Chapter 8 CHAPTER 8
Strange occurrences were beginning to become a part of my life now and I hated it.
I'm not even talking about the fact that I eat heavy amounts of food now but the way my ears and nose are now malfunctioning scares me.
During the rush today, I nearly screamed at how loud everything was.
Mind you, it's Friday; I've been in this school for a week and this noise is normal but today, it just felt like they were all screaming into my brain and with microphones too.
So I sat my ass down and waited for the crowd to thin out.
“Girl you're not hungry?” Naomi asked me, walking back into class
She'd rushed out with everyone else and probably came back when she didn't see me.
“I have the worst headache in existence,” I answered, rubbing my temple.
“Ouch, worst time to be having one of those. They're equally as loud over there. Let me go get you the food and bring it here.”
“No you don't have to, you already went back and forth looking for me, I'll come.”
“I don't remember telling you it's stressful for me to walk did I?” She pinched my nose and headed out, “give me a minute.”
“Come and take some money then, please?”
She reversed and I handed her the money I made for the week.
I'd gotten two clients and I was shocked when they actually paid and they were shocked when Mr Cael praised them as well.
I still have beef with the man, scoring me a B when my work was easily an A+ plus but I had other things to worry about.
The door opened and I looked up, expecting Naomi even though she just left a few minutes ago but it's not her that walks in.
It's a boy.
He's very tall, and one of the guys I wrote an assignment for is with him.
I tense up, scared I was in trouble already, I just began the side hustle few days ago and I'm already pissing people off?
“Hey Sera,” Ramsey waved at me with a smile as he walked to the front, “thanks for the other day. My mom finally let me breathe.”
“You're…welcome?”
“Kane is one of our best students here but he's also struggling with Maths. Can you help him as well? Just explain the assignment, he wants to do it himself.”
“But I don't do tutoring.”
“I'll pay three times of whatever he's paying you,” the guy, Kane cuts in, walking to the seat next to me and dumping his bag.
The protests died in my throat quickly.
“Is this a one-time thing?”
“No, I'll appreciate it if you can coach me three times a week and then if you have time on weekends?”
“No,” I shook my head immediately.
I don't want Aunt Kelly to find out what is happening. She's been really busy these days with Uncle John and everything is on autopilot at home.
But this money that this guy was offering will help me so much, at least I'll stop dressing like… this.
Naomi said she's going shopping tomorrow and I can't wait to go with her and actually buy stuff rather than commenting on her choices.
“Alright then, I'll begin on Monday.”
“Don't you want me to work on the assignment for this weekend?”
“I don't have any games for the weekend so I'll try my best but if I can't do it, I'll drop it off through somebody first thing in the morning.”
“That'll cost you extra,” I said with furrowed brows.
“I'm good on money Sera, you don't have to worry about that.”
I nodded as they walked away, leaving me with a sense of confused excitement.
So I don't have money for shopping this weekend but I'll definitely have a lot of it by next week and not just from the handsome guy that just left here, my business was spreading through word of mouth and I was excited.
Naomi walked in, struggling to hold back a grin.
“What's got you looking like you swallowed a live crab?”
“Haha, funny. Don't try to spin this, who's that hunk that just left here?!” She whispered.
“Oh, Kane? He wants me to tutor him, not do the assignment directly. He promised to pay three times more but we will begin next week. I can't wait.”
“So you do agree he's fine as hell?”
“Come on girl, I'm a virgin, not blind.”
We laughed and she set up the food and we had lunch together, talking about boys, our past and everything.
Naomi was a godsend to me in so many ways.
After school, I was going to join everyone else to leave but the noise stopped me.
“You're not going yet?”
“No I'm waiting for my cousins,” I lied because I knew she'd wait for me if I told her this headache was getting worse. “I'll see you tomorrow.”
I hugged her and we waved each other goodbye.
I sat back down and tried to cover my ears while people walked past, the sound of their feet drumming in my ears, their conversations hitting my ear drums and the smell.
Gosh, doesn't anyone take a proper shower in this school?
It took forever and one more minute before everywhere finally quietened down and I got my stuff and began heading out.
Until I saw Scott again.
He was on the path I was supposed to take but he wasn't coming my way.
Our eyes met, his with hostility, and fear that I couldn't justify again embraced me.
I took another route without knowing where it led, immediately.
My feet thundered through the floors, until I realized I'd gotten lost.
Thankfully I still had my map so I brought it out and found where I was.
Three routes out to the front – one where I'd just come from and Scott was still wandering about in, the other that would take really long to get through and then this abandoned part of the school that's marked don't trespass.
Well, school is over and nobody is going to be bothered except the dust that's probably there so I took the shorter route.
I shouldn't have.