Chapitre 42: Chapter 42: Dagger Looks

"Oh hello! You're from before right?! Nice to see you again!" I hear a cheerful yet mellow voice behind my back as I turned around. It's... the girl with the short red curly hair! Um... now this is a bit awkward... last time we met she was cursing me out and now she's treating me nice? She did a complete one-eighty...

"Hi... um.. I didn't expect you to call me so soon..." I responded timidly as I stumbled over my words. I looked at Lawrence to give me a helping hand but he's just sitting on the corner sleeping with his head on the desk. I guess Diana must have worn him out too much.

"Are we going to be classmates?! I'm so excited! I'm new around here and I really want to get to know everybody!" She tightly grabbed me by the hand as she started jumping up and down with an excited expression.

"Same! I'm happy as well! I'm glad we're in the same class!" I responded, although in the back of my mind I still wondered about what happened at that time. She was like a completely different person when I bumped into her the second time and now she's being friendly with me? I guess I should just shrug that off and enjoy everything.

"By the way! What's your name exactly? I'm Molly!" She smiled at me, offering her hand for a handshake.

"Oh, Celestina. Nice to meet you too!" I accepted her hand. Shaking it vigorously before letting go of it with a smile on my face. I'm always known to give quite a good handshake to someone.

"Anyways I'll go ahead and go to the bathroom! Be right back okay!" Molly said to me as she put her stuff beside my desk. "Can you watch over my stuff for a bit! Bye!" She went on ahead and got off the room before the school bell rung.

Hm.. she's quite a peculiar girl. Although she seems to be very friendly and sweet! I think we'll get along well. The sudden cursing is a bit of a problem though. I wonder what could she be hiding with those. As I continued to get lost in my thought, I can feel Lawrence suddenly tugging on the end of my skirt while his head is still face planted on the table.

"Yes? What do you need Lawrence?" I turned to him, asking him why he was tugging on my skirt.

"Hey. Do you notice something strange? There's this ominous feeling all over this room. Don't tell me you don't notice it too." He whispered to me as he looked up to my face.

Huh? Is something strange about the room? I've never really spotted anything strange so for him to say that was a bit of an odd thing to do actually... As I looked around the room. I've finally noticed it, everyone was whispering to each other as they peeked glances at me. Their looks were a bit malicious and conniving actually, their sharp stares were enough to pierce through my soul.

That does raise a question as to why are they doing that? Why are they suddenly staring at me weirdly? It's not as if I'm comical to look at. Am I just that interesting to look at to get so many disgusted glances from people...

"Hello, class!" Suddenly the teacher appears before us, everyone in the vicinity stopped what they were doing to look at the teacher as they got tidied up to go to their seats. I guess I should also go to my seat as well. I sat beside Lawrence and got comfortable.

The teacher introduced herself to be "Ms. AppleBom." she was a petite and kind woman with very soft and delicate skin. She was actually very pretty and I think she has the sweetest voice. She informed us that there were 10 transfers in the classroom room right now. So she got into rollcall and proceeded to look in her checklist.

She called everyone's name, including mine and Lawrence and we yelled out present. Although the looks of the other people around us were a bit displeasing. I'm not really sure how to describe it but they looked like they hated us or something. It's as if we did something wrong. I don't really understand what's going on...

"Molly?" The teacher called for Molly but no one answered. Huh? Where is she? Didn't she say that she was just going to the bathroom? Why isn't she back yet?

"Oh, Molly is here right now! She's actually in the bathroom." I shouted to let the teacher know. She nodded giving me an understanding look. "Oh. I see! Can you perhaps call her for me? She might have gotten lost which is a common thing here." The teacher asked me to go ahead and look for her.

I nodded and accepted to the request, getting the map from Lawrence as he handed it to me before I left the classroom. As I made a stroll to the hallway which was empty at this point since all the classes have already started. I finally saw Molly in the distance running.

"Hey! The teacher is calling for you! I shouted to her in the distance as she got closer and closer to me.

"Oh my god! Who knew trying to navigate these hallways were so difficult! Where's our classroom? I'm honestly a bit lost!" She whimpered, incredibly worried about something. Oh. I guess she's a bit of a klutz just like I am.

"Oh, the classroom is actually over there! Over this hallway let's go. I'll go ahead and show you the way! I tell her and we both decided to head to our classroom together. As we made our way to our classroom, we saw the teacher coming out of the classroom.

That's odd? Why is she going out of the classroom? Perhaps she might be getting something. I told myself, but as we got closer to the classroom. I heard...

"Why is she even here?" "I can't believe she has the nerve to show up." "That girl is so disgusting! Doing it at school!" "She shouldn't be here!" Those words echoed through the hallway. It was the sounds of my classmates... their words... who are they talking about exactly?!