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Ivy's pov

The moment I stepped into Inc high, I braced myself for the stares, my head held high, and my pace confident. Roman joined beside me, looking rather unsure with his hands tucked into his pants. There it came, the stares, from everyone; people who were busy with their lockers, turned to look at us, people who were laughing at something or the other, stopped laughing, their eyes zeroing on us.

If this were to be a movie, it would happen in slow motion. The way my lips pulled up in a smirk, seeing as the stares did nothing to make me feel insure, instead, it made me feel different, on top of the world.

Ralph joined at my otherside, raking his hands through his hair, his eyes accessing the way everyone looked shocked because he was right by my side, and probably because he was one of the popular guys.

My smile became even more sinister as caramel joined in, a lollipop between her lips, looking like she could care less about what anyone said.

Yeah, this would definitely happen in slow motion, with Emmitt Fenn, control, playing in the background.

The school was just like every other highschool, but was more sophisticated than ICHS, the only difference was the technology and building structure... ICHS used thumb print system to unlock their lockers, but here, from the looks of it, they use the face scan, cause immediately they reach their locker, it opens.

My gaze met with that of another group of four, standing right in front of us, their eyes as hard as ice, and their stance also radiating dominance.

This should be fun.

We stopped right in front of them.

The leader was a girl, pink hair, wide blue eyes, maroon lipstick that did nothing to compliment her tanned skin.

The guy beside her was a familiar sandy blonde, the one I refered to as bloodshot, and the first guy to get his ass kicked by me the other day. He glared, while I responded with a sweet smile.

The girl beside her, was a brunette, but her eyes were busy casted down on her phone, typing away like her life depended on it.

Typical.

The last guy who bore a striking resemblance to pink haired, didn't look interested in anything going on... Almost like he was forced to stand there to make the number even.

I sighed, tilting my head, my eyes meeting that of the pink haired. "Sorry, you're blocking my path." I said.

She smirked. "Sorry, you don't have a path here."

"Says who?" Ralph asked.

I noticed everyone's attention beginning to turn to us.

"Standing beside the human now, Ralph?" Sandy blonde spat out with just enough venom to send the old Ivy cowering in fear.

"Standing beside glamour girls now, Carl?" Caramel said, after popping the lollipop from her mouth.

Pinked haired glared. "Well well, how the tables have turned." She said, her eyes lingering on Ralph for a second longer, before they met mine again.

She took a step closer. "Listen here, Human, you better take that path you came through, back to the place you call earth, no one wants you here."

I was about to give a reply when Roman cut in. "Technically, your dimension is located on earth, so your statement is kinda wrong... We're all basically still on earth, but in different dimensions."

Brunette, looked up from her phone, eyes snapping to Romans'. She smiled at him. "He's kinda right Abby." She said.

Roman nodded with an appreciative smile, while Abby turned to bless her with a glare, "You'll pay for that in training, Lulu."

Lulu's eyes widened, looking back at her phone in fright.

The last guy rolled his eyes. "Not like you'll do much damage." He muttered.

"No one asked for your opinion, Code." Carl said.

Code raised his hands in surrender.

Okay, so it's Abby, Carl, Lulu and Code? Noted.

Caramel groaned. "What do you want Abby?"

"To let these humans know their place."

My jaw clenched. "It's funny how you say that word Abby, seeing as you'd be the lesser version of me without some machine to help you do things I can do without it."

Code smirked.

Abby's glare literally turned into something sinister. "You dare to-"

It didn't take long for me to notice her fist beginning to take on a fiery red glow.

Quickly, Code reached out, holding her fist mid air. His hand encircling around her glowing fist, seemed to have taken up a frozen hue. "No powers at school Abby, do you want to get arrested?" He gritted out.

Her hands stopped glowing, so did his.

What the hell was that?

She shrugged off his hold, a smirk playing on her lips. "Looking forward to our training together, Human."

"It's Ivy, Ivy fisher." I corrected.

"Go suck on a cactus, Fisher." Carl said.

Ralph, shook his head. "When will you ever realize that not everyone has the same cactus sucking fetish as you?"

"I'm disappointed in you." He retorted.

Caramel smile, "Finally learnt a sentence from your Dad, Carly? I'm so proud of you."

That made me chuckle.

"I'm going to Class," Code said, annoyed. "Welcome to Inc high, Ivy, Roman." He added, before, turning and walking away.

I shook my head, smiling slowly at Abby, before saying, "I'll be waiting in antipation at practice... for you." With that, I walked past her, making sure my shoulder connected with hers. Harshly.

Stopping at my locker. I turned. "What are they? It looked like their fists were glowing."

"Yeah, what was that?" Roman asked.

"The Hushford Twins, one has a fire ability and the other, Ice." Caramel informed.

"Whoa, that's so cool." Roman said.

I sighed. "Well, that was intense, whatever it was." I murmured as the locker pulled open. Inside, there was a tablet computer.

