{Chapter THREE}
Len walked into school and heard people murmuring about the same thing. Apparently, a man had been hit by a car. That wouldn't seem like surprising news, except for the fact that nothing like it ever happened in the little town. Everyone was super careful. Actually, most people didn't even drive.
Len went to homeroom and sat down next to his best friend, Gumo. "What's this about some guy getting hit by a car?"
Gumo was holding what looked like a newspaper. Hearing Len's question, he looked up. "I'm actually reading about that right now. Here." He placed the paper on Len's desk. "Pretty weird, huh?"
Len skimmed the text, but his main focus was the picture of the person who got hit. He looked at it closely and almost gasped.
It was the man he had met yesterday. His blue hair obscured his eyes, but Len saw the edge of a tooth protruding slightly out of the man's mouth. Plus, the man wore a long scarf that Len recognized immediately.
Gumo was still talking. "You know what's weirder? It says that they found him clutching a blue stone and the police kept in case the man's relatives wanted it or something. But, strange thing, an officer claimed that he put the stone on the dashboard of his car, yet it disappeared when he came back. Kind of like the rock you have in your pocket."
Len stared at Gumo. "What rock?" He reached into his pocket and pulled out the rock he had gotten yesterday. It looked good as new, if even better.
"Yeah, like that. I wonder what kind of rock that is. It's pretty." Then the bell rang, and everyone got up to go to class. Nonetheless, the strange events stayed in the back of Len's mind all day.
In science, a new student was introduced. It was a girl with long blonde hair, bright blue eyes and a great figure. Her name was Lily. A lot of the guys in the class were drooling all over her, while the girls watched her in jealousy. Lucky Len, she got the seat right next to him.
Great. Now he got a bunch of guys shooting dirty looks at him all throughout class.
When the last bell rang, every single person made a beeline for their locker. You could literally hear the thundering of hundreds of footsteps as people frantically scrambled to their lockers for no reason whatsoever.
Len got shoved around, and even pushed to the ground once, trying to navigate through the crowd to his locker without being crushed.
When he finally got to his locker and had got all his stuff together, Len noticed that the whole hallway had turned silent. He watched as everyone parted for the new girl, Lily, to walk through.
And she was heading straight towards Len.