Music of the Night

Chapter 60

Chapter 60

This is it.

Today is the swimming competition between five different schools that Cherryton has invited. So far, it was Cherryton Academy against Olivier academy, Andre Academy, Gryphon Cross and finally Selkie School for Gifted Girls.

Two of the schools they were competing against were foreign, which drew most of the students to meet with the swimmers.

"I don't know about you but those Selkie girls are hot~"

"I'll say! I want that leopard seal to step on me," another male student growled lustfully.

"Mmm, but have you seen that cobra from Gryphon Cross?" a female student gushed. "I never thought I want to be wrapped into those coils..."

"I'm into females but that snake made me question my taste."

"I've never seen a shark before...is this what a shark looks like on land?"

Arthur rolled his eyes as he manoeuvred his way towards the benches where others were about to watch the sport. Of course, he was walking between Haru and Legosi. Aoba mentioned that he has to attend to something before joining them.

"You excited about this, Arthur?" Haru asked with a smile, watching the bat wiggle his large ears before opening his mouth to use his clicks.

"Oh yes!" Arthur nodded. "It's been how many months since I last talked to most of them except Sameer on the phone. I hope they are all well."

"It has been exactly six months since your arrival," Legosi stated. Arthur made an 'o' shape with his mouth. The times he had spent in Cherryton seemed so fast...

"Time is an odd thing, isn't it?" Arthur turned his head at Legosi's direction, not before Haru steered him away from getting bumped into a wall. They grey wolf tilted his head, forgot the fact that Arthur couldn't see anything!

"I guessed we were so busy that we forgot time flew by," Legosi answered with a wag of his tail. He was glad that Haru was here and the fact that Arthur seems to be recovering from his shock was good enough for him. He didn't really care for the fact that his fur has been cut and he was lacking sleep for a few days now.

"Huh," Haru wiggled her nose. "Looks like the other schools have both male and females on their team except for your old school, Arthur. Also that gifted girl school."

And Haru was right! Several of the students were commenting on both Gryphon Cross and Selkie because they never knew an all-boys/all-girls school existed.

Arthur used his clicks to try and makeout who was here. He could imagine the outline of Sameer's slender frame without his hood, the T-shape of Maccus' head and the misshape form of Beppi, he assumed after the chemotherapy.

"Hey, it's Arthur!"

Legosi and every animal present at the swimming competition were completely baffled at how the blind Honduran white bat was laughing and smiling with an Egyptian cobra, a Tasmanian devil, a hammerhead shark and a leopard seal from the Selkie School. They were embracing each other in a group hug.

"You haven't changed at all, Artie!" the Tasmanian devil cackled before locking him in a headlock. 

"Beppi!" Arthur laughed, before wriggling out. "You may be taller than me but I'm older than you. Also, I think I have gotten wider."

"Really? How can you tell?"

Arthur shrugged with a toothy grin. "Good to know that you're out of chemo. Missed anything?"