• Preface? :/
    This book is NOT a true story. If it was, why would it have that name? I mean, it’s a horrible name. Or is it? What if I am lying about this not being a true story? If it is, it must of happened long, long ago. Before you were alive. Before I was alive. Before THEY were alive.. This could be an average book, but then why would it have this cover? Questions, questions, questions. That’s all humans ever ask. But what do monsters do if humans ask all of the questions…?
    Chapter one, The Midnight Ride
    She walked down that narrow hallway again, pressing her ear against doors to make sure everyone was asleep. She even tried opening them, to see if they were locked like they were supposed to be.
    She heard someone shuffling their feet all around the room. She tried opening the door. It wasn’t locked. She opened the door and entered. “Sophie, what has been the matter with you lately?” she asked me. “Hnnn.” I answered.
    I was trying to find my knife, even though I knew this was the wrong time to find it. When I said nothing else, Susan patted my head. “Sophie, you need to go to sleep, now!” She said, almost waking up my roommates, Isabella and Diamond.
    We weren’t normal girls. We were in a special school for the crazed children, solemnly named Oak Leaves. No idea why, there weren’t any oak trees here at all. I frowned. “I’m looking for my teddy!” I lied, knowing that she saw through that obvious lie.
    “Sophie, I’m worried about you. You haven’t made any progress since you came here, and you might be sent home if you don’t do anything about it.” “I know Susan.” Susan was our dorm advisor, our teacher, very close to your mother.
    I yawned. “That’s a reason you should go to sleep. Don’t make me read you another story tonight Sophie.” Susan groaned at me. Everyone, even herself hated her stories. They always had a stupid ending that landed her here.
    I groaned in return, lay down in my bed, and closed my eyes. Susan walked out of the room, locked the door, and waited five minutes to make sure I was sleeping. I was locked in my dreams by then, trying to see what would happen next in them.
    He appeared again, right by my side table. He was quiet, to make sure Susan wouldn’t hear him. “Sophie, Sophie, wake up. It’s time for our next midnight ride.” He told me. I woke up immediately, of course this wasn’t my dream. It wasn’t a nightmare either.
    “Neko-Kun!” I said in a soft whisper. I had always called Dylan that. Dylan always wanted to tell me his secret, so he tried every Friday at night. He picked me up and silently jumped out of the window with me in his arms. I giggled. He always made the jump. It was like he was some kind of mystical creature.
    Now she would ask him about it, but she was afraid of his answer. It was like he could read her mind. All of a sudden, he whispered “You’ll find out, just wait.” He took her to a nearby cave on the seashore.
    “How are you feeling?” He asked as he put his arm around me, as if it would warm me up. “I’m fine.” I replied. “You really want to know, don’t you?” He asked as he slowly took his arm of my shoulder, and leaned my head off of his shoulder.
    “Yes, I really do want to know, tell me.” I begged him. “When it hits midnight I will tell.” He answered to my begging. "Okay" I whispered as a reply. "Don't go out there and forget like you did last full moon." I didn't know that he would get to scared again, and not tell me. Every Friday there was a full moon.
    He had really seemed like he was going to tell me this time, but before he could, I started shivering. "Well look at that, you have to go home again" He said, and before I could answer him, he picked me up, and brought me straight back to Oak Leaves. He lulled me to sleep with his calming lullaby, and I just fell asleep in his arms. He lay me on the bed, pulling the covers over me. "Good Night Sophie." He said, as he left for his cave home.
    I slept the whole night through. The alarm rang, it was time to wake up. Susan started knocking on our doors, waking us up just in case the alarm didn’t work. Isabella, Diamond and I were always the first ones to get dressed, brush our teeth, come our hair, take our short showers, and wake up in the mornings. Mostly because Susan would give us the hints for the next day, and we were always the most excited. We three had known each other in the real world, out of Oak leaves, which is why we shared a room together.
    We all got along perfectly, since we had always been the happiest of friends in said real world. Our world. They had known of Dylan also, he had been my boyfriend since 3rd grade, when we all met. No one could change the four of us. Diamond and Isabella were Bi, so that’s why they didn’t have a boyfriend. They preferred each other over anything.
    That’s why it was so easy for us all to be friends. Me and Dylan were Bi to, so that’s why we had no problem with Diamond and Isabella being that way. If the dorm advisor would know our secrets, she wouldn’t have placed us all together. We wouldn’t have liked that. Dylan had a different room than us, so that’s why he knew where we were. He would’ve known anyways, of course. We all had lived perfectly normal lives until my parent’s had caught us all cutting ourselves in my room, the basement.
    There was blood all over my bed back then, before my parents had washed the whole room down. They didn’t want that giving me any ideas when we came back, though the memories would’ve given me ideas anyways. We knew we would probably be in Oak Leaves until we turned 19, and we were only 15 right now.
