TUNES

TWO: OUTBURST

Everywhere suddenly became quiet, as if the music was fading.

I forcefully broke free from the anonymous strong grip and turned to see who it was.

Surprisingly, it was Jesse, and he had the same weird black eyes as the other guy.

"Jesse?" I asked almost in a whisper, slowly moving backward. His eyes gradually returned to normal.

"What the heck are you doing up here?" he asked, alarmed, peering through the walls to see if the scary guy had stepped out.

Consumed with fear, I asked with a trembling voice,
"What the fuck are you, and who was that?"

"The guy you saw is Nemus," he replied. "He's a vampire."

Stunned, I looked at him, unable to process what I had just heard.

"A vam... pire?"

I stared at him with wide eyes, slowly moving backwards, could he be the same thing he claimed the other guy was? So I asked,
"Are you?"

Then he spotted Nemus coming out from the room with a small black towel, wiping the blood from his mouth and he turned to me saying
"You need to get out of here, now!"
 
Without much thought, I ran down the stairs to the dance floor pushing my way out because it was crowded, then I bumped into Pink who seemed happy to see me

"Had a change of heart?" She asked cheerfully, but before I could think of what to say, she dragged me to the centre saying "come on, dance with me"

I struggled to let go and when I was finally free from her grasp, i said
"I'm not in the mood Pink, I'll see you at the hostel"

"Leaving already?" Clary danced by with Eska.

"Yeah" I said immediately, looking for a route to ditch them.

"Why?" Eska asked looking at me suspiciously then I looked up at the gallery and saw Nemus looking down at the dance floor, probably searching for his runaway spy.

Already scared, I said with a shaking voice
"Something just came up, it's an emergency" with that, I found my way out of Clarys house but couldn't help but noticed Eska staring at me from a distant in a suspicious manner.

The next day at school, I tried to act normal when I will see Nemus so I had to practices before heading out.

On my way to class, I was dragged to the janitors closet which freaked me out because I thought it was Nemus and he had found me.

I was relieved to see that it was only Eska.

She pushed me against the wall of the small room and said a bit demanding
"Okay, freak, talk!"

Surprised, I asked, not knowing what she was implying
"Talk? About what?"

"What emergency you had that you had to leave that way?"

"It's personal" I quickly added hoping she'd respect my privacy and back off.

"I smell lies" she said "I want the truth"

"Well, what's there to say? You'll think I'm crazy" I said trying to discourage the topic but it only got her interested as she leaned backwards, folding her hands.

"Try me"

I signed, she wasn't going to believe me anyways so I just decided to tell her the truth.

I explained my experience of last night to her and it didn't seem to surprise her at all, she just smiled,
"So Nemus is back, some dudes just don't know when to give up"

Surprised, I asked looking at her weirdly,
"You know Nemus?"

"Yeah, our arch nemesis, he's supposed to be dead, I wonder how he survived the attack" she replied