Chapter 4 Four

Diana was walking along the hallway, sling bag around her arm.

It was school over and everyone had gone home and as usual she stayed back in school to practice her ball shootings and also to get her mother angry wherever she was

Her face was void of any emotion as she walked, sole of her shoe crunching on the ground.

Suddenly she stopped and Without turning back, she said.

"Are you... stalking me now?"

Raiden comes out sheepishly holding his backpack while pushing his broken glasses up his nose.

He narrowed his eyes as she turned to glare at him

"How did you know I was following you"

"And who are you to ask me questions. Just because I showed you to the office today doesn't mean we should be in any way close so stop pestering me"

"I'm not asking to be close to you I just want..."

"What did you say" She couldn't believe her ears.

He frowned

"I just wanted to ask you some things. I'm not interested in even being friends with someone like you"

She pursed her lip and she stared at him.

These hurtful words came from the mouth of the most nerdy boy in school who couldn't even match up to half her standards but she couldn't explain why she was slightly bothered about what he said about her.

"I do not wish to talk to you" She said and turned around to leave and gritted her teeth on realizing that he was right behind her.

"Sure you can choose not to talk to me. Maybe you can try that thing you did today...talking in my head...you know.... telepathically"

She scoffed and rolled her eyes

"I don't know what you're talking about"

He held her hand and she had to stop and face him.

"You were the last person I saw with Travis today before the news of his death"

Her eyes widened but she narrowed it quickly and pulled her hand from his grip.

"You accuse me of saying things inside your head and now you're saying I'm a murderer?"

She sounded visibly angry.

She was more surprised to know that he had heard her when she had spoken to him telepathically. He wasn't supposed to hear her so how was that possible.

"Stop following me" She said

"You're only making me suspect you the more"

She suddenly chuckled and finally let her bag drop to the ground.

Raiden stepped back voluntarily.

"And then what?" She put her hands on her hips. "What if I did tell you I killed him...what if I said I really can communicate telepathically. What are you going to do"

'Does Tamora know about this' He thought

"She doesn't" Diana suddenly said thinking he was talking about a classmate. "And no one will because you won't say anything"

He was about to talk when he suddenly turned red. His mouth was glued shut and he couldn't open them.

His backpack fell to the ground as he held his cheeks, pinching them to open his mouth but it didn't budge.

Diana stared at him with a rueful look and raising her hand up, she curved her hand nonchalantly in the air and an invisible force threw him off his feet to the ground and as she tightened the hand, something was choking him, strangling him.

Raiden choked and held his neck as if trying to remove what was strangling him. His face was red and his mouth was clamped shut.

Still Diana didn't let go of her grip.

"You should have just minded your business" She sneered and slowly starts to close her palm. Once she'd close it, he would die.

"I'm doing you a favor anyway. it's not like there's anyone on earth who cares about you"

With that, her eyes glowed red and she sneered, her sharp canines visible on her lower lip. She finally closes her hand and Raiden stopped moving.

After a while of watching his still body in silence, she picks up her bag and starts leaving. She didn't look back.

After working overtime in her office, Tamora packed up her files and bags and decides to leave and call it a night.

She tried calling Raiden to be sure he got home safely but it would always go straight to voicemail and she became worried.

She had to be cautious about him

If his mother gets to know he was in anyway hurt, she would never forgive her.

As she hastily made her way out of her office to the hallway, she gasped and almost fell on her face.

Lying on the floor, unmoving like a corpse was Raiden.

His face looked so peaceful like he was in a deep slumber.

Throwing down her bags, she rushes over to him and knelt beside him.

"Raiden" With a petrified look, she shook him hard almost crying. "Raiden please wake up...please...Raiden!!! Raiden!!!"

She shook him roughly.

When he didn't move, she hastily placed her two hands on his body and closed her eyes.

For a while, she furrowed her brows in concentration and soon a flood of bright light enfolded the still boy.

The light got brighter by the minute and after a while it started to dim and when it had dimmed out, she lightly placed her hand on her forehead and fell on the ground next to him.

Raiden coughed out blood at that moment and his body shook violently at the impact at which the fluid flowed down his mouth.

His eyes flew open like a bullet and the black orbs were no longer there...it was like they were absorbed and all that shone was his natural enchanting silvery blue eyes.

He sits up slowly and majestically and looks around in confusion for a while until his vision rested on Tamora who was unconscious beside him.

His eyes widened as he pulled the fragile woman into his arms and held her protectively. Her brown hair cascaded around his arm.

"Tamora" He cried with a frantic voice but when she didn't even move, he stands up and carried her bridal style.

He singlehandedly picked up the things scattered on the floor and left the hallway immediately.

The next day at school, Diana was in the class with other students as usual reading while waiting for the first teacher of the day.

But instead of reading, she was eating a bag of chips while boringly looking around.

Soon, her gaze came to settle on the empty locker Infront of her.

She smirked cruelly as she placed another chip on her lips ready to take it into her mouth with her tongue but she suddenly freezes, hand still on her lips when Raiden suddenly walked in.

Typical Raiden

No one spared him a glance of course but she froze, just sitting there, staring at him.

He slowed down his steps on his way to the desk while his black eyes were buried in her green eyes.

She lowered her hand while looking at him like he had grown a tail on his forehead.

Her lips were parted in surprise as she watched him sit Infront of her.

He's alive???

No..no.. she's just dreaming...of course...she had to be dreaming...

She closed her eyes hoping to open it and see the same empty locker Infront of her but this time, not only was he still seated there, he turned to look at her with a smug smile on his face.

He pushed his glasses up and said.

"You look like you've seen a ghost Diana...."

She frowned and narrowed her eyes at him

"You're something else" She folds her arms. "How are you still alive"

He didn't answer her but turned back to his desk just as the teacher walked in...

Throughout the entire class, she had her eyes on him ....

Finally it was lunchtime and as the students filed out of the class to the cafeteria, she suddenly down and grabbed his backpack from underneath so that he wouldn't leave.

Raiden calmly sat down when he saw he couldn't stand and waited to see what she'll do next.

And like she planned the class was empty leaving the two alone.

She suddenly stands and waving her hand, the door shuts close and she locked it without getting close to the door and pulled the blinders down.

Raiden just sat there watching her every move...

She finally turned to him and slams her two hands on the desk, startling him.

He looked at her and they stared into each other's eyes.

"You have 5 minutes to talk"

"About what" He replied nonchalantly

She grits her teeth.

"About why you're still alive"