Once again in the Bookstore

Chapter 5

Somehow, Odna and I managed to find a way to spend hours together. She told me how fascinated she was about my hair and soon after decided to create small braids into my hair, which happened to look quite cute. However, it had gotten late and dark, so I was willing to head back home. Yet as I was about to leave the door, Odna held onto my wrist, making me look at her.

„Are you sure you Wanna go alone? Or leave in the first place? It's dark, you know?"

I kept looking at her. She sure had a point, but I didn't want her to bother following me, because her family would be worried as well. She sure didn't like the idea, but slowly let go and told me to take care of myself. With a soft smile I was walking my ways. It had been a quite draining day, but it was sure exciting in a strange way. At least I thought. After walking by a bus stop, I noticed someone following me. Even though I wanted to brush it off by telling myself they'd probably live somewhere around, it got me quite paranoid. They wouldn't stop. I felt the tension rising as I secretly grabbed my phone and messaged Odna. From the only people I had in my phone, she was the least judging person at times. My dad would be sleeping at this time, so he wouldn't be waking up by the sound of his phone. Shortly afterwards I changed my mind, calling her instead as I felt myself tearing up in fear, because that person wouldn't leave me alone.

„Scyaram?"

Her voice sounded so surprised, yet I tried to talk as quietly as possible.

„There's a person... they keep following me."

„What? Where are you?"

It was too late. Before I could answer the person suddenly ran up to me, grabbed my phone and threw it down on the ground, holding me from behind. I couldn't identify anybody, however it was a deep voice. My bracelet alarm was going off in all of this as well as the person seemed quite annoyed with it.

„What is that, Huh?! Ya calling the cops on me? Well, fuck that, lady, I ain't letting you leave like that!"

I couldn't do anything, every movement hurt so bad, not only because they held me as tightly, but because my body wasn't working well at times. They then pulled me down to the ground and hovered over me, holding me there while also having their leg onto mine, so I couldn't even try to kick them. Madly I spit in their face which just happened to make them more aggressive. I felt myself being almost unable to stay awake, as from the corner of my eye I saw a person, suddenly running up to us and swinging a huge tool against the person's head, who immediately lost a lot of blood. My eyes closed. For a moment I honestly believed that this would've been the last day of my life...

-

„Hellooo? Earth to Odnaaa?"

Fast I blinked and looked at JJ. She was my best friend ever since we went to elementary school, and as of yet we were lucky enough to always being put into the same classes.

„Girl, are you not sleeping well or something? You've been so distracted today."

„Oh, uh, sorry, I wasn't really sleeping a lot last night, no."

JJ crossed her arms, looking skeptical at me.

„And why is that?"

„I just, had a lot on my mind I guess. The finals are up soon after all."

„Tsk, it's still months until that, give yourself a break."

While we were talking, the guys entered the room with sudden confetti blasters, throwing around some colorful papers, leaving everyone either confused or amused. It was our math teachers birthday, they hyped it up for days in beforehand. And yes, my brothers were two of the group who made the mess that we had to clean afterwards. One of the guys kept looking at JJ a few times while she only rolled her eyes, looking away in embarrassment. With a smug face I leaned over to her.

„Wow, JJ, someone has an eye on ya, huh?"

„Oh, shut up, he's an idiot!"

„Yeah, really? Then what's so bad with looking at him?"

Madly she turned to me.

„Listen, This isn't funny, he's been looking at me all the time lately! And I'm not intending to give him any kind of attention."

I kept looking at him for a moment and suddenly recognized him.

„How are you gonna ignore him if you two go into the same club?"

„I just will!"

After the big drama and the other rather boring lessons came to an end, I was packing up rather quickly. JJ kept looking at me.

„You ain't skipping club, are ya?"

After a little blink I looked away a little.

„Sorry, I got something really important to do today."

„Wha?! But we girls wanted to hang around after school."

„Another time. I'm sorry, I really need to go."

Quickly I walked downstairs and outside, leaving JJ sitting on her bench all grumpy. Iva came up to her as she might've seen me leave off this fast.

„What's with her today?"

„What do I know? But she's ruined my evening..."

-

I felt myself being in pain still as I slowly awoke from whatever happened before. After looking around for a moment, I realized to be in Odna's room, and bed. The fact of that made me blush, however I couldn't help but enjoying the comfort of the blanket. It was so soft. Suddenly I realized why I was here as I sat up fast, having a flashback of what was going on last night. That person. The call. My phone! Again I looked around and found it to be charging on the desk of hers. It didn't seem to be broken, which made me feel a lot better. Then I looked at myself for possible scars, but besides tiny scratches on my arms, there was nothing hurt of me. I took a deep breath, trying to remember the face of that strange person. It was hard for me to believe that it was actually Odna who seemed so kind towards me, would hurt someone. I kept staring at a certain spot of the blanket, trying to process it all while my mind tried to convince me that it was all just a nightmare. I clenched onto the blanket. An unexpectedly gentle knock came from the door and as I turned towards it, a man looked at me. A quite big man. We looked at each other for a moment before he gave me a patient smile.

„Are you feeling any better...?"