Strange

Ali walks inside her school gladly taking in the warmth, her cold body slowly adjusted to the sudden temperature change. She hated the winter times, and she especially hated when the winter season is about to come to an end. The snow on the ground is melting, which means that its extra slippery, and that means that she must be extra careful not to slip… which she had failed to do.

As soon as her body adjusted to the warmth, she headed straight to the infirmary to hopefully snag some bandages and patch up the bloody scratch on the palm of her hands. She had her headphones on her head playing some tunes, she walked in trance until she accidentally bumped into someone.

“Oh, I’m sorry” she quickly apologized, and continued walking not bothering to look at the person she just bumped into.

“Wait!” she halted and looked back at the person.

“Do you need some bandages?”

“I do, I’m heading to the infirmary to get some, do… you need something?”

He chuckles, “No, I was just at the infirmary, and they happen to not have a single bandage, but I got some from my friends. Do you want some?” he asked again.

“Yes please” she replied, almost messing up her two-word response.

Carcel handed Ali a couple of bandages, his hand brushing against hers in the process. Her heart quickened, but before she could react, Carcel walked away with a smile on his face.

‘How strange’ she thought.

Ali may just be reading too much into this, but if she were going to be delusional about Carcel anyway, she’d rather believe that he approached her because of concern.

…

Lunch time came quickly, and as she was walking down the hallway to meet with her friends, a friend of Carcel suddenly approached her.

“Hey Ali!” she jumped, startled by the sudden greeting.

“Hi?” she said confused.

“Where are you eating lunch today?”

“Uhm… at the cafeteria, my friends and I always eat there. Anyway, why did you ask?”

“It’s nothing. I just had to get some information” Zion said and ran off.

Ali looked left and right, confused about the situation she was just in. If she were in a cartoon right now, there will surely be a bunch of question marks popping up, adorning her head like a crown.

As Ali ingest her lunch, she couldn’t help but wonder about the strange situations that has been occurring the past few days. Two days ago, another friend of Carcel had approach her, asking whether she and her group of friends prefer sweet or sour food more, she couldn’t answer at first, thinking about every preference and similarity her and her friends had in terms of food. In the end, she decided to go with sour food, even though she wasn’t that big of a fan of anything sour, a handful of her friends were. Now, if Ali thought that that situation was weird, what happened today had made her even more confused. First of all, why had Carcel suddenly approached her, or why are his friends so interested in her group of friends. Second of all, why are they all approaching her?

…

Ali went home confused, and strangely excited by all the events that has been taking place. If this is where she thinks it’s going, then she had all the right to feel thrilled.

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Announcement: I will try and regularly post on Wednesday’s and Saturday’s, and if I have more free time, then maybe I’ll post more chapters in a week, but that seems impossible at the moment.

Anyway, the song recommendation for today’s episode is betelegeuse by yuuri.

 べテルギウス - 優里

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