Chapter 8

I was walking fast while looking at my watch from time to time, I am 20 minutes late for my Applied Ethics class.

I am too busy thinking on how to explain to my professor why am I late when I bumped to someone that caused my things and bag to fall on the floor.

I quickly grabbed my belongings and never looked back to whom I collided with. Somehow he was also to blame for our collision.

"Hey!!" he shouted that I ignored because of the rush to attend to my class.

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It's been a few minutes since she left but I'm still here and staring at the medicine she left behind with confusion.

What's this?

"Hey bro" I looked up and saw my twin, Kevin, approaching me. "What are you doing there?" He asked as I did not greet him back.

Instead of answering his question I immediately stood up and patted his shoulder. I turned my heel and leave him.

I will look for a reliable source of information about medicines. I do not trust the internet, its content is often fraudulent.

My steps halted when I bumped on someone again, why am I so unlucky now, "Hey, problem?" Renzo asked me and he is with his girlfriend, Lorraine.

"Sort of" I replied.

"What's the problem? You know we can help" he said and they stood neatly in front of me.

"Actually, I am looking for a reliable source of information about medicines"

"Why? I mean it's not forbidden but med is not related to your course" he's nosy like her sister.

"I'll just look at the medicine my friend is taking"

He nodded, "Go to the med library, if you really want a reliable source about meds, that's the right place"

"That's already too far from my building" I pointed behind him where our building was and I also pointed to the med building on the other side.

Lorraine tiptoed and whispered something to him, he looked at his watch then smiled at me widely.

"If that's the case, I think you can ask Trina, it's her free cut and usually she's in the back of your building, resting or doing something" he tapped my shoulder then they bid me goodbye.

Those two are enviable, maybe if it hadn’t been for the accident we wouldn’t have been separated. I miss her so bad.

I quickly looked through the gazebos and looked for Trina, I also quickly saw her in the distance.

I sat across her but it seems like she's too drawn on the book she's reading to not notice me.

I pulled out her book and she quickly turned to me and looked at me wickedly.

"What do you need? Why are you bothering me? You two really have the same habit and that is to give me headache" she kept on saying so I covered her face with a book to keep her quiet.

Disgustedly, she removed it and dropped it on the table and she nags again.

"What do you need? Just make sure that your reason is important and you are here bothering me" she said and quickly launched her fist towards me which I quickly dodged.

"Chill. I just have a question" I replied and took the medicine out from my pocket and showed it to her.

She immediately grabbed and checked it. She raised her brow at me, "Why do you have this? Are you sick?" I shook my head in disapproval and waited for her explanation and description.

She's always like this, a total nagger and a sadist but if you'll get to know her deeply, you'll see how good person she is.

"This medicine were prescribed to those people suffering from depression, trauma, obsessive-compulsive disorder and bulimia" she summarized and I fall into oblivion thinking why she had that.

I was awaken from being oblivious when she lightly slapped me on the cheeks "You're spacing out, who is this? And why are you so affected?" She waved the medicine and I got it quickly from her hold.

"Nothing. I need to go" I muttered my goodbye then I ran into our building because my next class was about to start.

Why she have that? I thought she's doing just fine?

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"Okay, that's it for today, I'm glad that your senses are back" Theo muttered while I'm drinking my water.

He approached me first before turning around and going to the restroom to get dressed.

I have to thank Dr. Santiago for prescribing me a new medicine that'll calm me.

So far, Theo and I were already done with the talent we will perform at the pageant, I am kinda ecstatic and feeling giddy as we are practicing because after days of being in dazed while practicing we're now able to finish something.

I stopped walking when I saw Mr. Library guy or should I say Sylar Blanche, Andrea's stepbrother, walking out of the girls' restroom,who also stopped walking when he noticed me, he winked at me then sneered and then a woman followed who artistically parted her hair, I notice her lipstick smudge. Gross!

WHAT THE F * CKING HELL !!

Will he scattered his dirt all over the place? First in the library then now here in the restroom, can't he hold back or does he have no money to rent a hotel? I've changed my mind, I'll just change my clothes in the clubroom.

I walked back to the gym to tell Theo but when I came back he was not there I could only see his belongings. I shrugged then walk towards the clubroom.

When I finished getting dressed I went through the locker first to pick up the books I will use in doing my paper later.

When I opened it, a gold box and letters written in blue and lavender papers were on top of my things. I looked around to check if someone's near maybe because they put it here or they saw who it was, but I found none.

I put my things on the bench and sat down near it. I decided to check what's inside the box and read the letters.

I first read the letter written in blue paper.

If you're reading this, I want to remind you to be vigilant and beware of whom you trust. Snakes and eagles are lurking around pretending someone you can rely on but they are just waiting for the right time to attack and devour you. Be vigilant and stay vigilant.

-E.S.

Who possibly she is? I can't consider it a prank because Mommy also talks to me a few times and warns me about people I trust.

I pinned the letter to my clothes and read another letter.

Wherever you are,

I'm always there,

Watching you from afar,

Ready to be your savior,

And your one and only knight in shining armor.

-Amore

I smiled upon reading the poem but I couldn't help but to be curious whose this amore. Amore means love. I bet he's a man but who is he?

Like the previous letter I also put it in my clothes. I examined the box to check for my name and when I was sure it was for me I opened it.

I saw a flower keyring that looked stained with red paint but its stains does not affect its beauty and charm. It looks familiar.

I tried to pick it up, "Ouch" I quickly raised my hand and looked inside the box again.

My blood was dripping with keyring but I did not pay attention to it, instead I looked at the shards of a broken glass.

Suddenly vague images started to swirl on my mind when I look at the keyring stained by my fresh blood.

The box fell to the floor so the keyring splashed along with the broken pieces of glass.

I've waited for a couple of minutes until the vague images faded and I applied medicine to the wound I got from the broken shards and I quickly picked up the keyring and left there, maybe Theo is already bored.