(edited) Shade of Human by Storm Aria

Author:Storm, Aria
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-07-17T00:00:00+00:00

Fifteen:

After my fight with the coach, then another subsequent day of not showing up for practice, I had a letter waiting in my gym locker to officially cut me from the soccer team. I was beyond sad to see it slip through my fingers, and some fraction of normality along with it, but my priorities were shifting rapidly.

Clarke was my priority now, and after school, we were set to meet up with detective barbie. My trepidation with this new arrangement only seemed to mount the closer to the end of the school day we came.

People were still staring at me like I had two heads and a scorpion tail, but at least the hashtags on my twitter were not blowing me up anymore. Being a teen, I must take whatever minor victories the drama-lamas allowed.

At least class was easy for me. I had not noticed it at first, but my comprehension was going off the charts. While I was in juvie, I had attributed this mainly to how focused and bored I was. However, I had no excuse now why I could recite everything spoken in history class, even hours after, as if calling up a memory on file in my mental hard drive.

That just meant I only seemed to need to see things once to recall them. Being that I seemed to have a death mark over my head, I guess this balanced the scales positively, somewhat?

Clarke was waiting for me at the front of the school with his backpack draped over one shoulder. He was staring off towards the local pompom brigade. I could hardly fault him for being male and hormonal. Heck, even I could admit they were hot!

“Find something interesting?”

I asked, as I crouched close to his ear. Clarke sprang to his feet as if he was half bunny. I sniggered at him and gave him a playful wink as he looked at me with chocolate eyes of shock.

“Damn girl! You trying to kill a brotha?!”

He asked. I merely rolled my eyes and smacked him in the chest with my right palm playfully, as I prowled past him, assuming he would follow. To his credit, Clarke remembered where his loyalties lay, and he followed me to his car. I was still a few months away from being able to drive legally myself. Many juvenile offenses penalize six months or a year extra time before the offender can take their driver’s test. It serves as a secondary punishment tact onto the sentence, and it is an effective nuisance. It is accurate to state that being charged and convicted had drastically altered the course of my growth and development as a teen. There were days I almost regretted the noble sacrifice, but then my mind recalled Ariel’s pale gray features as she died in my arms. There would be nothing powerful enough to vindicate me of my part in her death.

My suffering was silent to the world around me. Everyone seemed to assume I was just enjoying my destructive youth without care for all I maimed and injured along my way.

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