The new girl rumors, there are always rumors about the new girl, this I know because in my time, I had spread some of them but this was on another whole new scale. ATI way of doing things were more extreme, way more extreme and sadly just the kind of extreme that would make me get hurt.
The new rumors were fueled by the teachers refusal to give out my name and instead of the students thinking that I am some one important, they starting thinking that I was maybe a disgrace to the realm. Disgraces were halflings or changlings or those whose parents literally shamed their race and were unable to get away with it. When you manage to get away with it, you are regarded by another name, praises are sung about you and everybody forgets the wrong deed that you did. As in the case of my mother.
“So I am laying my bets on the fact that your parents, both of them are powerful. That will explain the reason why your power levels are very high.” Finn started, ignoring the fact that I did not want to talk about the rumors but then again, he was not really referring to the rumors, he was just trying to know who were my parents, another thing which the whole school was curious about.
“What’s the big deal about the power levels anyway, if I had fallen in the center, I am sure this much attention would not be on me so I am wondering what the whole thing mean.” I exploded facing Finn who shrank from my anger.
“Wait, what do you mean that you don’t know?” he asked confused. “Everybody knows, it is almost illegal for a child not to know about the basic thing in this world.”
“Well then, call me illegal because I don’t know and I need someone to explain to me.” I ran my hands through my hair in agitation. This whole thing was getting at me. Being pointed and whispered about was one thing, being mocked openly and asked weird questions which half of it I barely understand and the ones I do understand are laced with insults was taking its toll on me.
“Hmm, how do I go about explaining the reason why you seem like a big deal?” Finn mused out loud.
“Start from the beginning.” I tell him, sitting into a chair at Finn’s table in the study. “Anywhere else and I will be just as confused as the moment before you started.”
“Power levels are like how powerful a person can be that is being summed up. From heritage to type of skills to the reasoning and everything but it doesn’t just refer to you presently but also how you will be in the future although most times, your power level can be predicted and when it is predicted, a tour guide is assigned to you. I am sure that Cirdan mistook your ignorance and innocence as part of your power levels and that was why he assigned Trixie to you but you are completely opposite from Trixie.
“Power levels are divided into four class, low which Trixie falls into which is 1-10. Medium which is 11-20, high which is 21-29 and the Elites which is 30-35. Low are guarantee not to have much prospect for the future, nobody really wants them and then we have Medium which is very regular, almost every other average person and then we have High which I fall under which we are taken seriously and most times, very few of us get to cross into Elites and then we have Elites, that is where there is a twister. Elites are just as the name suggested. In this school, with over a thousand students from the five majority race and other minor race, there are less than ten Elites students and most of them falls on the 30 step marker. We have only three 31 which are the soul sisters, you really don’t want to get on their nerves and I would bet a lot of money that they are the cause of your rumor and then we have only one person who is in the 33 step. And that person is Cirdan. You just came and moved to the second highest ranking person in the school. Everybody is curious and for the teachers not to disclose your information, they think that you are hiding something. And teenagers are fond of filling in the blanks all by themselves.”
Finn ended but my mind was still stuck on the fact that Cirdan was the highest and I was second. No wonder I was such a huge deal even when I was trying not to be.
“Iris.” Finn shakes me as I shook my head.
“Still they shouldn’t make rumors that her hurtful, who do they think that they are?” I voiced, holding tight to the part Finn had mentioned about the Soul sisters being involved in the rumor generating.
Finn looked uneasy as he stared around and shook his head at me then his voice lower. “You should pick your fights well, it is better you face the whole school about the rumors than you face the soul sisters, they are powerful and they can do a lot of things to you which will not be nice. It would be best to ignore all they do.”
“But you said they might be involved.”
“Yes but they are way more knowledgeable about their power than you right now. You don’t want to continue on this road. In fact I suggest that we drop this topic and don’t bring it up gain. There is already a huge possibility that this conversation might get to them but to avoid making that possibility bigger, I suggest that we stay away from the topic in total.” Finn stated.
“I am interested in this, can’t it be reported to the principal, clearly I am not fearful of them.” I tell Finn only for his color to pale more.
“I am not having that conversation with you.” He stated and when I opened my mouth to complain, he talked over me. “Truthfully speaking, which teacher or student do you think you might have a crush on?”
Cirdan was the first person my mind flashed to but then again, I was not going to let anybody thinking that my mind was flashing towards him. “Really?” I asked about the subject change.
“Most girls tend to choose Cirdan and stick to him for more than six months before they realized that they will never have a chance. Are you one of them?” He asked.
I still wanted to talk about the rumors but with the subject change were closer to the truth, I deviated to the topic. Nobody needs to know anything. With a sigh, I proceed to lie my head off about my attraction to Cirdan, I mean who was Cirdan?
It wasn’t until later when I was cornered by The soul sisters that I realized that I had a lot of reasons to be afraid and with the look in their eyes. They were going to show me most of those reasons.
