Annihilation

Chapter 9

A/N - So before you dig in I highly recommend listening to EVE By Kat Cunning during the last part. That song is awesome and totally has all the feels. That's it I am going now... Enjoy . Oh another thing , don't forget to vote and comment , <3

My eyes have seen a lot of things,

And I thought I had seen them all.

But the way your smile ignites my own,

Makes me think there's so much more.

-E.H

MEGAN

You know how they say to get over someone you should get under someone else? Irrespective of whether I agree with that or not, the same goes for headaches. And that is how I find myself sighing in relief as I exit my AP Calculus class. Nothing like a few differential equations to rearrange your brain and make you get rid of the hell hound of a hangover nipping on your tail all day.

With all the formulae I just learnt playing chinese checkers with my mind, I make my way to the most Drama-inducing, Brain-cells killing and yucky food providing horror of every teenager's life. I will give you two guesses , you'll only need one.

The cafeteria.

The buzzling sound of students roaming around and not even remotely minding their own business fills my ears. It is much akin to the caws sounding from a murder of crows but hey after three years of getting used to its kind of comforting in a strange way too.

After taking my tray ,I look around for two people . One who I've come to like very much and the other of course is Michael. I can't find any one of them, I slowly move towards the table where Michael and I usually sit . I don't know what but something makes me look over to the plastics' table. I count four . A little ,hopefully concealed look later it becomes obvious that Caroline isn't there.

She could be using the bathroom or just eating outside instead

A voice in my head reasons with me . That voice is naïve, because Caroline lives for this stuff . She loves the high school drama in all its glory. She won't be seen dead eating anywhere but at the cafeteria.

I look at the empty seat in front of me.

It could just be a coincidence

Yeah. That could be it.

I take a sip from my orange juice and am about to eat when a loud voice comes from behind me

"Be careful about what you put in your mouth Megan"

I cough as the orange juice goes down my wind pipe. Jackson pats my back.

"Well aren't you a lady" he cajoles . And I wanna smack him.

I glare at him as he sits down . He looks at me with a sheepish expression and says "What? I probably just saved your life because that" He says pointing to my uneaten bowl of spaghetti "is poisoned with arsenic.That's the only earthily possible reason for it to taste that bad." He says making a horrified face.

"Are you the new kid or am I ?" I ask him .Now that I am not choking on orange juice its kind of funny and he might have actually saved my life because god knows what all is in that bowl.

Jackson rolls his eyes.

"Please, I was here ages ago. One bite. That's all it took before I was racing down the hallway and wrenching my guts out in the bathroom"