Chapter 2 Position of the statue

BROOKLYN ✓

"Why did you transfer her?" Almond, Ali's husband yelled after he learnt Darelia had been transferred on his wife's account. "You can't make decisions on your own, especially when it concerns her!" He yelled again, trying to figure the school she got transferred.

"Why? Because she's first daughter? For goodness sake, Indie and Lisa are your daughters too!" Ali yelled back. "I am not denying but they can take care of themselves. Darelia is dumb, she might get bullied." Almond couldn't believe his wife could do this behind his back.

Almond walked into the kitchen, "We are withdrawing her immediately!" He ordered and Ali stood up, "Try it and you will be thrown out, don't forget this house belongs to me and I'm still the one paying her tuition fees even as she is being transferred." Ali warned, walking out on him.

Almond lost his job where he had been collecting thousands of dollars because of an issue the company had, they took the company car and house that was given to him and Ali had choice than to help out, mainly because of her daughters. They had to relocate and therefore, they changed schools.

Darelia was Almond's first child, that was what everyone believed since Ali met the girl in the house after she got married to him, she hated her and her creepy cat immediately. "You have no powers, you can do nothing to a witch!" Ali had warned Darelia when she tried to fight back.

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The ray of sunlight shone on Darelia's face and she opened her eyes slowly, taking the view of where she was. She was expecting she would wake up on the ground, in the middle of the school but she jumped up in fright when she saw she actually woke up on the bed.

"Am I dreaming? How is this possible?" Darelia thought, removing the duvet from her body and looking at her hand where the arrow ran through but her palm was okay. She sat up, trying to remember what happened after she passed out but it was definitely not possible since she dropped unconscious and all those things she saw, were they real?

Without greeting any of her roommates, she dashed out of her hostel, running with only her fluffy slippers. She headed to where the statue was and was surprised to find it intact, she became confused. Looking intently at it, it didn't even look like human at all.

Has she started hallucinating? "I saw it move --- it became human yesterday!" Darelia screamed in her head, looking at the statue that just looked like a normal statue. She turned back to go to her hostel when her brain suddenly picked something different in the surrounding.

When she saw the statue yesterday while walking to the Principal's office, the statue was facing backwards which was opposite the school gate. When she saw it last night, it was directly facing her which made it back the school gate.

Only turning her head sideways, she suddenly saw the position was different again - it was facing one direction and when she traced it, the statue was side to side how she was standing and it was directly opposite her hostel - her eyes widened in fear, the statue changed position three times in twenty four hours already.

While drowning in fear of looking at the statue while running, she bumped into someone and they both fell off. "Woah! Easy there cheese." She quickly stood up and dusted her clothes when she heard the voice, it must be a male.

Darelia bowed as a mental note of saying sorry and wanted to walk away but he pulled her back. "What's your name?" He asked and she glanced at him, taking in his handsome features but she somehow hated that he had a lipstick on.

Frederick bit his lips as he looked all over her, she was beautiful. Not too skinny, her mascara had worn out since it was still early in the morning, baggy trousers and a transparent nightie blouse, the fluffy slippers - she looked beautiful and cute to him. Before he could say another word, she was already gone.

Lisa actually appeared behind them and glared at Darelia but she didn't run away because of that, she ran away because she didn't want anyone to be aware she is dumb. "Frederick!" Lisa gave a cute smile and he turned, kissing her on the spot without caring if anyone was around watching.

He is her boyfriend, nobody dared say a word. She was the mastermind that convinced her mother to choose this school for them since her boyfriend was schooling there, happy she will reunite with him after being apart for so long because they only see whenever Frederick comes to their house or spends the weekend with his parents, he skips school sometimes.

"Where did you run off to?" Athena opened the locked door for the panting Darelia who just flung herself on her bed, shaking her head which indicated that ' nowhere ' "Can't she talk?" Haven rolled her eyes, coming out of the bathroom after brushing. "It's weird she hasn't said a thing since she came yesterday." Fair mumbled.

Darelia suddenly sprang up from her bed, her heart in her throat. There were wet marks on the wall beside her bed which looked like a whole five wet fingers and legs were placed there. "Who did this?" Darelia looked at her roommates and her cat meowed, indicating it had no idea too.

Darelia shook her head as she didn't bother to lay back on her bed, she simply just went to take her bath and prepare for class. Her first day in school has already been ruined enough - the statue moving, waking up on the bed instead of the floor in the school, seeing wet marks.

"It's almost time!" Athena shouted, carrying her backpack and adjusting her skirt. Each one of them had a black popsocks, worn under their blue short skirt and a white shirt. "We don't even know her name." Fair whispered when Athena wanted to call the new girl.

Haven walked out of the room, not without glaring at the cat who just meowed slowly in a curled position. Darelia came out of the bathroom and walked to her box to fix her clothes while Athena insisted she would wait for her.

Her head suddenly snapped sideways and she fell on her butts, her eyes widening while looking at the wall - those wet marks were gone! It was all gone like it was never there before. "I heard a student died!" Fair rushed into the room and they all ran out of the room.

Pushing their way into the crowds, a girl had been killed as she laid on the ground lifeless. Darelia walked closer and found out she had bloody marks at the side of her head as she remembered holding her head while hearing strange voices last night.

It shocked her more to see the girl was on the ground, at the front of the statue and her eyes widened, the statue has changed position again.