Chapter 6
"Honey, I'm going to be home late tonight. So you can buy something for dinner after school". It was Sakura's mother on the phone.
"Gladly", replied Sakura then hung up the phone.
After the bell, as Sakura watched her classmates rush out. Then she headed for the nearby restaurant. When she arrived there, she bought a cheeseburger with extra cheese and a bottle of coke. On the way home, all that Sakura could think was the necklace and everything that was related to it ; all those weird incident have been happening since she had found the necklace. She was thinking of how could she possibly ignore the fact that maybe the pendent was trying to show her something. She smirked and went home. Left her bag in her room and the food in the fridge. Then she jogged to Black Hill forest.
What's next now. Sakura thought to herself as she sat down under a tree to face the marvelous lake. The water was clear and seemed pure. She could even see a fish from where she was. A black one. Too black to be a fish. Weird. But sakura's mind was too preoccupied, thinking of the necklace. Finally she stood up ,twisted about two centimeters of the thick thread that hold the pendent around her middle and index finger. Lifted her hand in the air just as high so that the pendent would be eye-level. She watched it closely for several minutes until her hand ached. Deceived, Sakura walked towards the lake. Stopped right at the border and suddenly an idea popped in her mind.
She submerged the pendent under the water, waited for some minutes then lifted it up. To her great surprise, the pendent was no longer red…it was now BLACK. Sakura was perplexed. The 'fish' caught her eyes and it was neither swimming nor moving but floating. She reached for it and the 'fish' turned out to be a black feather.
Suddenly she heard a noise. Approaching footsteps. Sakura freaked out and said it was too much for today and ran home as quickly as she could. The black necklace in one hand and the black feather in the other. Her heart pounding soo loudly in her chest that she could hear every beat of it.
Finally she reached home safely. But she was out of breath. She sat on the black leather couch in the living room, turned on the TV and went to the kitchen to drink some water.
Sakura was startled by a beeping sound. It was the phone. She answered it hesitantly. She found it hard to admit that it was a great relief to hear her mother's voice, asking if she was home and if she had already eaten. She answered her mother in a normal tone trying her best not to seem too anxious or thrilled with what had just happened.
She sat in front of the Flat screen television and started to analyze the feather and the necklace. Sakura concluded that the feather was too big to be one of a bird and it was much larger. The necklace's stone had just deepened in colour and only seemed to be black. Maybe the necklace reacts with water and changes in colour as reaction…
As for the feather; How could a feather of this size just fall from the sky? Nor was it normal…but somehow it was intriguing for its eeriness….