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Bella Donna. Her first week at KADE academy has not been easy. After the problem she had at her first high school, she had no idea what to expect. Bullying? Ignorance? Petty fights? What made this school so different from the hell she had to live through before?
Bella had just gotten her uniform on and walked out of her dorm holding her books to get to class, Bella always had her books on her, her diary included. As she walked through the halls looking at everyone she kept thinking about how she’s gotten to be here, Lovecraft was very kind with his explanations, that KADE academy was no regular academy, it was special. Made for people just like her, different. Where they could study and learn more about what makes them different.
And Bella knew from a very early age knew that she was in fact different. At least, in some ways more than others.
This school has been a whole new experience for her, she’s been around humans her whole life who shut her out and basically acted like she never existed.
So to see monsters at this new school has been shell shocking, something she’s rarely heard of, now she’s apart of that group of monsters and goes to KADE academy. Technically she is a monster too but spending her whole life around humans up to that point, she was still processing the information, but she’s still being treated like she isn’t there so there’s not much of a change in that part of her life.
But, even with her past experiences she truly believes that people can be kind, loving, supportive, caring-
Beautiful.
Maybe even better than her first high school! But it hasn’t been a very good impression so far. The second she entered the school she saw magic, yelling, threats, fights, and just a lot of harsh words and bullying, a lot more intense then a academy would ever be, but she still had hope, a lot of hope, that they can all be beautiful.
just not today.
Of course she didn’t know those kids personally but with all the ruckus she saw while just walking down the hall, but this is a new school! Filled with new people! Things can change. But with all the commotion going on around her as she just was trying to walk to class, well.. it wasn’t something she wanted to think about too hard.
But other than the monsters at the school, going to a new prestigious school would open a lot more doors! And if there was something that Bella was especially good at, it was learning. She was great at school! and so very smart and has the discipline to have straight A’s with ease.
But one could only handle so much stress, so with everything around her changing so much and all too soon, Bella kept a diary, just a way to keep her thoughts together and let everything out at the same time, and it helps to understand herself more with all these new experiences. But even with something as simple as a diary Bella noticed the effectiveness it already had on her ,and with her hidden talent of being able to replicate anyone’s hand writing by just looking at it, writing had become a nice hobby of hers.
And just maybe If she just stays under the radar just perfectly, maybe she won’t be targeted like in her old high school. Just the thought of a repeat of what happened back then sends a chill down her spine. Even if the first time she walked through the halls was pure chaos and a lot of name calling, it can still be a great school, right?
She made it early to her class, the alchemy classroom wasn’t a first choice but it’s her first class and over time she found it oddly comfortable to be in.
Bella walked in the class with no one else but her in there and she sat at the back of alchemy writing in her diary, She had some free time to write her thoughts in her journal because Bella, of course, was way too early to class. What else was she gonna do? Mess with the items in the alchemy room without permission? No! Bella she was getting lucky enough to be able to get to her class before really running into anyone too unfriendly! And with this school, seems pretty common. So she was gonna go and play around with things she wasn’t supposed to touch till class time!
“September 1st, Friday, 1989. Dear diary. I believe I’m a good person. Ya know, I still think there’s good in everyone, but uh, first week at KADE academy, I cant help but look at all these monsters at this school, and I ask myself: What happened?”
“All these things being said by everyone so casually and all the horrible words all around makes me almost lose hope for any change this new school could bring, but it’s still new! And never judge a book by its cover. Right? This is a whole new group of people and I don’t know them personally so the best thing I can do is just hope and stay low.”
Other than the monsters and the very different class courses she was taking, Bella had no plan to change how she was going through school before changing to KADE academy. Though it was a choice she made to keep her head low after the incident at her old school, She doesn’t think a change would’ve happened even if she wanted one. So she’s still never remembered, always by herself, and just a ghost to everyone. Except this time there were actual ghosts at KADE.
But nothing seems that different, way more intense honestly but not much of a change in the end. Petty fights down the hall, students yelling obscenities, and it was like any other school, especially on her first day of school when she saw a fish boy with a esca on his forehead like an anglerfish fall in front of her, she offered to help only to be met with “get away nerd!” That she could only respond with a “oh, okay.” As the boy got up and started to walk away but not before bumping into Bella before walking away, She could tell not much was gonna change but it’s still her first day, maybe this school can still show its colors and be beautiful! Or maybe the same..?
