Elizabeth's POV

I found it in his locker.

I didn't mean to pry, but a glowing blue feather? Not what you would usually find in your crush's locker.

It was just after school, and I was trying to put a letter in his locker asking him out to the movies because I was too shy to ask him face to face. Don't judge.

I knew he wouldn't be at his locker as he was currently at fencing class; memorising his timetable was a piece of cake.

I had just slipped it in when I noticed the glow from inside. Stressing again, I didn't mean to pry, but hey, wouldn't you be curious?

I pulled out a bobby pin from my hair and inserted it into the lock. Carefully, I twisted the pin until I heard a soft click. I pulled open the locker and peeked inside.

"Oh my gosh, how is his locker so neat?" I complained, taking in everything inside.

I noticed the picture stuck on the locker door and traced its frame. I recognised the one and only Calix, with his sparkling eyes and adorable smile. Next to him was a smiling girl, which I recalled as his cousin Alysha. As dazzling her smile was,
I couldn't help but notice the way her eyes were, as if she was hiding something. I stared at the photo for awhile before diverting my attention to the blue glow.

The feather was about the height of my palm, with feathery edges and a pointed tip. It gave off a ocean blue glow, and the glitter dusted on it seemed to sparkle.

A glowing blue feather? The best I could think of was glow-in-the-dark powder. Even so, why would Calix have one in his locker? A project, perhaps? There was no such thing as a natural glowing blue feather after all.

Was there?

No, I would have read about it somewhere. It must have flown in when he wasn't watching, although the chances of that happening was very slim.

I reached out, curious anyways, to touch the blue feather. My fingers had barely brushed it before I heard footsteps and the sound of talking.

I jumped back and quickly shut the locker, hurrying out the school, my heart still pounding, because I swore I heard a voice when my fingers came in touch with the feather.

"Help me."

~*~

"Hey, where'd ya go?" My desk buddy and best friend Zephryn asked.

"Somewhere," I reply, dropping my bag on the ground and heading to the kitchen.

He raised an eyebrow, and rolled off the couch, dropping onto the ground.

"Have you finished your homework yet?" I questioned as I dug through the fridge for a pack of yogurt.

"Nope."

"Ugh, let me guess. You need help for all the questions."

"Ding ding ding, we have a winner!" He caught the yogurt I tossed to him and started to open it, "but seriously Iza, where'd you go?"

"Went to drop off a letter." I pulled out my homework and pencil case from my bag.

"Oh you mean the one for Calix? Couldn't you at least give it to him in person?" He grinned.

I smacked him with my Math worksheet, then got to work on it.

He smiled at me and leaned over, "So how do you do question 1?"

I read the question, "...locker. Hey, that reminds me. I found a feather in Calix's locker just now."

"You opened his locker?" He choked on his yogurt, then, after recovering, asked, "What did you see inside? Did you take a picture?"

"Stuff. And no, i didn't take a picture so you can't blackmail him. There wasn't anything interesting inside anyways."

He slouched against the couch, "Then what's so interesting about a feather?"

"It was blue. And glowing. And sparkly."

"You sound like you're describing a unicorn. A blue unicorn."

"The feather said 'help me'."

He looked up from his paper, suddenly interested, "Wait what?"

"Yeah," I said, scribbling down a '47 watermelons' on my paper, "when i touched it. I think I imagined it though."

"Describe to me the feather. In detail."

I pretend to think, "Well, it had a gold horn, and flowers in its mane. Oh! And its eyes-"

"Iza." He sounded serious now.

What a mood change.

I frowned at him, "It's just a feather, Phryn."

"Ugh, you know what? Just show me the feather." He stood up abruptly and stalked out.

"Zephyrn wait! He would have finished his fencing class now and be headed towards his locker!" I jumped up and ran after him.

I had trouble catching up to him, and when I did, we were already there. Luckily, Calix wasn't there yet. I stopped beside Zephryn to catch my breath, watching as he struggled with the lock.

He opened his mouth, about to say something, when we heard footsteps approach. Looking up, I almost choked as I saw Calix and his best friend Enzo turn the corner.

I made a weird high-pitched "eek" sound and ran back from where I came from, hiding behind another row of lockers.

I waited for voices, and for my heart to stop pounding.

"Hey Zephyrn! Wassup?" I heard Enzo great Zephyrn, then heard a slap. I sighed.
Boys.

"Nothing much, just need to grab something from Thomas' locker."

"What is it?" My heart flipped as I heard Calix's voice.

"Project work." I heard a locker door creak open.

I peeked out from the corner. Zephryn had opened the locker next to Calix's, and was now rifling through it. Which was strange, since he couldn't have picked the lock, watching how how he struggled to with Calix's locker.

"How was practice?" Zephryn asked, pulling out a piece of paper, then throwing it back in.

"Mm, alright I guess." Calix inserted the key into the lock, and my breath caught in my throat.

"Alright? You didn't have to do 30 push-ups because our instructor was being salty." Enzo complained, opening his locker.

"That's becaus- hey what's this?" He reached into his locker and pulled out...

...My letter?

Didn't he see the blue feather? Even Zephyrn looked confused.

"Ooooh, a love letter?" Enzo tried to grab it, but Calix smacked his hand away.

"Well, nice chat. Bye." Calix shut his locker  and walked off, letter in hand.

"He's just excited to read his letter." Enzo smirked, then waved Zephryn bye and jogged after Calix.

After they had turned the corner, Zephyrn turned to where I was.

"You have some explaining to do."

YEEEEP finally finished this chapter after procrastinating HAHA but yes hope y'all enjoyed this chapter and do pitch in! ;> feedback is appreciated and yeah! See y'all in the next chapter (hopefully) :>

~Maplesplash ^w^