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Suddenly Stacey occupied the previously vacant chair beside me, making me think of all sorts of reasons and excuses

Is it because of what happened in the bus or even before that? Or maybe that she likes me-

Wait what the hell am I thinking, she just gone through a breakup, she could be going through such turmoil yet I...

Suddenly like the whispers of devil, something passed my mind

"I'm an easy target right...?..."

Sigh...

Yeah I definitely can't take advantage of this

As such, the awkward silence continued for a while between before the teacher came to our class with a expression signalling either his own misfortune or the exam results...

Since we don't have exam results then..

The teacher heightened his voice to garner attention and spoke the main point right away,

"I'm terrified and sad to tell you all young kids this but it seems like a fatal skirmish has happened near our school..."

The whole class has suddenly gone through full chaos mode after hearing such a shocking news with questions and whispers after whispers and even more questions.

"Is the victim our school student...?"

"Will I really be caught in this messed up game...?"

"No... I still have my mum, I can't leave like my father..."

Many such worry, feeling of perhaps being the next in this gruesome murders, some even braving themselves up for this kind of situation, yet...

When I look at her, her expressions are like the stillness of iceberg in the vast turbulent ocean, eyes indifferent to the world and a presence as small as a ant.

Seeing that I'm staring at her, she looked at me mischievously and asked in a low fairy like tone,

"What are you looking at? Do you have a death wish too?"

"Wha- No, what-"

Seeing as if I couldn't garner any more responses from her, I continued my foolish triade

"It's just that y'know... You kinda appeared indifferent I guess?"

Fu- I messed up again!

"Yeah? So?"

Huh? A foreboding chill ran down my spine, what did she say again?

"Ryler, I could say the same for you y'know"

She smiled at me like a angel looking at a pitiful misplaced child and that somehow pisses me off

"What the, Tch, what are you even talking about Stacey?"

"Nothing much, just that you seemed to be smiling? and if I'm not wrong, isn't being indifferent towards this whole situation better than smiling at such a sad story?"

I slightly touch the corners of my lips...

The lips are straight...

No... it couldn't have been...

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"Haha no no, it's just I thought of a funny joke... Yeah, that's it... I mean why else would I smile during this pitiful event?"

Her eyes have now dropped to almost a frightening degree like one of a fish and her mischievous expression now filled with nothing but utter disgust.

She continued on like a snake finally catching onto it's small ugly prey

"Are you not near the time of the incident Rylar?, didn't you say that We will discuss that later? Isn't that why you signalled me to come here?"

No, She continued like dropping a nuke, no multiple number of nukes on me, there is a swirl of thoughts like the most turbulent ocean going through my head right now

Number of vision, interactions and places I have never seen passed through my chaotic mind like I have personally experienced all that,

...am I hallucinating everything?

A new chill ran down my spine like a earthquake smashing everything in it's path, even mountains alike.

And then like, a small dispenser to a huge fire wall of hell, she said her last piece

"Hahahahahahahahaha I was just J O K I N G Rylar, I can't believe you fallen for that... Or are you actually the culprit?"

Her eyes sparkled throught the entire conversation and suddenly changed to utter indifference at the very last.

Now buckets of sweat are secreted by my body like I'm at the worst situation ever, as if... i was caught doing something illegal...?

No, that couldn't be... Yet, the sweat spots don't lie, my whole white checked shirt is now completely drenched in sweat.

Seeing as something is different with me, The teacher called me out immediately.

"What happened Rylar, you seem different? Are you thattt worried about the situation? Hahaha don't worry, y'know how these people will be soon caught onby the police, oh right speaking of that, come to my office after class, I have something to say"

This!!!

The atmosphere around me has completely changed, That shitty teacher probably knows this too!, No, maybe that's what he wants, he either suspects me or maybe tries to dig out the culprit by using me as bait!

Fuck, this isn't even funny anymore

My breathing once again gets completely hard to do, actually doing anything seems to take a lot on me, as I sit there seeing the ceiling and just wondering what has caused all this change

Just as I was about to see the major cause of all this, she turned towards me one last time to say something before going out for good this time.

"Remember that you agreed to sit with me, okay?"

I'm starting to think that maybe my crush is a devil after all now.