"Hey! Drop that down!" Rylee yelled while running to Mary, Mary ignores her and draws the knife closer to her heart, "I warned you! Drop that down!" Rylee yelled once again, "Rylee! We're too far! We can't!" Michael shouts running behind her, "What kind of excuse is that? I don't receive a lost!" Rylee replies as tries to speed up.
But…they were way too late to stop her, Mary shut her eyes closes, biting her lips, until it bleeds, her hands trembles as she pull the knife away from her heart, and sharply thrust it to her heart direction.
Sounds of clock wheels stopping is heard, as the whole world freeze. The knife in Mary's hand is an inch near her heart. A running sounds is heard, and it was Rhea, she's running to Mary's direction, while counting, '5…' She thoughts as she quickened her pace, '4…' she panted slightly, '3…' it like hours getting there, but she can't give up now. '2…C'mon!' She thoughts trying to raises her spirit, she got in front of Rylee and Michael, and stops on her tracks, '1!' She snatched the knife away from her hands and jab it on the ground.
The sounds of heavy wheels hits other wheels, until it goes working like usual. Rhea panted as she feels her right eyes stinging. 'I did it!' she thoughts relief, as she stood beside Mary, exhaustedly.
Rylee and Michael is confused by what happened. "Rhea? W-Wait what? How?! Aren't you with Luna?!" Rylee said completely stunned by how she can suddenly appears in front of them. "Did the time…just stopped?" Michael asked trying to realizes what happened. "Time? How?!" Rylee asked shouting, "Stop, I'll explain later." Rhea said glaring at them, then pointed to Mary, who is crouched down on the ground, holding her knee.
"Oh, right." Rylee said in realization, she crouched down in front of Mary, "Why did you wanted to kill Rhea and yourself?" She asked, Mary flinched and buried her face in her arms, sobbing loudly. Rhea looks down at the girl who continue sobbing and didn't answer Rylee's questions, "Give her a break, we'll asks her later." She said looking at both Rylee and Michael.
"Sure." Michael nods, as he stares at Rhea's left hand, worried plastered on his face, Rhea noticed his stares and reassuringly says, "Don't worry, I'll get it done in a minute. Now please excuse me." She walk past him, hiding her left hand inside her pocket, shortly, Luna comes to her side, questioning where did she go, and how.
Noah face brightened, he sees that they have succeed in preventing her to kill herself. "Hah! Look at that! You're just trying to provoke me!" He turns around to face Carson, but he disappears. "Eh? You coward!!!" He shouts.
Meanwhile with Carson, he's at the stairs that goes up to rooftop. He clutched his heart area, panting heavily, as his pupils shaking to various directions, his body leaned to the railing, he held his book tightly, as his body slowly drop to the stairs he's on. "I-Impossible! H-How?! Who is s-she?!" He mutters panicking. "My Foresee cannot be wrong! She died! Then why is that Tempest kid interfere?! She was supposed to be with Luna!" He throws tantrum as he clutched his head.
Luna then takes her to the infirmary, it need 15 minutes to clean, treat, and wraps her hands.
Rhea looks at her bandaged left hand, she still can flex it, since the bandages is not wrapped that thick, "I can still write. I guess." Rhea said with her usual bored tone, "Miss Rhea, what did you do this time? Another fight?" The nurse asked with her note in her hands. "Nearly got killed. Thanks to her, I'm still here." Rhea said pointing to Luna who is sitting beside her, as Luna gives her an awkward laughs, "Oh my gosh! Who wanted to kill you? I have to report this to the principal!" The nurse said.
Rhea shakes her head, "It's someone, you probably gonna hear it from the students. And not from me." She said closing her eyes, "But-" "Let's go." Rhea ignores her and grabbed Luna, leaving the infirmary.
Luna looks at her concerns as Rhea keeps walking, "Are you sure? You can still continue school? Wouldn't you want to go home or something?" She asked, "What class is it now?" Rhea asked stopping on her track, "Uhh…let me see…It's Physics." Luna said looking at the schedule on her phone.