Ralph leaned on the locker beside me. "You didn't look intimidated." He said with a smile.

Caramel and I exchanged a knowing look.

"Well," I looked up at him. "I've seen worse." I said, taking out the TCom

"You guys don't use textbooks or notebooks here?" Roman asked, taking out his TCom too.

"Nope." Caramel replied.

"The TCom has every thing you'd need for your classes. It's like your school buddy." Ralph said. "Can be creepy sometimes."

"Cool... This place just keeps getting cooler and cooler." Roman said with a grin on his face.

"I give you two weeks and some days, tops... That grin is gonna turn into a scrowl." A new but familiar voice cut into our conversation.

I turned to the direction of the voice.

Fiona, she stood there, totally different from how I remembered seeing her with the fake glasses and lame wig. Her red hair was wild and beautiful, complimenting her bright blue eyes. Her eyes met mine, "Hi." She said, her voice sounding kind of small and cautious.

I gave her a nod, looking away.

I couldn't look past it, seeing her reminded me of the betrayal, the hurt that came with that day. The familiar squeeze of my heart taking a new turn.

Ignore it... Ignore it...

"It's not like I have a choice is it?" Roman asked her. "It's either I like it, or I hate it." He said, turning to me, "Hey, I'm gonna explore my TCom in our class, will you be okay?"

"Sure, take mine, I'll meet you there in a sec, and be careful."

He nodded, taking my TCom and walking away, not without shooting a frown at Fiona.

She sighed. "Can we talk?" She asked cautiously.

"Hello, Fiona, I'm here too, good morning." Ralph gave her a mocking smile.

She shot him a glare. "I'm not blind to that, your presence just doesn't matter to me."

"Ouch." He placed a hand across his chest. "That's rude, Fi... And hot, I like it."

"You're annoying." Caramel said with a look of disgust before turning to Fiona. "I'm taking back my bed tonight Fi, leave the door open, I hate sharing a room with Bianca." She turned towards me. "See you at practice Ivy." She said before turning the other direction and walking away.

Ralph gave me a look, simply asking if it was okay to leave me alone with her. I nodded with a smile, he turned and made his way down the hall, some guys meeting him half way.

I sighed, my gaze finally meeting Fiona's. "What do you want?"

"To apologize, for everything."

"Okay, it's cool." I said, shutting my locker with a little force.

She let out a calm breath. "We both know it's not Ivy. I see behind this facade you're putting on. You're not happy-"

"Did I say I was?" I almost snapped.

"No but-"

"There's nothing to talk about here, Fiona."

"Yes there is... You're hanging out with Caramel and Ralph, you've made enemies just in the span of minutes here... This isn't the path you should be taking-"

"Pray tell, Fiona, what path should I be taking? You want me to go back to being the girl everyone could walk on? You want me shut my mouth when someone says the word 'human' like it's some kind of disease? You want me to be the broken girl with 'betray me', carved to her forehead?"

"That's not what I'm saying Ivy, this isn't you." She said.

I scoffed. "You're one to talk. You were disguised as someone you're not. You pretended to be someone else, just to dig your way into my life...you were supposed to be my best friend, but I guess it was all about the job to you."

She shook her head. "No it wasn't Ivy... Okay, it was at first but- then I got to know you, and I really did take you as my friend."

"No you didn't, if you did, you would have told me who you really were-"

"I did what I did to protect you."

"The same bullshit! Fiona, look around you... You were trying to protect me from this, from these people, from the Inc... Yet here I am. I've lost everything I care about. What was the point."

"We didn't know."

"Nobody knew... But still, I thought I had a friend who had my back, a friend who wouldn't keep anything from me... I thought I had a boyfriend who loved and cared enough to tell me that the so-called friend I have was like him."

Fiona sighed. "There's nothing I or Ethan can say to make up for that... But you have to understand that Ethan really does love you, he cares about you. He wasn't even in support of my presence because he hated lying to you."

I rolled my eyes, crossing my arms over my chest. "I don't believe that."

She gave a look that spelt, 'only if you knew' "You broke up with him because you blame him for what happened. I understand that you're hurt and it's not an easy thing to lose both your parents. I've been there, twice. First it was my real parents from the outside, both died in a car explosion. That was when the Inc found me, second were my adoptive parents here at the Inc, they got sentenced to death because Glory thought they were getting too close to Ethan, and they'd take him away from her. I blamed him too, but then I came to realize that none of it was his fault, Glory is a possessive witch and she would never leave him alone." She said.

My reserve weakened immediately, and every wall I'd put up, shattered into pieces. "I'm sorry, I didn't-"

"It's fine, it all happened in the past, and I'm over it."

I sighed, raking my hands through my hair. "How did you get over it?"

She shrugged. "When you live here for years, a lot of things happen to make you forget, and also... I take some, herbal medications... It helps with the nightmares."

I nodded.