Even her hair and accessories stayed the same, same dark purple hair, plain school uniform, no accessories. All she wanted to do was lay low because she hopes, and knows, things will get better as soon as she gets into Harvard, duke, or brown. Prestigious, and highly educated colleges, Then she can blow this town and leave school.
”This really won’t be any different will it?” She mumbled under her breath, Bella was almost saddened by the reality that nothing might not change, and still extremely lost in thought. To the point where she didn’t even hear the scream of the bell, something she feared she would never get used to.
Now for her official school day.
It wasn’t until the classroom started flooding with students, and heard some, not so nice words from students around was when she finally realized class has started already. Bella opens her note book for alchemy and grabs a pencil from her pocket as seats around her in the classroom got filled out, as she was ready to start taking notes of whatever her teacher named Baba Yaga was talking about, immediately the teacher mentions a partnered project.
Bella almost shrinks in her chair. Though she’s been at KADE since Monday, she doubted anyone would pick her for a partnered project. Just the thought of not being chosen for a partnered project made her almost saddened, It wasn’t like she couldn’t do it herself. Bella was extremely talented at alchemy, reading a lot about it in the occult club at her old school and even taking it up as a hobby in her own time after finding out she’s a descendent of a witch. It was just the reminder of the fact that no one would want to partner up with her in the first place, especially since she’s still new to KADE-
“Bella!”
A sudden loud burst of energy that came in a cheery voice appeared in the chair next to her.
“I didn’t know you were in this class!”
Bella freezes in almost shock at the sudden jumps scare that was this white haired boy’s extremely bright smile and happy attitude, way too much energy for someone who just wants to get her work done. As happy as she was to see Mark had moved to her class she certainly didn’t notice anyone sitting next to her, especially Mark.
Still in shock she says ”Wow you're energetic today.” in a quiet voice but before her brain could catch up the vampire is already talking more. “Well it’s still the first week of school, my schedule keeps changing, I’m happy I have it with you though!” He says with a grin.
Mark Dracula. Bella met him on the first day of school and they’ve been hanging out ever since. Well kinda like Marks been following her around but Bella is happy to have a friend like Mark, he’s sweet and talks a lot which is great for Bella because she’s not one to contribute much to conversation.
Bella snaps out of her thoughts and grabs the ingredients for their project and starts to put them in the brewing pot while Mark talks.
Bella can’t help but think that he’s chatty today, something she’s never gotten the chance to be worried about before. But maybe this school doesn't have to be the same way as it was at her old school. But still, she can’t get her hopes up and just needs to focus on the project at hand.
Mark keeps chatting on about the school and everyone he knows, though it more sounded like observations rather then actual friendships, though there was talk of a guy in a long coat at this school that marks been trying to be friends with.
if it wasn’t for Bella doing the project as mark just chatted away, they would’ve gotten absolutely nothing done. Bella couldn’t help but smile at this new found friend that she made this week, even if he didn’t know when to stop talking and the only words Bella managed to get out was “oh really?” While she focused on their project… But, it was nice that Bella barely got a word out herself with Mark talking away.
Baba Yaga went around checking on all the projects and thanks to Bella, they both passed with an A. Even when Mark mentioned not being good at much things, that’s where Bella excelled, also Bella copied Marks hand writing from him just writing his name, so he got credit for the project. “You’re really good at these things Bella!” Mark smiles at his grade on project as if he did some work.
“I’m a witch so, this is like a hobby to me.” Bella smiles softly.
Bella slips a small blank piece of paper in her pocket along with her pencil, As they’re both packing up for the end of class the white haired boy continues to talk in the cheerful voice, “Hey, I heard they’re serving the mystery soup at lunch! It’s been my favorite since freshman year! Wanna go get some right now?”
Bella thought about the offer before nodding and lightly smiling at this new found friend that she almost didn’t mind doing all the work for. “Sure, I’m getting hungry.”
As the bell screamed for dismissal for lunch, Bella and Mark walk out together down the halls, Bella still lightly smiling nodding along as he talks about the teachers, classes, other monsters, anything and everything that comes to his mind, Bella listens to all that mark has to say but notices someone who slightly catches her eyes walking the opposite way of the two.
