Retrophile

The Retrophile

CHAPTER 1: THE RETROPHILE

Retrophiles are the people who love artifacts, and aesthetics to the past.

The school bell rings, and every student is starting to pack their things, except to Mrs. Green's students, she continues discussing their lesson for this day, so most of her students are showing that they are not interested anymore on what she is saying. Mrs. Green is teaching history subject to the grade 12 students, at Mary Magdalene Academy, located at Kansas City in America.

"Class! We are almost finished for today's lesson, so please focus!" She said and continue again on discussing, little does she knows, that one of her students is listening to her, and comprehending every detail that she is teaching, she is Astraea Jordan, an 18-year-old lady, who is fond to the things in the past, that's why, even though the surrounding is noisy, she is still focusing on the discussion.

"Okay! That's all, class dismissed!" Said Mrs. Green, and leave the classroom. This is what she hates the most, when the history subject ended, with a heavy heart she needs to wait for tomorrow's class and packed her things.

"Hey! Astraea, let's go! I'm really hungry!" Said one of her friends, named Arianna.

"Wait! I'm still fixing my things." She said and continues what she is doing. After fixing her things, they immediately headed towards the cafeteria of their school, because they only have 20 minutes left before their next class starts. As they arrived at the cafeteria, the line is still long, and they are pretty sure that they will be late for their next class, that's why, Krisia, one of her friends, will be using her technique in this kind of situation.

"What do you want Ariana?" She asked

"Just biscuits and a yogurt drink." She said, and give the payment to Krisia.

"How about you Astraea?" She asked me

"The same as Ariana!" I said and pay for my food.

"Okay! Just wait here!" She said and leave. In a situation like this, Krisia will find an acquaintance and ask them a favor to buy our foods, most of the time, it was really effective but sometimes not. We can see Krisia searching for an acquaintance and minutes later, she saw one. She went near the guy, and started talking to him, it seems like she is having a hard time on pleasing the guy, but as expected to her, she makes the guy said 'yes' on her little favor. Krisia walks toward us with a big smile on her face

"Woo! Success! We will just wait for him, in our classroom, because his classroom is beside us. So let's go?" She said and started walking again, we have no choice but to follow her. While heading to our classroom, we are talking about, how she makes the guy agreed.

"Well you know, your best friend is beautiful that's why guys can't say no to me." She said and laugh with the tone of a queen. She is crazy! After a few minutes of walking, we have reached our classroom, we were about to go inside but we have noticed that Krisia stays outside.

"Krisia? You aren't going in?" Ariana asked

"No! I will wait for the guy who buys our food, it's embarrassing if he will excuse me later, you know our classmates will tease me again, like what happened before. So you go inside first, and I will wait for him." She said

We just go inside and continue talking, but while we are talking something just flashed into my mind, it was our lesson earlier in history.

"Hey! Ariana, do you believe in reincarnation?" I asked her, all of a sudden.

"Ahm, why?" She said with a really confused look

"Well! I just remember our lesson earlier in history, maybe reincarnations are real, and maybe this is our second life or maybe further!" I said with excitement. I am hyping up when it comes to history, and past things, maybe because I am a retrophile!

"Ahm maybe, so continuing our topic earlier, I am finding inspiration for my story, do you think I should write about romance this time? Because I am losing interest om tragedy!" She said.

"It's up to you! Write what you want, because you can't pour your emotions if you don't like what you're writing." I said

"Thank you so much Aea! You are my best friend!" She said and hold my hand. By the way, Aea is my nickname, and they often call me by that, I just smiled at her, and hold her hands also. Right at the moment, after our conversation, Krisia is holding our snacks and walking near us.

"Here are your foods!" She said, and put our foods on the table. We immediately started eating because we only have 10 minutes left before our next class. While eating we are still talking and jesting, after eating our snacks, our next teacher has arrived. Our next subject is literature, and I hate this subject, it was so boring and our teacher is also boring.

