Chapter One - Pilot

Chapter One - Pilot

14 September 2002 – Emily’s Point Of View (POV)

I was sleeping safe and soundly on my bed when i heard my alarm ring. I slowly opened my eyes and blinked a few times. I looked at the light streaming from my window. It was already morning, I looked at the clock. It was 6:45, and it was also Monday. My first day of school. I pressed the button on my alarm making the ringing stop. I slowly sat up and looked at my room, it was a mess. And that was a exactly how I felt. I was dreading the moment I would have to go back to school, i didn’t like it there. The only reason why I still kept going to that school and didn’t go for home schooling was because of my three best friend, Clary, Jessica and Tyler. The three only people where I can be myself, after my family. On school I’m kind of an outcast, a loner. Nobody really talks to me or befriends me. Well, maybe sometimes to ask something about homework but that’s only like a classmate. I’m kind of invisible there, but thankfully I have those three. We met when we I first moved here. I was around seven years old. Nobody talked to me because I was new, except for those three. I still remember that day… I heard my parents and my siblings talking. They were all excited for the first day of school. I sighed and decided to stand up. I walked over to my bathroom and looked at the mirror. I looked like a mess, but I had to stay positive. Who knows? Maybe this year will be different… I washed my face with cold water to wake me up. Then I brushed my teeth and my hair. You’re probably wondering how I look like and who I really am, right? My name’s Emily Campbell, I’m sixteen years old, my horoscopes cancer and I live in a big family. My mother’s name is Mary, her surname used to be Stirling but now it’s Campbell. My father’s name is John. My parents are about the same age. My mum’s two years older than my dad. She’s 38 and my dad’s 36. My parents are both two incredible parents, only sometimes I feel like they don’t completely understand me. I have two siblings. One older sister and one younger brother. My sister’s name is Anna, she’s 18 years old, she looks like my dad. She has pale skin, blonde hair and blue eyes. I look more like my mother. Brown hair, brown eyes with a slight sun tan. Anna is very nice but I secretly prefer my brother, even through me and my brother always fight and argue. My brother’s name is Samuel but he thinks that’s a little bit old fashioned so we call him Sam. He looks too like me and my mother with brown hair and brown eyes. Except his sun tan is slightly darker than mine. My brother is one year younger than me, he’s 15 years old. But he’s quite tall and muscular. You wouldn’t think he’s younger than me if you saw him, you would think quite the opposite. He looks older than what he really is. My three best friends, Clary, Jessica and Tyler are really amazing people. All three of them are the same age as me but we’re not in the same classes, unfortunately. Clary has pale skin with dark brown hair and light blue eyes. She’s almost the same length as me, I’m a little bit taller. And she’s quite skinny but she’s very nice. She’s nice and funny and will try her best to cheer you up if you feel a little bit down, she’s very supporting and compassionate. Jessica on the other hand is quite the opposite, but in a good way. She’s sarcastic and witty, she won’t show people that they have hurt her, she always tries to stay strong and not show her weaknesses. People sometimes think that she’s mean but deep inside she’s very compassionate and caring. Jessica is taller than me and Clary and she’s quite sporty. She has dark blonde hair with green eyes and her skin is a little bit pale. Tyler is not very athletic, well he’s more the lazy kind of guy who prefers to play sports on computer games. But when you ask him for help he’ll always be there for you. He also eats quite a lot, but still manages to stay fit. Which generally surprises me. He’s also very goofy and can be dump at times. But he’s very smart when it comes to strategy. They are all amazing people which I’m very grateful to have them in my life. They are my best friends and I love them with all my heart. I smiled at the thought of them. I should get ready for school. I went to my room and changed my clothes. I wore a pair of dark blue boot cut jeans with a V neck long sleeved dark green shirt. Then I wore my green sneakers, took my school bag and walked out of my room. I let my hair free and decided to not wear any jewellery today. I walked down the stairs to the kitchen. You see, our house has two floors. The first one has the living room, the kitchen and the dining room. The second floor has all the bedroom and bathrooms. We have five bedrooms with each bedroom containing a bathroom. The fifth room is the guest room. As I walked inside the kitchen I saw my mother preparing breakfast. I looked at where the dining room was. My father was sitting on the chair in his costume reading the newspaper and drinking coffee. My sister was sitting and texting her friends while my brother was still upstairs. The TV was on and the news were being played.

