CHAPTER 11

"Umm…" I stuttered, "I think I have geliophobia…"

"You have what?" Mia said, not understanding a thing I said.

"It means… Uhhh…" Isaiah started mumbling, "Uhhh… the fear of smiles and grins."

"Cause I honestly don't know your wise words…" Mia said, kinda crazed by all of these unknown scientific words. "And, I guess it's better that way, I don't wanna be named 'Nerd'."

We were heading towards the rooms, Until we bumped into Marcus.

"Hey kids!" The big human said, "How are y'all?"

I said nothing, I was terrified of him. Bad memories of him beating me up to a pulp, and bullying me started to fill my brain. Mia probably knew something about me getting beaten up, so she went up to him.

"Hey Marcus, what's up" she said, trying to change the topic, "I see you no longer want to beat up people…"

Marcus glared at both Mia and Isaiah, like he was expecting something from them. Isaiah glared back like he told him to shut up with his eyes. Mia and I raised our eyebrows in awkwardness.

"Umm- why don't you guys walk along and discuss your problems?" I said, hoping this situation would end, the only response I got was a glare from Isaiah, "Okay, you go sort out your problems, I'm just gonna go grab food from the cafeteria."

I turned and left, wishing at least Mia would follow me. I hated being alone, and left in the dark, but, since the past year, I got used to being alone, and moaning about my family.

As soon as I went into the cafeteria, The witch popped up, looking pumped, like she was ready to go on a hike, and push me off a cliff when we reached the top.

"What do you want Tisha?" I said, angrily.

"Oh, dear! This Much anger isn't good for you!" She said, like she cared for me.

"Lies!" I taunted her, "Since when did you care for me?"

She only gave me a smirk as a response, then pulled out the same tablet she'd used to control me this noon. I wanted to push the tablet down to my leg and crush it, but I was confused about what Tisha would do to me. I wasn't sure of what to do, but then, it was too late.

"Here" She said, handing me a knife, "Take this, you're gonna need it."

I took it, I guess it was better taking the knife when told, rather than being controlled. She clicked on an icon, and Isaiah started to walk in, he was sweating, he tried to go back, but something, a force-field was keeping him from taking control of his own body. He came in front of me struggling as he tried to take control. He fell down thrashing like he was a little kid who didn't get the candy he wanted, unfortunately, He lost control while hitting his temples with the bottom of his palm, My insides filled with rage, I wanted to stab Tisha with the same knife she gave me. He stood up, and was there, emotionless, for a few seconds, Tisha took it upon herself to click another icon, My head started to hurt, like it did a few hours back, when she started to control me.

I struggled as the armoured hand went straight to Isaiah's guts, I willed my hand to come back, and, it did, But instead of not hurting myself, I stabbed myself in the empty palm, and pulled the knife out, causing a huge scar on my face, It started to burn, and my mouth started to taste like blood, oh, and no, I didn't drink, or eat blood before, It was a bitterness in my mouth, the taste of iron, which gave it away, My hand still kept going for Isaiah's guts. I pulled back, and fell over a table's edge, bruising my back, I layed there defenceless, the controlling device thing had stopped! Or so I thought… She clicked on another button, This time, I was heading towards Tisha, trying to stab Tisha near her heart, But I didn't wanna kill people, even if it happened to be a witch who'd lie to us all the time.

I forced my legs to move a few inches away from the original place. This time, my hand went for Tisha's arm, I didn't hesitate to stab her arm, missing her elbow in inches. She deserved it.

Then, she started to look weary, like someone had put a drinking straw on her brain and sucked all of the happiness out of her, She fell down as she clicked another button. That was it, I got control over my body, I dropped the knife, and snatched the tablet from her as she went silent and closed her eyes, then, I looked at the tablet, and clicked on something called BURNE, It had pics of Isaiah, Me and some others that I'd never heard of, nor seen, I clicked on Isaiah's picture, and clicked on a button that said 'stop controlling'. But he didn't wake up, He was unconscious, Which was perfectly fine, because if he saw what was going on, he'd be very mad at me right now.

Then, I took out a foolscap paper I found nearby, and wrote, 'Hey, Mia, and Isaiah. Here's the tablet that Tisha uses to control us, Destroy this by the time Isaiah wakes, or there'll be trouble… Don't let Tisha do what she did to me when I'm gone, think of all this as my last wish.' I would've destroyed the tablet myself, but every bit of energy I had in me was gone. I put the paper under the tablet, making sure that the note was visible to Mia, Then, I walked over to the nearest chair, My mouth opened, while the taste of blood, and iron still was in my mouth, growing like fungi.

Tears started trickling down my cheeks, Making the horrible scar Tisha had caused me to burn in pain, as I had the itch to scrape down the whole part of my face, 'So… This is it,' I told myself, 'This is how I die.'

I started to chant the same thing over and over 'til I fell into a void of unconsciousness...