"Everyone listen! Today I will not be going to discuss because we have our monthly meeting today, but it doesn't mean that you don't have your afternoon classes. The meeting will only affect the two subjects before your lunchtime, that's why, you can take your early lunch now, but make sure to come back here for your afternoon classes. Are we clear?" She said

"Yes Ma'am!" We said in the refrain. After that, everyone started to pack their things, and talk about how they are going to spend their vacant time.

"Hey, Astraea! Do you want to go with us? We are going to the arcade." Joaquin said one of my classmates and one of my friends.

"Ahm, maybe next time? We are going somewhere!" I said

"Promise next time?" He said

"Promise!" I said and wave them goodbye

"Ariana, Krisia, let's go?" I said

"Let's go! I hope that there aren't too many students there!" Said Krisia.

"I hope too! So let's go!" I said and started walking. We are going to spend our vacant time, on the rooftop of this building. The ambiance there is calming, even though you are not doing anything, time flies so fast. While on our way, we are planning on what we are going to do there.

"Well! I am planning to start my story there because the ambiance can help my mind on making my story." Said Ariana

"Like usual, I will watch k-drama." Said Krisia and show her latest downloaded series. We haven't notice that we are already here, we opened the door, and saw that the rooftop is quiet and no ones here yet, that's why we locked the door and run towards the bench. The wind is really strong but it was calming, I took out my phone and capture the view that I am witnessing.

"Aea!" Said Ariana

"What?" I said, and she pointed something, I walk near her and look at what she is asking for me to see. I saw that there are a lot of bones, I was shocked the moment I saw it, but immediately composed myself. I went near it and saw that it was a human bone.

"Ariana, look it was all human bones!" I said

"Aea! Come here, I will call our homeroom teacher!" She said, but I still inspected the bones. The bones look like it was burned, and some have a cracked, especially these two skulls, it's like, it was hit hard.

"Ms. Jenkins!" I heard our homeroom teacher is knocking to the rooftop's door, and calling Ariana.

"Aea come here!" She said, I leave the bones and went near them, after that she opened the door and pointed the place where the bones are.

"Oh my god! Where these come from?" She said exaggerating

"We don't know Ma'am, we just saw it there!" Said Ariana, and she was about to cry. She hates this kind of stuff.

"Okay! The three of you leave this place immediately, police are about to come here." She said, we just nod at her and leave the place. The three of us can't still get over on what we have seen.

"Guys! Let's go to the cafeteria, I am sure that there aren't too many students there!" Said Krisia with her usual high energy self. She is trying to cheer us up, and with that, we try our best to be our self again.

"Let's go!" We said in the refrain and started talking again about random stuff. As we reached the cafeteria, we saw that there are no students at the moment, that's why we immediately head towards it. We sit at our usual table, and Ariana volunteered to buy our food.

"What is your order, Ma'am?" She said acting like a waitress. We can't help but giggle on what she is doing.

"One rice, Beefsteak, and a bottle of soft drinks!" Said Krisia

"Ahm, one rice, nuggets, and yogurt drink," I said and give my payment.

"I am still wondering, where those bones came from?" Said Krisia all of sudden.

"I am also wondering, I inspected the bones, and all of them looked like they were burned, some of them have cracks, and the skulls have a big cracked like it was hit by something heavy or hard," I said.

"Will you please stop talking about that? We are about to eat!" Said Ariana, and give our food. We just stopped talking and started eating. After eating, we decided to go to our room, and wait there until our next class starts. As we reached our classroom, we just rest our selves, and our next teacher have arrived. But, instead of our science teacher came, we saw our history teacher in front of us.

"Mrs. Green, your class is done here earlier." Said our president

"I know! But your science teacher is not present today, that's why I will be the substitute!" Said, Mrs. Green

"We will continue our discussion earlier!" She continues

She started her discussion again, and everyone seems to pay their attention. But in the middle of the discussion, I suddenly felt dizzy.

"Hey, Aea! Are you okay?" Said Krisia

"Yes! I'm just a little dizzy" I said

"You looked pale! Wait, I will bring you to the clinic!" She said and excused us, but while she is talking, my vision suddenly blurred, and I can't hear them anymore until everything went black.

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