Ok this one is very, very rough and therefore I would appreciate a lot of crit on this one guys, please!
::Missapprehenion 2:: The Next Day
“Armand!” I shrieked upon entering the school building. The crowded hallways and noise pressing against my being made me feel sick. I couldn’t deal with any of that today, not after the trauma of last night. I was almost afraid that I was going to snap if prompted with anything critical today. Just above the crowd I could spot the dark black hair of my German/French vampire friend. His tall height made it easier on me to spot him even though he was at the other end of the hallway and trying to make a break for it; as if I was going to let him get away.
“Git your ass back here!” my southern accent tinted my already annoyed voice, turning it slightly comical as it always did. Pressing my way through chocolate skin covered bodies and occasionally, though very rarely, pasty white skin with the occasional tan I shoved my way through the hallways, determined to catch him.
I knew that if I just made it to the end of the hallway I might have some hope of catching him since he couldn’t flit (a super-fast version of running that both vampires and lycans are capable of) at school. If either of us did, not that I was able to just yet, then we ran both the risk of being exposed as freaks and possibly being the cause of someone’s poor mental health. I definitely could not afford that at the moment; Armand could, however, he was too polite to be the cause of someone’s insanity.
The sea of bodies that I was trying to pour through without harming anyone was slowly increasing, impeding my efforts to get to the end of the hallway. Looking to my left I found myself close to one of the doors leading into the courtyard, also known as “the Mall” when there used to be vending machines out there, and made a dash for it. Bursting through the door anger and frustration poured into my lungs with each frantic breath as I turned my head to try to spot some piece of Armand; his dark trench coat, a length of hair, anything that would symbolize his location…there! I spotted the tail of his coat heading into the Presentation Room. Since that was a dead end, I could catch him there.
Darting across the Mall I slammed open the door to the building, not very stealthily I may add, and crashed after him. My arm racked up against the unused stacks of lockers as I darted around a corner. Hissing in pain I clutched at my arm through the tightly woven fabric of my white dress shirt and continued on. Somehow I managed to grab the tail-end of his coat and used my weight to slow him up as I kicked his legs out from under him. Normally I knew that nothing I did would have caused him to fall so easily like he did, but I believe I caught him off guard, which was why I was able to catch him at all.
Still holding my stinging arm I managed to pin him to the ground with my legs as I snarled, “Why didn’t you warn me?!”
His smoothly pointed features managed to wrinkle up in confusion as he responded, “Vat are you talking about?”
In anger I slammed his head back against the ground, causing the white and green tile beneath to crack slightly. Every emotion of annoyance I could find deep within me seemed to bubble up inside of me as I growled down at him. “The lunar eclipse…” instinctively my upper lip curled up in a snarl to reveal a slowly extending canine, “don’t tell me you didn’t realize.” Armand’s sparkling eyes widened in shock and I shook my head to pull myself out of the trance that I knew was caused by Krys wanting to stare into them.
I must have caught him off guard because he started to stammer out an apology, “F-forgive me Razi, I-I did not realize zat you vere far enough along for ze moon to affect you zat way.”
Staring down at him I argued with myself about whether or not he seemed sincere. ‘He seems like he really just didn’t know…’
‘Of course he didn’t!’ Krys stepped into my musing, drawing me into the glade where we usually talked. The dense shrubbery with their dark green waxy leaves and tall majestic trees with their soothing ancient bark was enough to calm me slightly. ‘How should Armand,’ her voice lingered on his voice, proving to me once more just how much she was in love with him, ‘know everything about us?’
Annoyed by her answer I snapped defensively, ‘I never said he did! But he is the one that tested me for lycanthropy in the first place to prove to Taylor that we weren’t lying and he knows more about it than we do ourselves! I was hoping for some sort of warning about that damn eclipse!’ The raw feeling of my shifting overcame me once more and I shuddered.
I must have done it outside of my mind as well because Armand’s voice pulled me back to reality. “Razi, are you ok?”
“Huh?” my eyes returned to their normal honey brown from their glassy state as I looked up at him as he gently, almost warily, held my shoulders and watched my expression. He must have gotten out from under me when I was talking to Krys. “Oh…yeah…I’m fine.” Looking away I closed my eyes and rubbed the bridge of my nose. I knew that he would see right through me, he always did.
Once again his voice cut through the void of my thoughts, “You’re shaking…” Closing my eyes tighter I willed the world to go away; I didn’t need this, I didn’t need any of this. All I wanted was to curl up in some corner and become forgotten, and then maybe things would be ok.
“Razi…” he tried to get my attention and decided to use my legal name to further his efforts, “Krystal…are you ok?”
His thick accent would have been comical any other time but now. Letting out a sob I shook my head and tried not to cry from the strain. I knew he wouldn’t mind it if I did decide to cry, but I didn’t want to let myself succumb to the weakness.
“…Vat happened?” he pressed, trying to find out what was the matter with me.
“I-” my voice seemed to fail me for a moment and I just sat there trying to make the world go away. Deadening silence filled my ears as he waited for me to continue, being dead he didn’t need to breath, which only added to the oppressiveness of the lack of noise around us both. When I was finally able to find my voice once more it was hardly a whisper, as if as soon as I said it out loud my nightmare of the night before would become a reality, “I started to shift last night…”
“Oh…zat…” he sighed in relief that small thing was the only thing bothering me. Armand ran his fingers through his hair and gave me a small smile, allowing a brief glimpse at his long fangs, “Zat is quite normally a side-effect of a lunar eclipse.”
Hugging myself I nodded and focused on the floor tiles below me. Tracing the green splotches with my eyes I found the strength to continue, “It hurt…” I whined.
Nodding he stayed with me, keeping me calm. If I exploded from the stress here it would not bode well for anyone at school today. “Ze same thing happens vith vampires during a solar eclipse.” He winced slightly, so quickly that I barely caught it, “It does not get better vith age…”
My eyes widened in shock as I stared. The horrible pain of last night was destined to be worse with the next lunar eclipse? How could that be? Why was life so unfair to my kind, to me? I never wanted any of this, I had never intended on being some sort of furry freak!
Sensing my distress Armand gently lifted me to my feet and started leading me to my locker, “Come on, it is time for class…”
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