Rhea blinked, as she feels her brain stunned for a while. "Skip class?" She asked looking back at Luna, "You read my mind! Let's go!" Luna cheered grabbing Rhea's right hand, "Whoa! Calm down!" Rhea said surprised. "If we don't hurry, someone gonna caught us!"
The school has ended, as the two ended up skipping two class. The two goes to their class when the majority of students has gone home. The two grabbed their bag and went downstairs while joking with each other. The two arrives at the front of the school.
"That was fun! See you in Monday!" Luna beamed waving at her, "Yeah, see you." Rhea smiles and waves back at her until Luna went in her car. Rhea shoves her left hand inside her pocket as she raises her right wrist, "Markus, pick me up at the school." She said to her wristwatch, "Understood. I'll be there in 5 minutes, please wait patiently." Markus replies through her watch.
She turns around and sit on the bench, pulling out her phone, and play games in it to wait. 5 minutes passed, and Markus's car is in front of the school. Rhea stands up and walk toward the car, Markus got out from the car and opened the door for Rhea. "You don't have to, I can open it myself…but, thanks." Rhea said thanking him before getting in the car. "Your welcome, besides, it's our job to make you satisfied." Markus smiles before went to the driving seat.
It takes 25 minutes to get into her house, Markus parked the car in front of the house, as he get off of the car and opened the door for Rhea, she get out of the car, he grab his cap and bowed in respect as Rhea walks in the house. She takes her shoes off and put it on the place.
Victoria comes in front of her and bend her knees with one foot in front of the other foot, bowing her head, while tugging up her skirt with both hands. After a few second she raises her face and stand on both foot, with her hands in front of her stomach, right hand above her left hand. "Mistress Rhea! Why were you late? Did something happened?" She asked worried.
Rhea glance up at her and shakes her head, hiding her left hand inside her pocket. "Cleaning duty." She lied, her schedule on cleaning duty is Tuesday not Friday, but Victoria didn't know that. "Oh, I see." Fortunately, Victoria believes her. Rhea walked past her and released a sigh of relief when she is away from her. "What are you sighing at, Mistress Rhea?" Emma asked approaching her from behind, Rhea jolted in surprised and accidentally pull her left hand out.
"E-Emma! I-It's just that, this day is tiring!" Rhea stuttered as she hid her left hand behind her back. "Why are you stuttering, Mistress Rhea?" Emma asked suspiciously, "I-I'm not!" Rhea said sweating nervously, as she backed up slowly. "Why are you hiding your left hand? Does something happened?" Emma asked taking step forwards every time Rhea steps back.
"Nope, nothing happened. I'll be going." Rhea said finally get over her nervousness. She turns around and run away from her, and forgot to hide her left hand. "Another wounds?" Emma mutters questioning herself.
Rhea arrives at her room and closes the door behind her, leaning on it, until she drops to the ground. "Hope she didn't see it…" She mutters looking at her left hand. Then out of nowhere, Otto flies to her head, and releases hoots. "Ahaha, buddy. Have you eaten?" Rhea asks as Otto jump down to her right arms when she offers it. Otto gives cheerful hoots as an answer. "I take that as a yes." Rhea laughs, petting his head, as he snuggles to her hand, but halt in his place, when he feels the rough textures on her left hand.
"What's wrong?" Rhea asks tilting her head in confusion, then suddenly, Otto attacks her left hand. "OUCH!!! STOP!!!" Rhea shouts standing up from the ground, and tries to grab him away from her hand. "Stop! Stop! Please!" Rhea continue to shouts until she successfully grabs him by his back.
Rhea puts him down on her bed and quickly goes to the bathroom, closing the door. She breath heavily, leaning onto the door, as she raises her head, closing her eyes, "It's gonna be a long recovery…" She breath out, she looks down at her left hand, bit marks from Otto were left there, along with a few scratches from his claws. 'Don't ever pat an owl with bandaged hands…'