"It's started" a female voice echoed in his head.
Kai felt a hand reach for him and instantly held the hand. The moment he did his eyes turned black, the image of a girl appeared in his head, she had blood dripping from her nose. She smiled at him and black liquid seeped from her teeth, pouring out of her mouth.
"Hey let go you prick!" he heard someone yell, his eyes reverted to their normal state and he turned to see four of his classmates around him, he looked down to see he was holding one by the hand.
"Are you deaf?" he heard and turned to face Luella "Let go of her asshole!!" Luella cursed as she glared at him. Kai released her hand and she immediately took a step away from him.
"Isabella are you okay?" Lukas asked as Isabella hid behind Melanie and rubbed her wrist. Luella looked to see a handprint around Isabella's wrist.
Infuriated she turned and faced Kai "Look what you did you fuck!" she raised a hand to hit Kai but suddenly paused when someone held it back. They all looked to see Mika holding her hand "Let go!" she ordered.
Mika looked at her and held her hand firmly, Lukas walked over to them and removed Mika's hand from Luella's and pushed him away "Lu are you alright?" he asked her and she nodded, whilst glaring at Mika.
"She only came to wake you up because it was lunch time" Kai heard someone say and turned to face Melanie "If she ruined your sleep i apologize but that doesn't allow you to break her wrist" Melanie said angrily.
"Mel it's fine i'm okay" Isabella said softly and step towards Kai "Sorry for-" she paused when Kai suddenly stood up and faced her, he easily towered over her making her shrink more into herself.
He looked at her hand, then brought out a handkerchief, they watched as he slowly took her hand and wrapped the handkerchief around it.
Her heart raced the moment he touched her, she stood still as he wrapped her hand. When he was done he picked up his bag and walked out of the class.
Isabella looked at the cloth around her wrist, Luella glared at Mika before walking out of the class and Lukas followed her. Mika picked up his bag and left the class as well.
"Hey Isabella" Melanie called out softly and Isabella nodded "Your cheeks are red"
"N-n-no their not" Isabella stuttered and rushed away.
Class had ended and the student where leaving, Kai stood up and walked over to Mika, they both paused when Isabella walked up to them. She stretched a card towards Kai, he looked from the card to her before he took it.
"There's a party at um..." she fiddled with her long hair as she spoke twirling her hair around her index finger "My place this saturday, i um... i'm inviting you to come" she said shyly avoiding his gaze.
She slowly peered up to see Kai stare at the card and then at Mika "You can come along too if you want Mika" she said hurriedly.
"Why?" the three of them turned to see Luella, she was standing with Javier, Melanie, Lukas, Nour, Eira and Antoine.
"Let it go Lu" Mel warned as they waited for Isabella.
Isabella turned and looked at Kai "Will you come?" she asked.
Kai looked at her and saw so much expectation in her glowing eyes. "No" he said coldly and passed the card to Mika before walking away. He passed by the others without so much as looking at them as he left the class.
Mika could see the dull expression on Isabella's face because of Kai's rejection, he slowly placed the card in her hand and walked out.
Outside the school Mika walked up to Kai "You could have at least told her why" he said.
Shen pulled over in front of them and Kai stopped and looked at Mika "Why do i have to explain myself to a sheep?" he said and entered the car.
Mika paused and pondered on Kai's words for a bit before Shen blew the car horn, pulling him out of his thoughts, as he entered the car Isabella and the others walked out of the building and saw him.
"It's okay Bella you can invite him next time" Melanie said trying to comfort Isabella.
"Hey isn't that Seong's car?" Eira said, they all looked to see Mika enter and the car zoom off. "I thought they didn't make friends or speak to each other talk less of anyone"
"Who knows" Luella shrugged and kept on walking.
"Do you think their sleeping with each other" Eira said teasingly.
"As if" Luella retorted and they all laughed, all except for Isabella.
.....
"Shen, kare no mochimono o ikutsu ka tori ni iku tame ni kare no ie ni tachiyotte kudasai." Kai told Shen so Mika could understand as well.
Shen drove to Mika's house as instructed, Mika got out and packed a few of his belongings and came back. Shen dropped them off at Kai's place before leaving.
At Lily's request, Kai invited Mika over to spend the weekend since she was going on her trip.
.....
Lily walked into the lab, she had blood stains on her hand and on her face. Peter was busy on the microscope that he didn't notice her walk in.
"Find anything?" Lily asked and he paused and turned to look at her.
"Finished early?" He asked as he got back to work.
"Yup" Lily said and placed a bloody knife on the table. "What are you staring at?" Lily asked.
"Just some samples from the man you stumped at the toilet" Peter said moving away from the microscope and facing her.
"Black blood guy?" she asked and he nodded. Peter reached over some files and gave it to Lily. "What's this?" she asked as she opened it, she paused when she read the contents of the file. She looked up at Peter, he had a cold yet sad look on his face "Peter i can-"
He quickly cut her of "Explain?" he asked completing her sentence "Why go looking for a dead man Lil?" Peter asked, his tone laced with pain.
Lily sighed and dropped the file "What if he's not dead?" She asked.
"You saw his body Lily, charred up and burnt" Peter retorted.
"What if it wasn't his?" She napped back and Peter shook his head "What if Kai is still alive somewhere waiting for me to find him? I saw some clues okay? I've been following it for a while now, i didn't believe it too at first but i'm sure if you've read through these files you'd have seen them too" Lily said in a voice filled with hope, she wanted to speak but suddenly paused when she saw something on the table.
Peter rubbed his temple "I have read the files Lil" he started "But what if all it leads to at the end of the day is another dead body?" He asked.
"Peter..." Lily said softly.
"I know you miss him Lily..." Peter began.
"Peter..." Lily called out again.
"But you have to admit" He continued ignoring her calls "he's gone and-"
"PETER!!" Lily yelled and brought out her gun, Peter stood up and stepped aside.
"Wow, Lily calm down i was only just-"
"Shut up and look behind you" Lily snapped, not caring about what he wanted to say and she placed her hand on the trigger, ready to shoot.
Peter slowly turned to see the black liquid sample he got from the dead toilet man slowly making its way towards the bloodied knife Lily placed on the table "Holy..." Peter muttered.
Peter moved to grab a cup from the table and covered it. He stepped back and Lily lowered her gun. They suddenly heard cracking sounds, Lily pointed her gun at the cup, the side of the cup suddenly broke open and the black liquid crawled out.
"Fuck is it doing?" Peter said as it watched the liquid. Lily fired at it but it didn't change anything, the liquid reached the blood and began to contaminate it. Peter watched as the black engulfed the red.
Lily looked around the lab for something to contain it, while Peter slowly moved towards it. The liquid suddenly moved towards Peter, he was mere breaths away from touching it when Lily pushed him to the side and lit it up with a bunsen burner.
"What are you doing?" Peter exclaim. The liquid let out a shriek before it was burned to crisp, leaving nothing but a dark dent on the table.
Lily looked at him panting "Have you gone mad!!" she yelled "Why the fuck would you want to touch that thing?"
"I-I don't know it was like" Peter looked at his hand "Like it was calling out to me"