Black short hair with the ends being white, He was taller than her with a lean frame, and shoulders being slightly, but not very broad, but Bella especially noting the very angry look on the mystery boys face like it was a look that could never go away.
Bella stared longer than she should’ve.
Even the mystery boy noticed her and glanced for a second back at her but continued down the opposite way of the hall. Bella thought about that boy and the long jacket he threw over the KADE uniform but she shrugged it off and returned to listening to marks conversation till they’re both at the cafeteria.
Mark and Bella soon got in line and grab lunch trays and stand near the line and wait for a table to clear so they can sit and Mark, with that bright smile continues to speak, ”Oh! Also I love movies with happy endings! I’m a complete sucker for a happy ending! I gotta tell you about this one movie!-” Bella nods but speaks before mark could, “You’ve got a huge heart Mark. But it doesn’t seem like enough around here.”
Mark chuckles and smiles at Bella, showing his sharp fangs. “Thanks! I guess I never really thought about that. You’re the first to ever say something like that to me.”
“That’s a surprise.” Bella smiles at Mark as he immediately switches topics again, but she did mean what she said. Mark seems very nice and very supportive, as well as chatty but with someone as quiet as Bella it’s a good thing. But with all the harmful things happening around her so early in the first week of school, she can only imagine how hard it is to stay positive in an environment like that.
Bella looks around at all the loud students around her, the talking, the laughter and the yelling of all the students at KADE in the lunch room kept Bella wondering if people at this school can genuinely be beautiful and kind as she hopes, if Mark was kind enough to talk to her and be friends with her, how rare would it be to find someone else at this school with the same thinking? But for now she was on the fence about it all.
As Bella is looking around at the bustling crowd and fulled up lunch tables while mark is talking and honestly, Bella is just daydreaming of the day she can move on. Away from high schools like these, Away from loud, harsh and angry voices.
Of course she has hope for changes but at the end of the day that’s just hope, not much she can do. But right now she’s daydreaming about ivy covered walls, and smoky French cafés but something finally snapped her out of it as she felt someone bump into her shoulder from behind.
”Watch it!”
Bella stumbles on her feet a bit and lets out a small mumble under her breath “ow” making Mark stopped rambling on and looked at Bella, then at the guy that bumped into her and his face slightly dropping at the sight of the guy.
Bella turns her head left to see the guy who bumped into her. He has a red varsity football jacket over his school uniform, brown hair, tall frame, scar over his right eye when she looked at him and ears. Harry wolfe.
She soon realized that this guy is someone she doesn’t wanna mess with, she’s seen this guy tormenting multiple people especially a ghost boy. Bella was lost in thought, not realizing that he looked annoyed, who she was staring right at, who she can tell is getting more and more agitated by the second.
Bella realized too late that it probably isn’t good for her to doze out out while staring at him, that very annoyed look on his face and the fact she recognized him as the face she saw yelling at a ghost boy for homework answers just that morning, really didn’t help. But it was far too late of a realization that dawned on her because suddenly the werewolf lifted up his arm and smacked up Bella’s lunch tray with it, getting her food all over the school uniform she got that same morning.
”Oooooops.”
Bella stares at her uniform with her mouth hung open in shock then looks up at the werewolf in disbelief who smirks at her and starts to walk away and mark leans down to Bella’s level and whispers in her ear “In case you don’t know, that’s Harry Wolfe, Third year as a linebacker. And eighth year of honesty, just smacking lunch trays-“ Bella stared at her uniform in shock then looks up at the back of Harry walking away with his tail swaying calmly and says through gritted teeth to mark who’s sentence she just cut off to say, “and being a huge dick.”
Harry’s wolf ear twitched at Bella’s words, he froze while walking and then turned back around straight towards Bella in stomping steps, and with no second to spare he reached for her and immediately looked down at her and grabbed the collar of her uniform jacket and pulled her up on her toes in a threatening manner.
“What did you say to me skank?!” Harry gritted his teeth, showing his fangs with his eyebrows furrowed like he was about to make Bella regret what she just said.
She looked at him very, very, nervous suddenly. Her uniform was full of the mystery soup the cafeteria sold and she was full of rage and annoyance just a minute ago but the second he stomped back over was when she knew she was screwed, but in an attempt to save her ass she yelled in a high pitched squeal, “Uh Nothing!”