‘’Good morning, dad.’’ I said as left my bag on the floor next to the fridge and pulled my hair in a bun. She was making omelette and I could see that she was hurrying. My mum was a nurse and had long hours from early in the morning until late at the evenings. My father was a bank accountant. He worked from early in the morning until the beginning of the evening.

‘’Good morning, honey.’’ my mum said while cooking.

‘’Good morning, mum. Let me help you.’’ I said as I walked over to the fridge and took the ingredients that I needed to make a simple salad.

‘’Thank you and don’t forget to put salt.’’ she said smirking at me.

‘’Mum, that was one time! How many times will I have to say sorry!’’ I said and she laughed. I heard my father chuckle and I blushed from embarrassment. You see, there was this time that we had guests and my mum didn’t have enough time to cook so it was up to me. And I forgot to put salt so the food wasn’t delicious. It was really embarrassing, from then on they always tease me about that.

‘’Oh and by the way today’s your turn to do the shopping. The grocery list and the money is on the table.’’ She said and I nodded.

‘’Sure.’’ I said as I made the salad. When we finished we placed the food on the table and I went to Sam’s room to tell him to come downstairs.

I knocked on the door and said ‘’Sam, come on! Breakfast’s ready!”’

‘’Just one minute.’’ he said and I rolled my eyes. One minute? More like one hour! He took longer than the whole family to get ready. Well I guess I would also take that long if my room looked like a jungle! I went downstairs and started eating. After fifteen minutes mum had to leave. She kissed our cheeks and said ‘’Bye, bye! And have fun at school today!’’

After some time Sam came downstairs and we ate all together. Then dad left and we cleaned up the table. After that my sister went outside and went to school with a friend of hers. She was getting a lift, lucky her. Sam left with his bike to school and then it was just me left home. I took the grocery list and the money and putted it in my bag. I still had some time before I had to go to school. My class was starting a little bit later today because the teacher from our first lesson was sick so was had the first hour free. I walked to the living room and sat on the couch. The news were still on, since I didn’t have anything to do I listened.

‘’Today at Eastwood Park there was a dead body found. It was the body of the 21 years old Alice Cooperman. The victim’s body was drained of blood and there were bite marks and scratches all around her body. The police officers think that it was an animal attack. Alice’s family said that she has been missing and the body looks to have been there for some time.’’

The news weren’t yet done but I closed the TV. It’s quite tragic and strange at the same time. Never before has a person died in this town of an animal attack. I shook my head and looked at the time from my phone. It was 8:35 already. I had to get going. I stood up, took my bag and walked out. I locked the door and started my 25 minutes’ walk to school. I locked the door and started walking. Usually I go with the bus but today I start later and the bus doesn’t come at that time. But to be truthful I didn’t really mind. I enjoyed walking, well I enjoyed it until it started raining. I paused and looked up. The drupels hit my face and I could already see that soon enough it would rain very hard. I huffed in annoyance and said ‘’You’ve got to be kidding me!’’

I cursed and started walking faster until I was practically running because it was raining hard. Suddenly a grey car stopped next to me and the window opened. I saw Tyler inside, he smiled and said ‘’Hey, do you want a ride?’’

‘’What do you think?’’ I said a little bit more cranky than what I meant as I started walking to the passenger seat next to him. I got inside and sighed.

‘’I’m sorry. It’s just that-‘’ I started saying but he cut me off.

‘’Hey, it’s fine. I would also be cranky if I hated school and had to go on my first day of school while it rained.’’ he said smiling.

