New Age

Chapter 9-Calming Down The Tension

Scarlet looked like she was a mad scientist, hair frizzled and all. "I know why you are the way you are Zena!" She said walking towards me. I tried to steady my breathing while saying. "Ok...th-then why am I like this?" At this point I was back to my normal human self thankfully. "Artificiality!" Me and Milinda stared at each other then back at her and Milinda said. "arta fishy what?" Scarlet turned to her and started to explain. "Artificiality, you know like when something is handmade? Oh like those fake plants you always see in the office depot!" Me and Milinda let out a big "ooooooooooh" and let Scarlet continue her findings "Alright so what I think happened is our friend Zena Got bit by some artificial werewolf dog in the woods and Bada Bing Bada Boom now she's a special type of werewolf." I was so relieved that she was almost nowhere near the truth but went along with it. "Huh never thought that the answer would be as simple as that" I said finally calming down enough to not choke on my breath. Milinda agreed and went back to her own dorm room. Scarlet turned the stove back on to continue making the coffee. After a few minutes of chit chat she gave me my coffee. I thanked her and went to my room to sleep. Even though it was the middle of the day I was tired as hell. The fight, the adrenaline rush, Milinda, Scarlet, it was just too much for one day. I put my coffee on a bedside table, jumped into my bed and went to sleep on impact.

I woke up at around 9:00pm and wanted to just go back to sleep but I couldn't. I heard a weird noise coming from outside my bedroom, maybe that's why I couldn't sleep. I flopped out of bed and made my way to my door. I opened it but there was nothing there, just a dark room with a few chairs out of place. I listened a bit more and it sounded like it was coming from Scarlet's room. I opened her door and it looked like she was examining a gem of sorts. "What are you doing?" I said I was still tired. "Welllll I'm not finished with it yet but I'll tell you this, it's gonna help you." She smiled at me and said "night!" then closed the door and locked it. Welp problem solved I guess. Since I couldn't go back to sleep I decided to go get a snack from the cafeteria. I grabbed my coffee, which was watered down from the ice, fixed my hair up and went out. On the way there though I saw this one other guy that looked pretty normal. No extra body parts or wings, just a normal guy. When I got down to the cafeteria I grabbed some cookies from the vending machine they had and heeded to the library. When I started to go back up the stairs that one guy I saw disappeared though. I thought nothing of it and continued walking.

Once I finally made it to the library and opened the door no one was there. I grabbed a book, went to my usual spot on the book balconies and started eating my cookies. Around 10 minutes later the same guy from earlier walks in. I wanna know what this guy's deal is so I grabbed my stuff and headed down the ladder. I tried to scout the dude out but I couldn't find him. I blinked a few times and came to the conclusion that I was tired. I was about to leave the library when I felt someone touch my shoulder, and there he was. "Hey, I've been looking for you! I'm Jake Davis, nice to finally meet you, Zena!"