I knew when I was in danger. That is an ability most species in Faery had and my stay on earth did not affect that ability and currently, that ability was ringing alarm bells so hard in my head.“Hello, how can I help you?” I asked.“You have a lot of nerve.” The one in center gritted out. Another cliché earth characteristic which Faery teenagers also had. The queen bees of the school, moved in a pack and if they were three, the overall leader was always in center. I have watched the one that spoke throw herself at Cirdan over and over again and although something in me bristled at it, I ignored the feeling most of the time.Until they decided to get into my face.“Yeah I do. But with what?” I asked, shrugging a shoulder delicately, my fingers already itching to slam her head into the wall beside me for talking to Cirdan
CirdanMy mate is sure a funny one, or so I thought until it was clear that she does not understand what was happening to us.And I am the one who has to bear it because I could not find myself being closer to her without being with her. And then she just had to go and gotten lost and I snapped at her.I couldn’t tell her that I was worried about her and I had a legitimate reason to be worried.Not like ‘hey, you are my mate and I don’t want anybody other than me to ravish your body and you came close to that today’ could be considered as a legitimate reason.She was also the reason why I was taking my dinner with the rest students even though I have to endure their fawns and fake friendships.The highest time I was willing to give her for her to catch up and enjoy her last days of singlehood was a month.
IRISI understood what it meant to be under Cirdan protection. People apologized and wanted to be certain that there were no hard feelings between me and them, people I was not even aware of. And then the room switch in which I was taken to an exclusive dormitory which a lot of people did not have access to, by Cirdan commanded. It was enough to make me wonder about him, what was special about this guy, it was clearly more than just his looks and the Principal was willing to eat out of his palms if Cirdan wanted that. He was acting the same way he acted towards me.“Finn,” I called during lunch one day, I was watching Cirdan as he ate and sketched something, he was an artistic Folk, one of the few which could bring their drawings to life, I had learned of that little nugget about him when he gifted me with a page out of his sketch book in public. I had wondered what he was doing at that time but he was really just showing p
CirdanI watched Iris and the lower classmate whom the soul sisters sent to intercept Iris, I really needed to do something about those three brats, it was no longer amusing watching their efforts in the way they were trying undermine my orders and protection right in my presence, they were trying my boundaries. I knew that was why they sent the girl after Iris while she was within my full view. They wanted to see if I will be quiet about it all and I was not.I slammed my hand on the table as I glared at the girl while my mind came up with different ways to kill the soul sisters.Iris smiled at me before going back to her table, I was totally eavesdropping on her conversation with Finn, I needed to issue a warning especially for Finn. He should not put ideas in her head. She was still fighting the attraction and I could sense her growing discomfort, we would have to end this no touching rule sooner rather th
IRISOne minute, I was thinking of how I could manage and escape Cirdan, he was glaring at me and the door, I was thinking my chances of escaping was minimal, the next minute, a female who I had not seen since I was two was gliding into the room, announcing to everybody what I tried so hard to keep hidden.Come to mother, she said, I wanted to scoff and roll my eyes but I couldn’t because my father trained me with more decorum than that. I knew better than to air my family dirty laundry outside.Come to mother, she said, she was waiting patiently with her arms extended. I couldn’t very well not go to her, I had to pretend that I was at least a little happens to see her in front of others. I didn’t know what she was looking for here but she needed to leave before more damage than she had already caused.“Hello mother.” I said in a low tone as I packed my
“You are the wrong person to talk in the conversation between me and my daughter.” My mother yelled at my father. “Just as unfit for this as your outfit is.”Of course she only started singing to this tone when my father listened to everything and then faced her with anger and started to ‘take sides’ with me. According to her although he really did not side me.I was still wrong about my actions in his eyes but my mother was level of wrongness was in another realm entirely“I had to use this outfit because one of us was unconcerned with the reactions and the eyes that would face our child if people knew her identity, with you being present and recognized you just made your enemies, hers. That is not what any loving mother would do then again, you never did have that emotion, it was replaced with being manipulating and scheming.” My father returned
IrisThe lights were on too blight and my body felt like it had been used as a piñata in the game played by Mexican children on earth. My tongue felt dry as it stuck to the top of my mouth and the noise was alarmingly headbanging.My head was seriously banging and people were quarreling. If I had strength, I would have performed a nasty spell on them just to get them back, they should know better than to argue in the room of someone weak. And assuming that the energy I am getting was all off, this was not my room and I would guess I was in the healing wing of the school.I remembered falling and I hate that I do, I can just imagine what those who hated the news that my mother was queen would be saying now. That I am acting like a weak princess falling and fainting for no good reason.Although the leaders here have to be the strongest of their race maybe I am wrong. Only a wea
CirdanI watched as her father’s aura whipped out again and the soul sisters, clamped their mouths shut when they realized that they made a mistake.“What did you just call me?” He asked and that was when Iris's mother appeared beside her daughter's father and looked down from her nose at the three girls who huddled together. The adults staring at them were not only angry but also ready to deal with them.“Nothing sir.” Viana stuttered out, more respectful this time but the damage was already done.Three pairs of couples appeared just as Iris's mother had and they started to round upon the people who were facing their children threatening. That was until they saw Iris's mother.“What am I not surprised that it is you?” Iris's father growled at Viana's parents just as his disguise shredded itself, it was not meant t