Chapter Twenty

I woke up in a makeshift infirmary and Liz was sitting in a chair next to me.

-What a relief you woke up.

I was shirtless and had a club type ointment on my head, I was feeling a little feverish. And I wanted to ask what had happened

-What happened?

- You assaulted Alison and passed out.

-Seriously I did that?...not.....

-And that's not the worst of it. You passed out in Deicy's arms, they look so pretty. Until that moment I felt that what she was telling me was a lie so she showed me her cell phone where I could see that what my partner was saying was true.

It was a video of the meeting. Everyone who was in the meeting at that time was there. And you could see when I scratched Alison's neck. The reaction he had, it was disturbing, you could only see the wound. Trying to understand what happened, and soon after Deicy stopped me from assaulting someone and how I fainted. All of a sudden she had become so interested in us that she offered to help me.

-The Brustel's doctor examined you and said that you were bitten by a scorpion, or something similar is normal to find them here, but you were bitten in the neck.

-I don't know what happened, but I have to talk to Alison.

-I don't know what happened, but I have to talk to Alison. You can't get up yet, you know that you won't be cured from one day to the next because you have to rest here, or else they'll take you to the hospital, which is four hours away.

-But Alison, the ....

-Anyway, you can talk to him later. Just be careful with your cousin, he's the one who did this to you.

-He, but ....

-Yes, you have to be careful with him.

-You're 100% sure.

-I see people's memories, there's no fault in that.

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After talking to Liz, I was there all day long, between those curtains of that place. A kind of exposed tent with two stretchers and some equipment. Some of my class visited me, but Alison didn't come to talk to me. I didn't understand why she didn't come to visit me, I was bored of being here and I got up.

As Liz said, the symptoms of dizziness and tiredness kept trying to get me up but it was very difficult.

At that moment I felt useless, I didn't understand why this was happening to me. In these months I had been hurt quite a bit, but my cousin, what reason would he have to do that to me, and at what point did he change and become aggressive. We hadn't been close, but playing with my own life in that way was strange and from thinking so much, I turned to lie on the stretcher and woke up hours later.

I felt that I smelled smoke and they were making a fire and I tried to get up and this time I did, but it was difficult.

Clouds appeared at the door.

-Mr. Olivera, don't you think it would be better to stay in your bed?

-I've been here all day...I'm already bored.

-It's okay, but avoid spending so much time trying. If it gets worse, you'll end up alone in a hospital again.

-I'll keep that in mind," he said.

Clouds left the room and I got up from there to look at the place.

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There was a big fire, all the schools were gathered there, I looked for my schoolmates, and I found them, but Alison was not there.

My cousin came up to me and said.

-So you attacked your friend, did you fight over Deicy?

I don't know where he got that from, but he was already going too far. Maybe he knew the comments about Alison, but to say that we fought about that, it was weird

Everyone heard that comment, and looked at us.

-You're stupid, don't say such things, it will cause problems between schools.

-Everyone knows that your friend loves to take advantage of girls' naivety to ask them for favors to cause trouble.

I was upset, I didn't know how to answer him ,and the only thing I could think of was to hit him, but what did he mean by his last sentence? I was getting heavy, maybe he knew something about what happened with my cousin Hana, but without caring about anything I threw a fist in his face but stopped him with his arm. His tone was annoying and I couldn't stand it.

-Now it's my turn," he said.

When I was about to take a turn, some people from the Brustel School showed up.

-Don't put on a show here," said the same guy who was with Deicy.

My cousin stopped, knowing that if he did anything to me he would be attacked, for hitting a disabled person, and left.

-Thank you," I said.

-Don't thank me, I didn't do it for you, I did it for the people who came to have fun, not to see stupid fights," he replied.

I tried to get away from that place and look for Liz, she might know where Alison was.

From afar she called me Samantha.

I heard her voice and stopped to wait for her.

-Do you know where Alison is?

-They didn't tell you.

-No, they didn't tell you.

-If Liz didn't tell you, I can't say I'm sorry.

-Why?

-I'm sorry, but I can't. It's confidential.

I got angry with Samantha and answered her.

-Is he really that angry with me?

-I'm sorry, I can't tell you if Liz didn't tell you. Just go back to your tent, the nurse will come back and check you out.

When I heard my partner's words again, I left and didn't say anything.

I didn't know where to go so I went back to the nurse's office.

And I went to sleep again in the infirmary. This time alone, the blue-haired girl wouldn't come because she was hiding Alison's location from me. And I had to stay away from the rest of my classmates, while I got better and the doctor went back to check on me.

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The next day, Saul went to wake me up.

-I think you're better now, all the symptoms should have passed, let's go, you have to do even half the activities.

-I'm going, and I feel better, but tell me where Alison is, I asked my classmates and they didn't tell me.

-Hey, yesterday we all agreed not to tell you anything, for now.

-Are you playing? Was it that bad what I did?

Saul was silent and gave me my uniform to go to today's activity and left.

I went to an open field where there was a kind of tribune to see the fights that were carried out at random, among several students.

All my classmates seemed normal, but what made me angry was their silence, no one wanted to answer me.

I didn't want any more trouble, so I tried to keep my composure, while watching the fights and not complaining to anyone.

Some of my classmates were called to fight with other students.

Even though they were all doing their best, nothing interesting was happening. It seemed like a game to everyone. Only until Deicy appeared did everything change, she was going to fight someone from another school, with swords, unlike the rest.

She began to attack without giving her opponent a chance, she didn't even let him counterattack, so much so that she managed to disarm him and without more, he had to surrender, in a few seconds. She was very fast, almost like Snaider.

The crowd gave her a standing ovation, but I felt sorry for what happened, what she was thinking of me.

I wanted to avoid her anyway, I felt so inferior. So I left that place while everyone was having fun and I joined them shortly after noon to walk to the East Village which was quite big and with various attractions, for the tourists. They were doing tours in different places there.

My group went as far as a natural park and we took pictures as souvenirs. The group of troublemakers took me in for a picture with me.

While Liz, Saul and Samantha avoided me, so that I would not ask them. I was confused as to what had happened. What had Alison told them to keep quiet

Cloud, with other teachers were watching us. And I went over to him, tried to talk about what was going on.

-Professor, you know where Alison went, and what happened after I passed out?

-I'm sorry, everyone warned me, I can't tell you. You should wait for your friend to show up and talk to him. It's not my place to do any of that.

He was laughing. It was amazing how such a serious teacher got involved in this.

I was upset, 'damn it I did', they were screaming internally.

My cousin came up to me and said.

-You want to know where your boyfriend is?

For a moment I was relieved, but also annoyed by the way the answer came to me, I kept making up things that God knows where I got them from.

-Yes, where is he?

-I won't tell you," she answered.

-You're a bastard.

-I am, but it's fun to watch you lose your mind over something so stupid.

Just like Cloud was laughing out loud.

I gave up looking for Alison and followed the activities of today's expedition.

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