"I'm going home", she said trying to sound calm but her loud heartbeat is not in anyway helping her at all . She could even feel the stares of everyone on her . Well they have been staring at her, right from the moment Alexander sat on the same table with her but now it seems like she is the center of the attention.
She looked back again this time they are walking close with arms outstretched as if to strangle her she screamed and tried grabbing her bag but it grabbed it before her. She was now struggling to take the bag, when it's hand started crawling up to grab her own hand. She dragged the bag but its grip was too strong like it wanted to take her but,' why?' she marveled at herself that even in all this crisis she still had the mind to think.
She looked around to see if anyone was even planning on helping her, shockingly but not surprising they were not even planning on standing up but something feels off, like they are in some kind of trance like they are not even present there .
'Well that makes it a lot even better' a little thing let it touch her hand,
"ah!", she screamed and let go of the bag and fell down .
She started hearing laughters, she looked around they were all staring and laughing at her, It was so embarrassing but it isn't the first time though . She started praying for the ground to open and swallow her, but every time she is met with disappointment. She turned to Alexander immediately to gauge his expression, he was just looking at her but her being the thinker,'I know he must be embarrassed who wouldn't be'. She saw him standing up and her spirit left her because she thought he was leaving.
But he started walking towards her she nearly stopped breathing everyone also kept quiet expecting a drama to unfold. Mariah almost bit her new manicured nails in excitement. He walked up to her, he crouched down in her level
"Are you ok?", he asked examining her body with his eyes to check for any scar .
'At least they didn't get to her. I need to practice more, so I will learn to be immune to their spells. It can't always be like this, she looks so scared. I am so useless, I can't even protect my mind from them how can I protect her', Alex was in a dilemma but his own situation had to wait he needed to make sure she was ok .
Claire could hear the worry in his voice and her heart fluttered a little .
"No", she shook her head. She is never the type to show her weak side in front of someone but what's wrong with showing one more person when everyone has seen her embarrassing side . She smiled inwardly as Alex helped her up she sure is enjoying the feeling.
"Come on let's get you cleaned up" , he said gently as if talking to a child she nodded as he took her to the bathroom .
Everyone was so shocked they dared not laugh nor even speak till they left. Mariah's eyeball nearly left their socket .
Claire entered the bathroom to clean herself. She looked in the mirror, she looked so scattered like someone that ran a marathon . Well she could have ran a marathon, if not that she couldn't . She dried herself up and left to meet Alex outside.
Luckily for her , Alex didn't ask her what happened cause she wouldn't know how to explain without looking stupid.
"Are you ok?", Alex asked again still not certain she is ok maybe she was traumatised or maybe still in shock who knows .
Claire almost laughed cause if she could remember this was like the what the fifth time he was asking her 'if she was ok'.
She smiled a little to assure him she truly was ok . Truly she was ok, it's surprising to her too because normal days she would be so shaken up that she wouldn't feel the need to talk to anybody not like anybody would even want to talk to her apart from Cleo , she thought shaking her head a little inwardly .
"Can you tell me what you saw ?", Alex asked all of a sudden . He needed to know the particular one that came to her to know if he was a level 5 or 6 since it was able to break through his mind barrier .
Claire was taken back by the question cause no one has ever cared to know, no one has ever cared to ask her but this new guy that makes her feel like she is finally home all this time is the one that asked .
" What are you crying ?", alex asked confused cause he just asked her a question and suddenly tears started dropping from her eyes he wanted to clean it but he decided to keep his paws first
'Wait was I crying', Claire thought touching her cheeks and truly she was crying, she looked at him not knowing how to answer.
"I guess I have gotten used to people calling me weirdo and stuff,but no one has ever cared to ask me what made me behave like that so I was .... "
"Moved to tears", Alexander completed it for her and smiled she is such a cry baby he thought
She smiled back and nodded a little.
She then explained how it started ,every single details and the feelings it all gave her. She was still talking when she felt him swipe his thumb below her eyes then it hit her, was her was she still crying ,since when did she turn this emotional, she thought to herself . 'It might be all this complicated feelings I get when am around Alex', she thought
Like this moment she is feeling like she could lean on his shoulders and cry and he will cuddle her . 'Oh good lord!, she is finally insane great the shadow stuffs, and now here comes the complicated feeling ,she surely is insane '.