Foreign Entity

Class finished a while later. Honestly, time whipped by because one minute, I was watching the black and white movie, the next, the lights were coming back on and the teacher was saying something. I could barely hear a word he was saying. It felt like I was underwater, the world in clear focus, but yet blurry. I was not the most intelligent student at my old school, but I was never distracted in class either. 

My skin felt very tight, my breath getting very short, it was literally almost impossible for me to pull oxygen into my body. I was getting dangerously close to passing out as colours swam across my eyes, the world around me getting very bright, the colours mixing together to become a riot of colors, more colors than even the rainbows had. What stood out were the brilliant orange and the purple light. 

Normal colors that everyone was aware of,yes. But there was nothing normal in the way the orange burned so bright, almost like a blazing fire and the purple, it was so deep it was violet, but the reason I was close to shitting myself and hyperventilating all at once? It was because the purple also glowed like it was on fire. They both blazed side by side, neither touching yet both getting bigger -and closer- burning brighter until I was certain its intent was to swallow me. 

Its heat shrouded my body, suffocating me even as they got closer. I could do nothing frozen as I was but wait for the colors to consume me.




“Kiera!” hands shook me urgently, scattering the glowing balls of fire disguised as colors.




I gasped painfully as my lungs were finally able to take in the oxygen I needed to breathe. The hands still shook me and I stuttered out, “S-stop.” 




The hands disappeared from my body and I exhaled gratefully. I’d been afraid my head would roll off my head with the force of his shaking.




“I’m sorry Kiera. Are you okay? Do you need to go to the nurse?” Rhemir’s worried gaze filled my vision and I flinched away from him. 




"N-n-no. I'm fine. Really." I clenched my hands to stop them from trembling. 




The teacher was gone and so was the projector and his equipments. Students were also filing out while a few others sat in groups discussing. Every now and then though, a few of them would glance at me surreptitiously. I caught the stare of one girl and glared back. She turned back to her friends and their conversation turned excited, each one trying to speak over the other. I would bet my last dollar they were talking about me and my mini episode. I stand corrected, the were all monsters.




“You’re shivering and you are covered in sweat. Are you coming down with something?” Their brought my attention back to him with his concern. I was certain he was the only decent person in this school, well, besides Sarah.




"No, I'm good. It was just a freak accident. I will be fine." I assured myself confidently. Already, I could feel the fear and heat that had been clogging my vision receding.




What had happened? I shoved both the question and conjectured answers deep into the darkest recesses of my mind. The same place I shoved the weird voice that spoke in my mind and the weird incident in the street. 




"But what brought it on?"




"I don't know. Wh-what did I do?" I asked fearfully. The last time I had a freak incident, fire crackled over my arms.




"Nothing. You just froze and started hyperventilating. Sometimes, you would whimper and you would start sweating profusely."




"Okay, thanks for being here and shaking me out of it." If he hadn't I would have been swallowed by a ball of fire. Two balls actually. "But I'm better now and if it's still on the table, I'd like to get that grand tour please." I gave him my widest smile. If it happened to be a bit unsteady, I prayed he wouldn't notice.




"Okay. Let's go then. If you are sure you are alright that is." He peered into my eyes intently, waiting to catch me out in a lie.




I gazed back at him as calmly as I could, my eyes betraying nothing of the confused terror running rampant in my mind.




"We will start with the field."




"Why the field?" I asked as we followed the line out of the hall.

I breathed in the air from the hallway. Anything to remind me that I was back here, in the midst of people and not facing certain death. Or a straitjacket.




“Because the rugby team trains there after the close of school.” 




“Okayyy? But school isn’t over for the day yet.” We’ve still got two more classes. Lord knows I wouldn’t mind if there was a thunderstorm or something and school had to be canceled for the rest of the day.




“Yes, but I know of a certain KIng that will be there right now. Don’t you want to get your notepad back?”




Before I could reply, a slow melodic tune rang out. Rhemir reached into his back pocket and brought out his phone. He made a swiping motion and brought the phone to his ear.




“Hello Alpha.” Alpha?




The call went on for approximately three minutes or less with Rhemir not contributing much. He mostly made agreeing noises. After a while, he murmured, “I will leave for the campus right away.” He brought the phone back to his pocket before turning back to  me with a rueful grimace. “That was my uncle. He needs me to run an urgent errand for him, so raincheck?”




I nodded dumbly. Many things struck me as strange with his conversation but the one that stood out most was what he had called his uncle. Alpha. Who calls their uncle alpha? I know I’m in a new continent and all but doesn’t campus generally refer to a college?




Rhemir was speaking again so I didn’t have the opportunity to seek clarification. “How about you give me your number and I will call you tomorrow about the tour?”




It was Sarah all over again. “Uh, I don’t have a phone right now. Are you leaving school?”




“Yes, I need to be somewhere right now. Why don’t you have a phone?’




“No particular reason, but my mum and I will pick one out soon.”




“Alright. What’s your woo handle?”




I almost groaned in mortification. “I don’t have an account.” 




That was the first thing I was going to do when I had a phone. Join social media so I could avoid getting surprised stares, much like the one Rhemir was giving me at the moment. “There is a human being under the age of 50 that doesn’t have a social media account?” He mumbled to himself incredulously. “That’s okay. You will open an account when you have your phone though?” I nodded emphatically. “Okay, I’ve really got to go so I will see you at lunch tomorrow.”




“Lunch?” I spluttered.




“Yes, lunch. You are having lunch with us, aren’t you?”




I guess I am. “Sure.”




“Cool. Later.” A smile crossed his face before he became engrossed in his phone as he hurried away from me.




I attended my last two classes in a daze. Rhemir’s presence had distracted me for a while, but the longer I was on my own and my mind had the time to replay the events of the last hour for me in gory details, the panic I’d been staving off came back with a vengeance.

I was torn between fearing for my life and fearing for my sanity.

Was I going crazy? Did I just hallucinate the entire incident or was I truly about to be engulfed by a ball of fire? And there was the other thing….. The voice. That insidious little trying that sounded like me but was definitely a foreign entity. A voice that had been suspiciously silent since I got to school.
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