Marked By the Hunter's Daughter

Chapter 10: New Abilities

“I think it was…” before he could finish his statement, a deafening sound filled the hallway coming from the bell and the students moving to their various classes pushing through the crowd.

Unlike trying to block the sound, Alexander was screaming at the lowest sound, enduring the bell’s ringing deep inside his ears. “Arrgh” he felt like his head was about to explode from the extremely loud sound, his visions were blurry, all of a sudden, he felt very weak, unable to control his body to stand upright, if the bell hadn’t stopped he was sure he would have collapsed on the ground.

Alexander was confused, he saw that others were not affected by the sound so why he?

“What the…” He removed his hands from his ears and found a small amount of blood at the middle of both his palms.

“Alex!” Another sound crashed and exploded in his ears

“f**k! Stop shouting!”

“Well thank God, out of six times I called your name you finally heard… oh geez are you okay?” Raymond locked his worried gaze on Alex’s hands which were tinted with blood. Alex tried standing upright but he lost balance, but Raymond caught him before he fell.

“I don’t think so”

“Let’s get you washed up first”

Raymond helped him with his hands over his shoulder till they got to the boys’ restroom and Alexander washed his hands till the blood stains were gone. He turned on the tap on his hands before splashing water on his face to wash it. He stopped for a moment, when his ears picked on a heartbeat sound then he washed his face once more and cleared his mind.

“First day of school and you are late for class” Alexander dried up his hands and face before he regained himself.

“See who’s talking, if I didn’t help you I would have been in class learning mathematics and being a good boy”

Raymond grabbed their bags, handing Alexander his own before they moved out of the restroom. Alexander replied with his eyebrows up having the “you said what?” expression

“Right, me too” they both laughed knowing on no earth will they be doing that.

Walking past the empty hallway they opened the class door and entered. Alexander and Raymond’s gaze met a man probably in his late thirties standing beside a white board with a black marker rotating in his hand. The man was Mr. Arnold their Mathematics teacher.

“Ah geez” Mr. Arnold muttered silently under his breath before speaking out loud

“Mr. Marshal and Mr. Owen you guys decided to come late to class on the first day of school, why is that?”

Raymond spoke first in our defense

“We ran into some issues sir”

“Why am I not surprised?” he asked a rhetorical question.

Raymond and Alexander took a deep breath and let it go. I promised Ms. Laurel to behave, he reminded himself mentally before speaking

“We are sorry sir it won’t happen again”

Without waiting for a reply they both moved to their seats.

“You got your final warning you two or it's detention, now sit”

And they were already seated before he finished.

F-Final what, ha-ha someone is really tempting me, if the bad guy is out, I’m sorry to say there is no going back. Since he decided to turn a new leaf he was going to put his best in being obedient and hardworking student, he listened with full utmost concentration for a very long period before he got bored.

Yeah, he did listen for a long time, about a minute and twenty seconds long, this was a new record for Alexander so he nodded inwardly for trying his best which wasn’t easy at all.

Without sparing any more attention to the mathematics equation on the board he took out his phone and texted Raymond who was yawning non-stop ready to sleep off.

It was a wolf Alex tapped on his phone and sent it.

Bang! Turning to check the sudden noise from behind him with the rest of the class, he found out it was from Raymond. It seems he jolted when he felt the vibration from his phone due to the text

“Everything is fine, go on enjoy your math, enjoy” Raymond reassured them before taking out his phone and texting back with his phone under the table.

A wolf? I had the same guess too, but it got to be a very big one, everything happened in a flash so they couldn’t give a full detail but assumption could still be made.

Alexander thought about it for some while and kept it at the Not necessary place in his mind box. It was just a bite from a wolf, he would go get it treated once he was free.

Returning his gaze from the board as he acted interested, he moved back to the screen of his phone to text again

So how deep were you sleeping that you had to make noise to disturb your loving teacher Alexander added a smirking face emoji and clicked on send while a smirk was pasted on his face.

Five seconds later Alexander got a reply

Pff deep enough to be interested in it then this boring class… am off to sleep

“Owen!” Raymond was caught trying to sleep and was called out to the front of the class. Meanwhile, Alexander was giving him an expression with his eyebrows raising up and down each second.

