One more ordinary morning, I woke up very early, went to the bathroom and washed my face. I went back to my room and put on my school uniform still thinking about the dream I had, I wonder out loud:
-Until when will my dreams have more excitement than my life? - Well, the mirror didn't answer.
I'll tell you who I am. To tell you the truth I have nothing impressive. My name is Calla Branca, I'm 16 years old, it's been exactly 15 days since I had my birthday and today is the first day of school. My mother decided that I would go to my second year of high school in a new school because my old schoolmates started turning their backs on me one by one, all of them. I just haven't figured out why, maybe I find out when someone else turns my back on me. Looking me at in the mirror, I see a not so thin 1.50 tall girl with dark brown hair and black eyes, this girl is very fond of eating and helping others, all she wants is see that contributed to someone's smile, and if I'm not asking too much, I want the person not to turn his back to me on it after that, even though by this time in my life I'm already used to it.
Now resuming my morning activities, I have already prepared myself and I am eating oldy bread. As I was in a hurry I just took an apple from the fruit bowl and went to the door with the apple in hand, the bread in my mouth and the backpack on my shoulder, before leaving, already with the door open, I see my mother in the hallway and I say:
-I'm leaving mother! - Still closing the door, I hear.
-God bless you Branca! Hope you make many friends on your first day! - That's what she says.
I don't like it when she calls me that, but that's not what bothered me right now. I know my mother was very sad about what happened to me, she doesn't want to see me alone even if it makes no difference to me. She always tried to explain to me the true spirit of friendship:
-This Marcia! Doesn't she know she's the best friend I could ever want? -Already I'm almost there, my mind is racing. -Ouch! How cold in the belly! I hope not to ruin everything this time, Dona Marcia will not find another good school near home.
I say that missing with just a few steps to enter the gates of my new school. I was really impressed with the size and beauty of the school.
-I hope I don't get lost on the first day. - It was no different. -The second bell has already rung and I'm alone in the hallway. -AHHH! I have to run! Who was the madman who separated the rooms by letters, numbers and series? At least I know I'm on the right floor! I think I went through my class and didn't see it. - I say that by turning around and to be sure, I take another look at the paper my mother marked my class. Suddenly I bumped into someone and almost fell, I just didn't fall because that person holds me by the arm.
-Look where you walk, stupid girl! - He speaks aloud, dropping my arm with a sudden movement.
S-sorry, I'm nervous about being late and I'm still lost. -I was afraid of him, I nodded my head apologizing again, and when I walked, he took the paper from my hand and said.
-Follow me. -Now that I noticed his face. He had a serious expression and looked much older than me. Are you a teacher?
-Where is the Lord taking me? -I speak in distress.
-Sir? -He talks with a wry laugh, which makes me more afraid. He stops in front of a door I'm behind. Then he says.
-Confirm everything I say. - Now he was serious, and I was so distressed that I didn't even realize this was my class. He knocks on the door three times, I saw some students looking our way and then I saw the teacher, which surprised me, he immediately says.
-I'm sorry teacher, I was late, because I found this girl crying in the hallway, I thought she was a freshman, but when I made her stop crying, she showed me a piece of paper and soon saw that we were the same classroom.
What a liar! I'm sure he said just to get rid of the scolding he was about to take for wandering around school! I just don't tell the teacher why this story seems to have worked, but that's great! Now everyone will think I'm a crybaby!
Come in both of you and sit at the end of the room at the remaining tables. - Speaks the teacher looking at me with a pitying look.
Now I imagine that everyone is looking at me like I'm a joke when I come in, and that person becomes the hero. Looking better, I don't think they even noticed, how strange. What is the name of this boy? I soon see that the teacher is talking about the lessons throughout the year. I think it's better to focus on the teacher and leave this idiot for another time.
After a few classes, I soon heard the signal for the break, some classmates surrounded me asking if I was ok and if I wanted to be with them at break. Which was pretty weird, I accepted. I didn't talk to that boy again that day, but even at home I had his image in my mind of how stupid he was with me. Who is he?
Another day finally. Today I woke up in a good mood and I'm not late. Even my mother was surprised.
-Did you make up with Calla's alarm clock? It is very rare to find him radiant early in the morning. -He talks by putting a bread on the table.
-It's rare to have bread in the morning. - I retort just to tease her.
-Your father has already gone to work, he asked me to buy bread, but he didn't even let me set the table, you know how your father is! You didn't even tell me how your day was yesterday, I was a little worried, but now seeing you like that ... I think I worried in vain. -She is smiling, I will not tell about the rude boy, so I do not worry about a subject, I made a point of ignoring.
