I am the Narrator: Being New

CHAPTER 2

Later that night when everybody was fast asleep, I got out of my bed grabbed a jacket, and flashlight and quietly headed out of the door. We weren’t allowed to leave the dorm after dark, it’s the dorms curfew time. Anyone caught leaving or arriving late at night might result to severe punishments. I walked up to James room as quiet as I could possibly could.

‘Where is it’ I whispered under my breath searching for James’s car keys.

I saw something shining from under James’s pillow, and it was indeed the car keys.

I paused to think on how I would get my hands on those keys.

James tossed and turned and I had an open opportunity to grab the keys from under his pillow before he could turn aside again, and I did. I managed to grab the keys in a nick of time before he could turn aside again.

I turned towards the door ready to do what I planned.

‘You really think you could get away that easy?’ James said behind me.

A lump formed in my throat, preventing me to swallow. I was shaking, but I forced myself to turn expecting the worst.

James was sitting on his bed, and he was also in his army pants and jacket.

‘There’s no way I’m letting you go alone’ he said.

‘You don’t even know where I’m going’ I replied.

‘Oh yeah?’ he said, standing up ‘you’re going back to that cathedral’.

‘What made you think that?’

‘Come on Dominic, seriously?’ he said.

‘Okay fine!’ I said ‘I’m going back to the cathedral, and I’ll do it alone’.

‘Nope’ James said walking towards me, and snatched the keys from my hand.

‘Hey’ I exclaimed.

‘My car, my rules’ he said.

‘Okay, you can come’ I sighed ‘but we must hurry, I bet getting out of this place will take hours. Those surveillance cams aren’t gonna shut themselves off’.

‘Or, we could just use the key to the back door’ James said, pulling another key from his pocket.

‘Wow’ I replied impressed ‘glad I woke you up’.

We headed downstairs and successfully got out of the dorm through the back door, hopped on James’s car and drove away in the dead of night.

‘What exactly are you looking for?’ James asked me.

‘I think I found the Grimm Book’ I said to him.

‘What?’ James sounded surprised ‘how?’

‘I’m not for sure, but remember those letters you deciphered?’

He nodded.

‘I had an idea that maybe the Grimm Book was hidden on the cathedrals tabernacle’.

‘And we’re going after it?’

‘Yup, I need to stop these hallucinations I’m having about that book’.

‘Okay’ James said ‘just be honest and tell me the reason’.

I told James about the dream I had last night. When I finished he looked as if an anchor pulled his jaw down and he just stared at me, but I managed to convince him.

He stepped on the pedal, and zoomed on the road. It took us a while to retrace the route towards the cathedral. But it eventually led us back there.