'What… the fuck. One moment, she looks like she doesn't care, she looks like she fucking blew her cover by smiling at him when that shit happened, and now she just comes up with the best possible excuse to come out of that situation as if it's nothing. I'm… I'm cursing a lot today, this… y'know what… fine. Okay.' Alan thought as he felt like releasing a sigh of pure exhaustion, he really couldn't predict what she was going to do, how she was going to act or even her expressions.
He had thought that he could, for a while he had actually thought that he could predict Alice's reactions, that he was actually learning how she reacted but then situations like this came up and he realised that he still didn't actually know anything about the woman standing before him.
"Right… yeah, probably for the best, but I went and yeah, he's fine, no blood or like gore or anything scary, he got lucky, the hit looked pretty bad but he did save Bella, guess he really changed his stance on her huh?" Alan replied, his own voice gaining a softer quality, as he tried his best to act like he was similarly just as worried as she was, both of them trying to act it out infront of eachother but only Alice actually did a good job.
If anyone were to look at Alan's face right now, and his tone of voice and they had ever talked to him at length before this conversation before? They would have instantly noticed the soft twitching and the slight awkwardness of his voice. But similarly to how the shock of the incident would act as a good cover up for Edward against people that wouldn't look too deeply, it would also cover up Alan's acting.
"Yeah, thanks Alan. I… that relieves me quite a bit, have to be honest. Guess I'll head closer now, might follow them to the hospital. You coming?" Alice asked softly as she lifted her hand and softly brushes his as he was standing before her.
Alan froze for a moment at her touch before lightly shaking his head.
"No, they seemed fine and like, I'm not close with Edward or Bella, it would just be weird if I came with you. But yeah, tell me after, message me or something if anything happens or it's all good." Alan replied as he shook his head and took a step back.
"Alright, will do. See you tomorrow then Alan." Alice replied as a small smile came back on her face as she gazed at his face before she shook her own head, muttering something under her breath as she walked away towards the scene of the car crash.
Alan meanwhile turned and continued on his walk towards the front of the school before quickly heading inside and walking through the halls towards his locker to get his school books for his class.
'Guess that happened. It… honestly that was quite lucky, I was in a good spot to see what happened and I got to check atleast a portion of their strength and learn that I, really really have to keep grinding on those damned dungeons if I want to be anything but a dead body in the case that these guys or some other bullshit supernatural creature decides to come by and attack me.' Alan thought as he finally realeased a long winded sigh and slammed his locker door closed after taking out his books.
Turning around, he slowly started heading towards his classroom whilst holding his books under one arm, his gaze slightly empty as he was still deeply into his thoughts, not about the accident, that had already left his thoughts, it was the dungeons, he now realised more than ever about his need to go back into them.
And yet he wasn't as excited as he had been when he first unlocked them, the dungeons weren't something to joke about, the mystery regarding them still had yet to be solved, the red slimes still ate human body parts, the souls inside the screaming roses were still there and had to have been taken from somewhere. And there was the fact that there was quite a few more levels until he completed the slime dungeon which would mean new variations of the mutated slime, new dangers that were still completely unknown to him and one small mistake could lead to his death, could lead to the end of his life and that, that wasn't something he was quite so happy to go back to confronting. Not after what he had just survived.
'But there really isn't any other choice, at least back there… I know that the enemy won't be too strong, I know that the system wouldn't just drop an enemy that's unbeatable, it would take into account my level and I could always try to run away and just leave the dungeon, but here in the real world… that's not an option, If i meet something here, I can't run away, I have to face it, and there are no system rules here, I could end up going against something that could erase me from existence in a single second. Something that could crush my head like a damn watermelon.' Alan thought as he arrived at his classroom and headed inside, walking towards his seat at the window and sitting down before placing his books on the desk before him as the bell above him rang, signaling the start of classes though not all the students were back, most of them were in fact still around the car accident out in the parking lot.
'Tonight, I'll head back tonight.' Alan thought to himself as he closed his eyes, the morning light hitting the side of his new face.
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