Chapter eleven

Asher watched the girl leaving as he slowly followed her. She has not raised her head for once since she left school and now he could understand how she could bump into Anita and so he decided to watch out for her and protect her from bumping into another person. He has this feeling that the girl was hiding something and also, he still doesn’t understand the meaning of her nickname: Psychic, why would anyone choose that as a nickname?

The walk was long and he couldn’t believe that she walked like that every day to and fro from school, isn’t it tiring for her? And besides, why doesn’t she have a car? Almost everyone in the school has a car and those who doesn’t, follows the school bus so why don’t she? Why does she prefer walking? Could it be that she loved stalling for time?

So many questions and so little answer, he had spent the whole lunch period sitting beside her and while it was not as calm as it was that night in the woods, he could still feel that her presence brought him calm