Pacifiers

Chapter 5

There was a battle going on in my mind - whether to look back see who it was and get down, or to keep on going ?Surely no one was going to fire a gun in the middle of the day in a school, right? But the former won the war and i slowly turned my head too see who it was , keeping sure that I don't fall.  I see that Clovis is doing the same and then my eyes fall on our to-be-attacker. He was a stout old man, about 60 years old with short-almost balding white hair and jet black eyes which screamed anger.  He very closely resembled the man I saw in my dreams, but it was definitely not him, maybe a brother or something.

"Who are you?" I asked sounding more confident than I actually felt.

"My dear I could be asking you the same question, for you have been tresspassing on this property."

"It belongs to the school." chimed in Clovis.

The man's gaze fell on Clovis and then a hint, a spark of knowingness emerged in his eyes but it went away as quickly as it came.

"Young man, it is only present on school grounds, but it doesn't belong to the school."

"You look very similar to a man, I saw in my dreams." I said suspiciously.

"Ah well, that'd be my younger brother, Benjamin. Got get off there. And oh! I am not going to really shoot you." he chuckled.

"Your younger brother? How did he come in our dreams ?" I asked.

"So him as well? That's something you will have to discover on your own."

We had a million thoughts dancing in both of our minds, but we decided not to ask any more questions and as he said, "Discover everything on our own." But just one thing, we had to ask him

"One last question. Who are you?"

"I'm Alejandero Olano." he winked at us and motioned us to leave.

We carefully climbed down and started walking towards the main building.

"So what do we do now ?" I asked Clovis.

"We go back when it's dark."

"But don't you think, there'll be more security during the night ?"  I pointed out.

"We will have to take the chance and be more careful the next time."

"Okay, and I am now even more curious to know about this Benjamin guy and why he came in our dreams, and what Alejandero meant about 'Finding what they are ourselves and everything about that building."

"Yeah." he said and nodded reluctantely.

"What's wrong?"

"it's nothing. Forget it."

"No, I'm not forgetting it, and you're not going to hide it from me." I stopped him in his tracks and looked at him, eye to eye.

" Now that I saw Alejandero today,  I'm starting to doubt whether it really was Benjamin that I saw or his elder brother?"

"So you mean to say Benjamin was not the one in your dreams?"

"These two look so similar. I must have confused myself. And if you noticed, Alejandero looked at me as if he knew me."

"Yes, I did notice that, but  when I asked him how did his younger brother came in our dreams,  he replied by saying that 'so him as well?' That implies Benjamin was the one whom you saw."

Clovis sighed and said," Scarlet he could have easily lied. Who knows? But the question is why would he lie."

We stopped in front of the gates to our main building and suddenly a thought struck me.