As the classes went on Paul didn't paid much attention to teacher's lectures, and most of the time he was glancing outside the window, but suddenly, he saw the faint light in the dark abyss, it was very faint that even if someone pass by this they will not notice, and Paul had forgotten too, but when he looked back, he saw the light very faint almost in the verge of disappearing, "right, those numbers."
He grabbed his pen and open the notebook which is clearly blank, and write the numbers 23 25 38 49 49 66 and 66 69 76 77 82 87 105 . He looked at the numbers and thought, it's prolly not coordinates , he is sure, then maybe some letter transformation? maybe if it was some different language then, it was out of his league, and he had to ask someone in the office to check it out, next he drawn paranormal lines which he thought could be map of streets or subway, a minute passed and he is having hard time remembering this, he feels like he'd seen this place before, which ....is it.?
He took out the smartphone from his pant's pocket, and opened the map app and gave the slight glance towards front, teacher still spitting some nonsense, first he checked the "Corsalis" , he zoomed - in, zoomed-out trying to find the similarities between the lines and map, after looking for almost five minutes he finally locked in the "Drayden" streets, which is about 7-8 kilometres away from his apartment , but still some things doesn't add up, the lines he had drawn are more than the Drayden streets.
"Maybe" he changed the map to subway only, and tried to match, still... finally a thought erupted in his mind, and he started drawing the streets lines of drayden just like what he'd seen on Liam's place, just simple lines, after drawing that he turned that page, and draws the subway lines in a different page after he finished, he teared out the those two pages, and put the pages up and down sometimes changing the rotation, and it's done.
He put the streets lines up front just as he has seen before, and put subway lines in back of it, the subway lines up-front just like smartphone's cameras, it didn't matched at first but when he rotates the subway line page to vertical from horizontal, it's somehow similar to the paranormal lines he'd drawn earlier.
"Drayden, is it ?" Next he tried to come-up with something that matches with the numbers, rectangular box design, and the Drayden.
"If this is what I think it is then maybe it's.."
He started writing something "AIBEIONPO" , what's this means ,he thought, "is it some password or something, but still there are so many errors in this, and there's still something missing, but…. maybe they made it that way ?? isn't this too simple," he looked sideways ,the normal students, "maybe it's not but still…"
Tring tring tring ~
And it's the time for a break, to eat something, or go to the washrooms. Paul put the pages in a notebook and closed it, put it inside the backpack, and now that faint light had turned a little bright, even if he was a little far away he could see it.
He waited for 7-8 minutes in his seat, as class cleared up and few students remained including Varsha, boss's daughter and the girl with long black hair, which caught his attention earlier.
Paul looked up for a second, a little annoyed or a little angry, don't know why, he stood up back to his normal expression, and glanced sideways just for a half a second, and exited the classroom and went towards the cafeteria to buy his lunch.
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After buying lunch from school's cafeteria, he arrived near the metal bench little too far away from the main playground, there are few trees behind the bench, but no other students could be seen aside from him, though cafeteria is rather big but it was always crowded around this time, so Paul had chosen this place to eat, he had brought two veg sandwiches , and one fruit juice.
He sat down and unwrapped the plastic cover from sandwich, and about to take the first bite when he heard someone's voice -
"Excuse me, would you mind if I sit here?"
It's a girl's voice. He clicked his tongue with dissatisfaction and raised head slightly to look at the owner of the voice. He saw the girl, the same girl he saw yesterday, when he was with Sara in a restaurant , and he had looked outside and saw her standing near the flower shop. He wasn't sure at first but right now, he confirmed that, both girls the one, who was in the class and the one he saw near the flower shop, are same single girl, who is standing right in front of him, and asking his permission to sit beside him, but Paul of course didn't paid any attention to her and said -
"Do what you want" And took the bite.
The girl can clearly see that Paul is ignoring her, yet she managed a slight smile and sat down next to him.
She began eating her lunch, which coincidentally or not, was the same as Paul's: two veggie sandwiches and a fruit juice of the same flavor. As both eating their lunch there's awkward air started filling between them, the girl noticed it, and took the sip from her juice and asked -
"Do you always come here to eat at lunch time?" not expecting anything in reply.
Paul thought about the question, answered with a single "NO."
She nodded slightly inside her head, and asked again "Hmm... I always see you alone like this, and even in the class you are always looking outside the window, don't you have any friends or…"
"Just get to the point, why are you here?" Paul spoke up, without even letting her finish the sentence, feeling impatient and irritated at the same time.
She didn't lose her small smile, and answered "I.. I just saw you alone, and thought that being alone all the time isn't a good thing. You know, there's many mental illnesses that can happen, maybe you started talking to yourself , so i came here to talk to you, and to keep you company that's all."
"I'm not looking for your pity."
"Hmm.... "She looked at Paul's face for a second, and said with a playful grin "Then why were you looking at me in the classroom."
Paul was almost finished eating, and was sipping the juice, she continued "Yep I noticed that, but the way you always act like, "I don't care" without any interest in anyone, but looking in my direction , I would've ignored it, if it was once or twice maybe but you were just…"
With a mischievous smile she added "Well that's that, but I don't mind anyway, and it's a good plus point for me, that someone who doesn't have any interest in anyone looking at me five- six times... Ahh it's embarrassing..."
As she finished speaking and looked at Paul, he was looking in front , towards the playground, without showing any interest in the words she just said, "whaat ?"
"Hey!!!, are you even listening ?"
Yeah he was listening to every word she spoke, and he was also wondering ,why? It's the same question, why is he looking at her in the classroom? Is it just because he saw her yesterday? No, there's something else he knows, but he doesn't know himself?
"Well.. All that aside I'm Mia , what about you?" She asked with smile.
At this time he finished eating, and stood up from the bench and throwed the empty juice packet in the bin, ready to walk to the classroom.
Mia hurriedly added, seeing no response - "This kind of attitude isn't a good thing, you know that?"
Paul stopped his walking legs and calmly "Paul... And don't show your face in front of me again."
Mia nodded with a true smile, but Paul didn't look back. He was already far away ,maybe from this distance, he might not be able to recognize…