"Fight! Fight! Fight!" Several kids were now circling two boys in the food court. This had all started only when one poured soda on the other as a prank. Now any student could be facing detention seeing how the staff was watching carefully and scribbing something on the palm of their hands. And of course one of them had to be Brad, the one who meant the soda pouring as a prank to one of his pales who had been fumed about a girl who declined him. The shape shifter, Alice, had been leaning over her seat to watch, hearing Kaleb's hissings of how stupid this would be. She didn't pay much attention to that, just to the chanting and the punches the two threw at each other. "Do you honestly think that this is going to end good?" Another student was now trying to get between them, only to be shoved away by Brad. This was getting stupid seeing how all the girls had moved to the front only to make the other boy more angry.
Then something was thrown over at Alice and Kaleb. A table and it had nearly slammed into their heads. The legs were swinging loosely and hanging off of the side of the booth. No one had seemed to notice the table flying at them and just continued with chanting the fight on which soon begun in a brutal beating. Kaleb had tried several times to distract Alice from watching with flying salt shakers or dancing napkins, yet her attention wasn't on the two students fighting. It was Lori, just standing there and watching Alice too with a smirk on her pale lips. There was a connection in the girl's eyes, drawing Alice deeper into what seemed to be darkness. An endless pit that only gave away to Kaleb's voice yelling, "Alice! Get down!"
Too late. Something hard had hit Alice in the head as Kaleb tried to dive for it, catching the small salt shaker that Brad had thrown at his opponet. Her head was now throbbing painfully, making her stomach boil with rage at the two students, hoping to get close enough to tear their eyes out. Yet Kaleb was now pinching her hand under the table with glares and whispered, "Don't dare think of getting involved with this one. You know what Brige is looking for in you."
"A way for trouble. I know, I know already. But you'd at least think I'd get warning from them. And besides, why isn't Brad visiting Kanni?" said the shape shifter, rubbing her head.
"Don't know. Maybe he's too fumed to think about that right now seeing how Alice's habits have bestowed on Kanni." The voice was Premidas who leaned onto the side of the booth, sitting next to Kaleb and already examining the fight. "How long?"
"Few minutes only. Not much to be awed about," answered Alice.
"It's been mostly boring," said Kaleb through a series of yawns. "How's Kanni?"
"Something else happen, maybe we should talk about it with Kanni," whispered Premidas, taking account of a few students staring at them.
"..." Alice was mainly paying attention to the fight still, finding that Lori had moved somewhere else in the crowd where she might now be seen right now. Still, Alice felt watched. Not by other students, but by something hungry for energy and pain. The conversation between the two boys wasn't her interest anymore, neither the way that Kaleb continued to rub her knuckles to get her attention softly. He was perhaps afraid of her going missing one more time. It was a habbit, yet one that sometimes lead her to important information.
"Alice, let's go visit Kanni." All three stood up, avoiding the fight and chanting auidence, leaving the food court unharmed. Students were more talkative these days about anything, even of how Alice or Kanni kept ending up in the Hospital Wing. Brige was now found walking through the corridors more with Merlin with him. Snoop was either found chewing on desks or plants that hung around the school, no harm done there. The shape shifter didn't feel ready to leave the corridor closet to the food court, as if she had forgotten something there. Yet the feeling meant nothing at all to her.
Gabriel was now even found between hours called up to Clarissa's office along with Mrs. Taint or Themrus, whoever was there. Yet Kaleb locked her arm with his and walked her down with Premidas, preparing to explain to Kanni about what had happened and to hear the other story of what had been happening.
[Sorry it's short. Gotta go to doctor's tomorrow so gotta go to bed early.]