"I'm really sorry, Ivy... About everything. I didn't want to put you in anymore trouble, that's why I didn't tell you. I didn't think things would turn out this way, I didn't know Glory would go this far... I'm sorry I hurt you."

I smiled, pulling her in for a hug. "It's okay, I'm sorry too, for acting like a bitch."

She hugged me back. "It's kinda cool, goes with the whole new look thing." She chuckled, pulling away.

"Caramel is to blame for that." I said

"So are we good now?"

I nodded.

"Friends again?"

"No... Best friends again."

She gave sigh of relief.

"So this is the real you! Why didn't you just show up like this in ICHS... Boys are literally going to trip on their own feet."

She laughed while rolling her eyes. "Then there would have been questions going around about why Ivy Fisher had a cool new boyfriend and best friend... Too much attention."

"Oh... I'm also cool." I said, feeling like a huge bag of grain had been lifted up my shoulder.

"Yup, if you had this look in ICHS, you'd be the mean girl, and Janie would never treat you like she did."

"Yeah you're right." I sighed. "I'm glad we're okay now... I feel relieved, and- better."

"Me too. Are you going to talk to Ethan?"

My heart skipped a beat at the thought of talking to him.

"I don't know. I- I said some- some awful things to him last we spoke, and I don't think I can face him, at least not now."

"Come on, It's Ethan we're talking about. He becomes a total idiot when it comes to you. I guarantee you he's not mad at you or anything like that. I know it seems like you both need sometime apart, but, that's what the mind is saying, you both need each other... You should talk to him."

She was right.

This wasn't anybody's fault. I blamed him without even thinking about his feelings, all he wanted was to protect me, that was why he hid those things from me... He didn't know Glory would go too far. I shouldn't focus my anger on him, he doesn't deserve that.

My anger should be focused on that witch. Glory. She was responsible for this. For every damn thing!

"What's Glory's deal with Ethan? Why doesn't she just leave him alone?"

Fiona shrugged. "She's a sick woman who thinks he's her son."

"But he's not."

"There's a back story to that." Fiona said.

"What? What is it?"

"Nobody knows."

"Trust me, he's as confused as the rest of us. But I'm serious though. You need to go talk to him, cause I'm worried."

"What do you mean?" I didn't like the tone in her voice.

"It's Ethan, I know that boy like the back of my palm, he's going to have to let his frustration out somehow."

"Like taking a Mission to go after the Inc lords?"

Her eyes widened. "He what?"

"I overheard him telling Malcolm about it. I'm going too, so is Ralph, and Caramel."

She raked her hands through her hair. "You've got to be kidding me. What the hell is he thinking? Glory has no say over this, she can't stop him even if she wants to."

"That's why we have to join in, and have his back."

She groaned. "That's if I don't beat him out of the thought first." I muttered.

I smiled at that.

"I'm in, I won't let him go on his own... And he'd probably change his mind when he realizes that you'd be going too... In fact, he'll go ballistic." She said. "But, I still can't help but worry though, he hasn't been picking up my calls. I'd been calling to tell him to avoid coming to school today."

"Why?"

"Haven't you heard the rumors?"

I paused. "What rumors?"

She hesitated before speaking. "Um... Well, there's something you should know, about, Ethan. He's um... He's really popular around here, like really popular, like moth to a flame popular, due to his relationship with Glory and all..."

"Yeah, I figured that out a long time ago."

"Yeah... Well, there are several rumors about him, sent back to the Inc because he screwed up the only thing Glory trusted him with."

"That's doesn't even make sense. That's not even closed to what happened."

"Yeah I know... But... Ethan's the only one in this whole dimension without a potential, as Glory would put it."

"What?"

"He doesn't have any special ability."

He never told me this.

"So, the rumors are simply stating that because he had no potential, Glory brought him back here. You see, in Inc high, when people don't know a certain truth, they just fabricate a story. If Ethan hear's this, I don't know what's gonna happen."

"This just keeps getting worse."

"I know, and I've been-"

She stopped midway, when we both noticed people beginning to rush down the hallway to a particular direction.

"What's going on?"

"I'm not sure."

I spotted Edith, rushing past us.

"Edith." Fiona called.

She stopped, looking back at us.

"What's happening?" I asked her.

Her gaze met mine, she smiled. "Ivy, hi... You look, good... Different... Good."

"Thanks. Were you expecting something else."

"Absolutely."

"Where's everyone going to?"

She sighed. "Code texted me... It appears Ethan's about to get himself arrested on his first day back."

My heart dropped. "What's going on?"

"I don't know, but we have to go see if we can stop it before it gets out of hand." She said. "Come on," she continued down the hallway.

"This can't be good." Fiona said.

"What does she mean by get himself arrested?"

She held my hand as we both followed the route everyone was taking.

"Tell me, what did she mean?"

She turned to me with concerned eyes "Well, Ethan's about to or probably is already beating someone to death."

"What?"

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