Fantasy The School of Aftermath

[a writer]

"Hi." Skye repeated, tucking her iPod into her satchel. "I'm, Skye. It's... um.... nice to meet you." she spoke up, knowing how fustrated people got with her when she 'acted' all shy. She was bullied a bit for it, but she still had nerves. She looked down the empty hallways. "How'd you end up in this hell hole then?" she asked the boy, trying to make conversation. This guy looked like he could tell her a few things.

 

[kjsprk]

"Ajax. It's nice to meet you too." There was something about this girl he felt he could relate to. He didn't know, maybe the others had it too and he just didn't see it sooner. "A long series of events...my dad always wanted my sister and I to get a proper education. So, I guess, when this came up, I uh, took it. That's the short version though." Ajax peered down the hallways as well. "How about you?"

 

[Keiser]

Jonathan sees the girl pass by, and sit on her desk. ''Now that's my stile''. He keeps watching her. ''Simon, you should go talk with Aura''. Jonathan lays back.

 

[Hibiscus]

Simon saw Jonathan lean back in his desk, he seemed relax, almost prompting him with the challenge. This is so weird, I get it wars over, but going back to normal. I wasn't even alive for normal, I don't know about teens. What if she ends up being my second ex. "That girl?" He pointed to the one leaving, "Seems like she is interested in Ajax, better make a move soon." The whole class could hear them talking in the hall, it echoed perfectly. "As for Aura, well do me a favor, I work good under pressure so make a bet with me." Hunter shot a smug look towards the covered face leaning back.

 

[a writer]

Skye smiled, beginning to ease slightly. She pushed her fringe back, "Pretty cool name you've got... um, yeah, it's... y'know, unique." She chuckled, blushing. She wondered what he was thinking and came up with something along the lines of; Why am I speaking to this loser? Jeees, she must have a stammer or something. but she hoped he wasn't to much of a douche. She shrugged. "I was sold off from my family a few years ago. I was in labor, at a factory. One day we got out and I ran as far as I could. About this time, the war was at an end so I was taken in and adopted by an agency. Long story short, I never saw my family again and was basically dumped here." she sighed lightly.

 

[kjsprk]

Slightly stunned that se blushed, this caused him to go dumb in the head; something that had never happened. "Ajax," he laughed, "yeah dumb right?" He chuckled nervously. He listened to her story. "Oh, I'm so sorry. What do you mean agency?" He was curious, he had never heard of such a thing before.

 

[a writer]

"Eh, not much I can do now! Past is in the past!" Skye added on a brighter note. "Oh, the agency? Well, it was set up by the government, to basically give children parents and to give parents children." she explained, "So because I lost my parents, I got put with a couple of people who'd lost their child. It's meant to benefit both parties, but not when you dislike the adopters." she folded her arms, leaning against the wall. Her hair tipped back, eyes closed. "Sometimes I wish my mum was here, but I don't think I'd survived. The sheer willingness to find her is what drove me on."

 

[kjsprk]

Ajax kind of felt bad for asking. "Oh." Is all he could get out of his mouth. "Hey, i was on my way to the library...er...somewhere quiet. You wanna come with?" As soon as he asked the question the voice in his head whom other people referred to as his conscious, 'No you idiot, she's on her way to class, probably the one YOU should get back to, I swear we are NOT the same person.' These arguments happened often. Despite Ajax's conscious yelling at him, he held his ground and kept a slight smile on his face.

 

[a writer]

Opening her eyes, Skye nodded. "Why not? Doesn't look like the teacher is going to be here anytime soon. Ten minutes or so won't hurt." she shrugged. Ajax began to walk, and Skye was going to follow when she realised. She grabbed his hand, pulling him the other way, before dropping it. "Oh, um, sorry 'bout that." she muttered. "I thought it was this way." she pointed in the other direction. She felt fire burn her cheeks, looking down at her scuffed converse and fiddling with a stray strand of hair anxiously.

 

[kjsprk]

Ajax felt his hand being pulled. When the girl realized her mistake, Ajax finally admitted, "We could try that way. Honestly I have no clue if this school has a library..." He blushed and turned the girl's way accidently bumping into her. 'Damnit, you are messing this up so bad. She probably hates you.' His conscious screamed at him.

 

[a writer]

Skye shrugged, laughing lightly. "Eh, probably does, anyway." She looked up from her sneakers to actually meet his green eyes for the first time. She smiled. Shaking it off, the girl began walking down the corridor, footsteps echoing, before thinking of something to say. "I saw you were listening to music." she ventured. "I love music and stuff. I even play the guitar or sing, a little." she gestured to the guitar strapped across his back. "You any good?" she chuckled.