-I lost myself, but a very polite boy helped me find the class room, other than that was all normal, I even sat with some classmates at break. - I speak with a forced smile on my face, I just wanted to forget that person.
-Was he handsome? -With so much to ask she decides to comment on him? I declare. He spoiled my breakfast!
I didn't notice. I was worried about being late. And I need to keep walking so I won't be late again.
-Do you want to go to school soon to see him? Now I know why you woke up so happy! _Ahhh, nobody deserves it! I don't even know if I'm still happy. I finish getting ready and leave the house quietly trying to avoid further comments from Dona Marcia. For now, it worked, but when I get the back, I'll lock myself in my room, just in case.
I came along listening to my favorite song, even forgot about my mom or the weird boy, then dived into my little world that started dancing while walking.
-Oh! How embarrassing! I hope no one has seen me! I speak in a low voice, looking around to see if there are any people around. -Ufa! I see no one.
I arrive at school still red, remembering my little dance in the middle of the street. And I cause another awkward situation, for a distraction I stumble and fall to the ground. I try to cover my face, but everyone at the door sees me, one hand is extended to me.
-Are you alright? -A delicate girl with a tender face helps me to get up.
-I am fine! -I am gaping, how beautiful girl! She looks like a princess with a seemingly velvety white skin, blond hair and blue eyes. Soon she interrupts my reverie.
-I was sorry for your fall, I was afraid it would occur to me on my first day.
We're lucky I fell and not you, right? -I speak without thinking and soon realize that I said bullshit. She laughs.
– I'm Iris, I'm from 2nd grade 2B. – She reaches out to greet me.
-How nice we are from the same room! My name is Calla Branca, but please just call me Calla. - I return the gesture, taking her hand, which was extremely soft.
-It's a pleasure, Calla!
-No, it's my pleasure! Can I return the favor by showing you to the class room?
-Yes of course! -She speaks, as if I took a weight off her back.
We walk and talk, she's so much fun and looks like me. She tells me that she always has to police herself to avoid falling in the middle of the street, that she always stumbles, when not, lets things fall bumping into them, is 15 years old and likes the same band as me.
-I'm starting to think you fell so I could know you, I couldn't even imagine how much we have in common. -Iris speaks very excited.
-Yeah. This is our class room!
-I need help. Now everyone has their seats, and they already know each other from previous years, where am I going to sit? Who am I going to talk to at break? - As a "déjà vu".
-Stay calm! There's a vacant seat near my wallet and you'll have a vacant seat next to me in the break if you want to be my friend.
-Yep! - She talks excited, I have a feeling that my friendship with Iris may last longer than the others.
Going towards my seat, I see the strange boy, his wallet is right behind mine, we are in the window row we are the last of the room, I suggested that Iris sit in a wallet on my right side. I see a group of girls whispering and looking our way, I don't care much, because I'm wondering why the students in this room have left such good vacant seats. I have a feeling that I'll find out soon, those girls are coming my way.
-It's a shame that newbies have to sit next to Kaleo Roller, so it's just you who don't know what this psychopath is capable of. -I felt like a tease to him, but he seemed distracted looking out the window, seemed not to have heard them defame him, because he wore headphones. The other one adds
- Don't misunderstand Mand. - My name is Anna\, this is Livia\, and this is Amanda. She hates him because one day he teased her. –Anna tries to explain\, soon after Livia also expresses
-Don't scare them! --Look girls just be careful with him, he can have many faces, but in end he is not flower to smell. -They turn and walk, then I realize that he was staring at them with a look as cold and dark as winter nights Iris also noticed, I saw her shiver all over, she seems to have been shaken by what the girls said.
Soon the Professor arrives and makes us sit, something impelled me to look back, he was looking at the window with his gaze far away, however stupid he was with me something seemed wrong. I needed more than the first impression and comment from people I don't know to start avoiding someone. To tell you the truth now, I really want to know who this boy is. Soon he asks me.
-Did you believe them? -He still looks at nothing, surely he was not listening to music while the girls spoke. But his voice has something that only made me doubt the girls even more.
- Should I believe it? - I don't want you to think I'm on his side, I still think he's an idiot.
- You have to make up your own mind. But I do not advise staying near me to find out, it can be extremely unpleasant. -He turns to me, with a really scary look and a creepy tone of voice. The irises in his eyes were crimson red and his expression was hateful. I turned sharply forward, drawing the attention of the teacher and the class.
