Chapter 11: That Nightmare at School
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“I wonder if Charlotte is serious? Or perhaps what happened yesterday was a dream?” I shove a spoonful of food into my mouth.
Our doorbell rings suddenly ring and mom goes over to the door.
Do we have a visitor so early in the morning? Or don’t tell me it’s…
“Alaster! Your classmate it here to pick you up!” Mom calls me.
I almost choked my food when I heard mom call me.
She really did come!
I didn’t finish my food and went to the door. I saw mom and Charlotte talking to each other.
“You didn’t tell me about this lovely girl!” Mom gives me a sad face.
“Mom, i-it’s not like that!” I look at Charlotte then at mom, “W-we’re just classmates!”
“I see! It’s the other way around now” Mom gives me a smile, “Ahh, youth these days! Back in our days, boys used to court girls but I guess times really have changed”
I can feel my face burning up from embarrassment. I grabbed my bag and dragged Charlotte’s hand outside of the house.
“I’m going!” I say while not looking back.
“Be careful!” Mom replies.
I released her hand and faced her.
“Look, you don’t need to go into my house and we don’t need to go to school together!” I let out a sigh, “Or else my mom and everybody else will get the wrong idea”
“Do you hate it that much?” She asks.
“I hate it when we don’t even have a proper relationship” I reply.
“Then.. you want me to be your girlfriend?”
“NOPE” I use my hands to form an X, “You sure are jumping to conclusions, what I meant is we’re just acquaintance”
“I see, then should we start from being friends to progress to being lovers?”
“NO” I start to walk, “If you still don’t understand then I think it’s better if you keep your distance for now”
Actually, I really don’t want to get involved with her and I hope this is a good reason for her to ditch me, even if it’s temporary! I’ll get every chance that I will get.
We silently arrived at school with her walking behind me and as expected, students from our school began to flood her. I have been pushed away from her by the crowd, which is a good thing for me anyway. I went to our classroom and expected to see Sky there but to my surprise, he’s not there.
I sat down in my seat and checked my phone.
No message or call either. I’m actually getting worried about what Sky has gotten into.
A few minutes later, Charlotte also entered the classroom and sat next to me, which unfortunately is her seat. The crowd following her also followed her into our classroom and currently, I’m being ignored.
I went out of the classroom to go to the bathroom and to also get a breather. On my way there, I was dragged into an unused classroom by a group of students.
Crap, I think these people saw us.
“Why is a nobody like you talking to our princess outside of the school!?” They began questioning me.
“Damn, you lot really stalk her even outside of the school? That’s creepy as hell” I blurt out.
What I said was really creepy, these people are obviously obsessed with her!
“That’s none of your business!” One of them punch me in the stomach, “Get away from her you goddamn nobody”
They pushed me to the ground and they began kicking me.
“Oh boy, don’t piss me off. I had a bad morning” I glare at them, “I might commit murder right now”
“You? Oh, please” A girl from the group laughs at me and the others followed.
Without even realizing it, my fist was about to reach the face of the girl. I’m so damned pissed off and these idiots are really seeking trouble.
My eyes widen when I saw Charlotte catch my punch.
“Princess!” They begin their fake cries, “H-he trie—“
Before the girl could continue, Charlotte slaps her. The slap was so hard that the girl actually flew a quite distance.
“You lot better stop this nonsense” Charlotte’s voice was colder than ice, “Or else, I won’t ever forgive you”
The group was frozen in place in fear while she simply ignored them and touched my face.
“Are you okay?” She gives me a worried look.
Honestly, I’m freakin scared of her right now! She caught my punch and she just slapped that girl who flew across the classroom. Is she a monster?
“Y-yeah” I stutter.
“Come now, class is starting” She helps me to get up, still ignoring the group of students who dragged me in here.
She grabbed my hand and we went to the classroom together. At the same time, the bell also rings.
Of course, that grabbed EVERYBODY’S attention. Goodbye, my peaceful high school life.
The class ended at lunchtime and before I could get out of the classroom, Charlotte already grabbed my uniform.
“We need to talk” She says seriously, “Let’s talk while having lunch”
I was about to refuse but she did this cute face.
“Please..?” She lightly blushes.
“Fine… Just this once” I let out a sigh.
While on our way to Charlotte’s lunch spot, many people are following us and I’ve been hearing unpleasant whispers. These damned idiots.
We arrived at her spot and I can’t believe that I haven’t seen that place before. It’s a huge garden with trees and lots of flowers. In the center of it, there is a table and two chairs.
“Wait, you eat there?” I ask her.
“Yes, the scenery here is quite relaxing” She answers.
I was about to ask ‘How can you relax when the other students are literally eating around her whilst admiring her’, but I stopped myself.
We sat down and began to unpack our lunches.
I looked around and the looks of the crowd around us is hurtful.
I bet they are already killing me in their minds.
“Look Alaster, I made this” She puts her lunchbox near to mine, “You want to share?”
