Not So Bad After all
1480 Words
Not so bad After all
As much as possible, I tried to stay away from Damion. It was over a week now, and we haven't seen or spoken to each other. I remember dialing his contact on my phone before leaving him abruptly alone in the lecture hall.
Today was meant to be a free lecture day, but my grumpy Oral English Lecturer wouldn't spare a single day this week without tutorials.
Most students felt English wasn't a problem, since they school at Oxford which is situated in England, were English was the mother tongue. And national 'lingua franca'.
"Delaney Anthony" Prof. Said, pointing to a word, projected on a white sheet, by a projector.
"Could you help us out here please." He gave a lazy smile.
It was unusual for Prof. To direct his questions to a specific person. Normally, he threw to his questions out generally.
My heart thumped a little. Raise my brows, bite my lip, and arranged my dress, standing up in a very lazy manner.
"I think it's pronounced the French way" I scowl at Olivia by my right, who was already wearing a puppy dog face to make a jest at me.
"French?" Prof. Jeered.
The entire class, burst into laughter, stamping their feet on the floor and mockingly covering their mouths from exposing their upper teeth while they laugh.
I was tensed, the whole class against one. My blood was beginning to heat up, my heartbeat raced.
God, not now, not here_ I thought.
I feared I was going to transform into my wolf form, but I stayed the same. But Damion said fury and strong emotions could triggered my paranormal entity out of it's cave deep inside my mind.
My phone buzzed. I took it out from my pocket, and read the text. Like magic or that moment in movies, when everything fades out, only you and your thoughts are left.
"Look outside the text read."
Instantly, I turned and saw Damion in his full wolf form. I looked up at the professors, then my class and my phone.
"Why are you still standing? there are no more French words to be pronounced miss Delaney" Prof. Remarked, hoping to find a little smile on my pale weary face.
"If only Diana was here" I mumbled.
"What was that?" Prof. Snapped.
I pretended I didn't hear hpim and sat down slowly.
Diana was my best friend back in the days. Although she hasn't showed up since the inception of this semester.
She was like a sister to me or maybe a partner in crime. We were even roomies, in the dorm room, before Paulina got to take the space.
The electricity powering my class got interrupted somehow and the light bulbs begins to shake. The air-conditioners cease from working, the fans stop rotating and the projected image dies abruptly.
The emergency light bulb powers on automatically, but it barely lights up the class. My phone buzzed again, I turned to my left, Olivia and Esther were staring at my gravely.
I exposed the upper roles of my teeth in mockery.
"this isn't pageantry." Olivia snapped.
"Oh, really?" I sneered.
Power came back and the lecture hall was lit again with powerful florescent lights.
I checked the new notification on my phone. It was Damion's message on Messenger.
"Give me two minutes please." It read.
"… And please make it snappy, I can't do this all day"
"Do what?" I texted back.
The lights bulbs and projected image went dead again. I smirked, killed the light on my phone screen, and stealthily left the class. I was certain Olivia saw me, but who cares?
My phone buzzed again, it was an emoji this time. A round black moon head smirking. I smiled and hastened my steps.
Something in me was enchanted to see Damion, not just for the wolf tutorials.
I wheezed and gasped for air, as I got to the hallway of the old English Lecture Hall. I walked further towards the lecture hall. I reached for my phone to reply his moon emoji.
"I'm here," I texted, ending the line with a smiling poop.
I got his read receipts but he didn't reply. It made me somewhat uncomfortable. I gazed blankly at the empty dark hall. I wanted to turn on my phone's flashlight, but I hesitated.
One step at a time, I reached the edge of the classroom. My tiny fingers searched haphazardly for the main florescent bulbs switch.
I gave out satisfactory puffs of breath when I found it. I pressed it hard and I beheld Damion n***d.
"Geez!" I shrieked.
"Del, calm down" he transformed into a full werewolf.
I heaved a sigh of relief. Technically speaking, this was the first time I set eyes on a full grown boy or young adult, n***d.
Damion looked nineteen, but I think he was twenty, judging from what I just saw now.
"What was that for?" I yelled.
"It's only natural I turn n***d when transforming." He grinned, it was dark but I could still see his teeth.
"That's how you would be, when you transform from your paranormal entity, to your normal human form. That's lesson number two." He remarked.
Damion walks to a dark Conner, amidst the piles chairs and shifted back to human. Grabbing and wearing his clothes.
My eyes were shut, Incase he wanted to undress again.
"Pay attention Del." He exclaimed from the dark corner, walking towards me.
My attention was glued on him now, he looks out of the hallway and senses something. His nose sniffs and his eyes rolled.
I attempted to sniff too, but I ended up sucking in tons of dust.
His gaze was fastened to the hallway as he peered from the window of the lecture hall.
"Over here, Del." He whispered.
I was reluctant, but still I went to him, I squat and we both peered through the window.
A tall chubby man, walked through the hallway, with a powerful flashlight on his hand. He checked the first three classes, then got to where we hid.
"Over here buddy" he called out to his colleague. Another man shows up. Putting on sleeves and denim jeans, I could tell from the light that gleamed in the classroom.
The only think preventing this two security men from seeing me and Damion, was the table, beside under the window were we hid.
"Got a pen?" I think I heard Damion whisper in a very low tone.
"Yeah," I said. With out my lips moving.
"We are telepathically conversing" he said.
"Damn how's this even possible." I smiled.
The chubby man drew closer. I handed the pen to Damion. I wondered what he was thinking. Damion lingers until the men looked away.
He slips his hand through the open window slowly, and stealthily he thrusts the pen down the hallway as far as he could very silently.
The men looked at each other. They hurry to the hallway and we stealthily exit the lecture hall, but not the building. Frustrated, the security men exit the building, cursing whatever let out the alarming scream they heard.
I cling tightly to Damion, so much, I didn't even notice when the men were gone.
"If you don't mind, I think they are gone now." Damion smirked and chuckled.
I squeezed my eyes, and imagine them gouging out from the embarrassment.
"It's fine, you can still seat if…"
"Please shut the f*ck up!" I snapped.
"Impressive, let's try that one more time." He said.
I heaved, sighed and chuckled.
"Alright let's get back to work."
We strolled back to the hall in the dark, I wanted to hold his hands, but couldn't, I mean why should I?
Am not some scared baby.
"The primary thing I would teach you is, how you change to your wolf form with ease and how to control your transition, so u don't have to rid off your clothes and get n***d everytime you do."
He gestures with his hands and I smile a little.
"If it pleases you, I could demonstrate." He smiled wildly.
"Oh, please" I giggled.
Gradually, I was beginning to find Damion funny and interesting. But there was still a lot I needed to know. Like where he schooled, family, how he got to know me, where he lives, and a bunch of other things.
"You look carried away, do you have any questions for me?" He raised his brow and steps a little closer.
"Somehow, I don't know why or how but I think we are meant to be mates. Call me crazy or something whatever but… " he stopped talking, taking his last step forward.
"You know your blue eyes are really striking." He flattered.
He takes another step, but I pushed him away playfully.
"Thank you, but you one hell of a flirt!" We both chuckled
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