Dark Woods Academy

Chapter 15

Chapter 15

I rushed into my room hitting the lights and shutting the door behind me. I froze for a moment noticing my draws opened, clothes on the floor. What the hell?

Someone had been in my room. I took a tentative step heart pounding, glancing around making sure that I was alone. When I was sure that nobody else was there I double checked the lock on the door and then dragged the chair from my desk propping it under the door knob.

My door had been locked so someone had picked the lock. I could feel a chill settle over me as my mind began to spin thinking of who could have gone into my room and what had they been looking for.

Should I report it? Was there anyone at the academy that I could trust?

I shook my head running a hand over my face, a headache suddenly onset. God, I needed Blaze more than ever. He was the only person I trusted and I was sure that he would keep me safe.

Elliott was there and my parents were expecting him to keep me safe but he was being a jerk lately and I couldn’t put up with his feelings, if he even felt anything real for me.

I suddenly regretted the kiss, I would have preferred his friendship rather than to complicate things with a stupid kiss, well it wasn’t stupid, it had been… intense. I shoved the thought from my mind and then remembered the book in my hand. Right I was on a mission and a clock was ticking down.

I went through my drawers checking to see if anything was missing, I guess it helped that I didn’t have much stuff in the room. A few minutes later I had put back everything where it belonged and suddenly realized that something was missing. A ring that I had on a necklace that I had since I was a kid. It meant a lot to me and I knew then that I should report it.

I dropped myself on my bed willing myself to get back to the book. I grabbed my cell phone where I had stored the string of numbers that had been on Ashton’s phone.

I flipped through the table of contents until I found the chapter on numerology as a coded language.

Ashton had burrowed this book often and would carry it around with him at times as he learnt different types of coded languages, his idea of fun, he was such a geek and I missed him, I missed them all.

It took a while to go through the entire chapter going through each number code and pattern trying to make a word with the letters. I briefly even wondered if I was on a goose hunt and the numbers had meant nothing.

But why would everything be gone from the phone except numbers that I had to retrieve from its memory.

If he had wanted to give me a message why wouldn’t he have typed it out or better yet called for help if he even had his phone.

It didn’t add up and I couldn’t think of his reasons feeling more and more disheartened at the moment.

I scanned through the hundred plus words and finally found a few that were actual words. Clock, Grave, Check, Break and Steam. These words were random and didn’t seem to make sense. I rubbed at my temples deciding that I had been wrong and this wasn’t some message from Ashton, that I was looking into something that wasn’t there.

I set the coded language book aside and moved on to finish my homework feeling the weight of disappointment. When I was through with it, I heard a knock at the door and froze wondering who could be knocking at my door so late. It was after nine in the night.

Instinctively I reached for the switch blade at my ankle that Blaze had given me. I wasn’t about to be careless since someone had broken into my room earlier and taken my necklace with the ring.