Guardians (part two)

Funnily enough it all started in a class room

“Kit! Earth to Kit! Give me a hand, you’re supposed to be the computer whizz, how’d ya do this?”

ICT was an essential module on my course at college and it was taught by the most boring person on the planet, Professor John Sparrow. “Yo Goody! I asked you a question!” shouted the voice in my ear.

That voice belonged to Zack Orion, my best friend at college, and a bit of an idiot. He’s the kind of guy that gets really drunk at parties, does something really cringe worthy and somehow manages to come out smelling of roses at the end. He was average height, dark hair in a side fringe cut with an annoying sing-song voice, but you couldn’t help but like him. The rest of the class were just as strange, full of quirks. There was Kristen, the half-chinese wannabe doctor, hugely into death metal, a borderline alcoholic, smoked so much weed i used to wonder how he had any short-term memory left, and was the most sarcastic prick i have ever had the pleasure of meeting. Ashleigh was an exceedingly hot, but high maintenance girl with blonde hair and a rack to die for, who seemed to be almost schizophrenic in her moods, sometimes nice and sweet, others a complete bitch. Lauren who had a similar personality to Ashleigh but without the looks to get away with it. Hannah was a skinny little bi-sexual brunette that seemed to have enough energy to power a freaking city and a really annoying nasal voice.

Then there was me, I was above average height and quite broad, but what made me stand out was my waist length white hair and ice blue eyes. The doctors said it was a form of albinoism and that I had to avoid prolonged exposure to sunlight, but i tended to ignore them, and my parents, and do what i wanted, a most people do when they are that age.

“Ach, fuck this man, I wanna go home so i can get my stuff ready for tomorrow!” said Zack, losing patience “Are you sure they said it was free?”

“Yes” I said, exasperated “how many times do I have to tell you? The guy said that the entire event was free” This event that had Zack all worked up was the annual “Rave in a Cave” which was held every year in one of the caves in the national park where our college was based. We were all going and had been looking forward to it for weeks, hence we’d got no work done and were being made to do this ICT assignment in class “come on dude, lets just get this done so we can go.”

“Well show me how to do it then for fucks sake!” Zack huffed “you’d think they’d be able to find a better teacher than old bird-brain over there!”

“Yeah well, maybe he’d help you more if you weren’t such a dick!” I laughed “Come on, let me help.”

The next night we all decided to meet up at the college and we’d squeeze in Zacks car in order to head to the rave “Has everyone got everything they need?” Zack asked “ ‘cos we need to go, now”

“yes!” I snapped “now can we go?”

“what’s eating you grumpy?” he said mockingly “did Goody get out of the wrong side of the bed this morning?”

“It’s nothing, it’s just a headache that I’ve had since this morning, I’ve taken some painkillers, it should have worn off by the time we get there, but in the meantime, can we just get on with it?”

“You won’t be wanting any of these then?” asked Kristen, dangling a bad of pills in front of my face.

“What are they?”

“What the fuck do you think they are?” He said sarcastically, as per usual “we’re going to a rave man, these are an essential”

It was only when I had a closer look at him that i noticed that his pupils were huge “No thanks, don’t think they mix well with pain-killers”

“Suit yourself” he said, taking one of the little blue tablets out and swigging it down with a drink from one of the big bottles of cider that we had with us.

“Can I have one of those?” Hannah piped up “I’ve never tried them”

“Don’t” laughed Zack “I think it’ll make her explode”

“Should be good for a laugh” said Kristen, taking one out and offering it to her “take it with a drink, should hit you in no-time!”

It took us three hours to find the rave, by which time I wanted to kill Hannah because she wouldn’t shut up, or stop fidgeting in the small confines of the over-crowded car, none of which had made my headache any better, which seemed to be getting worse the closer we got to the rave “You okay man?” asked Zack.

“Yeah, head just hasn’t gotten any better” I said, grimacing “I’ll be fine though”

“You want to stay in the car?”

“ Nah, fuck that man, I wouldn’t miss this for anything!” I said “Come on lets get in there before it gets over-crowded”

It was really crowded and hot in the cave, it could have done with being three times the size for the amount of people that were there, and my headache seemed to be getting worse, I had started to hear this really high pitched, constant whine which was really painful to my ears. Dark spots had started to swim across my vision, and my back had started to sear with pain, I decided to leave before I was sick. I turned to find Zack, to tell him that I was leaving, and one of the dark spots seemed to focus on him and he collapsed. I ran over to see if he was okay, he seemed to be convulsing on his hands and knees. I grabbed his shoulder and turned him around to see if he was okay, his face was a mess, he was bleeding from his eyes, nose, mouth and ears “Jesus man!” I shouted “are you okay?”

That’s when he stabbed me.