InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Angel in Disguise ❯ School - Gotta love it! ( Chapter 3 )

I had five minutes to spare as I slipped into a parking spot and ran for the life of me into the doors, making a few students dart out of my way and hoot and holler at me. I of course ignored them as I came up to my locker, finally got it to open, grabbed a few books and practically flew into my math class, sliding through the door just as the last bell rang. All the students turned their heads to look into my direction, some snickering as I stood there for a second, trying to catch my breath. My math teacher Mr. Saunder, just chuckled as he eyed me. "You made it I see. Are you able to breathe? Yes? Good, then please take a seat Melena." I blushed and scurried over to my desk, opening my book to the page he called out to us, papers ready, and pencil already set to work on some of the math problems he wrote onto the chalkboard.

When the bell rang, I slumped out of the room, moaning inside my head. Ugh I hate math. And to have it be the first class in the morning was hell. Someone up there in the heavens had to be laughing at me. I sighed as I walked into my next class, and sat down, paid attention to my teacher, did my work, bell rings, out I go to my next class, so on and so on until the lunch bell rang and everyone ran out hollering out to their friends to meet them at a certain table when they grabbed their food. I did not have anyone to holler to me. I grabbed my food, which was actually not bad. It was pizza day. Cool! Then glancing over the huge lunchroom; I sighed, as there wasn't a single table that I could sit at alone, without being pestered and slipped out the lunchrooms glass door to eat on one of the benches in the garden we had there. As I nibbled on my pepperoni slice, I gazed up at the sky, looking at the deep blue of it, with fluffy white clouds racing by. The buzzing of a bee caught my ear as it landed on a daisy patch that was growing next to me, feeling the wind play with my hair as it tickled strands against my face. Nobody came out to talk to me. I wasn't surprised. The bullies didn't even bother to come pester me. The only reason anyone knew I was there was when they saw me in class, or heard the screech of my car as it either pulled in, or left. I was beginning to get sick of it. I wanted to be bothered for once. I wanted to be noticed in more ways than one. I glanced up to notice a teenage couple walk by, sneaking behind a tree to share some kisses, never noticing me sitting there. I wanted to be that couple. I wanted to be with someone who cared about me other than my parents. I glared down at my food, and tossed it into a nearby dumpster, losing my appetite as I stalked deeper into the garden that the agriculture class had grown. I slipped around tall bushes, past many different kinds of flowers and small potted trees that had recently been planted. I soon found myself at the schools garden maze, the opening arching before me. I always found myself ending up here and stepping though, just to be hidden for awhile as I would reach the center of the maze where a single stone bench would be near of little water fountain that bubbled and trickled water from the tip of the rocky stone, and poured out into a tiny waterfall to end in a small pond where small goldfish swam around in lazy circles. It gave me the feel of peace, of nature being there, surrounded by the greenery, by the rock fountain, the trickling music of water. As I reached the center, I sat beside the fountain, gazing down at the water, watching the tiny gold fish dart here and there. I don't know how long I was there, staring into the water, when I head the ending lunch bell ring and the distant sound of my peers' laughter as they entered the school once more. I stayed where I was. Something inside me didn't want me to go back, which was odd. I was one of the best students there, never missing a day, always on time though there were those days like today where I was close to breaking my record. I didn't understand why I stayed rooted to where I sat, still gazing at the fish. As the noise from the school fell quiet when classes began, I started to notice something different about the water. It glittered and swirled in ripples and circles. At first I just thought it was my imagination and the antics of the fish, when I realized that the fish had strangely disappeared. Not as in they were hidden in crooks of the rock fountain beneath the water, but as in there were no fish. When I looked closer in bewilderment; I felt a thread of shock shoot up my spine. For the reflection in the water had changed as well!