- What are you doing? – the object speaks with her, it’s not an object damn it, it’s a human. He! Is a human. A soulless one, and It’s grabbing her arm, looking at her. It’s eyes move looking at her like a human.

   Ann is stunned.

   The other human is silent, clueless as it seems.

   They look at each other in silence, it’s as if Ann could still not look at him, he is half invisible for her and that’s weird, out of this world for her lifetime experience.

Guy: Ok… Are you also new here? – he asks.
Ann:  Uhmm… YES! I mean no, I’m not, I’ve been studying here for a while
Guy: Well I am new, and I am going to class 2-B
Ann: Oh, there is no calss 2-B yet, it’s only class 2, we will gather in a big classroom until the test to determine which class you belong, it all depends on your grades. – They are walking upwards, chatting like normal, as normal as Ann can be. She has no clue she has been staring him like a fox would a chicken.

Ann: The class 2 is in the third floor. Do you consider the floor we are in as the second or the first?
Ciir: The floor we are in is the second and the one we were previously is the main floor and the first, but it’s supposed to say the main floor.

    Ok this guys is definitely not human, she thinks. This floor nonsense would be enough to tag him as paranormal, apart, of course, for the fact he does not have a soul. What could he be? Not a troll nor a goblin, maybe a vampire? A demon or a ghost? He could even be a robot for all she knows. If she was to consider all the things she knows about paranormal the list of probabilities would be high, if you consider that he could be anything, even undocumented beings, the chances are infinite.

Guy: Is this the room? - Ann is forcibly pulled away from her thoughts back to the guy with a doorknob in hands holding open a door, gesturing with his head and eyes to the inside, in which is empty.

Ann: It’s empty.
Guy: Pretty sharp of you.
Ann: sorry. No it’s not the room
Guy: oh really?? Man you are… why did you… like…. Can you elaborate further? Where should we go? It says here 2-B
Ann: yeah, but we are going to class 20. These really big classrooms are numbered in the tens, here let me show you the way.

The entrance is decorated with shining white lights from everyone’s souls.
Ann: here. – Now Ann, with the doorknob in hands, opens the door leaving way so the guy may go in. He goes and as soon as the back of his head looks at Ann she stretches her arm and reach out to him, grabbing his arm.

Ann: Hey! What is your name? – the sudden reaction was enough to momentarily stunned them.
Guy: Ciir, and yours?
Ann: My name is Ann.
Ciir: Nice to meet you Ann.

She lets him go.

Teacher: So classroom. For all the new students, we will give start to the Test for Class in two weeks. Depending on your grades for that test you will be assigned to either class 2-A, 2-B or 2-C. –

The teacher explains gesturing to everyone in the big classroom with open arms. Student’s conversations echoes as whispers:

- Man the class 2C is always for the dumbest, I don’t want to be there.
- You’ll probably end up there either way.
- I don’t like the way this school does things, it’s pretty elitist.
- well I think it’s nice, I don’t want to have classes with people pulling me back.
- this teacher is so annoying….

.

I need to get information on Ciir, I need to know his intentions. Ann thinks to herself without paying attention to the teacher. “I need to make the first move, strike him, not let him get his chance to react, to plan in advance”.

She looks at him, she is chill but focused, he is not phased.

“The first chance I get I need to give him all the information that way I’ll be in control of what he knows.” She gets a sudden hold of her own thoughts, aren’t the remedies she’s been eating made so she stops thinking about that? Yeah ok but this time is different tho!! He does NOT have a soul, it’s different.

“As soon as this introduction class is over I’ll head towards Ciir, I’ll be all pleasant but I’m analysing him, I’m studying him, I can NOT let this opportunity go. As soon as this class is over.”

The sound of sirene are heard.

The class is finished.

-

Ann: CIIIIR!!!

Ann: CIIIR HERE!

Ann Cuts through the crowd of people in direction of Ciir, yelling like a lunatic, it really looks like she has no clue on how to act like a human. Ironic considering how paranoic she is thinking Ciir may not be one.

She gets closer to him, they are both under the door of the classroom, she is huffing a little as getting throught, desperately, from a crowd of people is not an exercise fit of someone of her level of stamina.

Ann: *huff* *huff* just…. *huff*
Ciir: …….
Ann: so… hi I was thinking about…. If you’d like me to show you around the school
Ann: I think it’d….
Ann: be good to you
Ciir: ok
Ciir: now?
Ann: Is it ok with you?
Ciir: sure
Ann: ok

-

Ann: First we are in the second floor, I guess?
Ann: here are the classrooms for the second year, above is the third floor is for the third class and the first floor is for the first class
Ciir: ok

They walk down the stairs as Ann, directing everythin with her finger, explains the location of the classes

Ann: here in the right is a big Hall where there are some rooms, mostly for the teachers, if we turn right here again we will head towards the gym
Ciir: Is this the bathroom?

Ciir points towards a red place in the path outside of the school building

Ann: Yes, it’s the boys bathroom, why?
Ciir: I need to go real quickly
Ann: Ok I’ll wait here.

He goes inside, she stays there. Her face shifts from a welcoming semblance to a more stern look

“I’m so sure he is up to something? Either that or this is the longest shit someone ever took, maybe that’s a guy thing tho.”

Ann is tempted to go inside, peek through a window or ask someone to go inside. She is agitated, damn it hold down man. But it is taking so long.
she slithers towards the door, presses her ear in it. Nothing. “maybe if I open the door I can get a glimpse of what he is doing without him noticing. She hold the door and starts opening it, slowly and steady.
it’s weird, the door got pulled with a much stronger force than she anticipated.
Ciir opened the door.

Ciir: What are you doing?
Ann: Oh! Nothing!..
Ann: I mean
Ann: Do you..
Ann: want to keep going?
Ciir: Sure…