Chapter 2

Chapter 2

Amanda was walking beside me when we passed through the corridors.

"Four months, Ash, four months," I sighed when I decided to go back to school. I felt like I never been here for decades, thanks to Amanda who enlighten and encouraged me to go back and left that prison of mine.

But then when we were walking in the hallways, I discovered that all eyes were on me, I noticed it since I entered the school, but at first, I thought I was maybe imagining things that all of the kids, parents, teachers, and classmates, all of them were strangely glancing at me, but they were actually staring at me... Why? I thought... I hunched down my head when I came to realization that they were thinking something about me. And it wounds my heart when they were avoiding me like...

"Am I a kind of some virus?" I thought and I was trembling, confused, and in pain. But I kept holding on the tears that were stinging in the corner of my eyes, then Amanda held my hands, she caught me trembling, I guessed. I glanced at her and she smiled softly, telling me to fight what was howling inside of me.

I was happy that Amanda was there with me, I could pass across, comfortably, but...."What is happening?" I asked.

She couldn't say it at first, but I beseeched her to tell me what was going on, though I already had a hint, and she answered, "They were all afraid of you," she frowned.

I looked at their eyes, yeah, it showed fears, "But why?" I questioned her.

She just looked at me and pulled my hand, "Let's just go to our room," she said, avoiding my question.

I grabbed her arm back which cause her to lose her balance, and she was quite surprised when I did that, she turned around her head over her shoulder, and stared at me.

The moment she stared at me, I honestly felt cold, it was strange looking, but I must argue, "No, Amanda, please, tell me," I sincerely said and I fought against her stares.

She heaved a sigh of relief, her eyes closed and opened, she was breathing heavily, "...But, Ash," she whispered.

"Please," I begged once more, and then she frowned again, "Are you sure? Just ignore them," she said.

"Please," I whispered in pain.

She sighed again, " Ash, they were all like that because they are all afraid that your secret admirer will kill them like what he did to my brother," she explained and I was tongueless.

"Wha-what?!" my lips were trembling. I felt like my bones were breaking through my skin, it hurts me a lot. And much more pain crawled into me when I noticed that even Camille and my other friends were also avoiding me.

"So all this time, they were just lying? They lied about being busy when the truth was they were just preventing to see me?" I glanced at them as they walked away from me.

I was shrieking, I bit my tongue, trying not to say anything. I wanted to scape this nightmare, run, escape, and kill myself than living like this. How could they fear me when they were supposed to be comforting me? How could they do that?!

"Amanda, I should have not bounced back here," I said and walked away but then Amanda followed me. She pulled my hand, "Ash, don't mind them, okay? Ignore them, they were all crazy after all," she said, she was mad.

Then the tears I was holding a while ago drifted out from my eyes, "Don't mind them?... Ho-how, Amanda, how?! How could I stay when they were all spacing themselves from me? How could I stay when they were all afraid of me? How could I stay when I became an allergy to them? How could I just ignore everything of this? Tell me, Amanda, tell me!" I exclaimed and she went speechless, she was trembling but I chose to abandon her.

"I'm sorry, " I apologized, and then left her, but due to running too fast, I bumped into someone and because of the impact of running away, I fell down on the ground.

"I'm sorry, are you okay?" the man said and stretched his arm to help me but when he saw and realized who I was, he pulled back his hand and left without saying any words to me. I knew it. My whole world appeared to be havoc.

I didn't stand up, the place was spinning. Because of the pain that no longer out of my control I was starting to felt dizzy, I looked around me but they all ignored me like I was a ghost, like I was not around.

I cried out loud but no sounds were coming from my mouth, I was crying alone somewhere inside of me, "What did I become?" I whispered, and everything was slowly fading away. I couldn't hear their footsteps anymore, I could only hear Amanda's voice from afar, she was calling my name...

"Ash?"

"Ash?" 

"Ash?"

I closed my eyes when I felt that I was about to faint, and when I could feel no strength anymore, I prayed above to let him get me. I didn't want to wake up anymore not in the surrounding like this.