Chapter 8

Scarlett

She was tiny but utterly stunning. I froze for a second not being able to say anything.

"Umm...Sorry, I am looking for William."

At my statement, she looks beyond happy. A big smile spreads on her face, lighting up her entire face. 

"Hi, I am Isabelle. Williams best friend. You must be Scarlett that, Willaim here was talking about." she says and before I can reply, she gives me a big hug. 

At the same time, William comes from the room. He is also wearing blue jeans and the same shirt as me. The blue complements his eyes and to say the least, he looks good. "Hi Scarlett, I see you have met my best friend Issi," he says grinning.

"Yeah," I say awkwardly answering both questions but smiling. 

When Isabelle releases with from the hug, William stares at me for a second like he is captivated with my appearance. But that second is broken when Isabelle says "You look gorgeous, even in this hideous uniform,"

I giggle and say, "Well, the uniform is not that bad, you should see the uniforms of my previous school's, they were all skirts and shorts." 

"That's a good excuse for wearing this hideous uniform" she jokes still smiling brightly.

"Issi, leave her be, it takes time to adjust to your banter and anyways she must be hungry, let's go."

We head towards the breakfast hall. 

"William, why do you go there to eat? You can make your own food right?" I asked genuinely curious motioning towards the pen he was holding.

Isabelle started laughing and William hit her on the head. 

"Don't you spoil my reputation?" he said smiling at Isabelle.

"Ok, Ok I won't but I have to warn her. What if she eats your food by mistake and faints."

"Then I will carry her like I did yesterday," he said winking at me.

Wow...that's something.

I raised an eyebrow at them inquiring what the hell they are talking about.

"William you can explain her further," Isabelle said to Willaim. Then she grins at me and says " but Scarlett, do not listen to him. Anyways I have to go and do some work. I will meet you both later. DOn't wait up for me in the dining hall, I will have breakfast later with Matt". She starts to go but turn around and say "It was nice to meet you, Scarlett". "You too," I said smiling. She turned again and took off. Then it was me and William.

"She is nice," I say to William.

"Yes, she is very nice and a very good friend." He paused and then started again.

"Anyway, I don't make my own food because unfortunately in this academy we are not encouraged to use our abilities for unnecessary things. Also, the food that I make only tastes coppery like blood." 

"Well don't remind me of blood," I said nervously fidgeting with my hands.

"Scarlett, I didn't ask you this before because I didn't know how you would take this question but How are you? You don't have a fever right?" he asked in genuine concern. I wanted to blurt out all my thought to him but I reminded myself again that this was my battle and I will fight it alone.

I took a deep breath and said, "I am good, I feel better than yesterday. By the way, I never got a chance to say thanks to you for carrying me. Though I must say that you could have just woken we up. It wasn't really necessary." I said slightly blushing again. I mentally smacked myself. What is wrong with me!

He chuckled. "It was necessary actually. You were utterly drained and had a fever. Anyways I was not only talking about physical health. How are you holding up after the events?" he asked staring at me with so much intensity that I wanted to go hide at the same time open my heart to him. 

"I am as good as I can be but thank you for asking," I said before I even get a chance to think about the question. I looked away, feeling guilty to lie to him because of his genuineness.

To change the topic I asked, "I have only seen some people with abilities as of yet because I lived mostly among mundanes. So tell me what other abilities do people over here have?"

He raised an eyebrow at me signifying that he understood that I was changing the topic but left it alone. 

"Yours and mine are special so we are one of kind in this school but if you want to know about others. There are many, one boy has the ability to bend his limbs anyway he desires, one girl can dissolve into a group of butterflies, then there are some healers, I can go on and on but you will get to know people with different abilities than yours soon enough."

"It's cool having so many people with abilities in such a small place," I said.

"Yes it is" He replied but he had an odd tone.

I was so engrossed in talking that I don't realise that we have already reached the dining hall.

We were almost going to enter when a question came to my mind. Colour drained from my face. Willaim had already gone a few steps ahead when he noticed that I stopped and my bloodless face, he asked" Is something wrong Scarlett? Are you fine?" 

"Yes I am fine don't worry but I need to ask you a question and I want you to answer honestly."

"Go ahead' he said urging me to continue.

"William does anybody other than you and the headmistress know of the events yesterday?" I asked worried what his answer would be. 

"No don't worry. Nobody knows other than us." He said reassuring me. He put a friendly hand on my shoulder. 

I jerked at his touch. Nobody usually touched me other than my parents. I kept most of the people away because of my ability. One-touch and they would fall asleep.

"Sorry" he mumbled and started to go but I caught his hand before he could go. 

he turned around.

"William I would be very grateful if you kept the events of last night to yourself."

He nodded and went into the dining hall and I followed him inside.