Helanie:
"Lamar! How--how did we not know she would do sothing like that?" Jenny was crying beside us, asking the sa question over and over again.
The cold weather didn’t bother that night. I had been in shock. We were gathered outside the hostel, the sun was slowly coming up. The night ended up being the absolute worst for all of us.
Especially for Lucy.
"Jenny, it was not your fault," Penn had been trying to comfort his sister, but she kept blaming herself.
I knew it wasn’t her fault. It was the tenth floor’s fault. She was definitely on the tenth floor, and that entity helped her free herself from the pain in a way that Lucy never imagined.
That is what the entity promised as well. She offered everyone different help. For Lucy, she found it easy to get it done and free herself.
"Helanie," Lamar sat next to , placing his hand on my shoulder, but I couldn’t even cry a tear. I just felt my body being numb. All the other students were crying and screaming in terror.
The news was, Lucy jumped from the rooftop, but the door was not opened. She wasn’t at the rooftop, but who would listen to ?
"The ambulance took her. She will be fine," Lamar kept insisting on her being fine when there was no way she could be fine. That big fall when she was in her human form--she would need to transition to heal, but she cannot when she is not even waking up.
"Helanie, please at least say sothing," Lamar continued to rub my hand between his hands, worried for .
"Easy now, kids, she is taken to the hospital where she will receive the best care. I understand you are all upset, and I don’t bla you. But I will need to speak with everyone to know where they were when she went to the rooftop because definitely soone locked the door behind her," the warden made an announcent, sounding much nicer today.
But she was wrong about one thing. Lucy was not at the rooftop.
However, I had no strength in my body to argue with anyone. I just didn’t even feel like I had any soul left in my body.
I just sat on the front porch stairs and stared at the sky.
"Miss Agrona!" Lamar raised his hand to get her attention. I was listening to everything and everyone around . I just didn’t feel like talking or crying. Heck! Even breathing was such a big deal now.
"I don’t think she is fine," Lamar complained, his hand tapping on my shoulder.
"Really? Let see," the warden pushed the students away as she made her way to . She reminded of that evil principal from ’Matilda’. Sotis she really acted that way.
She approached and knelt down, her eyes scanning .
"She looks fine to ," she replied.
"If fine ans soone who is half dead," Penn’s voice was odd in the mont. I thought he didn’t even want to speak with again.
"She is going through stuff. Lucy was her best friend. And she saw her--" Penn went silent when he probably noticed the other distraught students freaking out at his words.
"Anyway, how do we comfort her? She needs to cry to let it out," Penn continued.
"Oh, it is easy to make soone cry." My body twitched for the first ti when Rayden showed up.
He wasn’t even a tad bit affected by the whole incident. Even the top seniors looked scared and were hugging each other. The sight of one of us on the ground in so much blood was truly devastating.
What kind of a monster was Rayden to not feel anything at all?
"Of course, you would know since you cry all the ti," Lamar, who knew the deal with Rayden now, stepped in my way to block Rayden out of my sight.
"I am fine. I will go to my room now," I got up, tired and exhausted. My eyelids were heavy, and my heartbeat so low.
I didn’t even pass around a glance and had turned my back on them. As I was walking away, I heard the warden add, "Yeah, she is not fine."
I went straight to the elevator and pressed the buttons. My heart skipped a beat as I thought the red button would appear, but it didn’t.
This was not fair.
I got off the elevator and went to my room, getting cozy in Lucy’s bed instead. I hugged her blanket that still slled like her and went to sleep.
Everything around was so cold. Nothing was intriguing anymore.
But I woke up to the sound of noise. A loud noise of water. Rubbing my eyes, I forced myself to wake up to see what the chaos was all about.
And to my surprise, half of the room was floating in water.
"What the heck!" I gasped, sitting up. I looked around the room and noticed Lamar sleeping and having no idea he was getting drowned in the water.
"Lamar! Wake up or you will drown--" I yelled, but he wouldn’t wake up at any cost.
"Lamar! There is water in here--water! Water!"
I closed my eyes to yell even louder this ti, "Water!"
"Here, drink so," a hand shook awake, a glass of water right in my face.
Lamar was staring at my face in confusion. I noticed the bright light behind him. It was morning. The night passed without Lucy, and we still woke up. That was sad.
"Oh! I must have had a nightmare," I excused, accepting the water from his hands.
"Helanie, you are not yourself. You are scaring . Lucy was acting the sa way before she--jumped," he uttered, his eyes fixated on in pure worry.
"She didn’t jump, Lamar. She was pushed down," as I said that with my whole chest, I watched him narrow his eyes at for answers.
"I told you about the tenth floor. We have both been there, Lamar. And you know what is the scary thing? How we all spoke about feeling soone with us whenever we are sad, that feeling is gone now. That entity freed herself after she took Lucy from us," I muttered under my clenched jaw, still not ready to cry.
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