“She didn’t mean it!” Mark desperately tried to calm him down but to no avail, especially the past the two had as kids, but Harry would never admit even knowing of mark if it was up to him.
“Shut it vampire!” Harry snapped at Mark then stared down at Bella, a warning stare, before dropping her jacket with a small push and letting Bella fall back on her heels. She looks over at Mark who looked very nervous but also relieved she was let go and Bella looked back at Harry who looked more annoyed than anything.
Harry walked away with an eye roll and a scoff, shoving his hands in his jacket pockets and walked away out of the cafeteria grumbling to himself.
Mark immediately turned to Bella and pulls her aside to the back of the cafeteria where not much people were, and still holding his tray of food and standing in front of her he grabs paper napkins and tries to help Bella clean off the mystery soup off her uniform.
”Bella I am so sorry!” Bella grabs some napkins herself and helps wipes it off. “Mark, it’s alright. Not much we could’ve really done there.” Bella talks in soft reassurance as Mark lets out a sigh of almost defeat “I know. But we could’ve just gone to the library like normal instead of here!”
Bella hasn’t knows these students for even a full week and it’s been a horrible experience but she knows, at least at one point in they were kind before, and they can be kind once more. She’ll continue to pray for a day like that because a repeating event of what happened at her old school is something she still has nightmares about, but still, they can be beautiful.
Right as they got it somewhat clean, just enough to not look like a huge stain on her uniform but still leaving some faint coloration on the black uniform Mark sighs and talks in a smaller voice than how he was talking before “Sorry, the two especially target me. but I didn’t think Harry would go after you, but now that I’m thinking about it though they really probably would.” Mark holds his tray normally as Bella placed the used napkins on the corner of the tray “But we can share my food! As an apology!”
Bella looks at the slight stain on her new uniform with a bit of annoyance as she listens to Mark, but she can’t be angry at Mark. She just wished he could be seen as the nice guy that he is, maybe this wouldn’t have happened.
”It’s alright Mark. You know I don’t blame you. And no thank you, I don’t seem to have an appetite for the cafeteria food anymore.” Bella wipes her shirt one more time before freezing and looking up at mark in surprise. “Wait did you say two?”
As the sudden realization came to Bella at Marks choice of words, it suddenly made a lot of sense when someone snuck up to them, right next to Mark and yells in his ear while smacking his lunch tray down and makes the bowl go flying-
“Mark Dracu-Skeeter!! Wimpy vampy!! OHH! AHAH!!”
-Right on Bella’s uniform. Again.
While Mark gets yelled at in his ear, all Bella could focus on was her uniform, soaked through once again with the mystery soup, She was annoyed to no end, two bowls of soup knocked onto her in one day!? What were even the chances!? She was fuming to say the least but she looked back up at who caused it this time.
Bella stared in annoyance and shock at the new taller boy that appeared basically yelling in Marks face, same school uniform with a red varsity football jacket on but this guy was taller than Harry, had black hair and horns poking up from the sides of his head, he was obviously, a Minotaur type, something Bella has read a lot about. But the part that caught Bella’s eyes was his patches of rotten skin, ripped up clothes and a missing eye, that really shouldn’t be on a Minotaur. But this jock she didn’t recognize.
She looked over at Mark who looked so defeated but he put on a small smile and talked in a nervous, annoyed and friendly tone all at once, “Mino Taurus! The quarter back. Wow.” He lets out a small chuckle, clearly trying to smooth things over but failing as Mino pushed him slightly.
“You’re damn right wow.” Mino smirked at Mark while Mark looked at Bella with that still incredibly tired and deflated expression but still keeping a slight smile on his face.
“He is the smartest guy on the football team. Which is kind of like being the tallest dwarf.” But Mark mumbled that last part to himself which Bella heard, and of course Mark wasn’t the brightest either but he looked like a genius compared to Mino, and that’s saying something.
Mino Puffs his chest in a proud entitled moment and yells one again. “That’s right! Tallest and smartest!” Mino looked at Mark with his eyes narrowed and that smug smile right on his face “Something you wouldn’t know anything about. Isn’t that right wimpy?”
