The Nefaliem's Duty (Ordinal Novella, 1) by Kelvia-Lee Johnson

Author:Kelvia-Lee Johnson
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub

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Encounter

After homeroom, I head to my designated class where I often learn and undergo practical’s for chemistry. Once I head inside, the first person I notice is John. He’s quick to catch my gaze and I discreetly pull my attention from him. I could feel him watch me as I ignore him. Instead, I focus on my teacher who insists on being a bit of a scatter brain this morning. Everyone in the room can see it. “Alright class, today we are learning about stoichiometry.” she says in her old frail voice. I regard Mrs. Luthen as she scribbles the word ‘stoichiometry’ on the board. “We’ve briefly touched base with this but at the same time spoke about dynamic equilibrium which will be explained in your senior years.” As the class progresses we are split off into our designated groups with our designated partners and I fight the urge to run away.

John walks over to my table with his practical book and mocks, “Ready partner?” I nod and don’t say anything. I stand feeling his eyes watch me as I walk over to the benches and begin to set up our experiment. We conduct our experiment together mostly in silence while I continue to fight the urge to look at him. “Is everything okay?” he eventually asks. I force my eyes to blankly regard him. This action is immediately a mistake as I can’t help but think of Bernadette.

“What makes you think something’s wrong?” I evenly declare.

John appears almost uncomfortable and says as he rubs the back of his neck, “Well you’re always lively and talkative, you know. Sure I tease you every now and again outside of class and may act like a jerk but I think you’re a pretty cool lab partner. That and if there’s something wrong I want to know because I don’t exactly want to fail.”

At those words, I can’t help but glare, “Nothing’s wrong and you’re not going to fail because I don’t want to fail.” I state before muttering, “I can’t afford to fail.” Unlike John he can have a gap year after year twelve and live with his parents by that time I’ll be living on my own and the question on how to do that tickles at the back of my mind. I’m dreading the day I’ll complete school and dreading the day even more when I’ll be on my own. I guess you have to grow up sometime Kal. I think. After period’s one and two chemistry is over and recess comes.

The day swings by quickly, the only thing that I can recall ever really happening is when I left my physics class to fill up my water bottle only to walk pass that same man who had given Bernadette something earlier this morning. He glances at me for a moment than continues in stride to the front office. The place where the school reception is and the where the principle sits. “Weird.” I mumble than return back to physics.

It isn’t until after school, I notice things become a little strange.

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