Chapter Seven: "Dreams and Lessons"
Sagittarius woke up with a start, gasping for breath. She had had a nightmare, but she couldn't remember it now. She looked around the room and stopped as she saw Taurus sitting on her bed and rocking back and forth, a look of pure terror on her face. Capricorn sat next to her silently, comforting her by wrapping her arms around Taurus like a shield, although she looked quite uncomfortable. Capricorn turned to Sagittarius with a look of confusion. Sagittarius pointed to the corner of the room and walked over.
A minute later Capricorn joined her as Taurus sniffled quietly on her bed. They jumped as Gemini snuck up on them with Aries in tow, "Why is Taurus crying?" she whispered, glancing worriedly at the sniffling girl.
"I don't know, she said that she had some sort of nightmare. Something about demons?" Capricorn explained, however, it was obvious she didn't understand what she was saying herself.
"I'll talk to her about it," Aries butted in confidently, "Should we tell Libra?" she asked,
"Obviously," Capricorn said, rolling her eyes, Aries stuck out her tongue immaturely as Sagittarius walked to Libra's bed.
"Hey," Aries said softly as she sat down next to a shivering Taurus. "I heard about the nightmare," Taurus looked at her as tears left her puffy and red eyes. Aries shifted backward as Taurus jumped up.
"I DON'T UNDERSTAND," she shouted all of a sudden, making everyone jump at her change of tone, "It wasn't a dream, nightmare, whatever. All of you were there! I remember it clearly. We were swimming in the pool and I saw a figure so I ran into the woods. You guys followed me and there was a demon and then, and then-" Taurus paused to take a breath, but before she could start talking again Libra, who was awake now, interrupted.
"Taurus, this never happened, after swimming we all came back up and went to sleep," She said patiently, nobody saw the look of worry cross her face as she fiddled with something in her pocket, "How about we all go to sleep and talk about this tomorrow? We need the rest, tomorrow lessons start." Libra suggested as the girls nodded. Taurus looked around and sighed in agreement as she lay down and pulled the blanket to her chin, she immediately closed her eyes, blocking them out.
Finally, everyone was in their beds, after casting quite a few worried glances towards the hunched up Taurus. Gemini snored softly as Sagittarius whispered something in her sleep, something about driving to Hawaii. Capricorn laughed at Sagittarius's nonsensical blabbering and turned and to climb up to her bed when someone tugged lightly and the hem of her shirt.
She looked down and saw Taurus looking at her with wide scared eyes. "Can you sleep with me?" she asked, her voice sounding like a three-year-old. Capricorn gave an inward groan but climbed into Taurus's bed and gave her an awkward pat on the back.
Soon Taurus was asleep, the tears still staining her chubby cheeks. Capricorn got up to go to her bed, it was too uncomfortable, just before she was about to drift into sleep she heard a rustle beneath her, "He's here," Taurus whispered as Capricorn fell into dreamworld.
Libra lay on her bed in silence, staring at Taurus with fear written across her face. She yanked something out of her pocket, a small square of white cloth, stained with bright red blood. Memories of the previous night flooded her mind as she tried to keep them out. Pictures of demons etched in her mind as her breathing slowed and she slipped into a restless sleep.
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The sun poured in through the windows. Scorpio groaned and rolled onto his stomach, covering his head with a pillow to drown out the sound of his chattering roommates. "One." He started, his voice muffled by the bed, "Turn off the sun. And two." He rolled over again, "SHUT UP!" he roared.
The boys all stopped and stared at him, "Somebody's obviously not a morning person," Virgo whispered to Cancer.
"Anyway, you have to get up. TODAY IS THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL!" Aquarius cried happily as he pranced around, attempting to put his shoe on. Everyone stared at him,
"How are you happy?" Leo groaned as he shuffled around the dorm, he had a hand mirror in his, well, hand. He looked at himself and smirked, raising an eyebrow, "Man, you look great."
"Damn right I do," Aquarius grinned, running a hand through his blue hair,
"Shut up, I wasn't talking to you."
Pisces opened the door and saw students walking outside and chattering to each other as they made their way to their classrooms. "Guys, we're going to be late if we don't make a move soon," he said, turning to face the others, he sighed and rubbed his temples as he saw Aquarius hopping while trying to put on the other shoe, while Virgo attempted to pull his t-shirt over his head, and failing, completely.
Eventually, everybody was ready, as they left the room, they saw the girls walking ahead of them and jogged to catch up with their quick paced walking. Aquarius put his finger of his lips as he crept up behind the girls, "BOO!" Aquarius was the one who squealed instead when Libra snuck up behind him and scared him. "You think that we didn't see you?" Sagittarius laughed as she rolled her eyes.
"But...WHAT? Yo-you were in front of me!" Aquarius stuttered, completely bewildered. The girls laughed maniacally as they spun on their heels and continued walking.
The boys caught up with them and they walked in silence for a while. "So, do you guys know where to go?" Aries spoke up as they hopped down the stairs and towards a random corridor. Everyone looked stupidly at each other as they stopped and looked around. The corridors were completely empty now, apart from a few people who seemed as confused as they were.
"I have a watch, it has a special function, it has a tracker installed," Leo piped enthusiastically,
"Can it track the classroom?" Aries asked,
"No, I can send it's location to a GPS and someone can track it," Leo said,
"Well, that doesn't help us!" Aries exclaimed, annoyed at him for getting her hopes up,
"I have a GPS," Virgo smiled brightly as he held up a GPS,
"Nobody cares!" Libra cried, "And, why do you have a GPS when we're going to class?"
"You never know,"
"I really wish I had a map right now," Aquarius groaned. Suddenly Taurus, who had been silent until now, pointed at one of the lockers,
"Look! There's a map!" She cried in surprise, everyone stared at the map with wide eyes, it hadn't been there before.
"What a coincidence," Aries laughed as she picked it up, examining it.
"Who's the guy you need to know when you got a place to go: What's my name? The map! Say it again! The map!" Leo sang as Aries studied the paper.
"Please shut up," she said before continuing, "My first lesson is Math," she groaned as she searched the map. Several others nodded along while the others looked at each other. "Ah, here," She said, pointing at a classroom on the map.
"Umm well some of us have English Literature," Capricorn said, taking a step towards Aries and taking the map, "So I'll take the map while those who have Math with you can go, and those who have English with me can follow me," Capricorn said, plastering a smile onto her face as she walked off with a few others behind her. Aries rolled her eyes and walked off too, the rest of the zodiacs trailing behind.
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"Ugh! I want summer to be here!" Libra groaned as she flopped down onto the bed. Sagittarius laughed and looked at her,
"We've only gone to school for one day!" She said,
"That's enough for me," Pisces said, bursting into their room.
"Come on in, why don't ya," Gemini argued, as the boys waltzed into their room one by one.
"Why thank you!" Cancer smiled sweetly as he plopped himself down next to her and the boys scrambled to find a place to sit. The girls rolled their eyes as the group slowly fell into different conversations.
Their laughs echoed through the hallways as Teachers went on their rounds, wondering what was going on. At one point Orion strolled past, grinning, "kids," he said as he looked fondly at the door, his smile was quickly swept off his face, "Poor things. They won't be ready," he mumbled under his breath as he walked away.
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A/N Hi again, I am BACK with another chapter. So today this guy kept blocking the way for my friend and this person comes by, stops and stares, and then just goes, "are you flirting?" and walked off, it was great. Anyways.. I HOPE YOU LIKED THIS CHAPTER!!!
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Yours truly,
Zodiac Lover No.1,
Leslie
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