45_Dream

"Lucius!"

"It's nice to see you again, Lin.", Lucius said with a soft smile.

Lucius, Kai, and Eira decided to go to school earlier than normal. The reason wasn't told, but Kai and Eira knew from all their years being friends with him that he would like to be earlier than normal. Of course, the reason for that was the girl who just entered Lucius's class.

"You don't need to be so formal!", as always Lin smiled kindly at Lucius and didn't forget to greet Kai and Eira.

"I-", Lin cut his sentence short and said with an angry voice: "Don't apologize! I don't like it if you do that. Spare them for when you need them." Even when she talked with a bit of anger, everyone knew that she wasn't that angry at him.

Knowing that Lucius would say ' I'm sorry ' after what she said, Lin decided to ask something before that sentence would even be able to go out of his mouth.

"Did you guys have nice dreams?"

Kai who understood that Lin was trying to change the subject, helped her with pleasure because the 'idiot' beside him wouldn't understand what she was trying to achieve.

"I had a dream for the first time in a while.", Kai said. "It was actually quite normal even though I can't remember everything. My memories are a bit blurry."

"That's totally normal! It happens to me all the time. Like I remember that part and somehow I skip ten years and a new part of the same dream happens! Like how!?", already forgotten why she began to talk about dreams, she already was totally into the conversation. "So, what did you dream about?"

"It really isn't special, so don't expect something grand because it ain't."

Hating that he still didn't talk about his 'boring' dream, Eira hurried him: "Okay, okay, not like I excepted something grand from you, so tell me quickly."

"Thank you, I guess?", he said to the Eira who gave him a look that said: 'Hurry up'. "I was in a school, but-"

"Wow! A school!", Eira shouted, disturbing Kai.

"You still want to know or not?", he said while staring hard at her until she looked away as a sign to continue. "So, I was in a school, but it wasn't a normal school. It gave me the creeps. It was like lunch break, I think, but there wasn't one person to be seen. I walked around, but this school was even bigger than ours, so imagine how long I was walking till I found a weird room. The door was the same as others but not the same at the same time. Somehow it just felt out of place, like it didn't fit in, you know. Everything looked normal, but something in me was nagging that there was something behind that door that wasn't 'normal'. So, guess what I did?"

He looked around until Eira answered: "I would like it if you opened the door but knowing you, you'll turn around and run out of there because you don't want to be dragged in the mess that may be hidden in there."

Hearing her answer, Kai only nodded: "That is what I would normally do, but somehow in my dreams I didn't do what I 'normally' would do. I opened the door, and it didn't even make any sound. I walked inside the room, but everything seemed normal, it looked like a normal classroom. I thought that my gut was wrong and that everything was just fine until I saw a shadow overlap with mine. With a fast speed, I turned around and before me stood someone. That person tapped me on my shoulder and said: "What are you doing here? You can't be in here just yet." And then…"

"And then what?", Lin said totally in the story and waiting for the continuation. "And then I woke up."

"You just woke up?!", suddenly Ryuu's voice came behind them. They were too focused on his dream that they didn't notice Ryuu and Erebus coming.

"Yes, I woke up. I don't know what happened afterward okay?"

"And that's what you call a 'normal dream.", Lucius said with irony.

Hearing what he said they were quiet for a while until Lin nodded her head showing her agreement. "He totally lied about his 'normal' dream. I feel betrayed." Everybody followed suit and showed how much they felt that he lied about what was normal and what wasn't.

"Do you know what that person looked like?", Erebus asked after everyone was done feeling betrayed.

"No, I don't. I know I looked straight at that person, but it's so blurry."

"They do say that you dream about people you know. So maybe it is someone you know in real life.", Ryuu told them what he read on the internet.

"Maybe or maybe not. I'm really not sure. I feel familiar when I think about it, but also feel like I don't really know them."

"Ugh! Now my dream would look boring when I say it now!", Eira felt wronged that her dream wasn't awesome at all. She even tried to cry a little to show how much she was wronged.

"Don't be such a drama queen.", Erebus said. "But why were you so hurried to go home yesterday?", he asked Lin.

Yesterday when school ended, she practically almost flew out of the class. Not even saying goodbye to everyone.

Lucius who was also curious looked at her, waiting for Lin's answer.

"Actually, I was running away from the demon. You know that blue-haired boy you guys saw. I was running away from him. No, not running away, I was trying to avoid him. Yes, avoid him."

"Why?"

"Because he is the incarnation of a devil. I'm not lying! He is always mean to me! And only me!", Lin who was badmouthing someone behind their back was caught off guard when she felt someone put their hand on her shoulder. She knew deep in that the person behind her was not just anyone, but THE one she was just accidentally talking about. And not just talking but talking bad about him.

Lin turned slowly and reluctantly. She knew she was right seeing everybody's face harden when they looked at the person behind her.

And yes, behind her was the one boy they were just talking about. "Hi?", Lin said with a quiet voice.

"Oh hi, it's THE devil."