So long for sweet dreams

The journey from Raymond’s seat to the front of the class was a rough one, he was so clumsy he hit almost all the desk and chairs close to him before finally arriving at his destination

“Hi” he said in a very low but audible voice.

“Solve the equation on the board” Mr. Arnold said in a serious face handing the marker to him.

Raymond was concentrated on the board that he knocked off the marker. Only after did his gaze shift, he bent down to pick the marker before raising up and locking gaze at Mr. Arnold

“5” Raymond said and Mr. Arnold’s expression changed at the moment

“What?”

“The answer is 5 but if you want my working, here it is”

Raymond’s hand vibrated with his body as he held the marker firm and solved the math question in no time and the answer was as he said.

“Like I said earlier the answer is 5”

It took Mr. Arnold some time to recover from the shock before he asked Raymond to take his seat and this time he avoided crashing at the seat. They gave him a strong grin while increasing more space so he could pass.

Now this is what you should have done since!

Raymond giggled sending back a wink at Alexander.

Asshole! Alexander thought.

No doubt Raymond was brilliant and smart, he could choose out to listen in class and still ace his exam by reading alone. It is one of those I read once and understand it kind of boy.

“That’s your class right there, I will get you into class and ask someone to show you around the school”

“Alright”

Those words entered into the ears of Alex like they were talking near him, but the person beside him was writing down in his book. And he was familiar with one of the voices. It was his Aunt’s own.

Battling with his thoughts a sound entered from the door attracting everyone’s attention. The door opened, Ms. Laurel and a young lady with a black glowing plaited hair resting from her front scalp to the back, still the hair went on and stopped at the middle of her back. Some inches more and it would be touching her bottom.

She was obviously a black American who had a set of golden eyes with a little tint of black. Those golden-brown eyes reminded him of the first light of dawn, bringing the warmth and loving brightness into the world. She had a white shirt on, covering her slightly bigger than average bust and her flat stomach. On it was written “Don’t get close!” Alex wondered if it was a warning or just some random words printed on her shirt.

Her lower body was covered in deep brown trouser hanging her thigh firmly, her footwear, a brown short heel boot covering up her ankles.

“Principal Laurel” Mr. Arnold called so she could explain and she did.

“Hey, don’t rush me, meet your math teacher Mr. Arnold and a lazy bunch of teenagers who attempt to ruin my day every second… go on introduce yourself”

Ms. Laurel silenced Arnold with a grin while she continued her speech.

“Hi, am Layla Hunt”

Majority nodded and waved while she ignored.

“So am going to pick someone to give Layla a tour around the school”

While speaking her gaze met Alex and a grin faintly formed on her face as she saw him begging with his eyes while slightly shaking it.

“On second thought your teacher will do that, I can’t stand you kids, please have your seat Layla”

Principal Laurel turned around and left the classroom after she and Mr. Arnold exchanged nods.

Layla walked to an empty chair behind and Alex lost control of his eyes as they followed after. Only after she sat down was he able to withdraw his gaze.

“Damn” That was breathtaking!

“Alright settle down, Hunt… welcome to Mystic Field High School”

Mr. Arnold’s voice landed on a boy flirting with a girl beside him.

“Martins! You will be giving our new student here a tour around the school during lunch period”

Douglas Martins reacted in shock as he turned and spoke.

Engrossed in his flirting with Ariana that he snapped out of the conversation as his ears heard his name.

“What? I don’t have time I will be busy”

Douglas spoke out rudely, well he was the bully and jerk of the school so it was kind of expected.

But the mathematics teacher chose not to back down

“You shouldn’t have disturbed my class, so yes you will be so busy giving Hunt a tour or you can keep me company in detention”

“But…”

“Your choice, pick”

Mr. Arnold silenced Douglas who gave a low tune reply

“fine” Douglas said in resignation and an unexpected mocking laughter echoed all of a sudden in the class after the awkward silence.

It was from famous bad boys Alexander and Raymond. The laugh was so loud and infectious almost half of the class tried holding back laugh so they wouldn’t get on the bad side of the bully and suffer the consequences but two laughter’s still went on.

Raymond and Alexander cared less and what was expected didn’t happen and the class was shocked.