Monday, 1 PM

It has been an uneventful day, just like most Mondays. I can’t help but find it funny how it seems like there is an aura of laziness surrounding every student like there was an outside force or entity given them reasons to hate this day.

As I walk through the institute’s hall and library I see few of the promising students reading books and taking notes.

They are not here…. Well, it will be weird to find them inside here studying. I’m good at my job but not that good.

I turn towards the exit. The sweet smell of spring filling my lungs as I open the main doors of the building. The fact that the institute is surrounded by woods make it pretty easy to the season to outstand itself. The only bad part is that the place gets really steamy in summer.

I shook my head, pulling myself back to reality as my eyes glance down below. A stray line of concrete makes the path to the entrance of the institute. Every four or three feet has a bifurcation that leads to a perfect circle. Clear areas with grass for the student to rest lay on said circles. The shape is reminiscent of the one made by the water of a fountain.

I look at the students resting on the ground. Some are playing, others are chatting; there are at least five of them sleeping.

They aren’t here either, I thought while making my way to the back of the building. From the corner of my eyes, I see one of my students running towards me.

“Professor, good afternoon,” he greeted.

“Good afternoon to you too, Streak. Something I can help you with?” I answer with a casual tone.

“Well, you looked like you were searching for someone.”

I smile at the young man, Damian Streak, a cheerful student filled with energy and always ready to help, “Yes I am, Damian, I’m looking for the Dazzlings sisters. Have you seem them?”

Damian expression went from happy to uncomfortable in the blink of an eye. The sight disgusted me, but I knew that the girls have done more than enough to achieve that kind of expression upon others.

“They usually use this hour to go to the back section of the woods… Most students, including me… have been told by the trio to stay away while they use the place,” he took a pause to scratch the back of his head. “No one took their words seriously until a group of brutes from the football team tried to go there and ‘show them who was the boss’ last year…”

“Oh, yeah… there were a lot of broken bones that day. Now I understand why no one from the group said anything about their injuries,” I commented before glancing back at Damian, “they were too proud of themselves to tell the professors that three girls were able to beat them.”

Streak laughed, his snickers breaking into a sigh just before the shine in his eyes dimmed. “Can I know why you want to find them?” He asked me, his expression was calm but it definitely hid something.

“They have to submit a project in three days and I want to know about their progress” I responded bluntly.

Damian looked at me intrigued, the absence of light in his eyes now clear to me: he was sad. I dismissed him and kept on my way towards the back of the building.

“Just try to not get yourself hurt! Most of my friends miss lady Catherine, and we don’t want the same happening to you...” he said to me, his feelings now clear as water.

“Don’t worry, they won’t hurt me… I hope” I added, the last words coming in the form of a chuckling whisper.

The section of the woods from the back of the building has an odd appearance if you compare it with the rest of the area. It’s denser, hence its darkness and grimly appearance. My common sense was the only thing keeping my fears away, telling me that it was just afternoon, that the area in which I stood was free of dangerous animals because there is a checkup made by the guards in each even day.

The hideous looking surroundings and the cold breeze that came from within the darkest places of the forest didn’t help though.

After a couple of minutes my anxiety got dismissed at the sight of Aria’s back, she was resting in a tree not so far from my position.

Cat’s words from yesterday played back inside my head while narrowing my distance to the sleeping lady.

Try to make them accustomed to you, you need them to be more open to you in public. That will never happen in their comfort zone, or in this case, the detention room.

After half a minute, I reach Aria… and Adagio… and Sonata too. Oddly enough they are sleeping in the same tree, a weird occurrence since they usually have a lot of energy. I stare at each one while my head thinks of a possible reason behind their exhaustion: maybe they work on the weekends? Perhaps they went to a party? Did sonata convince them to stay all night playing videogames?

She told me last week of a new ga- I stop in mid-thought. I didn’t realize at first because of the darkness of the woods: Adagio, she was pale, and her eyes were clearly showing her deprivation of sleep.

