I woke up the next morning ready to start school tomorrow, I wonder what it would be like being the new girl and all. “Good morning, Neko.”Aunt Jess was already making breakfast for us.

 “Good morning,”I said, still a little sleepy.

 “Did you sleep well?”I could tell Aunt Jess was definitely a morning person.

  “Uh, yeah I slept well, What’s for breakfast? It smells good.”My mouth started to water.

“Oh I'm just making some pancakes. Thinking about topping  it with some whipped cream and some fruit”Aunt Jess was a really good cook. 

My mouth watered at the smell of it all I haven’t eaten since yesterday morning.

“That sounds so good”I was ready to eat.

 “So are you ready to go to school tomorrow?” she asked handing me a plate with 3 pancakes on it. 

“Yeah, but i’m just a little nervous.” It was true I was really nervous. Aunt Jess hands me a bottle of whipped cream and two bowls of fruit.

 “That’s nonsense you’ll be making friends left and right Neko.” I spread the whipped cream on the top and in between each pancake then I topped it  with the small bowl of fruit.

“Thanks Aunt Jess” I think Aunt Jess really believes in me. Though I pretended to be excited, I was really scared. I didn’t know if anything bad would happen or if I would make friends. I’d hoped that Jessica didn’t see me through.

The day was pretty boring but I decided that I wanted to decorate my room. So I went to the store and got streamers, lights, posters, hooks, a shelf for my clothes, nails, a hammer, buckets, and a laundry hamper. I also bought accessories for the walls. 

It was really hot in Aunt Jess house so I opened the window facing the large forest. I thought I saw someone out there but I knew I was being redicalice.  While I was waiting for someone to talk to I cleaned, cooked, and went grocery shopping. 

Once Jessica got home we made dinner.  

I was nervous to start school, especially after what Aunt Jess said. I ate my breakfast, it was french toast with powdered sugar. I got dressed in my outfit I’d been saving for when I went back to school, A white dress with long sleeves that went down to my knees, it had pink flowers all over it. White tights with my black strapped flats. I put my hair into two low pigtail braids and tied them with an elastic and put a flower in each braid. 

I grabbed my backpack and I started off to school. When I got there I had to go to the main office so I could get my schedule.

 “Well, hello Miss can I help you?” The secretary seemed nice. 

“Um, yes actually I need my schedule”I wondered what it would look like if I had my nose on the piece of paper, plus I already had my schedule on my phone but I don’t think we’re allowed to have them out.

 “Okie Dokie, and what’s your name?” She had a hint of  southern accent, she must not be from around here ethier.

“My name is Neko, Neko May Blake.” The secretary looked something up on her computer and printed out a piece of paper

“Here ya go, sweetie.”She handed me my schedule and a map of the school, as I walked to the door I tried to memorize it.

“Thank you” I replied and with that I tried finding my first class.

 “Mrs. Monterey room 442” I read my schedule aloud. They have 4 floors in this school, This will take time getting used to. My last school and only school I had ever been to only had one floor.

On my way to her class, I bumped into a boy. This boy looked almost familiar. He was very tall and muscular, his hair was really blond, his skin was very pale but at the same time it had a goldish color to it. This boy's eyes were the reason I felt like I knew him, the eyes were grey with the slitice bit of fire orange. He is so beautiful. 

“Neko?” The gorgice boy whispered.

“Sorry, I wasn’t looking where I was going.” I said, still wondering how he knew my name.

“No, my apologies.” He said as he stared straight into my eyes, his voice was soft and smooth.

 “ Um . . . I am Neko.” I said, my voice a little shaky. 

He smiled suddenly,  it was a little crooked and blinding but beautiful. 

“I am August. Lovely to meet you.” He said as he swiftly walked away.

I couldn’t speak. I know him from somewhere, I was sure of it, but where?

 “I better get to my first class.” 

I started of to the third floor, when I got to the top of the stairs on the third floor there were two kids standing there, a boy and a girl. They looked like complete opposites. The boy gave off a bright and cheerful personality, he had blonde hair too with green eyes and was wearing a pair of jeans and a tee-shirt with a sun on the front and a jacket. 

The girl kind of scared me. She had on a black knee length dress with a lace rime at the bottom and red buttons down the front all the way till her torso. She had red tights too with black boots with red laces. She had long hair that went down to her knees and some went in her face, and she seemed to have red eyes. As I walked by them the girl whispered something to the boy and the boy looked at me with a weird face. Then he walked up to me.

 “Hello, I’m Aiden.” He said with a wave.

“And that is my twin sister, Altalune.” He pointed at the creepy girl. 

“Oh, hello I’m Neko.” Altalune walked up beside him and whispered something else in his ear. Aiden gave her a stern look and smiled at me.

“What’s your first class?”

“Um . . . Mrs. Monterey.” I replied uncomfortably, Altalune kept staring at me.

 “Altalune has Mrs. Monterey first too.” He replied.

 “Why don’t you and Altalune walk together.” I didn’t like that idea very much, she looked like she was about to kill me. Altalune whispered one more thing in Aidens ear and walked up to the first floor.

