Shadows of The Past

Book 1: The Blue Jays

Chapter 1: Legendary Phobia

I can admit I had a dark past.

I got caught up in a group a while back, and if I didn't, I wouldn't have met my boyfriend. His name is Fang, he's dark and mysterious, but he has had a lot of girlfriends. We never really knew each other until we got talking after the incident. We've been dating through the last two months of senior high, and now we're out of school and still going strong. He was quite popular and still is; and bringing me into the picture made the scene a whole lot wilder.

I think I kind of like this new life. I mean, I never really had this much attention before. I guess it's nice, because my dad, Jeb, never really paid much attention to me, and the whole time, the attention was what I was looking for.

I walked through my bedroom door and fell face first into my purple covered bed. My bag slid out from under my arm and fell to the floor with a small thud. I groaned, turning on my back and staring at my sky blue ceiling. Closing my eyes I went over the things that happened today, nothing interesting, as usual. Just go out to the mall and hang with my friends, I couldn't really say it was fun because they gossip about stuff I don't even care about.

I heard a tap at my window and my eyes flung open. I grinned at my ceiling and rolled off my bed before scampering back up and leaping towards my window. A strawberry blonde haired best friend of mine stood on my little window ledge outside in the freezing air. I opened my window without any difficulty, as I had opened it many times before, and let in the guy who I literally loved to death, as a friend of course.

"Iggy you shouldn't be coming over this way during winter! Are you mad!" I scolded him, turning on my heater and ushering him over to my bed. He sat himself down, shivering a little as he climbed under my sheets. "I mean, what if I wasn't there and you waited there for hours, I don't think I would like finding my best friend frozen outside my window," I started again. I barely noticed that he winced slightly when I called him my best friend, but I dismissed whatever I saw. I walked briskly over to my window, shutting it to stop the freezing air from blowing in.

"Well then," Iggy said, "I'm just lucky you were there," he smiled a sly smile at me and I just groaned in frustration. I walked towards my mirror and quickly threw my hair up into a messy bun before turning back to Iggy.

"What movie do you want to watch then?" I asked. His smile grew wider as if expecting the question. Most of the time when Iggy came over in the winter was to be in my heated room or watch movies. He shifted under my covers for a bit as if struggling with something and a few seconds later a shiny disk appeared from the sheets.

"I was thinking I Am Legend," he grinned, his blue eyes piercing my boring brown eyes with challenge. He knew I didn't like freaky movies. Yes, the Invincible Maximum Ride, afraid of some movie. Alas, I believed it was Iggy who caused this fear in the first place. I watched the first Grudge movie a few years back and Iggy made me believe that it was real and tormented me with scary sounds. Soon after I found out he was messing around but I stilled hated scary movies ever since.

I sighed in defeat and walked over to him, snatching the disk from his hands and went to turn on the DVD player. After sliding the disk in I trudged back to my bed and got under the covers with Iggy.

I'm not a really emotional person, but the dog dying and changing into one of those 'things' actually kind of upset me. Iggy had a little Scottish terrier, Total, and I would hate to think that it could die in my arms. At the darker scenes of the movies I closed my eyes and turned my head into Iggy's chest, where he would chuckle and throw his arm around me, as if protecting me. After a sigh of relief the movie ended and I sprinted to the DVD player and ejected the CD. A string of laughter erupted from Iggy's mouth and I grabbed my black pillow from underneath him to bash him, with Iggy laughed the whole time.

I stepped back from him, watching him writhe with laughter. Moving towards the foot of my bed I jumped on Iggy's legs and began tickling his feet with a fury of fingers.

"MERCY! MERCY! OH GOD PLEASE HAVE MERCY!" Iggy yelled with his legs buckling beneath me.

"Promise you'll never make me watch a scary movie every again" I ordered him.

"Okay okay! I promise that I will not make you watch a scary movie" he said between breaths of laughter. Feeling satisfied I slid away from him and watched as he sat up. BZZZT, my phone buzzed inside my school bag that was still on the floor. I retrieved my HTC One X, took me three months to save up for this baby, and checked my messages.

Fang: Hey babe. Wanna come to the mall ;)

I looked down at the text and sighed, I knew he would be cranky with me if I didn't go. I looked back at Iggy who had a curious look on his face while he was staring at my phone.

Me: Can't. Friend is over.

I placed my phone on my desk that was nearby and sat on the bed next to Iggy. We sat in silence for a few minutes before he broke the silence.

"Who was that?" he asked tentatively.

"Fang," I answered curtly, getting up and checking if Fang had sent anything back. Nothing.

"Let me guess, he wanted to show you off again?" He said snidely.

I whirled around to face him, "Don't say that about him! He cares for me and wants to see me."

He pushed himself up and walked towards my window, opening it to let the chilly air come in.

"Whatever you think, Max," he said quietly before he jumped out of the window and back to his own. I stormed over to my window, watching Iggy until he was safely inside, before slamming mine shut. Lifting my phone up quickly sent a text to Fang.

Me: I'm coming now.

A few seconds later I received a new text.

Fang 3: That's my baby girl xx

I smiled.

Hope you guys liked the first chapter. I want this to be a pretty long series which goes for 20+ chapters and hopefully 1000+ words on each chapter. Please comment if you like it and you want more! I will be updating it every day! A few more if I'm busy! Stay tuned for more guys!