Our dark place

Chapter 3: Meeting

Chapter 3

Odette

After I left the principal's office I wandered around in the school, everyone was in class and I had a chance to look around without a nosy eye in my neck. When I hear the bell I start locating my locker, it's about time I do. I find my locker easy enough and when I stop in front of it I have to come up with a lock combination for my locker. 1812. Yeah, I think I can go with that, even if it brings me bad memories.

I open the locker and just as I'm about to stick my hand into my locker, the lid is slammed shut, hard and loud. The hand on the lid is big and rough and is wearing three black rings. One on the thumb, one on the middle finger, and one on the pinky finger, which for the record is not all that pinky, it's pretty big. I can tell by the hand that the owner has to be attractive. I look at the boy, the owner of the handsome hand. He's blond with very big deep intense clear blue eyes and he's fit with muscles. He's got a black shirt licked to his body and black skinny jeans with chains. He's got a leather jacket which also has chains and big rough black boots, which don't have chains. He's got black eyeliner painted roughly around his eyes, and that's the only makeup he's got. I was right, he is attractive. He's actually very hot. It and it starts to tingle a little between my legs.

"Do that again and I swear to god I'll f*****g cut your balls off", I say darkly. I don't care how hot he is.

"New girl's got attitude I see", the boy says mockingly. "I'd love to see you try".

"You won't say that when you wake up one morning without your balls", I threaten.

"Oh, I should really..." He starts but becomes interrupted by a voice behind me.

"Ms. Collins, I see you've met Mr. Turner".

I turn around to see the principal. Just now I realize that he does not have a costume or formal clothes in any way. No, he's wearing dark blue shorts with a dark green half-buttoned short-sleeved shirt and black flip-flops on his feet. What is this school I've come to? 

This is the Turner boy everyone has compared me to? "I guess I have", I mumble.

"Oh yes principal Davis", the boy says, smiling challenging at me."I was just welcoming her to our school".

"Aha... Mr. Turner, what are you up to?" Principal Davis asks suspiciously. 

"Whaaat? I'm not up to anything", he says. "I'm just saying hi to the new girl".

"Oh no you're always up to something", principal Davis says challenging. Turner sighs deeply and shakes his head. A sassy and informally dressed principal. Challenging teachers. What's next? A disco dancing janitor?

"Well, bye now", I say and walk away, leaving them to their very interesting conversation. 

I start looking for my next class, which is biology. This school is like a f*****g labyrinth. In my old school, it was easy to find the classrooms, but here, I can't find anything. It can have something to do with the obvious fact that I'm new here and it's the first time I'm here.

Ugh. "Do you need help to find the classroom?" A voice says behind me. 

I turn around to see the girl I sat beside in math class, the girl with golden-brown eyes and shiny black hair. She's beautiful but short.

"What?" I ask.

"Well you're looking for your next class aren't you? What's your next class?" She asks.

"Biology", I answer shortly.

"Cool I've got biology as well, I'll show you the way", she says with a smile.

"I don't think so little girl, I can find my way", I say with an insulting voice, I don't even know why.

She narrows her eyes at me and crosses her arms over her chest. "Fine but don't come crying to me when you find yourself in the spider-filled basement", she says. "Oh and call me little girl again and I will cut you. Bye, don't have a nice day".

She turns her heels and walks away, leaving me dumbfounded looking at her as she's walking. Hm. That girl has got some balls. I can tell she's not a girl to take advantage of. She can take care of herself. 

"Hey shorty, wait up!" I shout as I run after her.

She stops so abruptly I almost run into her. She turns around with narrowed eyes and I almost get frostbite by looking at her.

"The names Tabitha, not shorty", she says.

"Well I'm Odette", I say in an attempt to be polite.

"I know, you sat beside me in math class, remember", she points out.

"Right", I say. "Look I'm not a bad person I just feel like it's better if I'm not kind".

"Well then you'd get along great with my friend Jesse", Tabitha says, she's not narrowing her eyes anymore, her eyes are really big.

"I highly doubt so", I say, sticking my hands into my shorts pocket and bring out a gum package.

