Holding Onto Heaven

Chapter9: Hard

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I parked in front of the school and held on to the steering wheel.
I want to stop thinking. But I can't, even though I'm trying harder and harder. If I could represent what's going on in my head, I would say that it looks like a battlefield, with mines exploding every time another though about supernatural pops. I turned up the music on the radio to shut up my thoughts and closed my eyes.I stayed a few minutes like this until a knock on the window made me jump. I opened my eyes. It was Bobby. He opened the door.
"Sophia! What the..."he said, gesturing my car. I raised my eyebrows , not knowing what he wanted to say. Then I realized that the music in my car was really loud.
"Oh that..." I took the key out of the ignition and got out of the car. Bobby was still there, looking at me.
"Are you alright Morris?" I held my head. I felt a terrible headache coming again.
"Yes. I'm fine don't worry." I raised my head and I noticed that everyone was motionless. And by everyone I mean the students of Beacon Hills High School. They were all there, staring at me strangely. Bobby noticed it too. His face turned into something like anger, just like the first time I met him.
"Hey! What are you looking at?! Stupid brats!" he screamed.
"Leave! Hurry!" He blew in his whistle and the students ran away.
"Or I will put your assess on the field and watch you run till you fall!"he yelled. He took me by the arm and led me into the school until we reached my classroom.
He made me sit down.
"Thank you Bobby."
"Are you sure you're alright?"
"Yeah I'm totally fine! It's just that I had a terrible night, I couldn't sleep well but that's it." I managed to smile.
He looked at me suspiciously then nodded.
"I'll see you later then."
"Later yes!" I smiled even widely to show him that I was alright. When he left, I sighed with relief. I don't know if I can manage to act like this all day. Pretend that everything is fine. I stood up and put my stuff on the desk. The bell rang and the students filled the room rapidly. They're freshmen, it means that they are particularly noisy. Plus I have them for two hours this morning!
"Good Morning guys." I waited for them to be quiet- which means for about 15 minutes- and started the lesson.
A girl interrupted me as soon as I started to speak.
"Excuse me miss but aren't we supposed to have a test this morning?"she asked.
"Huh... Yes. Of course!"
Shit! I forgot about this test! I looked in my notebooks and find some photocopies. Fortunately I made them before leaving school!
"It's here!" I said, showing the photocopies. Everybody gave the girl a cold look and yelled.
"Can't you shut it sometimes Sarah?!"said a boy.
The girl bowed her head.
"Guys, guys please calm down!"
"I'm sorry but you will do this test today ."
"Uuuurgh!" They all sighed in annoyance.

I sat at my desk and marked the essays from another class. When I raised my head to watch over the pupils I almost had a heart attack. All I could see was wolves. Wolves everywhere. It was just like the nightmare that I had last night! I couldn't ear a thing, everything was silent and my vision was blurred. I was feeling dizzy. I stood up and leaned on the desk to avoid fainting. What is happening?
"Sophia you're just imagining this!"my conscience was telling me.
I closed my eyes and when I opened them everything was back to normal. The pupils were still there, working. Human pupils. Not wolves. The bell rang and they head towards my desk to hand me their test. When everyone left I stood up in the middle of the room and started to cry. I tried to deaden my sobs with my hand.
I have to stop being paranoid! Someone knocked on the door so I wiped my tears away quickly and turned around.
"Hello Miss."
It was Scott McCall and Stiles Stilinski , the little troublesome kids. They're not really trouble but they are always skipping my class or talking, although I warned them plenty of times about this.
"Hello." I replied.
"Sorry to bother you but we, Scott and I, wanted to give you our homework." said Stiles and Scott nodded.
" We know that it was due two weeks ago but..." he coughed.
"We were really busy. And I know it's not a reason cause we're all busy in life and all but we kind of had that emergency with one of our friend, if we can call him like that, so it was totally impossible for us to do the homework."
he said quickly without breathing.
"We understand if you don't want to take our..."
"It's ok, I understand .Give me that, I will check on it later." I took the papers they were handing me and put them on my desk.
"Also..."continued Stiles.
"Is it possible for us to, you know, shift the detention that we have this afternoon for the end of the week cause we also have that other friend..."
"Forget about it, there's no more detention for the two of you." I sighed. They looked at each others with wide eyes.
"Are you serious Miss?" asked Scott, finally speaking.
"Yes of course." I smiled at them then turned. Can't they just leave already? I can't pretend to be normal anymore. I'm tired.
I heard the door close and I covered my face. But then I heard Scott's voice. Stiles was there too.
"Miss, are you alright ?"he asked, worried. I faced the two young boy.
"Thanks Scott. I'm fine." I lied. I was feeling the heat coming off my body and my heart was beating faster.
"Why do you look so scared then?" How does he know that? I guess I am a terrible actress! And the last thing I want is the whole school to think that I am crazy, or worst perturbed!
"I'm not, really guys I'm..." I tried to talk.
"Uh uh..."said Stiles. We turned to look at him.
"Scott, come here buddy!" Scott went to his friend who whispered something in his ear. Scott's eyes widened and they both stared at me.
"What?" I asked to the boys.
"Miss... I think we should talk about what happened."started Stiles.
"What are you guys talking about?" I laughed, trying to swallow the lump that I had in my throat.
"Listen, my father is the Sheriff so I kind of know what happens here and I overheard him talking on the phone saying that a teacher was almost got killed by an animal, a creature this weekend."explained Stiles.
"Stiles..." I sighed.
"We know that you were telling the truth." added Scott.
"Guys." I replaced the hair falling on my face behind my ear.
"I think this is very impolite. This isn't your business so I would like you to leave please."
"It was a lizard right? A giant one with snake eyes?" My face dropped. How do these kids know all of this?
"Did you see it?" I asked,frightened.
"Yes."they said in unison.
"Do you know what it is?"
They looked at each other as if they were hesitant to speak.
"Kind of. We're working on it."said Scott.
"Boys, what do you mean you're working on it? This is really dangerous ,you shouldn't get closer to that thing. Plus the police is taking care of the..."
"No you don't understand!" shouted Stiles. Scott and I both stared at him.
"Sorry, I didn't meant to shout like that." He cleared his throat and continued.
"What you saw is a supernatural creature. It's called a Kanima. We need to take care of it, we know how to handle it it's ..." Scott punched him on his arm as if he wanted him to shut up.
Suddenly , a thought popped into my head. They know the freaking lizard exist.They said they can handle it... That they can take care of it. Just like Peter did! Oh God. My heart beat faster and I stared at the two of them, not able to move or speak.
"Miss? "asked Stiles, a little worried.
My eyes were looking at the two young boys in front of me. I stepped back and knocked the chair behind me.
"Don't!"I whispered.
They were both looking at me as if I was crazy.
"Don't tell me that you guys are werewolves?!"
"Shit!" said Scott.
"I think we should have that hour of detention after all!"declared Stiles.