School is never fun, especially for the new kid. For a new kid, the school is boot camp. You don’t know anyone, you can’t find your classes, you don’t know your teachers, and you don’t even know where the bathrooms are. My name is Zane, and this is how my day started, and ended. A nightmare, and now a dream come true. I started the year with no friends, and ended up with a friend for life.
As I walked up to the school, I could smell the fear and shame radiate off the evil building, somewhere on the other side of school, I could hear a child scream for his life. This was the same way that every school looks like, frightening and bone chilling. As I walk in, I could smell death and old people the moment I open the doors. Going up to the office, I could see the lady behind the desk, working on her nails. Without looking up, she handed me a slip of paper. To my surprise, it had my name on it.
“Your first class is in five minutes. Don’t be late.” This woman said this without looking up from her nails.
I shuddered the moment that I got away. I still wonder how she knew who I was, or if it was by a stroke of luck. As I walk down the hall, I could see that all the kids were paying no mind to me as I walk down to class. Suddenly, the bell rings, and the halls were empty in 0.5 seconds, leaving me alone.
I found my class, after I wondered around the school for hours (Actually, about 15 minutes.). When I walked in the door, the teacher stopped what he was doing and looked over at me with his dark green eyes.
“Are you Zane?” He said, rather than asking. I nodded, for fear had stolen my voice.
“Come over here.” He told me to stand next to him; I did as I was told, for I knew that if I didn’t, he may have done something.
“Class, we have a new student today, please welcome, Zane,” The teacher stopped, and I knew why.
“Knights.”
The teacher looked down at me, with his emotionless face. “Thank you.” He said.
“Zane is all the way from Rome, and is new here, so you are to make him feel comfortable.” He looked over to a group of boys. “No cakes like last time either. We don’t want another law suit again.” The group of boys laughed.
The teacher sighed and turned back to me. “My name is Mr. Raven, I will be your history teacher for first hour.” He handed me a sheet of paper. “You may sit in any seat that is not taken. And do hurry.”
Taking my seat, I looked at the sheet that he had given me. I had information on the Aztecs and some Spanish guy. I had no clue what they were doing.
“Need some help?” The girls next to me asked. I looked up to meet he gaze, to be met with a big pair of dark brown eyes. “My names Julie.” She held out her hand. “May I see your paper?” I handed my sheet to her. As she took it, I could smell her sweet perfume. As she looked it over, I couldn’t help but look her over as well. Julie looked about 5’7, black hair with streaks of purple, and wore dark clothing and jeans. I thought she was beautiful, but I would never tell her that. Not yet anyway.
“This is about when Cortez concord the Aztecs.” Said Julie as she handed me back the paper. “May I see your schedule?” complying, I reach into my backpack and take out my schedule, giving it to her. Julie looks it over and gives it back to me. “We have all the same classes. So I can show you where your classes are.”
Julie lead me all over the school, she even paid for my lunch. After school, she took me to her home, which wasn’t that far from my house. When we got to her house, I found my parents visiting with Julie’s family. Things were pretty quiet for the most part for the rest of the night, my dad made friends with Julie’s dad really fast and my mother and Julie’s became rivals in almost everything, I met Julie’s sister, Crystal. When Julie introduced me to her, I overheard her say that I’m cute, which made Julie punch her. I’m not the best looking guy, my silver hair and my dark clothes usually tend to make people stay away. But maybe this might happen here.
After dinner, Julie’s parents suggested that I stay over at her house for the night, so she can show me around town. After a quick tour, I and Julie get ready for bed. As I lie in bed, I started to smell something coming from Julie’s room. Ignoring it, I went back to bed.
The next morning, I felt very sore for some odd reason, like I lifted rocks all day. Trying to stand, I fell forward on my face, trying to stand again, I got the hang of it, but it felt wrong for some reason. Looking around, I noticed that the room was a lot larger than what I remember. Suddenly, the door opened, to reveal Julie’s mom, Maria Sanders.
