The Point of No Return {sequel to The Arbitrary life of Avery Blake [teacher]}

The Point of No Return {sequel to The Arbitrary life of Avery Blake [teacher]}37

‘Yes?’ Meghann asked, supressing a giggle as she smiled in faked innocence.

‘Ya two ladies wanna drinkkk?’ one almost slured, winking at me in the process.

‘Uhh, I think we’re good.’ Meghann retorted as she pointed to the drinks in front of us.

‘E-y  guess ya are,’ chuckled the other, seeming unable to stop himself.

Meghann and I caught each-others gazes as we snickered, being quick to cover our mouths.

‘Soo, mind if we sit?’ blonde-y smirked in hopeful aspiration.

‘I think they’re set for the night, lads,’ came a voice as Ashton arrived, pecking Meghann on the lips before sitting down with his drink. Cole followed, slyly kissing my cheek in recognition of the situation.

The two guys grumbled their way back to the dance floor, looking out for their next prey.

The four of us laughed uncontrollably before Cole took my hand and pulled me to the floor. I was reluctant at first, feeling my first two drinks already take their effect on my head; leaving me the slightest bit tipsy. But I complied before long, reaching the dance floor as the music seemed to get louder- the night brighter.

Meghann and Kiren joined a few minutes later with joyous shouts of laughter.

In this moment, I was happy. Of course, considering how things usually went in my life, the story wasn’t about to end there.

The night didn’t last much longer as before long, Cole had an emergency he had to rush off to. I was sorry to see him go but I wasn’t in a position to object- he gave me a night to remember.

Chapter 37

Part two.

A week past in an eerie calmness- it came and went without hesitation. I assumed this was how normal people usually lived.

How dull, I thought to myself in sarcasm.

But the truth was I would have traded my life for a normal life a million times over, had I been given the chance.

Because what happened next took us all by storm…left the world spinning spirals through a hurricane. It set an ending to the long line of confusion and hardship that was my life.

**

The morning started like no other, as cliché as that may have sounded. I made my way to class in nonchalance. But my surroundings weren’t right. It was almost as though someone had taken me out of the world, only to place me in some parallel world. It was neither hot nor cold, sunny nor raining, loud nor quiet. It just was.

I walked on with a strange calmness that seemed to be screaming, “GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE! SOMETHING IS WRONG, IDIOT!” but why listen to instinct when reason gave such a strong argument?

I reached my English class before long and took my usual seat. I was the first person in the classroom though as I seemed to have made my way prematurely.

However, soon people began filling the room; mindless chatter filling the air around me.

I looked around and realised none of my friends were here. And in that instant, my name was called from the back of the room. I stood and turned, meeting the blue eyes that were my sisters.

She looked away quickly enough, trying to compose herself in front of her students.

In urgency, I made my way to here; closing the classroom door behind me; separating my old life and my new life within that second.

‘You have to leave right now. Everyone’s waiting for us but I promised to take you with me. My class is covered.’ Kimberly said in hast as we walked hurriedly to her car.

‘W-where are you taking me, Kim? Don’t I need to sign out or something?’ I asked as millions of questions spun in my head, asking the first that came to mind.

‘Don’t worry about it, it’s taken care of.’ Kim said in an eerie calmness as we sat in her car.

The next minutes went by in a blur and before long we had reached the hospital. I seemed to have lost my voice during the drive as my mind was spinning far too quickly for my mouth to follow. But as we parked, i seemed to have found it.

‘Why are we here, Kim?! You’re scaring me…’ I whispered the last part, trying to contain my heartbeat.

Kimberly exhaled slowly and hesitantly before reluctantly turning to me with tears staining her eyes, making heavy ripples down her face.

‘It’s…it’s Kiren,’ she spoke slowly.

My heart may as well have stopped beating.