I got up and walked out the
door and I realized that James was still with me so I stopped in
the hall to let him catch up… I don’t know why
because I always kinda thought he was a little
annoying.
“Your not gonna faint again… are you?” He
asked a little sarcastically probably just to lighten my
mood.
“I hope not…” I muttered quietly, I hope he
didn’t hear that….
“Haha, yeah… I can’t believe you were out for
an entire 4 hours!” James started laughing
a bit. So I stopped once more, he was getting annoying
again.
“How?”
I simply asked. This question seemed to catch him off guard, like
I had just accused him of his darkest secret, and his reply was
kinda shocking to me because of his tone. He sounded intense and
worried.
“Uh…what do you
mean…?”
“I mean, how
did you hear what I said? I said it so quietly that even
I
could barely hear
myself.” He looked absolutely blank, he didn’t move
at all… not one centimeter. So I went
on.
“And why are
your eyes brown? I could’ve sworn they were… yellow
in your car? And what is with the creepy twitching and your weird
expressions?” I stared at him, waiting for him to move but
he didn’t. The bell rang for lunch but I just stayed there
looking at him suspiciously, people flooded the halls but neither
of us moved. I raised my eyes brows at him but he didn’t
even flinch.
“Just never
mind…never mind.” I turned and walked away, pretty
frustrated and whispered, “What are you?” under my
breath. I knew he could hear me, and I wished that someday he
would answer.
Home
I was too dazed to do much after I got home, tomorrow was Friday
which was going to be great! I have disliked this week, though I
don’t know why… or entirely why. I mean the fainting
incident wasn’t the highlight
of my week but
other then that has been pretty normal. Well, actually normal
isn’t a good word for what I was trying to explain, I
should’ve have said something like fine or abnormal.
Anyway, now I know that there is something up with Jacob…
I mean I think I had a pretty good idea when I was accusing him
of what he does on a normal bases and I’m definitely
prepared to confront him tomorrow. But for now I would just have
to suck it up and try not to guess what he is. So I decided to do
things that occupied my mind just because I didn’t want my
brain to run wild and free, so I studied.
Yes that’s right, I studied to my hearts content and
longer, I studied until my mom came home, and studied until
10:00pm my bedtime. I even dreamt of math equation, science
vocabulary and Shakespeare, which is way better then dreaming of
what I’ve been avoiding all night, James. Unfortunately
I’m not going to be able to resist the thought for long
because he’ll probably be at school today, but at least
today’s Friday.
I woke up in the morning with a headache from my own personal
class last night, but at least I’ll be prepared for the
test today… if we have one today. I wouldn’t know
because I was in the nurse’s office all day yesterday, yeah
that’s right, I still haven’t gotten over that. But
today I was determined to find out what James really is…
if he isn’t human, I don’t know for sure if he
is
something different
or if he just has some kind of disorder… but he
doesn’t really seem to have a disorder, to me that
is.
Biology is always my first
subject. Biology is always my least favorite subject. Biology
is always science with a fancy name. And
biology is always the class that James comes in late to. Oh
biology… why do you have to always be
my
first subject? And
today I wish I could’ve just skipped biology. Let my
explain… so I was just sitting there minding my own
business, making my desk neat when he came right up to me- 4
minutes before class started- and took a deep breath then sat
next to me. Weird, so, so, so, so, so, so weird. Why did he take
a deep breath? Why, oh, Why!? But the weirder thing was
that he took the breath in through his nose… as if he
smelled something really good. I looked at him when he sat down,
he was looking at me so I quickly looked forward again using my
peripheral vision to see if he was still looking at me and
(thankfully) he wasn’t but his ear was twitching, and he
had that strange expression on his face again.
“DING DING DING!” The bell sounded at last. Biology
was finally over! Thank goodness! I made it through all his
constant stares and his twitching…his twitching mostly
because that just creeps me out. I hurried to put my text book
back in my backpack, darted to the door and into the hall way, I
succeed in my quick escape. Haha! I’d like to see him try
and chase me down now!!!
