I spent the rest the rest of the morning wary of everyone around me, everyone looked suspicious, so I guess that meant no one looked suspicious. At lunch I found the quietest spot in the school, where almost no one visited. The library. I took out my phone and found one of the few numbers on my contacts list. I rang Sean, it was the only thing I thought to do. It kept ringing and ringing until it stopped. "Sean! Thank Pittacus you picked up, I-" I was cut off. "I'm sorry. The person you-" I hung up. Useless. He's bloody useless. I went into a state of panic, a frenzy. My mind went into survival mode, I was acting purely on instinct, and I wish I could tell you why, but my first thought was to find Carrie, a need to protect her was rooted deep inside me. I grabbed my bag that I had carelessly flung to the floor in my rush to talk to Sean and set off on a speed walk to the lunch hall. I only stopped when I reached the doorway into the large room filled with hundreds of other students. Would I ever be able to find her in this crowd? But I did. I heard her laugh to the left of me, and saw her with three friends, her head was thrown back in laughter, her blonde hair trailing of her shoulders and behind her, time froze then. I noticed her beauty, how gorgeous she looked happy. I snapped out of my day dream when I realised what I was doing. I rushed over to her, I didn't think about how I would explain it to her, I would just have to hope that she'd trust me.
"Carrie, um, hi. Can I speak to you for a sec?" I waited impatiently for an answer. "yeah sure, just let me-" I grabbed her bad in one arm and pulled her with another, and I practically dragged her out of the lunch hall. "Ow! James will you calm down, what's this about? Will you just let go you're hurting me!" I looked quickly for an area of isolation, I suddenly settled for a corner in the doorway, checked to see anyone watching or even listening. "Right, this is going to sound ridiculous but I'll explain the whole thing later, I just need you to trust me . I can't stay here, I need to go home and talk to my- urm, my dad, please come with me." She just nodded. Slightly surprised she agreed without any questions, I made my way towards the school office. I knocked on the little glass door and waited for a receptionist to answer. A little old lady came scooting over to the window and slid it open. "Hi, you two alright?" I pretended to not be in such a hurry and feigned politeness to the 5 foot 1 old lady. "HI, me and Carrie have a dentists appointment and we're running a little late, can we sign out at the front desk?"
Ten minutes later, we were at the front door of my house and I was looking for the spare key. "I'm sure he keeps it under one of these plant pots... Ah! Found it!" I unlocked the door and shouted for Sean knowing full well I wouldn't receive an answer. At least I tried. I turned around to Carrie looking at me with her arms folded over her chest and one eyebrow arched. "What?" I said defensively. "you know what" she said heading for the stairs "are you going to tell me what's happening, or did you just lie to get me out of schools so you could get some alone time with me?" I'm glad I decided to bring Carrie with me, she really knows how to lighten the mood. "come on, I'll tell you about it while I get my bags sorted"
When we got into my room, I rushed for the top of my wardrobe and found the biggest suitcase I could find. I started unpacking drawers and stuffing the clothes into my bag. "I got a note this morning, it talked about Lorien, my home planet, and I think someone is onto me, I think we should do what you're mum said. I think we should move to Malaysia." She stared at me for what seemed like minutes. "James, you don't understand. I wrote that note"
