Original Stories Fan Fiction ❯ Something Different Than Befor ❯ Arrival ( Chapter 1 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]
Authors Rant: Ok again, new to this so cut me some slack. Well lets get started with the story, remember I’m making this up as I go.



Arrival ~



The young woman sat in her seat on a lonely train. She had a large military style bag sat in the seat beside her. As she watched the landscape flash by Blair looked at her reflection in the glass for a moment. Her green eyes had bags from lack of sleep under them, and her right eye sported a nasty shiner. Her shoulder length red hair framed her face. After a moment she unfocused and started looking out the window again. The trees had given way to houses and other buildings by now. Suddenly the intercom came on and announced,



"Creole next stop, Creole next stop."



Blair yawned and made sure she had all her things as the train pulled into a huge station and slowed to a halt. She stood and made her way to the nearest door and got off the train. Shouldering her bag Blair rubbed her hands together and pulled her denim jacket closed. She looked around for a moment and saw that no one else was there. She turned to the nearest stair case and started up from the platform out to the road.



A cold wind blew, causing her hair to be blown around wildly. Blair looked around for a street sign as she pulled an envelope from her back pocket. As she followed the directions she thought back to two months before. . .



~Flash Back



The red head sat in her hospital bed looking out the window when the nurse came in and spoke to her,



"Morning Blair, glad to see you awake. How do you feel?"



Blair turned to the nurse a fake smile plastered on her face,



"I feel fine. Thank you for asking."



The nurse checked out a few things on a clip board then left. Before the door was able to close she came back in and said,



"Oh! I almost forgot! You got a letter."



She handed it to Blair before leaving again. When she was gone for sure this time Blair opened the letter, it read,



Mrs. Blair Rain,
We am proud to welcome you to
Jhori Orchards. We are an all girls
school that specializes in the fine arts
and all other aspects of schooling.
Enclosed are directions and a ticket
to get to Creole, and from there to
the school. We await your arrival.

Sincerely,
Headmistresses Tara and Willow Hawkmoon




Blair had looked through the information and thought for a long while. What was going on?



A month later she was well enough to leave the hospital. Her foster father came to pick her up and take her home. For almost a month Blair kept her letter a secrete and did her best not to make the man angry again. The last time she had, it landed her in the hospital for a month and a half. Finally she got enough courage to tell the man she would be leavening for an all girls school. Big mistake, she should have kept her mouth shut about it.



"Bret. . . I - I got a letter saying i am to go to an all girls school. . ."



Blair was cut of just then as the big man she was talking to spun around and yelled,



"No way in HELL are you going to an all girls school! No child in my house will be a lesbian!"



Blair stumbled backward. She should have known better than to bring it up,



"But Bret! Its a good school an. . ."



To late, Brets' big hand came out of nowhere and smashed into the side of her head. Blair tumbled to the ground with a crash. She was quick to scramble to her feet but again too late. Brets booted foot smashed into her ribs. Blair knew better than to scream as she scrambled to her feet and tried to run again. Bret ran into a table and stopped his chase, lucky for her, he was drunk and started to yell at the table.



Quickly Blair packed the few things she had into her old military duffle bag that she had had for as long as she could remember. She took a pillow case and dumped all the money she had ever saved up and put that in the bottom of her bag. She then snuck out of the house and ran all the way to the train station. and so she boarded the train and started for the school she hoped would save her life.



~ End Flashback



Blair had been on auto-pilot, she was jerked from her thoughts when she ran head long into someone or something. She stepped back after running into whatever she had run into and started to say sorry when a meaty hand covered her mouth and grabbed her pulling her into a near by alley.



'You have got to be kidding me! my luck cant be this bad can it?!'



Blair thought to herself as she was pulled into the darkness. She wracked her brain for a way to get away when she caught the flash of metal out of the corner of her eye. The man pushed her against the brick wall and held her a few inches off the ground. He smelt dirty and of alcohol when he spoke,



"Well looky what i finded me. A pretty lil girl out on da streets at night. Well I just gots to teach the pretty a lessen din don’t I?"



