Gone

Something is just not quite right. If you ever know the silence that occurs before something really bad happens, well that has been happening to me for the past three days. Don't blame me but what is a life in this school without the presence of an annoying someone? Yes Mella, you got me right. It seems like for the little time I've been around here which is roughly now one month, three weeks, she has become my force to reckon with and without her presence, everything seems to be at bay. It feels like she is the one that brings life around this place.

My eyes roam around the dinning hall for the umpteenth time today and I sigh in frustration when I don't see her. Where could she be? In as much as a part of me tries to convince me I only need her if and only if for the drama, the large part of me argues otherwise and believe something is certainly, really wrong somewhere.

And you know what the worst part is, the girl sleeping next to her after sleeping in her bed when asked told me her bed has been empty since she woke up three days ago and that makes me really quite mad and really anxious, something very unexpected of me. The thought of her being in danger makes me shudder and clench my fists as if wanting to punch anything so badly, certainly I think I need to see a psychiatrist, this is certainly not normal behavior since you are supposed to rejoice in the case that you're enemy is eliminated.

Maybe am just over reacting, maybe she just went on a sick leave or somewhere or somewhere somehow but the loneliness and sad look on her best friends face lately tells me I might not be accurate. Finally deciding I have to do something, I stand up and walk to Julian's table. I notice she is not eating eagerly like she used to around Mella and sit down opposite her.

"You do know Jake isn't a cannibal right? I know you hate me but he had nothing to do with what I pulled out on Mella. So, linstead of watching him from afar, just walk over there and kiss the hell out of him. Presumably, you are the one true love of his life. " she eyes me suspiciously and goes back to eating, well I guess I'll use strategy number two.

"Listen, I know Brian is a jerk, well am certain am more of a better jerk than him but if Jake is willing to pour water on his best friends bed just to keep the girl he loves safe which apparently will and has always been you then I think that is the kind of love worth fighting for, and I know you feel the same way so get on with it. " I finish and stand up intending to go.

"Wait, " I look down at her " did he.. Swallowing hard.. Really do that for me, is that why you weren't mad at him? " "Yes he did, and just so you know, that doesn't make us become friends, I'm doing this for my best friend who is an idiot to want to watch the love of his life taken from him because he is too silly to fight for love in the name of guess work ' I guess she hates me, I guess she is happy without me and I can't take that from her' " mimicking Jake, I give Julian one reassuring smile.

Before walking out of the dinning hall to my second mission, I look back at Julian and as she is about to stand up, " and just before you do that, about kissing the hell out of Jake, that could maybe or maybe not land you two into trouble so be careful," a blush finds its way to her face but I go before seeing the effect because I got things to do.

Reaching the sick bay, I walk in forgetting to knock but right now, well I would take a care in the world and shove it up the matrons nose for all I care. I watch her want to reprimand my behavior making me wonder if she expects sick persons on emergency mode to stand by the door knocking while they are dying.

Seemingly, I don't need to be rude but wherever school or college that taught her nursing right now, needs to take her back for a retake examination. " It's an emergency, " I cut her of before she talks. Panting like a person who just ran a hundred meters race and not walked 35meters from the dinning hall to the sickbay, I sit down on the next available chair. I always knew I was a good act but this one is record breaking.

" The principal sent me, she was enquiring if by any chance a girl going by the name Mella Lobamba ever took a sick leave three days ago. " she watches me with caution as if am Moses with the plague of boils hanging on my hands before deciding that this is important and needs her immediate attention . " Not really but I'll check to confirm just in case," for a moment there, I feel relief wash over me at the thought of her just being sick in a hospital somewhere.

Seconds turn in to minutes as she removes her book from the drawer and continue checking. I watch her with a little bit tick of interest that if she was keen enough would be able to notice but she is quite busy. "No, she did not take a sick leave, what's the matter. " I almost blurb that she is not in school but rethink my actions, I need to find out what is with her first.

" Nothing, I just want to say the principal and I haven't seen each other in weeks so if you report this, the card of unprofessional act lies solely with you, " then am off leaving behind a fazed matron. " Oh and this one stays between us, " then am gone.

All the way to class, I keep wondering where she could be, if she is safe and so much more all to do with her and when I reach my desk and look over to a smiling Jake, my mood is slightly elated before