 “I better get to class.” I saied and waved goodbye to Aiden. 

“Yep, see you soon.” I started walking upstairs but I didn’t see Altalune,Which was more than fine with me but it had only been 5 seconds before she left.

I Finally got to the fourth floor and I looked for room 442. It was 3 classrooms down from the stairs. When I got to class the bell rang just after I entered. 

Mrs. Monterey came over and asked me to say a little bit about myself or at least state my name in the front of the room.

“Alright class we have a new student” Everyone looked at me.

 “Why don’t you say a little about yourself, hun?” 

I got a little nervous so many people were staring at me. 

“Uh, Hello my name is Neko May, and, um. . . I’m from Kansas.” 

Mrs. Monterey showed me to my seat and of course it had to be by Altalune. 

At the end of class I was about to leave when Altalune walked up to me and blocked my way. The teacher had left so it was just us two in there, She looked like she was holding something behind her back. 

“H-hi A-altalune”I stuttered a bit and I was kind of scared. Just then Aiden walked in.

 “ALTALUNE!” Aiden yelled her name but she didn’t turn around. She kept her red eyes fixed on me.

 “ALTALUNE!”

 Now Aiden sounded angry. I started to walk backwards toward the wall on the other side of the room from the door. Altalune followed me, keeping her back away from me.

 “ALTALUNE DON’T!” Aiden ran up behind her and took the thing behind her back.

 “ALTALUNE WHAT WERE YOU THINKING! WERE YOU GOING TO STAB HER WITH THIS!” He yelled angrily at her and then held up a pocket knife. I got scared, more scared then I already was. She could have stabbed me. 

“Neko, I’m so sorry.” Aiden said, sounding a little worried now. Just then, August walked in.

 “AIDEN, WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH THAT!” August walked up to Aiden and took the pocket knife. 

“Wait a second, this is Altalune’s.” August sounded confused. “What’s going on here, Aiden, how do you have Altalune’s knife? She doesn't let anybody even touch it.” August looked more and more confused.

 “Altalune had it behind her back and started walking towards Neko with it behind her back.” Aiden replied nervously. I wondered why Aiden was nervous, considering August isn’t as big as him. 

“So don’t ask me. Altalune has the explaining to do with what she was going to do.” Aiden added. 

“ALTALUNE? What were you going to do?” August asked. 

She said nothing and grabbed her knife back and walked out of the classroom. 

“Again, sorry Neko” Aiden hollered back as he ran after Altalune. August walked up to me but stopped at a distance. 

 “Neko,You okay?” He said as he dropped his bag on the floor by his feet. 

“Y-yeah.”

I was still shocked after all someone did just try to kill me. 

“I’m sorry Neko, Altalune, well she, she has an odd knowing, Altatune trying to kill me, and August talking to me like he’d known me my whole life.

I needed to know what it was. I have a plan.

Just then, as soon as I turned around a skinny boy staud there, he sounded doubtful as he spoke.

“Hi, I noticed that you were new and do you need help finding your next class? Oh, um. . . My name is Everist Watts. What is your name? 

We talked for awhille, until the teacher started the lession.

The rest of the day was slow, until lunch. I went to the lunch room and grabbed a tray. I got my food and walked out trying to find a seat when August walked up to me. 

“Hey, Neko Aiden and I wanted to know if you wanted to sit with us”August asked excitedly. 

“Um, is Altalune there?” I was extremely scared of her now. 

“Yes, She is always around one of us. But we promise we won’t let her go near you”August sounded disappointed when he said yes. 

“Uh- Okay, I guess” August walked me over to where they were sitting. Aiden waved when she got there. 

“Oh. Hey Neko!” Aiden sounded excited to. Altalune whispered something in his ear, like she always did. 

“Altalune says, Hi too.”He said. During The whole lunch Altalune stared at me, just as everyone did when I talked to the Colemnas.

 “Ok, I can’t take it anymore.Why do you keep staring at me?” I shouted at Altalune. 

She whispered something in August’s ear  this time. “Altalune, I can’t say that to her”He said sternly. 

She looked pleased with herself even though August was mad at her. She whispered something else in his ear.

 “Altalune says that’s classified information”Said August.

 “Altalune how come you don’t ever speak to anyone but Aiden and August.” I asked, I really wanted to know.

 She whispers in August’s ear. “No you don’t, That’s not true Altalune” August said like he was surprised. 

“She just said it’s because her voice isn’t pretty”August said laughing. 

“That’s far from true”Aiden said. Altalune shook her head in disbelief. 

“I’m sure Neko would agree to if she heard your voice.” Aiden said.

 Altalune looked up at me, this time she didn't look mad at me. She brushed the hair out of her face. She was really pretty. 

“Whoa” Me and Aiden said together. 

“Wow” August said.“You're really pretty!”We all said to Altalune. 

“Wait, You guys haven’t seen her face either?” I asked. 

“Not for the past 5 years” Aiden said. 

“No one has” August added. 

