Typhoon & Tempest

Chapter Four

The next day at Nova High, Lily was barely awake. She'd spent a majority of the night up reading anything she could find about other paranormal creatures. Aunt Ollie stayed up with her, admitting she couldn't find the spider from this morning and it scared her. They scavenged through everything but it was difficult.

Humans weren't ready to see the supernatural creatures that walked with them, a lot of the supernaturals in the world had destroyed all evidence they could find. It was difficult to learn of their own history, but the history of a creature with no explanation? No truth?

They were searching for a toothpick within a stack of needles. Underwater. With no torches. 

So that Thursday morning for school, Lily felt like she had needles stuck in her eyes. She wasn't feeling very happy, she was fed up. She wanted her eyes to burn again, wanted to know exactly what she was.

The weather reflected her mood; cloudy and dismal.

First lesson was easy, basic mathematics. Lily was already in a numb state so maths passed by with a breeze. She just wrote down the answers without a care, braiding and re-braiding her hair at random points. Lily spent a majority of the lesson trying not to snap at any of her classmates; vampires that fiddled with their sharp canines, werewolves who sniffed out the food in someone's bag, the fairies who healed the pain in their hands from writing so much, and the witches who used their magic to move their lead pencils.

Recess was easy - Lily kept her head down as she went to her locker, swapping her books and notes, grabbing some fruit. As she was changing her books over, she noticed two werewolf girls going to their lockers a few down from her. 

Lily pushed down the feelings from her rogue fight two days ago - werewolves could hear a rapid heartbeat, so she started breathing calmly and merely eavesdropped. 

"It's good to see Croft back though, Tricia," said the tall blonde Lily swore was called something similar to Laura.

"Yeah, I'm honestly not surprised he's here - I'd be worried if Alpha Andrew was roaming the school halls," Tricia replied, flicking her brunette hair off her shoulder. "Croft might be here just to make sure he doesn't fall behind in homework."

"I don't think that's what Andrew's thinking about at the moment." Laura scowled, eyes flashing gold momentarily before she shut her eyes, breathing deep through her nose. When Laura opened them again, they were shining. "Alpha Andrew. He's so young to be Alpha."

Tricia sighed, Lily quietly finished writing a few things in her notes and listened. "Croft's jumped up to help him quickly, he didn't cry when he heard about Alpha Roman."

"He's just trying to be strong." Laura huffed but paused. While Lily wasn't looking their way she felt those shining eyes lock onto her. She checked her heart rate, a little quick, and Lily shut her book, now feeling Tricia's dark stare too. 

It was hard not to rush closing her locker, not to appear guilty, as Lily took her books for her next class and walked away.

As soon as she rounded the corner, Lily breathed a sigh of relief, but her mind was churning. She remembered Andrew's best friend Ryan Croft, it sounded like he was stepping in for his friend while Andrew mourned, until he could be the Alpha of Trawalla.

Next class was History, of the supernatural and the Supernova, how he funds the school. Lily hated history and rain was drizzling down. She still hadn't replaced her waterproof jacket, so she was walking home in the wet.

"Nova High has been around for a decade," Mr Booth was droning on. "The Supernova created the school to educate supernatural students on the human education system, as well as our own."