Dan walked up to the door and knocked in a certain, strange rhythm that I can't seem to forget.
"Bum. Bum. Bum bum bum."
He dropped his hands back down to his side and waited for the principal, as Aiden stood there, playing on his phone.
Aiden jerked his head up as the door slowly creaked open to a dimly lit room where a tall, slim man in dark attire sat at a desk.
"What is it?" He asked in a melancholic tone.
"Ms. Daisy's schedule, sir" Dan replied, pointing to me.
I felt awkward, so I tried to make a smile and slightly waved. He smiled too.
"Been a long time since there's been one like that here" The principal said.
He pulled open one of his desk drawers and pulled out a folder. He opened the folder and skimmed through a bunch of papers before he finally picked one up. He then tried to reach it over to me, and I grabbed it.
"Think she'll straighten em' up boys?" The principal chuckled.
Dan and Aiden both laughed awkwardly at the principal's remark, nodding their heads.
"Hope so" He continued.
"My name is Joe, but most call me Principal Joe. There's a lot of bad people in this school and maybe in your free time you can straighten them out? I sure can't" He chuckled again through his eye bags.
I nodded and waved goodbye as we walked back out into the hallway. Spooky.
Suddenly, a tall blonde girl in high-heels came rushing over to Dan.
"Danny boy! I missed you!" She said, kissing his cheek.
I looked at her in disgust.
"Danny? Dan do you know her?" I asked.
"Yeah. She's my girlfriend" He replied.
He pulled her off himself and came over to me.
"Shes a singing land siren" He whispered.
"Oh...who's this....darling?" She looked down at me, forcing a smile. "You must be Dan's... friend. Wouldn't you like to come swimming with me this evening? Girls bonding time!"
"Wouldn't you like to get your head chopped off with a sword?" I replied.
"HEY HEY HEY. GIRLS. NO. STOP." Aiden forced himself between us, pushing us away from each other.
Dan jumped on to us both. "Nobody is killing nobody! We're in the same boat together, and Melody, you wouldn't stand a chance against her!" He said, pointing at me.
"Ugh. I could crush this weakling...human" Melody sighed.
"Except she's not human" Aiden replied.
Melody's eyes widened a bit. "What is she then? A witch or another siren? Or a werewolf?" Melody gasped and looked at Aiden, "Shes a part of your pack isn't she? Shes your girlfriend isnt she? Oh- I'm so sorry Aiden-"
"NO" Dan interrupted, " She's a gaurdian"
She looked back at me and her jaw dropped to the floor.
"No. No no." Melody screeched "NOBODY IS BETTER THAN ME!"
"RAGH!" She screamed, lunging at me, her fingers turning into claws.
I barely dodged her attack as her hand hit the wall behind me. Her eyes was now a glowing yellow and her skin pale, with pastel blue scales at the tips of her limbs.
She slid back and lunged at me again. I grabbed her hands at the right moment and pushed her back with my right knee.
Dan grabbed her and pulled her into a classroom that she was near and shut the door.
Aiden grabbed me and pulled me into another classroom. It was pitch dark before he flicked the switch and the fluorescent lights slowly turned on with a radiating buzz.
The room looked like a tiny storage room complete with mops and brooms leaned up against the wall. He put his hand on my shoulder and his finger to my lips whispering "Shhhh".
"Theres teachers here and humans", he continued.
I turned my head to the right and nodded.
He let his arms up off of my shoulders and backed up.
He twisted the door knob, with no success.
"What?" He said
He twisted it this time again, more aggressively, yet with no prevail.
He banged on the door with his bare fist and screamed loudly. "HEY!" He screamed "WE'RE LOCKED IN HERE".
"Dan? Aidyn?" He asked.
The door knob started twisting open itself from the other side and opened.
It opened to a girl with medium-lengthed lavender hair, and dark purple eyes glaring at us.
"Ummmm...." She looked at us "I dont wanna know.."
I blushed deeply.
"No! No! It's not like that!" I screeched.
I looked over at Aiden who was as red as a tomato.
I headed for the door, ready to walk out but noticed the girl entering the room.
The young girl sat down and pulled her legs to her chest.
"Ummmm....you okay?" I asked.
She nodded and continued to stare at the floor. I raised my eyebrow at her and Aiden left. "What do you want?", she responded.
"Why are you...in here? Staying?" I continued.
She looked me dead in the eyes and I felt a chill go down my spine. I gave her a weird look back and went down and grabbed her wrist to raise her up off her knees.
"What...What are you?" I asked.
"What?!" She screamed. "A human? Like...what do you mean? Gender? I'm a girl."
"No you're not"
"Yes I am."
"I sense things" I said "You are not human"
Her eyes widened and she looked up at me.
"What? Well your 'sense' is wrong, I am more human than any human in this building," she yanked her wrists from my grip and walked out.
I heard the screeching of shoes in the halls as Aiden approached me back in the closet.
"You coming or not?" He asked.
"Oh! Oh...yeah" I replied. I went up to him and walked beside him following the hallway
"Aiden! What are you doing?" Some boy that looked similar to Aiden in the hall screamed.
"I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING APOLLO" Aiden replied.
"Not yet" the other boy remarked.
"This is Daisy, Apollo." Aiden said.
I gave an awkward smile and waved at him.
"Nice to meet you Daisy, I'm Apollo" Apollo replied.
"Daisy" I said. I realised that Aiden already said my name, and I became embarassed.
"That's my brother, Daisy!" Aiden said, excitedly.
"Oh.." I replied. So that was why they looked so familiar.
"Welp I'm late again...Catcha later" Apollo said, jogging away, "AIDEN DONT DO ANYTHING STUPID"
Aiden rolled his eyes and grabbed my wrist.
"We're late too!" He exclaimed at Apollo.
"Aiden stop!" I said, as he dragged me through the halls unwillingly.
"That girl...something about her" He whispered.
"What? You got a crush on her or something?" I asked.
"Cute. No. She just seems like trouble...or worse" He replied.
What?
Suddenly the world around me turned black.