“Why would you hide your face like that, you're beautiful” I said. 

Altalune began to quietly cry. I walked over to where Altalune was sitting and sat down next to her.

 “I wouldn’t do that, Neko” Aiden says. I hugged her and to my surprise she hugged me back. It feels like I feel asleep because the second she hugged me back a dream happened. Altalue was sitting down by another girl and was crying, the girl was laying in a pool of blood. Then Altalune let go of me and I was back in the real world. “Whoa!” I said jumping back scared. 

“What just happened?” I asked.

 “What do you mean?” The boys asked.

 “Y-you didn’t see that?” I asked them. 

“They couldn't,” Altalune said through tears. “W-why not” I asked. 

“The guys were right, Your voice is pretty” I added. Altalune smiled. 

“Because I didn’t hug them” As soon as Altalune said that the boys knew what had happened. 

“We didn’t think you had any power left,” Aiden said.

“W-what?”As I said that I tried to huff a laugh. 

“You don’t believe us.” This time it was August who spoke.

It wasn’t a question, but his voice sounded sad. I wondered why.

“Um. . .”

“Skip the rest of the day and I will show you what we're talking about.” 

He led his face in very close to mine. I fought and I struggled to keep still as his silent instruction that his eyes spoke as they stared into my soul. What I was fighting is the question, my body wanted him but my mind was questioning. What would happen if I touched his face? That was the only thing that went through my mind for what felt like hours though it was just a moment.

I gave up and slowly, reached up and tried to touch his ace but before I could get my hand up there he moved slightly so I stopped.

“Okay, I’ll come but where are we going ?” I said.

August sighed and smiled. “You’ll see.”

“Are you sure? We are not sure this is he-”

“It is, Aiden.” Altalune interrupted. I almost forgot they were here. 

I quickly took another bite of the apple I was eating and dumped my tray. We walked right out of the lunch room. 

“Whose car are we taking?” I asked in hopes that we could take my Honda.

“Who said we were taking a car?” He added a smile. 

I raised an eyebrow. “What do you mean?”

“I mean we’re not taking a car.” 

“You mean we’re walking?”

“No”

“I’m so confused.”

He walked backwards to the forest. I followed him.

As soon as I stepped into the patch of grass he was standing on he turned straight around and stared directly into my eyes.

“Do you want to see something and do you promise not to freak out?”He said as he smoldered and tilted his head.

I just nodded.

He took off his clothes and I covered my eyes and turned away. I heard him laugh as I backed away.

“You have to watch!” He called. 

Um . . . No, I think I’ll just stay over here, where I can’t see you!” I called back to him and he started to laugh.

“If you don’t look, you would have skipped school for nothing.”

I knew he was right, so I turned around with my eyes open. I’ll have to attempt, he is beautiful. He had a very muscular body. 

“Okay, is this what you wanted?” I asked so embarrassed I could feel the heat coming off my face. 

“Well, no. . . not all I wanted but this is a start, I guess.” He was sad about something, but what?

“Are you going to do what you were going to show me, yet or not?” I was embarrassed again.

“What, you don’t like my body?”

“It’s not that- just hurry!” I stuttered along.

He laughed again, I realized that I hadn’t heard him laugh until today, I wondered what was different about today, other than that he was showing off his body to me. 

I looked into his eyes, and I remembered where I knew him from, I remembered who I was. I am a goddess. August is my lover. As I remembered all that august turned into a huge fire loin. He was glowing with the same fire orange that his eyes have.

“Oh,August. . . ”

He changed back.

“Do you remember yet?” He said with a wince. 

“ Of course, my love. I missed you.”

He ran up to me, not bothering to go at human speed, it was more than one hundred miles per hour. He stopped right in front of me and spoke at the very quietest volume I could hardly hear him.

“Really?” He sounded as if he was going to cry, but that was impossible. 

I grabbed his face and held it very close, so that way he wouldn't move though my power hadn't filled me fully, yet. I was still strong enough to hold him in place. As it did when I ruled or a few thousand years ago, until the great war, the war of all the Zodiac Kingdoms, but now only the kings and queens remain, some of them were killed, too.

“How could I forget your beautiful orange fire glow, my August?”

“But you did.”

“But I am here now, would you like to go for a run?” I let my mane out of the braids and run at light speed, I could tell that he was happy to have me back, I missed him too.

He caught up with me easily. When I looked back I saw then he had put his clothes back on. 

I was surprised when Aiden and Altalune appeared beside me in their immortal forms. I was very confident that I would get the fierce lion out into the world by today.

“Why don’t you come say hello to the rest of the crew? They all miss you. Especially  Lydia.”

I had to attment, I did miss them all.

“How does it feel being yourself again, Neko?” Altalune said.

 “Amazing, especially with you guys” I replied. 

“But, I do have a question for you, Altalune”

 Altalune stopped, so we all stopped and headed back to her. 

“I’m sorry, feelings got the best of me, It made me angry that you could have your lover but I can’t.”

“ Zella, died shortly after you lost your crown.”

“I’m sorry.” Altalune said.