I smiled and said ‘’Thanks.’’

‘’So how have you been?’’ he asked

‘’Could have been better. And you?’’ I asked

‘’Me too actually.’’ he said

‘’Why? You usually love going to school.’’ I said

‘’We have Ms Thomson for English.’’ He said and my eyes widened.

‘’Oh my God! Really?’’ I asked in disbelief. You seem, Ms Thomson is the worst teacher in the world. She hates children, teenagers, noise and is quite sadistic, enjoying making student have detention. And also enjoying giving you bad grades. She’s quite a pain in the ass.

‘’Yeah, I don’t even know what I did to deserve that. Ms Thomson? Seriously? Why? Oh, why is fate so cruel to me?’’ he said a little bit dramatic and I laughed. He glanced at me and smiled. He then looked back at the road. It was silent for a few minutes before he said ‘’Have you heard of Alice’s Cooperman death?’’

‘’Yeah, they said that it was an animal attack.’’ I said

‘’Maybe, but have you seen the pictures?’’ he asked

‘’No, I closed the TV after she was done with talking.’’ I said

‘’Well, after she said her story the officer talked a little bit and then they showed the pictures of her. It didn’t look like an animal would do it. More like a beast trying to tear her into pieces. There was so much blood, it was disgusting.’’ he explained

‘’Was it really that bad?’’ I asked

‘’Yeah, after they showed the pictures they explained all the injures in her body. All her bones were broken or really badly injured. I don’t think an animal could do it.’’ he said thoughtfully

‘’What killed Alice then?’’ I asked but before he could answer me we arrived at school.

‘’Hey, we’re here.’’ he exclaimed. I rolled my eyes and groaned.

‘’Great!’’ I said sarcastically and he chuckled at me. He parked the car and we got outside. It was still raining so we rushed quickly inside the building. Our school was not really old, it was actually quite new. The walls were made by red bricks so from outside our whole school looked red. The walls inside were painted white and our lockers were divided in two. The first half of the lockers were red while the other half was blue. I, Jessica and Tyler had a red locker. Clary had a blue one. So her locker was far away from ours. When we walked inside we saw a lot of people. Some were excited while others were bored or already waiting for the summer holiday.

‘’Hey, I have to go but I’ll talk to you later. Okay?’’ Tyler said as he waved at me goodbye and walked over to some friends of his.

‘’Sure, see you later.’’ I said as I parted my way and walked to my locker. My locker was number 735. Jessica’s locker was 863, Tyler’s was 554 and Clary’s locker is 1125. We all had our own keys for our lockers. I opened my locker and stuffed the books that I didn’t need. Today I had Biology, Germany, Geography, French, History and Math. After Geography I have the first lunch break, it’s 15 minutes. Then we have the second break, which is after History and it’s 25 minutes. When I was done with my locker I locked it and started walking towards my first lesson. Which was quite boring to be truthful. I didn’t enjoy biology. But what I did enjoy was History. The lesson were boring and before I knew it I had the first break. I managed to catch up with my friends but it wasn’t enough. The break was too short. Soon enough I had already the big break and I was in the cafeteria walking towards our table. Clary and Jessica were already there. Tyler was probably talking with his friends, he was quite social.

‘’Hey, Jess, Clary!’’ I said towards my friends. I sat down and took my lunch from my bag.

‘’Hey Emily. What’s up?’’ said Clary and Jessica said simply ‘’Hey.’’

‘’Not much, you?’’ I asked as I took a bite from my sandwich.

‘’Not really.’’ said Clary.

‘’School is as always boring.’’ complained Jessica. I nodded in agreement with Clary. We started talking about how our holidays were. We didn’t get to talk a lot. They both had left, Clary went to France and Jessica went to visit her grandparents in Bulgaria. I had stayed home, well I did go to the beach and got a nice sun tan but that was it. They both seemed to have had very good time. I was happy for them.

