Ch 2 Holy Cross Academy
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Later that day, Lavi came back to the room, but I didn't notice his presence. The reason? I was listening to Lady Gaga. Lavi knocked on my head and I jerked to attention.
"Ouch, Lavi! That hurt. Why'd you do that for?" I questioned, rubbing the sore spot.
"I'm sorry bud, but you didn't notice when I came in. Anyway, wanna get dinner? Jerry missed you at lunch!"
My eyes widened and looked towards the clock. It's five-thirty. I've been listening to music since eleven-fifteen.
"I missed lunch?!" I cried out.
"Yup, you sure did! I wasn't sure if I should come and get you, but Lenalee had something important to discuss. Well anyway, buddy, let's go!" Lavi shouted, and left the door open for me to go out off.
As I climb off of my abnormally tall bed, I look in to the mirror Lavi had set up in front of the bathroom door, on the wall. I saw the shadow man behind me again. With his creepy, glowing eyes, and his wide grin. I ignore it like always, just brushing it of as an illusion. I see him in every mirror like surface. If I see my reflection, he's there. Taunting me in to submission. I don't know if it is really there or it is just a hallucination. I sometimes hear him talking to me in a short whisper in my ear. The shadow sometimes tells me things, scary things. For example, I should kill a random person on the street, or worse, one of my friends. I hate the shadow with all my being. He gives me visions of his "past", I just ignore them.
Lavi snaps me out of my thoughts when he claps his hands in front of my face. "Earth to, Allen! Allen, do you read me?" he questions me, worried.
"Yes, I'm here. I'm just thinking about new songs to compose," I reply, smiling widely.
"That's awesome little buddy! Well we're up next to order! So get ready!"
I pout at him muttering, "I'm not little."
After I finish my monstrous pile of food, Lavi and I both return to our dorms so we can our homework to end the weekend, so we don't panic for school tomorrow. I sigh as I finished my last paper that I had to do for English. It was a poem.
"Sometimes I think to myself, do I really have friends?
Or do all the people I surround myself just use me in the end?
All friendships have ended, new ones began,
But I can't help but think,
Will this life turn out as planned?
Will I have true friends in the end?
Only the gods will know in the end.
In the end,
I am only human.
Sometimes I feel so out of place,
Amongst all the others I surround myself with.
I can hear something calling to me,
I can't make out what it's saying.
Maybe soon I will hear what they have to say."
When I fall asleep, I dream of a time before mine. I thinks it's the 70's at this point of time. I think I see a child's version of Mana. I call out to him, but it wasn't my voice. It was the shadows. Why was the shadow following me? In my dreams even. I don't think I can handle the shadow anymore. Maybe... Maybe if... No, that would be stupid of me. I don't think I can even do it.
You do what you do now, so why can't you go a step further? Asks the shadows voice.
No! I can't do it! I won't ever do it! My friends love me too much! I can't do that to them. I scream at the voice, shutting it up.
Everything goes dark.
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