Sensations

A Bit Hazy

'Wait here. I'll be back in 2 hours. Okay bro?' Lisa assured.

'Yeah! Where am I gonna go.' I muttered to myself looking longingly to an already leaving Lisa. A second later, she left. 'I'm here for one and a half hours already, might as well wait half an hour more', I sighed.

Sitting on a small chair and staring at the board of the empty classroom spelling the word in bold letters- DETENTION, I put my head on the table drifting off to sleep.

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Soothing. Why does it feel so soothing when I'm here. It's almost like I belong here. Like something pulls me here everytime I'm lost. The calming breeze brushing trough my hair. The lush green trees and the purple hues of the setting sun.

Facing the setting sun and looking at the river below, I calmed down instantly.

Yes. I need this. I needed this.

Wait. Why am I here. Im supposed to be in detention. Oh God I gotta head back to the classroom this second.

Gathering all my thoughts I turned around to run back to my school only to realize that I'm standing in my classroom with the same blackboard spelling the word DETENTION on my back.

Sighing in relief I quickly sat on my desk to make it look like I never left. Feeling all smug and proud, I'm a goddamn pro, I sat there waiting for my teacher and end this punishment when I suddenly realized-

How the hell did I end up there? It's not like a real place or anything because last I saw it was in my....in my dream! Is this my dream too? But it can't be. Im here in my class like I'm supposed to be. And it feels really real for it to be a dream anyways. Even my watch says it's nearly 80 mins since this detention started.

All the confusion whirling in my head suddenly came to a halt when a breathless Asuka broke down the door. Staring at me she spoke within heavy pants, 'Wha...you..you're here? D-did you h-hear ab-bout Li..Lisa?

'What? Lisa? What about her? And why are you panting Asuka?'

But she did not speak another word. Hands still on the door, pants slowed down but she kept staring at me. She tilted her head and with a confused expression she bored into me. I stared back at her, a little more confused.

With patience expiring I decided to speak up my frustration. My mouth opened but nothing came out. I tried to stand up but my legs felt like jelly. My body started to feel weaker by the second. Then as if to complete this whole inexplicable weirdness of my body, a ringing pain surged through my head. I wasn't hurt but it was painful.

I held my head, closed my eyes shut, only to make an attempt to minimise the pain. But to no avail. Internally screaming I put my head on the desk, eyes still shut, hands still there, pain not decreasing one bit. Slowly my body started to give in to the pain. It was hard to comprehend anything as my thoughts started becoming groggy and everything fading.

With the last of strength that was left in me I slowly and steadily opened my eyes. It was all black but gradually it all became clearer. With eyes still squinting, I could make out that I was still in the classroom. But there was no Asuka panting at the door. And surprisingly I was able to move my legs without any difficulty. What I did not realize was that my headache was long gone but my hands still pressing my temples.

Quickly removing my hands I glanced back at the door. 'Did she just leave without telling me? I think she might be pulling a prank on me. Ugh I should just call Lisa!'. The moment I was about to call her, someone broke down the door.

'DID YOU HEAR ABOUT LISA?', a panting Asuka barged in again saying the same thing. I was seriously getting irritated at her for pulling such a prank on me and all the hazy condition I was in, five minutes ago, added to my frustration and I yelled.

'Yo!! Asuka! You come in again just to joke about Lisa being in some sort of trouble its not really funny okay? You can pull a prank on me I dont care but stop joking about Lisa being in a problem'.

She said nothing and just kept staring at me like it was all Greek to her.

Suddenly the anger calmed down and I felt bad for lashing out like that. 'I'm sorry I didn't mean to yell like that', I apologised.

It looked like she was recollecting her thoughts when she spoke, 'What're you talking about? It's the first time I'm seeing you today'.

I was done with the prank and tiredly I told her, 'please stop with this. Can you?'.

She became only more confused and said, 'No! I'm serious right now. You need to go to Lisa. I don't know exactly what happened to her, Eric told me to inform you. I think the coordinator told him. So yeah, Eric told me you'd be here. I don't get it why he didn't tell you himself. Aren't you guys a thing? I'm sorry if it's personal but yeah I heard Lisa had an accident.'

'WHAT?', was the only thing I could say.

'Yeah she had an accident and is sorting something at the nearby police station.'

Not in the right mind to think anything, I just grabbed my bag and sprinted past Asuka, not forgetting to briefly thank her. I almost forgot about my detention and shouted from across the hallway still running, 'Hey please inform Mrs. Moto! Thanks!'.

While sprinting towards the entrance of the school, all I could think was how perfectly fine I was feeling after that horrible pain. But quickly shaking all those thoughts I took out my phone.

'Hey! where are you? What did you do huh? Are you okay?', I said in one breath relieved to hear her voice.

'I'm okay but my car is not. There's a big dent on the bonnet and it's gonna cost a shitload I'm not ready to spend. And I'm at the police station near [random address]. You don't need to worry it's okay though. I just have to sign some papers.'

'I'm on my way. It's close so I'm running. Be grateful.'

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We were now both in her car parked on the side eating our ice creams.

'So what happened? That pole, you crashed into, grew from the ground or what?', I asked her, eyes never leaving my cone.

'I really don't know what happened. It was normal as I was on my way to get you when I suddenly had this uneasy feeling. I cant explain it but it felt like something bad was gonna happen. You know sometimes you get those intuitions, yeah just like that. So..'

'Really?', I cut her short, now giving her my full attention.

She turned to look at me, 'Let me finish will you! I know it sounds ridiculous but that's what I really thought. Then I thought I should call you. So with one hand I grabbed my bag to call you. I couldn't find it so as I took a glance off the road, SMAAASH!'

She screamed the sound and I dropped the cone on my shirt. 'WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU! You stupid didn't need to scream like that. I can understand words without actual sounds you know.'

Grabbing a tissue to clean the mess I continued, 'But you know that's really strange'. I just couldn't tell her about my pain and that her feelings could be right, as she was already stressed.

She finished her cone and started driving again.'Hey don't think too much it's alright!', she said but I was too busy thinking, that it were all background sounds for me. I hummed absentmindedly though.

How could she know that. Man! I was starting to think it was my dream.

I think it wasn't.

Or was it?

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A/N

Thankyou for reading my really bad writing! It's my first book actually don't @ me😅💜💜💜 I purple y'all.