Forever Changed - By Jamie Gibson Page 0,17

stare at me as if I am not supposed to be there. They were jealous of my car, but from the everyday rumors, I am supposedly weird and for some reason everyone feared my family.

They were all waiting to know when my father was dead because of course they had heard the history of the fathers who have died at the hands of their wives.

It was funny, but I enjoyed not having to deal with drama, boyfriends, exes and gossip. It really was not my cup of tea so I kept to myself. I liked it that way.

Sometimes I wished I had a friend to talk to or someone to hang out with, but that was wishful thinking on my behalf.

I grabbed my book bag from the backseat and opened my door to get out. I watched, as the kids would avert their eyes when I looked their way and start talking

about me in whispers. I kept a straight face and kept walking toward the school.

I passed a blond girl on the way to the entrance and heard her say to her brown headed friend, “I feel sorry for her, I mean I never see her talking to anyone and her family history. Really?”

The brown headed girl said, “Shhhhh…she will hear you, stupid.”

“What do you think will happen? I will get her family curse?” coming from the blond headed girl. They both giggled and I walked into the building. I despised school because of the rumors and other bull shit that went on.

I headed down the hall and made my way to my locker. I worked the combination and opened the locker, dug my books out of my bag, and was fixing to shut it, when someone ran into me. They knocked my books out of my hands and they went flying as I fell to the floor. The hall became really quiet, no shouting, talking, or slamming of lockers everyone was still watching to see what happens. I looked up to see who had run into me, when my eyes focused on the captain of the football team, Lucas Sheath.

He stood there for a minute eyes wide waiting to see what I would do. I picked myself up off of the floor, squatted down, and began picking up my books and the papers that flew out of them.

He never offered a hand, or did he ever apologize; he just stood there watching me. This annoyed me, the most he could have done was apologized, but of course why would he. He is the most popular boy in school and the captain of the football team.

I stood up and headed down the quiet hall to class. Once I was about ten feet away from Lucas, the tension let up and the noise started back up.

I smiled while walking down the hallway. I smiled, but I was very angry. I imagined what the newspaper headline would read,

“LUCAS SHEATH, THE CAPTAIN OF THE FOOTBALL TEAM, MURDERED BY A LOCKER!!” I giggled.

Chapter 14

Lunch was always different. I did sit with other people or rather they sat with me. I actually sat maybe two seats away. They never looked my way and never attempted to talk to me. I didn’t mind though, I would sometimes listen to their conversations and sometimes I escaped into my own little world.

Today, I was escaping to my own little world. The hallway incident long forgotten, I thought about Landon and let it sink in that he was a demon.

For some reason I was attracted to him and had no idea why. I was thinking that the reason is because other than my mother, father, Julie, and clients of my father’s, I have never had anyone to talk to. I have never had a friend. Just because he was a demon didn’t mean that he couldn’t be my friend. I was excited and I wanted to see and talk to him again.

I was so lost in thought over Landon that I hadn’t noticed that Lucas walked up to my table. He wore a big smile on his baby face, making his crystal blue eyes radiate back at me.

I sat there looking at him with a straight face. “Hey Elizabeth,” he said sweetly.

I could see behind him his group of friends giggling, some holding their breath, others appeared to be nervous, but all of them anxious. The whole cafeteria had become quiet, when they noticed the most popular kid in school was talking to me.

I just looked at him, I