The New Girl

Chapter Sixteen

Oh god. Did I hit his head too hard?

"Don't you remember anything?" I repeated.

David took a little time to speak. "I remember being in the school's library... and then meeting a new girl there -"

"A new girl?" Arvon asked.

"Yes," David said stiffly. "We had a small chat, and then she left... and I - I can't remember anything what happened after that."

"That's odd," Chuck said.

David scratched his head and said, "Why can't I open my other eye?"

Chuck couldn't resist a laugh. "Your whole face isn't in normal stage, mate. Casper beat the shit out of you last night."

David swiveled his eye to me. "Did you?"

I nodded, glad that he didn't remember a thing about it.

"I'll tell you what happen last night," Arvon said voluntarily. "You stormed in my room back from the library looking dazed and muttering 'Lovina's a vampire and I need to stop her' and then you found a knife under Chuck's pillow and marched out in the rain, where you stabbed Lovina on her back and Casper hit you mercilessly. And Chuck and me brought you into this Bless Hospital."

David took a moment to process everything he just heard in his mind. "Did I really knife Lovina? Is she dead?" He sounded regretful.

"No," Arvon said. "Don't fret. She deserved that knife. She's a vampire, D. The psychotic serial killer."

"A vampire?" And then his open eye brightened. "Oh, I remember guessing that. I was flipping through the school's old yearbook when I came across an old photograph that featured Lovina in it."

"Are you talking about this?" I held up the photo to his sight.  

"Yes, that's the picture," David said. "But how did you get it?"

"It was in your pants, D" Arvon said.

"Oh," David said. "I must have kept it to show you guys."

Arvon resigned from his seat and yawned widely. "Alright folks, chuck and I got to leave. We need to change our clothes and get rest. Casper will look after you, David, won't you C?"

"Yeah," I said. "Don't worry."

"Guys, I want you to discharge me from this hospital now," David said.

"That's not possible," Arvon said. "I mean, we can't slip you into the school without anyone seeing your ugly face during day. So, D, lay back here until the night time. See you after school."

Chuk shook hands with me, and then he and Arvon set out.

David sighed. I took a seat that Chuck had just vacated, put the photo back in the drawer and turned to David, who had now closed his both eyes.

"Who's this new girl?" I asked him.

He opened his good eye slowly and said, "Her name is Misty. She said she was just looking around the school before replacing Professor Hook as the school's new librarian."

I wasn't a bookworm type like David, and this was the reason I hadn't visited the school's library yet. At that moment I didn't even remember what Professor Hook looked like.

"Misty is a Professor? Then why do you tag her as new girl?"

"That's what she told me she would like me to call her. She is so..." He paused thinking more appropriate word to describe the new girl aka our new soon to be librarian.

"So what?" I promoted rather impatiently.

"She is so sexy," David gushed.

"Oh, no, David, you don't look at professors that way."

"If you've seen her, you would have thought the same." He bit his swollen lip absent mindedly. "Ouch!"

"Be careful there, buddy."

My phone buzzed.

Lovina calling.

"Who is it?" David asked me as I stared at the name flashing in the screen of my phone, waiting for the call to end itself.

But it was taking too long time.

"Nobody."

I touched the red sign on my screen, as a result ending the call in mid-ringing. And then I chose Options and added Lovina's number on the Reject list.