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Chapter 8-

-Illusory Happiness-

Throwing open the door, I pretty much dragged my feet into the shop, eyeing the cobwebs forming on the window panes.

The place seemed deserted, which didn't really surprise me. Well- I say deserted; Cedric was probably lingering around and he was all I really needed to see.

I shouted his name, listening to the mimic of my voice echo around the room and patiently waited for a call back. Nothing... Lazy git.

I propped myself up onto the counter, listening to the sounds of the world outside, buffered by the walls.

Unsurprisingly, the caffeine had only started to kick in, so my attitude hadn't improved one bit. Frankley, I was still frazzled by what happened about an hour ago and yet, already I was breaking her warning. I coudn't help but admit to myself that something weird DID happened after the ordeal back home; I felt- darker, or more like I was forced to feel that way... As if I was being controlled- but the 'connection' was so weak that it couldn't completely take control over me... Speaking of which, that had faded now- So I was just left with the aftershock of being grumpy... Fantastic.

I must have dozed off because the next thing I knew I was having to latch onto the back of the desk to stop myself from toppling off. Frozen by the slight falling sensation, I huffed in frustration.

Where the heck was he?

Pacing was all I could think if doing. Hm, maybe even dig tracks into the floor! Teach him not to leave me with corridors filled with nothing but 's till something caught my eye; a faint blue glow illuminating from the behind a door at the far end of the shelves. I was pretty bewildered by it, I hadn't seen this glow let alone the door before- but then again, it was located at the back of the shop itself.

No one was actually here to prevent me from snooping around. So as if by instinct, I moved towards the door itself. But to my surprise, I picked up the noise of some sort of humming, then by edging closer towards this sound, it turned into an echo-ish kind of 'space-like' one. To be honest, it was extremely peculiar- nothing I had heard before.

I hesitantly clutched the door handel, tranced by the wind-like, echo sounds coming from the other side. I sighed in aggravation of my sudden zoning out and slowly pushed down on the handle and started to pull open the door. That was until the edge of the door smashed into my temple, knocking me off my feet with a yelp.

I could feel myself shake as my body was petrified from the shock, it surprised me I was sitting up from the impact and was just about able to look up to see the overfamiliar colourless eyes.

I could have ripped his ponytail out in that second if I hadnt been on the floor too occupied from the pain rattling in my head.

"Speak of the devil" Cedric smirked, leaning on the frame of the door.

"Where the heck were you?!" I retorted, glaring into his eyes of what seemed to be triamph.

To my surprise he clenched my arm, pulling me back to my feet- Yet left me to look for surport on the nearby wall. "Busy. But trust me, I didn't pointlessly summon you here-"

I snorted, "No, you got some girl to do the dirty work for you."
I couldn't help but feel uplifted by his chuckle in response. "Seriously though, I found something that might help you..."

"Go on?" Cocking my head.

"I found where that Book of Light is."

As if it had taken a while to dawned on me, I felt a big lump form in my throat. He...he found it?! But then something else came to mind and I felt my expression turn into a frown.

"I told you not to get into my buisness."

"I don't take orders from a minor."

My jaw dropped as if to say something yet nothing came to mind to retaliate with...The cheeky bastard.

I turned away from him in defeat I guess it was. But BOY could I feel that smile and eyes piecing the back of my head. After about a minutes silence I let the words flow back out. "So where is it?"

"In a school." I sighed in annoyance. "There's lots of schools Cedric, please be a dear and be more specific-"

"Sheffield Institute."

I was shocked in all honesty. Shocked enough to look around to face him. "Sheffield Institute? Why-"

He simply shrugged, "It seems legit to me; The Guardians seem to go there."

I trailed off with an Ahh, I guess it wouldn't really be a surprise, after all, maybe they where hiding it there, who knows.
"So," I spun round completely, stepping forward to lean against a bookshelf, "Know anything else?"

There was a surprisingly long pause.

"It's in the Library I expect and It'll be best to go when its closed-"

"No shit," I rolled my eyes, feeling an unwanted smile to appear. "Even I'm not that much of a hermit when it comes to Earth."

"Okay," he sung, throwing his hands up in the air and looked away slightly. "Just don't get yourself killed."

I could tell he was most likely taking the piss, still I pushed off the bookshelf and folded my arms.

"It's a school. My own species would gladly kill me and you think I would easily get myself murdered walking around an empty building?"

"Heh- never mind," he smiled a little and walked towards me, supposedly to go past, while unnecessarily patting my head. "Just looking out for a fellow extra terrestrial."

Heh... He really did enjoy pulling my strings.