"You're switching hairstyles quickly, so what happened to the massive black bow you had at the back of your head?"
Pointing a finger at his head, he probed for a reason.
"Well I don't want to stick to one hairstyle" Catrina fiddled with her black hair.
"What~ did you like my previous hairstyle~"
She said playfully, not beating around the bush.
"Want me to give you an honest answer as a friend?"
"No, you'll say something I don't like for sure If I tell you to rate it"
"You know me so well Catrina~"
Cale beamed a mischievous like smile at her.
She turned away from him in disgust.
"You seem to be in a better mood today?"
She asked, looking out the window behind her.
"It's because I'm getting an intense urge to tease you"
"I'm not your personal stress ball..."
"The same goes for me~"
"I don't tease you"
'And she lied as naturally as she breathed'
"History says otherwise"
"No it doesn't"
Catrina changed the subject.
"Well anyway, where is Gabriel? that guy is always late"
"I looked around but he was nowhere?"
She propped her chin on the railing.
"That guy can't manage his time at all, just what did you expect?"
Gabriel's incapability to manage his time efficiently made both of them wonder how he came on time on the first day of school.
Catrina turned her back to Cale and furrowed her brows neatly together at familiar figure spotted at the distance.
"Ah I see him!"
She pointed to a direction Cale couldn't see.
"Yeah I can't see where you're pointing at Catrina"
"Then stop sitting on the staircase which is dirty and get up here"
"..."
Cale got up from the staircase hurt by sharp words, and walked up the stairs.
"Hey Catrina, am I dirty anywhere?" He spun his body for her to look and see If he was dirty anywhere.
"No, you're fine"
She replied back, inching closer to the window.
Soon after. Cale also spotted Gabriel in the courtyard, standing next to Catrina who waved her hands erratically until Gabriel spotted us.
"Did he see us?"
"I think he did?" She replied playfully, both still looking outside the window.
Not long after, Gabriel went up the same stairs he came from.
"What are you two doing?"
Gabriel asked us, his head tilting In curiosity.
""Nothing""
They both said in unison.
"Your hair is a mess, did you use a leaf blower to do your hair?"
Gabriel staggered back slightly then glared at the rude Cale.
"Oh yeah? what about your hair? It's not In a much better state than mine?" Finger pointed at Cale's bed hair.
"Do you prefer a disaster or a mess?"
"..."
Catrina slowly walked away from the window and sat on a bench, intently watching with sparkling eyes at the sight of Gabriel and Cale arguing, she lamented at the fact that she didn't have any 3D glasses to wear or popcorn to eat.
'Am I the only one who cares for their hair In this group?'
She thought to herself while playing with her hair.
Trrr~
Trrr~
Trrr~
The bell rang, and Cale felt his eyelids get heavier, he couldn't keep them open any longer and closed them. Every limb in his body felt static for a few moments.
Gabriel stares at him for a few moments.
"Cale? what's up?"
He asked him, but he remained unresponsive.
Cale(?) opened his eyes, a cold gaze was directed at the both, his eyes felt tranquil, devoid of life and...devoid of all vibrant color.
His face softened, but his eyes didn't, they still didn't soften like how butter would when spreading it on a slice of bread.
"No its just hard not laugh"
""?""
"When did you get a pet cockroach?"
"Huh"
Cale pointed at his feet.
"!?!?"
A cockroach had been climbing his leg like a monkey all this time.
"What the heck!"
Gabriel flailed his body around, doing his best to get rid of the climbing cockroach.
"Class is starting, so we should go"
Cale said In a calm and slow voice.
"Alright~ I'm following. Have fun Gabriel!"
"Take that! and that!
Both of them left the stomping maniac killing the innocent bug.
***
"Is there even a point In doing this?"
The real Cale laid sprawled on the floor, staring at the ceiling.
Usually he only get teleported to Gardenia when recess starts, but he would also get transported when the bell rang for the first class of the day to start.
Of course the moment "Cale" steps In class, he gets transported back.
"...?"
Suddenly hearing a strange sound- no it resembled more of a sensation.
He shot up to his feet and started walking towards the window.
"?!"
He saw it, a humanoid monster and-
'It's fast!'
It was moving through the courtyard with incredible speed, covering an insane distance almost as if it had teleported.
He stepped back and hid behind a wall, making sure it didn't see him.
An eye peeked, trying to see where it went.
'It disappeared?'
Cale felt a knot forming in my stomach.
'How the hell is it that fast?'
It wasn't as if that living armor couldn't be seen at all. Cale did see it with his own eyes, and he saw it stop a few times.
'Is it not simply speed?'
'If it were all speed, then I wouldn't have been able to track its movements at all since it would just move instantly without stop'
"A speed boost..."
That was the conclusion he came to, It gains a sudden boost In speed for a few moments.
'Can it not use it for long because of stamina or is there something else at play?'
He couldn't know at the moment, but the most Important thing to note was that It had limits to its speed.
"..?"
His surroundings began to be consumed by darkness, before long his vision had also been consumed by this eerie darkness.
'I guess the doppelganger reached the class?'
Cale closed his eyes and waited until his eventual return back to class.