DESIRES chapter 3

by Arina Basbayeva

When I went to bed, I thought about today’s events. So much had happened: I fainted, was sorted into a group, and am now in a new dorm.

“I’ll deal with this tomorrow,” I thought as I dosed off.

“Watch out, watch out, watch out, watch out!!!”

“Wake up Akane!”

“AAHHHHHH!” I yelled as I sat up. “Did you have a nightmare?” the person standing next to my bed said. As I looked closer, I realised it was Yamada Kaneko, a girl my age in Class B. I recognised her from some posters. If I remember correctly, she was running for class president. That was why there were posters with her face on them plastered around the school.

“O-ok, I’m awake,” I muttered in a dreary voice while yawning. “Good, come meet us downstairs after you get ready. Kimura Sensei wanted to test our abilities today so wear something casual.”

I got up and walked towards the bathroom. I was certain that I had heard a voice in my sleep. I put on a pair of black sweatpants, a black tank top, and a red jacket. Today was go- ing to get weirder, I could just feel it.

“Great,” I thought to myself, “let’s get this over with.”

I headed down to meet up with the rest of the class and Kimura Sensei. Yesterday, I was too disoriented to figure out who was who. Today, I was determined to get to know everyone and to learn about my powers, if I had any.

That’s what bothered me the most. I was a guest in this universe. I had kept my appearance and name. Maybe that meant I wasn’t going to have powers.

“Everyone, today you will pair up,” Kimura Sensei said.

I was on my way to pair up with Yamada Kaneko but then Sensei added, “You can only pair up with the people you got the same test score with.”

“Ughhh,” I thought as I walked around asking people for their test scores, “no one had the same score.”

“Hi Akane,” someone said behind me.

“O-oh, hi Kaito, what did you get?”

“I got 97.5%, you?”

“I got 97%. Maybe we can be partners since your score is the closest to mine.”

“Sure,” he said and a split second later, we were all standing at different corners of the room. What just happened? I didn’t move. Who moved us?

I was freaking out when Kimura Sensei came up to us.

“Give me your hand,” she demanded.

I stretched out my arm and the second she grabbed it, my veins turned black.

WHAT

THE HECK WAS THIS?

Was I dying? This school must be cursed.

“You, it’s HER!” Sensei yelled out as fire exploded from my hand throwing her on the ground. This school wasn’t cursed, I was.

[Deadly Desires is an original series written by Stella Zhou and Arina Basbayeva. This ending is what we call a cliff-hanger………will Akane learn how to use her dark powers?

Will she return to her boring middle school reality?

Stay tuned until next year!]