An exchange of glares - Rey
Headmistress Megan Treallins.
She had the best parts of Guville, a wide smile on her face and that general friendly aura about her.
And the worst parts of Wilkins, that condescending tone of voice and very obviously forced happiness.
I didn't know to love her or hate her.
A little voice in the back of my head whispered in reply. "Don't judge a book by its cover."
I knew that voice, I'd recognise it anywhere even despite her death.
Vanessa.
My mum.
She was the best mother a bo- a child could ask for.
Her message of don't judge a book by it's cover made so much sense seeing as who she dated.
I may have gotten my father's regeneration mutation but I'm am sure glad I didn't get his looks.
Was that mean? I feel like that was mean. Eh who cares?
I folded my arms across my chest, crossing them as I stared at Treallins, giving her a deadpan glare.
"So Rey.." She hummed, giving me a once over before she walked up to me, going round in a circle around me like a hunter watching over their prey. "I hear you didn't want to come here."
I tense slightly as she goes around me, resisting the urge to turn on my heel to keep her in my line of sight with Wilkins watching over me like a hawk, ready to reprimand me for any mistake.
God how I hated Officer Henry Wilkins.
"No I didn't." I replied snappily, my tone cold and sharp as I keep my glare on the faded blue wallpaper.
"Then why are you here?" Her voice was soft and gentle, like honey. But also like honey her personality was too sweet, sickly almost.
Wilkins laughed sharply, the sound grating against my hearing and making me wish I could just go and slam my head into a wall.
I stay silent, gritting my teeth in frustration as my eyes narrow and I glare at everything around me.
"Please Rey." She murmured softly, her tone gentle. "I only want to help."
Her use of the word 'help' reminded me so much of Guville and I wanted more than anything to go back to her, at least I could talk to her.
It's almost weird how I barely knew the woman and yet trusted her more than anything or anyone else I've known in a long while.
Except Vanessa, no one could beat her. She was amazing.
I miss her so much.
Her voice.
The way she used to make up stories for me and the soft late night conversations we used to have.
I mean of course I missed Wade but he didn't have to leave me. He chose to abandon me. I know him well enough to know that he most definitely regenerated; he just didn't care enough to come find me.
I mean who does that? What kind of monster doesn't care enough about his so- child to come save him? I mean what the fuck?!
"Answer Rey." Wilkins cut off, giving me a stern glare.
Treallins rolled her dark brown eyes. "Tone Officer." I bristled at her tone and felt my spine straighten instinctively at the sterness in it. "But he is right Rey I suggest you answer quickly."
That cold tone of hers and her strictness reminded me of just how much she acted like Wilkins here.
"And if I don't?" My reply was defiant and sharp.
She stopped pacing around me when she was in front of me and that cold glare of hers sent shivers down my spine, it was cold enough to freeze hell over.
I gulped at that and instinctively stepped back.
She smiled at that, a wolfish grin that now looked more like Wilkins' fake and forced smile than Guville and her soft and gentle one.
"Please Rey."
I didn't like the way she kept saying my name, the way it made the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end.
I didn't even know what I was saying until I said it. "I have to because I broke the law and don't have anywhere else to go."
Treallins' smile obly grew. "There we go." She hummed in mocking reply. "Now listen closely."
She stepped closer once more and I stepped back, keeping that distance between us.
"I do not want you to break any of my rules here. You will stay on campus. You will follow your schedule. You will behave. You will not start any fights." She listed of sternly.
I nodded slowly.
"And Rey I believe you will understand and follow this."
I stared at her blankly before nodding again.
"I need verbal confirmation here Rey." She stated firmly, a strict undertone in her voice as he crossed her arms and death glared me.
Not very professional of her, not that I would voice that outloud.
Gritting my teeth I swallowed my pride, glaring coldly at her. "I understand."