Should I wake them up? I asked myself while looking at her sisters, they both looked in need of sleep too. I can bet this three didn’t take notes in their classes today…

“A…non?” Sonata muttered, I shifted slightly after hearing her whisper. She looked mild unconscious, almost like...

“No…” she looked at her surroundings slowly before adding: “forest… dream…” she smiled at me, her eyes shining enough to be misjudged by rubies inside a cave. There was no doubt, she was just still dreaming, “want…”

“Want?” I asked to deaf ears. The young lady crawled to me slowly as a response.

“Anon, you sweet creature that was brought to us by gods whose powers are beyond our comprehension, what are you doing alone in this dangerous forest?” She said with half-lidded eyes, “What drove you to come here? Don’t you fear my dear love, I will protect you from the fiery beasts that lures within this pandemonium.”

… I stood agape at her choices of words, dumbfounded at the drastic change of vocabulary in the young lady while sleepwalking.

Maybe I should put sonata in the poetry club… no, no, too sudden for that. Books, I need to give her some books first… but wait, what kind of books could be the best for her? I thought at first before drifting off to the possibilities.

She kept her steady pace towards me. It took me half a minute to pull my thoughts back to reality. I snapped down, fearing the worst to happen as I looked how close she was to grab me with those apparently weak hands; she would have captured me in that exact moment, if not by mere luck. Lady’s fortune was apparently by my side this time because Sonata faded into sleep again just before her hand could even touch me. Her body collapsed in a rather compromising posture afterward… to be more precise her back stood hanging in the air while the higher section of her body rested on the ground.

I hum in delight, the warm feeling of being safe drenching my whole body for a brief second. As I recompose myself, my mind goes back to its previous thoughts as my eyes glance once again towards Adagio, her moribund state now clearer to my dilated pupils.

I need to take her to the infirmary.

I move past Sonata and her butt hanging in the air, dismissing Aria’s snoring as I kneel in front of Adagio, her breath was so dim and silent that it made my hands rush towards her chest.

She is breathing… thank goodness I moan in relief.

… It was at that moment that I realize another feeling, one that didn’t come from her but me: Fear. I stood for what it seemed like eons as I tried to understand what the reason behind that fear was. My hand was in the middle of her chest, I wasn’t touching anything that could compromise me or my relationship with Adagio as my student.

There are no animals or insects tha- ahg! Scratch that. Concentrate for a moment, Anon!

… My hand slowly recoiled back, air condensing around me as my mind found peace again.

Stress the words erupted inside my head, it’s just stress, Anon. Just like today’s dream.

It felt like an outside thought; a hit of wisdom that figuratively knocked me into reality.

I dismissed whatever that fear from earlier was and placed Adagio on my back, her body lighter than what I first thought. I turned swiftly towards the institute direction and started to jog towards it.

As I run through the forest I feel my senses enhancing.

Dreams? What kind of dreams!? The words from Catherine playback as a distant echo inside my head. Those girls are dangerous, Anon.

I shook my head from side to side as I run past her words, past the creeping feeling of fear surrounding my back, past the exhaustion of my body.

“Don’t worry Adagio, I’ll take you to the med, just hang in there.”

The door of the infirmary was finally in front of me, I took the knob as soon as my lungs were filled once again. “Good morning, Dust! Are you there?” I said in a raspy tone while entering the room.

The place seemed empty at first, the only thing on the right side of the room were Jane’s utensils and papers neatly organized in her desk. At my left a bed was placed, light trespassing the curtains beside it and resting on the seemingly soft mattress.

Wasting no more time, I moved the curtains to the side and placed Adagio on the bed with care.

…

I stood bewildered at the resting figure of Adagio, who was now peacefully sleeping. I was expecting a pale and sick young lady. But there she was, not just fine but even better, her skin looked soft and colored, filled with more life than a puppy playing with his toy. Her breathing was normal again and light snores could be heard from her mouth.

