziva props me up against the railing, makes sure I am good and then runs up the porch and storms inside.