𝐇𝐈𝐆𝐇 𝐕𝐎𝐋𝐓𝐀𝐆𝐄 | 𝙅𝙪𝙟𝙪𝙩𝙨𝙪 𝙆𝙖𝙞𝙨𝙚𝙣

𝟎𝟐 | 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐫𝐢𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫

Nomura was waiting outside the classroom.

"I hope you haven't forgotten about detention, Kobayashi-san," she said, arms crossed and the frog spider clinging to her shoulder. If it wasn't so gross, I would've called it the Pikachu to her Ash.

"No, ma'am," I said.

Yes, I did. I completely forgot about it.

All my thoughts were occupied by the white-haired man who I was convinced was some new kind of hallucination. I was so out of it that I nearly caused a nuclear explosion in chemistry if the teacher hadn't caught my mistake.

I asked around to see if anyone had seen a tall white-haired man wearing a blindfold but they stared at me as if I was crazy so I stopped. I didn't need to feel crazier than I already was.

But there was a clench in my gut that told me it wasn't a hallucination. Either that or I really needed the bathroom. These things were hard to differentiate.

Dragging my feet behind me, I followed Nomura to an unfamiliar part of the school.

Then it hit me like a tsunami.

A wave of anger, malice, hatred. It was so so strong it felt like there were bags of bricks weighing down on my shoulders and cement in my shoes. The back of my head screamed for me to run.

I quickly squashed that thought. I've never been to detention before. I was just anxious.

I kept on walking.

It did not get better.

If anything, the more we walked, the stronger the feeling became and I thought I was going to get a hernia from the sheer pressure weighing down on my shoulders.

I kept on walking.

Nomura opened the door to detention.

If I could show you what the definition of a disfigured human being looks like, this would be it.

Skin so decayed it's blue. Just as disfigured limbs poking out of it as if God went 'if it looks ugly might as go all the way!'  It opened its mouth and I'm sure I saw a head in there. It took up more than half of the classroom so pretending it wasn't there was going to be tough borderline impossible. But that wasn't the only reason it was hard to ignore.

All those things I felt ten yards away, I felt tenfold standing in front of the source.

"Take a seat," said Nomura, "Detention starts now."

Through my hazy mind, I reminded myself that a symptom of schizophrenia was feeling things that aren't there as well as seeing things that aren't there.

'It's not real, it's not real, it's not real,' I reminded myself. I didn't move from my spot.

"Kobayashi-san?" Said Nomura, but she might as well have been talking through a wall of water. Her voice seemed miles away.

'It's not real.'

So why did it feel like if I take one step in there I'll die?

"Kobayashi-san! Sit down!" Nomura snapped, finally at her wit's end.

"Actually I- uh-" I stumbled over myself, trying to find an excuse why I couldn't and never would go into detention that wouldn't end up with me in a mental hospital. But Nomura was beyond reason.

She opened her move, screaming something about respect and discipline. I don't know. My brain promptly shut down when I saw the monster loom behind Nomura. It had ten eyes, all looking down on her as if she were nothing more than a meal.

'It's not real, it's not real, it's not real.'

"- now you will do as I say and sit down unless you want me to call your parents and have you suspended for disrespecting your teachers!"

'It's not real it's not real it's not real-'

I should've screamed, ran, done anything other than look in horror. Then maybe it could've been avoided. But I couldn't do anything.

In one big bite, it chewed off half of her body.

- thanks for reading this. sorry it took so long. i had very bad writers block, that's why this chapter is so short. please review and critique if there's anything i need to change