Eternity in the darkness - Chapter 83

I was sitting in the lunchroom surrounded by my group of friends now as they sat there talking about the festival, while I sat there with my hand on my forehead thinking about the competition.

This time the school festival was going to be different as we had students from two other schools joining us. There was going to be drama, scary mansion, food stalls like last year but this time there was a sword fight, sparring, witchcraft act and other things that were being anticipated. I didn’t know who had put my name and was yet to find out. I had P.E. later, maybe I would find out from my teacher.

“Can I take these if you aren’t eating?” Kyle asked me pointing towards my untouched food.

“Sure,” I answered shrugging my shoulder.

“I think she’s tensed,” I heard Bella speak from the other corner end of the table.

“Eve, you’ll be fine. The last time you fought it was pretty good,” Jessi said patting my back, “On the brighter side you have Lizzy playing in a drama which she doesn’t like, you have Louis competing in the sword fight too and Aiden who is working as a volunteer. Nobody likes any of the things that are being assigned.”

“What about you, Jessi?” Bella asked and I saw Jessi grin.

“My name is in the quiz,” she replied.

“Well, if you see Louis is not interested either but once the name is put up it’s not possible to withdraw no matter what. All the events are set and fixed. I hate this seasons event,” Lizzy grumbled resting her chin on the table.

“Yeah,” I agreed, “Every single person has been assigned so I guess there’s no way out.”

When we began walking out of the place I saw Derek come towards us. He looked tensed and worried about something as he looked inside the cafeteria when his eyes met mine I raised my brows at him in question.

“Looking for someone?” I asked him as we continued to walk and saw him shake his head with a sigh, “Then?”

“There’s something missing from the school,” I heard him whisper next to me.

“Stone?” I asked my mind quickly going to an alert mode and saw him shake his head.

“Come with me,” he said and I turned to Jessi, “Jessi, you go ahead I’ll be there soon.”

“Alrighty,” she replied and went along with the others while Derek and I went to the other building. He took me to the place where our anatomy class always took place, we went through the stone-walled corridors. The lantern was lit brightly and it was much easier to see the way. When we entered the room I saw a girl checking out a boy’s face with her hand turning it around.

“Derek, I think this is-” she began to speak but stopped when she looked up to see me standing beside him.

“Eve, this Paige. She’s part of the pack I am in and Paige this is Eve,” he introduced us.

“Hey,” she said.

“Hi,” and I raised my hand to wave at her and then asked Derek, “Why are we in the anatomy class?” I asked him.

“Paige is a junior in our school but is a warrior wolf just like me. She had anatomy class yesterday and had forgotten to submit her assignment so she came here an hour back to give it, to only find a body missing from here,” he explained and I looked around to see the transparent morgue like a section on one of the walls. There was one empty space without a body which belonged to the one that was lying on the table in front of Paige.

“But every cell is filled,” I said confused walking towards the section of square’s where the body was placed and looked at the one that rested on the table. Something looked odd about it.

“The one with an empty cell is the one with the missing body. This here,” Derek said pointing towards the table, “Is not an actual body. It’s a dummy model that’s kept as a replacement for the real one which is actually missing.”

“Someone stole a body?” I asked surprised, “Why would they do that? And if they did someone should have noticed it, it’s a body after all.”

“Yeah, I know,” he said nodding his head, “I have informed Louis about it but he’s out of school now,” no wonder I hadn’t caught sight of Louis today else I would have seen his annoyed expression as they had added his name in the sword fight too.

“What if the body didn’t leave the school at all and is still somewhere here?” I asked him and saw Paige visibly gulp.

“That’s not possible-” he spoke to get cut-off by someone.

“I heard about a dummy body is kept here, what’s going on?” I heard one of my teacher’s voice behind me. Turning I saw it was Leo. Derek began to explain while I went around looking at everything in the room, my eyes landed back at the body lying on the table.

“How did you identify that this was the body?” I asked Paige.

“Actually what happened when I came in here is, I was texting one of my friends while picking my books simultaneously and my phone slipped out of my hand but that’s not the story,” she said waving her hand, “This body was placed right here before I came in and out of curiosity I poked it. Usually, the bodies have a unique smell but this didn’t smell like any of it. So I called Derek,” she said.

“The body must be somewhere around here then,” Leo said glancing at me, “Taking it out now would raise unwanted questions by the teachers and students which is troublesome. We’ll take the dummy body out of here at night. For now, you guys can go attend your classes like nothing happened here, I”ll have someone down here for now but do be careful. With the seasoned festival coming we need to be on guard.”

Once we went out of there, I began walking in the direction where my class was but when I looked at my watch I halted and turned around walking towards the cafeteria. There was no point in going to class when half of the class was done. I was hungry and wanted to eat. There were hardly any students in the room when I ordered for noodles, when it was done I took the tray and went out to eat. As I walked, I found stairs that led up and I went up with my food. It was an open space and the rooftop of the school. I twisted the fork and stuffed the noodles in my mouth.

I could see the playground from here. If the body was still at school where was it, I wondered. Moreover, why would anyone want to take an old dead supernatural body? To make experiments? Maybe, you never know, I thought. Once I was done eating, I went back down to keep the tray.

“You’re having an affair?!” Jessi exclaimed dramatically once I reached the changing room due to which few girls glanced at us, “Anyways, where were you? You missed the whole session of a dreadful lecture, leaving me to survive all alone.”

“I’ll tell you about it later,” I whispered and she nodded without questioning on it any further. Changing our clothes to the P.E. uniform we went out to the ground. We had to wait for ten minutes, sitting on the bench until the coach came.

“Good afternoon class,” he wished us and all of us murmured afternoons, “I believe all of you have seen the bulletin board and the games your names are in. I’m sure all of you are ecstatic about it a-” and then there was disagreement and no’s suddenly.

“Now, I’m sure you know the rules of it. Once the name is up you can’t back out and we teachers have thought carefully before writing your name in it because we think you are good at it…” he went on to speak and somewhere deep down I felt happy that indirectly he had said I was good at it. If I wasn’t then my name wouldn’t be there.

But. Yes, there’s always a but…and the but was that I felt I had won out of fluke as when we had sword fighting that day I had tricked Mischel while fighting. I was a half angel while most of them here were vampire’s or werewolves, did I stand a chance in defeating a person? Hopefully, I did, because if Louis had complimented me that day, I must have fought well.

“Oh and one more thing,” I heard the coach speak snapping me out of my thoughts, “Competition will be held with any gender and need not be with the same s.e.x,” he ended with a bright smile and simultaneously I felt my body droop. Somebody kill me!