‘’Hey guy! Guess what?’’ asked Tyler as he approached us. He sat down with his face full of excitement.

‘’You found out that aliens exist?’’ asked Jessica

‘’Not yet. But one day I will!’’ he said, Jessica rolled her eyes and Clary asked ‘’What happened?’’

‘’Well I just talked with a few friends of mine and there’s this guy, his name is David. His parents are going to be gone for the weekend so he decided to throw this very awesome party and he asked if I wanted to come. He also said that I could bring a few friends of mine. So? Do you want to come?’’ he asked

‘’A party? Sounds like fun. I’m in.’’ said Jessica.

‘’Clary? Emily?’’ he said looking at us.

‘’Well I’ll have to ask my parents…’’ said Clary

‘’Don’t worry, there won’t be any drugs or really heavy alcohol. It’s be just a little get together evening!’’ he said reassuring Clary that there won’t be anything illegal there. Her parents are quite strict when it comes to stuff like that.

‘’Okay, I’ll try to convince them.’’ Clary said

‘’Cool. And are you coming?’’ asked Jessica and they all looked at me. I opened my mouth ready to decline when Tyler said ‘’Don’t you even think of saying no!’’

‘’But-‘’ I started saying but Clary cut me off.

‘’Come on, I’m sure it’ll be fun! We’ll all stay together and have some fun!’’ she said

‘’Loosen up a little bit!’’ said Jessica and Tyler looked at me pleadingly. I sighed and said ‘’Okay, okay! Maybe…’’

They all cheered and high fived each other.

‘’Hey! I said maybe not yes! So don’t think that it’s absolutely for sure!’’ I warned them. Tyler rolled his eyes and Jessica said ‘’Sure, whatever you say!’’

‘’So what are we going to wear?’’ asked Clary. I sighed and continued eating. I blocked them out while they were talking about what to wear until Jessica asked me something.

‘’I’m sorry, what?’’ I said since I didn’t hear her.

Clary rolled her eyes and Jessica said ‘’I said, and what are you going to wear?’’

My eyes widened and I said awkwardly ‘’Jeans and a shirt?’’

‘’You don’t mean this, do you?’’ asked Tyler

‘’Um… Yes… No?’’ I said feeling even more awkward. Thankfully I was saved by the bell.

‘’We’ll discuss this later.’’ said Jessica and Clary agreed with her.

‘’Okay guys, I’ll come to get you Saturday at 7 o’clock at Emily’s.’’ Tyler said and left to his class.

The girls left and I started walking to my class.

I wonder how it’ll be there. Will it be fun? What should I wear? Will the people there like me? Will they laugh at me?

All kinds of thoughts and questions came inside my mind. I shook my head to get rid of them. I have to concentrate for the lesson. When I went inside the class I already knew I was up for a very, very boring lesson. The teacher was feeling today like telling a very boring story about her life. I sighed as I started doodling on my paper some random crap.

Maybe I could borrow a dress from Anna, she has some dresses that look good on me. Which one should I borrow? The black one? The red or the blue one? I could wear some simple heels and put some make up. I could also curl my hair, or should I maybe straighten it? I could wear the blue one with those blue heels that I bought last year but didn’t get the chance to wear. I could also put some silver eye shadow and borrow my mum’s silver purse. I could also wear some silver jewellery or put a big black belt under my chest. Or I could also wear the red dress with some black heels, some black smoky eye shadow and red lipstick. I could also tease my hear, wear the black dress with some black heels and wear my white leather jacket. Hmm…

I was snapped out of my thoughts by the bell ringing. For the rest of my school day I thought about the party. Who would be there? Will I meet new people? Make more friends?

When the last bell rang signalling that I could go home I went outside and walked back home. The weather was way better now, still a little bit gloomy. But it wasn’t raining anymore. When I was home I left my bag in my room and took the grocery list and the money. Then I went to the garage and took Anna’s bike. She wouldn’t mind if I borrowed it for an hour. She doesn’t use it anymore, anyway. I biked to the supermarket and started going through my list. When I was done I paid and went home with my bike. When I was home Sam was already there. He was playing Play Station 4. He was killing some monsters and zombies.

