“Not the new girl either,” their leader said. “I’m going to take care of her all by myself.” The group laughed.
Then a flurry of girls, giggling and chatting, came up to them. “Word is that you`re skipping class today,” one purred. She leaned forward, showcasing her rather low neckline. “Nobody even thought of inviting us,” another pouted. Her neckline was up at the usual height, but her shorts were much shorter than her pockets. They leaned in close. Another twined her hands through her boyfriend`s hair.
“The girls have been demanding that something be done,” the dragon tattooed boy said, staring hungrily at the people in question.
“It`s no fair that the new girl gets all the attention, and no one even remembers to say hello to me,” the v-neck girl said. “It`s so lonely now,” another said with wispy longing. “If only someone could comfort us,” she whispered in the ear of the boy whose hair she was petting.
“I just want to see if anyone will be our hero and vanquish the bad girl,” short shorts said to Warren, looking up at him through her fluttering lashes. The other girls gasped at her bravery in attempting to flirt with such a violent guy, but he smiled, petting her head. “Yeah, I guess I could do that,” he said, grinning. “You want me to make her fall hard, then dump her, right?,” he asked.
The girl hanging off his arm giggled. “You`re just so smart,” she cooed. “You understood the best way to do things so quickly. I like a guy with muscles and brains,” she smiled. He rolled his eyes when she wasn’t looking, but when she turned around again he grinned back at her, flexing his arm muscles to show them off to her. She touched them, gasping at their great girth.
“Yeah, I`ll do it,” Warren said. “I was planning to anyways, but I can’t say no to a girl like you,” he teased. The other boys whistled as he started walking away.
“That was absolutely disgusting,” Jackie murmured. When she had seen Marina going in for a fight earlier, she had followed discreetly behind, intent on protecting the girl should any problems arisen. She had hidden herself behind one of the trees at the end of the park across the street where she had a good view of where they were talking. The threatening and posturing had been difficult to sit through, but she knew they were not any worse than the usual minor injuries the girl lived through every day with. Just when she had decided that things weren`t going to get too violent, the wonder boys (she had always thought that it was a wonder they had grown to be boys, they were so stupid,) had come up.
And then those girls! “That made my teeth rot, it was so disgusting. Purring and pawing those boys. And then those guys were flexing and preening,” she shook her head at the state of youths and forgot that in a way she was just as young as they were.
Jackie spent the next day following Alyss around, trying to keep an eye out for any problems from Warren. The two were never seen with each other the whole day, but she still grimaced in worry. Her thoughts were distracted though as she came upon the same delinquents from yesterday flirting and showing off to their girls. “It`s like a freaking menagerie, this place is so full of freaking peacocks. If I never see another human mating ritual again it will still have been too many times,” she snarled.They both turned their heads to look at the
Though not a single soul could be seen, a male voice responded to her. “They can`t help being stupid,” he sighed. “They`re just so young and fresh. You used to be rather stupid when you were that age, too, before you got so grumpy,” he chastised. A bell rang out clearly across the yard. “Looks like you skipped the whole last half of the day, because that sounds like the last bell,” he continued, amused.
They both looked towards the cluster of people. It was hard to hear very much but some words drifted over to them. “That guy is going to mess the transfer up.” She cursed, striding off towards the center of the grounds. After what she had heard, she was determined to look after Alyss like a hawk. She saw the girl then, and she raised her hand to call out of greeting to her, when it was yanked down from the side.
She turned to see who had done such a thing, a scathing remark on the tip of her tongue, when she saw that Aeron was the one holding her hand. She still protested when he started to drag her away, back to the end of the school yard and the copse of trees she had just left. She hotly complained about his rough man handling, shaking off his restraints. He grabbed her hand again, continuing to drag her away despite her vehement protests. They quickly lost their strength when she noticed the fire crackling around his clenched fists. “Who do you work for, Jackie?” punctuating the question by punching through the wall right above her shaking shoulders with his still flaming fists. “I work for you,” her voice was shaking. She pulled her self up to stand tall and continued, “I already did your job. I found her, and she came here. You know no one else was able to manage that much, including you,” she ended on a pout.
He raised an eyebrow at him. “You found her?”
She shrugged. “Yeah. One of your people, I think it was that Rowena,” she shuddered, “Found a trace of the Wizard’s activity in Florida and she chased their guy
