"Touch my heart, Steal my soul, Under the influence of pain, Bleeding on the sidewalk, Skipping through a graveyard, Grim blade, Cracking skulls, Broken bodies."The middle school teacher recited to the children in the class. "What do these things make you think of?" "Death, fright, helplessness." One girl dared blurt out. "Katie, silence till I call on you!" The teacher snapped at the girl. The girl called Katie was wearing a white spaghetti strap top with a black pair of jeans. Her hair was long and colored soft brown. On her feet she had a worn-out pair of red sneakers and on her back she wore something different and strange. Wings. They were long, white and angelic, matching her delicate face. But she was not like her fellow students in yet another way, she dared to disobey. She was little for believing in God and wished that she could just fly away from his churches. But her wings were tied to her back during the day and at night she was locked in an old dark house. The bell rang for recess and she stood before the rest of the students and brushed some hair out of her face. "Katie, would you like to spend recess with me?" A voice that Katie didn't recognize asked kindly. Katie turned around to see the new boy who had joined their school that morning. "Um, no, I can't. I have to get away from all of you." Katie told him hurriedly and rushed out the door. "Katie, please! Give me a chance, I'm not like the others!" The boy yelled and began to run after her. The boy rushed ahead of all the children who were chasing Katie and yelled something in another language at them. They were knocked back by an invisible force and Katie turned around to see why there were no hostile feet making noise on the concrete playground. The boy walked over to her. "I'm Antonio, nice to meet you Katie!" He said cheerfully. "Wow, that was amazing magic!" Katie stammered. "Thank You!" Antonio replied and dusted off his khaki shorts and white polo. "Why do they chase and torture you?" He then asked to change the subject. "I'm not sure, beacuase I'm different I guess. They'll hate you too now. I guess that makes us partners." Katie said as she began to walk. Antonio ran his dark hand over short black hair "I guess so". plz comment!!!
"So...Katie...do you wanna hang out some time? Since we're partners now and all?" Antonio asked after school. "Um...I kinda can't. Right after school thet hide me away in the unused wing of the church. They're afraid I'll cause an uproar if anyone sees me." Katie explained sadly to her new (and only) friend. "Oh, sorry. If there's anything you need, just whistle as loud as you can." Antonio told Katie as he walked out the door of the classroom. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "She will find out sooner or later why you can use magic." A voice called out into Antonio's mind as he walked into a tiny white house on the poorer side of the city. "I can conceal it!" Antonio cried out. "It's safe now... you may change now..." The same voice called. Antonio was engulfed in dark wisps of fog and mist until all that was left was a cocoon. It was dark purples and blackish-grays and shook with the force of an earthquake. It suddenly burst open to reaveal a creature covered in feathers of gray with sharp talons extending from where Antonio's fingers and toes should have been. The creature's face was pale with focused violet eyes that quivered as it watched to make sure no one had watched the startling transormation. It's grayed and dulled lips formed letters that never came out. "Ka-Ka-K-Katie-" The creature stumbled to say. "W-Will have K-Katie!"
"Antonio! Wait...who..who..who are you!? Agh, you monster!" Katie bolted up and off the church wing's floor, "God, another bad dream..." she told herself as she began dressing. She slipped on black jeans and a red camisole, put on black and red striped elbow-length cut-off gloves and stuck silver heart dangles into her pale earlobes. As she tied the laces of her red and white converse shoes, Mother Marie walked into the room. "Child, have you prayed this morning? God sees through your lies as he sees your soft brown eyes!" she told Katie. "Mother Marie, my door has been locked. How could I have gotten to the altar to pray?" Katie informed the woman as she walked by her and into the church's room of prayer. "Dear and holy god, I thank thee for my meals I thank thee for my sheilds I thank thee for my life I thank Jesus christ amen."Katie recited the same words that she had said every morning of her life an she kneeled in front of the altar in the church's prayer room. She looked up at the giant stained glass window behind the altar, studying it as usual. But wait, someting was different...there was something clinging to the top of the window, close to the ceiling...something with gray feathes, like an oversized bird. But it had a face, and dull gray lips. It's eyes were violet and focused...On Katie! sorry it's short ._.