I really need to learn to quit
when I’m ahead.
“Gotta love biology huh?” James said while he walked
next to me.
“Haha yeah…” I replied awkwardly. What was
this guy’s problem? Why can’t he just leave me alone?
Then I remembered something.
Slowly I glanced up at
him… he was looking at me (of course) and his eyes…
weren’t yellow, but a brown… a dark brown. Huh,
that’s weird… maybe I just imaged the strange
color… but the thing is, how could I mistake dark brown
for a bright yellow? I hadn’t noticed I had stopped
because I was so deep in thought but the next thing I knew a hand
was being waved in front of my face and I heard someone saying my
name.
“Elizabeth? Hello?”
Said a too familiar voice, James. I blinked back into focus, I
was in the nurse’s office but she wasn’t there.
“She’ll be back in a minute, she’s getting more
ice.” He said.
All I could do is look at him,
how are his eyes brown right now? Contacts? No I don’t know
why he would get contacts. Maybe the light was
bad?
“Your
eyes….” I blurted without thinking. His eyes flashed
to the window behind me then back to my face.
“Ummm… what about
them?” He asked carefully.
“Their….their…”
Is all I could say before the nurse came back in with a sack of
ice.
“Oh good your
awake.” She said when she had spotted me. “How do you
feel? Nauseous? Hot, Cold?”
“I feel fine.” I
got up and turned my head from side to side, why am I so stiff? I
looked at the clock hoping time was still on my side. It
wasn’t. 1:45 it read… oh josh… right now I
should be in my last class, then lunch. Was I really out for that
long? 4 hours? No, I couldn’t believe it, I wouldn’t
believe it, 4 whole entire hours couldn’t have passed
already… could it? I was about to ask when the nurse
guessed my thoughts.
“Yes honey, you have been
unconscious for about four hours. I don’t really understand
why you had passed out, were you not feeling good after your
first class? It might have been only a headache at the
time.” The nurse pressed.
“No, I felt fine.”
I assured her
“Ok then dear, you can go
back to class.” She instructed, and then just went about
her normal routine, I guessed.
School
I pulled in the parking lot earlier then I had expected there was
no one there except some teachers and janitors. So to waste some
time I began to draw in one of my notebooks, nothing really in
particular just some squiggles and scribbles. Suddenly there was
a strange noise so I looked up, it was just one of the janitors
rolling a garbage bin to the dumpster, but the weird part was
that when I looked back down, my picture looked like a scene that
I had recently seen, there was ( what looked like) snow, in a big
wide open meadow, and there was this one little detail that I
noticed that made me remember where this scene had come from, a
figure was standing pretty far away from the perspective of the
picture. My dream.
What startled me after that was the tap on my window that I
hadn’t expected; it made me jump so high I almost hit my
head on the top of my car. I looked up to see who it was which
shocked me even more, James was standing outside my door laughing
so hard that I thought he was going to stop
breathing.
“Wow, you get scared
easily, don’t you?” He said when he finally clamed
down.
“Only sometimes.” I
told him trying extremely hard not to sound annoyed, which is
easier when I’m not freezing my butt off. He smiled wider.
“Can I help you with something?” I let a smidge of
annoyance sneak in there.
“Not really… just
checking to see if you were still alive.” James smiled
more, clearly still not over my almost stroke.
“Well… I
am…” I said pretending to look occupied while I
gathered my stuff trying now extremely hard not to sound
rude.
“Yeah, I can see
that.” He stepped back just as I turned to open the
door… a little strange if you ask me because I
didn’t show any sign that I was going to get out but I
didn’t really care too much to ask. So I got out and
started to walk towards the school he didn’t follow me
which I was kind of glad about, I still didn’t understand
why he had knocked on the window and I really wanted to know why
but after a little while I decided that I was obsessing to much
over something so stupid and I dropped the
idea.