The Book of Secrets

Chapter 1

“I hang out with Jenny all the time,” Max spat back at her looking over to Jenny for support, she had her head hung in guilt trying to stay out of the argument.

“That's because she's your girlfriend and you haven't been hanging out with her lately anyway, because she's been with me and Kelly,” she cried, his face went white and he shot a look at Jenny,

“I've been busy with practice, you know that,” he explained to Jenny who still had her head hung but this time she had shame on her face.

“I know,” she explained affectionately sending a look to Rachel who realized that she shouldn't have said anything.

“Well I don't see what that has got to do with anything anyway,” Max threw back at Rachel,

“OK, I think we should all calm down … I'm actually quite proud of you … your all becoming rebels like me” Zack laughed trying to ease the tension in the room,

“the only reason you try to act like a rebel is because your mummy didn't want you and left for another family.” Max snapped causing everyone to look at him with a gasp,

“Max!” Kelly scolded,

“say that again, I dare you” Zack shouted angrily as he stood up knocking his chair to the floor,

“What are you going to do about it” Max sneered as he too stood kicking his chair angrily,

“Guys don't” called Jenny worriedly as the boys closed the space between them, but before she could say another word, Zack had pushed Max and he went flying landing on the table behind,

“Stop it Guys” Kelly shouted but Max punched Zack and he fell back into the filing cabinet and the box on top of it fell, it's contents emptying onto the floor,

“STOP IT” shouted Adam as he stood in between them both, “You used to be best friends,” he reminded them,

“I must have been out of my mind to hang out with that idiot,” Max spat nastily as he walked back to his seat in a rage.

Kelly and Jenny started to clear up the mess that the boys had made during their scuffle. The girls put the chairs back to there original places and started to put some of the papers back into the box which they had fallen out of, but as they sorted through the roughage Kelly came across an old book.

The book had a big symbol on the cover, which looked like many different symbols all joined together. Inside a circle, there were four triangles all pointing different ways, one up, one down, one left and one right, it looked like the points of a compass. In the middle of them was what looked like a lightning bolt and under the symbols was a word but it made no sense, it was so mysterious it gave Kelly shudders.

“What's that?” asked Zack whilst he helped to tidy the mess he and Max had made,

“I don't know, it must have fallen out of the box” Kelly replied,

“Wow it looks ancient, what does that word mean?” Rachel asked when she saw the book,

“It looks like the title” Adam chipped in when he turned to see what they were talking about. As they were fussing over the book, Miss Penny walked into the room, “sit down” she screamed after she slammed a notebook on the desk at the front, she was now wearing a different dress which Kelly thought was nicer that the other one, but Miss Penny obviously didn't agree. “Mr Wood take that cap off” she shouted at Zack who with a huff obeyed.

When Kelly finally got home she quickly ran upstairs, but before she got to her room her parents called her into the kitchen,

“We've had a call for your school today Kelly,” Mrs Jones began as she sipped her coffee, she was dressed in a business suit and had her hair up on a ponytail, she had just come back from a meeting at work.

“do you want to explain why you were in detention,” Mr Jones asked as he set his cup of coffee down on the table, he too was dressed in a suit and he had a briefcase next to him and looked at Kelly seriously,

“I...I...I don't know” Kelly stuttered although she did know why she was in detention, she just knew that her parents would still be angry, whether she explained or not.

“You don't know? Well do you know what your father and I had to go through to make sure that that detention didn't go into your permanent record?” her mother snapped at her, “do you know what effect that detention could have had on your future?” she continued “Don't you care about how hard we've worked?” her mother spat slamming her hands on the table,

“I...I …- ”

“Do you want to be stacking shelves in the supermarket for the rest of your life?” her father interrupted,

“No” Kelly admitted as she bowed her head during a short uncomfortable silence,

“Good, Now go upstairs and do your homework” her mother ordered as she calmed herself down and Kelly obeyed.

Entering her room she threw her school bag on the bed, she hated having arguments with her parents, they were never satisfied with how hard she worked.

Kelly quickly got dressed and sat on her bed emptying the contents of her bag. Mixed in with her school books was a big book with a symbol on the cover, it was the book from detention, but she swore she had put it back in the box on top of the filing cabinet. Kelly sat looking at the cover of the book brushing her hand across the symbol, it was so strange and mysterious. Curiously Kelly tried to pronounce the word that Adam had called the 'title'.

“z...ze...zey...zeyra... Zeyra”

It must have been a different language, it looked so exotic and strange, Kelly carefully opened the book and realized that the pages were blank apart from the very first page. The same exotic language wrote out a small pasage it big thick letters. Kelly once again tried to read the writing.

“Penzy Vor Zin Actura Hiltz Beim Uoz Zin Zeyra”

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Sooooo what do you think? I know nothing big happened but you have now got a feel of the characters and where this story is going lol

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Katie-ann xxx