A moon and sun had passed and the boy was back at the miserable school
building again.
The boy shrugged uncomfortably in his uniform as he shifted the bag on his shoulder and walked down the corridor, meandering fluently and quickly between other students, catching snippets of their conversations.
"- committed suicide"- "-blood everywhere I heard" "- her poor family, hadn't a clue"- "-party should take our minds off"- "-what are you dressing up as?"-
He glanced up at the banner above the lockers advertising the Halloween party; pictures of dementedly smiling pumpkins looked back down at him and black cats ran from witches on broomsticks.
He kept walking but slowed down when he reached the open double doors of the closed gym; the Halloween party committee were currently decorating the gym for the party that would happen the next day and were getting on with the preparations. There were a few ladders around and paper streamers were strung across the walls, cut outs of paper ghosts and cats and gravestones were stuck onto the walls as well. Someone decided to put up fairy lights around a set up stage where one of the school's students' bands was going to play. People busily moved around the gym, ordering where to put things, what needed to be done next, to move a banner higher or lower, and some students playfully threw fake spiders at each other and shrieked and laughed together.
The brunette from one of his classes he had had previously was tearing some crepe paper absentmindedly as she watched the blonde girl, Leah, sit on a chair nearby. The blonde girl still looked pale, exhausted and ill, as she sat there looking miserable and ghost like.
"Come on Leah cheer up" the brunette spoke, throwing the torn crepe paper onto a nearby table surface forgetting about it, "the party's tomorrow. we'll have a laugh, just you wait and see. do you want to go to the medical room again?". The blonde shook her head. The brunette walked over to the girl and placed an arm around the pale fragile girl's shoulders. "Have you sorted out your costume yet?"
The blonde girl looked up very slowly and tiredly and caught the gaze of the boy watching her. She blinked and in a second he was gone, as if he was never there. She looked up to the brunette girl and shook her head slightly in reply.
The school nurse hummed as she walked down the corridor hugging some files to her chest, and waving to some students who said a polite hello to her. She had a friendly soft smile on her face as she passed students on her way back to the medical room, back from her short meeting with the principle about working during the Halloween party.
The hallway was cleared of students by the time she reached the medical room, and she continued to hum and held the files in her arms awkwardly as she pushed the door open.
"Oh!" she cried out with a stunned sharp gasp, dropping all the files to the floor in her shock; the boards clattered against the tiled floor and paper spilled everywhere. She put a hand to her heart pounding chest as she looked around the empty quiet still medical room. She was alone.
She slowly bent down to start picking up the files. She swore that as she opened the door a boy with long dark hair and piercing dark eyes was stood there staring back at her in an unsettling way. One moment he was there, clear as anything, then the next he was gone, erased from her vision.
Hadn't I seen him somewhere before? The nurse asked herself. That gaze, it was familiar. The new student, her mind recognized and pinpointed him. The boy who had surprised her the other day.
The nurse shook her head as she stood up clutching to the files, "my silly imagination" she chuckled softly to herself and continued with her work.
The boy slammed the door after himself as he sat in the passenger seat of the black car. He blinked out of the window watching through his shades as the students spilled out of the school grounds into the brighter outside world, leaving the dull empty prison like building behind.
He kept watching out of the window as the door opposite slammed, rocking the car slightly as Cole turned on the engine which quickly hummed to life.
"The party tomorrow" the boy spoke as he leant forward and tapped his fingers on the dashboard lightly.
"Yes?" Cole asked, slowly manoeuvring the car and avoiding the students crossing the road recklessly.
"You will be sticking around won't you?" the boy asked and glanced sideways to the suited man he was beginning to get used to being around at times.
Cole sighed as some more children crossed the road in front of him then he travelled along a small distance before annoyingly reaching a traffic light and having to stop again.
"I'll do what needs to be done, as I'm sure you will" was Cole's reply, as the light flashed from red, to amber to green; the car crawled forward as they moved along the road again.
The boy stared ahead out of the window. "Yes" he said and nodded slightly and leant back in his seat, watching a plane silently soar across the sky like a huge dark bird with spread wings. "So my samurai sword" he spoke casually.
"Tomorrow" Cole replied simply as they turned a corner, "tomorrow" he repeated with a nod. The boy nodded satisfied and gratefully as he continued to stare out of the window.