Bella looks at her shirt uniform, getting more and more dirty by the second as the fabric soaked up the soup and then looks back at Mark just getting harassed by the Minotaur and she works up all the courage she has to turn her head towards the Minotaur and say,
”What’s your problem?!”
Mino and Mark both look at Bella with wide shocked eyes and… eye. Even some other monsters around stopped what they were doing and turned to stare at the commotion and it seems like to everyone, time stopped when Bella stood up to him. Bella can feel her face get hot and hands get sweaty as monsters around stare at her like she had a second and third head.
“I’m sorry, are you actually talking to me?” Mino stands tall and steps into Bella’s personal space staring her down with a look in his eye that can almost kill her if she kept pushing buttons, but she was in this deep. If she was gonna end up dead, might as well go out by her own words.
Bella stood her ground and lifted her head up high to Mino as Mark watched in almost horror. “Yes, I am. I wanna know what gives you the right to pick on my friend? You're a high school has-been waiting to happen. A future gas station attendant.” She continues to stare at him, and she’s proud of herself as she should be. Bella stood up for her friend and also stood up for herself too, something she’d never thought she’d ever do but, things can change. She’s being brave, standing up for the two of them to this big scary jock.
Mino Lowers his head and stares right at Bella, almost inches away from her face before pointing a finger at her forehead and declaring, loud enough for almost everyone watching to hear even if there wasn’t much people around,
”You have a zit right there.”
Everyone within hearing range starts to laugh like it was the funniest thing imaginable, Mino grins and laughs as well, walking away and leaving Bella with her face burning up and turning red from embarrassment and anger. He high-fives people as he passes them as Bella stares at the back of his head mentally talking to herself like she’s writing in her diary and counting backwards to calm down, she can hear Marks voice, slightly panicked but she’s too in her head to process anything that he’s saying.
“Dear diary, WHY?!”
All Bella is thinking about is the amount of curses she can put on the two jocks before she gets caught and get suspended from school, Her uniform is soaked through with soup, she witnessed her friend getting yelled at, she got threatened, and overall just a shitty day, even if she’s believed this school could be kind and beautiful like she hopes, everything is going against her favor.
It took a few minutes but Bella soon snapped back into reality with a familiar friendly face in front of her. “Bella! I didn’t know how much napkins to grab so I grabbed the whole thing, is this okay?”
Bella looks at Marks hands holding the whole napkin holder from one of the tables, “Thanks Mark, but napkins aren’t gonna do much at this point, I’m probably gonna go to the bathroom and try to get it off there.”
Mark lets out a sigh and talks in a low voice though is smile is faulty “We couldn’t even get food.” Bella lets out a small chuckle at Mark’s words “How about during the weekend we go out and buy food and a movie. You like happy endings no? We can watch something like..” Bella paused for a second thinking about what they could watch with a good ending before thinking about a movie with a snap from her fingers “The Princess Bride!” Mark’s face turns into a bright smile “I love it yes! You’re a great friend Bella!”
Bella smiles more at Mark calling her a great friend, of course they were friends at this point, and though in the beginning Bella saw Mark as just someone who talked to her and kinda followed her around, it genuinely means so much to her to have a great friend like Mark.
As Bella was smiling to herself and in her thoughts like her uniform wasn’t soaked through with mystery soup, but she snapped out of it at the sudden lack of sound and commotion around the cafeteria that all stopped at once, she looked at Mark then looked around to see all the other students.
Some were either whispering or just straight up staring at the entrance to the cafeteria. Bella follows all the students gaze and sees three girls walking in together.
They walked in, and Bella stared.
There was something different about the three. They seemed so unbothered, just carefree.
Bella thought about her horrible day she had. Being yelled at, getting humiliated, getting soup spilled on her, twice. And saw how they just float above it all like it didn’t even matter to them. Bella was jealous to say the least, but that sad type of jealousy that makes you feel pity for yourself and just ruins your day by looking at someone you're envious of. It wasn’t a good feeling.
Mark follows Bella’s eyes and see’s that she’s staring at the three girls and Mark speaks up, “Oh, the ghouls. They kinda just run KADE, never bothered, never harassed.”
”I would give anything to be like that.” Bella mumbled to herself while still staring, while feeling the soup soak through her uniform and it was like time stopped as she observed the three.
