Something Peculiar

7

The weekend was turbulent. I kept expecting Lisa to appear at my window again, but she didn't, and I wasn't sure if that was good or bad. I wanted to talk her but I was terrified. Terrified that she might be lying, and terrified that she might be telling the truth. It was hard for me to concentrate or enjoy anything all weekend long. I kept looking for clues in everything. Like Tae is pretty shirt and so Ami, so he must be my brother. Then a minute later he would say he prefers winter to summer, and I hate winter, so he must not be my brother.

These weren't clues one way or another, and deep down I knew that. But I was really desperate for answers. My whole life had been one giant question, and I was so close to finally getting it resolved.

That wasn't everything, though. There was also that burning unanswered question about what exactly Lisa had wanted with me. Sometimes, she treated me like I was nothing more than an irritant. Then there were other times, when she looked at me and took my breath away. Any feelings she had for me were probably solely related to the fact that she believed it was her duty to track me, and that was disappointing.

I hope that school would bring some kind of resolution to all of this. When I got up Monday morning, I took extra care to look nice, but I tried to pretend like it wasn't for any particular reason. That it wasn't because this was the first time id see Lisa since she had come into my room, and that Instill wanted to talk to her. I still  antes to impress her.

When the first period bell rang and Lisa still hadn't taken her place a few rows behind me, a knot started growing in my stomach. I looked around for her all day, half expecting her to be lurking around some corner. She never was, though. her family hauled her off to a nut house or something, or maybe she had failed her r job and taken off. At any rate, she wasn't here.

"So what's going on with you?" Kai asked me as I craned my neck around the hallways, still on my hopeless search for Lisa. We were on our way to lunch, but I was slowing us down considerably by looking around.

"Nothing," I muttered absently.

"She's not here," Kai sighed.

"What?" I snapped my attention back to him and tried to feign innocence. "I don't know what you're talking about."

"You're looking for Lisa, and she's not here." Kai slowed to a stop and looked apologetically at me. "Look, I'm sorry about Friday night. I don't know what really happened at the dance, but I should've just taken you home when you asked. I guess I miss judged Lisa or something." He shook his head, as if he didn't quite believe that. 'But anyway." I'm sorry.

"You don't need to be sorry. You did nothing wrong, " I insisted honestly. To cement my image as being anti-Lisa, and I added, "Lisa is just a total psycho. She stopped by my house a few hours after after the dance, and she was rambling all this weird crap."

"What kind of real weird crap." Kai's expression deepened with concern. "Are you okay? Did she do anything?"

"No, it wasn't anything like that, he just said that I had supper powers or something. I don't know. It didn't make any since. His family provably has her at home sedated or something.

"Wow, "His eyes widened with surprise "I am really sorry now, I had come idea."

"No. its fine. Honest." I brushed him off and started walking to the lunchroom again. "Come on. I'm  starving."

Later on, I knew I might regret saying anything to Kai about Lisa. If Lisa came to school again and we were to get along, it would make things harder if Kai thought that Lisa was insane. But I didn't really think that would be an issue. Part of me knew that Lisa wouldn't be back to school anymore. Her cover had been blown. and I wondered if I would ever see her again.