Radiate Me

“Get your ass out of bed! I need you to clean the house today! Why are you so damn lazy?” A shrieking voice startled me from my sleep.
I looked around, not surprised to find my mom glaring at me from across the room. I looked out the window to find it was still dark outside.
“Marie, I have school today, I can’t stay here and clean! You stay home all day, can’t you do it?” I rolled over, wanting to get some more sleep before I actually had to be up for the day and get to school.
“Why do you always have school on the days I need you? I just wish you’d drop out already, not like it’s going to do you any good. You’re not fit for anything more than cleaning and cooking!”
I rolled my eyes and put the pillow over my head to drown out the rest of her yelling. My mom; always the upper. She didn’t think that school would get anyone anywhere since she had been kicked out of three high schools and eventually dropped out altogether when she was my age. I was determined not to quit, though. I had dreams and goals and aspir—
“Well, the least you can do is clean until you have to get to school! Get up!”
“Fine, fine, I’m getting up. Let me get ready and I’ll be right down. What’s for breakfast this morning?” I yawned as I sat up in my bed.
“I feel like bacon, eggs, biscuits, the whole nine yards. Don’t take forever!” She called as she left my room and headed down the stairs.
Well, this is a hell of a way to start a morning. I suppose I should be used to it though, it’d been like this as long as I can remember. It’s not like anyone was going to stop her, my mom was the ruler of the household. Besides, it was only me she bullied.
I rolled out of bed and went to my closet to find it almost empty.
“Guess I need to do laundry today.” I sighed and grabbed my favorite pair of jeans and a t-shirt to put on. “Maybe I can make up some excuse to get to the school early.” I said aloud. Yes, I occasionally talk to myself, I’m not the only one.
I finished getting ready and threw my bag over my shoulder as I rushed down the stairs. “Marie, totally forgot, I have to get to school early to study for a big test I have today. I’ll call you later, bye!” I rushed out the door making sure she had no time to answer before I was out.
I walked to school, as always, and once I was there I sat in my usual spot just inside the school gate. If my mom were to drive by, she wouldn’t be able to see me, but the school wasn’t open yet so I wouldn’t be able to go in for a while. She would never check my story though, she just didn’t really care that much.
Soon after the sun rose, students started pouring in, getting themselves ready for a new day. Once the teachers unlocked their doors for students I headed in to my first class. Generally when I went in to class I was the first student there, but today there was a boy in there already and he was…sitting in my spot! I sighed and walked over, ready to tell him that he was in my spot and see if I could get my spot back. Just as I opened my mouth to speak, he looked up. His dark eyes pierced through me, making me forget what I was about to say.
“Yes?” He said in a low and quiet voice that sent a chill down my spine. “Did you want something?”
“I…um, no, I’m alright. Are you…who are you?” I stammered, a bit upset that he was in my seat but too distracted by him to say anything of any importance.
“I’m Drue, who are you?” He said, still staring at me without much emotion on his face, making him quite hard to read.
“Well…I’m…why do you care?” I said, slightly flustered.
“Only because you seemed to care to ask who I am. Is there something wrong?”
“No…nothing…I just…class is about to start, I need to sit down.” I said, taking the seat in front of him. Class wasn’t scheduled to start for another ten minutes, but something about this boy seemed to make me nervous.
After class started, it went by quickly. The whole day did, in fact, and without another word from the boy, even though he ended up being in half of my classes. I noticed he sat alone at lunch and kept his head down most of the time.
“Why do you keep staring at him?” My friend, Jane, asked, noticing that I kept taking glances at the new boy.
“I don’t know, I just get this funny feeling from him. I can’t figure him out. He kind of creeps me out, yet he intrigues me.” I said frowning at my lack of words for it. I took my glance from the boy and looked at my friend. “What?” I asked after I saw a smile crawl across her face and a fire dance through her eyes.
“Oh, nothing. Why don’t you go talk to him?” She suggested, still grinning.
“I dunno, it felt awkward when I talked to him this morning.”
“Oh, come one, what’ll it hurt? You know you want to.” She said, her smile growing slightly. “I get a good feeling about it, you totally should.”
“So, I’m getting a weird feeling from him and you’re getting a good feeling from that? You are so strange sometimes.” I rolled my eyes and sighed but I got up anyway. What could it harm?
I made my way over and sat across from Drue without asking if I could. His eyes flicked up from staring at the table and then back down.
“Something wrong now?” He said with what sounded like a bit of a smirk in his voice.
“No, I just wanted to come over and ask why you’re sitting all alone staring at the table.”
“I’m new here, I don’t know anyone yet.”
“And that’s no way to get to know anyone, you look so depressed. No one’s going to want to come over and talk to you if you continue that.”
At that he let out a small laugh. “Oh, really? ‘Cause it seems to me you just did.” He smirked and looked up to see me slightly flustered and frustrated, not sure what to say. “Why do you seem to be fascinated with me? Am I really that interesting? I’m just a new kid, no big deal.”
“I-I-I…Well…I don’t know! I just wanted to come over here so you wouldn’t be all alone, okay? Is there something wrong with that? Does that have to mean I’m fascinated with you? No, it just means I’m a nice person!” I blurted, not wanting to meet his eyes afterwards, slightly embarrassed.
“Hey, I’m just giving you a hard time. It’s almost time to get to class, would you like to walk with me? It seems we’ve got a pretty similar style anyway.” He suggested, bringing my eyes up to see him smiling politely, the first time he hadn’t either been smirking or emotionless. The smile looked radiating on him, perfect in a way.
“Sure, that sounds fine.” I said, not really thinking about Jane. I was sure she wouldn’t mind anyway, probably would understand it in fact.
“So,” He stood and started walking out of the cafeteria while I fell in beside and slightly behind him. “What is your name? You never did answer that this morning.”
“Oh,” I blushed. “Sorry about that. My name’s Star. I was just a little flustered. I’m usually the first one in class and you were sitting in my seat.”
“Oh, I didn’t know.” He nodded, seeming a little embarrassed. “The teacher didn’t say anything so I didn’t realize it. I’ll give it up tomorrow morning if you’d like.”
“No, no, that’s fine. I’m not that anal.” I said, looking at him once more. He had slowed down a bit to match my pace but he was walking a bit distant from me.
“Well, if you’re sure. I really don’t care where I’m sitting, unlike some.” He teased with another smirk back on his face. I felt an energy coming off of him, almost radiating. I wondered why I could feel energy from him but I’d never felt energy coming from anyone else. Maybe this was why I was getting such a weird feeling from him, but what’s causing it?
I was so caught up in my thoughts that I’d just been following his lead to where we were going, not realizing where he was leading us until we walked through double doors.
“Why are we leaving the school?” I said looking behind me to see a couple people standing by the doors looking at us with curious looks on their faces.
“I want to talk to you. No, I need to talk to you. Just follow me and let me explain.” He said, speeding up a bit and heading toward the park next door to the school. He sat on a bench in the shade and motioned for me to sit next to him. I sat and turned to face him, wondering what this was about.
“Alright, listen, I don’t want to come off weird, but I know you’re feeling it. Most people can’t, I don’t know how or why you do but I think it’s best if I explain a few things. Yes, I know you can’t feel that with other people, I’m not exactly like everyone else. Apparently you aren’t either since you can feel it. I’m not going to explain it all to you yet, I’m not sure if I can trust you that well, but I will try to tell what I can right now.” He sighed and looked up to see my reaction to what he had just said.
I was wide eyed, curious and a little freaked out, wondering what the hell he was going on about.

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