"Dad." I called. "What do you do in an unforseen event?"
He patted my hair and answered.
"If I behave as though it is a completely normal situation,
then maybe it will be ..."
"Okay, it's not shocking anymore, they're openly bullying me and the teachers aren't even saying anything!" I said in a grating voice.
Remi sighed, and sat up straighter to stare at me like a mother about to explain something simple to her petulant child.
"There's a big difference between criticism and bullying Raven, are they abusing you directly?"
I scowled, but answered, "No."
"Are they throwing things at you, beating you up, calling you names directly at your face?"
"No."
"Then how are they bullying you?"
"They keep calling me an ungrateful bitch, a spineless twit, a two faced crocodile-"
"Did they say 'Raven is a spineless twit?" She asked in a calm voice.
"No, but I know it's me they're abusing, cause' they only say it when I'm around."
"How do you know they don't say it when you're not?"
I threw my hands up in defeat and was just about to stand up to give my classmates a piece of my mind, when all of a sudden I was struck by a silver bolt and thrown across the class to the back wall. I let out a sharp cry of pain in shock.
"What the fuck!" I growled, both in fury and pain. "Who the fuck did that." I rubbed my back and looked up just in time to see the silvery shape of a man disappear.
Oh fuck me, was that the-
"The Quintessence." Johnson gasped.
Fuck my life, now I was being molested by the quintessence?
****
"You know back in the year 1709 Lukas Mayas died of regret." Professor Galway said to the class.
"He was often told by his peers never to condemn what his elders told him, but he was a really stubborn man."
I twisted my face in confusion and glanced at Johnson to see whether he was also confused, but he appeared to be normal.
I raised up my hand up.
Professor Galway stopped. "Yes, Raven." He sneered.
"This is not a history class." I said.
"Oh" he suddenly appeared shocked, "I seem to be in the wrong classroom, but do you know Raven, Lukas Mayas was a man admired by his peers, do you know what killed him?"
I didn't know where this was going but I answered anyway.
"Regret?"
"Yes, Raven." Professor Galway nodded. "He died of regret because when he was requested to do something, politely told to agree to something, begged to reconsider his choices, he remained stubborn and at the end, all his wayward and incredulous decisions came back to bite him in the butt, in a way he didn't see coming." He breathed out. "I'll see myself out."
Oh now I got it, the teachers were also out to get me.
I shook my leg in an attempt to get rid of the disturbing tickle, I tried to rub my legs into the bed when it felt like something was crawling towards my lap.
I turned my head to my left side when I felt cold water drop on my forehead, the water kept dropping and my legs kept tickling, I groaned, I didn't want to end my sleep.
"Eta!" I bolted up from the bed at the sound of fear in Cari's voice.
I followed her gaze to see what she was terrified of and screamed, my bed was fucking covered in fire ants and they were now crawling towards me.
Me and Cari screamed again, both running for the door on instinct.
Cari threw it open and ran into the hallway towards the dean's room, I was about following when I noticed sparkling dust appearing behind Cari, it took up the shape of a man...the quintessence, and it was smiling at me,
I had a cold feeling in my gut and when I looked back I saw the fire ants a few feet away from me.
I didn't wait to chitchat, I bolted for the left Hallway that led to the Academy's assembly, but before I could take a step, something grabbed on to my ankles.
I screamed again in fear as I suddenly fell and then I was being dragged to the hallway that led to the schools auditorium.
I tried to free myself but immediately learnt that I couldn't touch what was not solid.
It was a really funny situation, I'm running away from fire ants that seemed to have only me on their minds and being dragged around by the quintessence.
I yelped when we came to the stairs and it continued dragging me.
"Help!"
"Help!" I shouted, "Somebody help." I yelped again when my head banged on the stairs.
At the back of my mind I heard doors closing and people running in my direction so I kept on screaming, trying to get free of the quintessence and at the same time run from the fire ants.
"Raven!' I heard Johnson yell.
"Auditorium!" I shouted back.
Moments later at the sound of footsteps I managed to look up just in time to see everyone's shocked face before I was suddenly lifted up from my ankles by an invisible force and thrown into a slime pit I was very sure was not supposed to be there.
★★★
"I'm telling you, they're all out to get me." I cried, while trying to wash of the sticky slime on my body.
"You know," Johnson sighed. "The easiest way out of this torture is for you to just accept." He said without glancing at me.
I snarled. "Over my dead body!"
He threw his hands up, "well then, keep on tormenting yourself."
"I think it has to get worse before she'll cave in." Kemi said slowly, as if in thought.
"You fell of the balcony and are convinced someone pushed you, you got electric shocked and no one knew where it came from, They postponed the summoning because you wouldn't accept, the quintessence gave you a fucking black rose to just jump ahead to level five but you just had to make the psychopath angry and make him demand you go through all the levels, you almost drowned in your fucking room for Christ sake, and that's not supposed to be possible!
You're a fucking selfish brat, you don't care about anyone else, you think you can defy the quintessence? Your elders? The fucking council? Well let me get rid of the fucking delusions you have, the fucking attacks and molestation will only get worse!!"