Chapter 14

Walking down the empty corridor, I was afraid. No, not afraid, more terrified if anything. Hamilton was behind me, purchasing and coming closer each step.

My heart stopped when I felt my arm being caught.

" Hey Hamilton !" I said, drops of nervosity falling down my forehead. He'd really be a fool to fall for it. For my lie.

But obviously, he was a prefect and prefects weren't stupid. Actually, they were the most intelligent students of the school...

He took out a paper from his pocket with a pen and I tense as he started writing, scared of what he was doing. Writing a death contract ? Maybe a warning he couldn't say out loud because of some eventual cameras that could film the moment...

When he handed me the paper, what I read made all of my convictions die. On this white sheet of paper was written in the nearest handwriting I ever saw : Don't run, I'm not your enemy.

Even if it was a lie, even if he was playing out of me, something in his look made me want to trust him. I needed an ally in the opposite camp and he was the person I was looking for. If only he was saying the truth...

I know you already found out about our little secret. An advice, even if I don't get it how you manage to do it, do not do anything. He wrote slowly as I read at the same time.

If he knew that I discovered about everything, then all the other prefects also did, right ? But then, why were they doing nothing if they knew ? Was it because they thought I was too afraid to say anything ? Maybe...

" Are you mute Hamilton ?" I asked, quite stupidly, I must reckon that.

Why would he, for any other reason, communicate by paper ?

I think you already found out the answer.... But even if I could still talk, I would never use my voice again. He explained through his writing and I frowned at the last sentence.

" What do you mean ?" I asked, not afraid anymore. Why ? I couldn't tell.

Maxine Max is your most dangerous enemy Ethan. He is the one who will kill you if ever you are becoming a threat to his eyes. It's because of him I can't sing anymore.... He 'said' and though his words, I could feel all of his sadness.

" You sang ?"

I did. I was in the school choir, everyone knew that I wanted to become a singer at the end of my studies. Everyone knew that my voice was my main weakness... He explained with a smile and tears falling on the paper, messing with the black ink.

I just looked at him, saying nothing, as I slowly started to understand how cupid and mad Humans could be with his own kinds. Hamilton, with his ginger hair cut neatly above his ears and his green eyes hidden behind glasses, could never see his dream come true. The meaning he gave to his life was shattered, trampled, by only one, single man who cruelty defeated every others. A man capable to use every weakness of his surroundings to always on the top.

I wasn't sad for what he did to Archie and everyone else, I wasn't sad for the lost voice of Hamilton, I was just angry. Boiling with anger who was only asking to come out. Was he even in his right state of mind do think that he could do any of those things ? Did he even realise how cruel and bad it was to kill someone.

And suddenly, it hit me. Maxime Max was a murderer. I was sure he was the one to kill all of these innocent people I'm sure he was the one who forced the students to take these things... He shouldn't even be studying in that school but instead stagn in a filthy prison. He was the one who should have died....

" Ethan, calm down. You are scaring Hamilton." Archie called out and all my tension seemed to disappear. But I knew that it didn't vanish, never would my anger go away... I just locked it in my heart to put it free at the right moment. Not now, not yet.

I sighed and looked at the prefect who originally was older than me. He wasn't that tall, that beefy. He was more sickly pale and as flat as the paper he was holding in his hand.

" Thank you Hamilton but I'm not going to take your warnings seriously. Max needs to get punished for what he did and I'm going to do everything that I can so he can be in jail. " I told him, my face close from all emotions.

I could feel the deep stare of Archie on my back and it almost made me twitch from discomfort. Since the very beginning, Archie was there for me.

But then, I'm gonna go to prison also. Hamilton wrote with shaky hands and I could smell his fear. The fear of the police , the dead of being caught.

" I don't care." I respond coldly as I walked always without saying another word.

When I was in my room, I layed on the wall, my eyes closed, as I tried to concentrate on annihilating all of my remaining feelings.

" You've changed Ehan... Where is that innocent boy I met a few weeks ago ?" Archie said as he sat on his old bed, his eyes clouded by many memories of his living time.

" How can I ever be innocent again after what happened ? You saw what happened when I let my anger take control of me so imagine what would happen if it was sadness... For now, my emotions aren't useful." I explained, my voice so called that I wondered a slight moment if it was truly me who have spoken.

" But do you truly want that ? Do you want to empty inside ?" Archie asked, his words sounding like venom from a poisonous snake. Because did I truly want to do that ? I wasn't sure anymore.... " And anyway, are you going to have them back after ?"

I nodded, smiling coldly at my friend. It was now that everything started truly. It was now that the game began to sound fun.

It was soon that everything would finish.