Part 1- An "Average" Life

I struggled to stay awake, through Miss Cheerilee's lesson. Not that I did this much, but this week felt longer than usual. Since she was also my last class of the day, it felt like Friday was taking its time. That reminded me, I still had nothing to do. I didn't hang out with many other kids. Guess I just have trouble putting myself out there. Which is odd because so many kids here stood out. Sunset and her friends were an obvious example.

Thankfully the bell rung soon after I began to think about this. I got up from my desk and left the classroom, yet again I saw Cheerilee messing around with Big Mac. The halls were busy of course, but I didn't mind. You learn how to move in and out of the human traffic. Looking around I saw and heard alot of my peers talking to their friends. Next to all of them were discussing plans on what to do, I do hope they have fun. I wasn't mad that no one hanged out with me, everyone just gets along with certain people.

Well, I did hang out with some people. Although, practically all of them were family or friends of my family. I just shook my head, thinking about this would only stress me out.

When I went through the front doors I saw a few more people talking to their friends. I even saw Sunset Shimmer and her group. I was still nervous about her, but I could tell she changed. I'm just glad she ignored me back then, granted it would have ment actual human contact. Anyway, I suppose this is were I stood out for once. Everyone had at least one person to call friend, except for me. I simply sighed and continued on my walk home.

It wasn't a long walk, maybe fifteen minutes at most, and besides I needed the exercise. It was spring, so everything was blooming. I always did like spring, mostly because it rained a fair amount during it. That and the different flowers, wide variety of birds, and everything coming to life. All of that just made me feel warm inside.….I probably sound like a hippie, don't I?

Don't worry, I'm not one of those people..I hope. I continued to look around my neighborhood, when I noticed something..nope someone. She was standing under a aspen tree, and she wore a brown coat with feathers. She had pure white hair and golden eyes. She almost looked elegant with all of this…if that wasn't for the fact she was holding a guy in the air. I couldn't figure out who he was, but I then relised who the girl was. To say I felt fear, is to say the Predator was ugly.

Her name was Gilda and to my shit luck, she noticed I witnessed what was going on. Her eyes were like daggers as she looked straight at me. It was as if she was staring at my soul, this was also when the other guy noticed me. "Run," I barely heard him whisper. Since I shouldn't disappoint him, I bolted off as fast as I could.

From a quick look I got, Gilda dropped the guy and went to chase me. I'm not too sure why she was chasing me, but that didn't matter. For one, she had a massive advantage. She was more fit, didn't Carry a heavy backpack, and seemed to be filled with pure rage. Thankfully, fear is one of the many motivations for a coward. Because I ran faster then I ever had before, my mind was also completely blank.

As she chased me I turned down a road I rarely went on. I figured if I could get her confused about direction then I could slip away. Another up side, was the fact that the roads were complicated in my neighborhood. There were plenty of shortcuts, hideouts, and somewhat hidden areas. Currently we were on a narrow dirt road.

It had plenty of small curves that I needed. I quickly turned near a small old house and hid in a small ditch. I held my breath, as Gilda also turned on to this road. I stopped hearing her footsteps and I went to take a quick look. She stopped in the middle of the street and looked around. It seemed that she lost me. Then I noise came from down the road and she went for it. From my guess it was a racoon or a bunny, that made the noise.

I stayed in the ditch for a minute or two, trying to calm myself. Thankfully the trip home was uneventful. My house looked so welcoming after my ordeal. It was a simple brick house, small garage, small garden in the front yard, peach tree in the front too, a massive back yard, and simple steps to the door.

I unlocked the door with my keys and walked in. My parents were visiting my aunt for the weekend, so I had the house to myself…by myself….while a psychopath is hunting me. I imeditly turned and locked the door. I closed the blinds in the living room, kitchen, and bedrooms. I sat down on the couch in the living room, thankfully the house was clean so I wouldn't have to worry about that.

The only spot that wasn't that clean was the coffie table, but that was fine. I picked up the remote from it and turned on the tv. There wasn't much on, so I put it on the 80s Transformers movie. It just started, it was at the opening scene where you first see Unicron. I always enjoyed the villans in movies, and what's better then a transformer that eats planets?

I looked over at the other small table in the room which had my Warhammer 40k miniatures. I went over to continue the panting. They were a small army of Imperial Guard, I decided to work on. It was going pretty well, until I heard a knock at the door.

"Did she find me?" I worringly asked myself. I heard the knock again, I needed something to defend myself. I looked around and found a old baseball bat my grandfather used to own back in the day. I picked it up and moved quietly towards the door. I checked the small eye hole, I couldn't believe myself. It was vice principle Luna.

I took a deep breath and opened the door. "Vice Principal, how are you?" I asked as I put the bat behind the door. She looked at me calmly and said "I thought we were on a first name bases?"

My mother was friends with Celestia, so me and Luna knew each other. Hell, she was a 40K fan like me so we got along very well. Even if she was Eldar fan. Although I could also tell by her voice and the look she had, that this was something serious. "Look, I understand that something happened recently?" She asked me.

Shit. How did she know about Gilda already? Actually knowing her she probably just used Twitter or something. I gave her a look that told her yes. She shook her head, "Look, on Monday I need you to come to my office, ok?" She said to me. I nodded and she took her leave. I swear this whole day was a mess.

The rest of the weekend was pretty uneventful, but still nice. Come Monday, I did my usual routine. Brush teeth, coffie, biscuits, comb hair, and get dressed. My parents would be home in the evening to pick me up, but I had to walk this morning. Still, it's a good way to wake up. The school wasn't that packed yet so there wasn't much human traffic. Although I did notice something, everyone seemed to take a quick glance at me.

Ok, not a good sign I thought to myself. I went down to Luna's office, the halls down this way had a few broken lights. They never got around to fixing them, so it always gave this sence of dread. Finally I reached the door with Luna's name on it. I gave it a knock and heard "come in" Inside the first thing I saw, was not Luna. It was that pair of golden eyes, Gilda was sitting in a chair next to Luna's desk.

"Well Orion, come take a seat"

To be continued oOoooOOOOoooooOOO

Author's Note

I really appreciate criticism, if you have some. Also I hope you enjoyed the chapter, fair warning there could be long breaks in between them.