‘’Hey, aren’t you supposed to do your homework first?’’ I asked him. You see, last year Sam was really bad and had to almost stay in the same class for the second year. But thankfully he didn’t. Mum and dad said that he wasn’t allowed to play until his homework was done.

‘’Maybe.’’ he said too busy playing to pay attention. I rolled my eyes and said ‘’You will stay at the same class this year if you won’t do your best! And then mum and dad will kill you!’’

‘’Whatever.’’ he said annoyed as he closed his Play Station and started walking to his room. I chuckled and said ‘’Don’t ‘forget’ to make math!’’

He said ‘’Shut up!’’

I rolled my eyes. He always used to ‘forget’ to make math! More like not making it because it’s too boring! I putted the products that I bought in the fridge and then went upstairs to make my homework. I was quickly done so I went downstairs and watched some TV. My dad came later and went upstairs to check what Sam was doing. And guess what? He was sleeping. His books were all scattered around the room. Anna came a little bit later, she said she was at her friend’s home. I was running through the channels when someone called me.

‘’Hello?’’ I asked still going through the channels.

‘’Hey it’s me! You won’t believe it! Go to channel 7!’’ said Tyler.

‘’Why?’’ I asked confused.

‘’Just go!’’ he said and I could hear some noise at the background.

‘’Sure.’’ I said as I went to channel 7.

‘’…The police found the body of a wolf. The experts still don’t know what may have driven the wolf to come here. They also say for us to stay inside from 10 o’clock since we don’t know yet if there are more of them. But they suspect so, since wolfs come with a pack. The wolf was drained out of blood, strange way for someone to kill it...’’ said the woman from the news. They showed a picture of the wolf. It was huge, and there were two small holes at his neck. He also had some very deep scratches. One of the eye ball was missing and the other had a strange colour. It was a little bit purple like. I putted the volume down because Tyler was talking.

‘’What do you think of it?’’ he asked and I shook my head in shock.

‘’I don’t know…’’ I said

‘’Did you see the size of the wolf? It was huge! I looked up on internet how normally wolfs look like and believe that was not how a normal wolf should look like!’’ he said

‘’Did you see his eyes?’’ I asked

‘’You mean his ‘eye’? The other one was just missing!’’ he said

‘’I know but I meant the colour! It was purple…’’ I said

‘’Really? I didn’t notice.’’ he said

‘’Well, it is. Isn’t this a little bit weird? First the woman and now the wolf…’’ I said

‘’Like hell it is! Probably some kind of psychopathic maniac!’’ he said and I laughed.

‘’Yeah Sherlock and how will you explain how he killed the wolf! I get that he could kill the girl but how in the world could he kill the wolf? If there would be a bullet then yeah I get it. He shot him, but the wolf wasn’t shot!’’ I said

‘’Well, he killed him with his bare hands! That’s why he’s a psychopathic maniac and not just a criminal!’’ he explained trying to show me how logical his logic was. But it wasn’t.

‘’Sure, whatever you say!’’ I said rolling my eyes. I heard someone shouting his name from behind.

‘’Hey my mum’s calling me. I’ll talk to you later.’’ He said and before he hanged up I heard him scream back ‘’Mum, I’m busy!’’



I chuckled and looked back at the TV screen. It was now about sport. I closed the TV and went upstairs. It was quite late, so I took my book and started reading. I heard my mum come back but I was so into the book that I couldn’t manage to stand up and leave the book. I was reading The Mortal Instruments : City of Bones. It was a very good book. They should definitely make a movie about it. As I was reading I was getting sleepier and sleepier so I decided to sleep and continue tomorrow. I closed the lights and laid on my bed curled up in my warm blanket. I closed my eyes and before I fell asleep I could swear I heard a wolf whistling…