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"Oh." Kirsty said, staring. Her shoulders were still itching, and she twisted around, scratching gently. She froze when she felt two soft, feathery lumps. 

"Paige," she murmured, her eyes widening. "Oh cra*." 

She touched the soft mounds again, her eyes growing wider and wider. Tears prickled, and she bit her lip. What's happening to me?!  She wondered fearfully.

Paige turned to Kirsty to se two lumps growing out of her firneds back. Paige's eyes grew wider  bit but stayed calm other wise. She turned to Kasey and took off his jacket and placed it on Kirsty's shoulders, "She was getting a bit cold." Paige lied. Paige had learned to lie quite well in her life time. She started lieing at around the age of five when she had snuck out during nap time at kindergarden to go buy some candy at the stor across the street. She said she had been in the bathroom and that she wasn't feeling good. Suprisingly enough the teacher believed her which only made her wan to lie more. Of corse she didn't lie all the time...or did she?

"Well you could have asked!" Kasey said but he couldn't stay mad at anyone for long and Paige new that.

"Oh man." Kirsty looked at Paige, her eyes wide with fear. "I'm - I - I gotta go." 

Kirsty shoved the chair back so hard that it clattered against the ground, and turned and ran from the hall. Her heart pounding, she ran to the restrooms. 

Slamming her hands flat down on the bench, she stared at her reflection. Bright eyes, fevered with terror and shock. Long, messy auburn hair down to waist. Pale, clear skin. She frowned - was it just her imagination or were her eyes aquiring a slight violet hue, and her hair darkening, and her face becoming more angular? Shuddering, she buried her face in her hands for a second before dumping Kasey's jacket and, after a short pause, lowering the collar of her shirt to expose the skin behind her shoulderblades.

She stifled a scream as she saw the feathery nobs erupt, writhing and twisting. Horrified, she leant over and threw up in the sink. Then Kirsty looked again - wings, wings of tawny gold like a hawk's were sprouting from her back. After a few seconds, they stopped. Their entire length was about two and a half wide, narrow and shaped for speed.

With a gasped, she gingerly stretched them out. They responded, and she shouted in fright. Then, curiously almost, she pulled a long, golden feather out of her left wing - and winced as a bead of blood slid down her feathers and plopped onto the floor. Dropping the feather, she ran.

Bursting from the bathroom, she spread her wings and leapt. Gritting her teeth, she beat her wings harder and flew unsteadily away, toward the surrounding forest. She crash-landed in a tree, and slid down to the base of the tree, crying uncontrollably. 

"What's happening?" she gasped.

Alec stared as Kirsty ran off. "Paige? Explanation?" he asked in a low voice as he also stood up. "Is it something to do with what happened in the chapel?"

Paige watched Kirsty leave the table and run off as fast as she could to the bathroom.She looked back at Alec with a look that said, 'Really? You have to ask that?'. "No of corsenot it's a girl thing. Of corse it hase to do with what happened in the chaple smart one!" she said in a low growl almost. She stood up getting out of her chair and racing after Kirsty. She couldn't find her anywhere though. She then saw a trail of blood and followed it to the room top. She looked out at te forest that surrounf most of the school. "Great just great!" she yelled. She ran back down to where Alec and Kasey still were, "She's gone." she said simply.

"Gone? Gone where?" Kasey asked. He was sort of freaked out but mostly confised.

"If I knew where I would have told you don't ya think." asey really could bu quite stupid sometimes.

"Oh well sorry!" muttered Alec, glaring at the ground. He scuffed his sneaker toe against the dirt, raising a small puff of dust. Then he looked at her, concern twisting his usual sarcastic, mocking features. “It’s something to do with the injections.” He repeated, softly. “Oh man. That’s so not good.” Alec ran a hand through his hair, sighing heavily. Then he added, “We’d better start searching. We don’t know what her power or powers are, and I’ll bet she doesn’t either – that alone  makes her dangerous to herself and to others.”

He stretched slowly, scanning the darkening sky. “And we’d better hurry,” he muttered.

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Kirsty was shivering, curled in her tight ball. Her arms ached, and her shoulders were throbbing. She couldn’t feel her toes as the cold began to settle in her bones, and already she was having second thoughts about coming out here.

“Oh man. Kasey?” she asked, raising her voice to a hoarse yell. “Paige? Alec?” She didn’t really expect a reply, but she repeated the names once more before again lowering her head and hiding behind a curtain of thick, now-dirty blonde hair. What am I going to do?