Chapter 13: THE YIN TO MY YANG

V A L E N T I N A

Kamala raised her chin, arrogance oozing from her. I stood up and walked towards the mirror. I didn't see the mirror when I first come in. Maybe, it was because I was busy arguing with that dumbass in my head that I missed such an important feature.

She stared me, trying to study my movements. At first, it might look like that this was a mere reflection of me, but there were major differences.

Kamala looked exactly like me, but she had a dark aura on her. Her eyes were red and she had scales on the left side of her body. That was because Kamala was the snake. So whenever I shifted, she joined in me in my body and when I shifted back, she would go back to her home- which was the mirror.

She rolled her eyes. "Did you have to disturb my sleep with your bullshits?" She wanted to go back in the mirror, but sadly she couldn't as she had to tend to me. I honestly did not feel bad.

"You know I can hear your inner thoughts, right?"

"Yes, I know." I did that intentionally.

"Bitch."

I laughed, throwing my head backwards. That was what I loved about Kamala. She was not the one to beat around the bushes and she was not afraid to speak up her damn mind.

She grunted. "Yeah, laugh all you want. Just so you know, I always get the last laugh." A smirk formed on her face.

"Bitch"

She grinned and folded her arms. "So tell me, what is making you think so much? You do know that whenever you think so much, it affects me." She raised her brow.

"Yes, I do know that, but I can't help with it." I shrugged. "Besides, you are part of me and I am part of you. So whatever we do, we affect each other."

She blinked a couple of times and then she smirked. "So basically, you are the yin to my yang, huh."

Where did I hear that phrase from? I pursued my lips in thoughts.

"Ugh, my baby is such a dummy. It is a phrase that means that we are soulmates."

Awww....that was the most cutest thing anyone has ever said to me. I wanted to hug her, but she can not get out of the mirror. Well, until the midnight of my birthday.

"First, don't you start sapping on me." She pointed her finger at me. "And second of all, I cannot wait for your birthday. Do you know how exhausting it is to be here all day?"

I could understand where her frustration came from. The only time she was free was when we shifted into a snake, but that was still not enough for her to get out. On my birthday, I would become eighteen hundred, that meant I would be an adult soon.

"I know that...Do not worry, in two days, you would be free."

"Thank Lord! I can't wait to finally start eating pizza." She signed.

My eyes gleamed. So far, I had only had the food that Mike cooked for us. He claimed that they were 'healthy' and good for our body.

How was a vegetable good for my body? I was a bloody carnivore for goodness sake. I want nothing but meat.

Kamala would be shocked to find out that these humans ate green things.

"Green things? Do you mean grass? Now, who the fuck would eat grass?" She yelled throwing her arms around.

"Mmhh"

Suddenly, a voice disrupted us. I turned to see Ryan gaining his consciousness back. The noise must have woke him up.

"Shit! He woke up! Go away before he sees you."

She scrunched her nose and rolled her eyes. "Yeah yeah. I am going now. I don't want the boy fainting again due to shock." She remarked sarcastically. And with that, she disappeared, making my reflection coming back.

She always had to be sarcastic. I rolled my eyes inwardly.

I jerked my head in the direction where Ryan was lying down. He was rubbing his eyes, slowly getting aware of where he was.

I inched closer to his bed. "Hey Ryan, you doing okay?" I drew my lower lips between my mouth, not sure of what to say.

"Uh yeah. I think so." He clutched his head. I guess his head must be paining.

I knew what I could do to make his pain lessen. "Do you need a message on your head? It works for me most of the time." My mouth twitched.

His eyes widened, then a flush crept upon his face. "S-sure. If it is not a bother."

H was so cute...way too cute. I swear cute guys would be the death of me.

I tried so hard not to coo at him. "It is not a bother." I winked.

He shyly looked away and made a scoot to the left side of the bed so that I could have a space to sit down. He leaned his head towards me.

