Project Masks

The Uncovering

It's been about two weeks since the new kid has come to my school, and there truly is something quite strange about him. It's as if he is trying to have me find things out about him, he leaves his school papers around; his textbooks; even his lunch one time. At first, I had thought that this kid could probably just be extremely forgetful, that is until today...

I had been working on my art project for the exposition, the new kid just so happens to be in woodshop working on his showcase project as well. The only reason that I know this fact is because the art and woodshop programs share a room, that is divided by a long  line of blue painter tape.

I like to work on project while I listen to music, but I have now found that to be a horrible idea to do when the guys are woodshop are there. Someone thought that it was a good idea to throw an icepick across the room to some who had asked for it, and me being the person that I am, I like to listen to my music pretty loudly to block out the outside noise so I can think. Anyways, the person that had asked for the icepick had not expected it to be thrown at him so he had ducked, and me being the lucky person that I am, was sitting behind the person that had ducked. Me being the person that I am I had decided to look up at the wrong time, because all I saw was the ice pick heading right towards my face at a high speed that I knew I would be a goner for sure!...

But  then from the corner of my eye I saw this weird blur coming towards me. Today just isn't my day, is it? Everything just seemed to go in slow-motion except that blur, it seemed to move faster with each passing moment. How the heck is that even possible?!

After that everything just stopped, I literally mean everything. Not a single sound was uttered from anyone in the room, I was under the impression that I had actually died Because of how quiet it was. The things that had made me open my eyes was the smell of rust and the sound of dripping water...

When my eyes were finally adjusted to the lights, after having my eyes squeezed so tightly shut. I saw the new kid standing right in front of me, his right hand covered in a scarlet liquid that was starting to drip on to the floor, with the icepick in between his fist. He had somehow managed to catch the icepick right before it had gotten to me, but slicing his hand in the process. The strange thing was that could have sworn that he was sitting at the very far left on the other side of the room, there is no way that he could have possibly made it on time to save me that just defies science!

That wasn't the only strange thing, the first thing that the new kid did after he had saved me was drop the icepick he was holding and grab the paper that was placed beside me, then proceeded to wipe his blood on it. After he had finished he placed the paper back where it had been before, then leaned down and whispered in my ear "Meet me in the audio visual room after school, I'll be waiting for you there and if you don't show within an hour all your family's secrets will be exposed." with a scary calm expression he walked out without waiting for me to reply, he never one looked back either.

He's given me no choice, looks like I won't get home on time for the new Steven Universe episode today.