Is it still reality ?

A visitor from somewhere

"Mrs Sefrey , so where have you been the last 4 hours?, we called your mother and she told us that you went to school this morning.
You're actually an excellent student, what is it ?" the principal Mr. Rogers asks me while drinking his coffee.

Wow this is difficult.

How can you describe to someone that you were in another world or reality.
Yeah right,you can't though I don't even know where I was.

"I-I felt kinda sick, so I went to a friend to ask if they had pills for... headache, anyways I actually felt better and I came to school" I answer and try to put on a convincing smile.

"And that friend might be who?" Mr. Rogers asks me and raises an eyebrow at me.

"Oh, my best friend who lives near by, he's not in this school" I say confidently.

"Very well then, good then that you still made it to the last periods, but we informed your mother, just as a little premonition" he says, giving me a fake smile.

"Alright, can I go back to class then or is there something else?" I ask annoyed though still polite.

"No dear, but I don't want to see something like this again, understood?" he says calmly.

"Yes of course Mr. Rogers" I say kindly to him as I stand up and leave his office.

As I walk quietly to class I think about the conversation Mr. Rogers and I had.

Why didn't I tell him the truth that I was kidnapped or something similar.

Well if I'd tell anyone what I experienced, they'd probably declare me as mental and would lock me up somewhere.

I knock on the door of my classroom and enter, as I walk in, every single one in the room starts staring at me including Lexi.

"Hello Mrs. Sefrey, please procure the missing material from one of your classmates and catch up everything for the history exam next week, perhaps as well ask one of your classmates to revise everything we've done today with them together." my teacher tells me in a harsh voice.
I just nod and quickly walk to my seat next to my best friend.

"Where have you been?, are you alright?" he whisper asks me.

"I felt sick" I tell him quietly looking to the board, avoiding eye contact.
He just stares at me with his features in confusion.

He then slowly grabs my hand from under the desk and puts my hands in his, his cold palms giving me chills all over my body though it's comforting.

I look at him and smile at him, he just stares at the board while holding my hand, he always knows when I doesn't feel that well, he's always been there for me and that since primary school, in particular when my dad died or no one was there for me like the times after Lexi.

He was the one giving me new strength for not giving up every day.

"If you're ready to talk later, we can meet up or call okay?" he says.

"Mayb-"

"Pss Lena, Lucas, Could you both please snug somewhere else" Lexi's best friend whisper yells while chuckling with Lexi in the desk behind us.

Some students turn around to look at the two girls and us but quickly turn back around after seeing the face Lucas gives them.

He looks at me in an apologising gaze nonetheless he's still holding onto my hands.

I try to focus on the lesson but the memories from that place just distract me over and over again.

"Now class, you start to do the task on the worksheets I just gave you, if you listened to the text we read, it won't be a problem to solve the tasks.
The ones who not get finish with it today will do it as homework for tomorrow, understood?" the teacher asks us.
We answer in the affirmative.

Well I didn't even listen a bit to the text she read to us.

After a bit daydreaming and not doing my tasks, the bell finally starts to ring which means the lesson ends.

I start to get up and take my apple out of my bag smiling and remember Liam giving it to me this morning.
Right this morning, it feels like several days passed since then.

Lucas already standing next to the door waiting for me to come gives me a sweet smile as he noticed me looking at him, I then move to him.

"Wanna go outside?" Lucas asks me while walking through the halls.
"Sure" I answer kindly.

"What is it with you, you seem so absent so not Lena like, do you want to talk about it? and also tell me why you really didn't came to school today" he asks while we sit ourselves on a bench under a huge oak tree near to the sports field of our school.

I don't know what to tell him, I just sit there the warm spring sun shining right onto my face so that I can hardly see anything.
I then look down to the ground.

Should I tell him what really happened?
I actually can't keep anything from him, I always end up telling him the truth.

"I felt really sick in the morning but then I felt much better and I'm a bit absent because I'm scared that I'll fail history because I wasn't in school, that's all" I tell him while my eyes are still on the ground.

"Just tell me if you don't want to talk about it with me instead of telling me bloody lies Lena" he tells me with hurt in his voice.
"I told you what it is with me, believe it or not" I say.

"Well okay if you say so" he says a little disappointed.

Though I know that he doesn't believe me, I feel bad for lying to him but I just can't tell him.
Something tells me that I shouldn't, maybe its better that way otherwise he'd just be worried about me.
We are just sitting there in silence only the sound of some birds chipping.

Suddenly I see some kind of figure in the corner of my eye, I turn my head to look at it and immediately recognise the some kind of suit the man named Cole from this other world was wearing, I just stare for a few seconds not realising if this right now was a still reality or a dream.

He looks at me with a calm gaze.

This is too much for me, this all is a mess.

I stare in disbelief for another few seconds, unexpectedly he starts moving closer to the bench Lucas and I sit on, I feel my heart beat raising and the pain in my chest, the fear.

He abruptly stops as if something stops him from going further, like there is an invisible wall right in front of him.

I think I'm getting a panic attack.

"What is it, are you alright?" Lucas asks me worried while looking around to see if there's anything that could have made me this anxious but he clearly couldn't see the man.

He then looks back to me and embraces me and tries to calm me.

I think I'm getting insane, there is no way I can only see him.

I don't give Lucas an answer and just concentrate on the man who's stuck behind this invisible wall.

"Listen, this must be confusing for you but I promise that I can help you, just let me through" he screams while pounding against the invisible wall.

How should I be responsible for this wall or whatever this is, I want to say something back but I simply can't, I feel my eyes getting heavy so I close them.

I hear someone shouting my name but I can't make out to whom the voice belongs so I let it sink and get unconscious.