I inched my hand towards his head, threading my hand through his hair. His hair was so soft, like way too soft. What did he use on his hair? Maybe snake saliva or a Panther? My hair could not compare to his. It was silky, but as not as his. One day I will ask him what he used.

"Ohh, that feels good." He groaned, pushing his head towards me while his eyes were closed.

I stiffened. That was a sexy groan he released. I pressed the same spot again so that he could make the same noise again.

"Does that make you feel good?" I whispered next to his ear.

"Yesss", He moaned, but then he immediately opened his eyes the moment that statement come out of his mouth. He jumped out of the bed and fell.

"Are you okay?!"

He stood up, wiping the dust of his trouser. "Yeah, I am okay." He rubbed his neck and avoided my eyes.

I think I offended him. Maybe I was not supposed to say that.

"Well, I hope your head is much better now." I smiled.

His eyes flashed. "Yeah, thank you so much!" His cheeks turned pink.

Well, it had to be okay. After all, I secretly used my power to make his headache better. Of course, I won't tell him that.

"I am glad that it did. What time does the next class start?"

He glanced at his watch. "Damn, you are late. The class already started one minute ago. "

Only one minute? That was okay.

I snickered. "It is alright. One minute would not be a harm."

He tittered, shaking his head. "What class do you have now?

I honestly have no idea what class I have. This damn school system was confusing. The only thing I knew was that I had period 2 and 6 free. I pull out my schedule from my pocket and glanced to see what class I had next.

"It says Pre-Calculus by Mr Todd."

"Oh-oh" His eyes widened. "You better hurry to class or else you gonna get it."

"What's gonna happen if I went late?" I remarked sarcastically.

He laughed again. "Oh, you will see."

Do you know what I hated the most? That was when someone was right and Ryan just had to be right. This teacher was something else.

"Well explain why you are late?" He crossed his arms across his chest. Since the moment I got inside the class, he kept on asking me questions.

I was only late for five minutes. I usually took longer than that when my mom summons me.

I forced a smile on my face. Mike told me to smile and never show my anger no matter how much I was pissed. "I was in the norse’s office."

"Norse? You mean the nurse’s office. Well then, solve that question on the board first before you sit down." He gave me a white small stick and pointed at a black wall that had some inscriptions on it.

What was I supposed to do with this? Was I suppose to eat? I took the white thing and placed it in my mouth. I took a bite out of it and spitted it out.

It did not taste good.

"What are you doing?!" The Mr. yelled and the class erupted into laughter.

Did I do something wrong?

"Girl! That is not cocaine." A girl yelled from the back of the class. I turned to look at her and she was busy clutching her stomach, laughing so hard.

Cocaine? Was that a type of human food? I needed to learn a lot of human vocabularies. I only knew a few words from the movies that I illegally binge-watched with Diana.

"Well then, what am I supposed to do with it?"

He narrowed his eyes. Annoyance was written all over his face. "I will let this one just slide. Use the chalk to write on the board. You have to answer the question"

Ohh! That was what I was supposed to do it. He could have said that in the first place. I went to the black wall he pointed at. On it was a question that was not written in English.

What language is this? It said, 'x^2 + 2x + 36' I can see two letters and some numbers. What in the heck was this?

I glanced back at the teacher. "What am I supposed to look for?"

"Look for the zeros."

I stared at the board again. There was no zero. Was this man blind or what?

I frowned. "But there is no zero"

He raised his brow. Probably thinking that I was kidding again.

"No, you are supposed to look for the zeros using the function. Use the x to guide you."

So I should use the x to guide me. I think I got it! I wrote down my answer on the board and gave the chalk to the teacher. Then I took a seat at the back of the room.

"What is this?" He pointed to the wall.

I scrunched my face. "Umm, the answer?"

"Why did you just write x?" His face went blank.

"I finally understood by what you meant when you said 'use x to guide you.' So I figured that it was a puzzle. There was two x and I figured one of them must be fake-pretending that it was a zero."

Everyone stared at me like I grew two heads. Then, they all started laughing again. What was with everyone laughing today? I frowned, trying to figure out the situation.

