Ruby Scarlett

Chapter 1

I can't believe I said OK to come to this school. I'm not even suppose to be here as there is a rule of "No Humans Allowed" all around here, yet I'm human and I'm here! Well, there is no one else to blame but Beth for not telling me things properly, she never did. 

Anyway, background story: I was adopted (again) by another family. I carry an unlucky sign. After my birth parents died, I was sent to the orphanage and was adopted by a family, then a car accident separated us. After that, I was in another orphanage before an old lady adopted me, and then she died out of a heartattack. So I was back in the first orphanage and was adopted by a single woman who drowned in the lake while trying to save me. I was in an orphanage again and I was adopted by a couple. That couple was then sent to jail due to being accused of illegal activities so I was sent to an teen orphanage, and eighteen would be the age I would have to be independent because no orphanages will keep me. Afew months before my seventeenth birthday, Beth's family adopted me. I was prepared to be alone without a family but hoping nothing will happen to my new family. 

Beth's family, the Skylarks, are a really nice people. They live in a countryside and own a strawberry farm. This might sound like they are poor farmers but in this entire countryside, people live in beautiful houses and a nice plot of land infront each house. I didn't say mansion because every house is an ordinary, but beautiful, not-so-big two-storey house, and not the old and countryside-like wooden houses. Every house is like that because, according to Beth, the land might be cheap, but bringing construction to this area, is really expensive. The plot of land infront of every house, every house use it differently. The Skylarks use it for growing strawberries, others use it for stuff like a mini soccer field, a playground, a tennis court, a nice flower garden and as for the richer ones, a pool. 

The Skylark family consist of Beth, name Bethany Skylark, her brother Brandon Skylark, her mum Mrs Linda Skylark and her dad Mr Roland Skylark. I call Mr and Mrs Skylark as Mummy Linda and Daddy Roland. Sounds kiddish, but this way would be more casual. This time, I reminded myself not to love this family. I'll always lose anyone I love.

Every family that I've lived with and who I love will always be separated from me. When I was adopted by the couple who is currently jailed, I've already told myself not to love them. But when I was beginning to get close to them and starting to have the family love, I let abit of it out by accident, but at least it was controlled; or else they would be dead, not just jailed. They had an option whether or not I can be adopted as they will be out of jail after 7 years, but they wanted to protect me and not be tagged as a child of a criminal. So they chose to cut all ties with me. I told myself too not to miss them. Missing someone can be a sign of love and I don't want them to leave this world. Losing anyone I love might be an assumption but I know it's not. 

When I was adopted by my first family, we went on a trip to china and consulted a fortune teller at a temple. Even though no one else but me believed it, but I can never forget what he said to me in chinese, "You carry an unlucky sign and that you'll lose who you love. But to protect them, the time isn't right yet." I have no idea when the time will be right, but I always hoped it'll be as soon as possible. About how I know chinese, I'm actually a quick learner at learning. Whether is it learning languages or subjects in school, I never study for revision or for tests but still get As. Others say it is due to very high IQ, which I took an IQ test and it proved that my IQ is really high. By the way, Chinese and English aren't the only languages I know. Spanish, French, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Tamil, Thai, Cantonese are also some of the languages I know. 

More about myself: as my name, Ruby Scarlett says, my hair is the colour of Ruby and Scarlet. Ruby and Scarlett is my first and middle name. The name is given by my birth parents due to my hair. Since I keep changing my family, my surname often changes. I'm human, as I know so far and in the presence of non-humans I am really a pure human. More people call me Scarlett rather than Ruby. Reasons that others say is my hair is more Scarlet than Ruby, and some just say that Scarlett sounds better than Ruby. In school, I'll always try not to make any friends. This was ever since my best and closest friend, who goes to the same elementary school and was my room mate in the orphanage before she her real family found her, died in a fire when her house got burned down. Her family didn't die with her, but they suffered from depression after her death.

In school many people wanted to be my friend, and many guys confessed to me. But everytime I avoid them and I chose to be alone. If I never avoided them, the whole school population would've died, except for me. I've tried many times to die, but it never worked. All the ways that people use to commit suicide, never did I succeed. Maybe I'm just a devil who will never die. However, it is not that I don't talk to people at all. I do talk and try to know more about my simple acquaintances. Sometimes I do feel something about them, something like I was to know more and I want to be closer to them, but I pulled myself backwards everytime I feel that I've became a little closer. I have to admit that I might have crushed on some of the guys that confessed to me. There's this guy, Jerome, same age as me, full name Jeremy Zach Lewis but most people call him Jerome, I don't know why. About him, I'm a little closer to him than the others, and I nearly confessed to him and was almost going to kiss him, but I ran away. He's also one of those who confessed to me. That was the last day I saw him as I got adopted by the Skylarks, and I don't regret not confessing.

The moment I got adopted by the Skylarks, I became close to Beth, though I refrained myself a little. Until one day she mentioned about a "school" that I'll be going with her and she magically poofed (or teleported) us up to the hallways of the school.