Xander | Outside the Nurse's Office |
It didn't take long for the nurse to usher them all outside, saying that she'd take care of the injured boy, and that was fine by him. If he was outside the office, it would be easier to slip away.
There was a lot of weird stuff going on and Xander was just trying to stay out of it all. But everyone seemed to insist on including him. Like the girl in the tree who probably wasn't even a girl at all.
Xander held his basketball and shuffled his feet before glancing out the window of the nurse's office. She was there again. She put a finger to her lips once more and Xander decided she must be one of them and felt the contempt and fear shiver through his body.
"I think he'll be alright," the blonde boy said.
"Probably has rabies, you know, from the dog that didn't bite him," Xander joked. The other two didn't look very amused but that was their problem, not his. "Look, this doesn't really involve me, so maybe I should go now." He was trying not to make a big deal of it, but whether these guys were normal or not, it felt like he'd got out of the fire and into the frying pan. And there was him thinking he'd been so lucky to escape from Danny and the crew.
"You want to go? Just like that?" The girl was short and had short, brown hair but what he really noticed about her was the bright blue eyes. Like robin eggs. He remembered finding one as a child and how he'd tried to hatch it in the airing cupboard.
"Yeah I want to go. Look, I don't know who you guys are and I'm not gonna repeat any of what you told me. I- I just want to go. Please?" Xander tried to make himself look small for the second time that day and hoped his ginger hair was doing him some good. It was funny to think that the hair he'd hated so much, the hair that had driven him to take self defence classes was now his best weapon.
