Adrian sat back in his chair, busy writing something on the book in his front, before his hand that held his pen, stopped moving at the sound of someone knocking.
Granting the person permission, the door opened to reveal a human couple, who moved to take their seats each before the principal.
" We're Vera Kim's parents and we are here to see our daughter." said the girl's mother.
" I'm sorry but, your daughter has been absent since we resumed school."
" I don't believe it." came the woman's words while her husband placed his hand atop hers so that she would calm down.
He stared at the principal and asked," Are you sure, Mr. Korner? Because someone had called us, telling us that she was found dead here, "his voice, broke at the edge.
"I'm sorry Mr and Mrs Kim, but this terrible news didn't reach my ears." the principal lied and then, sat up," Could you please tell me," he drawled, to suspense before he then said," Who's been feeding you this lie?"
Then man's lips pursed before he then said," My daughter's boyfriend;Will Yates."
....
"It's true!" a boy with short-cropped sandy hair, who wore a blue t-shirt and had freckles on his face, said.
" I saw her dead body, covered in blood. They were going to get it disposed!" he then, glared at his principal , as he sat down in his chair. Soon,Will said," All this while, I've been keeping quiet: A lot of students die here and in the end, the evidences are being buried under the rug with no traces and then, they blame us for going into the forest after the curfew time.." he continued," I suspected that something wasn't right and so, I took my time to gather as much evidences as I could and in the end, I found out that these people here. This man-" distaste, in his mouth as he drawled darkly to suspense, his eyes narrowing further to glare hotly at the principal," is a bloodsucking creature! "
" A good author indeed." said Adrian while holding back the urge to burst out on the boy and snap his neck to shut him up for good." You should probably meet Sally. I know that she'd do a great job by helping you arrange the plots, characters and scenes of your book,if the need comes."
The human boy went speechless whereas, opening and closing his mouth as if he were a fish.
Like-
FOR REAL!??
Here he was, stating the fact that lay bare and the principal was here, saying something on a contrary!
Soon, Will started to think he'd made the mistake of tagging the man to be one of them.
But,he couldn't be so sure..
When the boy in Adrian's front parted his lips to speak, the principal intervened," You can go now, Will."
Seeing the boy hesitant to leave, he subtly narrowed his eyes, leaned forward and said," Now."
Before the boy then stood up,and headed for the door, for he had compelled him...
Later on,in the room stacked with nothing else but old empty boxes, and spider webs, that hung from almost all the corners of the room,leaned a silhouette and when he moved, the dull light from outside that made it look like it would rain soon as dark sheets of blue covered the sky, touched her face.
Miss June. She smoked casually with her free arm where the other went under her breasts in support of her hand that held the cigar stick which burned. Eyes, watching the unconscious figure of Will Yates who in no time, awoke with a headache, his face, twisted from the pain. He remembered that on his way back to his dorm, Percy appeared before him and had hit him in the face before he then, smacked his head against the surface of the wall which turned him unconscious... His arms and legs were tied to the wooden furniture which the elderly woman didn't find time to clean as it was as well, dusty. The boy who hadn't taken notice of another person in that room, trashed against his seat angrily.
" Can't you see it's a waste of time,Will?" came the woman's direct question to the boy who then looked at the black haired lady whose olive-green eyes stared back at him, while smoking. His eyes, fluctuating to catch hold of the cigar stick in-between her perfect fingers that were slender. She puffed out smoke that lingered in the air and was dressed in a red round neckline whose strap was slim, topped with black tuxedo while wearing matching pants and then, t- strapped heels that matched with the color of her red cloth.
"Fuckers! " he cursed, causing the scar across June's face to twitch. " You'd better watch your language, kid." warned the woman with a stern look her face.
Will gritted his teeth,"My girlfriend deserves justice! We-we had plans of living our lives to the fullest. I'd pictured us grow old together..." the boy's words made her eye to twitch too as they opened her old wounds.
" Your story is quite touching," she told him,"But I don't believe in love. So keep your pictures to yourself."
The boy's eyes got wide,"so, because you don't believe in love, you carry the burdens of your past life and vent it on us just to oppress us? "
June's hand crushed the remaining of her cigar stick with her and snapped," I'm not oppressing anybody and I'm not carrying any past burdens!" she glared at the student under her custody who chuckled like he were crazy of recent. " You see? " he asked, referring to he way she'd replied him,"You're upset about something. Something connected to your past. " he said," let me guess, someone broke your heart, miss June?" deadpanned Will.
Her eye twitched again," My past has nothing to do with you." she remarked and he smiled," of course it doesn't concern me." he agreed," but that doesn't mean that the same should happen to any of us or Vera respectively."
June almost leaned away from the wall, anger, evident in her eyes as she was tired of the boy accusing her of murdering his girlfriend."You think that you'd be in this mess if you hadn't just kept your silly mouth shut?"
" She deserved justice and I had to do something-"
" Something that'd destroy this school's reputation that'd been built for years? " she snapped at the boy who opened and closed his mouth like a fish.
"What were you thinking, that Korner wasn't working on it? "
" I-"
"Do you know what chaos you'd caused? "she cut in while letting the anger on her face stay.
Will kept mute as he had no answer to her question and instead, he thought about how he'd escape. All thanks to miss June who did a pretty good job by tying him so tight that he could barely move.
" Could you please loosen-"
" No." June told him with a glare,"look kid, I'm not enjoying my job to babysit you either. "
After her words, silence prevailed where she went back to leaning against the wall for support with her arms, crossed this time. A few moments later, her ears were quick to catch the sounds of footsteps that was coming from outside.
Suspicion, forming on her face that instant and as soon as Will placed a finger on what was about to happen, he opened his mouth to scream for help but got caught up in the process as the elderly woman shot at him, metal to gag him, which wrapped from his mouth to the back of his head like it was aluminum foil, so that his scream muffled. Miss June was blessed with the special ability of bending metal as a vampiress which has, for years now, been rare to find..
However, outside the storage room, walked Ember upon the large hallways which looked deserted. It looked like students didn't normally come to this part of the school. She thought and continued to walk. Bora had mentioned something about this place earlier, saying that it was a shortcut if someone wanted to reach either his dorm or the library, but didn't state about it being this deserted as it was her first time walking on this part of a building that looked like a backyard behind it.
This place had tall pillars with creepers around them, the floors outside, grew small grasses in the mud.
Maybe she should turn back?
Because she felt her skin react to the goosebumps that started to appear on her skin even though that she was well covered. Now, she didn't know if it was due to fear or the cold that came.
Everywhere had turned dark and the sky, grumbled loudly... It was going to rain again.
Immediately, a bone chilling feminine scream sounded followed by another strange noise.
And Ember froze right on her tracks.
The sky grumbled with lightning to flash across it again that Ember could see clear and momentarily with her eyes to go wide at the person that laid dead in cold blood that pooled around her head.. before she then hid behind one of the pillars on hearing someone else other than her, walking. And when next she peeked, she saw the back of a man, who'd bent over to drag the dead body under the rain, leaving the traces of blood behind.
Soon, the person picked up the shovel that laid on the ground next to the human corpse and started to make a fresh grave. The frequency of a grave being dug, aligned with Ember's heartbeat and until she turned-
It- It was the gateman!!!