I apologized and picked up the book and opened it on any page, I could hear it laughing softly behind me. When everyone stopped looking at me, I ask Iris the page of the book. She whispers to me.
-But Calla, the teacher is not using the book. -I hear Kaleo choke behind me, he was holding back not to laugh out loud.
So, I stop being scared and see myself getting angry, I turn to look at him with my deadly gaze, he seems to have fun with me.
-You're an idiot, the kind of person I have so much fun with. - At that moment, I saw that his eyes were black. But then they change color to bright yellow. - I'll warn you, I'm not delicate with my toys.
I am warned by the teacher, but my mind does not go back to class, I saw his eyes changing color. I saw! In black they turned yellow! I stayed airborne for the next few classes until Iris touched me and said.
-Calla? Didn't you hear the signal for the break? You look pale! Are you feeling sick? - I wake up from my frightened trance, was not thinking right when I said.
-He can't be human! –Iris strange.
-Who are you talking about? Is that the boy sitting behind you? Wow, I got scared of him after what the girls said. - What she said made me laugh and at the same time woke me up, imagine if it was her in my place. I decided not to think of anything else at that moment and went to eat with her.
At the break I could talk to her more, while we were eating at a table in the courtyard I had the feeling of being watched, it filled me with chills, and it did not pass, I went to the room having the same feeling, then thought it was delayed reaction of what I had seen this because before I had not sketched reaction just paralyzed and started thinking nonsense, how, is he an ET? Or a demon? But if he were a devil, what would he do here? Yeah, I really traveled. If I wasn't afraid of him, he would be fun! I just hope it didn't give Iris a bad impression. Today wasn't a normal day for me.
Right after class time, I say goodbye to Iris and pick up my headphones to listen to music on the way back home. After a song or two and a few meters walking I'm alone on a street that I wasn't in the habit of walking, got scared and started walking fast, still had the same feeling of being watched, but now I couldn't imagine a possible reason for having this feeling, besides being followed. The day is dark, it seems to rain, I feel like a figure is passing behind me and, on impulse, shout:
-Kaleo stop! That's not funny! Looks like you took the day to scare me. –But no one answers, and I shout again,
-Why are you doing this? Did I do something you didn't like? I can apologize, but show up soon! Kaleo! -A man comes out of the shadows and asks me.
-Who is Kaleo? Will it be your boyfriend? -I try to run away, but he grabs me. - Be quiet, your boyfriend won't know about both of us.
-Let me go! - I scream in despair and struggle all over for him to let me go.
I keep screaming for help, and ask him to let me go, but that man had no good intentions and wasn't just going to let me go.
I keep screaming for help, and I ask him to let me go, but that man had no good intentions and wouldn't just let me go. I was desperate and already in tears when this man overpowered me with one hand and tried to lower his pants with the other.
I even tried to fight back, but all my punch he tells me he didn't even tickle. In a moment of distraction on his part I kicked hard between the legs and punched him in the face, but he threw himself on me and his weight didn't let me escape, at that moment he stopped harassing me and started hitting me.
-You disgusting! Damn bitch deserves to go to hell ... - He was interrupted by someone who twisted his arm breaking him without any effort. -Ouch! You bastard!
-You should look in the mirror before you speak ill of anyone, you're rubbish, it's smaller than a man's shadow. - I was still in shock. I had no idea that a benefactor came to help me, much less knew who this someone was.
-I kill you! And I still eat the slut over there. - My benefactor was very angry at this and retaliated in such a way that the man fainted. I heard him talking to someone on the phone right after that, I passed out.
I woke up in a hospital bed with my parents by my side, I was dizzy, because they drugged me so that I didn't feel pain. I heard a doctor talking to my parents saying how lucky I was to be saved before being touched by the rapist who attacked me because he had the HIV virus and I soon fell asleep for the medicines. I woke up at dawn with the noise of a nurse in the room.
–You woke up. Need to go to the bathroom? If you want, I help you go.
– You don't have to help me, just tell me where I already appreciate it.– I was all sore, my face was burning and he was feverish, my abdomen hurt as if I had exaggerated at the gym and the rest of my body as if I had the flu, but my stubborn side would not allow me to ask for help. The nurse explained the way to the bathroom and I walked slowly.
Halfway there I was dizzy and almost fell, a not so tall man helped me to stand, so a familiar voice asks me:
–Are you alright? -Was Kaleo, I pulled his arm and said:
– I need to go to the bathroom and you're disturbing me. – I was so dizzy I didn't realize it was the same creepy Kaleo sitting behind me at school. I walk away, take two steps, my legs fail and fall to the floor.