“Did the darkness of the forest fooled me?” I ask myself, my tone higher enough to disturb the pleasant dream of Adagio.

“Ugh, sorry, I didn’t want to wake you,” I pause for a moment to look at her more closely, noticing in the process how everything around us feels normal again, the fears from before just a distant memory now.

“Why I am in the nursing room?” She asked me, her eyes hiding from the light of the room.

As she questions me a sudden thought courses through my mind: it was uncommon for her or her friends to go to the institute while ill or tired. “I carried you here after finding you in the woods at the back of the institute,” I answer after noticing her intriguing expression.

“So you carried me all the way here?” She smiled coyly her eyes lost in her fingernails, “Now I understand why I had such a wonderful dream.”

Remember, you need to be more proactive with them. Try to make things around them more normal. For what have you’ve told me, Adagio and Aria are the ones who like to tease you. Cat’s words echoed in my mind, making me care less about Adagio’s flirts.

“I thought you were sick at first, but after bringing you here, am starting to doubt of my own perception.”

“I was just tired that is all,” She answered me, a faint yawn escaping her mouth while moving a pair of tendrils of her hair that rested near her left eye.

“Well, if that’s the case then I’m really happy to see you here,” I smiled at her, “it shows that you respect the compromise with your studies. Even still, I’m curious about your health…”

She flashed a toothy grin, her eyes turning to the wall at her right, “This is the only place in which I can see that butt of yours. Don’t think we are doing this for the sake of the institute.”

I noticed then how her eyes avoided me as her hands gripped around her ponytail.

“We just got a heavy night that is all…” she added

I took a look at the clock in the center of the wall, which featured “1:24 PM”.

“I still have some time before my next class starts,” I commented before approaching the bed in order to sit beside Adagio.

… Huh?

Did I…?

Blur fills my vision as I recover from an apparent fading. I can feel something soft against my back.

“Anon? … Is everything alright?”

A cold chill crawls swiftly as a snake all the way up my spine. My body arching up as I stood on my feet once again. My consciousness comes back a second later.

“That was weird,” Adagio scrunched her expression. I can’t say for sure where I landed, but just looking at how tense she looks now is enough for a bad signal.

I wanted to apologize for my sudden actions but found no strength to do it. To be honest I couldn’t even stand still properly. I sat on the nurse’s chair and took a moment to rest.

“I think you are the one who needs the bed.” Adagio brows furrowing, her hands still gripping her ponytail.

I took a couple more of slow breathes before returning to my previous thought. “Maybe I just overdid myself while running her... or… I don’t know, I have been in a bad strike, getting more tired after each week even when I sleep more frequently.”

Adagio just nodded at my words, her eyes looking in my direction, but it seemed like she was lost in other things.

Maybe I could make something out of this. Cat told me to try to open them up to me.

“You seem concerned about something… you want to talk about it?”

“hmm… Well, I was thinking about something, but I need to confirm it. Anon would you pat my head?”

Pat her head? I looked at her surprised.

“Don’t overreact I just want to confirm something.”

I looked at her with narrowed eyes. My hand fidgeting as I stood doubtful about my student’s intentions.

“Alright,” I respond after a pair of seconds, “but you will have to tell me what is this all about later.” I proposed before stretching my arm towards her.

I laid my hand on her forehead and proceeded to rub tenderly from there to the center of her head. While doing so her eyes drifted to the ceiling.

She looks so focused… what will she be thinking about? Her past? The things she has done? What if she is thinking about her future? …My thoughts runs freely as I look at her body expressions, most importantly, how her previous tense body relaxed, her breath becoming calmer and slower.

After a couple more of rubs, I started to feel warmth emanating from her head. Soon after, she smiled, her eyes now locked on mines. A dim flame faded inside me just as my worries about the young lady were dismissed.