"Man! I love this girl! She is such a troll." The guy next to me threw his head back laughing.

"I know right, dude! She has a great sense of humour. I have never seen anyone troll Mr Todd like that."

"ENOUGH!" The Mr. yelled. His eyes were red, probably angry at these students for laughing. I agreed with that. They should stop laughing as it was annoying me too.

"And you!" He pointed at me. "You have lunch detention, young lady. I don't like students who like to clown."

He continued talking, but nothing was registering in my mind after that. He said I had a detention. So humans also had that form of punishment. No! Anything but that.

"Mr., I am sorry if I offended you, but don't you think this is too harsh for not knowing how to answer a question?" I clenched my hand under my desk.

He gazed at me and shook his head. "That is not a big punishment. I could have given you an after school detention. Be thankful." And with, he turned to the black wall and continued his lesson that I disrupted when I came.

Hinivai! (Asshole!). I cursed at him in my head. School detention must be the second phase of lunch detention. Tsk! What was the difference?

"So you now have a detention just because you come to class late and could not answer the question?" Diana asked as she took a piece of yellow stick that was known as 'fryees' from my plate.

I smacked her hand to stop her. "First of all, stop stealing my fryees and yes, he gave me a detention just for that."

"I think it is called friis." She whined, rubbing the back of her hand.

I rolled my eyes. "I don't care what it is called as long as it is tastes delicious and this is really good." I took a bite.

"It is so good. So now, where are you going to get the equipment for the detention? Did he give you the direction?"

"No." I scrunched my nose. Lately, I seem to be doing that a lot. "He told me that it will be during lunchtime. So, I have to go now before he gives more punishment." I took my plastic plate and threw on a box that said 'Recycle'. Why was it called that when the box was rectangle? Humans were so weird.

"Well, good luck with that. I would be busy stuffing myself with this delicious food." She grabbed her 'armbugger' and took a big bite out of it. 'Armbugger' tasted delicious, but it was really hard to pronounce its name. We spent an entire five minute with the cook trying to teach us how to pronounce it. I still did not get it because I was pretty sure that I was still pronouncing all these words wrongs.

"Okay bye." I kissed her on her cheeks and left the cafeteria. I only had ten minutes before the next class started so I needed to hurry up.

I walked from room to room, trying to use my sense to look for a weapon to use for detention. I kept on walking till my nose led me to a room that spelt, 'Principal's room.' That was the name of the madam that I met the other day. Mike told me that she ruled the school. Then that meant that she must have the weapons.

I knocked on the door. I waited for some seconds before I knocked again. Maybe she could not hear the knock. I turned the handle and the door clicked open. I first placed my head inside to see that there was no one inside the room.

I closed the door behind me after I got in. The room had a desk and a red leather chair. There was also a big shelve that had lots of books. I came closer to it and traced the books with the tip of my finger.

Suddenly, my eyes caught the sight of a big red book. I tried pulling it out of its place, but then it made a click sound. I jerked my head towards the direction of the noise to see that another door opened.

"Huh?"

I was sure this door was not here when I came in the beginning. Did the book produce that? I guess I should just check what was inside. But, wouldn't that violate her privacy? My good conscience was saying to me not to go inside, but my bad conscience was telling me to go and check what was inside.

I guess the bad side wins as I was curious to know what was inside.

I dragged my feet towards the passage. Its inside was very dark. It was a good thing that I had a night vision. I walked around the passage and finally found the switch.

I switched on the light and a triumph smile appeared on my face.

"Jackpot"

I carried the accessories that I got from the room towards my math teacher's classroom. I had only five minutes, so I quickened my pace.

I slammed the door open and placed all the materials on his table. He stopped talking and whirled around.

"Sir, I am ready for detention. So how many hits do I get?"

His eyes got so big that I was afraid that they would pop out. The silence was in the room. Everyone stopped talking and they all gazed at me.

"What the actual fuck?!"