[sakari09]

“You!” I screamed making him squint it’s gold eyes and hiss.
I got up and ran down the stairs into the kitchen where Gran was, almost waiting, for me.
She looked up, “Oh…I see you’ve found my failed experiment.”
I gave her a horrified glare, “What did you try to do to him?”
“I tried to warm his heart a little more, nothing more beyond that. After all, vampires do have such cold hearts.” She was smiling now.
“Change him back! I can’t stand him like this! We have school in a half hour and I need someone to drive that thing out there.”
She cleared her throat and continued, “No can do sweetheart. I’m afraid that spell is like all of the other shifting ones. You have to kiss him to turn him back.”
I was now beyond horrified and going on deranged, “What!! He’s a cat! I’m not doing that with a cat!”
She shrugged, “Your loss. He was such a nice boy.”
I screamed and Will hissed again as I began to make my assent up the stairs. What was I supposed to do now? I’m not that close to Will, not in that way. I couldn’t get someone else to do it because I have no social life or “friends” that would be willing to lock lips with a furry black cat…even if he was a really cute black kitty.
I sighed and tossed him on my bed. He didn’t hiss this time but seemed rather glad to get out of my arms.
Gee thanks Will. I thought to myself as I pulled up my online book of charms. Everything was succumbing to technology these days.
Everything that I pulled up said exactly what Gran told me: the spell will break from a kiss with a lover. I hated it when she was right. My life was doomed from the beginning when the government dropped me off here. I began to wish that my parents hadn’t died, and then I wouldn’t have to suffer through this unearthly hell.
Will meowed softly and I chuckled. Maybe leaving him like that for a while would do him some good. I wonder if Gran succeeded in giving him a beating heart again, but I wasn’t about to check. Instead I walked over to him and put my hands on my hips.
“I think that you should stay like that for a while. It serves you right for getting me involved in your little shindig in Lavaria.”
He pouted at me and whined. It was cute and almost fazed me, almost.
Ignoring his continuous whining from my bed, I got my outfit and went to the bathroom. When I came back out, he had drug my sheets across the room in an attempt for me to reconsider. I laughed and grabbed my backpack.
It was weird that Will had disappeared when he’s accomplished his task. I thought he’d crawled underneath the bed so I sighed and left for school, with a generous ride from Gran. The day was already looking up…so far.
…

Surprisingly it was really tiresome not having Will following in my shadow. He seemed to think that I needed to be guarded in Lavaria and in regular U.S. public. Which is exactly what he did every school day that we happened to attend, which was a pretty good attendance because Gran didn’t want the government on her front porch step.
My only other friend in this cruel world was Kira and she had more sick days than Michael Jackson, not that I know how many sick days he has. I should make him settle down for once…which wasn’t a bad idea but I’ll save it for later.
Anyway, back to Kira; like I said she didn’t exactly play on the Varsity Basketball Team. She was sickly since she was born so I felt sorry for her and made friends with her. Let me just say that she has a nose for supernatural abilities such as my own. She sniffed it right out of me--literally.
And now she was coming toward me down the hall at an incredible speed, “Kari! Thank heaven!”
I sighed and opened my arms to give her a hug. She seemed to think that she would die soon and wanted to live life to its fullest while it lasted.
“Yeah…I know. You’re going to die in less than 24 hours, you can feel it. Am I right?” I looked down at her complete black outfit; she only wore it out on funeral occasions.
She glanced up at me, “On the contrary, your dear Will is missing and I’m worried. I had a vision that a terrible fate would befall him today.”
I laughed silently in my head. If only she knew…
“He’s out sick. Is that not so normal?” I asked her quietly trying not to draw a lot of attention to us.
Kira shook her head, “No…he’s not sick.” She lowered her voice, “He’s a vampire remember? I told you last week that I found out why he never eats the school’s food.”
I shook my head, “No…I don’t think anyone wants to eat that stuff darling. Have you smelled it?”
“No. I’m allergic to some of its ingredients.” She replied morosely.
I sighed, “So why would someone like Will want to eat that stuff? It’s not just because he’s a vampire…I didn’t even admit to him being a vampire.”
