Where The Shadows Rise

~ Chapter 2: Part 6 ~

The students held onto their lunch trays and formed a circle around me, slowly closing in making the room feel tighter. They pulled together in sync, it felt like I was the one to be sacrificed. The comment still didn't fade, it bounced off of the walls creating the echo effect.

It took over me and so I scrunched up into a ball and covered my ears. My lunch tray crashed onto the floor. I closed my eyes shut. I tried not to listen but I could hear the faint sounds.

I couldn't take the voices, so I screamed. I screamed at the top of my lungs. I screamed "NO!". But the voices didn't go away. I screamed "LEAVE ME ALONE", five times before the voices went away. The voices faded, though I didn't feel better.

I slowly stood up straight. I opened my eyes and looked around. The students were all staring at me, and in front of me were Zach and Scarlett, looking shocked.

My feet had felt wet, looking down the cheery juice formed a puddle. The plastic packet of apples sat in the middle of the puddle. There was the cake, bits were around the puddle while the cake was just in the middle, in the middle of the bright red cherry juice.

I couldn't take it, I couldn't take anything so I ran out of the cafeteria, ran down the hallway, took a left then a right then ran out the building. I ran to a corner near the gym. I hid behind these pipes next to a big blue water tank. I started to breathe heavily, I sat down and my cheeks started to soak up. I hugged my knees and put my head down as with my arms covering the top of my head.

I sniffed in, as tears rolled down my eyes. I cried and cried for a while. Many tears splashed onto the concrete making wet and darken in colour.

While I cried I didn't notice someone sneaking up on me. The person slowly walked up behind the tank and sat right next to me.

Water bags filled my eyes while I hid from shame. I still didn't notice the person. I tried to stop, and forget but it didn't work. I slowly started to sit up with my back against the wall and said: "Am I responsible!?"

I noticed someone reaching for my hand that was placed on my knee. I turned to my right and it was him. The guy I bumped into in the morning.

I sniffed and looked away, but I could sense him looking at me. My hands started to shake and my head started to ache. I slowly turned towards him, as I faced him he looked into my eyes. I wanted to look away but my body didn't let me.

Water bags started to fill up again but I choked back my tears. He looked into my eyes and it settled me down a bit.

"Hey, you okay? I saw what happened at the cafeteria, you seem upset or something", he asked.

I didn't reply, and he didn't look away.