Darkness Rising, Book 1 out of the Looking Glass Chronicles - Prologue and First Two Chapters Only

A boy with amber eyes, a gray beanie concealing his spiked-at-the-front jet-black hair, and a bit of a tan also found a desk near the two. Jacob Pérez was half Irish and half Argentinean, and was proud of it; he never failed to inform everyone he met of his unusual heritage. Marcus and Jeceaca had met Jake in the sixth grade. He and his family had moved to Juniper Park before middle school began. Marcus and Jeceaca were the only two students to step forward and talk to “the new kid.” Since then, the three were utterly inseparable, yet nobody understood the real reason behind their entanglement.

Marcus was assigned detention nearly every week from most of his teachers, Jake was almost always playing World of Warcraft during non-school hours, and Jeceaca was constantly cloaking herself with knowledge from various books and television documentaries.

It was, perhaps, the most peculiar friendship anyone had ever seen.

“So which one do you think we should do?” Jake inquired, using his reflection on the window to adjust his hair. Marcus and Jeceaca delivered to him bizarre expressions.

“What?” he asked obliviously, “Nothing, you queer,” Jeceaca said jokingly. “Your stupidity knows no bounds.”

“Ha-ha, very funny,” Jake replied, sneering. “You’re hilarious.”

“Excuse me!” Davis raised her voice over the incessant chattering of her students.

“Sorry to interject, but if anything, anything, were to go wrong with your projects or with your group members, I will make it a point to never do group projects in any of my history classes again. Just pointing that out. So if my students next year ask me why they won’t be working in groups, you will be to blame. Alright, you may proceed.”