At School.
Lara sat behind her seat, as always. She didn’t say a word to anyone since morning.
“Good morning, students,” Ms. Narwin said.
“Good morning, ma’am,” the students spoke in unison.
"Today I have two news, a good and a bad news." Ms. Narwin said.
"What's the bad news." Leah asked.
Lara noted that Isabelle wasn’t in school today. She was about to ask when the teacher started speaking.
“Isabelle fell sick, so she can’t be in school, she will be back when she recovers, and the project will be presented when she gets back." Ms. Narwin said.
"And the good news." Leah asked.
"Today, we have a new student.” Ms. Narwin pointed at the girl beside her. Beaming life filled into the girl’s hazel eyes and her rich brown curly hair surrounded the base of her neck, she stood silently with a smile on her face.
“This is Lara Jackson, she came all the way from Texas and she won Ms. Texas this year.” Ms. Narwin said.
"Wow that's cool." Leah said to Ms. Narwin.
Lara glanced at the girl. How dare this new girl share the same name as her?
“Since we have two Lara’s, Ms. Jackson, is there a nickname we can use? Or we could call you Miss. Jackson".
“You can call me Baby or LJ" she said while smiling
"Can you introduce yourself to the class." Ms. Narwin said.
"Yes ma'am, my name is Lara Jackson I just moved to the town, my father got transferred here just last week. That's all." She said.
“Very well. You can take your seat.” Ms. Narwin said while indicating at the second seat by the window side.
Lara couldn’t stop looking at Baby, even throughout the entire lesson. The bell rang, signaling lunchtime. Baby arose and headed to the bathroom which was right next to the class room. Seconds later, Lara followed. No sooner did she arrive at the restroom, Baby jumped back for a moment.
"You scared me, Didn't hear you coming." Baby said.
“Hey, I’m Lara,” she said.
“Hi. I’m also Lara, I'm the new girl". Baby' said.
“I’ve never seen someone that has the same name as me.” Lara said while looking down.
“Well, I have met many people with my name, and guess what, you’re the ugliest and please don't disturb me, leave me alone". Baby said rudely.
"What did you say to me?." She asked in a loud voice, her voice was so loud that the whole school would have heard her.
"Why are you shouting? Look darling leave me alone, okay. I don't have time for this." Baby said while pointing at Lara.
Lara narrowed her eyes as she curled her hands into fists. Baby stared into Lara’s eyes, which burned with fire. She was about to leave when Lara grabbed her. Lara kept a tight grip on her hand and held her hair with her left hand, Lara dragged her hair so hard that it started bleeding, the blood rushed down Lara's hand. Lara spread a smile across her face when she saw that.
"I'm bleeding, let go off me." Baby said while trying to escape from Lara's hold but all her efforts went in vain.
“Hey, what are you doing? Let me go!, Let me go!” Baby said, but Lara couldn’t as she tightened her grip. “Lara? You are hurting me. Stop it please." She said, her eyes was already filled with tears.
"Lara stop."
Breaking News.
“We’re here at Black Academy, where police found the body of a dead girl, she had been brutally murdered, her clothes are torn, it looks like she struggled at lot but looking at the damaged restroom, Lara was a new student, today was her first day in school. Students said after she went to the bathroom during the lunch break no one saw her again.
Her body was found by a student when she came to use the restroom after the lunch break the reporter said. “No one has no clue what happened, no one saw anything or heard anything, and unfortunately the CCTV cameras stooped working so there is no footage of what happened?. The name of the victim is Lara Jackson. The school will be closed for further investigation, students are asked to stay at home and receive online classes.
What is happening to our town? The police still haven't been able to find the killer. This raises the same old question. Are we save in our town? Can the police protect us?.
Next day
Everyone from the school was present for Baby’s funeral, except Lara. They suspect she was responsible for Baby’s death but refused to say anything out of fear.
"Today we are gathered to honour the life of our beloved daughter Lara." The pastor said. "She left us rather too early, May her soul rest in peace and May heaven be her final abode, Please let have a moment of silence for Lara."
Once the funeral went well, and everyone headed home.
Lara came. She approached Baby’s grave, she looked at it for a minute then she walked to the small cottage by the side to take a spade and she walked to Baby's grave and she dug it out. Lara opened the coffin and took out the corpse. After that, she closed the casket and reburied it as if nothing out of the ordinary happened.
Lara took the body, and out of sight, she ate it. She did so to those that were rude to her, those that disrespected her, those that didn't listen to her, those that didn't fear her. With her hunger sated, she wiped her mouth with a napkin and headed back home.