Chapter 3

Lily,Raymond,Ian and Alicia were stuck in an empty classroom after separating from Victor's team, without Alex they became more and more agitated and fearful regretting their earlier action.

"We need to go back to Victor", Alicia being a spoilt second generation lady from a rich household said, looking for who to depend on.

"What makes you think he will accept us back?", Lily asked her with a sneer.

"I'm beautiful and rich, which guy could ever reject me...",she said confidently, "....I'm not a wefie like you", she completed her statement while staring at Lily with disain pouring from her eyes.

"You...", Lily screamed, restraining herself from cursing at her.

Alicia only laughed triumphantly, looking at her with disgust.

Raymond got irritated from their squabbles, annoyance was written all over his face. Facing the only person he found reasonable in the room, he asked for the next step.

"It's either we find Alex or find one of the school authorities. Any step we take we first have to leave this room",Ian said silently.

Opening the curtain of the classroom, Ray was pleasantly surprised to see that there was no mutants in the hallway.

"Guys, no crazy students in the hall",he said with joy written all over his face.

"Great! Let's go to the lab Alex is, it isn't far from here",Alicia exclaimed.

No one responded to her, they simply opened the door to escape.

"Where exactly are we going?", Lily asked to be sure.

"We are going to the top floor because it's where the management office is and if we can't find them or they don't help we'll go to the rooftop and wait for help", Ian said and everyone agreed with him except Alicia.

When they were clear on the plan they all ran out of the room towards the stairs.

As soon as Alicia got to the biology lab her eyes lit up and she proceeded to knock.

Victor's team were stunned to hear someone knocking but still went to check who it was, to their surprise it was Alicia.

"I want to be back on this team", she said proudly while looking directly at Victor.

"Don't want you", he said and slammed he door on her face.

"...."' Alicia who still had lots to say was cut short by the clocking of the door, her anger surged while she felt like her ego was being stepped upon.

"Back to that useless team",she said grumbling. While still complaining to herself a mutated student came closer to her without her knowing until she was hit.

"How dare you?!!",she screamed, which attracted more mutants.

Her survival instinct kicked in and she ran into the room she was in before,panting for breath.

In the biology lab.....

Everyone was looking at Victor with fear, 'How can someone vent so cold hearted'.

Looking at their bewildered expression, the person of attention smirked and asked, "what was it you found?".

This successfully brought them back to reality.

"Mr. Tony has a diary in the laptop, it consists of mostly normal everyday life but his lifestyle seems to get more and more aggressive and suspicious each day till he disappears..", Sandra paused to let her words sink in.

"He never made mention of family members or friends except for one Tomika Santiago who lives on 3rd Avenue street, house 5, apartments 13b, he wrote in the diary that she was his wife and the mother of his children. He wrote about her everyday, since he started the diary for almost three months before he stopped and never made mention of her again. He stopped mentioning her four months before he disappeared and stopped writing", she continued and studied their expression.

"That was all we found", Sandra completed and everywhere felt silent.

"What did you find where you went?"Emily asked but got no response from both sides, even Max's face got ugly.

"Brother",Irene called out while tapping Victor calling him out of his trance.

"We found nothing about Mr. Tony but I got a new hypothesis about the students who went crazy", he said without any emotion whatsoever.

Max immediately got curious because he was with him but didn't notice anything.

"They seem to have a dim light in their very dull eyes which I think is their sanity and soul fighting to take control so I believe they can still be saved", he said looking at Max while Max's eyes teared up.

"From what you've said we will have to find that Mrs. Tomika, that's our only clue, you all should rest up, we'll leave when it's a bit darker", he said with a sigh, obviously tired after talking so much.

After talking he took his seat and closed his eyes as if meditating, oblivious of the pair of eyes fixed on him.

...

Raymond Ian and Lily ran up the stairs not caring about the fact that Alicia was missing, things were going smoothly till a bunch of mutants came their way.

Shocked and afraid they froze in their position till someone pulled them into an empty class just in time.

"Alex!!", they all exclaimed when they snapped out of their trance.

"Going up won't help, we have to trail Victor and take him and his team down, they have vital information which will save us", he said with a scheming smile.