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Joy
I reach Jerome's and Alfie's room first, so I open the door and I see Alfie lying on the floor, clearly unconscious. Jerome and Nina are right behind me, and after them was Mara holding a glass of water.
I thought at first that Jerome was playing a prank on me, but I was wrong. Jerome was telling the truth. I knew that Fabian's disappearance did not seem right, and now I get the chance to prove that I was right in thinking that something bad happened to him. But I hoped that nothing bad happened to my best friend Fabes.
"What exactly did Alfie say to you about Fabes?", I interrogate Jerome, as he looks back at me and said, "Alfie had a dream. In his dream he saw Fabian die, and then he said, almost pleaded that we had to find him before it was too late." There was something more that Jerome was not telling me, I was sure, but this situation needed to be resolved quickly, so I decided against asking any more questions for the meantime.
We waited for Alfie to stir up, as he was still unconscious. Mara was about to tell Trudy what happened to Alfie, but just as she stood up to tell her, we heard Alfie groan. He was not fully awake yet, but he kept on mumbling something we did not understand.
"What are you talking about, Alfie?", I tried to ask him, when he woke up all in a sudden, looking around, fear clearly etched on his face. He looked puzzled as he asked, "How did you get here?", motioning to us three girls in their room?" Jerome tells him, "You passed out man. I did not know what to do, so I went to the living room to ask for help."
His face turned very serious, as he looked at all of us. Then he said, "This may sound weird guys, but I need to find Fabian. He's in grave danger." Mara looked at him and sked, "What are you talking about, Alfie? I thought Fabian left to resolve some family emergency." "I thought so too Mara, until this morning, when I started hearing whispers in my mind which told me to find Fabian before it's too late." "Before what's too late?", I ask Alfie, to which I see him swallow his words, and he looked scared again as he did not answer my question. "What about the dream Jerome told us?", I tried to ask Alfie again, to which he burst to tears. He then started sobbing, and all we could do was to sit there next to him as he continued to cry.
"Joy, you don't want to know about the dream.", Alfie told me with a determined tone. "Why, Alfie?", I ask him, demanding to know why he would not tell me what he saw in the dream Jerome told us about. "H-he was killed in front of me, okay?", he screamed, loud enough for shut us up but not loud enough for the others to have heard us. "And I could not do anything to save him!", he continued, in which we were all stunned there in front of him.
Alfie has never had an outburst like this before, and it worried all of us. Jerome tried to make him feel better by saying, "Its fine, Alfie. It was just a dream.", but he shook his head, still sobbing, and told us, "You don't understand, it was not just a dream. It will happen." I started to feel a little angry at him for saying that about Fabian, my Fabes.
"How can you even say that about Fabes, Alfie!", I cried out, to which he screamed, "You don't know what I just saw, Joy. You don't know!" "Then tell me Alfie. Tell me about your f**king dream!", I yell. Mara, Nina and Jerome just looked at both of us, shocked that we were yelling towards each other. Alfie then told us this, this time in a very low voice, "I just had another dream…" I roll my eyes, at which Mara glared at me and Jerome shook his head. "All of you were in the dream…", he continued, looking down the whole time and trying to think straight. "Did you know what you looked like, Joy?", Alfie asked me in a very sad voice, but before I could respond, he continued, "You – all of you – all of you were just lying around me – you were all dead." He then told us, "Please forgive me guys, please do forgive me." He then covered his face with his hands and started crying again.
"Stop crying Alfie. We forgive you", Nina tries to comfort Alfie, in which he slowly stops crying and looks towards us. I felt guilty for doing what I just did to Alfie, shouting at him and all that. "I'm sorry Alfie. I did not know.", I tell him. He just nods, clearly too tired to speak and in a few moments, he falls asleep. Jerome then carries him to his bed, and we all leave their room towards the living room, where to our surprise, nobody was around.
"We have to do something to help Alfie", Mara tells us, clearly concerned by what just happened on Jerome and Alfie's room. "What about Fabes?", I ask, to which they all glare at me. "What if what Alfie was saying is all true? Then we have to find Fabes.", I defend myself. They think about what I said, after which Mara said, "I agree Joy. We need to help Alfie find Fabes, or he may go insane." "Mara, don't say that! Alfie is not insane", Jerome tells us. "Sorry", Mara apologizes. "But how do we help him find this Fabian guy?", Nina asks us. We have not thought of that. How exactly would we help Alfie find Fabes if we did not know where he was? "I don't know, Nina. But we have to promise to help him if he goes to look for Fabian.", Jerome tells us. Mara then thinks for a second, then suggests, "What if we do this more organized?" "What do you mean, organized?", I ask, puzzled at what Mara was saying. "What is we make our own group to help Alfie, you know, the four of us?" We think deeply for a second, and decide that it was a wonderful idea. We all agreed to Mara's suggestion, but with a question from Jerome. "What do we call it?". We all think of a name to use, but it was not that easy. Then I saw Nina brighten up. "Why don't we call it Sibuna?" We all looked at her, not sure what Sibuna meant. "What does that mean?", Mara asked her, to which she explained, "Sibuna. You reverse the letters of Anubis, and…" We all realized what she meant, and I had to say, it was a wonderful name. Mara and Jerome seemed to think so too, so I spoke up. "Sibuna it is then!" They all cheered at that.
"We need to tell Alfie that we will be there to help him.", Nina tells us. "Leave that to me.", Jerome assures her as we try to talk about what Sibuna will be as a whole, and whether we tell the others about what happened, or not, We decide not to tell them about it, as we all agreed Alfie had to agree before we told them. Just then, we hear the front door open as Mick and Eddie enter, followed by Amber and Patricia.
"Hey guys, where have you been?", I ask them, to which Mick replied with his mouth full, "We just went to buy snacks", pointing to him and Eddie and of course, that bag full of junkfood. "Don't do that, Mick! It's disgusting", Patricia told him. We all laughed. Amber added, "I just went to buy makeup. My powder and eyeliner had just been used up." "And I just accompanied them.", Patricia complained, but I knew she was lying, as I spot what seemed to be a trace of chocolate cake on her shirt. Patricia looks at where I was looking and spots it too, so she quickly covers it up with her hand. Amber then asks, "What about that slice of chocolate cake?" , to which Patricia glares at her and says, "Stop with the chocolate cake. She looked furious, but I knew it was just an act, at which Amber, getting into the act, replies, "Sorry", with a long ee at the end to make her point. Patricia grumbles and then says, "Fine, it was because of the chocolate cake."
Amber then asks us, "What about you guys, what were you doing here?" "Oh, we're just talking about school stuff", Nina reasons out. "Where's Alfie?", Mick asks, noticing that he was not here with us. "Oh, he just went to sleep. Probably bored with school talk, right girls?", Jerome looks at us. "Y-yeah, he did." I add. "Okay.", Mick tells us and they all head to their rooms, Mick, Eddie, Patricia and Amber.
"Phew, that was a close one!", I tell them. "I know, right?", Mara adds as she wiped her forehead. There was a little sweat on it. "Let's go to our rooms now too. It's clear we have nothing more to talk about", Nina suggests to us. "What about Sibuna?", I ask, to which Mara replies, "Let's talk about it tomorrow after Jerome asks Alfie about this." "Okay!", I whisper back as we all head to our rooms.
So that was the unofficial creation of Sibuna! Yay! Sorry I could not make it better.
Question: Why was Alfie asking the 4 of them to forgive him? I am looking forward to your guesses! Please review.
