Chapter 3

Time flew by so fast and after the bell rang for the end of the last class, I quickly stood up and fixed my things. I waited outside the campus for my bandmates, Felix and Dylan arrived a few minutes while Seth arrived last.

We started to walk towards the other side of the street and wait for the bus which will take us to the studio where we'll practice for the gig later at 7pm. While we were waiting I opened my phone and listen to the songs through my headphones, after the 5th song the bus arrived.

In about 30 minutes we arrived at the studio, we started practicing and decided to experiment on some of the songs. At almost 6pm we headed to the pub to set our instruments up, there wasn't a big crowd and some of them aren't even paying attention to us. We left the pub early, walking back to my apartment I noticed someone following me. I brushed it off and walked faster, it must've been my imagination, I thought to myself.

I woke up sweating, I felt the dread wash over me again. I keep having this really bad dream about me dying, it's been happening almost every week. And now I cannot help but feel very worried, it felt surreal, my death. The person in my dreams, her beauty is ethereal. She is wearing a cloak made of feathers and is riding a glittering chariot, she showed me a vision which is my death. She warned me about something but I think I should just forget about it. I'm probably just tired, it's just a dream, it can never happen, I shouldn't be stressing about it. I need to take this off my mind, I'll just go and research about our project for Biology. I got up to look for something to eat inside my fridge and started typing in my laptop.

I woke up the following day with a headache, I got up to get ready for class. I did my usual routines and left my apartment early.

I walked towards the school grounds, I felt someone watching me. My dream last night was really getting into my nerves and I can't shake it off, I texted Seth and asked him where he is. It would be better if I can talk to someone so I can relax a bit and take that dream off my mind.

Seth : Why bro? I'm on my way to the campus.

I replied to him and said I was at the school grounds and needed to ask him something.

I felt someone approaching so I stood up thinking it was Seth but realized it was someone else. Nayeli stood after me, she looks like she was about to cry so I asked her what's wrong. "Someone has been harassing me ever since I came here last week, I have always been avoiding this guy and telling him to stay away from me but he just won't stop so I had to ask for help." She told me and started sobbing, I don't know how I will be able to console her so I just decided to gently pat her back.

Seth suddenly showed up and saw Nayeli crying, so I gestured to him that we'll talk to each other later.

When Nayeli finally stopped crying, I asked her who the guy was and also explained to her that we can report this incident to the school admins so that this guy can be punished or expelled for what he did to her. She told me that she don't know the name of the guy but she can describe how he looks like. Instead of going to our Biology class I asked our professor for permission to be excused for today, I accompanied Nayeli to the admin office so she can report the harassment that happened to her.

After she's done talking with the admins, I headed to my English Literature class and took a seat next to Felix. He asked me what happened, I looked at him curiously and asked him what he was talking about. He told me that Seth and him talked over the short break and that Seth decided to tell him about what happened earlier at the school grounds. I told him that my classmate in Biology asked for my help because someone has been harassing her so I tried my best to help her.

He winked at me and started to tease me about Nayeli, I just brushed him off and decided to listen to the discussion of our professor. After the subject I quickly went out to get something in my locker.

That's when I saw Nayeli again, she was walking down the corridor when a guy shoved her to the lockers and harshly touched her face. There isn't a lot of students in the corridor since almost everyone are already inside their own classrooms so nobody was able to notice what happened. I needed to act so I hastily ran to her and punched the guy in the face, he fell to the floor but stood up immediately to punch and kick me. I avoided his attacks and punched him square in the face, his nose bled and his left eye started to bruise.

I looked at Nayeli only to find her sitting down and hugging her knees, she was sobbing so loud and shouting at us to stop, the guy was already lying on the floor. I held Nayeli's hand and swiftly picked her up from the floor, she was still crying while I was carrying her to the clinic. When the nurse got out, I stood up instantly and asked the nurse how Nayeli is. She said that Nayeli doesn't have any injuries and that she just needs to rest because of the trauma she experienced due to the previous events. I nodded and asked if I could see her and so the nurse gestured for me to go inside her room.