Specters' Favoured

Chapter 5: Bonfire

" I fell asleep?" Adam said, puzzled. His eyes were still drooping, but he felt somewhat refreshed. Taiwo was sitting next to him and had just woken him up.

The room was lit, Kelvin and Kaleb were standing in front of a mirror dressing up.
Kelvin looked extremely handsome in his casual wear, and Adam didn't know if it was him or if Kelvin seemed somehow different.
While Kaleb, well, bodyguard pose as always with blank looks.

The room was spacious, with two bunks far apart, leaving a large center occupied by bags and other items. Taiwo was beside Adam, observing him.

"How long have I been asleep?" Adam asked.

"Not sure, but when we woke up, you were still sound asleep. We were about to leave, so I thought I should wake you up," Taiwo responded matter-of-factly.

_What the heck? I fell asleep for that long,_ Adam thought. It was one thing if he fell asleep and woke up before them, but another if they woke up before him. He would be completely defenseless at that time they were awake who knows what happened?

_And what with the headache?_

"Are you all right? What happened to your hand?" Taiwo asked outstretching his left hand to touch the said arm which suddenly made Adam jerk up.

"What?" Adam looked at his arm and saw bloody marks. His face went blank, It looked like the handy work of fingers.

_I did that to myself? Wait, something's wrong, what's up with the headaches,_

His yell turn the gazes of duo who were dressing in front of the mirror to him.

Adam held his head, shutting his eyes in the process.
He was trying to remember something.

Some flashing memories which were extremely blurry passed through his mind, everything about it seemed so weird, and intense emotions started building up in him when he tried to remember the content.

_ A dream_

Adam thought. He couldn't remember the content, but he started remembering the emotions he felt. He felt despair, such strong and intense despair that he didn't think he had ever felt anything like it.

_What's going on?_ Adam pondered, yet he still couldn't remember the dream or remember doing that to himself.

"Adam?" Taiwo pulled him out of his trance when he saw his weird actions.

"I'm fine, just trying to recall something" Adam responded before asking, "The party will start soon, right?" While asking, he got up and left his bed, then proceeded to grab some clothes, making sure they didn't have any weird smell before putting them on, after all, they weren't his.

Then he looked at himself in the mirror out of curiosity, but that took a lot of courage to do because of fear of what he might see, what if he too had that dead man's skin.

But to his shock, he still retained his facial look, he was still him.

_ This doesn't make any sense, what happened to the real Obehi? and shouldn't the father have been puzzled when I first arrived at the receptionist hall_

After pondering on it and finding no reasonable explanations, Adam unnaturally threw the conjecture out of his mind.

The four of them left their rooms and met other students who were their neighbors. They proceeded to the elevator.

They were going to take the stairs, but Adam had strongly decided against that. _My life is too precious,_ he thought, after all, he had been warned not to do so.

When he got into the elevator, the rest followed suit, but previously Adam noticed their unnatural and creeping look when they were heading toward the stairs. Coupled with the corridor that used light sensors, meaning you would be shrouded by darkness amidst the light, that was one of the reasons he had decided to take the elevator instead.