"Oi church boy, what are you doing in my neighbourhood?"
"Um, I live here?"
"How come I've never smelled you before."
"Excuse me?"
"I said, how come I have never seen you before."
"Oh, I think it's because I spend most of my time indoors."
"You are a footballer you need training, you have a girlfriend you need to entertain so I'd advise you to pick a better lie."
"I am always so busy that it is rare to see me... No,"
"I'd be an idiot to believe that," he was standing right in front our gate and only started moving away nervously as I approached him.
Something about these guys weirded me out, Setso and Thato occasionally gave off the scent of alphas back then. But ever since my senses were heightened their scents seemed artificial and the same goes for Andrew.
Come to think of it the beta, Rama and Bontle are kind of the same too. Well this is going to be interesting.
"Are you coming in or not?"
"Wait you are inviting me in?" 'I made a move on her the other day but I never thought that she would be interested. She always seemed out of this world and aloof, for her to let me into her home without me begging first must mean that I got through to her that other time.'
"Well?" after hesitating for a few seconds he followed me in rather awkwardly. His heartbeat was starting to annoy me, why was he excited all of a sudden.
Currently there was no one home, my sister was still at school for study and will stay for longer because of her duties. As for my dear mother she did not come home until very late, she seemed super busy now because of the school fires.
Andrew stood in the middle of my living room like an idiot frozen still but god knows what. His heart was nervously sweating up a flood, his heartbeat grew with every passing second.
He had something he wanted to ask I could just feel it in the air, it was not like he was being obvious I had just cranked up by senses to beyond anything that I had felt before.
"A-are we going..." he paused and scattered his eyes all over our house. I tilted my head and made sure to look directly in his eyes, he felt tempted to say something.
"You have a nice house."
"Let's head up to my room , it will be a shame if my mother were to find you here."
"No-no-no I can't go up to your room..."
"Suddenly you don't have the urge to explore, or is it not fun walking into a place where you are welcomed. Maybe it is my fault, am I not worthy of presence?"
"No-no you got it wrong that is not what I was trying to say..."
"Then what were you trying to say?" I paused to let him realise that I already saw through him, "no!" I gasped and acted as if I had just came to billion dollar discovery. "You were not thinking..."
"NO LET'S JUST GO!" he hurried over and pushed me forward, after my almost bare skin he backed off.
I had forgotten that the fight burned off my school jersey, and only had on my shirt. We headed up the stairs with him behind me, but before he was allowed in he had to wait out for me to change into something more coward friendly.
"So what are you looking for around here?"
"You wouldn't believe me if I told you," his voice lowered and his heart went back to normal.
There was a chilling air around him, an aura and it was strong. It might be generated by his fear is what I told myself to believe because he did not feel like he housed a dial.
"Trust me, at this point in my life there is nothing that I won't believe. Give me your best shot."
"Do you believe in magic?"
"I am not five."
"Then you..."
"But I do think that there is something strange going on, if I am not mistaken you were asking in reference to the arson incident at school right?" I opened the door to let him in.
It must have been because of the change in topics but he now gave off a friendly feeling. There were no airs put up around him now and for the first time since meeting him I felt like I was looking at an actual person.
"So hear me out for a second, vampires." he paused because I started laughing at him, his passion for this topic was beyond measure I couldn't help feel like it was a bit dumb.
"Okay, okay maybe vampires may be far fetched but I am allowed to dream too. But what I do believe is that foul play was involved and this kind was not as simple as smuggling explosives into school."
Andrew put his bag on the ground and started pulling out papers, "I have here pictures of various explosions from the internet. I am no scientist but I am pretty sure that explosion of the magnitude we saw at school kill people. If not the fire that erupted afterwards could have at least claimed one poor soul."
"Yeah, the guy who brought the explosions with him was blown to bits and I think he had a hostage too..."
"YOU SEE! According to the official statements released by all the schools only a few children were injure and none died. Remember how there was little to no sound from that explosion too? Magic, that day remember that there was a huge fight before the bomb went off."
I nodded yes because it did not look like he was ready to let me talk.
"Well according to the school, the kids that were fighting caused the fire and so that severely injured guy is expected to get jailed after his wounds get better."