Close to the border of the country
Mara’s POV
“Oscar!” I called out in a fright when I turned around to look at the person that tapped me gently.
“Yes Mara.. it’s me.. what are you doing here and why do you look so scared?” He asked me as he gave me a suspicious look.
As if taunting me in school wasn’t enough and now he is here as well??… What should I do? How do I get this delivered?
“Actually I came to see someone but I got the location all wrong and now I am finding it difficult to find my way out” I lied trying to act calm. That was a skill I learnt from ma’am Keren anyways.
“Who is the person ? And how could you be so wrong with a location that you ended up so close to the border?” He continued to ask me questions.
I tactically kept on looking around to check for the lady I was meant to deliver the goods to.
“Who or what are you looking for?” He shaked me a little when he noticed I had gone completely quiet.
“I was looking if I would see the person…. maybe I didn’t get the location too wrong” I faked a smile.
“Hmmn. You really..” he paused because he was interrupted when my phone rang.
“Hello.. are you done?” Ma’am Keren spoke from the other end of the phone.. only I could hear what she was saying and I was going to use it to my advantage.
“Hello…babe.. I have been waiting for you for over an hour and you haven’t shown up.
I am at the border as instructed and I haven’t seen any sign of you. I just met someone from my school here” I answered hoping that Keren would pick up a hint.
“That’s my boyfriend” I told Oscar as I had a big smile on my face.
“Ohhh…I…see. Okay so what is this person doing there?” Keren asked.
“He is asking me what you are doing here Oscar? Are you also lost?” I also began to interrogate Oscar.
“I…I.. I…when… Bye baby girl I have to go now” he scratched the back of his head before he ran away.
I shook my head and wondered
“Maybe everyone has a skeleton or two in their cupboard”.
Not too long after Oscar left. I saw the lady approaching me. I dropped the bag on the floor as Keren had instructed and was walking away like nothing happened.
I watched the lady pick up the bag from the floor as she gave me a smile after we had walked some distance away from each other.
At Mia’s school
“Lakshmi you are going to hurt yourself if you aren’t careful with that?” Mia kept on warning her friend who didn’t want to pay any attention to her whatsoever.
Lakshmi kept on playing with a gadget they found in the classroom…not just her but the whole class just saw it when they came into school.
No one knew where it came from and no one cared, they didn’t even know what it was but then as Mia tried to touch it the way others did she felt something.
She felt a kind of negative energy.. it was like a signal for her to stay as far away as she could from whatever that gizmo was.
“Don’t!” Mia scolded as Lakshmi’s stretched her hand towards it. Mia even went as far as dragging Lakshmi out of the classroom just to avoid the gizmo or whatever it was.
“Mia you are just too careful for my liking” Lakshmi rolled her eyes in a ridiculous manner.
“That thing is very dangerous” Mia warned her friend
“And how do you know?” Lakshmi was being strong headed which Mia felt was out of the ordinary.
“I don’t know how… but I just felt it’s bad” Mia nodded her head vertically as her fingers were entwined with one another and she kept on playing with them.
“Come I’ll show you that there is nothing to be scared of” Lakshmi shook her head as she pulled Mia’s arm, dragging Mia with her into the classroom.
“I take back my words..” Lakshmi staggered at the entrance of the classroom when she saw all her classmates acting as if they were zombies, not just zombies but minions to Alyssa.
Alyssa was putting on a black dress that covered her neck all the way to the back of her head.
She sat on a throne that was floating in mid air with her holding a septa in her right hand and laughing out loud in a deep and loud voice. The class was windy and black dust had covered everywhere.
Apart from Alyssa’s voice the only thing that could be heard was the heavy noise of the wind blowing leaves that somehow got into the classroom which now looked like a dark hidden forest.
“I am your queen and you are my slaves is that understood?” She said in a very deep hoarse voice that sounded like it came from a male lion. She waved her septa in the air and the whole room became darker, do dark that one could barely see their own palms.
“All hail queen Alyssa” everyone was chanting and Lakshmi brought out her phone to record the whole thing for Scott.
“Let’s get out of here before she traps us too” Mia tried to get her friend away from the place but in an attempt to turn around she bumped into her teacher.
“And where are you girls off to?” The teacher raised her eyebrow as she looked very mean to both girls.
“We.. ehr.. we” Lakshmi kept on stammering…looking for a good lie to tell the teacher but she couldn’t come up with anything.
“You guys are really giving off negative attitudes lately. Lakshmi I expected it from you, but Mia? You were so gentle and focused on your education despite being autistic. But now I don’t know what to say about either of you.
Your grades are good but your attitudes aren’t” the teacher felt disappointed as she walked into the classroom that now looked normal.
Alyssa was reading a textbook while the other students seemed to be carrying out their normal activities of discussing with one another
The gismo was gone, both girls looked at each other and shrugged.
After all they had found out about Alyssa, they weren’t surprised. They just sat down quietly to take the class.