Night Wanderer

Chapter 6

Elijah's Hoodie^

Lunch

Celeste's POV:

Michael tends to act like our big brother when the time comes. When a guy was making Julia feel uncomfortable last summer, Michael threatened to shove the guy's dick down his throat. To say the least - It was scary.

Last night when I went out, Elijah was not there. I carried on looking around until I started to get tired and headed back home.

"Why's Mr Rock angry?", Mandy said when we came downstairs for breakfast.

"You don't wanna know", Benji says.

Mr Rock happens to be our friend Michael. We started calling him these names, Micky Mouse and Mr Rock, when he started breaking anything that is related to Disney.

I mean, who doesn't like Disney?

We hadn't told Mandy or Davers about yesterday. Michael was tempted though.

The kids start coming into the kitchen and so does the woman who looks after little Macy. "Hello, Mandy", she says.

Mandy smiles at her and everyone ignores the woman.

"Hello, Celestia!"

I wonder who could that be.

Harry skips until he's beside me. "Hey Harry."

"Celeste. Can you please help me!", Davers shouts.

I sigh and head over to where his voice came from. 

The Care Home is really big. Big enough for twenty-two people. The living room, kitchen and the opening to the dining room are just one big room. The stairs are right next to the living room and the entrance door. There's more than 12 rooms upstairs. I was one of the lucky ones, to get my own room.

There's even a play room, only for the kids who are 13 and under. So unfair.

Davers' in the garage. 

"What?", I sigh.

"Don't speak to me like that. Help me hold this!" He's fixing a car's motor.

I hold the hood up for him as he digs around inside the car.

This is Davers' other hobby, other than taking care of these nuisance kids. 'These nuisance kids' meaning us.

"I have an education to catch up to, you know?", I huff.

"Patience!", he shouts into the motor.

...

Davers wanted to punish me by getting late. He does stunts like this without saying anything. This stunt was probably because I snuck out without telling him. I don't care, I'm still doing it.

"Today, we'll be changing our English Literature level. New students, from lower classes will be coming to this class and the others with be going to their new level class", Mrs Potter, our English teacher informs us.

I really want to stay in this class. I mean this is one of the classes, where I understand most of the tasks. Mrs Potter starts calling out names and different people start entering our class. I sit up straighter.

One of them is Elijah Bivord.

He notices me and heads towards me. I always sit right at the back in the corner with a free seat on my left.

"Hey", he says and flops down onto the chair.

I talk to him from the side of my mouth,

"You weren't at WoodsMane last night."