Chapter 28

KIRA:
“You know what? It’s about time you tell me what I truly am. I’m sick of you always coming at me with that and yet you end up saying nothing. If you’ve got something to say, you had better tell me now, or else I’ll advise you stop with the drama!”
I let everything out in one breath. And immediately after that, I felt exhausted. But I would say it was worth it because he needed to hear me vent out my frustration about him always telling me shit about me but never at all mentioning what it is.
What further infuriates me about this is that despite that I just worded him, nothing changed about his expression. He even looks more of a creep now for maintaining that annoying smirk of his after my outburst.
Then the next thing after that is him touching his hair almost too seductively for me. What is he trying to do now? Is he trying to flirt with me just after I let him know my frustration? This guy is indeed a freak.
He puts his hand down from his hair and then takes a step forward toward me. He then says, “So, what’s your wolf’s name? I’ll like to get to know her,”
And another skip of my heartbeat. What in the world? Did he just ask me that?
‘Alexia? Alexia? Are you hearing what he’s saying?’ I reach out to Alexia immediately.
‘My ears are working perfectly fine, Kira.’
‘He just asked me about you. How does he know about you? I didn’t tell him anything,’
‘Before you start to panic, find out how he knows.’
I take a deep breath and then ask him, “Why did you ask such a question from me?”
The smile on his face dwindles. “I see that you took your time to talk to her,” he says. “Anyways, since I kept on telling you I know what you are, then you should know that I have an idea. A perfect idea about you. And trust me, you’ll be surprised to know that we are almost alike in some way,”
“I’m nothing like you. I don’t even know what you’re talking about. For heaven’s sake, I’m not even up to the age to have a wolf so why would you think that I do have one?”
“Two years ago, when I was of your age, I started to experience something strange in me. That is when I found out that I have a new identity. And that identity was a special one. I gained a spirit wolf when I shouldn’t have but I told no one about it,” then he turns around. “Last week when you had a sort of brawl with Sophie, my wolf, Luke, told me that you are just like me because he could feel a similar connection with you. Which is why I can confidently say that we are alike,”
The whole speech he exuded starts to go through my head. I start to process every word one by one and it makes me realize that I might not be able to defend my way out of this one. It seems that he already knows a lot about me without even telling him anything.
‘Alexia, is this possible?’
‘It is. You are not the only special wolfling around, you know. So it could be the truth,’
‘But you can’t sense anything from him, can you?’ I ask her but to my surprise she says nothing. ‘Can you?’ but still nothing which leads me to speculate that she might have been keeping that away from me.
Kelvin turns around and gives me a brief once-over that I find quite offensive because I would not expect him to try to supposedly check me out on this kind of situation. Except I was thinking too much into it.
“So, what’s her name? Or are you still not going to tell me?” he asks.
“Let me get this straight first,” I say, trying not to sound like I am already overwhelmed by the whole turnaround of events. I mean, I came here with him just to check whatever he wanted to show me, and now this is happening. “You say you got a spirit wolf when you turned sixteen and you think that I also have one because you feel a connection toward me, isn’t that right?”
A frown makes its way to his face. “I never said I think. I said I know. And when I say I know, I mean it because I know you are,”
“Well, I’m not denying that I am, or am I?”
Instantly, a switch occurs in his expression. He smiles again. “Good. So, her name?”
“Alexia,” I tell him and close my eyes for a second to let the tension out of me. Not that it made sense to try but at least it was an attempt.
“As I already told you, mine’s Luke.”
I just stand there and stare at him because I am trying to get a grip of the whole situation now. I feel relaxed, yes, but I still don’t know how I truly feel about the idea of letting someone else other than Bradley know about my identity first.
“Have you been successful in getting your wolf out yet?” Kelvin asks, bringing my attention straight to him.
“Unfortunately not. My body isn’t capable of handling it yet so I think it’s going to take a while before I can do so. But at least, the connection of my wolf is telling on me already which I think is fine for a start.”
The fact that I feel relaxed talking to him all of a sudden surprises me. I think should have just let it out to someone about my newfound identity before now. Perhaps I would have felt much better all this while. But this is a good start for me.
I cannot get the image of Kelvin being a freak out of my mind. The image would surely be there for a long time.
“Can you explain to me in simpler terms what that thing is?” I gesture with my head toward the substance on the ground that he brought me here to look at.
I watch him turn to look at it and my eyes are also fixed on it at the same time as I am trying to decipher what it could be. Maybe I have seen it somewhere before or maybe I could have come across it in person, I don’t know. So it was left for him to give me a full idea of what that is.
“As I said before, it is a third body that should not be allowed around here. It’s something that could contaminate the whole school which means that none of us is safe. I don’t know how this got in here but I do know that this means the school has been marked and the sooner we do something about it, the better for us.”
I link his words with what is on the floor. The moon goddess knows that it is going to be hard to make sense of this so I cannot really link it up yet. How can a substance like that even before anything close to evil or so?
“So, you mean that is something that could harm us? Something that innocent-looking like that?” I find myself asking.
“Don’t be deceived. I believe this is a fraction of the main evil. It lurked around here and left its trace behind as a way of telling us that it was here.”
Wow, I exclaim in my mind. “But how do you know all these? I don’t think it looks like a simple thing to explain,”
“One thing you need to know about being a special wolfling is that once you become fully mature, you can access how nature works. And not just nature, you will be able to link with things that seem out of ordinary,” he explains to me. “This morning I should never have left my family quarters. But something led me here. One more of my connection with nature. And when I did arrive here, I found this. Yes, I first thought that it was nothing important until I felt something choking from it. Its pressure was significant and that is when I realized that something out of the ordinary had been here. I still need to know what it is,”
I look back at the substance and at the same time notice that Kelvin has turned back around to look at me. “So what are you going to do now? How do you intend to curb the situation?”
“I don’t know yet,” Kelvin says and I look up at him instantly. “If I could get a way to find someone to warn the academy’s head about the danger of leaving the school shut for the time being, then that would work in curbing the situation.”
“You think anyone would believe you?”
“They should. But I need someone that would take me seriously,”
An idea flows into my head. So I let him in on it, “I think I know the right person for this. But it would involve me revealing my identity.”