Imperfect Life: Arc 1

Chapter 13

The next day, Crys and Brandon walked into school not knowing what to expect. The two of them only hoped that the day would go well. They both started making their way to their first class when they were confronted by Tomas.

"Hey you two." Tomas said in a confused tone. "Something weird is going on."

"You're talking to us again?" Crys said, annoyed.

"I'm sorry I haven't been able to talk with you, but Josh would have killed me if I did." Tomas explained.

Brandon held back a small laugh.

"Don't worry, we get it." Crys said. "What's going on?"

Tomas thought for a second on how to phrase what he wanted to say. "It's best if you just see for yourself." Tomas began walking with Crys and Brandon in tow. "He's been going on and on about this monster that's going to kill him."

The three of them made their way to a corner in the hallway. Josh was occupying the corner. He was sitting there with a wild look in his eye and mumbling things to himself.

"Oh." Was all that Crys managed to say.

Brandon approached Josh slowly.

When Josh noticed Brandon coming near him, he immediately tried to back further into the corner. "Stay away from me! Stay back!" Josh said with great panic in his voice.

Brandon was about to step back when he got an idea. "Stop the rumors and tell everyone you made them up." Brandon said.

"Anything! Just keep that thing away from me!" Josh said, horrified.

Brandon then walked away from Josh and joined back up with Crys and Tomas. The three of them walked a bit away from Josh that way he couldn't hear them.

"Well, looks like the rumors will be going away." Brandon said, content.

"No clue how you managed to pull that off." Tomas said, a little confused. "And why is Josh so scared of you all of the sudden?"

"I-" Brandon started.

"I may have punched him in the face and taught him his lesson." Crys interrupted.

"Oh." Tomas said with surprise. "Well, guess that settles that then."

"Yeah." Crys said in response. "Anyways, we should probably be getting to class. See ya, Tomas."

"See ya." Tomas said back.

Brandon and Crys went to their class while Tomas went to his. The first half of the school day then progressed fairly normally. At lunch, Brandon and Crys were sitting at their table. Crys had a troubled look on her face, like she was contemplating something.

"What's wrong?" Brandon asked Crys, noticing her face.

"Do you think I maybe went a little overboard last night?" Crys asked. "I mean, sure Josh is a terrible person, but look at him. I think I really messed him up." Crys sounded bothered.

"Not really." Brandon said. "He was trying to kill me, remember? Besides, it's like you said, you wouldn't actually do any of that stuff."

"True, but I still feel pretty bad about it. I want to help people, not traumatize them." Crys said.

"Crys, don't worry about it. He'll be fine. I mean, really, he was trying to kill me. What were you supposed to do? Just ask him to go away?"