"I am not allowed to tell you that" Develee said, his voice was normal now rather than the voice that sounded like it was being carried away by the wind the moment you heard it.
" What do you mean you can't tell me who your master is?
"I said I'm not allowed to"
With what he had told me I was meant to believe he was a kind of small beast that was sent by his master to protect me from harm, but I just couldn't see meaning in his words because a beast didn't have a human figure and nothing about looked beastly.
After trying to get him to tell me about his master without any luck I gave it up and decided to ask him other questions.
" You said you are a beast" I said.
" Yes" he said bluntly.
" But you look just like a boy of my age" I said looking him from head to toe to make sure I was still correct.
For a moment he was silent in a way that made me think that I had annoyed him with my words.
" Can a boy of your age do this?" he asked, slowly floating up above me.
I wasn't surprised to see that, after all he had carried me up the hill during two life threatening situations.
"Ok apart from that, you just look like a normal human being" I said after he came down.
"I am not human" I heard a more hostile voice say.
He started acting like he was holding in something from coming out of him.
" What is wrong with you?" I asked, surprised and a little scared by his strange behavior.
" Don't ever try that again" he said, swallowing really hard.
I didn't know what to think here,was he holding in something? and he was also talking to whatever he was.Whatever he was struggling to hold in I wasn't sure I wanted to see I decided to ask him the most important question.
"Why do always kill people that come after me?" I asked after he was done fighting with his body.
" Because they are threats to your life"
"And you just kill them?"
"That's the way I operate"
" I think there are better ways to deal with such threats"
" Like what?"
" Like beating them up" I said, still thinking of another way." Or crippling them" I didn't really mean this one but I was just trying to make a point.
"Then they would still come back"
"No they won't"
"I think our discussion is over Matusa"
Matusa who was that?.
" Who's Matusa?"
" That would be you" he said slowly floating up.
How could my name be Matusa? the only names I knew I had were the ones my parents gave me and Matusa certainly wasn't one of them,I was busy thinking while Develee drifted away through the sky,then I remembered I had to find out one more thing about him.
"Wait,why can't you come out during the daytime!" I yelled.
"I am always with you Matusa" I heard his voice echo back to me,he didn't even turn to look at me I didn't even know if he actually said something, but he did and the echo was more calm than I expected.I had nothing else to do now rather than watch him until his figure slowly transformed into a shadow as he went deep into the night.
Getting back into the house wasn't going to be easy for me because Aurora wasn't on her bed when I peeped into the room, maybe she went to ease herself I thought,then I started to open the window slowly but then a thought came to me, what if she walks in immediately and catches me trying to enter through the window, that wouldn't be good or maybe she already knows I'm not on my bed,I slowly closed the window back without entering the house.Soon Aurora entered the room, she didn't even look at my bed she just went straight to her bed and laid down and luckily for me she hadn't noticed I was gone, after waiting for her to be completely gone in sleep I slowly opened the window,I was being careful not to make any,I entered the room and slowly closed the window,as I was about to slowly walk to my bed Aurora turned to my side,I stopped moving immediately, she was dreaming about something.
"I don't why he's acting so strange" She mumbled and slowly turned back to the wall.
I heaved a sigh of relief because for some second there I thought she had caught me red handed,I quickly jumped on my bed and covered myself.
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My night was really short, maybe because by the time I returned to my bed to sleep it was already 3pm in the morning.Aurora was out of bed like I expected,I didn't want to rush until I looked at my watch and found out that I had only thirty minutes left to get to schoo.
"Aurora must have gone to school without me" I uttered as I got up from my bed and dashed out through the door.
"Look who decided to wake up"
I was really embarrassed when I walked into the dining room to see Aurora dressed up and ready for school.
"I think I overslept" I said scratching my head.
" Yeah you did you are just lucky I decided to wait for you"
"As if I asked you to wait" I murmured.
" What was that?"
" Nothing"
" Well then hurry up we don't have time"
I was lucky to be in school not too late, because when I entered the class we were about to start a test.
"Why are you late?" Chloe muttered after I had taken my seat.
"I had a short night" I said cleaning my eyes.
"Seriously"
"Well we are about to write a short test"
"That's no problem" I replied not feeling worried at all.
"Have you read anything in history yet?"
"Are we writing a history test?"
"Yes"
I didn't have time to think of anything to do business miss Nicole had already stood up to give the test.
"Alright everyone get ready and stop talking"
The class was silent as miss Nicole started to share the test sheets,it was as if everyone was shocked by the questions and I found out why when I got my own sheet.
"Your time starts now" miss Nicole said as she sat down on her seat.
I bit my finger nails thinking of what to do, normally I would be prepared before an exam but all the strange things happening to me earlier had me lose focus,I thought of asking because it looked like she was writing confidently but I shunned the idea knowing that it would only get both of us in trouble.
"What will I do now?" I muttered biting my finger nails.
Then help came in a way that I would never ever expect it to.
"Hi there" I heard someone say beside me.
I turned to see that Develee was standing right next to me,I quickly looked around to see if anyone else could see him and it seemed like I was the only one who was able to see him.
"What are you doing here?" I murmured.
"Help you"
He was had a serious look on his face that didn't seem change it was as if it was the only expression he could do,and one thing I didn't notice when we met in the night was that this was a really cute boy with curly hair and a very nice body that I seemed to like.
"Help me" I chuckled quietly."Nobody is trying to kill me"
"I don't understand your reason for amusement Matusa"
"My name's not Matusa"
I think I may have said that a little too loud which made miss Nicole give me that stern look that meant I should be careful.Chloe was too busy and concentrated in her test to care about what I was doing.
"I haven't come here to argue with you" Develee said turning his back now, I thought he was about to leave.
"Sorry Develee but I don't think you can help here" I said and turned to my papers trying to figure out the questions.
"Yes I can" he quickly turned.
"Huh"
He quickly dashed towards me I covered my face but I didn't feel anything hit me,I opened my eyes to discover that Develee wasn't there,then my hands picked up my pen.
"I didn't do that" I gasped.
My body had been taken control of by Develee,I tried to fight him and stop him from writing the test but he was just too powerful and before I knew it I was writing the test as fast as I could.