Marked: chapter 2

When I figured that enough time had passed for everyone to have left school, I flopped my hair back over my forhead and left the bathroom, hurrying to the the doors that led to the student parking lot. Everything seemed all clear - there was just some random kid wearing those seriously unattractive gang wanna-be baggy pants cutting across the far end of the lot. Keeping his pants from falling down as he walked was takeing all his concentration; he wouldn't even notice me. I gritted my teeth against the throbbing pain in my head and bolted out the door, heading straight for my little bug.
The moment I stepped outside the sun began to batter me.
I mean,it wasn't a particularly sunny day; there were plenty of those big, puffy clouds that looked so pretty in pictures floating around the sky, semi-blocking the sun. But that didn't matter. I had to squint my eyes painfully and hold my hand as a make-believe sun block against even that intermittent light. I guess it was because I was focusing so hard on the pain the ordinary sunlight


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