The Silence

She was a bit worried but she calmed down as soon as she got my text. So wyd????" Raven replied to his text. " I am still on my way home, I was thinking of today too. You really made my day, thanks a lot dear" Caleb replied. As soon as Raven read the message, she quickly rolled herself on her bed like a six years old kid. " You're welcome and you made my day too.  I will text you when I am done taking my bath" she replied to Caleb's text message as she pulled off her clothes and she got into the bath tub to have her bath. While in the bath tub all she could think of was Caleb and it was just as if he cast a love spell on her.

 It was finally the next morning and for the first time Raven was excited to go to school not because of the lectures but because if her new found friend Caleb. When she got to the class she looked around but she couldn't find Caleb anywhere. She thought maybe he was the type that comes late to class so she decided to wait an hour and still she couldn't see Caleb in class. She took out her cell phone and she sent him a text message but she got no replies from him, normally Caleb replies her message before a minute but this time around there was no reply. She tried calling his number too but it wasn't connecting and that left her so worried. She kept texting and calling Caleb but she couldn't just get to him and she was so heartbroken and worried. 

         Raven couldn't seem to concentrate on what she was being taught in school because her mind was troubled and she was just hoping that nothing bad happened to Caleb. As soon as the bell rang, she took her backpack and she went home immediately. 

         " How was school today baby? Did you meet your new boyfriend?" Patricia teased Raven. " School was horrible mum, I didn't see Caleb in school today too" Raven replied in a very low tone. " Did you try calling or texting him?" Patricia asked again. " I texted him but I got no replies mum, I tried calling him too mum but his number doesn't seem to be connecting. I am really worried mum, I finally found a friend and now he's nowhere to be found" Raven replied as her voice got even lower and sadder. " Don't you know any of his friends? Or don't you know where he lives in? " Patricia asked as she was taking out the pie from the oven. " I don't think Caleb speaks with anyone apart  from me in our class  and I just met him yesterday so how am I to know where he stays at mum?" Raven asked her mum and it was sounding as though she was already getting angry " Will you care for some pie baby? " Patricia asked. "No mum, I'm okay thanks" Raven said to Patricia as she was heading upstairs straight to her room with a gloomy mood.

         When she got to her room she kept on asking herself " where might he be? Why will he make friends with me just to dish me off the next day?" She kept on trying his number but it wasn't working. 

          This continued for a week and Raven started to give up on seeing him again. She was really mad at herself for allowing a stranger into her heart that easy but she felt there was something special about Caleb and that was why they easily connected without any stress. When Raven got home that night, she was watching the news with Roger and Patricia and the reports showed that their have been some sightings of dead bodies in Parsey town with each of the bodies having two holes on their neck as if they were bitten by something so it was advisable for everyone to stay indoors during the night time at Parsey town. 

       When Raven went to school the next morning, the news was trending about the dead bodies that was found in Parsey town. Raven wasn't really interested in the news because she was still hurt by the fact that she couldn't see Caleb and it's been more than a week. She continued her usual boring life of reading novels because she had no friend. She goes to school, comes back home and read novels. It was a repeated cycle that kept on happening because Caleb was nowhere to be found. Raven decided to delete Caleb's number because she felt it was deteriorating her mental health and she hated the fact that she couldn't stop thinking about him. She had to take a brave step and that was by deleting his number and clearing the messages they had written on the first day.  

      Raven got back from school and she was helping her mum out in the kitchen, they were baking some cake but they ran out of baking flour and eggs. The time was about 6:30 pm in the evening and Patricia gave Raven some cash to quickly rush over to the local store to get two crates of egg and some baking flour. Raven was already dirty from the baking so she decided to go take her bath before she went to the local store to go get what mum needed to complete the baking. By the time Raven was done bathing and freshening up the time was already 7:00 pm and she left the house to go what Patricia needed to complete the baking.