Chapter 46

KIRA:
‘Don’t you think I need to leave? I’m having this eerie feeling being around the school,’ I communicate via the link to Alexia while resting my back on the barricade in the usual spot I take away from others during school hours.
‘What eerie feeling? You sure it isn’t because you’re trying to avoid Kelvin?’ she asks teasingly.
‘What has Kelvin got to do with this?’ even my facial expression shows how much ridiculous I find the question she asked. ‘Can you give me a break away from the guys? I’m trying to figure out my existence here, you know,’
‘You sound like you are naive about the fact that I can see through you. We share the same soul, remember?’
‘What about if I just cut you off from my soul?’
‘Let me see you try,’ the confidence in her voice has me scoffing before I decide to put a block to the link between the two of us. And it was mostly because I needed to recuperate.
Using the mind-link had come as something of a deal to me, but using it gets me mentally strained after a while. Just like every other weakness attributed to my young self, Alexia also blamed it on being immature. Told me I have not gotten the right energy that would enable me to use the link at my free will.
The mental strain comes with complete exhaustion in my whole body. And leaving the link on would only make things worse for me which is why I tend to shut it off before trying to conserve energy. It mostly takes two to three minutes, but I later get back the strength needed to use the link again.
I make sure you relax my back more on the barricade because of how less I could use my body. Trust me, if I were to be attacked now, there is no way I would be getting myself protected. There is no way I could even fight back. Nothing at all. It would just be a one-sided fight in favor of the attacker.
I sigh a minute later. I could feel my body getting back to normal. And my heartbeat which was beating rapidly from being strained has started to slow down. Simply say it has been regulated.
“Hey,” I hear that voice and the urge to get up and leave overwhelms me instantly because I could tell who the masculine voice belongs to. However, I cannot even move my body freely yet so I might just have to tolerate the man for the next two minutes.
I say nothing and neither do I look up in his direction. But the next thing is I feel him plump down just beside me. Reminds me of the first time he joined me to sit here. The day I had lost control of my body use when Sophie attacked me.
“You still sit here alone? I thought you stopped,” I hear the supposed intruder of my privacy say.
“I never did,” was my bland response to him. Trust me, it took me the most amount of strength into talking because I know I could hardly even try to force things in this situation.
“What’s going on in your head?” a while later, he asks.
I just want to recuperate faster and leave him here alone. I have nothing in me to hold a conversation with him. I probably made that clear to him the last time he approached me but it seems he has got a dunderhead to not read in between the lines.
“And since when did I start sharing the things I think about with you?” I have to ask, wondering what makes him think we are that close to hold a decent conversation. Screw the fact that we share something in common, there was nothing else in this world that would make me want to have anything to do with him.
“Anything can start at any time. Which means you could start today and I wouldn’t mind,” he tells me.
“Unfortunately I do mind. And I remember that the last time you approached me, I made it clear that I do not want to speak to you again. Didn’t you get the memo?”
“I did. But now I’m trying to make sense of what hallucinations you said you’ve been having,”
“Why do you care?” I say. “Not like you cared when you got me into trouble with the guards,”
A brief silence and Kelvin speaks, “What you just said was absurd, and I’m sure you know that. I was not the reason you got into trouble with the guards yet you want to push the blame on me. Now I’m the scapegoat to blame your problems on, is that it?”
I find the strength to turn my head so I could get a look at him. I almost give him a once-over but it is not up to two more minutes yet to have that energy yet. So I say, “You say you are not the problem. But if you hadn’t called me out that day, if you hadn’t alerted the guards when the Night Blaze alpha came into sight, would I have been in a position to get myself into trouble?”
“I think you need to hold it right there,” he looks visibly annoyed now, and trust me, it was more like a joy giver to me to see him take offense in this situation. “How can you blame me for all that? I helped you the best way I could just to make sure you help out the Night Blaze alpha. Yet I got no ‘thank you’ from you. Yes, I messed up by alerting the guards but who wouldn’t have in my situation?”
“Well, I wouldn’t,” I counter him with my response. “And you want to know why? Because I tend to be patient in everything I find myself doing. If you have the same type of attitude, I’m certain you will have a much better idea to put into place in situations like that instead of acting like a sissy,”
He blinks and then takes his gaze off me. I was certain that he was trying to calm his mind down because every of his being was screaming that he was pissed off.
Soon after, he starts to speak, “I never even knew that you were familiar with him so the first instinct I had before that was to get myself protected because the rivalry between our pack and his is still in place. Not to forget the whole danger lurking around the pack. Do you think I would not have been patient if I had known? And the funny thing about all this is that you are blaming me for something I have no idea about? Did I ask you to distract the guards at borderline while the Night Blaze alpha makes a run back to his pack? Did I?”
I suddenly feel alright again. Yeah, the whole strain has stopped which means I could find the strength to leave as I ought to. So I start to get up to my feet as I say, “Look, I do not want to hold any other discussion with you. I already told you initially so if you want to continue this conversation, continue it alone,”
Before I could take a step forward away from here, Kelvin has gotten up to his feet at full speed, blocking my path from leaving in the process as he gives me a look that tells how much annoyed he still is.
“You don’t have to leave,” he says somewhat icily. “I was just about to do that.” and the next moment he turned around to walk away from here, leaving me to watch his retreating back.
I have no reaction to what just went down because I will mostly say I do not care. A little sigh and I plump down back to the ground, resting my back on the barricade once more as I await the bell to ring for the end of the break hour.
*****
REID:
I am more nervous than expected as I walk down the lonely road with my warriors all behind me. The amount that I have with me at the moment is about ten of them which is pretty decent but not enough to curb a situation that would involve about thirty times their size. Who knows if it was even more than that.
If I had someone that I could trust beside me, I am certain I would have been more courageous in walking up the path. But still, I persist with what I do, bearing in mind that what I am doing is for the best.
The sight of a gateway comes into sight. And in that gateway, the expected is seen — a bunch of warriors protecting the entrance into whatever was beyond the gateway.
I would have stopped to address my warriors once more but decide not to at the last moment. I continue walking down the path to approach the gateway with my men and just as I am almost at the destination, the warriors have sighted my men and me.
Instantly, they are on the move to lunge at us as they draw out swords and every other weapon. Yes, it is obvious that I am trespassing but it was for a good reason.
My warriors do the same, drawing out their swords as they circle around me to protect me. And before the situation could escalate to something more than this, I announce in a loud voice:
“Get me your alpha!”