That flame, however, was brought to life once again after a sudden thought arrived. Panic, swelling the fire inside me as I asked:

“Is that enough?” my eyes avoid hers. I tried to play it cool as hard as I could but the constant fear that someone will get inside the room and see us was not helping.

“Maybe~,” she said before holding my now trembling hand against her cheek.

“Adagi-” I stammered before watching in awe how she opened her mouth.

“ahm~” she munched my index finger playfully.

“Adagio, sto-”

The door of the room swung open, the institute’s nurse making her entrance with phone at hand.

“I’ve told you already! The fact that I’m a nurse and that we have a lot of medicine in the house doesn’t mean that you can receipt our kids by your own!” she shouted at the phone, before her brown fiery eyes glared at me.

Crap, crap, crap! I repeated in my head, my mind too occupied with the shock to care about the future explanation I’ll need to give her once she looks that my hand is…

My hand is… on my leg? What in- I look briefly to Adagio; she is looking at the folded curtains in a rather disparaging way.

“I’ll call you later.” Her phone made a clicking sound, “Sorry, I go wild when my husband does stupid things… which happens to be something usual for him.” She commented with a hint of anger in her tone.

“Uh…” I got stuck for a second, “D-don’t worry about it.”

She furrowed her brows at me, “You look weird today P.A. Have you been sleeping well?” She didn’t let me answer the question as she followed with: “Oversleeping would be more precise in your case. All the workers know about your sleep escapades during lunch time.”

I nodded sheepishly, “Well now that you said it, maybe I need a checkup. I have been struggling against exhaustion long enough to get stressed about it.”

“Well, I can list you the tests you need to take and the things you need to check on your blood…” she said while taking her notebook and pencil from her lab coat “or~” she glanced at me with a familiar shine on her eyes.

I raised both hands at her in anticipation. “Not going to happen, Jane.”

“Come on! It has been ages since I have used a syringe! It feels like this place is ill proof or something.”

“That just makes it easier to me to say no.” I stated, her face turning into a pleading pout, “Sorry, the puppy eyes don’t work with me.”

“Unless you are Sonata~” Adagio whispered loud enough for me to hear. I stood silently to her words while looking how Jane listed everything up.

“Mhm!” She huffed before handling me the finished list, her expression turning stern a second later.

“Come on~ don’t be like that,” I prayed, she didn’t respond but started to go outside the room, “Why are you-”

“I left my coffee at the teacher’s lounge!” she rambled on her way out.

… And now I was alone with Adagio again. My mind stuck while processing what just had happened and what I was doing earlier at the same time.

Adagio got my attention with a wink, “Don’t worry, Anon, you can count on us to take care of you if anything happens,” she bitted her lower lip, her eyes half-lidded as she added, “I’ll make sure to feed you properly.”

Seems like she is back to her normal “seductive seamstress” self… I thought before I recalled the original purpose of my visit to the nursing room.

“I forgot to tell her to check you up… argh, stupid head of mine!” I pointed out, my body reflexes face-palming me a second later. “Well, we just need to wait for…” I pause, my peripheral vision spotting Adagio legs crossing in a rather slow motion.

“Don’t you worry, I just needed to rest for a moment,” she paused, her legs moving once again but I didn’t care for it this time. The thing that really hooked me up was her eyes: shimmering like the usual predator she is known in the institute. “Promise, I’m fine. You on the other hand…” she added, her words pulling me back from my stupor just to find her playful hand signaling me to go to the bed.

I took a huge breath, my head tilting down just like my self-awareness as the huge amount of oxygen almost makes me blackout. I snap abruptly from my seat, the sight of a now concerned Adagio covering my vision.

“I don’t like to see you like this Anon,” she commented, her sight on the floor as her hands grips her ponytail, her mouth mustering something uncompressible for my actual mental condition.

I gave her a dismissive gesture. “Take it easy, I had been in worse situations. Is just that this is the first time a virus got me unprepared.”

