Heart of a beast 2 episode 8

💘HEART OF A BEAST👺
(Love is the word💓)
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BY BLESSING SILVER
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BOOK 2 📚
CHAPTER 8✏️
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❤Kayla’s POV❤️
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I hopped down from the taxi, a bit farther from the school entrance. I paid the cabbie and walked towards the gate and moved in.
I took the stairs to the second floor and moved down the long narrow hall to my locker.
I got the necessary books and journeyed to my class, clutching the rope of my backpack. I got to my seat and sat..
I felt rather unusual as I took my books out, I felt like I was forgetting something and my gaze slipped to the unoccupied chair next to me and I breathed out with a half smile.
Yeah.. Clara’s absence is what makes it unusual, the usual morning greeting I’d toss at her smiling face..
I brought my focus back to my book and then I thought of Melvin.
Classes began after few minutes and we had English for first period. It was an interesting class as always and as it was drawing to a close, with my head bent on my notebook as I wrote, I heard footsteps, I kept penning down words..
“And you are?” I heard the teacher ask.
“I’m Melvin, I was told this is my class now” he said and my head flew up and I saw him..
“Oh, this wasn’t your class initially, was it?” She asked.
“No ma’am, I was transferred her to represent Clara Hooper” he said.
“Ah. What’s your name again?” She asked taking her register book
“Melvin Lakewood!” He answered and she peered through her book.
“Found it. And why are you just coming in, it’s almost past time for first period”
“Um..I’m sorry! It was a bit of trouble locating here!” He said.
“Okay.. Go find a seat” she said and he thanked her before walking towards me..
I could see the desperate stares that followed him, well they were probably wishing that he’d take the seat beside them but instead, he walked to mine and sat, sending the looks to me and this time with pitchforks. I waved it aside as the English teacher began rounding off her topic.
“So we’re seatmates now?” He said quietly to me .
“Obviously Priola’s doing” I said and he nodded in agreement. “And be honest Melvin, why exactly were you late because the last time I checked you clearly knew where this class is. You couldn’t have forgotten that” I said.
“I didn’t. I just thought of I should go human today, I mean coming early to school on a regular isn’t something you see a human do. Since I’m on the human journey, I thought I should do it too” he said and I nodded with a smile..
So thoughtful!
Class went on and as I wrote, Melvin just stared at the board all through, not taking down even an alphabet in his note.
“Why ain’t not writing?” I asked.
“This is how I write, mere staring at it inputs everything in my head” he said. “It’s how I work”
“But it’s not how human work. We write them down in our notebook and read” I said.
“Oh.. That’s true!” He said before flipping through his note and writing.. I checked and saw that he was writing it word by word. It must be a new and weird writing in a book and how he held the pen? Phew! Let’s not talk about that.
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During lunch break, Melvin and I went together and yeah, we got stares as we walked out of class, I was on the verge of pulling away or walking either ahead or behind him but I didn’t.
Maybe because the fear of being stuck in Lucinda’s grip is stronger than that of attention, even angry ones.
Melvin and I walked side by side to the cafeteria
We got to the cafeteria and I purposely picked our seats at the back, away from more prying eyes and gawky look, we had less or no attention at all there. After we sat, I decided to go buy our meals but Melvin insisted on doing it, saying it’s part of his human journey and I just let him because, he’s right.
After telling him what I needed and giving him some money, he left and returned minutes later with a tray that held our food.
As he dropped it, I saw that he had ordered only few grains of rice and lots of meat.
I took my meal out of the tray and Melvin did same, he pushed the rice off his plate and onto a side of the tray before stabbing a chunk of meat with his fork, I watched it as he stared at it.
He drew it to his l-ips and then laid his palm open on the desk, he looked at me and nudged toward his open palm and I understood before laying my palm on his.
He ate the meat and I watched him swallow without any difficulty.. I twitched my l-ips and picked up my spoon, I filled it with food and ate mine.
I glanced at Melvin’s plate and he was already halfway through his food, I was about turning to mine when a shadow fell over us.. I looked up to see Jake.
“Hi babe,” he said, giving Melvin a quick frown. “I’ve been-
He voice, I guess trailed off when his gaze met Melvin’s and I palms on each other. His gaze went from me to Melvin and then back to me before slowly moving to our palms again.
I quickly began slipping my palm off Melvin’s but it quickly hit me and I slipped it back on his, intertwining our fingers in the hurried process and igniting the spark anew..
Revealing a more befuddled Jake at my action.
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T. B. C
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BY BLESSING SILVER