CHAPTER FOUR

Today felt far too long, first I met Silver Eyes ___ wait no, Amatsuki, then I met Keiichi and Naito and I'm pretty sure everyone knew how that went and last but of course the least, I ran into Shoki and Marici. I'm not sure about Takashi after lunch had ended I didn't really see him once the entire day. With a shrug of my shoulder at the thought, I walked down the entrance steps taking them two at a time and with a steady pace as I made my way towards my car.

I watched as vehicles of different types and size slowly trickled out of the academy lot and those who didn't have their own ride were posted at the bus stop. Pulling my car keys out of my blazer pocket, I pressed the automatically unlock key, when I heard the soft click, I pulled open the passenger side door. I dumped my stuff onto the back seat, and with a sigh, I softly slammed it shut as I walked around to the driver's side and clambered in. Leaning down in my seat I pulled off my shoes and grabbed my good comfy morning slippers and put them on.

Finally, my toes can relax.

Pulling my door close, I stuck the key into the ignition, the rumbling of the car made me frown slightly. I secretly despised driving and would very much prefer to have a driver, but I really wasn't in the mood for all the hassle that went into getting a driver so I just let it be and besides, I wouldn't want to attract any more attention to myself than I already had which wasn't really much, but I wouldn't want to change. Sighing, I drove out of the lot.

Though a pout fell onto my lips when a car suddenly stopped in front of mine, "No!" I whined softly, glaring at the back of the car which I knew must've been a Bugatti or something in that category. It didn't take long before the car drove off to wherever it was supposed to go. I drove out of the Academy Estate. Naito and Keiichi still playing the back of my mind as I drove home, though the thought of them wasn't unnecessarily unpleasant.

With the tiny feeling of happiness I felt, I pulled into the Glade Estate, glaring at the large dominating castle like building that I had been living in on my own for more than a few years now. My parents had abandoned me the moment I knew how to use credit cards....i was like ten years old, they just left, without any letter or words of goodbye....not even an 'I love you'. Though I had learned to net let them get to me much.

Blinking my eyes repeatedly, I let out a shaky breath, it was no use crying over something I had no control over. My parents clearly never wanted me, their form of love...the ridiculous expensive amounts of gifts they had their private assistants send, the only parental figures that I had known my whole life, Gengyo the head Butler and Miyata, the head maid. They were the only family I ever truly needed...at least this is what I tell myself every night.

Stepping into the foyer, I smiled politely at one of the various maids their names escaping me each time even when I try to remember what their names were. Taking the stairs two at a time that led towards my room. I had gotten lost in the large mansion the first few years of my life, but now I knew it like the back of my hand and there were a lot of secret passageways I'd hide away in when I wanted to. Dropping my stuff onto the lounge chair bear my bed, I fell with a huff onto my queen-sized bed while letting out a tired breath.

I threw my feet over the side of the bed and shuffled off the bed stumbling towards the window seat. Leaning against the wall behind the wall behind me I took a sit. I stared out of the large windows that gave me the perfect view of the Tsukuba estate. One of the only pastimes I enjoyed, well besides when I get to practice my music or help Miyata in the kitchen-after many hours of begging, of course. I really need a life outside of school, and even then I barely had a life at school. My days spent doing the duties I had been assigned and the odd jobs the teachers made me do here and there.

My eyes drifted towards the rose maze; one of the few spots I could relax in. The large labyrinth of crimson a safe haven from the world outside of its long twisting turns of confusion. I scratched my hip when a tingle seemed to spread the width of it. I scrunched my brows in confusion, staring down at my hip still covered by my white shirt..i had taken my blazer off when I had gotten to my car before I began to gently lift it upwards revealing whatever it was that had caused that tingle.

I gasped, sitting up and away from the wall, my head angled to the right as I tried to get a better look at what I saw. I stood up from the seat before rushing towards the body length mirror, still holding my shirt away from what I had seen... A dragon in flight with scales of reds, blue, purple and green, each color separate yet interlocking like tree branches. It looked like a tattoo.

A tattoo I didn't remember ever getting. I tentatively trail my fingers over the mark, a shocked breath escaping me when sparks seemed to ignite with each touch of my fingertip. My heart raced with each spark, slamming recklessly against my rib cage as I dropped my shirt. I let out a choked breath, widened eyes staring back at me. I stumbled back towards the window seat, tears that I had previously wished away fell from my eyes leaving wet trails on my cheeks.

My hand fell to my hip, another choked breath leaving me. I didn't remember where I had gotten a tattoo, I'm sure I didn't get a tattoo. I don't drink or do drugs, how could getting a tattoo to be something I could've forgotten? And besides, I didn't have a tattoo when I had woken up this morning..... I'm going crazy... Falling to knees in front of the window seat, I let out a whimper. My hand pressed tightly against my hip, the mark throbbing at a steady beat beneath my palm...

"I'm not going crazy..." I whispered desperately, fresh tears falling from my eyes. Why would the gods betray as they did? Made me a freak amongst a world of normality. A cursed child even her parents didn't want.