I took a huge breath and dispelled it in the form of a yawn, a smile curving my lips as I glanced at Adagio, “Just don’t make this week too hard for me with your roundabouts.”

She furrowed her brows at my words, “Hm? But then how will we get in the detention room for our weekly meeting?”

I stood in shock for a second, my smile fading as I released another sigh, “you all know that I’m your designated orientation teacher right?” I stated. “You don’t need to put yourselves in trouble to see me.”

“Yes we do know, but the other students won’t see it like that. They will start making rumors about us if they realize that you have a special threat to us,” she explained to me.

Huh? Why is she worried about this? I’m the one on the bad end after all...

“Eh? What’s the problem with that? Most professors make rumors and jokes about me, no big deal.” I explained, using my exhausted stated to sound calmer than usual.

“The problem is that, unlike the students, we know that the professors are not going to try to spy on us! If they find us three seducing you like we always do you will lose your job, reputation and even your title as a professor!” she exclaimed euphorically, her hands gripping her hair hard enough to leave it rustled.

My jaw started to drop slowly as the realization hit me.

Adagio… she… they…

Before I could muster my words, Adagio’s eyes went wide open. She got to her feet and started to move towards the room’s door.

“I almost forgot that the girls are waiting for me!” she shouted while running outside the room.

I stood doumbfounded in my seat. Silence reigning inside the room as a single feeling coursed through me.

Joy

Utter. Solid. Almost tangible joy. The exhaustion and soreness on my body ceased to exist, my brain couldn’t handle that amount of excitement at the same time, or so it seemed; because there I was: on my feet once again. I don't even know how or when, but I was already up and moving again.

“They are actually worried about me… this… this could mean a lot,” I cheered like a priest witnessing a miracle, “maybe it’s true that they still like to tease me around but at least they know the consequences of their actions!” I clapped a fist toward my hand.

I started to move towards the door of the room while my left hand scratched my chin.

“Maybe there is a chance… a future in which they stop their antics and treat me with respect looks promising now… and that will be just the beginning!” I theorized with a joyful tone before opening the door.

“And~ you just gave me another reason to believe in you. He-he,” Jane appeared at the other side of the door. The absence of a cup of coffee on her hands was all the evidence I needed to know that she never went to the teacher’s lounge.

… I stood agape at her. Her puffed chest and warm smile were the only things I could manage to acknowledge before the locked exhaustion from before broke free.

“P.A? Hey” I heard her words but my consciousness was fading, “hey, hey! Professor!”

I couldn’t hear her last words as the world around me started to roll, a loud thud echoed in my head before my mind faded.

Darkness. That was the only thing within my reach. I laid in a seemingly infinite void, a dark pit from which only gravity remained intact, or so it seemed for the perpetual fall I was experiencing.

As I took a moment to comprehend my own situation, the feeling of gravity was scratched from my thoughts. I wasn’t falling, truth is that my body was resting on a solid place, but it felt so light and fragile that every movement, every shift, every breath I took made me feel like someone pulled me with a humongous force in the opposite direction.

“Anon?” I heard a voice inside the dark void, but paid no mind to it, the new sensations provided were proven worth enough to entangle my curiousness.

“Hey, stop fooling around!” the voice shouted with such force that I felt how my body bounced up.

For a brief moment, as I looked how the void in which I laid started to change, I thought that maybe the commanding voice’s owner was the ruler of that realm. Vapor and smoke surrounded my vision before I could wonder about my ascension towards a godlike creature, a dim light rested upon my face soon after.

While my pupils adapt to the light, something makes click inside my thoughts: What if I’m actually dying? As a response, the realm shaped into a tunnel, the light fading for a second before returning in an oval shape.

“It was true… I always thought that ‘the light at the end of the tunnel’ was just a popular believe…”

The distance between me and the light narrows at such speed that a racing car could get dismantled by the G-force alone. With each passing second, the light in front of me transform into a figure which hand was hanging in the air in a menacing manner. A brown lady with matching eyes and red hair: Jane dust.

