The Dying Rose and Us Ch. 4

7th period.

kiki is pulling me by the arm. apparently we have to take a bus to another high school for 7th period.
jamie is already on the bus.
i don't really see the point of having two high schools, especially the transferring of students from one to the other.
we're running at semi-volocity off a platform. the bus is in sight. we were running late becuz kiki was freaking out to the fact i also had R.O. with her.
the edge of the platform ended a little sooner then i thought it would. the jagged as fault scraped against my side. kiki pulled me to my feet asking if i was okay. a loud screech was heard from a closing bus door.
me and kiki exchanged glances before charging head on toward the buses.
too late... they were long gone. "i guess we're walking" kiki huffed.
i see she wasn't used to phisical labor. "or we could go to the principal" i figeted with the button at the collar of my shirt.
"maybe you can, but not me..." she shifted the strap on her shoulder from her book bag.
"what do you mean?"
she looked at me, drawing me to move closer to her. her blue eyes' seemed to see through my lies and covers and see the real me, the honest truth of me. at the same time, care for both parts of me. the one everybody sees, and the one no one but she sees. our eye's met.
my heart pounded greater then it ever has before, i don't even think it has ever happened before.
a hard lump seemed to have built up in my throat, making me scared to speak, and hard to swallow.
"no, i don't think so. i'm gonna head off now. come if you want" her eyes' left mine, i felt like a part of me died.
she turned and walked off toward the other high school.
my body surged and missed her presence.
"eh... i-i-i'll go with you"
we walked along side each other saying nothing. my had bumped hers several times and each time she moved further away from me.
was i ugly to her? no, impossible, i'm sexy. am i too sexy?
i thought of how i would get er alone, then i'd bite her, making her a werewolf like me. i'm pretty sure she'll be forced to join my clan. no, i have to gain her trust as a human first. i'll bite her with out her knowing and offer to be her savior some how.
that'll take much time, but it'll be more then worth it. for my clan.
i looked over to kiki, she was looking at her hands. i sniffed the air, blood.
when i fell off the platform i must've taken her with me. me, landing on my side, she, on her hands. i reached over gently touching my side.
ouch....
i grabbed kiki's wrist, in a bold attempt, i licked her cuts. she tasted so good.
she jerked her hand from my gripp, stumbling backwards out of fear. realizing i've gone too far i jumped at her. in a flash her book bag slammed against my head. when i got the chance to regain my train of thought, she was already just a speck on the road. i growled involintarily, throwing her book bag she left behind to the side. i charged after her. my eye's were tearing from the fact that i ruined everything. NO! i faild! so soon too! they'll hunt me down and kill me for this, i have to catch her! damn!
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i held my hand over her mouth keeping her from screaming as best i could. she flailed her hands and legs slapping and kicking me several times.
"Shut up!" i cried at her. "please stop, i don't want to hurt you! PLEASE!" i had no choice.

SMACK!

she whimpered some, but she wasn't screaming anymore. I'm sorry" i muttered pulling her to her feet. she crumbled up, pulling her arms across her chest. the left side of her face was crimson red from my hand. i kissed it, whispering in her ear to stay quiet and not to try anything she would regret later. i pulled her away cassually, holding her hand to keep her in place. she wasn't crying anymore. something i was graterful for at that moment. "do you know where we can go to talk? without anyone there?"
"yes"
"good, now take me"

she led me to an unused road surrounded my a fence 7 feet high and large bushes a little higher. before i could ask if that was the place she took off again. i thought she was trying to get away, but she was pulling me into the bushes with her. "it's a forest!" a branch hit me in my eye.
"not exactly" she said ducking.
we stopped in a small clearing. i rubbed my injured eye.
"come" she said guided me to the middle. she removed a leaf-covered blanket revealing a board. i helped her remove the board and there was a hole. she slipped in first, then me after.
it was a lot roomier then i thought it would be.
kiki was feeling around, i reached and grabbed a box of matches, lit one, and watched the hole light up with a faint glow. there was a blanket a little more down the hole, and also it seemed that the hole continued a little more into the distance.
she took the box preparing a match, and began to feel around again.
"what are you looking for? a candle?"
"no, a flashlight"
"oh." her eye's weren't as good as mine. "i see it" i said flicking on the light.
she tried to grabb the light but i wouldn't let her.
i rubbed the match i lit against the hard ground. "you don't need it" i turned the light off.
"what's going on?" i could sense the fear in her voice, yet she still sounded sweet.
"i guess i have to tell you, don't i?"
she said nothing.
"i'm a werewolf, to start. i come from a clan, or pack, even sometimes we call ourselves a society, called : The Dying Rose. i have been trained by my brothers. it is true i have traveled alot, i don't have many friends... or any.... you are the re-encarnation of arra, a woman who was cursed to loyalty. my clan needs you"
"for what? and what do you mean re-encarnation? and why was ... arra cursed for loyalty?"
" a young girl about your age a long, long time ago was always as kind as she could be to anybody she met, everyone loved her for that, but one of her jealous proned friends hated her for the love everyone gave her. so she cursed arra for loyalty to all but herself." i sighed, almost out of breath, " we're at war for teritory. many of us may... will die. i'm sorry to say, but we'd rather you die instead of our own. we'll train you, teach you everything you'll need to know, but your more of a decoy then anything."
"what if i refuse?"
"you can't"
she turned her head to the side, taking in what i've told her. i will say she was handling it alot better then i thought she would.
i touched her hand, so soft, smooth and warm.
"i'm really sorry... but i must..." i leaned over her for the changing bite.
instead of moving away she hugged me. this came as a shock to me, but i hugged her back. my heart began to thump hard again. my stomach churned and my hands began to sweat.
i couldn't bite her, not after that.
"i'll be your friend" her voice was so soft, so sweet, tears fluttered my eye's.
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she walked me to her house, not that far from the other highschool. i guess you can say we were skipping seventh. well it's not like we had a choice. her house was blue, and was one of those duplex homes, with two garages. on either side of the garage was marked :1501A. the other :1501B.