Am I a good author? You decide read my what I have so far of my short story so far
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Faceless
Chapter one- The other child – prologue
Cody was not your average child growing up, He would rather be alone than make friends, and during his time in elementary school he would always sit next to an oak tree about 20 feet from the rusty swing set covered in age and graffiti. All the kids shunned for the fear of what they don't understand. Cody wasn't always like this. When he was merely five his mother and father vanished out of trace, the police force searched for them for 11 months but no evidence was found. The loss of his parent put a hole through his heart he was alone. His Uncle took him in when he had nothing to live for. Though his uncle lives with a mental disability Cody never felt so loved, but that didn't end the deep depression he still carries. Even though he hasn't seen his parents for 5 years he still wonders what happened to them, will they come back? He hopes that one day he will find them and just hold them in his arms once more.
Chapter two- High school blues.
Today was Cody's first day of high school it wasn't very new to him, all it seemed was kids bigger and more hard headed. He stepped in through the door stopping to scan the area; it had a very distinct smell of air freshener. He ignored the burning in his nose and kept the more important things in the front of his mind. After one of the secretaries’ show him to his locker it wasn't in the matter of time he found himself pinned against his locker by a pea brained senior. The gigantic behemoth spoke in a threatening tone "Oh my god, look at this freak!", his friend laughed, Cody said nothing he stood silently with his face pressed against the cold steel. "Hey leave him alone you!", a girl yelled down the hallway, The bullies look at each other than to her, She wore black jeans with tears in the knees, and a Asking Alexandria band T-shirt, her skin was porcelain and her hair was pitch black hanging just over her eyes. Cody has never seen someone as beautiful as her, well in his perspective anyways. The bully said in mockery "Or what? You’re gonna' suck my blood?", Just before she was able to reply in a snide comment a teacher on hall duty spotted the commotion and asked what was going on. Before you knew it the bullies fled and went off to class, "I suppose you stay out of trouble young man, or next time won't be a warning, now off to class", the teacher said, then walked away. "Hey are you alright" the girl asked Cody, "Yeah I guess so" Cody replied, "so what’s your name?", "my-my names Cody" he answered, "well hello Cody, My name is Priscilla, I guess I will see you around, I'm kinda' late for class" She said then left. Cody thought it was love at first site. Maybe high school won’t be so bad after all.
Chapter three – The call
At last! The bell finally rang. The halls were now flooded with teachers trying to keep order and students trying to escape the clutches of the school. Cody walked out with accomplishment, he finished his first day. Now he just has to walk home. After his foot touches the pavement the girl calls out to him from nowhere, "Cody! I've been looking everywhere for you, come meet my friends". Cody didn't really have much of a choice, he certainly didn't want to ignore her, So then he proceeds his way towards her small group of friends, All dressed in black as Priscilla and as well as him. "This is Damien, Alexis, and Lucian", she introduced "and this is Cody guys." All of them said hello to Cody. Cody was shy at first he's never really been in a group before; it was all new to him. They then walked with each other until all of them split up to walk separate ways towards home. After Priscilla said goodbye Cody was then alone, back to what he was use too. Once he got home, the house was a lot quieter than usual. His uncle was sleeping on the couch, so he made to his room as noiseless as possible to avoid waking him up. After all, the doctor advised his uncle to rest often. After he made it to his room he opened the top drawer if his dresser to where he keeps the only picture of his parents from before they disappeared. He studied the picture then fell onto his bed an fell asleep. Its wasn't until the late afternoon he woke up to hear his house phone ring. He looked at his alarm clock to see what time it is 7:00, he groaned. Once he picked up the phone he said "hello?" No one answered, he then asked again "Hello? Is anyone there?" He then heard breathing "Come on I can hear you, now answer me", he was getting irritated now. Then the person on the other line finally spoke. "I know where they are..."
Chapter four – Winter Dance
Every day Cody heard the same voice in his head over, and over again "I know here they are...” The voice has been haunting him for a month now. He has tried everything to contact the mysterious caller but still no luck finding him. Could this man know about his parents? Or was it someone’s idea of a joke? He had so many questions that were merely impossible to truly answer. He had school tomorrow as well, the fact that the winter dance was coming got the school extremely wild lately everyone running around trying to find dates, it was complete an total madness. You could walk an inch in the school without seeing posters and the preppy cheerleaders advertising the dance. Cody found all of this to be stupid, what was so important about dances anyway? "Hey Cody!" Priscilla said interrupting Cody's deep thinking. "You know I don’t have anyone to go to the dance too" she hesitated to say "So if your free do you think you could go...with me?" Cody could tell she was nervous, he was too. "um, sure I’ll go, so when do I- uh, what time does the dance start?" Cody could tell he was stuttering, "8'o clock!" a cheerleader shouted as she walked past them, "wow was she really listening the whole time?" Cody thought to himself. "Great I’ll see you later" Priscilla said, and then hugged him and left. Cody had butterflies in his stomach now, he felt as if his heart had skipped a beat. He brushed his black hair out of his eyes and watched her walk away. Though he seems happy now, He still has to worry about that call a month ago.
