Westminster Academy

It was the crack of dawn and even the sun had yet to wake up and light the sky. You could still see the moon faintly in the sky as the wind lightly blew in the Arizona air.

It was chilly now but once the sun started to shine it would be a boiling pot of water and even the wind would make you sweat. That was just how Arizona worked.

And right in the middle of nowhere was Westminster Academy.

It stood wide and tall with pride as the dull colors of gray and black stood out. The facility took up acres of land far and wide and was blocked off from the world by brick walls.

There was only one place in and out, something Dylan didn’t like.

She didn’t like being in the middle of nowhere without an escape. It would drive her crazy if she allowed it, but there was nothing she could do. So she sat, silent in anger, as her parents drove past the school gates.

She didn’t belong here, is what Dylan would scream and yell at you if asked. Dylan would claim that she was fine and normal and didn’t deserve this kind of treatment from her parents.

Why couldn’t they just take my phone, Dylan thought in anger because normal parents took their kid’s phone. They didn’t ship you off to a school that would probably tear down her spirits and darken her soul.

They website didn’t say that but Dylan could tell that the school didn’t promise any happiness like her high school did, old high school now.

And just as Dylan’s family car stopped outside the school, another person was causing a scene inside.

Quinn was raging mad as he threw a chair at a girl’s body, sending her falling to the ground in pain. His breathing was labored and his eyes shined black as he looked at the guy helping said girl up.

Quinn didn’t do well with betrayal and having his girlfriend with another guy enraged him. He stalked over to them and pulled the guy away, tossing him on the ground and standing over him. It probably looked like this was the last time the guy would be alive.

No one was stopping him though, because they all knew that Quinn was a force to be reckoned with. He was worse than a mother’s wrath and everyone knew it, so the poor guy on the floor was on his own.

Quinn grabbed a fist full of his shirt and pulled him up. He pulled his fist back and as his arm moved with force as fast as sonic, it connected with the guys face. All that was her was a shout of pain and a snap as blood leaked.

Quinn had broken the guys nose.

Quinn was gonna continue, he was far from done, but he was tackled to the ground by a guard. He tried to fight the man pinning him to the ground but it as useless.

Another make guard joined and they both pulled Quinn up. They placed ties on his wrist, behind his back, and dragged him away, all while forgetting about the injured boy on the ground.

Quinn was smirking as he was taken away and the twins watched him with blank faces.

The twins, Diamond and Derek.

One was black and one was mixed. They had different mom’s but we’re born on the same day, making them twins by their standards. They even looked alike so no one questioned their color difference.

They laid low together and never made a scene. They were practically invisible to the eye and they wanted it to stay that way. Derek didn’t like attention and Diamond didn’t like anything that breathed, so laying low works for them.

Diamond walked away from the scene, that had now died down, and Derek followed. Where one went the other followed. It was their unwritten rule. They even shared a dorm room.

“I don’t feel like going to math,” Derek voiced to Diamond as they strolled through the halls.

“Then we won’t,” Diamond stated, agreeing that they would skip.

And they weren’t the only ones skipping class either.

If you traveled to the abandoned building, you would find a girl, walking the dusty halls and whistling a tune.

Her name was Raven Brown and she was hiding from a group of people who picked fun at her and pushed her around. They had no care for Raven, claiming she wasn’t a real girl if she was born a male.

It was always a sore subject for her and so the bullying only made her more depressed. This abandoned area was her safe place because everyone was to scared to come here. They swore it was hunted.

Hunted by dusty bugs, Raven thought as she sat down on the grown and watched a faded black spider crawl up the wall at a snells pace.

It was the only fascinating thing she would be seeing today, and Dylan thought the same thing as she was greeted by the two Deans and other workers.

“Welcome to Westminster Academy!” The two deans said in sync as they greeted Dylan and her family.

This is hell, Dylan thought...

And she wasn’t too far off.