    It was a shame. We didn’t care. We would only talk to each other, no one else. No one else was nice to us, all because they had no idea why we were here. We always frowned, to show that no one could break through our lives. We were always silent, except towards teachers. Until she came. That girl from our school. The pretty miss perfect. The Prep.
    We saw her walking through the door that horrible day. It was a Monday. Doesn’t that figure? Monday’s, the horrible days. The soul opposites of Fridays, the best days. The days that were always perfect. This is the start of the new ways. The end of the begging. The worst part. The girl that wanted my boyfriend. The monster. Solemnly known as Jessica.
    Chapter Two, The Prep’s Here?!
    “Oh no guys, she’s here.” Isabella groaned.
    “Oh gosh.” Dylan said.
    “Oh Lord” Diamond said.
    “Why here of all places?” I said.
    “No idea.” Isabella, Dylan, and Diamond said in reply to my question.
    “She doesn’t belong here!” We started screaming. “She’s a goody two shoes! She’s a prep! She couldn’t have done ANYTHING to get into this great place! Send her back!” We all continued.
    Everyone was in awe. They watched us disagree with her coming. All the people here didn’t know her, and by her sluttish outfit, knew that we were right to hate her, and started joining in, making us all louder than we were allowed to be. The headmaster came from her room. She stared at us all strictly, and we quieted down.
    “What is all of this commotion about?” She asked all of this. Of course my friends and I were the ones to reply. “She is a goody two shoes Miss. She is the prep of our school. She does everything right, she’s never had a mistake in her life.” “Well then, Dylan, pack up, you are being placed in these guys’ room, and Jessica is joining you guys!” She shrieked. “But miss-” “NO BUTS! NOW HURRY UP AND GET PACKED, OTHERWISE YOU ARE GOING TO SPEND TIME IN JUVY INSTEAD OF THIS PLACE!!!” She screamed at the top of her voice. Jessica smiled in a friendly way, which was very unlike her.
    We were all in the room, with new beds already placed in there. “So you guys think I’m perfect?” Jessica asked us. “Well, yes, everyone in the school liked you except us, you were always the center of attention, you wore perfect cloth-” Before I could finish my sentence she changed into shorts and a tank top. She had bruises all down her body, along with cuts and scratches. “So you think I’m perfect? I got beaten. Why do you think I always wore long sleeves? Never went to slumber parties? My parents were rich and supplied me with stuff, but when they got drunk was your whole different story.” We gasped. “Yeah, this is the real me guys. They gave attention to me because they didn’t want me hanging out with you guys, no matter how much I had wanted to.”
    We all sat in silence, until we heard Susan checking the hallway. We locked the door, and got into our pajamas. Dylan was the one to break the silence once Susan went to her room. “We are going to my cave tonight guys. Jessica, you are coming with. You guys need to know why I cut myself.” He picked me up and dropped me to the ground. Surprisingly, I landed softly, and safely. Next was Isabella, then Jessica, then Diamond, then Dylan himself. He told us all to grabs his hands. Before anything happened, we appeared in the cave. “Guys, there is something I haven’t been telling you all, and I think it is time for you guys to know. I am a-a-a- a Demon. I live on my own blood, I can’t live on anything else. Do you all still like me?” “Yes.” We all whispered. “Surprisingly, I’m all of your guys guardian demon.” He replied in a soft voice. All of a sudden, I lit up. I was as bright as an angel. Without trying to say anything, I said “Angel Morph”. Dylan said “Demon Morph”. Isabella said “Star Morph”. Diamond said “Orb Morph”. Jessica said “Moon Morph”. We had no idea why any of us had said that, but we all were transforming.
    A halo popped over my head, along with a staff with an angel sign on it. A beautiful, white, detailed dress pulled my clothes off, and put itself onto me. A white necklace appeared on my neck. White bracelets on my hands, gorgeous wings on my back. Golden anklets on my feet. Gold shoes with spectacular designs on them. I was an Angel.
    Dylan had dark black and red clothing on him, with demon horns on his head, and a demon tail. Dylan was a Demon.
    Isabella had clothing that had stars all over it, with a necklace that had a real star in the front of it. Anklets with real stars on them. Bracelets with real stars on them. Isabella was a Star.
    Diamond had all white clothing on, and she had orb bracelets, anklets, and a necklace. Diamond was an Orb.
    Jessica had all gray clothing on. Small moons on her bracelets, anklets, and necklace. Jessica was a Moon.
    They were different. Different stories, different lives, different everything. They looked more beautiful than models in magazines, vampires in Twilight. More beautiful than even I, Katherine Weber, can imagine. They looked at each other in awe. They changed back to normal, and went back to Oak Leaves, already finding out more about themselves than they knew before.