Mysterious and Magical Ch. 4

So Ruby and I had become friends. Also, we recruited someone else into our tiny gang. Chris, who was good looking but extremely immature. His ink-black hair and chocolate eyes would want you to melt, until he would poke you and giggle.

Chris was also the werewolf who interrupted my magic training that day. Since Ruby can't eat or risk somebody having garlic for lunch, and besides I never really feel like eating, Ruby and I hide in the hallways while everyone is eating. Chris walked over and hid with us, explaining how he hated silverware. So we let him hang out with us.

Anyway, one day we were sat by Ruby's locker and whispering. The tile floor was cold, and so was the green metal lockers. Ruby and Chris didn't seem to notice though, seeing as an advantage of being a werewolf or vampire you didn't have a sense of temperature. The hallway was empty, on one side (the side we were sitting on) the whole wall was lined with lockers. On the other were doors and crowded bulletin boards, both not worth looking at.

"Ruby?" Chris Whispered.

"Yeah, Chris?" Ruby whispered back, stroking her long black hair.

"What would you rather, Lunch or Class?"

"Neither. I'd rather be partying with friends. Misty, you agree, yeah?" Ruby applied dark red lipstick to her lips. Then she looked at me with her big red eyes.

"Yeah, sure," I agree in a whisper, hypnotized by her red eyes.

Ruby smiles and looks away again. Then Chris and Ruby freeze. I sigh, wishing that witches had good hearing, vision, and smell like werewolves and vampires.

"Shh," Ruby whispers from next to me.

Then I heard what they were listening to. Voices were coming this way.

We got up and tiptoed to the end of the lockers and peeped around the corner. Our new principal, Mr. Blatch, was talking to his secretary Miss Pod. Miss Pod was a pretty secretary, blond and curvy, and a sway in her step. She was following Mr. Blatch like a little dog as he walked towards his office.

"But Sir, what does that have to do with schoolwork?" Miss Pod asks Mr. Blatch in a confused tone.

"Listen, just get me the files and I'll...I'll give you a day off." Mr. Blatch seemed to be in a hurry. He usually was. He looked like any male principal, big white shirt, big trousers, big tie, short brown hair, mean face on all the time, usually cup of coffee in one hand. He got his keys out and began to unlock his office door, quite annoyed at Miss Pod for being so questionable.

"When, tomorrow? It's Saturday tomorrow. Sir, I just want to know how important it is." Miss Pod fluttered her big eyelashes at Mr. Blatch.

Mr Blatch sighed and put down the papers he was holding on the table beside him. He put both hands on Miss Pod's shoulders and whispered something so low Ruby and Chris could not hear it (I could tell by the sigh they made).

Miss Pod went pink, gave up and walked away. Mr. Blatch smiled to himself and took off his jacket, revealing a small badge on his shirt with a specially written "H"on it.

Then Ruby gasped in fright and pulled Chris and I with her as she ran down the hallway, her tiny leather black shoes hardly tapping the floor. She ran into the girl's toilets, not careing that Chris was a boy. Nobody was in the toilets anyway.

"What's wrong?" I ask Ruby. Ruby looks at both of us and breathes hard. She takes a huge breaths and calms down. "Mr. Blatch is a Hunter." She explains. "A vampire, werewolf and witch Hunter."

I gasp and stare at Ruby. Then I look at Chris who has gone silent with shock. I look down at my feet and think about it.

Our Principal? A Hunter? Would he destroy us if he knew what we were? Probably.

But what were those files he spoke of?

Were they for us?...

...Did he know who we were already??