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THE SHADOW'S HEART
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chapter 2:

i set my backpack down in the seat beside mine knowing that no one sits there and no one ever will. it was a unspoken agreement me and the others in the class had. i go into the hallways to see they are filled with people and i groan. i turn the volume to the max to shut out their voices as best as possible. i look at them not knowing most of them. now i told you i was born here in redstone but i was sort of left out of the groups all the time. i knew why and i learned to accept it and took my role as the outcast. of course being the outcast also means i get targeted for bullying. of course i know they will loose because i am perfectly fit and my grandfather made me learn how to fight like a soldier and my grandma made me learn different martial arts. they did this because they wanted me to be able to protect myself but they didn't think i would get so into it i would become dangerous to others but after a fight or two they made me promise not to start any fights, that i was only allowed to fight when they threw the first punch. i agreed to this knowing full well that the pig headed macho jocks would try to pick on me regularly which always ended in them getting beat up. this made my grandfather chuckle when the principle called telling her some kids tried to pick on me and beat me up only to be beaten themselves. he told me all the time "you are gonna be one hell of a soldier allen" and i loved hearing this from the man i looked up to but my grandmother didn't like the idea of me joining any form of service. she was afraid of me getting killed or having my mind get ruined. i would just tell her she was paranoid and laugh. i rarely got hurt and i knew my mined was ruined just by thinking about my oldest memory, the memory that showed my parents killing each other.



it plays in my mind as i walk the halls and for a moment i loose my concentration focusing on my memory and bump into a group of girls. they are preppy and all of them blond as blond gets. i see the one that i walked into that made a domino affect on the others. "look here you jerk" she says as she turns around and she seems like she is about to go off on me because of what happened but then she stops herself. she isn't that tall and neither are her friends. i guess a good four feet is were the girls height tops off and i am five ten maybe five eleven. she looks up seeing me looking down at her and i see her discreet Adams apple bob when she see's me. i look at her eyes seeing she was afraid i was mad about her comment. "i am sorry, i didn't mean to bump into you" i tell her that being the truth and she nods. i put back in my left headphone that popped out when i bumped into the girl. i noticed some people had been watching the small event hoping for what i can only figure as a full on verbal conflict or something more entertaining. he grin knowing they had been disappointed by the outcome. i take a seat at one of the tables they have in the commons and site their with my music blaring. it is metal and very loud. while i sit there listening to my music i look around and see people i see everyday. most the people at this school repeat the same routine everyday here at this school but their stories that make them who they are change everyday as well. you may wonder as to how i know that something new happens or something changes with someone. now their is the question i have been waiting for you to ask. i will tell you something that most people don;t know and it is the two reasons i am left as the outcast. one is because of my appearance and taste of music and other such nonsense. the second is my ability to control shadows.