diamonds-are-dead

Someone tapped Coraline on the back and she jumped about a foot into the air. She swivelled around in her chair and her heart slowed a little as she saw it was only Wybie. He looked amused and a little concerned. Coraline yanked her headphones off, letting them rest around her neck. She impatiently blew a lock of short, bobbed blue hair from in front of her eyes. "You scared the freakin' life outta me, Wybie!" Coraline snapped, trying to regain her composure. Wybie raised one dark eyebrow. Something he was annoyingly good at, Coraline thought bitterly. "Sorry, guess you didn't hear me calling you, huh? Your mom sent me straight up." Wybie

"Everything looks the same," I muttered, mostly to myself. I saw my twin brother, who was always in a constant mood, was slumped in the corner of the backseat, probably listening to deafening music with a lot of screams and guitars screeching. And the cab driver was too busy fumbling with the radio and muttering under his breath to be paying any attention. I sighed and rested my forehead against the window, getting bored of the huge, white mansions, flash, expensive cars and the clear blue sea that seemed to be everywhere you looked. OK, I'd only been in Malibu for like five minutes and already I was getting bored of it, the same old scenery.

Everbloom School for Young Ladies loomed before me in terrifying splendour and beauty. It had actual towers and turrets, and the grey brick was covered with vines of ivy in places. Honestly, it was beautiful and frightening at the same time. I mean, it was huge. It was like the kind of place you'd expect to see in a fairytale, just...darker and more daunting. "Don't look so frightened, Alex. You'll be fine!" Dad said with laid on enthusiasm, he beamed at me and patted my knee. "Save it dad. I'm not going to fit in. I mean, look at this place!" I said, gesturing towards the huge beautiful building which looked centuries old, but not in a r