– I'll help you. – Kaleo takes my arm and puts it around his neck leading me to the ladies' room door. – You are still from here. –He talks a little embarrassed, he tries to take my arm off his shoulder, but is interrupted by me, I had vomited on him.
– Argh! –He looks sideways to see if anyone is around to help, however there was no one. -Excuse! -It is what he shouts when entering the bathroom and once again had no one.
–You are stinking! –I speak to him without having a clue what he had done or said.
He still patiently opens one of the doors of a toilet and leaning his body against the stall wall puts me kneeling in front of the toilet, then I threw up everything I had in my stomach and what I didn't have. He was by my side all the time. When I just threw up everything felt a little better, I think the calming effect was gone and I became more lucid.
– Kaleo?" "What do you do here? – I finish my sentence and my stomach growls very loudly.
–I'll explain later. – Let's buy something better than hospital food just to see if this time it gets in your stomach and not in my cold shirt. He laughs, I see a sweet smile and a shy laugh.
–I threw up on you? –I really didn't remember anything. – Can you tell how I got here? – He smiles at me making me feel safe, but didn't answer me, he didn't look anything like the Kaleo I saw at school.
He bought me a snack and took it to my room.
–Tell me what you are doing here? What I'm doing ... –I suddenly begin to remember that I was being followed out of school, and that a man attacked me, and it made me start to cry and sob. Kaleo sits beside me on the bed and hugs me. I cry even louder and cling to his shirt, pressing it against my face trying to muffle the sound of my crying. I hear footsteps, nurses come to the room, but when they see him, they just close the door. After a long time crying, I was exhausted, two nurses came into the room and put soothing serum into my vein. Before falling asleep I asked Kaleo to be with me I didn't want to be alone, but I didn't want to see my parents at that time.
That night, despite recent events, I had one of my almost routine dreams, maybe the warm sensation of Kaleo's hand will contribute to that, no, maybe it was just soothing, but the sense of security didn't come from the medicine.
The dream was long, but it had gone so fast and so confusing that even within the dream I knew I was asleep and was sure I wouldn't remember anything the next day, I can almost always control the events of my dreams as if they were. parts of my life, of my memory.
Somehow something was repeated throughout the dream, I saw two children playing in a flower field, or in a creek, had no dialogues, just relaxed childish laughter, such dreams are so relaxing, anyway my heart warmed and it throbbed like a bird watching those innocent scenes.
Even without dialogue a word was repeated and echoed throughout the scenes. Once the childish voice was so distant, almost obliterated by laughter and colorful scenes, now it grew louder and deeper and had a familiar tone. Have I heard that voice before?
My quest in the midst of the dream disturbs me and everything begins to get dark, the childish laughter has given way to a sadistic and hideous laugh, I no longer feel the heat in my hands and my heart freezes with fear. I try to run but don't leave the place, where am I? It is a house? Is it an alley? A cemetery? The fear of death comes over me. What do I do to wake up? Usually just knowing that I'm sleeping and that the dream isn't pleasing me is enough for me to wake up.
Suddenly the word repeated in the dream was so loud and desperate that I could finally make out.
– Princess! Princess!!! The scream was a mixture of childish voice with a deeper voice. Someone is calling me! Then I awake.
I soon realized that I woke up at the time I usually get up to go to school, wondering why I always wake up late at home. My father was talking to a doctor outside the room and my mother was looking at me, I still a little confused by the dream that was already fading from my mind, however, I don't mind forgetting such a dream. So, my mother decides to say:
–How do you feel daughter? –She has a crying face, it leads me to think that, just did not see my parents yesterday because my father had taken her home to try to calm her. My mother is sensitive, if she were here last night, she would be sick and would have to be hospitalized with me.
–I'm much better now, I'm not in so much pain, the nurses took good care of me and the ... – I looked around the room wondering where Kaleo was, didn't find it and on impulse asked. –Mom, did you ever see any boys in my room
–No, I don't think other patients visit the other rooms, each one stays in his own.
–That led me to believe my mother didn't know about Kaleo.
–Hmm.
I was a little sad that he was gone, I had not even thanked him, he was taking care of me yesterday ... I was interrupted by my mother:
–Ohhh, are you talking about Kaleo? – As soon as my mother speaks his name he appears at the door. –He just went to the hospital cafeteria to buy something for you and he eat, as soon as I arrived, I asked him to go there.
–Mom do you know him? –I was a little confused by everything, I still didn't know why he was in the hospital, or why he had helped me yesterday in the corridor.
