Specters' Favoured

Chapter 4: Scared

From the incident of meeting that being that strangled him, to being in that weird place that had a thing that looked like an advanced phone, to being here, surrounded by corpses, that treat him as one of their kind,

Adam's nerves had been stretched thin, he had contained his fears not to explode but with the gaze he just met, it didn't take a slipt second for him to go into a frenzy.

At that moment, Adam screamed, a scream that sounded nothing like a man's, he jumped up immediately which made him bump his head into the upper bunk, but that didn't stop him from leaving the bed with a swift speed, it took Adam milliseconds to decide whether to run out or turned on the switch light in the room - which was at the side of the door, meters away from him- but Adam choose neither.

He chose to turn back and face the torchlight to where he saw the gaze, he couldn't guarantee that the seconds he would take to turn on the room switch or leave the room would save his life, he could as well be dead before he could accomplish that, he rather faced the thing and pull up a fight, he did all this based on instinct.

It was then a voice rang up in the room, kelvin was the owner, " What's going on?" Before a shadow ran by to turn on the room switch. The room brightened up.

The torch that Adam was holding was on Taiwo, Kaleb on the other hand stood beside the steel bunk, his legs in a weird posture that Adam didn't know if it was a combat stance, while Kelvin was beside the door, the silence lasted for a slipt second before kelvin broke it with questioning.

"I'd like the person who screamed to explain what happened?" Then his gaze turned to Adam " Adam?"

Adam froze there, he was previously petrified by fears but now his rationality was slowly coming back to him, the gaze he met in the dark earlier looked familiar, of course, it was, because it belonged to Taiwo, although the gaze had a tint of viciousness yet it still had an innocent lining to it.

_But why would he be staring at me in the dark? Wait, don't tell me he was planning on eating me?_

Lots of possibilities rang through Adam's mind but that didn't stop him from bursting into an outrage.

" It was Taiwo ... I don't know why but he was staring at me in the dark with one kind look. I thought he was going to hurt me so I yelled"

" If normal people yelled due to danger, they would call for help, not shriek"
Kelvin gave him a scrutinizing look which gave Adam a chill, before turning to Taiwo.

" And may I know why you were spooking our dear new roomie in the dark, you know with that shriek he made I'm afraid our neighbors would believe we have a girl in here."

That last part made the culprit blush for no reason, Kaleb seemed to have relaxed and Kelvin had a smirk on his face and it was obvious that he was trying to ease the tension.

" I didn't mean to do that, I wanted to talk to you and tell you that your bunk might not be safe due to the previous owner and call you to sleep at my bunk but when I got down, you were so focused on what you were reading and I didn't want to disturb you, that was when you looked at me and..."

" Stop spouting out lies, I knew you were up to something, that look you gave me was scary" Adam retorted, wanting to throw all the blame on Taiwo, but the innocent look he gave wasn't helping at all.

" But, I didn't know you would get scared"
He said with indignation that Adam couldn't tell if it was fake.

Truth be told, Adam had already figured out everything, and he was to blame but not entirely, after all, which fourteen-year-old kid can stay sane after all this, even their skin-like corpse was only making things worse.