The first lesson is geography. The classroom is full of old map's some of them probably aren't to date. Some probably have mould on them. It has an old building smell. I make my way to my seat. All my friends are already here.Usually, I'm the first one in class but today I woke up later to get some more sleep in hopes that I was just tired and that's would be the problem. It didn't work.I feel worse then yesterday. The hunger is becoming unbearable. I'm slipping away. People are having red orbs in they're chests more often. No matter how much I try to push it aside it just comes back.I need to know why this is happening. I searched the internet but there was nothing that would help me.I'll go try the library after school. Maybe there will be something there. For now I have to focus school.As I sit down my friends great me. I great them back. Daria is here as well. I've thought a lot of our disagreement yesterday.We argue a lot, but the truth is, Daria is my best friend. After I moved here she was the first one to really talk to me. At first I felt like she pitied me and pushed her away. I was a very temperamental child.I think we really became friends in second grade. Through all me ups and downs she was there with me. The point I'm trying to make is that she means a lot to me. And that I need to make sure were still friends."Hey Daria... I'm sorry about yesterday. I was in a bad mood. I shouldn't have acted like that"The look on her face is one of absolute shock. She shouldn't look THAT surprised that I'm apologizing."No problem Lenna, we all have our bad days"I think she has some more feelings about that but she doesn't say them.I smile at her, she smiles back, and we start talking about our normal topics, laughing at jokes Zoya makes.I don't feel so hungry with them. Nor agitated. And the red orbs don't appear. I feel happy. At peace. Normal and in control. Only if this feeling would never end.When the bell rings and the lesson starts I'm left with my thoughts again. And they wonder to the heart.The redness of it. The veins on it. I wonder, if I open It would it look like the pictures in biology class? Divided into 4 parts. Or would it look different? Would there be something inside it?"Hey do you know the answer to number 2?" Zoya asks me. She scratches her head, unnaturally died blond her getting a bit messy. Her voice is very high pitched and pulls me out of my thoughts. It also reminds me that I'm not paying attention.I forget that she asked me something but the look on her face urges me to answer."Um... I don't know"I hope I can get my head in the game before the exams.It gets harder as the hours go by. I raised my voice on someone during chemistry for messing up a bit. Daria gives me a side eye for that. I don't think it was that terrible of me to do that. I mean it was such a basic mistake.The end of school can't come fast enough.The announcement starts to speak. "All members of the student council are to meet up this brake" the sound is raspy and a bit hard to understand.Great. Just what I need a boring meeting. Aren't meetings on Mondays though?After class I head there with Daria. She is wearing a long sleaved shirt that reveals her shoulders. Her long louse pants look a bit like a dress. They look expensive. I wonder were she got them. It suit her.She is very quiet.I brake the silence "So, what do you think the meetings about?""I don't know. I've been hearing a lot about Unexplainables lately"Every one has something they don't talk about. In my family, it's my father. In this country, it's Unexplainables. Actually there are a lot other things that the country sweeps under the rug. Some of them so hidden no one has ever heard of them."Really? And what did you hear?"She gives me a look that makes me think I should know. "About the threat they pose to society..."One of the few things I've heard about them is that our technology could totally beat them. And that the government will protect us from them.It's interesting, how much we can pretend we are indestructible and all mighty, yet so many things we are a to us.Her hand is on the door handle before I can proses what she just said we enter the classroom. There are 11 other people here along with the school president.An official looking man is standing in front of every one. He has typical dirty blond hair cut into the most common hair style. Glaring at as with dark brown eyes as if we made his day even worse. Thin lips turned into a slight frown. He looks like whoever made him ran out of creativity once they chose the country and just gave him all the stereotypical features.As I sit down next to Daria, the man start's talking."Good morning" The way he speaks makes me think of army men.He nods swiftly as we great him back."The government, has issued a new protocol to insure the safety of the general public and schools""5 bucks that he memorised this word for word" I murmur to Daria.She gives me a glare. It's still one off disapproval but it has a hint of playfulness. It makes all me feel like all my worries about ruining our friendship are stupid."There has been an uprise in cases including Unexplainables. Some include murdering people, eating them, hurting and making them one of they're own"Daria was right. Of coarse she was. I wonder were she heard this from."Most of them are distinguishable by appearance while others slip into the cracks of society perfectly hidden by the masks of normalcy.""Some but not limited to, are vampires, werewolves and witches. Common signs are: animalistic or exaggerated features. Eyes that glow or have unusual colours. Fangs. Unusual eating habits..."Daria gives me a look that unnerves me. It's suspicion."As members of the student council it is your job to educate and prepare the event next month all about this."He talks a long wile about all the boring details and parts of it. I really don't feel like paying attention. The bell has already rung but he continues to ramble."Any questions?"Daria raises her hand and the man gives her permission to speak."What happens to the Unexplainables when they're found?"The mans lips curl into a smile that was meant to be reassuring but does the opposite."They're sent to a place were they can't hurt anyone. Professionals work with them to help them control they're... unnatural side."He nods a few times as if to convince us.They're probably just sent to the north. Prisoners are sent there. And so is every one that the government needs to get rid of. Sweep under the rug.When the meeting ends I go to class. My footsteps echo loudly in the hall way. I walk faster then usual. I try to think of what lesson is now. My brain is empty. Daria catches up to me."Lenna, wait up."I slow down and she walks beside me."So what do you think about the meeting?"I shrug. I'm not sure what I think."And about Unexplainables?""I just hope I won't have to bother with them. I've got enough on my plate without them. No need for another cause of anxiety."She grabs my hand. She looks me dead in the eye. It's intense and serious. Her eyes look like turquois gemstones. The lipstick she wears matches them."Are you one of them?" Her voices quaking slightly."What?""Are you an Unexplainable?" She looks scared of the answer."No." I don't hesitate at all."Don't lie to me."I try to pull my hand away from her. She doesn't let go. Her grip is ridiculously tight."I'm not lying""You've got quite sharp teeth."What sort of a line is that? Does she think we're in Little Red Riding Hood?"The better to eat you up with."The look on her face is one of genuine horror. It's comical. I know I shouldn't but I laugh."What? Are you not familiar with the fairy tale?" I ask her in a sarcastic tone.Now she just looks pissed. Really pissed."Do you think this is a story for little children? If you have fangs like the wolves do you know what happens to them?""Of coarse I know what happens to them. They die."Daria looks devastated. Her eyes are becoming wet but she fights back tears."I don't want you to die."I stop walking and look at her. I don't want to die either."What? Why would I die?"She hugs me. Her hands are wrapped around me tight and she rests her head on my shoulder. I always thought we were the same hight. Turns out she's shorter. She's being really dramatic."Lenna haven't you seen the way your eyes change colour sometimes? They go from blue to purple to pink"I remember how they looked in the car window when I left the shop."That's just the light.""How long do you think it will take you to snap? To lose control and give in to your unnatural side"I push her away. She stumbles back a bit clearly surprised."You think I'm some sort of ticking time bomb? That I'll explode any minute?"I feel absolutely furious."Well... It's in your nature-""Oh so I'm just sort of wild animal that needs to be put on a leash? That I control myself. Is that why you talk to me? You think you can control me? And what be the hero? The huntsmen who saves Little Red Riding Hood and her grandma?""What no-""Shut up. Your just going to lie to me. Bend the truth. Keep it hidden. I don't want to hear it."I walk away. I head to the basketball court hopping it's empty. It is. I do a few laps dribble the ball.I don't know what to do with myself.The government, my mom, Daria they all have secrets. I guess I'm not always honest either.