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Chapter 13

Unexpected meetings

The center where Lavender was receiving help, had a brick path near it that led to the lunch building were a circle of people we're currently congregating. They were all looking at the three people standing between them. One was driven by strong anger. The other one weak, terror-struck, and crumbling over herself because of the fear. Zane stood between Glory and Andromeda, trying desperately to keep Glory from getting to Andromeda. Zane had a steady grip on Glory's shoulders, as to keep her from struggling away from his grip while Andromeda slowly backed away from Glory. She saw that Glory's eyes were filled with complete rage. "Just let me go so I can go get her," Glory snapped, Zane feeling how she pushed him back with more force.

"No leave her alone," Zane said, knowing that she was past the point where he would be able to calm her down. She suddenly yank backwards and she felt how he lost his grip. She then immediately tried to run at Andromeda but instead tangled herself into Zane, causing both of them tumbled to the ground. Zane felt the pain in his knees as he hit the ground, and the slight scrap on his hands as he finished stopping his grunted as she slammed against the ground on her side, a dull ache filling her. At that, a sudden applause emitted from the ring of spectators. For the first time, Glory became aware of the people that were staring at her. This created a strong feeling of unpleasantness that filled her body. The crowd just laughed at her, and Glory began feeling shame bubble up inside her. Besides her, Zane stood up. She felt how her face turned red and how she just wanted to disappear from the crowd. Then she heard laughter that stood out from the crowd. She then got to her feet, and faced Andromeda. The weak arcanine that was afraid of Glory was completely gone. It was replace with Andromeda smiling and laughed. The crowd was with her. Glory took a step against Andromeda, but felt how someone took her arm. Embarrassed, she let them drag her away from Andromeda and the crowd.

Glory sat in an empty room in the house and pondered over her life. The room she was sitting in looked like a normal office room that was sparsely used. A thin layer of dust laid on top of everything. Glory walked around in the middle of the room so as to look out through the window and see the form of dark clouds building on the horizon.

What are you doing with your life? What are you doing to the people around you? You have been acting weird this whole day. As soon as someone talks to Zane you are on the edge. You get angry as soon as someone talks to him. Why are you acting like this? Why are you acting like Lavender did?

Glory halted her movement, kicked the door so that it slammed shut. The loud sound echoed through the house as the frame of the door shook slightly. She felt how she boil with mixed feelings inside. How much it hurt herself to compare herself to Lavender. How much she didn't want to see her sister's former behavior in herself and how much she could see it.

See you are acting like her. Angry at everyone for everything. Glory suddenly wrapped her arms around herself for fear of hitting anything in her anger. Don't think of it! Focus on what happened today instead of what's going to happen in the future.

Taking a deep breath, Glory tried to calm herself and sat down in the leather office chair. She smelled soft sent of the leather as she let her head rest against the soft surface of the desk. Why did you change moods so much over a day? What differentiates this day from others? Glory closed her eyes and looked back on the day. You have been angry at Nicole, Zane, and Andromeda. She figured putting the three events together as she felt the devious voice inside her head: You're jealous. You're just jealous because Zane has girls in his life, other than you. Glory sighed and crumbled herself tighter. It's nothing to be ashamed of. Your angry because you are unsure how to handle it. Try to get his attention in another way so he likes you.

At that thought, she suddenly rose from the chair, making her way to find Zane. First, I need to say sorry.

Zane sat in the empty living room and flipped between the channels while thinking on on what Glory had been through earlier. It was in that instant, he felt someones eyes on him. Behind him in the doorway stood Glory, looking at him with a confident smile. He rose his eyebrow and looked at her, all the while thinking about the sore feeling he had on the back of his head. She carefully tiptoed over to him and set herself down beside Zane.

"I just want to say sorry Zane," Glory spoke, as she took his hand in hers. "I know that I haven't been the nicest to both you and your friends. It was wrong of me and I want to say sorry."