I looked at her lunch and surprisingly, it looks normal.
“W-well, let’s get straight to the point. What did you want to talk about?” I change the topic.
“I had some time thinking what you said this morning and I figured it out” She looks at me, “I would like to be your friend”
I suddenly heard gasps from around us, clearly, the students are shocked.
“I-is that all?” I look away.
Damn it, I can feel my face turning red.
“There’s more, it’s about your friend Sky” She starts to eat her lunch.
“What happened?” I look at her seriously.
“I’ll tell you later, for now, eat up” She uses her spoon to feed me.
I was caught off guard and was about to open my mouth.
“NOOOOOOO!!!” The students around us shout in shock.
Holy prick! That was close!
Charlotte’s expression changed and she looked at the students.
“GET.OUT.OF.HERE” She says with a scary face.
The students fled in fear.
“And I was so close…” She says with a tone of disappointment.
Somehow, seeing her feeling down makes me feel uneasy.
“…Fine, I will be your friend” I finally give in.
Her eyes began to sparkle and she smiles.
“But, you should be mindful when your fans are around you”
“I don’t really care about them” She continues to eat, “Besides, I decide who to eat with”
Such strong words, I wonder if she acts like this all the time.
“Now that we’re alone, I will tell you about Sky” She puts down her utensils and wipes her mouth elegantly, “He’s currently unconscious”
“Huh!? What happened with him??” My eyes widen
“We also don’t know but his condition isn’t critical. It seems like that your friend is no ordinary person” She continues.
“What do you mean?”
He’s not normal? Well, he’s active in sports and also participated in sorts of fighting tournaments.
“What I mean is he’s a superhuman in the norms of our world” She looks at the flowers nearby, “Alaster, do you believe that other worlds exist?”
“Just like in a manga? I’m certainly not sure, but I don’t believe they exist”
“I see, however, those things indeed exist” She turns her look on me, “But there’s no evidence of them until now”
“Don’t tell me, Sky is one of them?” I ask her.
“Yes”
Sky came from another world? What the hell?
“Why are you telling me all this? Isn’t these things supposed to be a secret?”
“There’s a reason but you don’t need to know about it for now”
After that, we silently ate our lunches and we went back to our room together.
I began to think about what she said.
Does this mean that I’m about to get involved in their business? If that’s the case then maybe it’s the reason why she protected me that time but I don’t understand their objective.
I looked at her, hoping that I would get some answers. She noticed that I was looking and she smiles at me.
That’s not what I’m hoping for…
The bell rings and the class started.
I spent the whole time in class thinking about the situation that I was about to get involved but in the end I figured nothing. Looks like I will be asking Charlotte about this.
The class ended and as expected, Charlotte walks me home.
“This kinda feels a bit off…” I scratch my head.
“Why? Is something wrong?”
“Well, for one, you’re walking me home”
“I think it’s normal though? This way, I can protect you” She looks at me innocently.
“About that, I have a question” I say, “You’re a witch, right?”
“Yes” She answers casually, “What about it?”
“Why do you protect me? I just wanted to know why” I look at her seriously.
At first, she looked like she hesitated to answer but she lets out a sigh.
“It's simply because you are my master” She answers, “We witches are born with a connection to a specific person and that specific person is the source of our power and life”
“Huh? Why would it be like that?”
“Apparently, it’s similar to the fated red string. Once a witch finally is reunited with her other half, that witch will grow stronger. The first generation of witches are cursed and that curse is passed through generations up to this day”
“So are you saying that you’re protecting me because you need me to become powerful?”
“No, I’m protecting you because I want to. Even if you don’t accept me, I will still protect you”
“Then, you didn’t answer my question at all!”
I walked faster.
“W-well…” She stops, “It’s because I’m fond of you…”
I stopped walking the moment I heard her say those words, but before I could say anything else the ominous feeling came back. My vision begins to get blurry.
“We walked right into their trap…” Charlotte says seriously.
The voice in my head appeared again.
“Escape…”
“Escape…”
“Danger…Incoming…”
My vision suddenly turns back to normal again.
“Charlotte! We need to get out of here!” I hold her hand, “Quick!”
A girl in a witch’s dress suddenly appears in front of us.
“What’s the rush?” The girl grins.
This is the girl back in the school but the ominous feeling still hasn’t gone away. I can feel ‘it’ getting near and nearer.
“Y-you need to get out of here!” I warn the girl, “Something dangerous is coming!”
“Why would I believe---“ She was cut off.
The sky once again had a huge c***k but this time, a girl in a black dress enters through the gap created by the c***k.
“T-that!” The girl was shaking in fear then looks at me, “You knew this thing is coming!?”
“I told you!” I reply.
I looked at Charlotte and she’s shaking a little.
I guess this is too much even for her.
“Damn it… I was hoping to get revenge on the witch of c*****e but to think that a monster like this would appear”
Four more witches appeared out of nowhere and they stood before the mysterious lady in black.
- Writer
