Love's might

Chapter 2

Being lost in thoughts I couldn't respond to my mother's question. His mother was forced to look back and tapped her son. "So sorry Mom, I was lost in random thoughts", "What could have bothered you this much", her husband saw that it would be deemed fit if he came into the conversation, "Hey ease lady, he was a man and human, and with his age he is entitled". The mother gave it a great thought and finally obliged to her husband's words. They continued the conversation and James actively participated in it not giving room for any suspicion.

It was a bright Monday morning as James was woken up by his mother tapping his feet and saying, "Hey James won't you go get your bath, else you will be running late to school". At these words, did he rise and give out a stretch? His mother rubbed his hair, "Lazy head can't you greet". "Am so sorry Mom…, good morning ma". "Well good morning son, hurry up and take your bath, I will be in the kitchen making your breakfast", she said, closing the door. James hurriedly went to the bathroom, brushed his teeth and took his bath. He was finally ready to set out for school, as he got himself dressed in his school uniform.

He affirmed the things in his bag and closed his room door with its knob. He dashed out of the room, went straight to the mirror near the corridor to affirm his look for satisfaction and was okay. He moved down to the sitting room and was about to greet his father when he said "How could the police not be able of this dreadful creature". "Morning Dad", he greeted to make him digress a little bit. "Good morning son, how are you this morning", he responded "Cool Dad", and headed towards the dining table. His breakfast was not long before it was served, as he quickly devoured the meal, being his favourite and was ready to set out for school.

He bade his father and set out of the house, headed towards the garage where the driver was waiting for him patiently, he entered the car and greeted the driver, "Good morning Mr. Eric", Eric gave out a beaming smile. Eric, a man in his middle thirties, smiled and asked "Hope you didn't forget anything, like yesterday…", cutting himself seeing how bad it could hit James. "Ooooh sure, I got everything intact". They dashed out of the house and headed for the school.

On the way, seeing how long the distance was, he decided to shoot up a conversation to spice up the journey, "Hey James, I was so happy as to how the lion's team defeated the Tiger's team", he said while he twisted the wheels. "Yeah, you know, considering the records the Tiger's team possesses regarding the National Crickets' team table". "Well you have a point there", he said as he turned on the radio, "Good morning viewers, this is from the morning ecstasy, now listen to the headlines of the news, the toll of the dead has increased from five thousand to eight thousand on the cause of the so-called dreaded werewolf.. ", "what on Earth is wrong with this state, can't the story of this werewolf just stop", he said jabbing the car's horn, James finally responded having digested Eric's words, "well I sometimes if this werewolf story is real", "what made you say that", Eric asked in amazement. "Well it seems to me that the press is short of information and use the werewolf for a cover-up, you can't just imagine that every day the mortality rate increases all on the name of this so-called werewolf", he said descriptively spreading his hands.

Eric took the last turn and said "Well you got a point but all the same we could not overrule the fact that…..", "There is no point in trying to balance things, this simple logic and that is all ''. Eric rested the case, and seeing that they were about to approach the school, he decided to stop the conversation, on reaching the school gate, James alighted from the car and said "Bye Mr.Eric.", Eric could not speak as he predicted his response might not be heard and simply waved to him. As the car zoomed up, he crossed the roads and went into the school.

While on the way to his classroom, he met Jack, and Jack greeted "Hey man", James while seeking who owned the voice, suspecting it might be Jack's waited patiently to affirm. On seeing he gave Jack a handshake and said "Hey buddy, I am cool and you". "Great hearing that, let's get to class, otherwise we will be running late for class". "Right fam", they walked as swiftly as possible just to meet up the time.

While the class was going on, the principal came to the class with a new student and said "Good morning class", they all responded to her in unison, "Good morning ma". "Well, I am sorry to interrupt your lesson". She took a pause and continued her speech, "Well here with me is Emma, she is about to start with us here and I want you to give me a nice day". On seeing her, amazement filled James' face, as he recalled her being the girl he met at church last Sunday. He tried to keep his stance, and to his utmost surprise she was asked to sit beside him, and for the time the lesson went on while James occupied his mind with the new student in class. Discreetly, he kept glancing at her while the teacher drawled on about something to do with angle theorems. This wasn't a concern for him because to start with, James never had an interest in maths class and he couldn't keep his mind off the new girl in class.

Somewhere along the line he had lost track of what Miss Felista was saying and stopped taking notes, his attention fixed on the girl that sat next to him.