Chapter 11: There Was A Star

Hesper was still in her night robe when Santos stormed at her place and demanded answers for everything that happened yesterday. There was so much he wished to know about her.

It was the next morning. The two met in the classroom.

“What do you want to know, Santos?” she asked him with her arms and legs crossed together. She was sitting on the edge of the little, homemade stage where she ‘performed’ the other day in front of the glass. The young man was standing right in front of her, and he was truly struggling not to salivate at the mouth and lost his train of thought as he confronted her. It took everything for him to make it inside her home. He had to knock and knock for a long time before he even agreed to open the door and let him in the first place.

“Well… For starters: Everything!” he shouted in the room.

“Oh. Are you alright? You seem quite agitated,” she said.

“Really? What do you think? After everything that happened yesterday, I could barely sleep last night. What was that monster that went after you and brought you to the river? And you have powers?”

“I told you everything to the police last night. Everything is okay. You don’t have to be worried about anything. It’s all fine,” she said to him as she crossed her legs differently, desperately trying to get a bit more comfortable. She licked her own lips. It felt to her as if they were getting dry. The lady was barely dressed. She only had that night robe on. Which covered a lot, basically left a lot of her cleavage and of her thighs exposed. The only thing she was also wearing with the night robe was a pair of sexy flip-flops. The night robe was of a cherry red colour, while the flip-flops were canary yellow.

“It’s all fine? What did you tell them?” he interrogated her.

“I told them the truth,” she briefly replied to him.

“Which is?” the young boy continued questioning him.

“I went to the river. By myself. Originally. I went for a swim. And I hit my head on a big rock, which left me to drown. Almost. Drown,” Hesper corrected herself at the last second. She didn’t want to be so dramatic, but the young man was going after her and continuously questioning her. She had to be straight with him.

“What are you talking about? It’s not it at all…” he told her.

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“And then… A courageous, young man, that’s you, by the way… Came and saved me from drowning. That’s it,” she explained.

“But I thought you said that you told them the truth. That’s not it. That’s like the opposite of the truth. Why lying?” he asked.

“Because that’s the only way, Santos. That’s the only way this is going to work. I am sorry. Thanks for coming for me… Thanks for coming to the river yesterday, but I am afraid this is going to be the end of the road for us. With everyone that happened, I won’t be able to keep you as a student anymore,” she ultimately revealed to him as she finally stood up again. This was her final say in this. It was over.

“What? No! I don’t want to quit saying you. Please no.”

“I’m sorry. It’s too late. I made up my mind. I am going to ask you to leave now. Too much damage has been made already. And I need to fix all of it. There is no going back. But I want you to know that this is not your fault. It never was. And it will never be,” she said.

“What about yesterday?” the young man softly spoke.

“What about yesterday? We just spoke about it…” she said.

“No. What about the last thing you told me yesterday? You said to me that ‘Hesper’ wasn’t your real name. You never elaborated on that,” the young man explained to her. He wished to know.

“And you’ll never will. It was a mistake to mention this to you. Go away now. I have to get ready. Thanks for coming. It was good to see you. One last time,” she said to him, nodding, soon turning her back on him. She was ready to leave the room. Leaving him alone. The young man couldn’t believe that this was it. She was slowly walking away from him. Seemingly not more bothered than this. If she was hiding her emotions, she was definitely doing a great job at it. Santos couldn’t stop staring at her back. Her gorgeous back. Her big ass kept peacefully jiggling from side to side as she was leaving him. But eventually, no matter how arousing her butt was, the young man closed his eyes and quit staring at it. He lowered his head. Came close to shedding a tear for losing someone such as Hesper. Someone special. Something he knew he’d only ever meet once in his life. He slowly pulled on the green necklace she gave him. The one she even gave him back again after the showdown with the monster at the river. He pulled on it, removed it from his neck and threw it on the floor. It made a loud noise that echoed throughout the entire room. Hesper heard it. It made her stop. She knew what it was.

“Take it back. Take your necklace back. I don’t want it anymore,” he told her. She turned around. She took a look at him. Took a look at the necklace she gave him, which was now on the floor of her classroom. It was his turn to turn his back to her. He did.

“Do you want to know why we can no longer see each other? Do you really want to know, Santos?” the brunette beauty asked him.

“Why? Why is it like that?” he asked her with his back turned to her. He couldn’t even look at her anymore. It was too hard.

“It’s because I am not what you believe I am…” she said.

“What‒what do you mean?”

“I am not a normal woman. I am an aberration. I am a monster. I am not human,” she went on to reveal to him.

Santos finally turned back to her. They made eye contact again.

“What‒what are you?”

“I am a star.”