“Harvey!” My heart starts to beat as fast as I ran a million miles. It's Zoe! She ran towards me, and she gave me a warm hug.
“Where have you been? I've been waiting for you, why you took so long?” I asked. I hug her back.
“I forgot to tell you, I'm from our old villa, I did some important stuff, and my legal papers, but you don't need to think about it, I'm fine!” she exclaimed.
“Do the teachers know about it?” I looked at her, she smiled at me, “Yes, of course, I already told them before I decided to be absent from our class.”
“Can we take a picture?” she shows her phone, “I'm going to keep our photo, smile!” she smiled at the camera while I'm staring at her.
She's reviewing the picture, “Why are you staring at me? Look at the camera,” she giggles.
“Oh, wait, can I fix your white and black hair?” she raised her hand, “What? White and black? Eh?” I asked.
The last time I check, my hair is white with black roots, but it's the same, right? Nevermind.
“Take 2, one... two... three... Smile!” She smiled at the camera, and I kissed her cheek. She immediately gave a glanced at me.
“H-Harvey! What was that?” she looked at the ground, and I can sense her cheeks blushing. I gave her a genuine smile.
“Nothing, sorry for a sudden action, let's go?” I lend a hand, and she holds it immediately. It looks like my heart is going to throw up.
We walk through the hallway, “Miss Riego? Mister McKenzie? what are you doing?” we both gasped because our teacher suddenly appeared.
She secretly released my hand, which makes my heartache for a second.
“Nothing, Teacher, we were actually will go to our classroom,” Zoe murmured. She's giving a blank stare, while our teacher is looking at her with a blank expression.
“Are you sure? By the way, you two, follow me, we will go to my office, I need to tell something to the both of you,” the teacher stated.
I gave a glance om Zoe, she smiled at me as a sign that it's okay. I sighed, she's walking beside me, and she's just 5 centimeters away from me.
We were facing our teacher's back. After a few moments, we reached the office. Our teacher offers a seat, and we gladly accepted it.
“Okay, listen up, we are going to have some party next week, and I want the two of you to lead the students.” She's looking at me, and I felt like she's judging my appearance.
“Miss Riego will make a list for their different themes, but she will tell them that it should look like a horror room, and Mister McKenzie will check if they are cooperating with us.” She turned her gaze to Zoe.
I heard that Zoe's gulped to clear her throat. The teacher shows us the sample list for the different designs.
“The options will be, group party, special party, doll party, and travel party,” she said, we both nodded as a sign that we understand her.
“It's up to the student on how well they handle it, and how can they use their creativity, but there's a rule for the two of you.” She looks at me intently, while I'm breathing slowly and steady.
“Don't tell them that I assigned some tasks to the both of you, act normally, and help them if necessary.”
What does she mean? I'm convinced that we can do it, and nothing will bother us, unless, she commands another student to disturb us.
I hope she didn't do anything just to mess up with the tasks. I sighed.
“Oh, I forgot to tell you that, we're going to have a dangerous room, where all the students are required to get inside, and they will need to survive inside of it.” My heart starts to thump.
“Otherwise, don't worry, the two of you are not going to the room, you will observe them, and if someone is going to do something bad, you can teach them some lessons,” the teacher announced.
I don't know if I should be happy or not, but all I know is my instinct is saying that it will be dangerous, especially to Zoe.
I can sense that they were having some different agenda, and I can't prove it.
Furthermore, I need to do some investigation, however, my life will be put in danger.
“Oh, there's more, the two of you should bring a dagger, and hide it under your sleeves, or pants,” she added. I looked at Zoe, her hands were trembling.
“Any questions?” Zoe shook her head, “Teacher, why it's so sudden? I mean, the events, why it's sound like dangerous to obey?” I asked while having a bewildered look on my face.
“How can you say that it's dangerous? We will just observe their creativeness, and survival skills, what's wrong with that?” She arched her eyebrow while crossing her arms.
“For bringing some daggers, how about that? The daggers are dangerous,” I questioned.
“It's for safety purposes only, we don't control their mind, however, you will use it in case of emergency, and in case that you need to use it to protect yourself,” she answered.
“Why are you asking so many questions? Just listen to my instructions, and everything will be fine.” I'm still not convinced of her answers.
“Do whatever you want just to show your creativeness, but tell them that the genre should be horror, mystery or thriller, do whatever you like, and it's connected to the topic.” She holds her head and massages the side of her forehead.
We looked at the door because of a sudden motion, “Oh, Welcome back, Zhian!” the teacher greeted.
I looked at my watch, it's already 11:20, and we still have some subjects. Zoe is still quiet, and she not even saying some words to me.
“Zoe, how are you? And you... Harvey, right? It's been a while since I met you,” Zhian said. I gave him a blank stare.
“I'm here just to say that I need to study at home, what I mean is, I'm going to do some schooling stuff at my house, Homeschooling to be in fact,” he elaborated.
Who cares? I shrugged my shoulder, “Teacher, can we go to our classroom?” she asked, “The two of you were exempted for today's activities, you can stay here,” she added.
I shrugged my shoulder, and lean my back to the couch and, I need to calm myself.
However, everything became black.