Code Name (Heart)

Within a short period of time, I arrived back in class and melted the shock of my life as my brow shot up in surprise.

Apparently, my chair and table were stolen. It was no longer at the spot when I got back from lunch break.

I was seething, but couldn't vex my anger on anyone, whereas I had no idea of who had stolen it and everyone seemed to be involved in this, judging from the way they were gawking and laughing at me -- the way I stood dumbfounded.

It didn't take too long after I arrived in the classroom, when a teacher came into the classroom.

"Everyone settled down," The teacher's voice brought the disorganised students to a halt as they all got seated, except me, standing still at the empty spot of my seat in fury.

Her rovering eyes caught sight of me as I saw the mystified look in her expression.

"Hey, you there! Why are you still standing?" Her cold voice rose up in a disdainful manner that everyone's attention was drawn to me.

In situations like this I was likely prone to yell at whosoever got too pissed up and the female scrawny teacher got on my nerves the instant she raised her voice at me.

I obviously grimaced. Brazen.

"Someone stole my seat," I protested as laughter instantly filled the air of the classroom. But, it wasn't funny.

"And is that my business? When I say settle down, if you can't find your seat, then leave!" The scrawny female teacher said, advance in meaning as if she was holding grudges against me.

Not only the students were mean towards me, but also the teacher?

I felt like contorting her bony structure and smashing her fox face. Hideous monsters like her aren't supposed to be teachers.

'Of course I would leave. Sitting in this damn class is no fun anyway,' I thought in my mind as I walked out of the classroom, giving her that terrifying evil look, from the corner of my eyes, when her eyes melted mine.

However, since I was chased out of the class, I used that medium to look for Eve. Revenge is now, and I can't wait for tomorrow. Everything in this school was pissing me off if I was given a chance to avenge everyone. I might even burn down this damn building.

I was secretly planning my first surprise for every one of my foes today, whether big or small. I just have to show them that I'm not someone they would mess with and get away with it.

So, I went to look for her at the place which seems to be her class. It was a class after mine, the final year student.

I didn't enter her classroom, but I just waited at the doorway and was vigilant if I could catch sight of her, when she came out.

From my observation, viewing from the way students were trooping out of her class, it seemed like the class lecture was over.

And same here, most students that passed by where, whispering something to themselves while gawping at me, the guys would laugh, the girls would giggle. It was just uncomfortable that even one of the guys was bold enough to approach me.

"Hi, babe," He said, smiling at me disgustingly as I ignored him.

"Isn't she that porn star?" A deep voice interjected aloud, from the entrance of their classroom as two of his friends paused and joined him at the sight of us.

"She is. How can I forget this gorgeous face of hers," The other burly guy replied wryly as he was also laughing, his arms around the first guy's shoulder.

I take steps backward, towards the wall as they pace gradually to me, holding back that ferocious spirit, not to pouch his face with my tightened fist.

"Gosh… She's just as pretty as she looks in the video. Maybe today I should have it off with her'' He bits his lower lips, his look fixed in my eyes.

Then, I get my fist ready in defence as he raises his hand, about to touch my face.

Suddenly, someone thrust an empty can on head as their gaze automatically shifted to the direction where the can was missiled. I looked from across them and saw that it was Eve.

He groaned in pain, roughly rubbing the back of his head, as they were facing Eve.

"You little. What are you guys trying to do with my friend?" Her voice rose up disdainfully at the three guys who stood sheepishly, trembling at the sound of her menacing voice.

My interest was piqued once again of Eve's lordly manner and elated that she was proud to call me "friend."

They apologies at once, "We're sorry_"

"Sorry for yourselves. What are you guys waiting for? Apologies to her now or I'll squeeze your dicks," She made a fury gesture, as if to fight them as they shrink back and quickly turned to me and apologised, bowing their head slightly.

"You guys should get lost, before I change my mind," Eve ordered in a calm voice as they scurried away, then she came over to me.

"What are you doing here? Walking around the school isn't safe for someone like you," She sounded as though she was a mother, giving advice to her child and it made me frown and annoyed.

