Chapter 60

KIRA:

“I don’t have a good feeling about this. Why would they ask us to wait behind when there’s nothing left for us to do?” I ask Kelvin who is standing with me as I glance through the number of heads that were with us in the hallway just downstairs in the school.

“Who knows? Perhaps to inspect us in regards to the death that occurred yesterday. I don’t think the school has cleared itself of the incident. They only told us that just to get us back to school,” Kelvin responds almost too smoothly, making it seem like he knew the in and out of the school. And it made me glance at him with a peg of admiration for him before taking my gaze back to the crowd to make sense of what is going on.

It is closing hour already of the regular school hours. And yes we should all be on our way back to our respective quarters. But the school management thought it was wise to delay every one of us with no explanation as to why that was fixed.

There have been lamenting from all the students since this whole thing began but it has done nothing to disperse us yet. And I think it is about five to ten minutes already.

It was a struggle the whole day for me that I was in the school and now they are worsening it for me by keeping me here longer when all I want to do now is get my ass out of here. I am dying to leave already.

“But what could be the reason for inspecting us?” I am still naive about this whole setting so I have to ask Kelvin another question just to gain more clarity on the situation.

“Think about it,” Kelvin starts to say, “The body of a student was found dead in a school room a day after she was last seen. Now, what do you think the school would want to do this time around just to be on the safe side? They would try to ensure that this time around, all of the students are going back to their respective quarters in one piece. They definitely will not want a repeat of the incident.”

“And by checking through each and every one of us, they think they would be able to get that in check?”

“Since that is the best idea they could come up with, then we will have to believe that they know what they are doing.”

From Kelvin’s tone, I was able to tell that he does not approve of what is being done. For him to know so much means he has a proper idea about what is going down at the moment beforehand.

I look ahead to watch and that is when I notice that they have started dispersing students little by little. Seems to me that they have checked through those ones before giving them the go-ahead to leave.

I just can’t wait for it to get to my turn because I really need to get out of here. My mind is not settled and it will not be until I get out of here.

With little to nothing being said between Kelvin and me for a while, they finally get to my turn. Yes, the staffs that are in charge of the thing that is being handled at the moment started to attend to me.

I could see that in each of their hands are books. A single glance and I was able to tell that they were records.

I was asked for my name and class and after providing them with the necessary information, I was given the go-ahead to exit the school building.

What I do when I get outside the building is wait close to the entrance for Kelvin because he already told me to with the purpose of walking home with me which I strongly agreed to the instant he mentioned it because I sure as hell was not planning to head back home alone through that lonely path.

About a minute later, Kelvin shows up. And with a nod in my direction, I join him and then we make our exit from the school en route to our homes.

We start to small talk along the way before we then dive into a conversation that we both ended prematurely due to him not being in the mood to carry on with it. And it had to do with the talk about the substance which he had surprisingly mentioned that he had been having hallucinations about as well.

“Are you ready to talk about it now?” is what I demand to know as we both bend a little at the same time to avoid a tree branch that was sticking carelessly out of a semi-dried-up tree that has no hope of resurrection.

He glances at me after I ask that and then looks back at the road. He seems to be reluctant to speak and I could tell from his mood. But who am I to force him if he is not going to say anything to me? Although I am curious to know what he really has to say about the issue. Need to know how different it truly is from mine because he had stated then that it has a different feeling to it.

Eventually, he speaks. And I am glad that it has to do with what I asked him.

“Remember what I said last the last time?” he asks and I nod in the affirmative. “Well, I don’t know how to explain this but imagine having a thought about something that you know is not real but then it feels like you are not getting in control of your entire being anymore. Do you understand what I mean?”

I am confused, no lies. But I could pick out something from what he just said because the delivery has a bit of a twist to it.

“If I am correct, what you mean by that is that you are not in full control of yourself whenever the whole thing about the hallucination starts to happen?” I comment on it, trying to clarify that what I have in mind is in line with his statement.

“A little so,” he says. “I am still in control of myself, but I cannot seem to understand why I feel like whatever it is calling out to me. More like it is trying to gain control of my entire being which is I am telling you now that what I am going through is not something I can easily talk about. You see, even with my explanation, you are still confused about the whole thing.”

I shake my head to decline the last part. “Not at all,”

“You do not need to hide it. I can see through you.”

“Okay, maybe I am confused a little,” I admit to the allegation. “But I think I understand what you are driving at. Still, I have no idea what everything you said entails. I am on the fence about both thoughts going through my mind at the moment.” something invades my mind instantly. An idea that I locked up in me because I was planning to talk about it with Kelvin later. “I have an idea, Kelvin. And I don’t know if it is the best of ideas because I don't think you might want to hear it.”

He has this look of confusion plastered on his face. And I think he is only looking that way because he feels I am about to get him into the middle of something that he might not like. Still, he says, “Spill. I'm listening.”

I exhale while trying to put up the font in getting the words out of my mouth. Not sure about what I am about to say to him but I could try my best to make him see things from my perspective. “Okay, I am planning to meet with Alpha Reid.”

The look he gives immediately after my announcement was enough to let me know that he totally disapproves of my idea without even letting him on the reason I made that suggestion.

“And what do you want to meet him for?”

“I plan to tell him about the death that happened in our academy. I still don’t feel good about it. So, perhaps he could help us speak with Alpha Simon so it could be looked into because I am not feeling comfortable going to the same place where a dead body was found. Could be linked to the mysterious happenings around, who knows.”

I think Kelvin is buying into my idea already due to the change of expression that seems more enthusiastic than before. Made me glad that I would not have to go through a long process of giving a lot of explanations to him.

“To do that, that means you will have to go over to the Night Blaze pack, isn’t that right?” he suddenly asks and I flash a reluctant look at him when stylishly scratching my hair.

“Yes,” I admit with a nod. That is when I look ahead to realize that I have arrived on the path that leads to my quarters.

I was about to say something else to Kelvin when a bad feeling suddenly creeps up in me.

“Something’s not right,” I mutter to myself. And without even bothering to say anything else to Kelvin, I have started to speed off in the direction of my quarters.