A New Problem
Chapter 12
Ranieh Caren was still a in a state after what Amitiel had said to her, she kinda went into self pity mode and also scared stiff mode directly afterwards. She didn't understand, the angel had just left her there and expected her to just deal with the words that had come out of her mouth.
How she was able to make it to her next class and to her desk, the teacher was different from the usual teacher, Ms Mitel who was supposed to be taking this class had vanished apparently.
"So, class we shall be continuing with your normal teachers' lesson plan. So pay attention." The male teacher told them, not in mood for any typical high school crap from the students. Anyway it wasn't their time that was being wasted it was his own.
Ranieh just put her head in her hands, not really giving a damn about anything else but the thoughts in her own head, and there were more important things going on right now than learning.
What was coming for her, except for demons? More angels or those people that Amitiel had mentioned to her before she walked off. She didn't see any other way to deal with these horrible revelations except to see what would happen to her, that fear of the unknown was driving her mind to spin.
Everything almost faded completely to black when Ranieh came out of the rut she had become firmly ensconced in. It was all silence and nothing else but her alone like she had become the only thing in the room. It was rather unnerving and depressing.
'You have to make a choice about what you want to do? Do you run and live or fight and die a most painful death? You don't even know what they want with you.' The voice once again came back and talked to her. Ranieh hadn't heard it for 2 days now.
'Who are you?' She demanded of the voice in her head, needing to know something more about why she was now getting ongoing commentary all the time. Now instead of just saying a couple of words, they were becoming more formed sentences and with a female voice.
'You just need to trust me.' The voice in her head told her. But that was all she said, it was obvious though from the way she had said it she had meant it and wanted Ranieh to trust her.
But who has a voice in their heads aside from their own? Amitiel had told her that she wasn't normal but this was reaching a new extreme. Who does that?
She looked up and found that everything was now back, no dark for the moment and the classroom and the students once again were back in focus. The teacher had his back to all the students, more focused on his writing than on them.
The room was silent with only the scratching of the chalk stopping it from becoming unbearable and driving you crazy. There wasn't anything that she could do about that though. She could probably walk out of the class right now and no one would notice her leaving.
It was getting on her nerves extremely quickly as there was nothing but the silence to keep her company and all it did was make her on edge even more than before and didn't make things any easier for her to contemplate.
She had too much in her head right now and the one person who could help her with that knowledge was not even around at this second. Just left Ranieh to deal with all of these feelings and anxieties. All that fear and she had no idea what to do with it and how she would be able to handle the things coming for her if she couldn't handle the not knowing.
To say she was merely scared was the understatement of the century, she could handle being scared because when you faced what you were afraid of that was the end of it. In this case she didn't know what she had to be afraid of, what kinds of things were coming her way.
Long story short, there was too much at stake here aside from her own life, or so she believed. Would these things really destroy an entire town for one single person? What was there to gain from all of this aside from causing death and destruction? Could she even be worth that?
When the bell finally went, Ranieh all but ran out of the classroom ahead of everyone else wanting to feel like she could breathe again rather than being back inside the tension filled room.
The hall was filled with other students and it was like wading your way through rapids instead of the bodies of others. She managed to make it to her locker without much more trouble.
As she finished putting her books back into her locker she no longer heard the chatter stop. Like something had caught the other students attention or something.
Ranieh turned around to see what all the fuss was about and saw that the corridor was empty behind her, no one was there. Why was that?
'Get it together and don't let your guard down.' The voice in her head came back and spoke sternly as though to drill this message in as a general would do to his soldiers. She felt something take over in a way. Her guard was definitely up now and she looked in front and behind her, aware of more than she had been.
She was making her way towards the exit of the school, intent on now finding Amiitiel and demanding more than just confusing riddles and wanting proper answers. It was about time the angel would tell her the honest truth about what in god's name was wrong with her?