Contraclockwise

“Ma’am, is it one whole sheet of paper?” one of my students asks.

If I were an anime character, I have this veins that is popping out of my forehead and fist right now. “Can you read what is written in the board, please…” I said while I’m busy reading their essay that they just passed. After Abstract went missing, I can’t focus. Allie is always coming in the house to give us some news, and few other friends of her come to the house that we just knew and barely knew. The owner of the car shop where we were asking for repair is always coming too. We were very shocked when we found out that Ackie was a car racer before that was why she was able to save for her to study medicine. It’s been a year now since she went missing but still we don’t have any news. Our mother is worried and even if our father doesn’t show it, we knew that he’s also worried. Mother has been sleeping in Ackie’s rooms for months now. The bell rang and all of the students knew that it was the time to go home. I am organizing my things and preparing to go out of my classroom, I turn to look at the door when I heard a knock.

“Done already?” Wise asks. It’s also been a year since he’s giving me a ride because they are afraid that there might be some people under this man called Wolframite and we might have the same fate as Ackie.

"I'm almost done." I shortly replied.

“Okay, I’ll wait for you.” He said the sat on the chair in front. He’s an Engineering Professor here in University of Angels. He seems like he became my bodyguard. We don’t talk that much but I can say that he’s kind. “Come on, let me help you.” He said and get the things I carries. Honestly, I’m not impressed if he change cars every day. The entire year that he’s doing what he’s doing right now, I haven’t noticed that he repeat one of his cars. “Can we go to the house for a while; Wisdom forgot to give Wit’s allowance.” I secretly frown. I want to go home now and I want to rest. “I’m not coming home today because I need to go somewhere after I send you home.”

“Hmm… can you ask him to come to the house instead?” I ask.

“Sure.”

I went straight to my room to change and I don’t want to see the body guards that sent of the man named Flood to secure our safety.

“Let’s eat!” said the man who’s wearing an apron and cooking on the kitchen after I changed.

“Where’s mama?” I

cooked already so

Master! Why are

watch over them. I don’t have work today besides I want to

just call Mama so they can also eat.” I replied. To honest, I’m not used to this kind of set up. I’m hoping that this will end now and we’ll be able to find Ackie so these friends of her stop coming here because that’s the indication that we found her

paying our project today.”

pay it next time?”Mom said. I frowned. “Ask your sister if

she shook her head. “Ma today is the deadline.”

came in. She noticed that we’re having an awkward silence. “What’s wrong?”

can’t pay the project that

with me.” she said then

"Five hundred..." I replied.

She said then gave me two thousand. “Pay the things you can pay with that money so you have to pay on the deadline, okay?” she said then changed her clothes and lie down on her bed. She noticed

then went out of

wherein she’ll come home and I’ll be