New Friend
Claire arrived school early this morning. Claire still had much time to do. Then, she decided to go to the library. There was a book that he was very interested in. A book about time-travel. Claire read carefully, accidentally there was a piece of paper next to the back of the book she had taken. On the paper it says "Are you still alive?". Claire was surprised for a moment. He almost
threw the book away. Claire begins to imagine the incident she experienced in the year 2025. Is this about me?. But there was a piece of paper next to the book that was pasted. It was a deliberate time for a prankster to put paper here. Claire looked around the library. He saw a boy reading a book in row G. He approached the him.
"Hi, are you the one who put this paper on the book that I took?"
He turned around and looked at Claire. He took off his headset and responded to Claire.
"Sorry, what's wrong?" The man didn't hear what Claire was saying before.
Claire initially wanted to tell her what she wanted to say, but she gave up on her intention to convey her purpose.
"No, I'm sorry. No problem." Claire left the man.
"If you want to get in touch with me, just tell me Claire."
"Wait, how do you know my name?".
"Who doesn't know you, you have ever fallen down the stairs before, I was the one who reported it to the teacher. You haven't even said thank you yet."
Claire tries to remember the incident when she fell down the stairs. Yes I know now. I once fell down the stairs. I just remembered.
"Wait, you have ever seen me fall down the stairs, did I fall alone or did someone push me?"
"Why are you just suspicious now? Why didn't you just ask this question before."
"At that time, all I knew was that the stairs were slippery. No body went there. There was a sign as well. By the way, I'm Sam. We have not introduced each other yet"
"Hi, Sam. Thank you for saving me." Claire shakes hands with Sam.
"Your class is across to my class. You never see me there?".
This question made Claire became a quite for a while. Maybe Claire 4 years ago really ever saw him. But now , I went back here which is Claire from the future. I do forget some my memory then.
"I didn't remember Sam. Sorry I didn't notice you."
"You really don't care too much, maybe"
"Don't say that, sometimes I'm not too aware of my surroundings".
"When I fell down the stairs, I wondered why I was falling." Claire added seriously.
"At that time, you didn't really care, till your mother came to school and asked about the incident".
"My mom?"
"You forgot? That happened just a few months ago."
Claire thought for a moment. Maybe the paper that was deliberately put in this book, was the person who harmed Claire on the stairs a few months ago. The person has been stalking Claire for a long time. An incident that occurred a few months ago convinced Claire that her killer was at school. The suspect is actually just Tasya. But considering that there are incidents like this, it means there would be more than one killer or they could be in groups. Even if Tasya sent this paper, it would not be possible. This morning she did not see Tasya at school. Tasya has not come to school yet.
Now , there is Sam here. He also needs to be suspected. Why was he suddenly here? Claire stared Sam for a while.
"Don't tell me you're suspicious of me?" Sam looked back seriously at Claire.
"There's no way I'm hurting you on the stairs."
Sam thought about the incident on the stairs. He didn't know about the paper that was pasted in this book.
"Hum, I'm just scared".
"If you need anything, I'm ready to help, maybe about that incident".
"Thanks Sam".
The bell rang as I entered the classroom. Claire had asked Ms Ann to change seats. So Claire move out the seat. She began to feel unhappy with Claire's decision. Since they are in different path, so Claire decided not to get too close to her.
"Hi Claire. Can I talk with you for a minute". Suddenly Ms. Ann called Claire during her break.
"Claire, this is the result of your Mathematics exam, why is it so bad, Claire".
Ms Ann gave the results to Claire. Claire was shocked, she got 5.
"I did all correctly, I think Ms, But why I got 5".
"Actually, I was also a bit suspicious because the hand writing doesn't look like you Claire".
"How about like this, I will give you a second test in another classroom. You will try to do it later. I don't have schedule after 2 p.m. Claire. Can you retest for the math at IIA classroom."
"I can Miss, I don't have the class either".
"Okay, I will be waiting, Claire".
"Thank you Miss Ann."
Claire left the teacher's room with a lot of question on her mind. Who wanted to cheat her for exchanging paper test with someone else. How? It's Diana?. She is in a different class. After all, Claire didn't chase after Miko either. She left Miko for Diana after realizing that Diana likes Miko too. Tasya?. She is not the type of person who likes to get big scores. Maybe she did this because I left her and I don't want to sit with her anymore.
Claire headed to the library room. She meets Mr. Rick who always guards the school library.
"Mr Rick excuse me, I want to ask you a question"
"Yes, Claire. What do you want to ask?".
"Does he always go the library?".
"Oh, Claire. Yes, he does come here every day. Why Claire".
"It's okay, sir, I'm just asking. I met Sam at the library this morning. I thought he rarely comes here."
"But this morning there was someone came here before Sam. There is a girl, but I forgot her name".
"Is it in the guest book list?"
"Well, that's the problem. This morning the book was still in the drawer that I had locked. I haven't opened it yet."
Claire then left with unhappy answer. Wait a minute. So she went to the library, how did he know I was there and put the paper in the book I took. Yes, Claire just remembered that someone she told him where he was going this morning.
He is a school gardener. When there was Mr. Iman in front of the school, he said he wanted to go to the library to get the book he wanted.If is it him, What is her motive? The mysterious paper hasn't been solved. God, really need someone to help me like being detective maybe. This is the only way, I can find out the secret behind all this.
After redoing the math test, Miss. Ann was happy with the results.
"Claire, Finally, this is really you".
Miss Ann showed her final math scores. Claire got 9.
"Claire, next you have to be careful. If you finish doing the test score, just give it to me. Do not leave it to other friends. And it was true that during the math test a few days ago, Claire remembered that at that time Ms. Ann needed to leave class for a while. And Claire's math test paper were entrusted to the class president.
Hah. Raymond does this. It seems impossible. He is notoriously responsible and kind. Claire is getting confused. She was confused by the thousand question marks in his mind.
"Hey, Claire. Are you okay?" Sam smiled .
"Hi Sam. No, I'm just confused."
"Oh still thinking that problem? By the way, did you just go to the library thi afternoon?."
"You know that?"
"Yes, I was there, did you see me?"
"I called you many times, but as usual you didn't turn around"
"I'm sorry, I'm in a hurry because I want to redo the Math exam assignment".
"Your math teacher, Ms. Ann, isn't it? The same with my teacher too, you didn't have an exam a few days ago?"
"I did. I will tell you about that case"
"So we're friends now?".
"Ya. we are friends, of course". Claire smiled sweetly.