“Zane, are you up? It’s time for breakfast.” Maria looked around for me but didn’t find me.
“Down here Mrs. Sanders.” She looked down, for a minute she didn’t see me. But when she did, she screamed for Julie. When Julie got in the room, she asked Maria what was wrong; all she got was her mother pointing down at me. When Julie saw me, she screamed.
“What? What’s wrong?”
Maria went over to the desk that was in the room and took the mirror off it and placed it in front of me. What I saw shocked me. My body was no longer human, but the body of a cat, a small house cat.
“Wha-what happened to me?!” I tried to stand on my hind legs, but ended up falling over, getting a giggle out of the two girls above him.
“This isn’t funny you guys!” I yelled at them. They stopped laughing, a giggle escaped every now and then. The noise from Julie and her mom combined lead Crystal to leave her room and see what was so funny. When she saw me, she immediately bent down and picked me up and started to coo and aw me.
“Did you do it again Julie?” Crystal asked, looking over to her sister. Julie nodded.
“It may have been what I was working on last night.” Before Julie could say another thing, an alarm went off thought the house. This made the girls go nuts.
“Were late for school!” Crystal yelled, nearly breaking my small eardrums. Julie and crystal scrambled all over the house, getting on cloths, eating food, and grabbing backpacks before Julie finally realized something important.
“What about Zane? He can’t go to school as a cat!” This became a problem that happened naturally later in my life. Then Maria smiled.
“He will just have to stay here till Julie can fix this.” The three of us looked at Maria with a puzzled look.
“He can’t go like how he is, so he can stay here. He can keep me company.” Crystal and Julie looked at each other and smiled.
“That could work.” Said Julie. So with it decided, the girls went to school, leaving me with Maria all day.
I didn’t really go outside of the room for most of the day. I spent most of the time trying to get the hang of walking, and learned that cats can’t use toilets. So Maria put in a cat box for me, I don’t even know why they had one in the first place. At some point during the day, I eventually went out the door and into the living room, to see what Maria was doing. She was sitting on the couch folding cloths while watching the news. As I walked over, I noticed that Maria hadn’t seen me yet, so I decided to surprise her. Jumping up, I walked up to her; she was still focused on the T.V. and the cloths in front of her.
“Hi.” Maria jumped when she heard me, for I think that she forgot that I was here.
“Zane, I forgot you were here,” I knew it.
“Can I get you something?” after she said that, my very small stomach roared as if on cue.
“Maybe something to eat?” she said, trying not to laugh. This made me blush, or I would have if I didn’t have fur on my face. Maria got up and went into the kitchen, with me following. Getting on the table, I watched her take out a can of tuna and empty it onto a plate, and place it in front of me. As soon as it was on the table, I heard my belly growl for the food. I bent down and devoured the food, satisfying my belly’s hunger.
When she finished cleaning the plate, the two of us went back to the living room. As she folded cloths, I lay beside her, and watched her fold. When she was done, she lifted me up and placed me on her lap. I was about say something when she started petting me, which, for some reason, felt really good. As I was being petted, I could feel sleep take over, I decided not to fight it and went to sleep. It wasn’t long before I awoke to Julie and Crystal standing over me, smiling.
“Well, how was your day?” They asked at the same time. I simply nodded, for there was nothing to say.
“Well,” Julie started, before she lifted me up to her face. “I think it’s time to get you back to your human form Zane.”
Taking me up to her room, Julie placed me on her bed, and take out a pot from her closet, setting it on the floor. Next she filled the pot with strange colored water that kind of smelled like burnt hair. She then reached over behind her and grabbed a vile of white powder and sprinkled a small amount of it into the liquid.
“Kay, get in.” She said, getting out a pointed hat and a black cloak.
“What?” I asked her. She got that annoyed look that only woman can do, I’ve seen my mother do it many times.
“You heard me, in the pot, unless you want to stay a cat.” She had a stick in her hand that looked like it had been burnt at the tip. Jumping down, I made my way over to the vat of goop, only to be snatched up by Julie and dumped in, nearly drowning.
