Chapter 10

It's been two weeks and school is humming with activities every day. Debbie and I recently signed up for dance and music class, so did a lot of other kids.

I've always had a special connection to music since little, I don't know why but it feels like it's in my soul print. And the strangest thing is that I can play well on the first try.

It surprises a lot of people especially Mr. Vincent, my music teacher. He calls it a true 'artistic talent'.

It's lunchtime and I am devouring a burger with no regard to manners,

"This is really good" I lick my fingers and take a big gulp out of my mountain dew,

"Yeah, I wonder how she always does it" Debbie nods in agreement. The lunch lady shouldn't be a lunch lady but a personal chef for some rich family. Guess life isn't always fair.

I glance over my shoulder to see some guys looking at our table talking and snickering to themselves. I shake my head in disappointment and I focus back on my lunch,

"So what do you think of the literature?" Debbie asks me taking off her glasses, "do you believe in what it and Mrs. Brown say?"

"Yes." I swallow, "sometimes you do not need proof to believe some things" I let out a burp, "excuse me" I blush,

"So cute yet so boyish" Debbie teases, "but science would disregard it because of the lack of evidence" she dabbles in thought,

"Science disregards anything that does not make sense to it but that doesn't mean it's not real or existing" I gulp down my drink, "it's just too lazy to find out what the unnatural is or what it means" I conclude,

"Yeah you're right. How I wish I could meet an angel!!" Debbie squeals,

"Why an angel?" I'm curious,

"Have you seen them?! Tall, strong, and handsome" she giggles like a love-struck teenager, oh wait she is, "and their wings are just so cool!!! I wouldn't mind marrying one!" She drools at her fantasy,

"A light or dark angel?"

"Anyone works fine!" She drools even more and I shake my head, "let me go get dessert!" She skips to the lunch lady, she was really love struck.

She comes back with two cups filled with vanilla and chocolate ice cream, I reach over for the chocolate and my eyes devour it,

"Thank you" I'm just about to dive in, "wait, where are the sprinkles?" I examine my cup,

"Oops I forgot! I'll go get them" she gets up to fetch the finishings only to have someone's lunch spilled on her.

"Oh my God!! I'm so so sorry!!" The girl apologizes, I turn back and notice it was one of the twins that followed Lilac around. She is a lot nicer without the queen of mean around her.

"It's okay" Debbie waves off and wipes some pieces of food off her clothes,

"You should go clean up," I say to her and she leaves for the bathroom. I help pick up the tray and pieces of food on the floor. I get a mop and clean up the mess before the cleaner notices, she thanks me for it later and I wave it off.

I go get our sprinkles and I decorate Debbie's ice cream with a heart of sprinkles, I smile to myself and wait for her to come back.

After a while of waiting, I check the time,

"Where is she?" I wonder and look at our ice creams, I couldn't eat without her. I turn back and notice the boys who were snickering at us were gone, the cafeteria was almost empty.

"I wonder what's taking her so long?" I was concerned,

"Eris!!! Eris help me!!" I hear Debbie's voice in my head and run out of the cafeteria. Her pleas got louder as I ran down the hall, what could be wrong?

I kick down a door open and I see a boy dragging her closer to him as she struggles to free herself. I run up to them and slug the guy in the face, the sudden release makes Debbie fall to the ground. She scurries back to her feet and stays behind me,

The boy gets up holding his face giving me death eyes but I am unmoved. Instead, I am thinking of the one thousand ways to murder him.

"Debbie are you alright?" I glance over my shoulder to her fear-filled eyes, her hair in disarray, she nods her head frantically still too paralyzed with shock to say anything.

"Look who's trying to play the hero." The boy I punched in the face glances over me. Two other boys are with him and they move closer. I instinctively move a step backward protecting my sister, "you don't need to be afraid. We appreciate your beauty that's all" one of them tries to hold my hand.

My gaze was unshakable from Debbie's molester, I could feel her fear, her pain. Who knows what would've happened if I didn't come just in time.

My blood boils and I deliver a sharp low blow to the guy closest to us, he falls to the ground groaning and clutching his manhood in pain. The second one charges for us, I push Debbie away from me and I dodge his raised fist, I give him an elbow to his mid-region and a punch to his face.

I look back to see if Debbie is okay and I feel a hand connect to my face. I am thrown backward and a hand is clamped around my neck choking me,

"Please don't hurt her!!" Debbie screams as she tries to remove his hand from my neck, the boy pushes her away and she lands on the floor,

"So much for the hero" the boy smiles wickedly as I feel his free hand rummage around my body.

I hear Debbie's cries and it hits me, I sink my teeth into his wrist and he jerks back from the pain, I connect my feet with his face with a spinning back kick, and he is sent back. I grab his head and slam it repeatedly into a table, the anger in my eyes, the blood spilling from my mouth, I have to kill him.

It felt right to me.

"Eris leave him!! Let's get out of here!!" She manages to drag me out of the classroom and locks the door leaving the boy with blood dripping down his forehead.

It was a minor cut. Debbie didn't let me make it the cause of his death.

When we are far away enough I pull her into an embrace,

"It's okay Eris, I'm fine now. We need to get you help" she pulls away cupping my cheeks, my eyes bleeding tears,

"I shouldn't have let you go alone" I sob, the tears mixing with my blood,

"Eris it's okay, we need to go to the clinic" she wipes away my tears,

"I'm fine" my emotions change,

"No, you're not. Let's go" she drags me to the clinic to clean up my cut. I hiss at the sting of the disinfectant, "come on, be strong"

"You know I don't like it" I narrow my eyes at the cotton balls and the disinfectant,

"But you need it" she smiles as she dabs the cut on my cheek which makes me hiss again,

"She should be fine" our school nurse Miss Ashley walks in, she strokes Debbie's hair, "it's unfortunate things like this still happen. How are you doing Debbie?"

"I'm fine now thank you" she gives a small smile,

"I'll go find the boys and bring them to the clinic. Eris must've done a significant amount of damage to them" she chuckles to herself,

"You should've seen her. She was like a movie hero!" Debbie tries to mimic my serious expression then, she turns to me and sees me doing the exact face she failed horribly at copying and she laughs, "just like that!" Her index finger hits my nose and I try to bite it off but she quickly retracts it giggling like a baby.

I give a small smirk, she is everything to me. I just wish what happened a couple of minutes ago never happened.

"Eris I'm going to need to have a blood sample to check how you're doing," Miss Ashley says as she searches for a syringe, I gently roll up my blue sleeves to show my upper arm,

"Superwoman" Debbie teases me and I give an eye roll.

With only a slight sting a blood sample is drawn from me,

"You'll have the results by tomorrow. Do make sure you take care of each other" she puts it in a small tube and dismisses us.

We walk down the hall with me rather close to her, we reach the cafeteria and just as we were about to walk past it we notice our ice cream and head to it.

"It's all melted now" Debbie whines, she picks up her glasses and puts them back on, "much better" she smiles in satisfaction, I look down at my cup,

"Still looks delicious" and with one gulp it's in my stomach. Debbie follows suit and we head to class hand in hand.

"We're so late," she says,

"Yep" I confirm.