FrAcTuReD (Part One) (Completed continued in Part Two)

Chapter. 16

For the rest of that day Alex and Charla talked about a number of things around in the town and even about some of the people as well, that was until Nina came home, rather surprised to see someone over. And much like with Claude, Nina went and stuck close to Charla.

It made Charla wonder if Nina would do this with her father when people she didn't know would come by to the house. Yet there was some small part of her that worried about that.

"Hey don't worry I'm not a bad guy." Alex said. "I'm a friend of Charla's."

"You are?" she asked but still kept close to Charla.

Alex nodded and smiled at her. "Yup,"

"It's true," Charla said as she looked down to Nina who kept close. "Alex isn't someone you should be scared of. Besides, just because they look scary doesn't mean they are. But you still have to be careful too, a person may look nice but could actually be very bad."

Nina looked up at her. "Really?"

"Yes, some are as what they seem, but others... are just monsters. They'll manipulate people without a second thought for their own personal gain. But, it's also rather complicated and giving a quick explanation is rather hard to do. In short though, you should just be careful, there's nothing wrong with being wary of others around you. It's always best to go by instinct, if you feel uncomfortable with a person the best choice is to just leave. No one would fault you for it if you did."

Nina continued to look up at Charla who was standing by the skin cleaning a mug. "Have you ever had to deal with something like that?"

Charla looked to Nina but gave a faint kind smile. "I was lucky."

Alex on the other hand couldn't help but notice how Charla had gone still when Nina asked that question. There was more to what Charla was saying, but that always seemed to be the case with her, at least what Alex seemed to notice. But seeing how much Charla had already revealed about her life and subsequently the reveal of a septate personality inside of Charla's subconscious.

Charla then came over and placed the three mugs and poured coffee into two of the mugs before taking the third mug and put in two spoon-full's of hot chocolate mix and then added hot water and milk and placed it in front of Nina for her to drink.

"Thank you," Nina said as she took the mug and blew on the top of the hot chocolate to cool off.

"How's school going Nina?" Charla asked as she sat down next to Nina. "Are you doing well with all of your subjects?"

"I am, though math is a bit hard." Nina said as she took a sip of her hot chocolate. "What about you two? Is math hard for you both?"

"Not really," Charla said then looked to Alex. "What about you?"

Alex let out a groan as she ran her hand through her hair. "Not math but science, science is a total killer for me. All those formulas, how can you remember all of that?"

"But isn't science like math?" Nina asked.

"It is," Charla said as she took a sip of coffee. "So math is like science, and science is like math. So Alex, are you really good at math?"

Alex's face slowly began to turn red. "Of course I am, what about you when it comes to science, how was your grades on that?"

Charla merely took a sip of coffee and a bite of a cookie. "I already told you Alex, when we were coming here."