"Well I don't", she says. "Want me to show you to the classroom or not?" 

"I guess", I say and shrug my shoulders, popping a piece of gum in my mouth.

We walk in silence for a while. I don't really mind silence, I'm better at being quiet than talking anyway.

People are looking at Annie and me as we walk through the hallways, some of them looking interested and some looking disgusted, and others look confused.

"What are you like the good girl?" I ask.

"Lol no, I'm definitely not the good girl", she says. "I guess I was at one point but I got tired of being a pushover so I got myself some new friends".

"Are you in the bad gang?" I ask interested because she sure as hell looks like a good girl. Well in her face anyways. Now I notice her sharply painted eyes with rough eyeliner, her torn gray crop top, and skinny jeans with chains. She's got high black boots on her feet. Her hair is a mess, and I guess she made it like that on purpose.

"I guess you could say that, I don't think we're bad, more like negative about life", she says and I start laughing.

Dang, this chick is funny. Maybe we could be friends. Maybe. "Sounds like my type of people", I say.

"Well let's just see", Tabitha says. "They're both in biology".

She points at a classroom and I know that this is the biology classroom. She opens the door and we walk in. 

"Hey guys", Tabitha says to a group of people, four to be exact. A guy with bronze hair, a guy with brown hair, a girl with black hair, and a guy with blonde hair. "Guys this is Odette".

I realize who the blonde guy is.

"You", I say looking at him with narrowed eyes.

"Fancy meeting you here Ms. Collins", Mellark says with a sly smirk.

"I wouldn't say the same", I say with a fake smile.

The other guy has the same type of close as Turner and also eyeliner around his eyes, he has sand-colored hair and blue eyes.

"Maybe your first meeting wasn't the best", Tabitha says. How does she know that I've met her friends before this? Maybe she was by the lockers when he almost destroyed my hand.

"Oh it was a good meeting", Turner says and makes a kiss face towards me.

"One more time and I swear to god I'll..." I say but get interrupted.

"What? What will you do?" He mocks. I narrow my eyes. I raise my leg and kick him on the crotch. He whimpers and places his hands over his crotch as he slides down onto the floor. "b***h", he hisses through his pain.

"Why thank you", I say and smirk slyly at him. "I am a b***h, the best b***h in town".

"Serves you right Jesse, you were being an asshole", Tabitha laughs. She turns to me with her hand up in the air. "Give it to me!" I give her the high five and she laughs again.

"You are one badass girl", the other boy says. "I'm Fisher", he takes my hand and kisses it.

"You're also my boyfriend, so stop flirting", Tabitha says and janks Fisher's ear.

Her boyfriend? If he's flirting with me I'm sure he first with other girls as well.

"Keep your paws to your girl and we won't have a problem, okay?" I say to Fisher. If there is one thing I really hate, it's cheaters.

"Thank you for that", Tabitha says.

"No problem". I think I'm going to get along with Tabitha, to be honest, she seems like my type of girl, and I think that we can agree on a lot of things. 

"Why are you two being nice to her?" Mellark asks from the floor. "She might have just made me steril over here".

"You almost chopped off my fingers earlier", I say defensively. "You might wanna think twice before trying that again".

The teacher walks in, and I suddenly become nervous. Will he punish me now?

"Okay class, take a seat", he says. He sees Turner on the floor but doesn't say anything about it. He just smirks. "Mr. Turner gets up and takes a seat or sees me in detention for the rest of the month".

I keep myself from starting to laugh. I think I'm gonna like this school. From what I gather Turner is not very well-liked by the teachers. I mean how else could I be able to not get punished for punching him?

"The new girl kicked my crotch", he says from the floor.

"And I can see you survived it so take a seat please", our teacher says. 

I laugh and sit down at a table. Tabitha sits down beside me, she's laughing as well. Fisher helps turner up from the floor, he winks at me and I roll my eyes. Maybe he's flirting with me to irritate Tabitha, and from the looks of it it's working, because she does look pissed off. Not at me but at Fisher. Maybe they're this sort of couple that always messes with each other.