Aurora stood near the edge of the hill as I came out of the house limping,I couldn't really explain even to myself what had just happened to me this morning everything happened so fast,I told my parents that I had slipped in the mud when I came outside to check something, Aurora was getting dressed by that time so she didn't get to see me sitting on the muddy floor with mud all over my body,but she was waiting for me near the edge of the hill,my guess was that mom must have told her to wait for me because she was the one that helped me walk to the bathroom.I looked at my left leg with a sigh of relief,just thinking about living without a leg sent shivers down my spine, but I would have been a one legged person by now if Develee had not put my leg back with a blue flame that just appeared from his hand,I still wondered how the flame was able to reattach my leg with the rest of my body,Develee had told me to rest so that the leg would heal even my mother insisted that I should stay at home until my leg gets better but I refused, missing a whole day of school wasn't going to do me any good especially now that I was in my final year.
"Awwwwwwww!" I yelled as I got closer to Aurora."This leg hurts terribly" I did that to see her reaction.
She was definitely mad at me for making her go to school late.
"Yes, but we have to get to school quick,we are already late" her face was saying that she was angry but she wasn't speaking the way she does when she is angry, she was speaking with this sweet voice that she always uses whenever she wants to get something from me or my parents, the voice wasn't harsh but I could tell there was no remorse in it.
"Aren't you going to help me?" I asked as she was about to begin making her way down the hill,I assumed that mom had already told her what happened to me and I was right.
"I believe you can help yourself" she said and started climbing down the hill,there was nothing else I could do rather than try to climb down the hill by myself because it was going to be useless begging Aurora to help me now that she was already climbing down.
Inorder to climb down without hurting my leg any further I had to sit on the dirty floor and then slowly let my leg down before holding on to the surface of the hill,I could feel the looseness in the area of my left leg where the cutting and reattachment had taken place,it really felt like it would fall off anytime soon, Develee was right my leg really needed time to heal but even if there was a possibility of the leg falling off I was going to try and stop that possibility from becoming a reality,as I started making way down I thought of standing in front of the class presenting something and then suddenly my leg falls off, that was going to be really embarrassing and at the same time excruciatingly painful.As I climbed down the hill I tried not to balance any of my body weight on my left leg because doing that was very painful and also I was afraid that my leg would fall off and then break into many pieces on the ground oh, just thinking about that was really painful in my mind.I would let a little Aww anytime I mistakenly dropped a little of my body weight on my left leg.
"Are you okay?" Aurora asked after I had done it for the third.
"Yes, I'm doing great" I smiled while panting.
"Ok" she gave off a weak smile and continued climbing down.
I was really having a terrible time limping to school here and that made me to be extremely slow, Aurora couldn't bear waiting for me she was walking ahead of me but the distance between us wasn't that much, while limping I had the feeling to share what happened this morning but then I remembered that she would laugh and call it a fairytale like she always does and she really annoyed me whenever she did that and I also remembered that telling her about that meant that I had to also tell her about Develee,his reaction when I tried to tell Chloe about him was really scary and with that I decided to keep everything to myself now so that I wouldn't have to mourn any loved one in the future.
"Aurora slow down!" the pain in my leg had increased and now I wasn't sure that I was walking and that had caused Aurora to give me a noticeably long gap.
"I think you should speed it up!" she yelled back.
It was of no use she wasn't going to listen to me and there wasn't any chance that I could catch up to her unless she stops walking,but then she stopped walking.
"Oh thank goodness" I limped faster so that she wouldn't get bored and continue without me.
"Why did you stop?" I asked as I got closer to her.
"I forgot that you were my excuse for coming late to school"
That was true the school had serious punishments for people who came this late to school, the only way you could get out of that punishment was by giving them a tangible reason for being that late or else you would be punished and surprisingly nobody except some teachers knew the type of punishments given to them,when you ask anyone who just came out of the punishment they would either ignore you and walk past you or they will give you a look that will make you never want to open your mouth to ask such question again,this was a really bad situation that I didn't like being in even though I had a good enough reason,my only hope was on Aurora and what she could do with her mouth.
"What are you going to tell them?" I asked just to know what she had in mind.
She gave me a mischievous smile but remained silent.
"Are you going to tell them that I slipped in mud and that's why we are late?"
"And that's why you should never be allowed to do any confrontation when you are with me"
What I just said was the truth.Was she planning on doing something else I tried to find out.
"Then what are you going to tell them?"
"Just leave it all to me " she said and increased her steps leaving me to limp my way to the school by myself but still she wasn't as fast as before.
I could see two teachers standing inside the school gate as we approached it,they were a male and female teacher,I wasn't sure I knew them by their names or subjects which they taught but I was sure I had seen them around the school before.
Aurora slowly opened the door and there was a little creak which escaped from the hinges,that alone was enough to draw the attention of the teachers.
"Good morning" she greeted with a smile and I followed suit but without the smile.
"You both know you are in big trouble" the female teacher said giving us a stern look.
"We know ma but it wasn't intentional" I said and with that Aurora gave me a slight shove.
"Yes, like he said it wasn't intentional" she turned to them faking a smile,I guess that shove meant that I should keep my mouth shut.
"Then do you care explaining why my dear?" the man said, unlike the lady he had a very calm and soft voice.
"Well,we were both walking to school this morning" she started.
What was she doing? That narration wasn't supposed to start from there,but still I couldn't help but wait and listen to where she was going with this.
"By what time?" the lady interrupted her with her cruel voice,I wasn't the one talking to her but I was already petrified with the way she spoke, Aurora on the other hand didn't seem to be affected by her cruel voice"
"Seven A.M" she answered and continued with her made up story."We were walking and chatting like normal siblings always do" she faked a smile towards me."When my brother said he was hearing someone screaming in the nearby bush,I didn't hear it only he did" I hated it whenever she was being sarcastic towards me."When he went to check it out,I tried to warn him" she shrugged her shoulders."He wasn't aware that there was a slope there and lots of roots and unfortunately he tripped on of the roots and went rolling down the hill and then he hit his leg on a very large rock so I had to take him home so that he could change his clothes and then my mom tried to take of his leg"
"Then why is he here with you" the man asked her like I wasn't even there to ask that question.
"He insisted on coming even in his condition, my brother is a big school lover" she gave me that fake smile that irritated me again.
"Is that true youngman" the man directed a question to me now.
I was dumbfound,I knew Aurora could talk but I never expected this from her,was it wrong to tell the whole story, what she just told the teachers was exactly similar to what happened to me,I couldn't speak until Aurora gave me a little kick on my left leg without drawing the teachers' attention.
"Awww yes!" that really hurt.
"Ok I'm sorry for your leg, just get to your class"
I wanted to shout at Aurora once we were a little distance away from them but then I heard something.
"If I had heard another slipping in mud story those kids would have been in a hot mess" I heard that cruel voice again.I was stunned,how does she know what to say and when to say it?.