zodiac chapter two

Nightmare · 01-19-2009

Chapter two

“Martha, Martha, Martha!”
“Huh? Oh! What?”
"Martha, you were sleeping in class again!” exclaimed the teacher, crossing her arms over her chest.
“Yup.” Martha replied, propping her head up, a bored expression on her face.
“Well!” the teacher exclaimed, “If you’re so smart that you feel that you do not have to pay attention in class, why don’t you tell us after the sun what is the closest star to the earth?
"Proxima Centiuri.” Martha replied instantly. “Now, will you please call me Laury? You know I like it better when people call me that.”
“But it’s not your name, dear.” The teacher replied.
"It’s my middle name.” Laury retorted, glaring at the teacher.
“No Martha, your middle name is Lauren.” The teacher told Laury, turning back the bored as if the conversation were over.
“But Laury is my nickname!” Laury exclaimed.
“Martha!” the teacher shouted obviously at the end of her patience. “I have had enough of this nonsense, and I will see you after school for talking back.”
“Yes maim” Laury replied.
“I don’t see why she had to keep me for so long.” Laury grumbled as she left school. She was just leaving through the front door when she heard some one behind her say.
“Hay Laury what took you so long?”
Startled Laury jumped and spun around, and saw her brother Steve. “Oh Steve what are you ding still here?” Laury exclaimed. “I thought that everyone would be home by now.”
“Humph like I’d let a little thing like a half hour keep me from walking y little sis home.” Steve said as he walked up to Laury.
“Speaking of witch don’t you think that it was kind of harsh of that teacher to keep me after a whole thirty minuets?” Laury pouted.
“Well to be fair” Putting an arm over Laury’s shoulder. “You did say she was picking on you and called her an old witch. I mean really what are you five you know better than to talk to a teacher that way.”
“I’m twelve thank you very much!” Laury shouted. “And I don’t need you lecturing me on how to behave!”
“Laury you know I wasn’t trying to lecture you” Steve replied looking a bit hurt.
“I’m sorry I know you weren’t” Laury said looking down ashamed that she had yelled at her brother; when she saw something lying in the grass. “Hay what’s that?” Laury said pointing.
“What’s what?” Steve asked looking down.
“This” Laury said bending down to point he object out to Steve. “It looks like some kind of rainbow colored quartz.”
“Really, let me see it.” Steve said scooping up the rock and examining it. “How do you know it’s quartz?”
“See how it’s transparent? And it’s made of little crystals if you squint you can just see how there shaped.
“Well since you’re so smart you have it,” Steve said handing the rock Laury.
“Why thank you,” Laury began but was cut off by her scream of pain. As soon as the stone touched her hand waves of pain began ripping through her body. So great was the pain that Laury almost fell over, but she managed to prop herself up on a nearby bench. Laury then stumbled to a tree not far away and put a hand on it to steady herself. Suddenly the pain reached its climax focusing on her head Laury grabbed her temples and crumpled to the ground. Finally the pain passed and Laury began to rise using the tree for support as if afraid she would fall again. When Laury came to her senses the firs thing she noticed was Steve standing next to her if she was all right. “Y-ya I-I’m fine.” Laury responded shakily.
“You don’t sound fine,” Steve insisted leading Laury to the bench so she could sit down.
“I’m all right now,” Laury insisted. “Just a really bad headache but It’s passed now I swear.
“O.K. if you say so,” Steve replied still sounding worried
“Look Steve I’ll prove it.” Laury said.
“Oh really,” Steve replied crossing his arms, “and how do you plan to do that?”
“Like this,” Laury said eyes twinkling. “Race you home!” and with that sprinted off not bothering to see if Steve followed or not.
When they got home Laury noticed that the hand that she had touched the stone with was tingling. She looked down to see why, and the image of two human forms that looked like mirror images of each other.

Sorry it took so long editing took longer than expected, and my brother has been on for three weeks strait but it' done now and that's what matters. If you haven't read chapter one it was posted quite a while ago so it's on this topic some where it's called zodiac.