The boy shrugged uncomfortably in his uniform as he shifted the bag on his shoulder and walked down the corridor, meandering fluently and quickly between other students, catching snippets of their conversations.
"- committed suicide"- "-blood everywhere I heard" "- her poor family, hadn't a clue"- "-party should take our minds off"- "-what are you dressing up as?"-
He glanced up at the banner above the lockers advertising the Halloween party; pictures of dementedly smiling pumpkins looked back down at him and black cats ran from witches on broomsticks.
He kept walking but slowed down when he reached the open double doors of the closed gym; the Halloween party committee were currently decorating the gym for the party that would happen the next day and were getting on with the preparations. There were a few ladders around and paper streamers were strung across the walls, cut outs of paper ghosts and cats and gravestones were stuck onto the walls as well. Someone decided to put up fairy lights around a set up stage where one of the school's students' bands was going to play. People busily moved around the gym, ordering where to put things, what needed to be done next, to move a banner higher or lower, and some students playfully threw fake spiders at each other and shrieked and laughed together.
The brunette from one of his classes he had had previously was tearing some crepe paper absentmindedly as she watched the blonde girl, Leah, sit on a chair nearby. The blonde girl still looked pale, exhausted and ill, as she sat there looking miserable and ghost like.
"Come on Leah cheer up" the brunette spoke, throwing the torn crepe paper onto a nearby table surface forgetting about it, "the party's tomorrow. we'll have a laugh, just you wait and see. do you want to go to the medical room again?". The blonde shook her head. The brunette walked over to the girl and placed an arm around the pale fragile girl's shoulders. "Have you sorted out your costume yet?"
The blonde girl looked up very slowly and tiredly and caught the gaze of the boy watching her. She blinked and in a second he was gone, as if he was never there. She looked up to the brunette girl and shook her head slightly in reply.
The school nurse hummed as she walked down the corridor hugging some files to her chest, and waving to some students who said a polite hello to her. She had a friendly soft smile on her face as she passed students on her way back to the medical room, back from her short meeting with the principle about working during the Halloween party.
The hallway was cleared of students by the time she reached the medical room, and she continued to hum and held the files in her arms awkwardly as she pushed the door open.
"Oh!" she cried out with a stunned sharp gasp, dropping all the files to the floor in her shock; the boards clattered against the tiled floor and paper spilled everywhere. She put a hand to her heart pounding chest as she looked around the empty quiet still medical room. She was alone.
She slowly bent down to start picking up the files. She swore that as she opened the door a boy with long dark hair and piercing dark eyes was stood there staring back at her in an unsettling way. One moment he was there, clear as anything, then the next he was gone, erased from her vision.
Hadn't I seen him somewhere before? The nurse asked herself. That gaze, it was familiar. The new student, her mind recognized and pinpointed him. The boy who had surprised her the other day.
The nurse shook her head as she stood up clutching to the files, "my silly imagination" she chuckled softly to herself and continued with her work.
The boy slammed the door after himself as he sat in the passenger seat of the black car. He blinked out of the window watching through his shades as the students spilled out of the school grounds into the brighter outside world, leaving the dull empty prison like building behind.
He kept watching out of the window as the door opposite slammed, rocking the car slightly as Cole turned on the engine which quickly hummed to life.
"The party tomorrow" the boy spoke as he leant forward and tapped his fingers on the dashboard lightly.
"Yes?" Cole asked, slowly manoeuvring the car and avoiding the students crossing the road recklessly.
"You will be sticking around won't you?" the boy asked and glanced sideways to the suited man he was beginning to get used to being around at times.
Cole sighed as some more children crossed the road in front of him then he travelled along a small distance before annoyingly reaching a traffic light and having to stop again.
"I'll do what needs to be done, as I'm sure you will" was Cole's reply, as the light flashed from red, to amber to green; the car crawled forward as they moved along the road again.
The boy stared ahead out of the window. "Yes" he said and nodded slightly and leant back in his seat, watching a plane silently soar across the sky like a huge dark bird with spread wings. "So my samurai sword" he spoke casually.
"Tomorrow" Cole replied simply as they turned a corner, "tomorrow" he repeated with a nod. The boy nodded satisfied and gratefully as he continued to stare out of the window.