Adanic: Chapter 3

Third period passed unusually slowly. I couldn’t begin to imagine what kind of message Topaz had supposedly given me. So then she had known me beforehand? It wasn’t adding up. She had never even crossed my mind until last night’s dream.
Today’s events hadn’t untangled the web of my thoughts; they only formed more questions. Maybe after I figured out what Topaz’s message was I would have some answers.
I let myself wander through my mind like that for a while, trying to connect the little I knew together. All that fit into place was Topaz’s shape into the black silhouette.
We didn’t really have a schedule for French today. This was probably my easiest class, so I would be fine pulling myself from all things français.
A tape in the corner of the room recited lines, asking us to “ecoutez et repetez”. Subconsciously, I robotically answered the tape while I was thinking.
I waited, both eagerly and worriedly, for the bell to signal the end of class. Finally, it came.
I anxiously made my way to Lab Bio, my 4th period class in which Topaz was to see me again.
I stepped in and spotted Courtney, one of my best friends, right away.
“Hi, April!” she called, waving in my direction. I strolled over to her desk and took my seat beside her.
“Hi, Courtney”, I answered, smiling.
“What’s new?” she asked me.
“Not much…” I said, realizing that Topaz had just now entered the room. I fixed my gaze on her but continued to speak to Courtney. “See that girl over there? She’s a new student, Topaz Cinada. There’s something weird about her. She seems to already know me. I had a dream about her last night…I don’t know why, but I thought maybe you could tell me what it meant”. Courtney had her ways of finding the meaning of dreams.
“Really?” She asked, her eyebrows rising, and she looked over to Topaz, too. “Tell me about the dream”.
“Well, I didn’t see Topaz clearly. All I saw was her grin- it was so creepy- and her pink eyes-“
“Pink eyes?” Courtney caught me mid-sentence.
“Um, yeah, haven’t you noticed yet?”
“Not yet. She’s still across the room, you know”, Courtney, replied, laughing. Her laughing was contagious, and I laughed with her for a second. “Anyway, about the dream. Go on”, she insisted. I could see she was more interested now.
“Okay. So anyway, I saw those against a silhouette. What does a silhouette mean?” I didn’t ask about the flames, because those seemed kind of obvious.
“I think silhouettes symbolize youth or innocence”, Courtney said, staring in confusion at Topaz. “She does look a little young. Is she our age?”
“I’m pretty sure”
“What else?” Courtney asked.
“Well later in the dream she disappeared. I appeared in her replace. And somehow…I looked like her. I mean, I looked the same as me, but I looked…scarier, more intimidating”, I explained. “And she apparently sent me a message, which I never got”.
“Hmm…Do you think the message was in your dream?” Courtney was still looking at Topaz, no doubt analyzing her and trying to make the same connections I tried to make earlier. “That is interesting”.
By now, class was in session. Topaz introduced herself to Miss Jolene and took her sat down at a front table. She turned back to flash Courtney and I a quick smile, and then turned back towards the board.
Fourth period was nothing like the previous. It seemed to pass in a blur. Before I even noticed it, the bell rang as a reminder for lunch.
Courtney and I got up to leave, but Topaz appeared right behind us in a second. “Hi, guys”, she said in her sugar-coated words. She remembered that Courtney hadn’t yet met her and they introduced themselves. “Hey April, can I talk to you alone for a second?”
I looked to Courtney, who gave me a look that said, “Okay, as long as you tell me later”, smiled, and said good-bye to us before catching up with her other friends.
“It’s about the message I sent you”, Topaz began, perfectly articulate.
“What message exactly?” I asked, looking for clarification.
Topaz frowned, but explained, “Do you remember your dream last night? It was a signal I was coming”.
It was my turn to frown. “Why tell me you were coming? No offense, but I didn’t even know you”.
She turned her eyes to full impact their powers upon mine. She answered with a confused expression, “I thought you should know. To see me without knowing me first would only make things worse”.
My eyebrows pulled together as I slowly responded, “I still don’t understand”.
Topaz sighed. Then she glanced over and past me, scanning the mass of students that was growing bigger and bigger. “Later”, she promised.