September did not fill me with joy, because I had to go to a new school. It meant a new environment, new people, who mostly knew each other from elementary and middle school, because the high school my mother enrolled me in was not far from those schools, the only ones in the area. Walking down the corridor during a break, you had the impression that everyone knows everyone here quite well. Everyone looked at me as if I was UFO, but it was probably mainly "thanks" to my unusual outfit. With a slight dissatisfaction, I stated that there aren't many goths in this school and there aren't many different subcultures of one or another type in general. Mostly you could find here Italian football fans, school team players and their cheerleaders, and a whole lot of rich kids - self-righteous girls with the appearance similar to a Barbie doll and types of guys picking up girls for expensive brands of clothes, phones and, of course, cars. There were also some typical nerds among all of this.
In the first two months of school, I never spoke to Oliver - on the contrary, I avoided him. Yes, I wanted to know why seeing this boy made me feel strange, but didn't have the courage to talk to him. Besides, I was afraid that would also want to be friends with him. Besides, I preferred to avoid meeting with Oliver to stay sober-minded.My studies were pretty good, and Luna was helping me. Soon, with her, I took the highest place in the class in terms of grades in various subjects. History and literature became my favorite subjects at school. My mother was proud as a peacock, especially when people in the area started praising my school achievements.I was pleased with these successes as well, but persistent thoughts about Oliver haunted me day and night.- "Could I fall in love with him?"- I thought while lying down in my bed in the evening.-"No, it's impossible. There's only room in my heart for Johnathan.”- I shook my head, staring at the moonlight shining t
The following days of November passed for a kind of hide-and-seek between Oliver and me. When I glanced at him, he didn't even bother to look my way, but I always surreptitiously eavesdropped on my classmates talking that Oliver was looking at me more and more with some unreadable expression on his face. At the end of the month, it became one of the hottest rumors in school, and I didn't like it at all. Sometimes I was affected by my mother's psychosis, and that made me not like drawing too much attention to myself. All in all, it was a pretty good defense mechanism since I was a sorceress, and sometimes did things that would seem very strange to others, and to keep doing them safely, I couldn't allow people to follow me around and care too much about what I'm doing, especially after school.And there were quite a lot of these weird things I did. First of all, on the night of the beginning of each season, my mother and I performed rituals to ensure the favor of the spirits cari
The next day, after the unfortunate incident with me, Laura, and Oliver, things got a little awkward in my classroom. Some people stood behind Laura, especially her closest friends, and the rest laughed at her secretly. I tried not to worry about it and reassured Luna that I was completely okay and didn't care. Of course, my words did not fully convince her, because Luna, unfortunately for me, was one of the people with a very sensitive intuition. If something was wrong, it was hard to hide from her, because Luna sensed your emotions as well as I did, even though I could see the auras around everyone and it gave me a lot of advantage.Anyway, that day people forgot everything for a while, because a Natural Sciences Competition was announced. Yes, the natural sciences may not have been my favorite, I liked Literature much more, but as a sorceress I felt everything around me much more intensely, especially nature, therefore such subjects as Geography, Chemistry, Physics and Biolo
Oliver did not return to school until December 10. That day, from the morning, I was looking for an opportunity to talk to him calmly, away from prying eyes. Unfortunately, because we didn't have any lessons together and we were in different classes, there weren't many such opportunities at school. I was only glad that Oliver began to pay attention to other girls and even talked to some of his female classmates. I was hoping that the rumors would fade away a little now, and was grateful that Oliver took our earlier conversation to heart. But I still wanted to talk to him again, ask what was happening, why he did not participate in the final of the competition, and was on leave from school for the second time, despite the fact that the school year has only just begun.However, as mentioned before, meeting Oliver alone at school was not easy. It wasn't until Luna and I left to go home, already losing hope, that I saw Oliver saying goodbye to his classmates and taking a different
Winter passed monotonously and calmly. It was snowing quite a lot, so I skipped the forest trips, and therefore couldn't see Oliver after school. We passed each other in the corridor without a word, although I could feel his eyes on me sometimes, but as he started, then continued to pay attention to other girls as well. As a result, the rumors about me and Oliver died away soon, and then the school began to live with news about other people. Finally, I felt as at ease as before, after a few days at school, when nobody knew me and kept away because of my not-so-friendly image.Christmas and New Year's Eve came quickly, and passed even faster, which made the winter break pass faster than many weekends. I didn't even look back and it was already 2005, and it was time to go to school again. I missed Luna so we talked with each other at practically every break. I was so absorbed in Luna's adventures in the USA, where she went to visit her aunt during the Christmas break, that I didn
For the rest of January, I was ignoring Oliver again, but this time I was doing it on purpose. I felt strange in his presence and knew very well that he didn't want to be just my friend. I could feel it in his aura even as I passed him in the corridor. Oliver had spoken to others, of course, so I could see that he wasn't going to "take revenge" on me for kind of rejecting him.Luna seemed to sense my low mood, so she didn't hassle me unnecessarily and torment with conversations. She was sitting next to me silently and was very uplifting with her mere presence. Although I've known her for some time, I still couldn't get over the fact that Luna could sense someone's emotions so well and adjust her behavior to them. I was really lucky to meet someone so tender and kind on my way.However, the most saddening thing about this whole situation was the fact that, after finishing my lessons and returning home, I could not wander quietly in the woods without fear of meeting Oliver.
With Oliver's letter neatly tucked in my black jeans pocket, I stepped onto the windowsill, then jumped down onto an oak branch to walk over the wall on it, then down another branch, straight to the woods. As soon as my shoes touched the ground, a colder wind blew, so I wrapped my neck better in a grayish wool turtleneck and I run through the forest to get to the place where the fallen tree limb lied down, on which we were sitting when me and Oliver last saw each other alone.Actually, I had no reason to think that, but somewhere in my heart I was afraid that when I got there, then wouldn't find anyone there. All in all, I didn't treat Oliver very well, and I wouldn't be surprised if he wanted to play it back, but on the other hand, he didn't seem like that type of person. If he wanted revenge, he had plenty of opportunities at school to humiliate me. Doing this in the middle of the forest, away from the eyes of others would not be a good enough revenge, and besides, this lette
In February, I celebrated Oliver's birthday, both human one and his birth to darkness. It wasn't a big celebration, after all, I couldn't go out in public with Oliver if I wanted to keep our relationship and the fact that he is a vampire a secret from my mother. We met in the woods, in the same place as always, and I gave Oliver my gift - a male silver ring, delicately embellished with cubic zirconia, with our names engraved on the inside. He liked the gift, so hugged me hard and kissed a few times, then even grabbed my waist and turned around with me a couple of times. I wished I could make some cake for him, but in the end he couldn't eat it anyway, so I was glad that I could make him happy in a different way.On March 15, on the other hand, I celebrated my 17th birthday. There was a modest celebration at home, for which Luna and her parents came, as she was my only friend, and after this party, I met Oliver in the woods, who handed me a beautiful box, which when opened turne