“What was that for? You could have killed me!” I snapped at her, which only got her laughing.
“You’re so cute when you’re mad. Maybe I should keep you.” Said Julie as she reached out to lift me out of the pot.
“No!” I screamed as I ducked away from her hands.
“Then let me finish.” Keeping quiet, I let her finish what she was doing, which put a funny leaf on my head. After she did that, she took a stance and started to mumble something under her breath in Latin. Before she could finish, Crystal burst into the room, with my clothes in her arms.
“Hey, Jules, here’s his clothes.” She placed them on her bed. “Just so things don’t get weird.” Crystal looked down at me and giggled. “A shame he won’t stay in this form. I really wanted a cat.” And then she walked out the room.
“Well, if there are no more interruptions, I would like to finish my spell.” Said Julie complaining. That was when I put it together. She was a witch. That smell that I got came from this pot.
Returning where she left off, she continued speaking in Latin for about a good long five minutes when she pointed the stick at my face. When she did, I felt a small tingle form in my nose, causing me to sneeze into the water, and for some reason, a cloud of dust shot up and out of the pot, covering my tiny body. When the dust cleared, my line of sight was higher than what it was before. Looking down, I could see my human hands and legs again. But one thing was wrong, I still needed my clothes. Looking around, I couldn’t find Julie anywhere.
“Get dressed pleased!” I heard her say form the bathroom. I did as I was told and got my cloths all on in less than a minute. Once all my clothes were on, Julie came out of the bathroom, her face very red.
“Are you clothed?” She asked without looking up.
“Yes, you can look up now.” When she did, I could tell that she was embarrassed about almost seeing me without my clothes. I laughed, which made her very mad.
“You know I could have left you furry ya’ know!” Julie was very upset at me for laughing at her.
“Sorry, just thought it was funny that you’re turning red.” Before she could answer, Maria called from downstairs.
“Zane, your mom here!” This interruption left both Julie and me redder than turnips.
“Um, here.” Julie handed me a folder with papers inside it.
“There what we covered in are classes. You’ll need to make up a quiz in math. And Mr. Raven needs you to take a test to see how much you know on Monday.”
“That’s right, tomorrow is Saturday.” With that, I left her house. When I got home, I couldn’t stop thinking about what happened in Julie’s room. I found out that she’s a witch, and that she might like me. That was a lot to take in at the time, my heart was pumping fast. Julie was one of the most beautiful girls I had ever set my eyes on, and she’s the first that hasn’t gotten scared of him, she was a witch, she could probably could’ve have killed me if she ever gotten mad at me, yet she got mad the whole time that I was in her room, and I lived. Maybe Julie is the one for me. Suddenly the phone downstairs rang.
“Zane,” My mother called. “It’s for you; it’s your new friend. She sounds nervous.” Going down stairs, I took the phone from my mom.
“Yell’lo?”
“Zane?” Julie asked. Mom was right, she did sound nervous.
“Yes, what’cha wants Jules? Something wrong?” I heard a sigh on her side of the phone.
“There’s something I want to talk to you about, can you meet me tomorrow?”
“Yeah, sure. Where do you want to meet?” I didn’t get a reply right away.
“By the lake, where the park is. Can we meet there?” She sounded scared now.
“Yeah, I can meet you there.”
That night was the longest night I had ever to wait through. I was somewhat excited and frightened about seeing her. What if see was going to erase my memory? Or do something worse to me? The power of fear was not in control, nor was any other emotion in my body. It was something else, something I couldn’t understand. Eventually, I fell asleep, but dreamt about me and Julie, but we didn’t look the way we do now, we, looked older.
The next day, Julie waited at the lake for me like she said she would. I decided to drive there in my car, my piece of crap car. My car was a Mazda, one of the first Mazda’s, so I can call it crap. Anyway, getting out, I made way over to Julie, who was wearing a white dress with blue flowers on it with her hair pulled back into a ponytail.
“Zane, I’m glad you came.”
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