Unlucky First Day of School
He's looking ahead of him as the students are talking with their classmates while entering the school premise.
His loose uniform is swaying sways as the wind blows. He is wearing an eye glass that they termed him as 'School Nerd'. Because of his get-ups, the school bullies easily targeted him. He doesn't mind it.
Today is his first day of school in Wesley Academy. This academy is a well-known school for its high quality education, equality treatments and high achievement record.
He slowly walks towards the gate but bumped into someone's back when he didn't notice the person's figure in front of him and falls on the ground while his eyeglass falls down on his pants.
"S…Sorry" he apologized and stood up. He picks up his eyeglass, dusts off the tiny sands on his pants and immediately bows on him. The person, who he bumped into, turned his head on him and frowned.
"I'm not good person but I'm also not unreasonable. Next time, look up so you can see if there's someone in front of you. If you bumped into someone unreasonable, your life here in Wesley Academy will become hell" he advised as he fixed himself.
"T…Thank you" he weakly said and looked at Ricky. He blinks his eyes once…twice…thrice then rubbed it with his finger. His eyes widened and stared blankly at Ricky. He saw something he shouldn't.
His hands are trembling while his hands are down as he is holding his eyeglass. He wanted to say a word but hold back.
So what if he tells him? Will he believe him if he said that his soul is slowly floating out from his body? He sighed.
"Brother Rick, why are you easily forgiving him? What if he bumped into you deliberately? Doesn't it mean he want to be acquainted with you?" a sixteen years old boy said while putting his right arm on Ricky Demetrio's left shoulder.
"I don't care and I'm not interested" Ricky coldly said and Vince stumbled when Ricky walks away from them and heads towards the school building.
"Vince, let's go!" another sixteen years old boy who left with Ricky said.
Vince looks at the school nerd viciously as if warning him not to get close with Ricky and followed Ricky.
"Keith, why are you still not hurrying? Our first class will start soon!" a fifteen years old girl said as she suddenly appeared from behind Keith.
Keith flinched when he heard her and backed away. His cheeks flushed because of the beautiful countenance of Monica.
Monica is the number one beauty on Junior High Department of Wesley Academy. She's also smart who got fifth place in whole Junior High Department while he was placed as third without strongly studying.
"What… What class are you in?" Keith asked while trying himself not to stutter when speaking to Monica.
"I am in the Class-1A of Senior High Department" Monica replied and asked, "How about you?"
"Ahh… I am also in Class 1A. We're classmates" he answered as the tip of his left ear reddened.
Monica noticed it while trying to hold back herself from laughing. His reaction made her view him as cute puppy.
"Then, let's go together" she said as she smiles brightly. Keith couldn't believe himself that he is walking side by side with the number one beauty from his previous department.
He wanted to spend more time Monica as they are walking towards their classroom.
Monica snatches away his eyeglass from him and runs away while heading towards their classroom. She tongued out mischievously. He was caught off guard of Monica's action and immediately covered his eyes.
He doesn't want to see souls floating out of the body of the person he firstly sees.
Monica halted when she saw him covering his eyes with uncomfortably. She feels guilty and comes back to him.
"What's wrong?" she asked while worrying of Keith's sudden covering of his eyes.
"Can I please get my eyeglass back?" he begged her. Monica was stunned because of Keith's voice turned sour. She gave it back guiltily.
"I… I'm sorry" she apologized while her head looked down.
Keith accepted the eyeglass. He is about to wear his eyeglass but his eyes widened as he saw the souls of the students floating out of their body. He is looking around as his body trembles.
His eyeglass falls down again because of how anxious he looks like. Monica noticed his anxiousness. She tugged his shirt and asked, "Is there something wrong?" worriedly.
Immediately, he holds Monica's right hand and goes out of the school building and heading their way towards the school garden.
He halted and faced Monica. "Monica, I may sound crazy but can you please listen to me and believe me first?" he asked seriously.
Startled, Monica nodded and said "Keith, I believe on you!"
Her instinct said to believe on Keith on whatever he is saying now.
"Monica, when I was a child. I have this ability to see the soul of dying people with different colors. Black represents 'dying of murder', green represents suicide, red represents 'dying from incurable illness', white represents natural death, and blue represents accidents"
"I may sound insane for you right now but I saw everyone's souls are black and slowly floating out of their body. W… What should I do?" he asked while still trembling.
Monica is listening to his explanation. She was shocked when she heard it while have a feeling of half-doubting and half-believing.
"If what you saw on their souls are black, isn't it meaning there will be a murder case to happen?" Monica asked while contemplating.
Keith looks at Monica with misty eyes. He feels that she didn't believe but she still helps him solving the problem. He felt warmth inside his heart and it starts beating faster.
"Yes, there will be a murder case to happen but I don't know what it will be" he answered while feeling upset.
"Have you seen my soul is black and floating out?" she asked while staring at his eyes.
Keith looks at her deeply which makes Monica's face flushed, ���T…Tell me!" she urged.
"When we were inside the school building, all students' souls are black including the both of us but it faded away when we went here" he answered while remembering of what happened earlier until he pulled Monica out of the school building.
"Then, their souls are black. There are many ways of doing a mass murder such as bombing the school building, invading the school and shoot-to-kill all of the students and teachers inside, and spreading fire all over the school secretly. However, invading the school is too obvious. It needs someone to execute this"
"Spreading fire is not an option because we could easily extinguish it. The favourable option for the murder is to plant a bomb around the school. However, if we want to find the bombs, we shouldn't alert the murderer or else it will explode early than expected"
"We could either find the remote control if the bomb was controlled or look for the bomb to stop the time"
Monica is walking back and forth while saying the possibilities to happen.
Keith observes Monica. This is the first time he saw her looks serious like a detective came out alive from the novel. He's not that shocked when he heard her reasons because she's the smartest girl he ever met in this lifetime.
"Keith?" Monica called out and looks at his eyes. Startled, Keith looks away and start thinking.
"Ah? Uhm… I am thinking…" he came back to his senses after admiring Monica.
"There are thousands of people inside the school building. We couldn't find the murderer in shortest time possible. As for finding the bomb, we aren't even sure where the murderer hides it" Keith still feels anxious.
Monica closed her eyes and the 3D picture of the school building appeared inside her mind while looking for the blind-spots of the whole school building.
"The school building has four floors. Each floor from third to fourth has forty classrooms. The first floor is for teacher's office, finance office, administrative office, registrar office, Dean's office, Infirmary, and other offices. While, the second floor has the library, science laboratories, computer laboratories, computer repair room, and other rooms"
"Although the school has CCTV footage for security and safety, there are still blind spots such as toilet rooms in each floors and plants or bushes around the school"
"It is also possible placing the bombs on the blind-spots ceiling such as four-corners of the walls, behind the ceiling fans, on the outside part of air-conditions of offices, balconies on the corridors, outside the windows, behind the boards from classrooms, trees beside the building, under the chairs and tables, between the shelves of the library, inside the CPU's, and others"
Keith's mouth is wide-opened and become speechless of Monica's words. Who would have thought that the number one beauty from his previous department has the ability to logically reason?
Monica feels proud because of Keith's reactions.
"Still, we have to move fast. We are racing time" Monica seriously said.
"Okay, I'll look around third and fourth floors. You have favourable impressions on teachers and school staffs so you should look around first and second floors" Keith assigned.
Monica nodded and said, "I can also look at the CCTV footage to find the mastermind"
They immediately left and start looking around. Fortunately, they still have time left before the class starts but only thirty minutes.