uneditedJust when I got to my seat, our English teacher entered the room. Great, I don’t have to sit down here for quite a longer moment and wait for the class to start. The whispering is getting intense, not that I can hear them but I can see their mouths blabbering some stuff that I can’t quite decipher.“Good morning Mrs. Farrow.” Everyone greeted in unison.“Let me check the attendance first,” Mrs. Farrow sat down in front and began reading names from the roster.“Arlow,”“Present…”“Bolton…..Boyle…..Cargill…..Clarke…..Doran…Raddix”Mrs. Farrow went on and it seemed that everyone was present as they all answered as their last name was called.I was waiting for Mrs. Farrow to say Willis right after mentioning Williams but she stopped and that seemed to be t
UneditedI couldn’t get myself to sleep at night and that’s mostly because I am locked in this claustrophobic prison of confusion. I couldn’t stop thinking about the conversation that I had with Mr. Lykaios at the clinic. He must be on crack or some shit when he mentioned those things about werewolves. What’s next? Witches and fairies? I don’t think so. I don’t intend on believing him at all. And then there’s Carmine Reid giving me these cryptic messages and she even said I smelled like a rotting dog. I know I didn’t take a shower yesterday because I was feeling awfully sick but those are very specific descriptions that I don’t think even matches how I smelled.In addition to all of that, I could hear my mom and dad arguing about the very same shit for the nth time. Their room was very far from my room and I’m sure the walls in this house are way thicker than what we had from our old house but I
UneditedEverything that happened to me so far wasn’t fun. I haven’t been in this town for more than a month and yet a lot has already happened. When I first got here in this town, I was just a human or in Idris’ words, a mere mortal and then the next thing I know, I’m a monster now. There’s literally too much to unpack and honestly, I’m still trying to let everything that I learned sink in. I never had the chance to have a peaceful weekend and process all of this werewolf bullshit.When I got home, taking a long and hot shower was the best thing that I did. I had to wash all of the blood stains and the stinking smell of the raw deer that I just consumed earlier. That was most probably the grossest thing that I had to do in my entire existence. I clearly don’t want to devour that raw shit like how I did but my body seemed to have its own brain and they were moving on their own. I already wanted to puke everything
UneditedThe runes that Soraya had drawn on the floor began to glow faintly which meant the search for Wesley’s whereabouts is working just as we thought. However, unlike before, the glow was steadily faint and it does look like it’s going to take a long while.Diwata, Norman and I watched carefully and curiously as Soraya continued to repeat the same words over and over again. At the certain amount of time that she had been blabbering the same words, I’m already starting to recognize a few of them.After about five minutes, the lights inside the room spontaneously began flickering until it eventually went out dimming the room. Soraya stopped her incantation though she was still on the ground seemingly in a frozen state.Just when I was about usher my way to check on Soraya, I heard the door suddenly opened only for a familiar face to show up.“Ysabella?” I was mo
Idris ran towards Yannick as well and as they met half-way, I saw a clashing exchange of punches and kicks. Each one of them was agile and strong enough to either dodge or block every attack. However, Idris was successful at swinging his claws and it scratched Yannick’s face. Yannick flinched for a second and my eyes saw blood flowing out of his jaw but it was for nothing. The wound quickly healed up just like how I cut my own palm and how it quickly stitched itself back. Idris took the small timeframe to punch Yannick by the chest sending him right thudding towards the hard ground.“ROGER!!!” Out of the blue, I heard a woman screaming from behind Idris.It was Soraya and while she doesn’t look much surprised, I was the one who was surprised. How did she found us here? The school building is way far from here and she couldn’t possibly run as fast in those long skirt.Idris turned around to s
unedited“Why are there so many people going missing in this town this past week?” My dad inquired, his eyes were glued on the newspaper. “And they’re all younger people.”Why does every dad loves reading the newspaper especially when they reach their forty’s? I just can’t imagine myself in dad’s position right now. I don’t even see myself becoming a dad at all.“Maybe they just got tired of their lives here and decided to run away.” My mom replied and I thought she must be on something with her judgmental reply. I knew she was looking at me trying to inspect my reaction. I don’t want to conclude that she’s thinking I’m tired of my life here too.She might be right about that though. I’m too close to getting tired, however, it’s been over two weeks since something life-threatening happened and ever since then, nothing m
not editdWhen we finally set afoot at the public high school which was just off the road, I started to feel a little bit anxious and somehow conscious of myself. There are surprisingly a lot of students flooding from every direction, some of them are jumping out of their bicycle, most of them are coming in groups and by twos and they all looked as if they knew each other ever since. I find it relatively dreadful to be showing up way too early and it’s for a fact that everybody would notice the new face that’s me. This was just a small town and I’m pretty sure everyone knew each other.It is beyond my conscious state that I combed my wavy hair using my fingers fixing it to one side. I haven’t felt this conscious of how I look and I wished I would’ve gotten a nice haircut right before coming here, a nice faded cut would make me feel confident at the very least. I also readjusted my denim jacket to feel a little b
When lunch finally came, I found myself sitting right next to Yoseff. Ysabella and Benjie were surprisingly back to normal after what happened earlier this morning.“I told you, my sister’s a bitch but she can’t go a full day without Benjie.” Yoseff whispered keeping it so low so that his sister won’t hear him.“Yeah, I saw that.”“By the way, did you even take a shower?” Yoseff asked. That’s it, he found out that I was the one who smelled like a wet dog.“I did, why?”“Nothing,” He replied not wanting to say anything but I could read his face and he looked disgusted by the smell.Nothing much happened during lunch except for Ysabella being an absolute cunt. She, along with Charlotte and Florence kept on reading everyone else as if they’re the most perfect people in this school. Somehow, I’m able to make sense of Esmera