Dead Nor Alive

#17

"Are you sure about this?" Sarah had a very sceptical look on her face. "I mean isn't this that guy who got into a huge fight with those boots from our class last year? And then again he has a reputation of pulling inappropriate stunts. I'm not sure I want to be seen anywhere near him."

Trisha rolled her eyes for approximately the 15th time when she assured Sarah that everything will be fine. "We ask him a couple questions and be done with it. It's not like we are gonna sit with him and braid each other's hair, while we discuss how cute Zack Effron looks in highschool musical." They had almost reached the 10th B classroom. "Plus he is the best shot we have, at finding out what can be done. He is said to have participated in every seance over the past 5 years."

They had come to this conclusion when they had exhausted all their sources of secondary information. They needed first hand help now.

Sarah stood there tapping her foot impatiently. Trisha smacked her arm a little to hard when she winced. "I'm not comfortable talking to strangers ya know! Especially ones who have such reputation. The only reason the school hasn't thrown him out is his crazy talent in basketball. He has failed 10th grade thrice already."

It was during the short recess that Sarah and Trisha had walked up to that class in hopes of getting some answers. They stood near the door a little hesitant as kids buzzed in and out of the classroom. A really tall and lanky guy walked out of the class. He had an evident stubble on his chin, although that was the only thing that made him seem older than the rest.

"Hey Varun!" Trisha called out.

"Him?" Aditya asked in shock. He was half expecting a buff guy with a ruffled shirt and messy hair, chewing gum or something, to show up. This guy though, looked pretty normal. Sarah gave him a sidelong glance as Varun walked over to them.

"Umm hi... You are?"

"We are actually from the eighth grade. You might have heard about the whole seance fiasco this year..." Trisha trailed off.

"Yeah that was us and we needed help."

"That was you?" He had an amused look on his face. "It was pretty dumb you know!"

"Coming from the guy who has..." Sarah cut her off as she continued instead. "Yeah it was. So we needed to ask you something. Just out of curiosity ofcourse."

"What?"

"Umm you see we know you have been a part of multiple seances over the past years and its said that you guys actually succeeded a couple times."

"You wanna try that again? Its not fun. Actually it is but I dont think you girls can handle it."

"Actually we can. Now would you help or not!"

"That attitude.... Not helping."

'Now what do I keep telling you girls!'

'Stop it Aditya.'
"Will you help, please?"