“Yes Mr Nicholas.” Elena replied as she took in deep breaths to calm herself and tried her best to look innocent as possible.He walked up to her. “I believe we have met before, Miss Thorne. Correct me if I’m wrong?”Elena lifted her lips into a thin line as she summoned a smile.“Yeah, we have.” She said between tightened teeth.She looked around, she could see the other students wishing they were the ones that got this attention.“At my dad’s wedding.” She responded further. “The beautiful wedding that was going on before you and your beautiful lab here ended it and kept my dad in a miserable state.”She stopped talking immediately.She did not mean to sound so mean. Her eyes scanned the faces of the students who looked utterly horrified that she might be ruining their chances.Her gaze shifted to her professor and her professor shook her head slowly.She sent a pleading look her way and looked back at Nicholas who looked taken aback by her sudden outburst.She bit the insides of h
“Oh my God Ajax, what do we do?” Elena asked eyes wide in fear and shock.Ajax too had no idea what to do. They were supposed to clean the blood on the walls and floors.The tap was also broken.The knock resumed again, this time with more pressure.“Open the God damn door Ajax!”The very familiar voice spoke from the door. It was Raphael.Sighs of relief filled the restroom.“It’s just Raphael.” Elena murmured and walked forward to open the door.Ajax grabbed her back. “No you can’t. He does not know about the system thingy. He would freak out!” Ajax whispered hurriedly.The knock began frantically again. “Come on Ajax and Elena. Are you two doing some crazy shitty couple things? Don’t defile that toilet and please open the door.”Ajax swiped a stare at Elena. He could see the red tinge on her cheeks. He then realized how much she had changed.She had changed from being the blushing, cute, sweet Elena to a strong one. He could not tell whether he loved it or loathed it. Either ways,
Caroline shifted awkwardly, adjusting her dress because of Ajax’s stare. “You. You’re his date?”She chuckled lightly as she realized why he stared the way he did earlier.“No. No I’m not. My aunt is. She asked me to come and deliver a message. There would be change in plans.”Ajax nodded as he felt a weight lift of his chest. He wondered what about her not being with Nicolas made him feel relieved.Waving the thought aside, he shifted, giving her space to go in.***Classes at Richmore college had been going on as usual. Even their internship too. It was weird seeing Elena and Ajax being interns, seeing as they were only fresh man students, but they were not any regular freshman.Ajax had returned from lectures as usual to see Raphael seated as usual in his bed with his headphones and laptop. The only thing different was that Raphael shut his laptop quickly immediately he sighted Ajax coming in.The sound of his heart racing did not escape Ajax’s super sensitive ears.“Hey bro! You’
“What exactly is in the lab that you guard so much?” Ajax mumbled, mouth filled with food. Lately he had been more hungry than usual. Whenever he ate he could not stop himself from eating fast and too much. It had to be because of the extra strength he had been using from system.“Why do you even want to know?” Nicholas replied.The two of them were having dinner at a restaurant. Apparently, Ajax was supposed to keep him distracted and stall him until he receives the signal to bring him into the lab.“I think I deserve to know.” Ajax said throwing Nicholas a frown. Bits of the burger fell from his mouth and he smiled embarrassingly. He picked up the serviette and wiped him mouth clean.Nicholas stared at him for a while before resting back on the chair, his eyes scrutinizing Ajax.“Why are you having dinner with me?” Nicholas asked again.“I had a fight with Raphael. I am avoiding him.” Ajax lied straight up, reaching for a smoothie.“And….” Nicholas further inquired.“I needed to cal
“Hello Raphael.” The eerie voice said in the darkness.The sparks of the light was enough to shine on this strangers face. The person looked unfamiliar but yet familiar.“Umm… do I know you?” Raphael mumbled as he looked around finding an escape route, because this person was blocking the only way out.“No you don’t. But you must have heard of me.” The person said advancing slowly and menacingly towards Raphael.“Look man. I know you caught me spoiling and cutting off the electricity.” Raphael started as he raised his hands up in form of surrender. “You can take me to Nicholas. I just knew I would fuck this up.”“What?” The person said with a quizzical raised eyebrow.Raphael shot him a look. “Wait, you are not going to report me?” Raphael smiled at him. “Thank you.” He said and stepped forward to leave but this person blocked his way.The person was a man and he looked buff.“Not so fast Ralphy…..” the person drawled.***Nicholas, Ajax and Elena sat together, drinking- more like, th
Elena grabbed his hands and pulled him to the security men that stood like robots. They looked unusually calm and stood in one place not moving a muscle.“It’s like enchantment. Like compulsion. Making someone do whatever you will.” Elena explained as she peered into their eyes.She walked over to one of the men, placing her hands on his shoulders, she whispered. “Blink.”The man blinked immediately. She turned to Ajax who looked at her with confusion evident in his eyes. “I don’t understand. Any body would blink if you ask them to.”Elena rolled her eyes and decided to try something again. She looked into his eyes again and whispered. “Stop breathing. Hold your breath until I tell you to release it.”Right before Ajax’s eyes, the man inhaled sharply. Ajax looked at Elena quizzically. “I still do-”“Shh…” Elena hushed him. “calm down and watch.”Ajax watched as the man’s eyes widened in fear as he struggled to breath but his body was not complying. He turned red as sweat trickled
Raphael had been sitting in silence for a while. No one else had come to check on the reason behind the power failure. Not even Ajax and Elena came to check on him to know why he hadn’t returned as planned. The stranger was oddly silent. He could not even hear his breathing, but he could feel his presence which made it all the more creepy.It was not long, he heard the sound of footsteps approaching.“C’mon man! Pick up your phone.” He heard the person grit in annoyance. The voice was so familiar. He did not have to think too hard to know that it was Nicholas.Nicholas had the light of his phone on which he used to light the hallway as he walked. He was dialing Ajax’s line because he was yet to see him.***Nicholas had been seated in the hall of the party for a while awaiting Ajax’s return. Everyone had turned on the torchlight of their phones to make the hall bright.The hall was filled with chatter as some chatted with each other while drinking. Slowly, they began to leave one a
Elena had never entered the lab.The whole lab was out of electricity, but somehow it did not affect the lab. She was awed by the technology she saw.It was like something out of a sci-fi movie.She saw a device suspended in the air and blue ring of light around it. She wondered what science was behind it.For some reason she wished she hadn’t picked the medical aspect. Maybe, just maybe she would have focused more on physics and mechanics.She lifted her hands to feel it when Ajax’s voice stopped her.“Don’t touch anything.” He was walking towards them. “If you do, Nicholas would find out someone was in here.”“And if we don’t leave right now, Nicholas will find out we were here. In fact he would catch us here red handed.” Raphael exclaimed in frustration.“What is he talking about?” Ajax asked turning to Elena.“We have to go. Nicholas is on his way here.”“Shit!” Ajax cursed. “I don’t know what to take that he would not find out.” He paused as a black object caught his eyes.“Now t