The Elementals I: Glitch of Space

I'm 'in'.

Chapter XXVII

I’m ‘in’.

The next day passed with no concrete plan of everything. I was so aloft and my friends were not so numb to not feel it. But I can’t blame them for not doing anything. If I insisted for what I think is right, they might mistake me for some kind of crazy-dude.

Our ballroom dance performance came and I knew well, I didn’t dance like a pro unlike my other group mates especially Nai and Nenith of another group, who borrowed Nai from our group to be her dance partner.

So I expected we’ll get a not-so-good grade because of me. But in the end, we got the highest grade. Probably, Mrs. Amalon wasn’t interested looking at me, well that’s good.

Before my professor left, she said something which made me super surprised and that is, “If Ms. Analom wouldn’t show up until your finals then her semi-finals would automatically be 5. Great performance that’s all I can say to all of you.” And she left.

I went to Clarice to ask about Nicolei because she and I have been the closest to Nics.

“Nicolei has been missing?”

“Yeah, for a couple of days already.”

“For days already?” I thought but I was too preoccupied, busy and bamboozled (second time I used this word...) about things about me, about my family and about my requirements that I didn’t even notice she’s missing so my mind did a very fast flashback of things that had happened when I came back and Nicolei didn’t show up in everything I had in mind. “Hey! That was exactly the day when I was detained. Am I right?”

Clarice seem to be worried, really worried, “Uhm, yeah and it’s like when everyone’s attention was in you –yeah you did caught much attention and become so hot topic when you were detained- Nicolei suddenly slipped out of reality and went missing.”

Oh... that kinda flatter me, thought it’s not the matter that usual people must be proud of, “Did she inform anyone of you to where he’s going?”

Clarice’s expression turned mocking, “Sometimes Elly, you are so slow. Do you think we would be worrying like this if we know where she’s going???”

“Alright, I admit that I’m quite slow.”

“Slow. Not quite.” Clarice corrected while removing the make-ups she have on her face.

“Alright but my being slow is not the issue here. When was the last time you’ve talked to her?” I sounded like a chief investigator here.

“I don’t know exactly but it’s just the morning before you decided to be jailed, oh, detained sorry.”

“What did you talked about?”

“Nothing so important. You know the usual thing that we insist to her. Her hidden yet so obvious crush on Mr. Pecz. But that time it was different.”

“What’s different?”

“Her state of infatuation to Sir has been as if levelled up.”

I laughed shortly like only- Haha and said, “Levelled up?”

“Yeah, she got the feeling that Aeira was some kind of seducing Sir.”

“How? I mean, what makes she say that?”

“’Coz before she went missing, Aeira and Mr. Pecz have been frequently talking to each other every after class. You can see them right?”

“Yes, ‘coz I’m not yet detained.”