THE LEGENDS

Thunder strikes. Then Lightening. It's going to rain, I watch as people are running all over for safety, but I'm just standing still. I've always loved the rains. When it flows down my hair and how it always makes me feel wet and cold at the same time. The smell of the ground when the rain hits the soil. Breathtaking. The first drop hits my nose and I take in a deep breath. But seriously, why does it have to hit my nose? It's not like my nose is that long. I'm enjoying the drops of rain as they keep coming and I watch as the clouds turn grey, causing the atmosphere to change. It's becoming dark. It does that when it rains at times. But then it's darkening a little too fast, this is not normal. I turn to look around me and there is no one, not a single soul not even cars nor the buildings that were there, just nothing. Then out of the blues, I'm in the midst of a forest, a huge forest. I can't see anything, cause it's dark. And it's not just the dark, I can't see totally, it's like I'm blind. Then it hits me, I don't have my glasses with me, I took them off when I was standing in the rain, but I normally still see even with my glasses off, blurry stuff, but I still see. But now I can't see anything at all. What's happening to me? Then I hear growls, my heart is beating faster. "Is anyone there?" I shout as I try to move my hands around just to be able to feel anything around me. The growls are getting louder, it's like whatever it is is getting closer to me. I really want to see it. I move my hands again and this time I touch something soft, not soft like skin soft but soft like fur soft. An animal. I snap my eyes open and this time I can see clearly. The first thing I see is the eyes, burning red eyes. They are drawing me closer that I can't seem to take my eyes off whatever it is. I don't know what it is but it is two times taller than me because I'm looking up. After a long battle, I finally manage to tear my eyes off the striking red ones and I can see what it is, it's huge, like a bear huge, but it's not a bear. What would a bear be doing in this part of the country? In a forest? My eyes move to its mouth and I can see and blood drooping from it. Definitely a killer. I mean, it's an animal. Animals kill. It opens its mouth wide open and when I see the fangs I let out a scream. I feel as my body connects with the ground and I hit my head on something hard. A desk. it was a nightmare. Damn. I'm on the ground under my desk and when I move to sit back on the seat the lecturer is standing before me looking so pissed. Everyone in class is giggling and I'm feeling so embarrassed. "Miss Styles, I know I'm a boring lecturer but sleeping in my class is something I won't entertain." He says and the class bursts out laughing. Idiots. "I'm sorry sir, it won't happen again," I tell him my voice shaking. I'm still shaken from the nightmare I just had. "It better not, especially the screaming, you can sleep all you want, but do not scream in my class, you're scaring us." He says with a grin and the class laughs again, he thinks he is funny but he is not. People are just making fun of me. They always do. He walks away and I pick my glasses from the floor where they had fallen while I was busy having a very uncomfortable nightmare. As I lift my head from under the desk, I notice there's someone sitting beside me. I know I always don't have a seatmate, the only one I have at times is Maya who didn't come to class today. My eyes move from his body and they land on his eyes. My heart skips a beat, and no, not because he is hot looking, yes he is but because his eyes are red, like his eyes are red, burning red like the bear, I don't know wolf, the thing I saw in my nightmare. This must be another nightmare. He is holding a smirk on his lips but my eyes are just focused on the burning red ones. Maybe it's because I don't have my glasses on. I put them on and I still see the red eyes. He blinks and when he opens them they have turned to a dark brown shade. "Is everything okay?" He asks and I snap out of my thoughts clearing my throat. "Yea." I turn to look away but I'm so tempted to look at those eyes again. There was just had something about them that doesn't make sense to me. Maybe they are too beautiful. Maybe I'm just being crazy like my friends tell me. Every time I tell them I see things, strange things, they tell me to go for prayers or visit a native doctor. Maybe I should do that one day. The lecturer keeps talking whatever nonsense he is saying and my mind is anywhere but here, I really do hate school. I don't understand why we should go to school, it never makes sense to me. It's not like everyone who has gone to school has made it. "Ms. styles?" The lecturer calls again and I swear I want to roll my eyes, I'm not sleeping again if that's what he is thinking. "Sir." "Answer the question." Really? What is this? High school? "I didn't get the question." "I see; because you've been sleeping again." Okay, is it just me or do I feel like this lecturer doesn't like me? "I'm sorry sir but I don't feel too well. I'm requesting to leave class early." He laughs sarcastically when I say that. But seriously. There is something not okay with me, Maybe the nightmare is causing this feeling, but only if he could understand. "You can't walk out of my class when it's on; Can you stand up !" Everyone is laughing and I feel even more embarrassed, I don't understand why he is making it such a big deal. "I wasn't walking out sir, it was a request to leave early." "Are you trying to challenge me?" Really? I don't understand why he dislikes me this much, I've never missed any of his classes, I'm literally an A student and I answer all of his questions, just this one time that I have been a little distracted in class he's making it look like I'm the worst student in his class. I almost stumble as I stand up. I'm sort of still shaken from the nightmare. I adjust my glasses. "No sir, I'm sorry sir." "You do know I could discontinue you from doing my course right?" "I'm so sorry sir, I promise it won't happen again." Everyone is giggling and I feel like joining campus was probably a bad idea. In high school, I went through the same trauma of being bullied and I thought if I came to college all that would change, but it never seems to. Everyone sees me as this nerd, the reason being, I wear glasses and they don't seem to like my style of dressing. But I didn't come to school for a fashion show, I came to study. "For the love of God sir, she's already apologized, can't we move on already?" My new seatmate comes to my defense and I'm a little surprised that for the first time someone has stood up for me. Some stranger. The lecturer looks at him and smirks, then a chuckle follows then he walks towards our desks. He is not an old man as most of the professors, he is probably in his mid-thirties if I'm not wrong, just that he acts like he is so in control just because he lectures at a well-known university. He is good looking no doubt, only if he could cut off his stupid attitude. "I have a new challenger, our new student." He announces once he gets to where we are. "My name is Arnold, I'm sure you already know that." The lecturer is taken aback by the stunt and literally, the whole room is because there are gasps all over. The new student is something else. The next thing that follows is a staring contest between the lecturer and Arnold and I'm just standing there looking confused. "I see, Arnold." By the look he is giving him, I can tell he hates being challenged. He leans closer to Arnold and taps on his desk before whispering something. If I was an inch further than them I wouldn't have grasped whatever he said, but since I was close enough, I heard it all, and it scared the s**t out of me. "If you want to impress a girl, maybe you should learn to control your eyes." First I don't grasp the meaning of what he's said but when Arnold turns to look at me and I see the same shade of eyes I saw when I woke up from my nightmare, the burning red eyes, I understand what he means. Just as the shade appeared, it disappears. The next thing, Arnold pushes back his seat and walks out of the class bumping into the lecturer on his way out. The lecturer takes a moment before he speaks again. "We'll continue with the lecture next time." And he follows the direction that Arnold had gone. "That's crazy." Lydia, the girl who sits beside me and never talks to me, does it for the first time. I let out a sigh. My heart is still beating so fast. "Yea." I grab my stuff and walk out of the hall. I don't know what just happened, but I'm losing my mind. Maybe I should visit that native doctor or pastor. ##########