Renzo - I don't know, from where do I even start.
Vaelis - Come on! Tell us fast!
Renzo - So it all started with...
*Flashback starts
Renzo sat alone on the edge of the wooden bench, his body present in tuition but his mind wandering far, far away.
The bell for batch dispersal had rung long ago, he was kind of, blacked out, but he hadn't moved. His hands were still strongly gripped with the pen. His eyes were locked onto the page, sketching something… or someone. A drawing? A twisted shape. The creature, strange, scary, mysterious, he had seen that day, which attacked him.
He was unsure, of the surroundings, if students around him laughed, talked, solved questions, or not
Minutes passed. The classroom door creaked.
A group of students walked in—fresh energy, slightly younger, an year junior. Everyone started sitting on their places, and a group of girls, one of them, a girl used to sit where Renzo was sitting.
A girl near the front paused.
"Uhh... are you in the wrong class?" she asked, half-joking.
Renzo looked up slowly, blinking like he'd just returned from a different world. His pencil slipped from his fingers.
"Oh—sorry, I didn't realize…"
But it was too late. She had already seen it.
The sketch.
The creature, scary, 2-3 metres tall from an average person, white cloth surrounding his whole body, the legs, looked thick and strong, the face, black, pitch black
"That's… what is that?" The girl asked again, now serious.
He didn't know how to respond. So he just said,
"I don't remember. But I saw it."
Something about his tone, the way he said it, uncleared, made her think
"Creepy," said one of the other students, peeking over her shoulder.
But she didn't move. Her eyes were still fixed on the page.
"You drew this from memory?"
Renzo, almost embarrassed now.
The tuition teacher walked in, and the class resumed. Renzo quietly left, still a bit hazy.
But the next day, she was there again.
And the next.
And eventually, they talked.
The Girl - Can you give me your pinstagram ID?
Renzo - Oh yeah sure
It's Renzo_247
The Girl - Cool! Thanks, we'll talk later!
Renzo - Oh yeah! Byee
*Renzo returned home, thinking more about the creature.
*At Renzo's house
*Renzo opens his Pinstagram
Renzo - Oh, so this is her Instagram id? Wait I literally forgot to ask her name!
Well no worries, I can see her name here,
Nyra? Cute name...
*Notification sound
"Hey", a message from Nyra
"Hello", replied Renzo
Nyra - So I want to tell you something, about, the creature.
Renzo - Creature? Oh the one I drew?
Nyra - Yes, that one, actually, I saw that creature in my dreams.
Renzo - In your dream?!?! Already before I drew it??
Nyra - Yes, I was dreaming, that, the creature you drew, was trying to attack me, tried to kill me, with, with a spear like thing, a weapon, by the time it was running after me, I was running away from it, it was very scary, I was so scared that I woke up and screamed.
Renzo - It, ran after you? With a spear? A spear like weapon? That's really scary, and you woke up and screamed? What did your father and mother say then?
Nyra - My father is no more in this world
Renzo - Oh, Oohh I'm very very sorry.
Nyra - No problem.
Renzo - What did your mother say?
Nyra - She asked, what happened, and I said that I had a bad dream, nothing much.
*Flashback ends
Renzo - So this is all what happened, Ik it's a strange story but lol
Vaelis - Strange, that she had dreams about the same creature we encountered
Drevyn - What did happen next? How did you two get in relationship? When did she propose you?
Kaelion - Oh yeah, you just told how you two talked, but what about your relationship?
Renzo - We talked often, not just about the creature, but our hobbies, and all, just like how friends do, and one day, she proposed me, and, I actually started to like her and she was cute too, good personality, well body tone, so I said yes.
Drevyn - Damn, I wish I had some moments with Celestra as yours did.
Kaelion - Hey, we totally forgot about what Vaelis was about to tell us!
Vaelis - I was about to tell something? Wait what?
Drevyn - About the paper! That we got from the creature!
Vaelis - Oh Yeah! So the thing I got to know about the paper is....
Episode 7 Ends
To Be Continued....