She noticed the girl on the right first, she was an angel, seraphim to be exact. Bella could tell from the wings on the side of the girls head, she had straight mainly pink and blue hair with bangs, the normal Kade uniform on while having a yellow bow on her uniform around her neck and yellow and white striped tights, but other than the accessories added to her uniform, Bella particularly took note of the extremely blank expression on the girls face compared to the others.
Then Bella paid her attention to the girl on the far left, she was a Wendigo. The give away being the skull on her face and the grey skin, she had the KADE uniform as well, with the sleeves rolled up and long shorts under her skirt, and a green lazy bow around her neck. When the Wendigo turned her head to the side Bella can see her black hair up in a ponytail, with a green bow around her hair too, and the Wendigo was smirking like she just won the lottery.
Finally, the main girl in the middle. She was beautiful, smiling so bright that it was gorgeous. A siren, with blue skin and pink layered hair that faded into a light purple. Still had on the KADE uniform but it was different, she didn’t have any sleeves on the white top of the uniform and also a, chest window. Her jacket was off her shoulders and down to her elbows, and like the others, had a bow around her neck but this time the bow was bright red, and she had another one in the back of her head that was the same bright red color.
Bella snapped out of her analysis at hearing Mark talk, “Oh! You don’t know them yet do you? That’s surprising, you’ve been here for a week.” Mark points a finger towards the one with the yellow bow “Well basically the seraphim is Sera, she is loaded! She’s so cool too! Doesn’t care about anything and is just so nonchalant!”
Then points at the one with the green bow, ”Then the Wendigo is Wendy, she’s very ruthless, always plays tricks on others! no specific personality other than that but she did fall on her face freshman year, cracking the skull on her face, she had to get surgery for that..”
Mark lets out a small chuckle but his smile slightly fades when mentioning the Siren. “Then there’s, Nerissa. The almighty. She is a horrible person.”
Bella looked surprised at Marks last words, He’s a kind vampire with only good things to say about other monsters even if they don’t seem very nice to begin with, so to hear him say that it kinda scared Bella on what type of monsters they were.
She heard the whispers around of students; “I’d like to be their boyfriend.” “If I say at their table, guys would notice me!” And a small comment from Mark himself “I’d like them to be nicer.” But then a really creepy comment from a random student that made Bella wanted to wipe from her memory immediately after hearing it.
Then the bell screamed for the end of lunch, but Bella couldn’t go to class with her uniform still covered in the damn mystery soup! Bella turned to Mark and started to speak, “I’m gonna go to the bathroom now. I’m gonna try to see if I can wash this off at least a bit.” Mark nodded and gave her a thumbs up, “Alright! Call if you need anything buddy!” Mark smiled and walked away and Bella started to walk towards the bathroom.
Bella was alone in the bathroom standing next to the sink and was wiping her uniform with a wet napkin, as she’s wiping the parts of her shirt and skirt that got dirty, Bella started to mumble to herself about the day she just had as then the bell screamed again. “Oh great. Just great. Because being late to class was the perfect cherry on top to this horrible day.” Bella kept mumbling to herself till she heard the bathroom door open.
It instantly clicked for Bella that since she’s not in class she could easily get in trouble and accused of skipping, it’s still her first week, she can’t be getting detention so early on! Just getting detention in general was something she can’t bare, even if it’s for something so little like being late to class. But in a moment of desperation she walked as fast and quietly as she could over to one of the bathroom stalls, closing it behind her as she stands on the toilet seat, a little extreme, she’s aware, but she’s desperate to not get caught.
Bella see’s from under the stall door that three girls walk in and one immediately rushes to the stall next Bella’s and starts immediately throwing up in the toilet, While the other two walk to the mirror in the bathroom. Bella felt herself relax just slightly when it wasn’t a teacher and was just some students but tensed back up at the voices and names.
”Oh grow up Wendy, the soup probably wasn’t even that bad.” One of the girls says while looking at herself in the mirror and fixing her hair and makeup.
Wendy, as she’s throwing up but through heavy breathing says, “You didn’t even have any! How would you know Nerissa!?” But she was slightly cut off by continuing to throw up.
then the third girl spoke in a very monotoned voice “I’m fine, I ate a lot. Maybe you should see a doctor.”
