História Shifter Academy - Mom is not a fox. She is a bitch...

Chapter 14

After second period my mother called me to her office. I wasn’t really happy about it, because the last time I went there, the news weren’t that good. When I entered the room, she was doing exactly the same thing the first time I saw her. Reading her papers without once looking up to see what was going on, she started writing something down, but this time, her spirit, the fox, whose name I didn’t know, was beside her. When I sat on the chair in front of her, I could feel the déjà vu, as she finally looked up with no expression at all.

“Good morning Kayla. I heard about the commotion on the cafeteria this morning. Do you care to explain?” she said, as her fox jumped on top of the table and sat, facing me. “Oh, this is Diana.” She said, pointing at the animal. “And this is Kayla, my daughter, she is grown into a beautiful woman isn’t she?” she told Diana.

 Diana looked at me with disdain and toward my mom. She nodded once and turned back to me. I felt kind of uncomfortable to have then talking about me. For all I knew Diana could be telling my mom that I smelled like fish, or that she thought I was stupid. The thought made me angry.

“So, Kayla, I am waiting for an explanation.” Mom said impatient. I couldn’t see it, but I was sure she was tapping her foot under the table.

“Nothing you have to worry about. Just a stupid fight, with a stupid guy, for a stupid reason. Can I go now?” I couldn’t understand why she cared so much. I didn’t see James here.

“Of course I worry. You are the daughter of the head mistress of the academy, and I need you to act like such. You need to be an example for the rest of the students, and not the one to fight with them for a stupid reason like you said.” She it seemed to me that the only thing she cared about was her image.

“Well, guess what? I am not and will never be an example for anyone, so get over it. You wanted me to be different? Then you should have raised me yourself to be your pretty little princess that you want so much. But since that didn´t happen, you have no saying about anything to do with my life.” I got up and looked down at her.

“Yes I do have a saying in you life. You know why? Because you are inside my academy, therefore, you are under my rules. Did I made myself clear?” she got up as well en then we were facing each other eye to eye.

“Well then. I guess you will have to expel me then, right?” the looked like she was about to tear my tongue out with her fingernails. Diana was hissing on the table.

“You know I can’t do that.” she almost whispered. “I promised you dad that I would take care of you and that is what I am going to do!” she straightened again.

“Ok. Then I guess we are settled.” I turned around and headed to the door.  

“Kayla! Come back here immediately. I am not dome talking to you!” She raised her voice and I could hear exasperation in it. I really pissed her off. Good. I left the room and slammed the door before she could say anything else.

I had no idea if that was all she wanted to tell me, but I didn’t really cared. I headed outside to clear my mind. I had missed half of third period, so I decided on skipping the rest of it and waiting for lunch time. I started jogging toward the same tree I sat under with Mace months ago. I didn’t know why, but the woods always calmed me. Nature had that effect on me.

I kept thinking about what happened this past two months. Me coming here; Finally meeting my mother and all of my friends; my dad’s murder; and then the change. I was right when I thought coming here would change my life. I didn’t knew what would happen with me after I got my revenge. Would I live here? I didn’t had anywhere else to go, since my dad was my only known family. I knew that all my grandparents were dead, and I didn’t had any uncles or aunts. That sucked. I knew there were some people in here who didn’t had anywhere to go as well, Mia and Derek included. So they lived here. I think I could actually get used to it. I was looking at the place like my new home. Yeah, that would work.

I decided that I was here for too long, and soon would be time for lunch, so I got up and headed toward the main building. I could hear I couple talking close to me, and as the polite person I was, of course I started paying attention to what they were saying. “Did you heard about Cristina and Jay? They found out they were mates, can you believe that?” The guy said. Mates? What the hell? “Yeah, I hear about that, they were training and then suddenly they were mated. Awesome right? They are so lucky. Do you think we could be mates? I am almost sure we were meant to be together.” The girls said excitingly. I had no idea what they were talking about. “I don’t think so honey, I am sorry, but your spirit totally hates me. But that doesn’t mean we were not meant to be together.” Then he kissed her. Get a room, I thought. I was embarrassed watching then kiss, so I took two steps back and headed to the cafeteria. Again no one thought to mention to me that the mating story was not just a myth. But for now I had more important matters to care before thinking about supposed-to-be-spiritually-chosen-mates.

The day passed by faster than I expected. All the teachers were congratulating me. I think everyone was a little big excited to know what the mead mistress’s daughter was. It was kind of uncomfortable for me to have then talking to the whole class about it, and it was even worst when everyone kept staring at me like I was a freak. I could hear people whispering around. “She must be something ridiculous like a rat, or a bug.”Ouch, that stung. “Considering the way she moves, she must be something deadly. Did you see her fighting against Mace? That was crazy.” Hear them talking about me was refreshing. Yeah, right.