"Do you think if you hadn't interrupted, those guys would have made it out of my presence alive."

Eve laughs.

"You're gonna murder their ass and go to jail, because their family isn't just anyone that would let you go scot-free."

"Who would know if I murder them? I'll just erase any witness's memory and dump their bodies in the school trash can," I bragged.

She was still laughing, shaking her head as she deep her hands inside her blazer's pocket.

"Anyway, why are you looking for me?"

"Can we take a walk?" I suggested.

>>>

I and Eve walked across the school garden slowly, feeling the cold breeze, inhaling the pleasant fragrance of wild flowers as we were heading towards the school greenhouse.

"Is there a way I can take down the video?" I began abruptly.

She gave me a longside glance, afterwards looked forward, with her hands still inside her blazer's pocket.

"There is. But I must take a coax course. Is that the reason you need my help?"

"Not exactly, but I'm asking to know if it's possible to replace it with another enticing video," I said slowly, as I sneaked a glance at her, briefly observing the expression on her face. And it was unreadable.

Eve came to an abrupt stop and turned to face me.

"Are you planning to_" She paused after reading my thoughts, giving me that interrogating look.

I avoided her eyes, frowning, looking into the field.

"You kept reading my thoughts. I told you it's unfair," I mumble indistinctly to myself, then I force myself to look back at her, "It's a give away for my trouble makers fans. Didn't you say you are willing to help me? After all, I don't need much help from you since I got the situation under control."

Eve poker face suddenly transformed into a titter, expressing her mirth in a plot like this.

"I will do whatever you want me to do as long as it concerns your happiness."

Her words touched me as she went on, while we continued pacing.

"We're meant to rule the world right? So whatever it is we hate, we destroy and whatever it is we love, we cherish. The same I want for you,"

When she told me this, I smiled my thanks as I felt grateful to a being for the first time. And for real, I found a true friend indeed I liked, of my kind.

We were silent as we entered the school greenhouse and got seated at the side bench, sitting in a corner of the greenhouse, where flower pots were kept.

"Excuse me, if I may ask what you were doing at the top of the roof that day. Why were the cops after you?" I asked her, because I wanted to know.

There was a momentary silence as it seemed she was taking forever to answer me.

After what seemed like a few moments, she spoke, her eyes fixed on somewhere else from me, "Have you heard of the code name, Heart?"

"Nope," I replied frankly.

She paused searching her pocket for something, probably cigarettes and ended up making a long grunting.

"Fuck! I've run out of cigarettes,"

Only then, I started to review my observations of her personality. She smokes without concealing it, even though she's still a highschool student, students in school were afraid of her, plus the reckless move and risk she took back then at top of the roof of the tower.

In my mind, I concluded that Eve is a reckless bad bitch...

Probably, that's her nature, since existence. But my curiosity of her appearance on the roof wasn't lifted as I waited for her to carry on further.

Eve went on, this time, her eyes focused on me, "Think deeply. You might have come across that code name, even before with this body and before this century," She urged me to think harder.

And I was still dazed, but gave it a thorough thought, yet the more I tried to think, the more it became difficult for me to recall that specific cipher name.

"Can you at the least, give me hints,"

I suggested.

"Heart," She replied simply.

"Just a heart?"

"Scarlet, Gory, Haunted_" She suddenly paused, staring at me as she smirked. Something suspicious I sharply noticed in those brightened eyes that were focused on me without blinking.

I tried harder to think of it again, applying her weird hints, as I figured out something by guessing it.

Firstly, the heart symbolises scarlet, which could possibly be the supreme necklace and gory...haunted, were the two popular words forbidden in the realm where I belonged.

Relating to a traitor to the realm who was sent down on a mission to reduced the high rate of suicides on Earth, and instead was causing gruesome things, by haunting people who murdered her mortal body before she transformed into a mythical creature, by butchering her victim with knife and eating there heart.

By the time I came to the realm, she was already down on Earth, so I only heard, but never seen.

'But perhaps, is she...Eve?'