But it was quickly responded to by Wendy “Maybe because you have a stomach made of steel Sera!” then followed up by more throwing up from Wendy.
Safe to say Bella was mainly horrified, if everyone had very strong feelings to these three main girls, that she was in the bathroom with, whether the emotions being bad or good it’s still a scary situation to be in, and it just kept getting worse as the door opened again and this time she heard the staff clicking on the floor as her alchemy teacher Baba Yaga walked in.
”Ah, Nerissa and sera.”
Wendy throws up some more.
”and Wendy. Perhaps you didn't hear the bell over all the vomiting. You're late for class.” Baba Yaga says to the two as Wendy comes out of the bathroom stall and rinses her mouth with water from the sink then spitting back out into the sink. Bella thought about the jocks and their harassment, and the kid being rude to her in the hall, and Marks sad face and remembered the piece of paper and pencil in her pocket that she put after her class, and she quickly starts writing on it while thinking about how stupid the idea she has was and how it can either save her ass or send her to an early grave.
Nerissa responses back to the teacher with a smug smile “Wendy wasn’t feeling well from the food, we’re helping her.”
Baba Yaga scoffs lightly with a smile “Not without a hall pass you're not,” She taps her staff on the ground and summons three detention slips and offers them to the three girls. “Weeks detention.”
Bella quickly walks out of the stall with all the courage she could muster up and stands in between the teacher and the three girls ”Uh actually Baba Yaga, all four of us or out on a hall pass. Lovecraft’s request.” She smiles as non suspiciously as she could, even if she looked nervous as hell with her uniform still dirty. She offered up the pass to baba Yaga with a hope and a prayer that she wouldn’t see past the forged hall pass as the three girls behind her shared confused glances.
Baba Yaga reads the pass and looks back and forth between Bella and the written pass, and what felt like an eternity finally sighs “…I see your all listed.” She hands the pass back to Bella and throws away the detention passes and starts to leave “Fine. hurry up and get where you’re going.”
As Baba Yaga leaves Nerissa snatches the forged pass from Bella, making Bella turn around and face the three girls as Sera and Wendy lean over Nerissa’s shoulder to read the Pass that Nerissa is holding. “This is an excellent forgery. Who are you?”
Bella looked surprised and stammered on her words a bit before extending her arm out in an attempt to shake her hand “Bella Donna.” She takes a deep breath before continuing “I crave a boon.”
Nerissa steps closer with her hand on her hip while looking her up and down and talking in a suspecting way of Bella as she slapped the offered handshake away. “What boon?”
Bella quickly puts her hands to her sides, ”Please, let me sit at your table at lunch. Just once. No talking necessary. If people think you guys tolerate me, then they'll leave us alone…” Bella thought about how Mark would feel so much better without the constant harassment and that it’ll be good for both of them if they get left alone and just get to be themselves, even if it’s for a small amount of time. But Bella heard laughs from the three, not much from Sera though, it was more like a forced Monotoned laugh but still. Bella felt her stomach drop at the laughter and she quickly blurted out words “Before you answer, I can also do report cards, permission slips and absence notes.”
”What about prescriptions?”
”Shut up Wendy!”
”Sorry Nerissa!”
Nerissa takes a step closer to Bella and squished her face with one hand while Bella looks at Nerissa very nervously. The Nerissa speaks up “For a dirty little nobody, you do have good bone structure.” She lets go of Bella’s face and then Sera Moved closer and grabbed Bella by the shoulders, making her look at herself in the mirror.
Sera talks in that same monotoned voice and looks at Bella through the mirror “And a symmetrical face. If I took a meat cleaver down the center of your skull, I'd have matching halves. That's important.” Bella smiles nervously at Sera, unaware if it was a threat or compliment but then Wendy appears behind her and laughs to herself as she talks “Of course you can stand to change that uniform.”
Bella blushed in embarrassment as the three picked her appearance apart. They all moved to stand in front of Bella with a smile on Nerissa’s face as she stood in the middle, hands on her hips “you know, this could be beautiful.” She leans back and looks at Sera then Wendy “Mascara? Maybe some lipgloss? What do you guys think?”
