REID:“Geez, it’s like I can’t feel my arms,” Hunter says as he tries to stretch both of his arms a little while later after complaining about how numb they were.It’s been two days since we released him from the silver chains. The good thing about it is that he has not reacted in a way that would make us have to be cautious of him. Still, precautions are in place to ensure that nothing goes wrong with him.“It will take a while but I’m sure you’ll be fine soon,” I tell him as a way of consoling him about his arms.“Yeah, I know,”While he continues with the stretching, I look ahead as my thoughts wander away. Don't have anything precisely to think about as I sit right in front of my quarters but it felt kind of peaceful to be here. And perhaps to take my mind off a few things.But there was something that starts to bother me in no time. It was from a discussion from two days ago and now that it invades my mind, I cannot help but feel like I made a mistake.“Do you think I did the rig
KIRA:I can do this, I tell myself as I wait in the school’s hallway while looking around for someone in particular.It has been a long ten minutes since I got here waiting. A long ten minutes of trying to overcome my nervousness about what I plan to do. Every passing minute though has been tough for me because it becomes harder and harder to even feel better about myself.I feel like I have set myself up for something that I cannot handle. But I have to constantly remind myself that what I want to do is just talk. Probably apologize too for my ill attitude. And all this is because of Kelvin who I am desperately waiting for to show up.My height is sort of a disadvantage for me as I look through the crowd of students passing by me. Yes, that is how it has always been which is why it was easy for Sophie and her gang to pick on me. But not now. I don’t need such a disadvantage now. It should be nigh perfect in seeking out Kelvin from the crowd.All of a sudden my nostrils pick up a fami
REID:“Where did that come from?” I ask as I look behind me first. There was no explainable means to how whatever that was could have been thrown because right behind Hunter and me was my quarters which has the door closed.I have to neglect that for the time being because a scream coming from the affected quarters that got something crashed into.A brief stare at Hunter and we both start to run off in the direction of the building. It was quite a distance away but we were sure of covering the distance in a few seconds.Before we even arrive at the quarters, we could see some members of the household start to rush out of the building in haste. Some even tripped to the ground on the way out and it was all because of the confusion that came with their movements.“Did you see what happened?” I ask one of them upon our arrival. It was a teenage boy who looked scared to death.“We– We ju– just heard a crash,” he stutters as he responds and I know that I cannot get anything decent from him
KIRA:I cannot seem to get the picture out of my head. I mean, it has been like an hour since I witnessed something I would call the tragedy of the century for me, but it feels fresh in my mind.The corpse. Yes, the unmoving body was a corpse. That was the first time I would witness a dead body but the state in which I saw that body was traumatizing. And I’m certain that for the rest of the week, I will not be able to get over it.“Get your head straight before you bump into something,” the voice of Kelvin rings in my ear as I feel a force putting me on track. Let us just say I was saved from almost getting my head set straight by a tree, all thanks to Kelvin’s hand.“Sorry,” I say as I move away from the path of the tree, glancing in his direction for a split second with an apologetic look.“Why are you apologizing?” he asks, looking a bit confused.“I made you take the force of the blow,” I look at his hand when I say that. It doesn’t look bruised or anything but I sense he would fe
REID:My mind is in complete disarray as I run at the fastest of speed that I have ever produced. I am trying to set my thoughts in one place but I feel divided right now which is the reason for my mental trauma. And I know when things are going bad because this state of mine is not any good for me.I need to get to the pack square as quickly as possible. That is the major factor that had gotten me in this state but I cannot seem to get the event of the area around my quarters out of my head. I left Hunter there to oversee the issue but my mind is not at rest still.In about a minute, I reach the pack square. And on my arrival there, I am greeted by Ryu who looks devastated. If that is the genuine way to describe the way he looks now because I could sense the turmoil in him. Can’t remember the last time I met him in this state.“Tell me what is going on!” I instruct as I start to rush through the square just so I could get to wherever it is that the whole issue is going down because r
KIRA:Twenty minutes ago, I had been adamant about not leaving the house. But now I am en route to school.The day had started off with my parents making it compulsory for me to go back to school today as the school management had cleared the environment safe to return but I had argued with them that I was in no way going anywhere.They had asked for the reason and the only thing I could come up with that was close to reasonable was that I was scared that something like what happened yesterday would happen again. They had instantly flagged it off and insisted I leave, citing I was being childish.It was not until I had been threatened with being grounded for a whole month did I get my acts together and eventually leave the quarters for school.Now I regret doing so. Because ever since I got to the path that was surrounded by more woods than usual, I have been having this eerie feeling that something was going to go wrong. I would say it was my intuition playing games on me but the way
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 w
KIRA:The only thing I can hope for now is that whatever bad feeling that just found its way into me had better be simply a feeling and not something real.My heart rate has increased rapidly since I started to run off in the direction of the quarters which I was sure to arrive soon. I am suddenly scared that something bad has happened and not just anywhere but in my household.This had better not be what I am thinking, I tell myself inwardly when I arrive right in front of the quarters which I sight with the door opened ajar. It is the first feeling that something was totally wrong and instantly I barge into the apartment to want to know why the door was left open that way because that has never happened.Perhaps I should not have gotten in yet. Because I was not even prepared for what I am about to see. And the moment I come in contact with the sight, I instantly become weak to the knees.My father... My mother. They are both lying on the ground unmoving. And it was not just them on