Chapter 4: Knowing your enemy
Halla's POV:
The trip started out just fine,aside from the fact that four pairs of eyes were looking at me( Well, better said glaring at me! I mean, if looks could kill, then I would have been already dead three times in a row.) But there was a good side to it: Louis wasn't glaring at me. He was simply staring, his eyes full of sheer curiosity.
I wanted to use my powers to find out what he was thinking about, but I knew that if I would do that, then Zeke would have caught me without even trying too hard. The stress was getting to me, my head throbbing.
"Breathe,sister. In and out. You're too stressed. I can feel it from here." My brothers voice echoed through my head. He was sitting near Trish, trying to listen to her while sending me mental quotes.
"Leave me be,lover boy! Trish is growing tired of you not paying enough attention to her. I'll be fine." He rolled his eyes at me, before turning back to Trish.
The rest of the ride passed in silence until we reached a fast-food restaurant. Dr. Dick and Mrs. Puki decided that we would stop there to get something to eat. Everyone got off and headed for the restaurant, but I didn't feel like eating so I simply sat down in the lonely garden, near the restaurant. I was so tired that I actually fell in some sort of daydreaming, my mind slowly leaving my body and wandering around through the garden. It felt so nice. No pressure, no nothing. I was in my element. But in an instant everything changed. I started feeling weird, scared even. I started feeling his presence nearby. The next moment, the doors of the restaurant burst open and Zeke, Izzy, Louis and Duffy appeared in the lonely garden. From the moment his eyes landed on me, I knew he saw my lifeless body and my spirit wandering around. They all saw me, but started moving towards me at Zeke's command. All except Duffy. She took my lifeless body and brought it to Louis. They sat in a circle, keeping me hostage in the middle.
"Now you have to tell me who you are, Zeke said, do you know what happens to a person whose body is destroyed while the mind is in astral projection?"
"He or she remains here as a ghost and slowly fades away in time." I answered while looking with pleading eyes at Louis, tears slowly started forming in the back of my eyes.
"Stop begging Louis, whore, and tell my beloved Zeke who you are?"
"I do not have to tell you anything, vampire bitch!" I yelled in a moment of complete madness.
"Louis." Zeke said in his cold, lifeless voice. I looked with pleading eyes at Louis, but I knew it was useless. I was making him chose between me and Zeke, between a total stranger and his best friend. I averted my gaze waiting for the pain, but it didn't come. Louis eyes were fixed on the ground, while his hands were shaking.
"Duffy. Take the body." Izzy yelled. Duffy took the body from Louis' shaking hands and grabbed my throat with all her might, tightening her grip with each passing second. I could barely breath, my lungs on fire.
"Please,please stop! My name is Halla."
"That's not enough."
"I'm in the same class as Philipe, Trisha, Natahsa and Ingrid."
"I do not know these people, Zeke said coldly, I only care if you're a spy or not."
"I'm not, I swear!"
"Prove it!" Duffy said. I was at loss of words. How could I possibly prove something like that? As I was thinking of a way to prove my innocence, Philipe ran out of the restaurant, followed close by Ingrid, Trish and Natasha, holding a broken bottle yelling:
"My bottle's peeing! It's peeing!"
They ran past Izzy when Trisha pushed Philipe, who in turn spilled the remaining juice from his "peeing bottle" on Izzy. Izzy started screaming, distracting everyone and alerting the teachers. I took my chance and returned to my body. While Dr. Dick was interrogating Izzy and the rest of their gang, I grabbed Philipe's hand and dragged him, along with the girls, back in the bus, laughing our butts off. Revenge is so sweet!