Chapter five – Unforgettable Surprise
Today was the dance, Cody has just got done getting ready, he washed his face with some warm water then headed down stairs. "Mike I going out I’ll be back by 12", His uncle just nodded his head than continued to watch the golf channel. The walk to school was cold an harsh, The ice cold air bit his face as he strolled down the sidewalk, Cody placed his hands in the pockets of his jacket to keep them warm. Cody finally made it to his school the sign said "Ridgeview High school" Some letters were crooked seem like no one felt like dealing with it anyways. The school seemed quite old it had many stains of age on the brick walls. It seemed a lot older in the winter though, Cody could figure out way though. Finally Cody made it into the school, he could already hear the music coming from the gymnasium, looks like the dance has just started. Cody then pushed through the double doors to the gym to see Priscilla sitting on a chair waiting for him, she then caught and waved signaling him to come over there. It was awhile before the dance officially started. After everyone showed up the DJ talked into the microphone "this is for all you young lovers out there" and played a slow song. She then grabbed his hand "Come on let’s dance" then pulled him into the dance floor. She then wrapped her arms around them and then they just swayed back and forth to the song, Cody has never really danced before so he just tried to follow what everyone else was doing. This just in one of the people who worked for the school ran into the room holding a phone "Cody!" she said in panic, "your uncle, he, he had a heart attack!" Cody was still, his mouth was open in shock, he couldn't move. First his parents, he can't lose his uncle...not yet.
Chapter six – Gift of the forgotten
"Priscilla, I have to go I'm-" "No, I understand, please see if your uncle is all right" Priscilla said after she cut Cody off. Both of them stared at each other before Cody finally walks out as she watched him leave for his uncle. Once Cody was gone a small tear ran down her cheek before she wiped it off. The Hospital wasn't very far from the school, only three blocks, easy enough for Cody to sprint all the way to the hospital, since he doesn't have a car, nor someone to drive him. Cody then busted through the doors in a hurry, "Are you all right?" One of the nurses said behind the front counter "yes I need to see my uncle, Mike Rivers." Cody said "okay he’s in room 32B" the nurse replied, the town was relativity small so everyone knew each other as much as to not ask for certain information. "Cody..." his uncle said in a weak voice, "Uncle, are you all right?" Cody said "Yes I'll be fine, but there's something I need to tell you", "what is it?" Cody asked, "your parents, before they disappeared they wanted me to give you this when the time was right" His uncle said in a low voice, He then handed him a strange Medallion with a symbol of a Crow on it, "what is it?" Cody asked staring down at it. "Some secrets, you have to find on your own" his uncle said, then proceeded to doze off, Cody then kissed him on the forehead and left placing the medallion into his pocket.
Chapter seven – Lucien may know.
"Aren't you mad at him?" Alexis said to Priscilla "Why would I be mad at him, don't think like that." Priscilla replied "Well I don't know I seen that tear when he left", "Alexis, his uncle had a heart attack, he had to leave I was just...", "just what?" Asked Alexis, "I was just worried for him" Priscilla finished her sentence. "Ha, I knew it, you like him don't you?" Alexis called out, Right before Priscilla was about to answer Cody walked in, "we'll feel finish this conversation later" Alexis Whispered into Priscilla's ear, but she didn't know that Cody heard her, he kept his mouth shut, he didn't want to seem nosy. "I need your help with something", Cody said, and “sure what is it" Priscilla said. "When I went to the hospital, my uncle gave me this strange medallion, I was wondering if maybe you guys could help me figure out what it was." Cody said as he pulled the Medallion out of his pocket. "Wait, Maybe Lucien can help you with this, he seems to be interested in strange things like this, I'm sure he as a book or two about it, it'd surprise me if he didn't" Alexis said, then Priscilla agreed. "He's usually in the library, that's probably the best place to find him." Priscilla said, pointing the way towards the library", "thanks Cody replied, and then made his way towards this library in hopes to find Lucien, what a strange name. Cody then makes it in the library, finding Lucien sitting in a chair reading a novel with no cover. He has Black hair with a red streak on his banes, it was most likely dyed. "Alexis said that you could help me" Cody asked him in a shy manner, "Depends" Lucien said, "They said you might be able to tell me what this is" Cody said then showed him the medallion with the crow on both faced. That caught his attention he put his book down and looked even closer at the artifact then finally said "I've never seen anything like it, If you let me could you let me barrow it for a while so I can figure out what the heck this is?", "sure" Cody said “Let me know if you find anything" he said then walked away. Hopefully Lucien can find out what this is for, it sure will help finding his beloved parents, or at least find out what happened before them.
