Angel (On Hold)

Chapter 05

Chapter 05

The past few days felt like torture.

Laura still kept getting that dream where she was impaled by something while the girl who looked like her, watched from a distance with an eerie smile.

Because of this her sleep wasn’t good, she would wake up in the middle of the night from it and not be able to go back to sleep in fear of seeing it again.

“You look terrible.” Her teacher Mr. Drakard said.

She lifted her head from her knees and looked up to see those neon blue eyes and the feeling of dread ran through her, she averted her gaze from his. “I know I do.”

He leaned against the brick wall of the school next to her and looked towards the dark cloudy sky. “Looks like it’s going to rain soon…” when he saw Laura look up in response he added. “Having trouble sleeping lately?”

She kept her gaze to the sky. “Something like that,” there was a moment of silence between them. “Why are you talking to me?”

“Isn’t a teacher allowed to casually talk with their students?”

“You don’t seem the type who’d be willing to talk to other students.”

“Probably because they’re scared of me,” he took out a small box of cigarettes and offered her one she shook her head before placing them back into his coat. “So why can’t you sleep?” he asked as he lit his with a fancy silver lighter. “Are you having bad dreams?”

Dreams are putting it lightly. “There’s a girl here who hates me…”

“It’s high school, your bond to make enemies here,”

She glared at him before looking back to the sky. “I know that but this girl…” she sighed. “You know about the bombing three years ago right?”

“You mean then one at the Air Canada Center? Yes I heard what happened, someone went there and blew the place up the authorities said that a call was made from a kid saying they saw the bomb but no one believed it. That is until it blew up and at least fifteen students from our school, seventeen from the neighboring school, not to mention the number of other people, workers family members and friends that came to watch the two schools compete in gymnastics.”

Laura stood up then and took a few steps forwards before tilting her head back towards the sky as the wind blew, threatening rain to fall. “I was there, when the bomb exploded, that girl I mentioned blames for it happening. She blames me for those people dying and herself getting injured while I remained unharmed.”

He narrowed his eyes on her. “But what happened then was an incident that no one would have realized it until it was too late.”

Laura didn’t say anything in response to that she merely went back to looking at the sky with dazed filled eyes. “Perhaps if I was injured in the explosion then maybe she wouldn’t blame me for it. Why did I survive without getting injured? Why was it that so many people died in front of me like we were nothing more than meaningless beings not strong enough to endure such things? If we as human beings can’t even live through something another person created then maybe we don’t deserve to be here to begin with.  Maybe no one truly deserves to be here… what if the only purpose we have is to die… if that’s really the case then I’d rather…”

Isaac grabbed hold of Laura’s arm and forced her to face him; Laura’s eyes were wide but were devoid of all feeling and emotion.

“I should have died that day… why didn’t I die like the others? Why? Maybe if I die I can stop something else bad from happening. Don’t you think so…” she then smiled with a look of twisted darkness. “Isaac Drakard?”