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David dropped my bag on the floor and knelt beside me.
    “Isis, forgive me if I’ve frightened you. I did not think you to react this way. You were the one that said…” He lowered his voice. “Isis, you were the one that said you were positive you wanted me to prove I was real. I merely took your word.”
    “This can’t be happening. You’re not real. You can’t be.” I shook my head.
    We heard footsteps approaching in the hallway. David wiped my tears and helped me to my feet. I hung my book bag over my shoulder. The streams of salt water continued to flow freely from my eyes and over my cheeks.
    “There’s a female approaching,” David warned. “Stop crying.”
    “I can’t,” I whimpered.
    The footsteps got louder as the woman approached. I wanted to cry out for help, but the knot in my throat wouldn’t let me. I was sure David was some sort of psycho.
    “Isis, stop,” he pressured. “She’ll question you.”
    His telling me to stop only made me cry louder. He looked over his shoulder and turned around to view me once again. Then, with an expression of desperation, he took my face in his hands. My tears stopped streaming and I ceased breathing. I thought he was about to snap my neck. Instead, he pressed his lips against mine in a soft swaying motion.
    My breathing returned, and I became aware of subtle sandalwood essence. My body was completely relaxed. My head was numb. I felt like I was anesthetized. It was a sensation I could only compare to that of morphine.
    “Get to class kids,” Principal Miller’s voice ordered as she passed us by.
    David caught me as my legs gave out from under me.
    “Careful,” he smiled, “I’m lethal.”
    “What did you do to me?” I asked half conscious and unable to sustain my own weight.
    “Forgive me.” David drew his arm around me, clutching me at the waist. “I had to do something to tranquilize you. The effect will cease in a few minutes, but I must speak to you privately. You don’t understand what consequences may arise if someone should gain knowledge of my existence.”
    “Where are you taking me?” I slurred. “You’re going to th… th… thlaugter me?” My tongue would not cooperate. It felt like it had been dosed with Novocain.
    “No… I am not allowed.” His chuckle made the two dimples on either side of his face visible.
    David grabbed the bag off my shoulder and hung it on his arm. He lifted me and walked down the hallway with my semi-conscious body. At the corner of the front office, where we were not visible to the office staff, he set me on my feet. He aided me in walking—more so, dragging me—to the window and knocked on the glass to get the clerk’s attention.
    “She will be going home per nurse’s orders.” He handed the receptionist the nurse’s excuse.
    David signed my name on the student sign-out log. Then, he walked me around the corner where he lifted me again. I wanted to protest and run and kick and scream, but whatever he had done to me was more potent than my body’s reflexes.
    With my eyes partially open, I tried to struggle with him. I wasn’t about to go down without a fight.
    “Stop it or I’ll put you to sleep,” he threatened in a low voice.
    Down the first row of cars, in the student parking lot, he set me down next to a black, shiny vehicle. David opened the car door and seated me. He buckled my safety belt and shut the door. I tried to undo the seatbelt, but it was no use, I was trapped. My neck felt like gelatin, barely managing to hold my head up.
    “You must be sober before I can speak to you,” David said, turning the key in the ignition.
    “I’m going to call the police.” My speech was less slurred as I pulled my cell phone from my pocket.
    “Oh, no, my dear. You will do no such thing.” He snatched the phone from my hand. “You will listen to what I have to say, and then you will tell me how you came to be in Terra Somnium.”
    I mumbled a few rude words calling him names, thinking