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     Solomon seemed adamant on occupying the seat next to Zara in every class. She felt suffocated but she had to put up with it in order to avoid another summon to the office. It didn't take him long to catch up with everything he had to. But he insisted he still needed her help to familiarize himself with the system.
     He took his tutoring duties seriously too." You have to focus on the conjugations. Here, read this passage, it will help you understand much easily." She had finished the questions he prepared in under ten minutes, her answers not erred. He looked at her in mild surprise. "All your answers are correct. You seem to catch on a lot of things rather easily."
    "Yeah well, I told you it was okay if you didn't help me."
   "Who named you Zara?" It was a very out of the blue question and she was caught off guard and she stuttered." I..I. My uncle named me Zara. What does that have got to do with French conjugation?" Her tone got snappy at the end. "Everything. In order for you to develop your skills, we need to communicate. An easier way to do that is to get friendly first, at least." She stared at him intently ,and whenever she bothered to look at him, like she did now,something always clenches inside of her, something very deep she could not quite pinpoint on. She deemed that feeling very unpleasant. His jet black hair was jelled back stylishly and his squared jaw gave him a manlike appearance.
   She exhaled out a long breath." I have had enough for today and I am ravenous. Excuse me." She returned the book she was using back to its shelf and left for the dinning hall to enjoy the remaining minutes of her lunch time. The lunch tray she held was brimmed to the top with food assortments the kitchen provided as she made a beeline to the bench she always sat on. Kate and Courtney were already there but she had gotten so used to them she could just ignore their existence. They had ceased to try to talk to her and she was fine with it although Kate made a lot of kind gestures like smiling at her when they get to the table, offering a bottle of water when she once chocked and other little things.
   "Kate, I had Physics with the new guy yesterday!" Courtney was saying. "He is so handsome."
  Of course they would think that. Zara scoffed silently. Kate quirked an eyebrow." Not cute, but handsome. Well, that's new."
   "Oh yeah! Nothing about him is cute, he is a man." Courtney had a playful sultry glaze in her eyes. Kate stared at her friend amused. "I didn't have the honor to meet him yesterday. As of today, not yet. Though we have Chemistry after lunch. Strange I haven't seen him around the campus. He hasn't grabbed lunch." As if on cue, man of the hour came into the room.
  "There he is!" Courtney hissed under her breath. "Isn't he just gorgeous! Prurient!"
Zara locked her eyes at her,disbelief etched at every obvious corners of her face, while Kate simply chuckled. " Your hormones are sizzling woman." Courtney whipped her face to the side to playfully glare at her best friend and went back to her ogling.
      Kate smiled sheepishly at Zara. "She  tends to be like this once in a while. Extremely expressive when she wants to be. She is either hot or she is cold. There is no in-between for her."
    "She is here you know and she likes to be referred as such."  She glowered at both of them and went back to munching the burger on her tray.
  "But yeah, he is handsome though a bit brooding." Kate said suddenly" Wait, is he heading our way?" Her voice was laced with a hint of excitement. Both Zara and Courtney looked up from their food, with different expressions on their faces. Courtney seemed thrilled but Zara was another story.
      She was positively panicking. He somehow had managed to make her feel disrupted in the very short period of their acquaintance. He was too suffocating and intrusive for her peace of mind. And it's was no mystery of whom he was looking for if he really is coming to their table. What does he want now?
    He stopped at their table ever so subtly and sent a wink her way which no one around her missed. He then proceeded to walk past them and took the bench next to theirs.
   Zara's body went rigid and she let out a shaky breath. She was ready to chew out his head if he had done what she had expected him to do. Ugh, it is as if he knew what I was going to do. When she diverted her glare from his table to hers, she found herself under the scrutiny of two pairs of curious eyes.
    Courtney was the first to break the silence. "I am sorry but I just have to ask. Is there a new students league we don't know about? How come you snatched up two hot new students at once, and without making an effort it seems?"
   Zara was clueless. Two? "I would understand about your confusion about Solomon but what do you mean by when you said two?"
    "Oh so she speaks!"
Zara glared at her but she was too curious to just flip her off.
  "What do you mean by two?"
   "The first day we met there was this senior dude who came to our table. I believe his name was Nathanael.
   Zara let out an involuntary snort. "Are you talking about Nathanael Payne."
   "Yes, that will be him, Nathanael Pay-"
A flicker of recognition shone on her face as she continued," He is your brother!"
  "Yes he is. Anymore questions before I go back to ignoring you?"
  "No,that will be all." Kate reprimanded her friend with her eyes. Why would you do that just when she started to communicate. She seemed to say. Courtney shrugged her shoulders. I don't really care.
  Zara wiped her mouth with a napkin elegantly and picked her now empty tray to deposit it in the dumper.
     She left the dining hall, three pairs of eyes following her.
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       The compound monitor stopped the silver Toyota to see who would dare leave the school two hours before the bell rang.
   The yellow permit paper stuck out of the small gap between the window and window sill. He grumpily accepted it and let the car pass.
    Zara drove for a little while out of the town limit and parked her car in front of an ancient looking brick building and ascended the few steps to the front door. She pressed on the buzzer and spoke her name, to which the door clicked open.
   "Hello Zara."
"Hey Doctor."
"You look so good. I see school is treating you well."
   They made their usual small talks before Dr.Martinez skillfully eased into her therapy routine. She presented a paper with blotches of blue and black ink on it and pushed it towards her patient.
    "What do you see on this paper today?"
She studied Zara's face carefully as the latter concentrated intently on the paper.
   The blotches seemed to start holding forms. First, a big rock revealed itself. It looked like it was standing testily at the edge of a cliff. A butterfly looks like it was flapping its wings beneath the cliff and it seemed it was aware of the danger it was in,aware of the big rock up. Zara didn't know how she got to that conclusion but she did. She traced her fingers at it thoughtfully. Her fingers started trailing to the side and suddenly she found something else. It looked like a monster's head.
    She stared at it for a while longer. She remembered her doctor inquiring about this specific piece of paper before but she hadn't seen this creature back then. She explained what she discovered eloquently.
The doctor looked at Zara thoughtfully. "Is there something bothering you lately Zara? Maybe something you saw that scared you? It could be a person, a place or a thing. Something that puts you on edge?"
   "Nothing that is at my immediate comprehension, no."
  Except a certain grey eyed boy who seemed hell bent on driving me mad, but then it is just my imagination.
  "Okay,so tell me what would you do if you had magic and you could only fulfill a single wish of yours?" She answered without missing a beat. "I would kill all of them."
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       I feel like this chapter should be void of author's note.......
      But really what would you do if guys had magic to fulfill a single wish you wanted so bad? Well I would....Okay I never wished for something so bad, so 🤷‍♀️... Tell me about yours ,I would love to hear your ideas, maybe it will help me see what I am missing on.
    Double update!!! Yeahhhh!!!! I am making up for last week. School starts on Wednesday and my school is 🤒😰🙄. It really is hectic I don't know when or how often I will be updating:(((( And just when I got so used to the idea of updating weekly..
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