Veiled Horizons

Chapter Eight: Ron

Ron couldn't believe he just lied to his closest and most loyal friend. As much as he regretted it, he also felt like it was the right thing to do.

As he took each steps down, the moment came to his mind though it wasn't completely clear, he could only catch glimpses of what happened. He remembered hearing the door opening and a figure entering while he was half asleep, then the vision would blur out without letting him see the rest.

He reached the dining area, taking what he wanted from the mix of all variety cuisine onto his plate, he sat on a chair. Steve sat on a chair next to him,"hey Ron. Found out about your crush on Eva" he sipped some of his juice and continued,"My advice? Just leave it man, you'll never get her"

"Not in the mood, Steve" Ron said quietly, his eyes down onto his plate and started eating his food, without looking at Steve.

"It's okay, dude. Don't be so sad about it" Steve went on,"You'll get someone." He took some fries from Ron's plate, his hand halfway to his mouth when Ron grabbed his wrist and tightened his grip until he let go, dropping the fries back onto Ron's plate. Ron was staring into Steve's disgusting eyes, then realized he was letting out the anger in him onto Steve. The outline of Ron's fingers, marked with dark red shades, was printed on Steve's wrist.

Steve looked around. Ron could see from his stare that everyone around, including the teachers, were watching them. Steve's eyes started to tear up, Ron found it funny that Steve cries everytime he gets angry and Ron had to keep himself from laughing. Ron was about to apologise, so the teachers won't get involved, but then Zane came.

"Hey, Stevie. Why don't you get up and go sit somewhere else" Zane said with a smile on his face. After hearing it Steve stood up from his seat and looked into Ron's eyes and he raised his clenched fist to hit Ron but then Zane caught him and handed him to Steve's lackeys, who always walks around with him like he was their boss, this was another thing Ron hated about him. Ron was relieved it didn't end in fighting.

Zane settled his plate, which had a piece of everything they served, on the table. Ron stared at the plate and Zane said,"This may be the only chance, so can't let anything be left out" he gave a small laugh. Without noticing, Ron smiled.

They both ate while chatting and laughing. Ron's mind drifted away from all the things he worried about, even the thing that took place in their room. Ron always felt like that everytime he talked to Zane.

Some moments later they finished eating and washed their hands. Their teachers told the students can go to their rooms and sleep. The teachers had rooms in a seperate section of the ship. Ron knew there was still more on the ship he hadn't explored yet.

Ron and Zane went up to their room. "it was a really long day, i'm tired" Zane said as he crawled into the bed after getting fresh and changing his uniform and put on a t-shirt and pants.

Ron also got fresh as he hadn't bathed that day, and put on a black trackpant and a black hoodie, as it was cold because of the air conditioner. Zane insisted on keeping it as cold as it could.

Zane was already snoring, while Ron was lying awake, staring at the ceiling. Once in every few seconds he turned to a side then another then back to the first position. Everytime he closed his eyes, he saw a black figure opening his door and reaching it's hand out to catch him, then he'd open his eyes again.

Unable to sleep, Ron got out of bed and smiled seeing Zane sleeping on his back, his arm and leg stretched to each side of the bed, snoring loudly. Ron turned the door knob as slowly and noiselessly as he could, making sure not to wake Zane. Then he did the same while closing the door after getting out. He took the stairs up to get to the open rooftop where he thought he can be alone, it was a long time past midnight .