Games with Death

Chapter : 05

The next week -

Ariana was running, full speed towards her school. ' Today I'm gonna be freakin' late for sure. ' she said trying to breathe.

After a while, Ariana finally found herself at the door of their first class of the day and sure enough Mr, Dennis had started there chemistry class.

' Um - Professor Dennis, I'm so sorry I'm late. It was just that — '

' Well, well , well. Ms. Spensor is it? I must remind you keep a clock near you next time before you come up with another stupid excuse. ' he said looking dead into Ariana's eyes with his usual cold voice.

Mr. Dennis had a expression - less face all the time complete with his cold attitude. He was the kind of guy who would give punishments for the slightest of things.

' Do you have any intentions of sitting down? If you do, then why are you standing there? He said and continued the class.

Ariana just went and quietly sat down, making sure not to give Mr. Dennis any other chance of scolding her.

When there was 5 minutes left for the class to end.. Mr Dennis cleared his voice.

' Ariana, Harry, Eric. Three of you stand up! ' he commanded suddenly causing the whole class to look at them  terrified while they slowly stood up.

' The three of you will stay after school to help me with some papers of mine as I will have to leave early. Got it? '

' But sir, why uh — ' Ariana began to speak but was interrupted by him again.

' If ANYONE  has any questions of why these three in particular, I have two words to say – My. Wish. And you three sit down. '

Felix was already giving Ariana the, poor - you stare as she sat down mentally shouting at the teacher.

While on the other hand, Harry, who had to go home early that day was looking at him in such a way that if eyes could kill people, Mr. Dennis would've been dead by then.

And that is exactly why Harry, Ariana and Eric Hoopes found themselves sitting quietly in Mr. Dennis's office that day  after school.

From what Ariana heard, by then Eric and Harry had become really close friends. He was a very skinny guy with short blonde hair.

After sitting anxiously for quite a while, he finally arrived followed by Sam Banner — a nobody in their grade who did whatever Mr. Dennis told. Sometimes Ariana felt that if professor Dennis told him to jump off a cliff, he would happily do it.

Mr. Dennis placed a pile of papers infront of each of them and told, ' You may leave whenever you are done. I don't care about anything as long as you finish IT. ' before he stormed out of the classroom with Sam.

' Why did he have to choose us for this stupid bullshit we are doing after school? ' Harry asked irritated after a while.

' Bro, I respect him but sometimes I seriously feel like punching him right in his face. ' Eric said looking at the time.

' You guys are so right. ' Ariana told and they were again off to work.

After quite some time, Harry's wrist started burning badly. He closed his eyes for a second before looking down at the scar he had on the side of his arm just above his wrist. No one knew how he got that scar, although he heard rumours that when he was little someone tried to kill him but instead left a scar.

Having this never really bothered him except for all those times when it burned like hell.

' Did this have to burn now? ' he said to himself squeezing his wrist with all his power to reduce the pain a bit.
He tried to work and take his mind off it, but it was no use. After seeing he couldn't hold it in any longer, Harry stood up. ' Hey, um guys? I'll be back in like a minute or so. '

' No breaks like this are allowed but fine, whatever. See if you can convince Sam, aka sir 's faithful assistant. ' Ariana said and started laughing with Eric.

Harry found Sam, standing just outside the door, half asleep.

' There's no use walking him up. Plus, I don't fudging care about him, my wrist is already killing me. ' he told himself and tiptoed right past Sam. He went to the field to walk a bit hoping it would reduce the sharp pain in his hand.

The day was warm. As he stood there, he closed his eyes and felt the cold breeze running through his black hair. For a moment there, all the pain in his arm and life seemed to disappear. He felt very light as the cold air hit him.

' The air feels amazing, doesn't it? ' Ariana suddenly asked from behind causing Harry to turn around.

' You weren't coming to I thought maybe I could also use some time outside. I came out, found sir 's little assistant sleeping so, yea. '

' It does feel amazing. ' Harry replied still squeezing his wrist tightly.

Ariana noticed his arm. Harry also noticed what she was looking at and quickly put his arm behind his back.

' Sudden question, but anything wrong with your arm? Cause you know, I saw you squeezing it. '

' Oh, nothing much. It's just that. It's just painting a bit because of my scar I have right here. ' he said pointing at his wrist. ' I've had it since childhood and no one really knows how I got it. I really don't care, but just sometimes it hurts real bad. '

' Can I see? '
And before he could lift his arm, Ariana pulled it up. It was ice cold the moment she touched it. Harry was thinking of pulling it back but he decided it wouldn't be nice.

Ariana saw, right there, the scar on the side of his arm. 

Ariana's POV

I pulled his arm up, and the moment I touched it, I felt how cold it really was. I thought of asking him that but then thought it might be because of the weather or something.

I was really confused. How can someone just have a scar like that. I left his arm and looked up at the clear blue sky. The cool breeze was hitting us very gently.

We were both looking at each other. I don't know about him but I was thinking about what I can say. Looking at him, the first thing I notice was probably his eyes. They were a darker shade of brown / hazel,  always loved the unique colour.

' If you guys are done making plans about your future together then I wanna remind you that we have some stupid work to finish. ' I suddenly turned around and saw Eric standing there with a smirk drawn on his face.

Eric then laughed and left, leaving me thinking about how crazy he actually is.

' I guess, we actually should go. I don't want Sam waking up and seeing us not there. It would be another world of stupid drama. ' I said and started walking towards the school with Harry following me.

As we were entering the building, Harry suddenly stopped dead where he was.

' Shit!! ' he said and started running out of the building. I was standing there all confused but decided not to go chasing after him as it might be something important.