Wendy giggled to herself mocking Bella, “It’s a start.” And Sera just shrugged her shoulders with an “I don’t know.” That made Nerissa roll her eyes “Sera, summon a new uniform for her, and Wendy get me my blush and brush from my locker. We’ll make her beautiful.” Wendy and Sera nod and both repeated ”make her beautiful”. Nerissa smiled and tilted her head at Bella.
”Okay?”
“Okay!”
Bella smiled with anticipation and nervousness as the three got to work.
Class already ended. During the week normally Bella and Mark made it a habit to meet up during the small passing period and talk for a bit or stop by the library to get a new spell book Bella wants, but she was no where to be found. And mark was starting to get slightly worried, last he saw her she was going to the bathroom to try to clean up her uniform.
Mark walked around the halls in an attempt to find Bella, but only was a witness to Harry phasing through a ghost boy in the hall “out of my way geek! You’re gonna be dead at 3pm!” Which was confusing because the boy was a ghost… but still, the boy still looked scared.
Then another boy accidentally bumping into some girls walking and they push him away “Don’t touch me! Get away pervert.” That left the boy looking guilty for accidentally bumping into them.
Mark just felt horrible watching all these kids be horrible to each other. But it was a pattern that went on for years that he felt he had no control over and that he just sat back and watched, it’s not like he could do much anyways. But it didn’t hurt to want people to be kind, right? Gosh who can even survive this, or escape this place!?
A sudden hush came over the packed hallway full of students that stopped Mark in his tracks, he lifted his head up from looking at the floor and see the three ghouls walking together down the hall, and the same old thing of students whispering amongst themselves whenever they came around but this time it was different, more surprise, anticipation, and Mark heard from a student whispering and he looks around at all he hears
“Who’s that?”
“Who’s that with the ghouls?”
“Who’s the babe?”
Mark stopped looking at all the whispering students and back at the main three, and that’s when he saw it. Or should he say Her. She came out from behind the Main three, walking amongst them. And Mark, in total shock yelled in surprise, his voice going high pitched, echoing down a quiet and shushed hallway,
”Bella!?!”
Everyone turned their head towards Mark then back to the main three walking together as the bundle of students finally got their answer on who the girl was, and they all started talking about the new girl. Bella.
Bella, she had light makeup on and her hair slightly wavy at the end and neatened up, a new uniform that was similar to the normal KADE uniform but had a pentagram on her chest that led up to a blue choker around her neck, a new skirt that had a slit in it and it was just slightly shorter and overall just, beautiful. In the end she still looked like the same Bella to Mark, but to everyone else who even knew about her, completely different
Bella looked around at everyone looking at her and even if she was shy, all this new attraction and attention she got from everyone felt great! She was always ignored and at her old school the little attention she got from her peers was horrible or ended horribly, so to have students look at her in admiration, was a dream come true.
Everyone started going back to talking and bickering with each other, even if the new topic in the room was Bella. But with the loud yell that came from Mark, Bella made eye contact with him and walked over quickly to say Hello with that bright smile on her face. “Mark! Isn’t this great? Look at me! I’m beautiful! And I feel so happy!” She basically squealed with excitement.
Mark was still processing everything with his jaw hung open while looking at Bella and still in shock “Yeah you do look beautiful! This is such a surprise, I mean, you’re with the ghouls!” Mark chuckles nervously still in some space of shock.
Bella giggles at Marks reaction “I remember dreaming and praying for something like this for almost years! This is so crazy and it feels like a beautiful friken day!” Bella was so happy for this change that she’s always wanted deep down inside her, of course she wanted to lay low when she first transferred to KADE for obvious reasons, but she was too happy to even think about that.
Mark smiles, genuinely really happy for Bella and they continue to talk like they normally would with each other, and though Bella had this whole smoking hot makeover it’s not like it’ll change their friendship.
They continue to talk But Nerissa stares at Bella talking to Mark and squints her eyes as if thinking about what she could do about that small issue.
A locker door shuts, and staring at Bella is a boy with Black hair a white colored ends, he noticed her before but didn't care much, and even now he still didn’t care, but there was something about the way she talked and was so kind to Mark and how she stood up for Mark in the cafeteria, but he knows she didn’t notice him there earlier, but the mystery boy noticed her. There was something about her, something kind and caring. Something, Beautiful.