She groaned and shook her head, “I guess your right…”
I was beginning to think that Kira had some weird past that I hadn’t found out about yet until my bag started meowing. Yeah, meowing. I guess I finally found out where Will had gone after I left. Little bastard.
I pulled Kira into the girl’s bathroom with me and checked all the stalls before locking the door with a little magick. Easy stuff.
I bent down to open my bag and guess who jumped right out of it? Yep, Will, who was still in kitty form. He looked up at me and meowed loudly.
“What are you doing here!” I asked in a low growl, “I thought I told you to lay low until we got that fixed?”
Kira looked at me to Will the cat and gasped, “You don’t mean…Oh my God! That’s what happened to Will isn’t it? He got turned into a cat!”
I gave her another bewildered look, “No, this is my neighbors cat.”
She shook her head vigorously, “No. It’s Will. I can sense his aura around that body.
I decided to give up trying to hide the truth from her, so instead I asked, “What exactly are you?”
Kira looked uncomfortable for a minute before replying, “Um…I don’t really know. My parents don’t understand why I’m different from them.” Her gaze fell upon Will again, “I just can see the truth behind people.”
“So you’re technically a psychic right? Isn’t that what they do?” I asked bending down to pick up the stuff that Will knocked out of my bag, “Or are you a human lie detector?”
She shrugged, “I don’t know. No one’s ever been able to tell me before I started high school.”
Suddenly Will was engulfed in a dark cloud of smoke that filled the whole bathroom. I tried to go over to where Kira was but I hit something else…someone; that someone I supposed was Will. When the smoke cleared, I was right, it was him tall, dark and…well…naked.
I saw Kira’s horrified face before I could react with my own scream. She drew in a breath and squeaked, “Kari…I think he needs to make himself descent. My parents don’t appreciate any guy who runs in the nude you know. It’s not healthy for a sickly teenager like me to see this!”
I looked directly at Will’s face that seemed just as bewildered as Kira’s, “I’m going to get you some clothes from the lockers ok? You just hide in a stall somewhere.” I backed away from him, trying hard to keep my gaze above his waistline and grabbed Kira’s hand, “Let’s go. Now.”
We flew out of that bathroom like two bats out of Hell and made our way to the locker rooms on the other side of the school. I looked back at the door and mentally locked it and summoned a out of order sign that would remained taped to the door until we got back.
The real problem was teachers; it’s not that they don’t care, but sometimes they really don’t know how to keep their big noses out of other people’s business. Take my English teacher, Mrs. Zales, for example. As for being one of the most hated teachers in our school, she’s the most notorious for snooping around during her planning period, which is the first class of the day. I mean honestly, who wants to have your break in the beginning of the day?
One reason for my mentioning my sweet, loving facility member is that she appeared around the corner as I was dragging Kira down the hall. We were caught 20 ft. from the stupid locker rooms; so close yet so far away.
She gave us a good cold stare from behind her glasses before she began her bitch fit, “Well ladies, I’m sure that you have an avid excuse as to where you’re supposed to be but let me remind you again of our tardy policy.”
The woman’s on crack…I know it. She secretly stashes it in the cuff of her stupid suit sleeve. That white stuff is not chalk. I thought to myself, totally ignoring Mrs. Zales’ speech.
“…And as for you Ms. Aryans, I didn’t expect you to misbehave like this! Do you now what your parents will think when I call them at their place of employment?” She turned her attention to Kira.
Tears swelled up in Kira’s eyes and she stuttered, “We were just on our way to the lockers for gym Mrs. Zales I promise.”
“No…I don’t believe that’s the truth girls.” She kept hounding the shit out of the both of us.
I sensed Mr. Lee, the school’s principal come up behind us and that’s when I got my bright idea. I could finally work my magic and get them out of our way.
I felt the air grow warm around me, the way it usually does when I’m working the love on two people, and I touched both of them on the shoulder. (They can’t see me when I’m working my magick.)
After doing this, they took one look at each other and instructed us to move along. I suspected that they would be moving along themselves back in the office, if you know what I mean.