 

[kjsprk]

"Really?" He asked, shocked. "I'm...okay I guess" He chuckled. "I love music, it's something used to use to escape the war, and death, anything negative really. They came to a flight of stairs. "Careful; I don't trust this building." He took the first step lightly, even then the floor creaked loudly seeming as though it might give out at any moment.

 

[a writer]

"Yeah, music is good like that." Skye smiled, as they came of stairs. This was going to be funny. As she went to step up, however, he stopped her. Skye smiled again, He's a pretty sweet kid. She waited for him to give her the all clear, before lightly running up them. She laughed. "If you do it quick, it isn't so bad." she took off her beanie as her head grew hot. The girl slipped it into her bag, before tying her hair into a messy pony-tail.

 

[kjsprk]

"Hot?" He asked. 'Yet another dumb question, stupid.' His conscious was not amused. They began walking down yet another empty hallway but this time, Ajax saw a sign hanging up in the hallway marked 'Library'. "Huh, found it." He smiled at her.

 

[a writer]

"Yeah, sorry." Skye muttered, slipping off her hoodie and tying it round her hips. Following him down the hall, she was surprised to have found the library. "Hmm, that was good!" she chuckled, heading in. Skye was immediately astounded at the vast expanse of books. She smiled, heading down a set of more stable, oak stairs. The girl sat down at a bench. "Like books?" she asked. "I mean, you don't look like a geek. Not that being a geek is bad... um... you just look like the 'popular type'." she winced slightly.

 

[kjsprk]

"Popular?" He was surprised. Ajax sat down on the ground close to Skye, put his backpack on the table, pulled out his notebook, and let it rest on his lap. "Is awkward, shy, and lonely popular?" He chuckled. "I would've thought that about you honestly. That you were the popular type that is." He opened the notebook and continued writing.

 

[a writer]

"I dunno. I mean, you seemed more confident then me; good-looking, and nice; pretty funny. Y'know." Skye chuckled, peering over to his sketch book. "Well, thank you, but I'm not really popular." she smiled. "And I'm basically none of the things I just listed." she added with a laugh. Looking closely at his writing, she frowned. "If you don't mind me asking, what's that?" she ventured curiously.

 

[kjsprk]

He glanced back at her, "I disagree." He blushed and said quickly. "Oh, this is filled with a bunch of random things. Anything from songs, drawing, short stories...even some of the battle strategies from the war..." he tilted the book toward her and flipped through the pages so she could see. He then hesitated, but ofered for her to page through it. "You can look through it if you want..." He smiled.

 

[Keiser]

Jonathan sees the girl go to somewhere, in a quick glance he sees she pulls someones hand, curious, he follows them. He sees the singer with her. "So you're gonna be the hotshot, eh, singer" In a serious tone, putting his hands in his pockets.

 

[Idyllia]

Aura notices most people left the room. The teacher still hasn't come in yet. We came here, so why shouldn't you come? Aura clicks her tongue and decides to get up and leave the room. Upon entering the hallway, she looks around at her dirty surroundings and looks into a closed door of another classroom. The teacher was there, teaching the classroom full of kids.


Did we maybe come to the wrong classroom? Aura thought to herself. She hurriedly walks away when the teacher saw that she was peeking through the little window on the door. Aura's footsteps creak on the floorboards when suddenly, she felt a falling sensation, then her whole body hurt.

 

[Hibiscus]

Simon followed Aura, taking Jon's challenge. The girl was curious and was searching the classrooms, upon turning around though she fell. She was lucky, for Simon was about to approach her when she fell. Her face went straight into his chest as he caught her, but fell along with her. He opened his eyes to see the ceiling, "You ok?" Simon coughed from his lungs being struck.

 

[Keiser]

Jonathan leaves library. Annoyed of that classroom, he left to go explore. He sees the girl in hands of Simon. ''Eh! Good job!'' And salutes to him. He laughs, and keep exploring this maze-like rotting school.

 

[Idyllia]

Aura coughs a little bit and weakly says, "Yeah, I'm fine." Aura's hands instinctively wrapped around Simon as they fell. Aura quickly let go, her face burning red.

 

[Hibiscus]

Simon laughed, hearing Jon in the background. Simon began getting up, lifting Aura to her knees. "May I have the please of helping a beautiful lady up?" He extended his hands to her, smiling flirtatiously.

 

[Idyllia]

Aura's face turned into a fiery red and took Simon's hand. "U-Um... Sure."


Auralee smiles while staring down at her feet. This is embarrassing.