– I've been here since yesterday when I checked in with you at the hospital. – I was worried. I was amazed at that, had not remembered the face of who saved me, actually passed out without seeing.
He puts a tray of warm bread on the plate, chocolate milk, and an apple on the bedside table and pulls it to a halt in front of me, all with one hand as the other was busy with his snack: a sugary donut. He turns to my mother and says:
–Thank you for everything. – He had a calm but distant look, and a serious expression, I could see his eyes were dark.
–Imagine, you did a lot more for my daughter than I did for you, we talked to the sheriff and explained his situation, he asked that when Calla was discharged, I would take her to give a statement, I can take you along. –You've been here with her all this time.
–Fine, I just need to go home and have a shower. –On this my father enters the room:
– Let's let us take you home, the Branca is already high. – I saw him put his hand in his mouth not to laugh. With so much going on he still finds time to laugh at my last name. Seriously, he answers my father:
–Sir, you need not worry. I go to my house get ready and wait for you to call me to meet at the police station, I imagine you are tired and your daughter even more. –I have the impression that he is embarrassed before my father.
–Don't call me sir, refer to me with a "you" or Antonio himself. And it's no bother that I leave you home and then pick you up there to go to the police station together.
I don't think he liked my parents' insistence, but he eventually gave in. I finished my breakfast and a nurse took me to where I was going to take a shower. She showed me the bathroom facilities handed me everything I needed for my bath and the clothes my mom had brought. Before leaving she turned to me and said:
–You're lucky to have a boyfriend who takes care of you, it was like a movie of him getting into the emergency room with you in his arms. –I was blushing and when I went to say that I barely know him the nurse had simply left the bathroom.
I took off my clothes slowly, because I still had a sore body, turned on the water and waited for it to warm up, that's when I saw the bruises on my body. I felt lousy, like a rag a rubbish, something to use and throw away. I took my shower crying silently, my tears mingled with the hot water that descended on me, I remembered what Kaleo had said about that man, it wasn't me the trash but that sadist who wanted to use me to satisfy his desires. more malicious and filthy.
In that bath I was not only washing my body she was also washing my soul, there I decided not to condemn myself for someone else's psychological disorder, but I confess, it is difficult to forget and forgive. I don't want to carry the weight of this hurt the rest of my life, this isn't me. I knew this would take a while and I decided to give myself that time, one day I would forgive him.
I got out of the shower with a horrible face. I saw Kaleo outside, he said nothing to me, I don't know how, but he seems to understand me. It didn't take long, after an hour we were already going to the police station. In the car nobody gave a word, that was good for me, nothing they said would comfort me in the same way that their silence comforted me. After a few hours of leaving the police station I went outside waiting for my parents, I was standing there staring at nothing thinking about nothing, when I realized that Kaleo was beside me looking at the horizon, taking my hand he said:
–It's gonna be okay. – Those words echoed in my heart that was like a castle of ice crystals at that moment, they came like a ray of sunshine and some tears came down as if the ice was melting, but I was not bad I felt light, clean, I cried of relief and I could smile.
–Thanks for everything.
–No need to say thank you, let's just say it was my good annual deed. – It sounds a bit like phrase made, I laughed again.
–For me it was more than that, and you know, I'm not so afraid of you anymore. – He looks at me with concern and jumps my hand.
– Better if you kept on fearing me, I may have done you a good deed, but that doesn't mean I'm good. Be careful what you think of me, chances are I will not meet your expectations. I'm going, tell your parents I had jail. – He walked toward the sunset. I don't know what to think of him. Before he went too far, I said:
– Then I'll let you be anything you want when I see you again. Villain or good guy, whatever, be yourself. – My words did not make much sense to me. However, I was sure that for him, that certainty came with a smile and a sentence:
–If you take care little girl, and for your sake don't say anything you saw about me to anyone.
–Do you have a reputation to protect? – I ask trying to amuse him.
– Let's say yes and that's it. -Then he walked again. I take a few steps forward and ask:
-I see you tomorrow at school? -Still walking he says:
–Maybe, but I'm not so sure I'll be the same yesterday or today. –And then he puts on headphones. My parents arrive a while later and ask him, I say he was stuck and so let's go home.
That night everything was quiet at home my father bought pizza, ice cream and rented movies, and there on the living room couch with a blanket and my parents next door I fell asleep. The other day I woke up in my bed, got ready as quickly as I could and went to the kitchen, and with a smile I say:
–Good morning your Antonio and Dona Macia! – It wasn't all normal, but everyone was thankful God sent Kaleo to help me. I'm sore but looking forward to this new day, it smells of life!
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