“I’ll catch up afterwards. I have to go somewhere” Claire said reading something again. I don’t know what happened to her. Two minutes earlier she was fine with me and her going out to the diner since we had two consecutive free periods but suddenly there was some message on her phone and she has to go somewhere and she’s not telling me anything.
“Okay. I’ll go find Dany then. I still have to talk to him” I replied.
“Yeah. By the way Ray was asking for you. He said you weren’t picking up his calls. ”
“Ohh. I’ll find him too then.” I said smiling back at Claire who is now packing up her bag in a hurry.
“See you later then. Bye” her sound faded as she disappeared somewhere in the corridor.
“Bye” I mumbled lowly to myself and started to head towards the football ground. Probably both the boys will be there since they have some Championship in next two weeks so they have a hard time practicing. Majority of the time they are busy with their practice. Raymond and Daniel had been missing most of the classes nowadays. I’m still teaching Raymond so he can cover up with his course I have no Idea how Dany is doing it.
I had asked him once, “I can tutor you on weekends if you want”. He didn’t reply, instead with a stern face he walked past me.
I didn’t talk to him for one whole weak but then Raymond has been asking me to talk to Dany for past two days so I think I have to apologize to him first and start talking. Raymond knew it was bothering me too much that Daniel wasn’t talking to me. I often asked Claire about Daniel. She has been our common source of information for the past one week. She told me that Dany asked about me everyday last week. Even after this he won’t talk to me when he sees me in the corridor or classroom. Even at Lunch time Dany is nowhere to be seen. Earlier me, Claire and Dany use to sit together.
Finally I reached at the ground. Sun was at the top and it was a hot day outside. I don’t even know how they can practice outside at this temperature. Looks like I’ll be evaporating in next two minutes. There were a couple of girls sitting by on the benches gawking at the shirtless guys playing football. Some of the bags were lying on the first few bleachers, most of the bags were half open showing of some towels or socks.
I saw Daniel and Raymond busy while practicing so I decided to wait for them. I placed myself on the benches, seeing them told me they won’t be free until next half an hour so I took out a novel from my bag and started reading.
About ten minutes later I heard someone screaming. I lifted my face up to look forwards when something hit me hard on my face and my head started spinning. I realized I’ve been hit by a football but it’s impact was too violent on my face that my nose hurt badly and I fell on the floor. I heard some people rushing towards me but then everything went black.
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“Ohh don’t worry honey she’ll be alright. How is your eye now?” I heard some lady’s voice. I couldn’t recognize the voice although it felt similar.
“I’m fine now Mrs. Perkins.” I heard a deep husky voice. It didn’t take me a second to know it was Raymond’s voice. I was still feeling dizzy and my mind wasn’t allowing me to open my eyes. He was talking to Mrs. Perkins. Mrs. Perkins is our nurse, which would mean that I’m in sick room right now. When did I get here?
“You know that Principal is calling you Right?” the female voice asked.
“I know Mrs. Perkins but I’ll attend to him later. I’ll wait here till Soaf regains her consciousness” replied Raymond.
What the fuck is going on?? Principal is calling Ray. Why?