On My Mind

Hazel was fairly traumatised after the accident, but some of it just blended in with the other awful stuff she’d witnessed alongside that. Perhaps one day all of that would become completely normal to her and she’d be desensitised. ‘Oh look another dead body… anyway.’ But judging by her dad’s behaviour it would never become awful. Nonetheless, at least it didn’t hit her as hard as Abi. Gosh, Hazel couldn’t even begin to imagine how it felt to kill someone, even if it wasn’t her fault. She was there for her best friend the entire time, giving her space when needed. She tried to avoid speaking about that evening, unless Abi prompted the conversation. She was keen for them to be normal teenagers, not a banshee and werewolf.

Who'd have thought it though? Abi. A werewolf. It wasn’t ideal for Abi, in the slightest, but a part of Hazel was excited her friend was also supernatural because she had someone to speak to about all the weird goings on. Granted, Hazel had no idea what it was like to be a werewolf, only the drips of information fed to her by her Uncle Kit and Abi had no idea what it was like to be a banshee, but they were in it together forever.

Hazel didn’t sprint home after her date with Lex to call Abi and tell her everything because it low-key didn’t go that well. Not only did they almost get mugged but Hazel’s lies were rumbled in the most awkward situation ever. A criminal lying on the floor and Lex screaming at Hazel to set him on fire because she was a fire homie. She was no fire homie though, she was a liar. The first boy she’d ever gone on a date with and it was a bust. She wanted to curl up in a ball and simply die of embarrassment.

There was no time for that though because exams were pending and Hazel was drowning in revision. Maybe revision would be the death of her. She needed a break and an iced coffee.

She waited in the square for Abi, scrolling mindlessly through Instagram until she heard someone call out her name. Her face lit up when she spotted Abi coming towards. “Hi!.” She threw her arms around Abi, returning the hug. “Ugh… don’t.” The only good thing to come out of her date was that Lex saved her life, which meant something, right? Yeah she lied about the whole fire homie thing, but he still fried the mugger. “So. We went for food at the Grill which was fab and he even paid for the whole thing.” Total gentleman, earn brownie points. “Then we left the Grill and started walking. Then out of nowhere this gross looking man popped up and tried to steal our phones… so like I may have like told Lex I could set fire to things when we first met because he can do all this cool stuff with technology using his mind… Anywaaaaaaay, so this guy is asking us for our cellphones and Lex is banking on me to set fire to this man so I had to tell him I lied about being a psychic.” She threw her hands up in the arm in defeat before covering her face with shame, “Oh Abi it was awful.” She mumbled, dropping her hands, “But! He saved us by electrocuting the guy using his powers… which was kinda… hot.” She let out a nervous laugh.


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It was so cringe that she actually had a crush on Lex. Also it was a mystery as to why. He wasn’t exactly showering her with compliments or making her feel good about herself, in fact he was a little bit mean to her. “Oh yeah it was no big deal.” She responded with a shrug. It was two versus one anyway, so minus the powers they probably could have given the criminal a good kicking because that wasn’t assault, right? Her mom would have approved.

It was in a complete moment of panic that the lie slipped out of her and it got her nowhere. “I didn’t wanna tell him I scream at dead people. He might have thought I was a weirdo and never spoke to me again.” Lex would have been totally in the right to cut ties with Hazel after the date for lying, but he didn’t. It was only adding fuel to the idea that he fancied her as well.

If the situation happened the other way wrong Hazel would certainly have been giving Lex a lecture about how it was wrong to lie, just how she constantly told him off for swearing. The boy loved dropping the F bomb. “He was a bit annoyed but didn’t give me a hard time about it.” Her lie was completely justifiable in fairness and she was going to tell him the truth soon, but in her own time, not when she was faced with a man demanding her cell. “I don’t know… I wanna ask him but I don’t know how to because if he says no I will have no choice but to go into hiding for eternity.” Lex was giving nothing but positive signals at the moment, but she was terrified she was misreading some of them signals. Like maybe he just paid for dinner because he’s flushed with cash or maybe it’s because he likes her and wants her to be his girlfriend. Who knows.


AUBREY SHEPARD

Her parents would have wanted her to report what happened, but then she would have to admit to them she went on a date with a boy. Lex wouldn’t want to report the situation either because there was a chance the dude would tell the police Lex did some voodoo magic on him then they might take him in for questioning or even worse to cut his body open for science. Hopefully the criminal learnt his lesson.

It was only a little tiny white lie she told him. Nothing too drastic. She told him some truth though when she told him she was supernatural, even though it was impossible for her to prove that to him without finding a body. “No! I’m not lying to him again… ever.” She learnt her own lesson that day, thankfully without the need to be fried like the man. Hazel hoped the man was okay, but they never went back and checked on him. Lex insisted he’d be fine, there was no need to go back

Lex was the boy so he should have been the one to ask Hazel on a date, afterall he asked her on the first date. It wasn’t like he was a shy boy either, anything but. So she couldn’t understand why he hadn’t asked yet. “Maybe I’ll hint that there’s a movie I wanna see.” Perhaps she needed to hang a bit of bait in front of him, waiting for him to take it. “Ugh why are boys so hard to read?”

Hazel flashed a smile at her best friend as Abi’s arm slipped into hers. Sounded like something her mom would tell her to cheer her up. “It would just be sooooo much easier to date someone supernatural because then they’d just understand it, y’know. If I dated someone who wasn’t I’d have to lie to them forever.” Because there was no way she’d reveal herself to someone who wasn’t supernatural incase they had her shipped off to a mental hospital.


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