70 Horror House (1/2)
It was about two hours until the official start of the play, so the two of us wandered around for a bit more. After eating lunch, I felt a bit more invigorated, but... it would appear that ingesting food did not have the same effect on Luna. Her face was somewhat more pale after eating, but that might've been the change in lighting. Her voice sounded slightly different as well, lacking in its usual power by only a tiny bit, small enough that normal people would never truly notice. But not me. I heard the difference and it bothered me greatly.
We left my classroom, and I followed after her. The crowd seemed to part before her, allowing her continuous access to the hallway to get to where she needed to be. It must've been from her authoritative aura, but I could sense that the authority seemed to have weakened somewhat. However, she seemed to not notice this sudden change, or she chose to not acknowledge it, and continued down the hallway with a smile on her face.
”Are you alright?” I asked her finally out of curiosity.
”What're you talking about?” she asked, turning around to face me while continuing to walk backwards.
”You just seem... a bit weird,” I sighed. ”It's a slight difference.”
”Hmmm,” she brought a finger to her chin as she thought over my comment. ”I'm actually on a diet right now to lose weight,” she explained. ”And since I didn't eat much earlier...”
”Oh,” I said, cutting her off before she was forced to finish, knowing that such a topic is usually a taboo to talk about with a girl.”It's surprising that you even have to do that.”
”What makes you think that?” she asked. ”Maintaining my figure isn't easy work.”
I glanced down at her body subconsciously, taking in her slim waist and perfect distribution of fat on her body. She was quite slim, but her hips and breasts were both of a perfect proportion.
”Stop staring,” she sighed, causing me to notice where my eyes had wandered to.
”Sorry,” I apologized.
”I forgive you,” she said as she turned to face where she was walking and continued.
It was then that I noticed something that was odd as well. We weren't stopping by at any classrooms now, and when a student were to approach Luna, unlike before, she would conclude the conversation quite quickly without losing any politeness or kindness and continue on her way. In addition, the direction that we were heading in was also one that led to somewhere with fewer and fewer people. When I realized it, each step we took, there were fewer and fewer people around us. We had walked up the stairs to the top floor of the lecture building and made our way to the accessway leading into the secondary building.
Here, it was only the two of us and some couples that had came here to have some alone time. It was quite embarrassing to see the intimacy that they displayed, causing me to blush and wonder why she had taken me here. I knew that nothing would happen, but I couldn't help but imagine her and I behaving like the couples around us. However, that is still just my wild imagination being at play because I know for sure that will never happen.
She walked into the secondary building with me following close behind. Here, the hallways were completely empty with a great degree of silence. It was day and night here when compared to the loud and bustling lecture building. Here, it seemed cold and deprived of vitality, almost like a morgue where silence from the loud and chaotic noises of the living was had. It was so quiet that it made me feel quite uneasy. Slowly, my heart began beating on pace with the sound of our footsteps.
”Where're we going?” I asked.
”I left something in the student council room,” she responded without looking at me. Instead, she continued her walk until we arrived before the closed doors of the student council room. ”Wait outside,” she said to me as she entered alone, leaving me standing before the closed door in obedience.
It was quite a while until she reemerged from the student council room, a length of time that was long enough to be quite suspicious, but short enough to not be as well. Was she searching for what she had forgotten? That's the only logical answer. However, it would appear that she had recovered what she had forgotten for her facial expression seemed to regain its vitality. Come to think of it, maybe her pale face was from her worrying about whether or not she had lost the object she came searching for.
”Did you find it?” I asked as I started following her once again towards the lecture building once again.
”Yeah,” she said, letting out a sigh of relief. Then, she paused for a brief second in her speech before continuing once again. As she waited though, she took a quick glance over at me and smiled. ”I though I had lost it earlier.”
”What is it? If you don't mind me asking...”
”That's a girl's secret,” she chuckled. ”Something you're not prepared to know.”
”I'm only a year younger than you,” I responded.
”Still too young,” Luna laughed as we crossed the accessway and into the lecture building, slowly leaving behind the dead silence of the secondary building and back into the world of the living.
We walked around for a bit more, this time stopping in the classes that we had skipped over earlier. Like before, we didn't particularly spent money in these places. Mainly, it was Luna having a casual chat with the students there while I looked around. Then, as we finished making our way from the deeper areas of the lecture building back to my classroom, she pointed towards the classroom next to mine, class 2-B, which was a horror house.
”We haven't gone into that one yet,” she said, pulling me on my arm in order to drag me to the horror house.
”If you say so,” I sighed.
I wasn't particularly afraid of this horror house. The reason why? It's a high school production. How scary can it be? I predict that it must be just jump scares. Nothing to special.
”Would you like to have a try, Ms. President?” the student dressed as a fortune teller sitting at the desk before the curtained off entrance to the classroom asked.