Zane was astonished by the fact that it had only been a few hours back that she was mad at him and that she had changed quite fast.

"I'm sorry, please believe me,"

Zane understood why she said this as he didn't answer her and just let his mouth hang wide open while looking at her.

"Apology accepted," Zane said and closed his mouth so as to not make the situation awkward.

Glory looked at him with glowing eyes and hesitated before giving him a hug. He then carefully hugged her back. After that, she left him lonely in the living room. Zane continued with his zapping between the channels a bit amazed over Glory's sudden change before he suddenly felt his phone buzz. Is it Andromeda? He picked it up from his pocket, filled with expectations just to see that the message was from a number he didn't recognize.

He then unlocked his phone and read the message. The more he read it, the more worried he got. Indeed as he expected the name at the end of the message was Nicole. Seriously I thought she would drop that. Do I really need to do that tutoring.

After a few minutes of messaging they had decided a time and a place. When it was fixed he put down his phone and looked at the display of it as short message appeared. "Goodnight /Nicole" he read it out loud. Under it, the display showed the number the message was sent from. How did she get my number? I've never given it to her and I'm quite sure that Mitis nor any of the sisters has. How did she get her hands on that?

Zane was walking in the school without any goal more than to fill out the quarter before his biology lesson. The corridor was empty, and not a soul could be seen in it. The white spotless walls made Zane think of a hospital. He walked along the rows of lockers and a door flew open and a flood of students began welling from it. Zane took a small step aside to let them pass but a little Lucario that was a head shorter than him bumped into him, as she was focusing on an exercise book. She looked up at him him while the rest of the class walked further. Her body tensed up as she looked at him and with stutters she spoke, "It's you." The Lucario then mumbled a short apologize while running away with a massive blush on her face before Zane even had a chance to say anything. What just happened? It's you? I have never seen her before.

Zane continued to walk while contemplating her words. How did she know who I was when I didn't even have a clue about who she was. That's creepy. He walked further down the corridor, until he found the person he had been looking for.

Mitis stood next to a wall, looking through a window while doodling on a notebook. As Zane walked up to him he glanced up, with a smiled. "Hi there Zane," Mitis said and gave Zane a high five. Before Zane had a chance to talk Mitis jabbed him in the stomach. "Why didn't you tell me about this? I want to hear all the details from you!" Mitis said, his eyes glowing with cheerfulness.

Zane just tilted his head a bit and looked at Mitis. "What are you talking about? Are you mad Mitis?"

Mitis just laughed, shaking his head. "You don't understand anything Zane, nothing at all. You accepted tutoring a girl, and not just a random girl, it's the fanciest one! Tutoring always ends up with a date."

A cold chill went through Zane's body when he understood what Mitis meant. This means that I'm going to get a lot of attention from people like Uran.

Chill it, Zane, you are just going to talk to a nice girl, what's the big deal? It's going to be perfect!

Zane managed to calm himself even with the feeling he had in his gut that something bad would soon happen. Meanwhile, he was dragged back to the moment when Mitis started to interrogate him about what he and Nicole were planning to do.

"You need to tell me! How did you managed to fix at date with her out of all people? Reveal your secrets! Are you going to do juicy stuff? You are at least famous in the school now!"

Zane tried to shield himself against all the questions and explain things as good as possible while thinking: Does at least explain why people recognizes me.

Zane walked towards the café Nicole and he had agreed to meet at. It was late afternoon and the dim light of the sun revealed the absence of people on the sidewalk he was taking. The cafe that she had made him agree to go to was on the outskirts of the city in a little backstreet. The only light was coming from the dimmed streetlights as buildings blocked the small amount of light from the sun. As he walked past a tight alleyway he was completely up in his thoughts, not realizing until the last second that a strong arm pulled itself around his throat. He was quickly dragged back into the alley, as fear started to build in him. As Zane tried to scream, he felt a hand cover his mouth causing only a small squeal to escape.

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