Keep Dreaming Up Ways to Survive

Chapter 18

Dawson couldn't afford to get in trouble in his other classes, so he hoped Felix would understand why he wasn't there. But he made it his mission to find Felix during their lunch. He walked into the cafeteria; that's when it clicked with Dawson. He had never sat with Felix for lunch. He had sat with his other friends, or they had both just gone outside to eat. Dawson glanced around the bustling room looking for his quite nervous friend, that's until he saw a familiar brown mop of hair laid down on a table.

"Felix! I didn't know you sat over here." Dawson acknowledged as he sat down next to Felix.

Felix flinched as he didn't expect to hear Dawson's voice. But then he just let out an annoyed sigh and turned his head away from Dawson. Felix refused to look at Dawson for two reasons, he was angry at him and Dawson's face made his wrist throb with pain.

"Hey." Dawson leaned over, shaking Felix's shoulder a bit, "You ok?"

"Yep," Felix said, a bit too aggressively for Dawson's liking.

"...Is it about yesterday...?" Dawson's body tensed up.

"No!" Felix insisted with a loud sigh, "It's just... oh... I don't know... Why weren't you there..."

"Where?"

"Science! After class..." Felix's voice got quiet at the end of his sentence.

"Oh! I couldn't come because I got caught sleeping in class. I got... de.. tension..." Dawson immediately remembered why he was looking for Felix in the first place.

"That's it?" Felix lifted his head with a smile, "I thought you hated me because-"

"Felix, shut up for a second."

Felix did precisely that.

"I'm cutting the story down a lot, so bear with me. I had a dream about Ms. Ann, and she was a monster in it. So.. she is a monster. Probably some sort of spy."

Felix stared up at Dawson with big, confused eyes and said, "Huh?"

"No, not 'huh,' Felix! How do you not understand? That lady is a monster!" Dawson glared.

"But... how? She's so nice. And she looks... I don't know... human? Normal? Pretty? Definitely not like that monster." Felix stammered.

"I know I'm smart, but I'm sorry, I don't have all the answers." Dawson shrugged.

Felix thought back to just a couple classes ago, when she happened to run into Ms. Ann; the apparent monster.

"This is insane... Do you think she is trying to kill us or something?" Felix rubbed his face.

"If she tries anything, I will be there." Dawson said coolly.

"...K." Felix mumbled, kinda cringing at what Dawson had just said.

"But... I'm hungry. We can talk about this after school, I'll get us some food." Dawson repiled, walking to the lunchline.

"Uh... yeah... ok." Felix shrugged, flopping his head back on the table.