A loud smack sound made echo inside the room as the pain from the slap pulls me back into reality.

“Argh! Dang it!” I shouted, my body sitting by instinct as my hand started to rub my check; the throbbing pain from that slap seemed to be the cure to my previous dazzled state. The world around me got from dazzled and blurry to clear and detailed in the blink of an eye.

“Now I know why they call it a tunnel… I just got hit by the train on those rails…”

“Good heavens~” Jane moaned, “you scared the crap out of me…”

“Well, at least I wasn’t the only one scared today,” I joked with a toothy smile.

“Seems like a good wack was what you needed,” she joked back.

“If that is your recommendation, maybe a change of doctor is the best choice for me.”

“You still owe me ten bucks for the treatment though.”

We laughed at each other for a solid half minute, the fear and shock from earlier turning into silly jokes and joy.

“Anon, you are one of a kind. Ha-ha” Jane complimented.

“Umh, thanks? That was uncalled though…”

Jane snickered a little more before taking a pause to breathe and replenish her lungs, “I was talking about you and those girls.”

“Oh, that! Of course… Wait, oh dear lord, Jane I-” she rested a finger on my lips.

Dust took my hand and helped me get up, humming and cleaning the dirt from my clothes in the process. Once done, she signaled me to sit on the bed. “Don’t worry about the girls. I just want to tell you a little story.”

Jane was a nurse known to be honest, if she was mad or worried about something she will show it one way or another. Because of it, the fact that she was calm helped my nerves to cool off. But the melancholy showed on her half-lidded eyes was telling another story whatsoever.

Seems like this will be a trip through memory lane.

She took her chair and sat next to the window, making sure that the rays of the sun couldn’t land on her bright red hair before she formed a ball with her hands. I noticed how she played around with her fingers while her sight drifted beyond what was lying outside the room.

“Ten years ago, a cousin of mine told me about a little troublesome girl that attended his school. She had a reputation of being repulsive around everyone that tried to befriend her.” She paused for a moment, “Unlike your case, this girl’s grades were over the top. Her only problem was her reclusive behavior.”

“I suppose that this is where the story starts to look like my case…”

“Hush, in this room I’m the professor,” she reprimanded, her face turning into a smile for a brief moment before returning to its initial point. “He… the professor who started to help her was a friend of my cousin. He had two PhD, one on math and another on physics. He was around thirty-five years ol… and her favorite teacher.”

“Well, the girls are-” I was hushed again, “fine, fine, I’ll be quiet.”

“That’s better. Now, as I was telling you. This man was her first friend, a reliable person whom she trusted and cared deeply. He was able to reform her in less than a year and made her a confident person…”

… Jane stood silent for a moment. Not the usual kind of silent, as her hands, who were holding her own coat tight enough to tear it, showed me

“Something went wrong, right?” I asked when the suspense got the better of me.

“He helped her forget her troubles instead of resolving them… at the beginning it wasn’t a big problem; that was until something… or better say someone, appeared. A past love interest of him. For what I know they parted ways in order to pursue their dreams… somehow destiny found the way to join them again. And the only thing in that moment between them was the girl” Jane paused and looked at me, “I don’t know what things have you endured to this point with those three, but it doesn’t matter, at least they are of age. No one could know how weird it must be to have a teenager doting on you like an adult would,” She paused for a moment to take a breath, “my cousin told me that the girl was severely molested for one of their relatives in the past, maybe she thought that the only way to not losing him was using her own body...” she took a pause and breathed.

“Guess I’m the same kind of guy that the teacher in your story. So… What did he do?”

