Sahri High

Twenty Two (Unedited)

        L E T I S H A M A N A R I

       I enter to my designated room, I hate being late, but since I got entertained with the view upon going out our dorm, this was the result.

“I'm so sorry, Miss, I'm late.” I really meant it, Dad always told me to be on time, jeez, I will never do this again.

“That's fine, you must be the new student.” I nod, she lift up her hand asking me to step in the room, so I did. “Introduce yourself to your classmates.”

“I'm Letisha, you can call me Isha or Letisha," they are waiting for my next words, but I have nothing more to say, “Thank you.” They just nod, so do I.

“Okay, I think that would be enough you can sit anywhere you are comfortable at.” She instructed. I chose the table beside the window. The room is quite huge, and it has approximately fifty people in this room, it is a auditoria like classroom, and it has four windows at its four corners.

"Like the usual, before the sectioning next month, there will be a bitball, for those who's new student, this gathering is important for us and the counsil to know what section you belong." She pulled out a globe like stuff and put it in front of us. "This is the bitball, when you hold this, it will answer in colors, for example," she said and put her hand on the top of the ball and it glows, "It turns blue, because I'm an elemental user, it will depends. On that day you will see variety of colors, I will explain the further informations later on." She said, and started to teach her lessons.

My day went as what I'm expecting it to be, I did not had the chance to befriend someone before ending my day, I was not really in the mood, well, I'm always not in the mood, I guess because I transferred at the middle year, so students have their own groups to fill in, and I’m not really interested in joining any group that this school has.

Since I still have all the day, I wander around, and saw a forest like place, there’s a place like this here inside? Very cool. By the looks of it, students will often avoid going to this kind of place, but this excites me. I was welcomed by the breeze, it’s not even winter, I looked for the biggest tree. I can’t help but to giggle when I saw it in the middle of the garden, oh, I haven’t read what’s the name of this garden, maybe I’ll look at it later. I sit at the back of the tree so no one might see me, and decided to take a quick nap, I suddenly felt a little sleepy.

“Are you wandering around?” I immediately opened my eyes to see who spoke, it’s a well built tall man. I can’t clearly see his face since he was standing against the sun, plus the fact that he was wearing a black hoodie, he shoved his both hands in his pocket.

“Yes, I know I’m the new girl, but can you at least ask my name first, it’s much more fine with me than just calling me the new girl, and if I'm wondering around.” I saw him shook his head, and I don't know if my eyes played with me, “Are you smirking at me?” I can feel that he is pissing me off, but it's effective. I should be sleeping by now, if this man in front of me did not interrupt.

“Calm yourself, enjoy your own space, but please take care.” He said and jump somewhere I didn’t know, that left me in shock, how can a normal person just jump as far as that? Is he like me? Isn’t he’s a normal person too? And why would he asked me to take care of myself? Is he insulting me that I can’t handle myself? That guy.

“Hi!” what the heck? I thought this place won’t be at a student reach? I mean they can, but rarely, why are these people kept on just pooping around? My goodness. I want sleep! Heck yes, sleep. “You’re the new girl?” I gave him a quick glance before nodding, “I see, I'm Justine!” he's talking and smiling, how the heck did he do that?

“Yes, I'm actually planning to take a nap before looking around.” I'm not mean, it's just I don't want being interrupted by my sleep, but I still answer, as polite as I can.

“Ohhh, I see, do you need some company? I can tour you around the wholeeee place, if you like.” He said, he's bubbly, I am that too, but my energy right now is not enough to let him.

“Thank, but I want to take a nap before touring myself around.” He nod that made me sighed in relief.

“Okay! Looks like you are really tired, anyway, nice meeting you,” he stopped, that's when we both realized that I haven't introduced myself.

"Letisha Manari.” I said, I don't think he is waiting for another words from me? He seems not to be bothered by my short answer.

“Yes, nice meeting you Let!” My forehead creased with that, where did he get that name, Tine huh? "Ops, sorry! It's too wordy to say Isha, or Letisha, so Tine is a good choice, I'm so clever." I looked at him with disbelief, this guy is something.

Is he not bothered by my answers? Isn't that the hint that I don't want to talk with strangers, and I'm not in the mood right now to even open my mouth to speak something? Is he just a plain dumb or what?

I gave him a knowingly nod, I get it he has a point for that, I won’t argue with that, it’s indeed a wordy name. “Okay, I'll see you around, Justine." He left me, so I was able to lie down.

I have a lot of friends way back years, that was before I discovered about my ability, I read books, at the library, online, and whenever I might find some answers, but I haven’t found any. I opened my hand and effortlessly create a flower shaped liquid, that Justine is a water user, I sensed it, and I was able to got a little piece of it when he held my hand earlier while introducing himself.

I know, Mom might be right, this place is where I really belong, students here are indeed special, this was my first day but I met two different students, I wonder what’s the power of that first guy, I wasn’t able to know since he we didn’t have any close contact, Jasmine was no elemental power, but she has her solid aura of shield, I read something about that, it said to be a shield for protection, she might think that I wasn’t able to see it, but no, I can see people’s aura, but I don’t know what it means,

I have a lot of things to discover about this school, Liberty High is not a normal school, it's a school for extraordinary students and people like me.

This is where I belong.