I've been here before. Earlier today.
I wandered around. It was peaceful. I could see myself even when everything else around me was pitch black with ink.
My pin transformed once again, my cloak that I had once wore covering my back in a bouquet of black feathers, had now became a gown.
I bent down to touch the watery ink on the ground and scooped some up in my hands. It slowly poured out the edge of my hands and dripped back onto the floor.
I placed my hands back in it facing my palms and lifted my hands back up. Ink formed small bird like figures in my palms.
The ink flapped with their wing-like appendages as they slowly ascended from my hands.
They flew around effortlessly despite their form, and circled around my head like a halo of dark ink.
What were these things? Were they on my side? I plucked a feather from the back of my cloak and held it up to the creatures. One of them picked it and took it with its beak, disappearing back into the group.
I held my arm up and tried to catch one to no avail. Then I lifted my finger up sideways in the air for them to perch. The one with the feather still in its beak perched on the small bit of my finger and tilted its head around to look at me.
Its species was unidentifiable for the ink covering it.
I snapped back to reality, where I was still holding the bird, but in my arms.
Aiden looked down at me.
"A bird?" He said.
I looked down at the bird and back up at him.
"I...dont know...what it is..." I whispered.
"I think it...well..RESEMBLES a crow.." Aiden replied.
The bird cawed lightly.
The birds form sunk back into ink and into a plague mask.
"The whole costume" Aiden smiled.
I hesitantly put the mask on.
Nothing. I felt nothing. Nothing happened.
"Well" I said.
"That was very anticlimactic" Aiden replied.
I put the mask in my backpack and looked back up at Aiden.
"Uh. Let's head to class I guess" I said, pointing my thumb backwards.
"Wrong way" he smirked.
"Oh."
We walked to class where I saw many new faces as I entered through the door.
"Introduce yourself" The woman in the front said with a stern look.
"Uhm." I replied, walking up to the front, grasping the straps on my backpack, "Daisy. 14. Just moved here."
All my classmates gave me weird looks and began whispering with each other.
I started biting my lip nervously.
"SHHHHHH!" The teacher screamed from behind me, trying to hush my classmates.
It was me she scared instead, as I jumped forward and the whole class burst out in a roar of laughter.
The teacher looked like she had enough, and stood up tall in front of me, facing the class, holding her finger to her lip in silence. The class quieted down and into a complete silence.
"That seat in the back. I'm Ms. Brooke" The teacher replied to me.
I nodded and smiled at her, but it didn't phase the cold, hard look on her face.
As I started to walk to the back of one of the aisles, I realised I knew some of these people.
"Hey Dan!" I whispered.
Dan looked up at me and smiled.
Aiden was there too, in the seat that would be to my left.
To Dan's right, Melody. The one who tried to fight me earlier.
She looked at me in disgust and rolled her eyes, facing away from me as she flipped her long hair and hit Dan directly in the face. Dan blinked, stunned for a second.
I plopped my backpack down under my seat and got my pencil out to begin working.
I noticed the teacher looked younger than she should have. Usually it's the old people that is grumpy and mad. She had light brown hair with a red tint under the lights and pastel green eyes filtered under the square glasses she wore. Her name seemed to fit her appearance, but not her personality.
Brooks are like small little streams, quiet and peaceful flows of water. She was very loud, but seemed to seek out silence, and was anything but peaceful when it came to finding it.
I tried to watch the note slides carefully, but my mind wandered easily and I found myself asking Dan for notes from the previous slide.
I tapped my index finger on the corner of his desk and he looked back at me with his chin is his palm.
"37?" I whispered to him.
He nodded and slid over his paper to me as I continued to scribble everything i missed back down.
"Here you go" I whispered again, and handed him the paper.
"LOVE NOTES I SEE?" Ms. Brooke sqwauled.
"Huh?!" I blurted out as she stomped back to our seats and ripped the paper out of Dan's hands with deadly force.
She skimmed over the paper and slammed it back onto Dan's desk where he looked like a nervous wreck.
"You're lucky this time" She replied, glancing at me, then at Dan.
Melody giggled, but was then silenced too, by the teacher.
I looked back over at Dan who finally looked like he had calmed down. I noticed he had a watch and I pointed to it to ask the time, nonverbally, in fear of the teacher.
He held his finger up to his lip and placed his wrist in my hand. I blushed a little. It was 9:56. Four minutes until class was over. I let him have his hand back and got back to my notes.
Before I knew it, the bell had rung and I was on my way to my next class.
"Aw I don't have my next class with either of you, do I?" I asked both Dan and Aiden.
"Nope. Advanced chemistry." Dan replied.
"Gym" Aiden awnsered.
I sighed and hoped for the best.
Dan and Aiden dropped me off and waved me goodbye as I entered the classroom.
A wave of embarrassment brushed over me as I saw a couple kiss. Another girl the one I saw earlier stood in front of them.
I stepped up to them.
"I-uh- what was that?" Apollo asked.
"Melody?" I asked.
She pulled herself off of him and looked down at me.
"Ugh what?" She replied.
I backed up and grabbed my phone out to take a photo.
"CLICK!"
"WHY- YOU LITTLE RAT" Melody said, stomping over towards me.