School of Secrets

Chapter One

"Are you one hundred percent sure you are going the speed limit?" Blinn asked me from the passenger seat. She leaned towards me like she was trying to read the speedometer.

I shook my head, "Yes I am sure," I shoved her back into the seat, "I am very sure, not all of us are a lead foot driver."

Blinn flopped back against the seat, "Just so you know, no one is going to arrest you for driving five miles over the limit."

"It is a speed limit," I responded, "Not a speed suggestion."

If anyone had asked me to sum up Blinn in a conversation, it would have been that one. Blinn and I had been best friends since birth. Blinn had lived every minute of our friendship in the fast lane, it was "go" and "yes." She often acted without thinking about the trouble or the consequences of her actions. I was the one who reeled her back in or saved her from herself.

Blinn reached up and flipped down the mirror. She pulled out one of her braids in her dirty blonde hair and begun to redo it. "I'm just saying, you are the nerd in this relationship, shouldn't you be more excited and more in a hurry to get to Orburn?"

"I'm very excited," I told her as I watched her pin her braid back into place, "but I doubt getting arrested is the best way to start the year before we have even moved in."

Blinn shrugged. She pushed the mirror back up, "I am just saying, Orburn has been your life dream since, forever."

"It has," I agreed, "but that is why I must arrive on good terms."

"Speaking of good," Blinn smirked, "Do you think there will be cute boys at Orburn?"

"Cute boys?" I asked, "Blinn. I-"

Blinn put her hand up, "I know! I know. Orburn is for school. We need to focus on school and graduating and going to college and getting good careers before we worry about relationships. However, I am saying you could do both."

"Guys our age are stupid about love," I said.

"Who said you were aiming for love," Blinn said, "I just want someone who will take me out for a few dinners and make-out with me.

I laughed, "Please remind me why I requested we be roommates?"

Blinn pouted at me, "You love me."

"Sometimes," I said, "I'll try to remember that when you are snoring."

"I do not snore!" Blinn protested.

I flipped on my blinker, "Whatever. You do but guess what. We are here!"

Blinn turned from me and looked out the windshield. Sprawled out in front of us was Orburn Academy. Orburn was a tall brick building that looked out of another era. Orburn, the building at least, had been around since the eighteen hundreds. For many decades Orburn was a girls only boarding school. In 1992 it was shut down due to low funding. It remained empty until 1995; when under Dr. Kai Rutter, it was turned into Orburn into the well-known academy it was. Since Dr. Rutter, Orburn has quickly become one of the top junior/senior level boarding schools in the country. It now housed boys and girls from all over the country. Orburn graduates went on to be doctors, lawyers, politicians.

"Oh," Blinn let out, "It is so big."

I nodded, "It's amazing." We turned into the student parking lot, and I quickly found a parking space. I put my car in park and turned it off.