Blair’s eyes got wide with fear when she felt the cold metal of the blade press against her hand that was trying to pull the mans hand away from her mouth. Pain was nothing new to her but she still wanted to avoid it. The cold steel bit into the back of her hand causing Blair to wince in pain. The mans free hand was pulling at her jacket trying to get it open, but due to his drunken state he wasn’t getting very far.



Blair twisted violently and kicked the man with all her strength, right between the legs. The man gave a grunt as he let go of her and sank to the ground. Blair didn’t have a second thought as she ran from the alley grabbing her bag where she dropped it, then running as far and fast as she could until she came face to face with a large old looking iron gate. She got the chills looking at it but saw that the sign above the gate read



"Jhori Orchards"

Blair looked around for a moment before slipping between the gates and walking down the driveway. There were trees lining both sides of the private drive way and when she looked harder she could see that there was what looked like a forest several yards past the trees. Between looked like it was a nice grassy lawn. As she followed the path at first she didn’t see any buildings, but as she went farther then up and over a small hill she saw a huge complex before her.



There looked to be three buildings. One was in the middle and it was the largest. Then to both the left and the right there were two smaller buildings. She could also make out a light that looked like it was coming from the woods near the building on the left. Most other lights were out in the other buildings, but then she noticed a light in the middle building on the first floor. Blair jogged toward it and found that the largest building turned out to be the school building itself.



It was several stories high and made of a light grey brick. There was a directional sign that pointed to each direction





Main school Building
Thorns Dorm, Right
Roses Dorm, Left
Track and Field, Back
Pool, Back
Headmistresses Cabin, behind Thorns dorm.



Blair was about to head toward the Cabin when an odd shadow inside the School hallway caught her eye. She tested the door to see if it was unlocked, it was, she opened the door and called



Hello? Is anyone there?"

From a room not far down the hall, where the light was coming from an answer was called,

“Come on in.”


lair cautiously entered the school and went to the door. she was greeted by a tall skinny woman with long brown hair and square black rimmed glasses. Blair asked,



Ah who are you?"



he woman smiled and said,



I'm Headmistress Hawkmoon, or Tara. And who might you be?"



lair stood strait,



Blair Rain, Ma'am"



he woman smiled and took a folder off a desk and said,



Well I owe Willow twenty dollars, anyway lets go then."



lair is lead out of the building then across the lawn toward the Thorns Dorm. The head mistresses explained.



“ I was not expecting you for another few days, but when you get here you get here. You will be staying in the Thorns Dorm for your stay here. The dorm head is Jessica Rosenberg. She should still be up to get you a room."



They entered a red brick building with a large wooden porch. Inside there was a soft light as they went down a hall. there was another sign that said what was were, but Tara lead the way to the office were she rapped lightly on a window. Inside the office a young woman, eighteen maybe nineteen, with short brown hair could be seen doing paper work. Tara said,



“Evening Jess, we have our new student."



the young woman said,



“She’s early but that’s cool. I can take if from here Ma'am, do you want her in your office tomorrow morning?"



Tara answered,



“Eight o'clock should be fine. Have a good night you two, Jessica please get some rest tonight.”



“Yes ma'am."



Then the head mistress was gone Jessica turned to Blair and said.



“Lets get you set up shall we?"



Blair nodded and reached up to move her hair from her face to get a better look at the person talking to her. Jessica gave a wince when she saw Blair’s black eye and cut hand.



“First lets get your hand cleaned then we can get you settled in."



Blair looked at her hand, forgetting she had been cut. She followed Jessica’s direction to enter the office were her hand was cleaned and bandaged



“Nice shiner, were you get it?"



Jessica asked as she put away the first aid kit. Blair answered in a monotone voice.



“I ran into a door frame."



Jessica looked at her not believing the other girl but she didn’t call her on it. Instead she asked,



“Okay, so do you want a double or a single room?"



“Single."



“Aw well that’s too bad, there are a few girls that wouldn’t mind have’n a cutie like you as a roomy."



Jessica moved to a board on the wall that had keys hanging on pegs. She grabbed a key and said,



“Well I guess it would have helped if I had know we don’t have any singles available right now, but there are plenty empty doubles, so that should work yeah?"



“Yeah. .”




End Chapter One, Arrival



Tada! I went through and now that I have a spell check it should be in better shape. I plan on going through all the chapters and fixing what I can. Hope you lot like it even though no one reviews.