THE SECRET OF DEATH

four

Alexa Brown lay down on the bed with a white bad-cover after putting away her uniforms, brushing her teeth and washing her face with facial foam.  She closed his eyes briefly remembering the events of a few hours earlier.  She remembered has first friends as well as Patter's odd accent.

Weird accent...

Alexa suddenly blushed and chuckled quickly she pulled her pillow and hugged her tightly burying herself in the pillow.

A few minutes she realized that she had not contacted his parents, she quickly reached for has cell phone under the pillow, pressed the on button on has cell phone and swiped the lock screen.  She suddenly paused, "23 times.."

Alexa frowned and showed no network at all.  She now felt between regret and not.  She regretted that she didn't take his phone out earlier.  She is now transfixed when she sees on his cell phone screen it says mom calling 23 times.  "Arghhh...." Alexa moaned loudly.  She doesn't care if has roommates will protest or his room neighbors.

His roommate.  Alexa kept her cell phone under the bed after setting the alarm on her phone.  Still hugging has bolster she glanced at the bed to has left.  The bed was still intact and absolutely no one had ever touched it.  She started to frown, full of big question marks.  Actually has roommate will come or not?  She also saw shoes and white plastic bags down there and bedroom slippers which were still beautiful beside the mirrored wooden cupboard.

She thought hard for a long time, and for a long time she hissed until exactly 12 o'clock has eyes were heavy and now they were closed.

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Now a complete pair of uniforms stuck to Alexa's body.  Reached for a black hair tie in her make-up bag.  And lowered bangs carefully.  She looked at herself in the mirror and smiled contentedly.

She liked has new uniform, black with dark red edges and an almo mat that looked like the head of the dormitory Patter had worn last night, the almo mat was smooth even though it wasn't touched by an iron it would look neat.

Alexa applies a lip-gloss on her thin lips.  And then she played with has own lips.

After she grabbed has bag and shoes and opened the door, when she was about to step out she was shocked when she accidentally kicked a box of milk up to the front of someone else's room.  She glanced left and right, still no one was there.  She shrugged not wanting to know, she just felt normal because school starts at 8 but it's still half past seven, so surely there won't be many people who are up or ready like her.

Her eyes now catch that at every door there is a box of milk and a Streafoam wrapped in food plastic.  She glanced down right beside has shoes, she got them too and then she found a memo on styrofoam which was wrapped in clear plastic.  She slowly reached for the styrofoam and pulled out the yellow memo.

"The ultimate breakfast."  Fill in the memo and don't forget a smillie included.

Alexa Brown smiled and stepped slowly to grab the box of milk she had kicked earlier, and turned to close the room and locked it tightly.  Alexa smiled along the way, this time her feet were directed to the classroom where one of the rooms in the hall was her class.  She could also feel normal when she found several students passing by and even those students smiled warmly at her.  She is now sure that what people say about westerners being very ignorant and arrogant is not always true.

She now clearly feels very respected especially when they are very polite.  It's just that there was a group of girls who looked strangely at her.  But she didn't care as long as they didn't bother her.

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Alexa pulled up a chair and sat there, right beside a glass window with a pot on the edge.  The dew on the window gradually vanished as it evaporated.  The sun's rays began to shyly illuminate the earth.

Alexa dared to sit where she was at that time because the table she was occupying had her name written on it.  And yesterday she also checked with Patter.  She thought it meant that his father had prepared for his move in advance.  The proof is that she already has a locker and a desk with has name on it.

Then she looked at his breakfast again on the table, then he smiled again.  She again received service from Patter.  The head of the hostel gave her a memo, she put the memo in has desk drawer and ate has breakfast, while being shadowed by someone's figure.

Alexa suddenly stopped chewing her food, she remembered that at the front door there was only breakfast, while at the other door she could see clearly that each room had two servings.  She was stunned for a moment and she also remembered that the shoes under has roommate's bed were missing.  She again wondered why has roommate didn't say a single word for her.  She came home at night outside of school regulations and left earlier than Alexa.

She also didn't know whether has roommate was in the same class as her or even above has class or below has class.  She returned to the toast on the table chewing it while looking for answers.

Just as she was about to swallow his food, someone dragged a chair behind her, has location on the penultimate bench beside the Alexa lane.  Alexa choked at the person's sudden treatment, she quickly sucked up a carton of milk on her table and glanced at the person who was sitting hanging her black bag.

Alexa glanced at the person, and grumbled in her heart.  She was suddenly overcome with irritation in the morning, a boy or rather has classmate was the cause.  The man only glanced at her for a moment and then turned has head away.  There is no sense of guilt and nothing overwhelms the person.

The boy then sucked up a carton of milk and threw it into the trash which is located in front of the class beside the whiteboard.  Alexa just gaped at the man's actions, Alexa glanced briefly at the man who was now putting toast in has drawer and stuck has face on the table without caring about Alexa looking at him.

Alexa grabbed the milk box that was half empty and put it back on the table.  Has gaze was straight out the window that looked directly at the green school field.  There were already lots of students walking down there and she could also see Mrs..Helena the model woman, now the woman was wearing all navy blue and her hair was in a bun.  Alexa giggled to herself, not imagining that the woman also wore navi blue Lipstick or navi blue contact lenses.

There was something else that caught Alexa's attention behind the glass window, the figure of Patter sitting with a notebook in his hand.  Alexa looked at Patter as if he was writing something from a distance, the sunlight seemed to only be on Patter's side which made her eyes only focus on Patter alone without caring about what was happening around him.

Patter raised his head as if he saw Alexa who had been watching him, Patter raised his hand and waved at Alexa who was looking at him since earlier.

Alexa was aware of has gaze and didn't expect Patter to know that she had been watching her since earlier.  Alexa blinked to see if it was really her or not so she pointed at herself as if alexa was saying did Patter wave for her.  The patter from the distance smiled and nodded slowly, right.  Alexa wouldn't be wrong if Patter did wave at her.

A man in a uniform like himself and a red bag, thought Alexa.

"Alexa Brown?"  said someone from the front of the Alexa table.  The person was now standing with his arms crossed, he was chewing gum, behind that person were followed by three more people.

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