As they settled on their chair in the Cafeteria, Zora began to eat her spicy noodles.
"I didn't know you were this hungry" Fina teased.
Zo punched her on the arm and giggled.
"There was this rumour circulating around the Aries house" Shelly said "About a student in a deep cocoon"
Zo's chopsticks dropped from her hand and she took a heavy gulp from her water.
"I figure you don't have much to buy a drink yet. Me too" Shelly said
Zo ignored her.
"I didn't see it myself but I kind of saw a ghost whose lower body was covered in it. A lifeless eyes"
"Oh my God, Shelly Jefferson, will you just stop?" Zo shrieked out loud turning heads around them.
She shrink ten times on her seat, hating the attention.
"You are a wimp" Shelly said
"Thank you. I don't even feel like eating anymore" Zo said
Fina made a move to grab the plate in front of her and she smacked her hand away and began to eat again.
"I don't think it's just a rumor. I think it's true. Can I trust you?" Fina asked
"Yes" Shelly said
"No" Zo said
They both said it together and then proceed to glare at each other. Fina just stared at them, waiting for them to come back to their senses.
"I had a dream that a spider spun a student into a cocoon"
"Well, that was scary" Shelly said
"What was scary?"
They turned to see Tyrell and Xavier walking towards them.
"Nothing" Fina said quickly
"You know I can tell when people lie to me and right now I am one percent sure you are lying to me" Tyrell said
"How is class?" Xavier asked "If you need anything…"
"What are you idiots mumbling about?"
Tyrell rolled his eyes and Xavier shook his head. Both turned to see a dark blue hair guy with gray eyes.
Shelly's face went totally pale and she focused her attention on the noodles in front of her which has suddenly became extremely fascinating to her.
Fina forced herself to look away from her friend and to the new boy.
Her ability to notice things easily bearing in on her suddenly.
"You finally got your royal head out of the bathroom" Xavier said
"Hey! Don't blame me. It's not my fault I am cool and needs to be cool always. Why aren't you reading your book anyway? You know the fiancee you always take with you every time?"
"Good luck" Xavier said with a heavy sigh and walked away from their table.
"This is Ozias Black" Tyrell introduced. "With the choking red scarf. I advice you to stay away from him if you don't want to asphyxiate to death"
Ozias looked at them and blanched when he saw Shelly who wasn't even looking up to begin with.
Just then, Jessica ran to the table and embraced Ozias from the back.
"I thought you died in the bathroom or something" She said
Fina collected two and two together, guessing that Ozias and Shelly must have known each other before.
"Oh, I didn't see you there. This is Fina Clark. Zora Alvarez and I didn't catch your name" Jess said, looking at Shelly.
"You never ask. And we just met" Shelly said and looked at her.
"Um…not to be rude, we have to go to class" Fina said as she stood up, grabbing Zora and Shelly hands. "See you later, Tyrell"
When they got out of the Cafeteria, Shelly cleared her throat.
"Well, that went well" She said
"Yes, it did. I didn't know someone has a crush" Zo said
"Zo" Fina warned
Zora smirked at Shelly.
"Ha, ha. Very funny. I wasn't the one with the frozen body when Xavier came to say hi" Shelly said
Zo gasped.
"I did not!"
Fina rubbed her forehead with her fingers and left them arguing their heads off until they finally ran to catch up with her.
"Zo said you found a diary" Shelly said
"I did not! It slipped. Hmphh!" Zo said
"You so sound like one of those grandmas right now" Shelly said "Go ahead and give your foot a little stomp too. It helps a lot"
"Arghhhh. Shelly Jefferson, you are the most annoying…
Fina shut Zora up with her hand on her mouth.
"Shh. Did you hear that?" She asked
They were in the midst of the tree of fog and the fog has descended upon them extremely.
They heard laughter behind them and turned to see a small growing tree laughing at them. They all screamed and jumped, running as fast as they could to get out of the weird forest.
"What…What…. was that? I have never…. seen a tree ...talk in my life …..not to say a tree ….laughing!" Zo said breathlessly.
"Oh, great. I will have to watch out for talking things anytime I go to eat." Shelly said "About the diary.."
"We found it in the library." Fina took the diary and gave it to Shelly to have a look at it. "I couldn't put it in the room. I don't know what goes in there when we are not there"
Fina shivered.
"It's blank" Shelly said
Zo took her soda lime water from her bag and pour it on the diary.
"Doing this for Clark" She mumbled
"Wow" Shelly said as the ink appeared and she began to look at the pages. She stilled when she saw the red eye. Her eyes widening when she got to the last page.
"Except that the book has a star shaped heptagon symbol and that it's invisible, what else do you know about it?" Shelly asked
"Nothing" Fina answered
"How do you even expect to find an invisible book? That is a very hard quest. It's like searching for air or wanting to see air. And by the dream you had about the spider and…. the rumour….Did you hear about the Gemini twins? One of the twins that died?"
Fina nodded.
"The diary is implying that they mustn't find the book. Who is 'they'? And even if they did find the book, what will happen?"
Zo turned to Fina.
"I think bad things because she said she will never let them get it until death claimed her. She will protect it till the end."
"She also said she will have the invisible book tonight. Did she get it? Did she die during the fight?" Fina asked and they all went into deep thoughts.
"She said it will all began with a dream and with the rumors, It has already begun" Shelly said
"Well, that would mean someone is looking for the invisible coded book" Fina said
"Not someone. It would be They. Like before. They" Zora said
"I thought you said you were going to class"
They turned to see Tyrell behind them. "Can I walk you to class? I miss my normal friends and Xavier is too busy reading his book. He shuts the world out with that book. And…Bryce isn't here either. Kit too"
"Uh…yeah" Shelly said
"Okay. So, what were you talking about?" He asked as they began to walk back to the castle.
"Girls stuffs" Shelly said "Tampons and stuffs"
"Eew, Shelly Jefferson!" Zora shouted, deeply embarrassed.
Shelly shrugged.
As they got closer to the castle, two flying cheetahs descended majestically in front of them.
Two male students got down and the girls around them swooned.
"Oh, there they are" Tyrell said excitedly.