Chapter 39

KIRA:
I tighten the hood of my jacket over my head, making use of it to ensure I’m hidden from sight as I walk down the path leading to the school. This was after I noticed some students pass by my side. I was certain they were seniors due to their classy style of dressing.
The pack-wide shutdown was called off yesterday. According to the reports received, it was now safe for everyone to go out which is is why I’m out of my quarters today after being locked in for almost a week.
I have no excitement about going back to school. It was nothing different to being locked in. I would rather sway away my time in a day doing nothing, just lurking around the pack than being in either places.
It was a little cold this morning. Seems like we’re getting into the winter season already. Funny thing is that I didn’t even take my jacket because of the cold. Never knew the weather would be this way at all. My cue to hide myself away from the others had prompted me to do so. And I guess my instincts paid off even though it was for something else.
“Do me a favor and let me be today, Kelvin,” is what I say immediately after I feel the presence of someone right beside me. I can instantly tell because the scent was just the right amount of cologne he uses on a regular day.
“I haven’t seen you in a while. I don’t think this should be the way you regard someone who helped you out in a situation,” that was his response.
I clutch the straps of my bag tightly and then start to increase my pace to get away from him but he keeps up with me. I had to stop because it was only making me look ridiculous walking fast like I was being chased by something. And the last thing I needed now was gain attention to myself because a cool senior was chasing after a junior.
“What do you want?” I find myself asking after giving up on the quest to walk away from him.
“Nothing,” he says. “I just want to know how you got freed from the warriors at the borderline.”
The statement was something I would so gladly not want to talk about but I know he would want to press on with it so why not just go with the flow?
“You saw what happened?” I ask to which he confirms.
“I did, but had to make a run for it before I was sighted as well. Who helped you out of that? Your parents?”
“Bradley did,” I tell him, “however I don’t want to talk about it.”
And with that I increase my pace one again. That was enough to tell him I was done having any conversation with him but the freak wouldn’t let me be. And it instantly became more annoying because I do not want to be forced to throw a tantrum.
“Kelvin, just let me be. I’m serious,” I say when his presence beside me is noticed one again. I swear I could snap.
“I’ll let you be because it seems you’re having a bad morning but we still have the issue on ground. You know, about what showed you in the school’s hallway.”
Instantly I stop walking. And in a swift movement, I am facing him for the first time since he approached me.
“You should have never showed me...” were the first words that leave my mouth immediately after the motion.
He maintains the neutrality on his expression. “Why?”
“You wanna why? Well, for some days now I have been going through hell with the stupid hallucinations I have been having about the thing you showed me. Imagine seeing a giant replica of it and thinking it’s real yet it’s not. Now that’s why.” I yell the words right in his face for him to know how horrible I have been because of him.
“Hallucinations? You’re not making this up, are you?” he asks, looking confused all of a sudden.
“Do I look like I’m kidding here? Does my face tell you that I’m playing games or something? You had better read through this and know that none of what I just said is a joke. So you had better let me be because anything else that has to do with that thing we saw isn’t my business anymore. I don’t want to have anything to do with it again.”
I storm off from his presence, seeing students who were coming from the same route as us watching the scene between us unfold. I do not even bother to spare them more than a glance before I completely walk away from there to get to the school.
Another reason I hated being at home alone this past few days had been the shit I went through. All of sudden I would start to have hallucinations of some sort of being intruded upon by a giant replica of the substance Kelvin showed me over a week or more ago.
It felt so real. So choking as well because of the over whelming pressure that came with it. I had no explanation to what had been going on because my first thought had been that my mind was messing with me. But having constant situations like that would give you a rethink, making you realize the shittiness of what you’re going through.
I had pleaded with my parents to let me out of the house for at least two days when I couldn’t take it anymore but my appeal fell on deaf ears. I had to go through the crisis because they would not believe that I was going through a lot. Imagine the joy I had felt when I found out I could move out of the house again.
“Kira, wait!”
I was already in the hallway of the school building when I hear Kelvin reach out to me. I do the needful by ignoring but it was a tad bit embarrassing because he was doing that when students are over here. Now he would give them the impression that I have something to do with him.
He catches up to me and stops me from moving by grabbing my arm. But I had already stopped before he got to me. The momentum from his grab only almost made me trip to the floor.
Now, why did I stop? Because my nemesis was standing right in front of me.
Sophie and the girls were here. I cannot tell how long I have been avoiding them but seeing them now was bringing back past memories of my encounters with them. They even overshadowed the thought that my last encounter with them had resulted in me putting Sophie to the floor.
“Girls, take a look at something. The poor girl has got the nightly Kelvin running after her. How pathetic.” Sophie says to her girls and they giggle it off. Makes me surprised that Sophie could still have a laugh at me when she was right below me the last time we met.
“Kelvin,” Evelyn, who has a shade on, calls Kelvin and says, “Since when did you start going after little girls?”
I was not embarrassed when I confronted Kelvin but being in this situation was much too embarrassing for me that I wish I could find a way to escape from here before things get out of hand.
“Who says that is what I’m doing? I’ll advise you guys back off and not make a big deal out of this.” Kelvin’s voice is deep enough to let me know he has a dislike for all three of them. But it changed nothing about the fact that I do not want to be around him or anyone else for that matter.
“Of course, we will. But that is after I settle the score I have with that bitch.” that was Sophie responding. And it results to a skip in my heartbeat.
I almost take a step backwards unconsciously but I feel the weight of Kelvin’s arms preventing me from doing so. I think it was a way of telling me he’s got my back. Because the next thing I hear is a voice in my head... His voice.
‘I’ll handle this.’
“I have a question to ask you, Sophie. And it goes to Katie and Evelyn as well,” Kelvin starts to say. “Tell me what you guys gain by picking on someone else. Is it fun to you? Do you enjoy doing it? Because I see no reason why you will find fun making a student like you unconformable being around here.”
“He’s her mouthpiece,” Sophie declares in a loud voice and not just three of them, few of the students that have gathered to watch what is going on join in.
“Whatever you think I’m doing is none of your business. Just back off.” Kelvin tells them, ending the general laughter.
Sophie takes few strides over to us with the two girls following closely behind her. She is standing right in front of me now, towering over me a little with her height, but then looks straight at Kelvin and asks, “And if we don’t?”
“You heard the boy... Back off!”