“You are getting it wrong P.A, you are not like him. You are better than him,” she stated with a firm tone, “He reprimanded and depicted her for her behavior in a barbaric way... I guess he was more worried about his reputation than his student. The little one had the same thought and tried to blackmail him. Luckily for him, his lover was in the same classroom that him at the moment.” Jane released a loud sigh, her hand scratching the back of her head as she continued, “The girl got expelled after trying to trick the school into thinking that her teacher wanted to rape her… last thing I knew… god, this is the hard part…”

“Take your time Dust… I still have half an hour until my class begins,” I assure her, my hands gripping the soft mattress as the tension grew.

“Alright… let’s see… how can I tell you this in the best possible way?” she started to rub her temples, “hmm… argh, forget it I’ll just say it. A couple of months after the incident the police department was called because there were screaming’s at the girl’s house… “

My jaw started to drop slightly as she continued narrating.

“She… they found her in one of her relative’s room. She was lying in the ground… blacked out. A dead body was near her… Don’t want to go in details about how she did it; the point is that she was sent to an asylum after telling to the jury that she killed him in revenge. That guy was the one who molested… and at the end, corrupted her…”

My eyes went wide as my brain tried to process everything I heard. I held my head as an aching pain cursed through it. It was something unbelievable; for a little kid to go that far, she really needed help and attention… something that her most important friend didn’t offer.

“Dear heavens…” I gasped, “I… I don’t know what to say… I-is she okay?”

“That’s a tale for another time.” She said while signaling a finger to pause any other question, “As for now, let me just tell you this. Unlike that professor, you have shown that you are brave and determined. But most importantly, you care about what your profession is all about: guide others to be better, both in knowledge and as respected persons for our society. That’s why I haven’t told anyone about you and the Dazzlings. I had my doubts at first, but seeing how you overworked to this point, plus your reaction from before… man, you almost make me think that I picked the wrong man to betroth me.”

A warm smile plastered on my face, “Thanks for your kindness and trust Jane. I promise you that I will do my best.” I said with glee while getting on my feet.

“No problemo. Just make sure that those girls don’t end up in a mob. They can win against an entire group of guys in motorcycles. I don’t want to know the things they could do if they become criminals.”

“Hm, you knew about that? I thought that information was only on their record.”

“And how do you think that the institution knew about that? I had to help a friend of mine in the hospital because of them. The place was running out of hands after those girls send them there. I lost the count of how many broken bones I saw that day! For goodness sake, those girls are the devil!” she exclaimed with wide eyes.

“That makes me a daredevil then?” I joked while making my way to the door of the room.

“Well, since you have two jobs, you should be the one planning takeouts,” she joked back, “hey, before you leave. Are you sure that you don’t need another wack?”

“I don’t want to take the chance to get an overdose,” I approached the door, a sudden thought prompting to my head as my hand grabbed the knob, “hey Jane. Thanks for telling me that story. I’m sure it will help me out when things get rough.”

“Don’t worry; I have been waiting to tell you everything for a long time. Just give me a call when you want to know the rest of it. Or and anon…”

“Yeah?”

I opened the door and glanced to the hall as she spoke, “I didn’t spy on you and the girls on purpose, it was by accident. But let me be clear about this: I haven’t been able to do it again…” She said, her tone hinting doubt and in someway… fear…

“I have tried time and time again… but… Let’s talk about this whole thing later ok? It gives me the creeps…”

I didn’t need to turn back to know she was shuddering in discomfort, “Sure. Just give me some time while I set everything up for the end of the month. By the way, I’ll keep you informed about my condition once I get a check by the docs. For the meantime, I need to remember today’s lessons for my three sessions. See you later,” I added before leaving the infirmary.

This day has been a rollercoaster of emotions.

I was hoping that Sonata’s new found skills and Adagio’s caring to be the only things to think about today… but… Jane last word…

What did she mean by that?

I haven’t been able to do it again, the words played back in my head.

Author's Note

Sorry for the delay, I had been working on other projects while trying to find an editor for this fic. The bad news is that... I haven't found another editor yet