[b]****Several Hours Later*****[/b]
The sun had set and Alexa had finished her dinner. After a bombardment of questions from her parents about the written exam and the watching the second years, Alexa finally got up to her room. Curiosity nearly dragged her by the neck and pulled her to her room. Her thoughts, buzzing bees, all focused on the bag and its contents. Before she could really get a look, her new “hopefully” friends were around and her mom picked her up incredibly quickly. Her mother said it was due to being at a store nearby, which was definitely a falsehood. There was no notable stores nearby. 

It didn’t help that she wanted to open it in the car, but she knew the smell would raise questions. Also, if her brother got to see, he might want to play with what was inside.

	Once she was inside her room, she locked her door. There had been too many times Ian just barged in. She sat on her bed with the bag still zipped. As she reached for the zipper, she stopped and thought to herself.

[i]‘Is he doing the same thing with mine?....Could he be looking at my clothes?!’[/i] Her face was hot with embarrassment as she thought about it. 

Her running crop top, the exercise pants, and her undergarments in case she sweated too much.  Her face was really hot now

[i]‘No….He wouldn’t be looking at them. He helped me up, so he can be a gentleman.'[/i]

Her face cooled down for a minute. 

[i]‘But he did say he would experiment on me and Yin.’[/i]

Her face started to get hot again. 

The thought of the odor inside the bag finally slapped her. Instantly, Alexa got up from her bed and trotted over to her bathroom. The grabbed some sheets of tissue paper to cover her hand in. When she was done, she trotted back over to the bag and sat on the bed.

[i]‘Now I won’t have to worry about the smell getting on my hands and no fingerprints.’[/i]

 Her mummy hand started to unzip the bag and that smell rose up again. What was it that she was smelling? It smelled hospital-like but what was it? She couldn’t exactly place it. It hit her. Formaldehyde. She had to dissect and animal in middle school. That was what preserved it. 

[i]‘Why would his bag smell like that?’[/i]

A cringe took hold of her face as she reached inside and grabbed hold of what felt like a chain.She pulled it out gently from the bag and dangled it in front of her face. The centerpiece was a vial with a thick almost syrup like red liquid inside. The smell made her keep it away from her face.

“What could this be?”

A couple of possible liquids floated around her head, but she really didn’t want to mess with it. Gently, she inserted it back into the bag. After placing it neatly on the bag’s bottom, she fished around for something else. Something hard and thin was caught in her grasp. 

[i]'A Cd maybe?’[/i]

She was correct.

“In the mix...Mix?” She said with a disapproving squint. “Buddy, You have to get better names.”

Back in the bag it went.

After a couple more tries, she had picked up a notepad with incomprehensible writing. The penmanship was fine, but the subject matter was latin to her. It did make her dear for her life because she knew he was a scientist now. Next another notepad, but she didn’t bother reading that one. Lastly a large sized manga book. 

“Oh nice!” 

This caught her attention for sure. She loved to to read manga when she had some spare time. The cover had a curvaceous lady on the front and a seductive man hugged together on the cover.  Alexa opened it and it started off like any other romance manga. Slow to start, had to give background on who the two people were. Evidently, they were co-workers in some sort of office.Nothing out of the ordinary, until they reached the elevator. Once Alexa flipped the page, her eyelids stretched opened as far as humanly possible. 

“What the WHAT?!” She screamed impulsively. She flipped through the pages because one she was disbelief and two because she couldn’t stop looking. “T-This..This is.. This is a..!” 

Once she got a hold of herself, she slammed it closed, and hummed it across her room. Her face was red hot as she brought her eyes to the floor. A book showing adults doing adulty things in illustrated form. She had never seen things like that before. Yes, she had heard of them in passing and two girl did use her bubble to talk about one, but to actually see it with her own eyes. Her body shook as she put her head in her hand.

[i]‘I’m only 14...Could I get arrested for that? Will anyone know?!’[/i]

Before she could settle down, a knock was at her door. Followed by the doorknob trying to twist. 

“Alexa, you alright in there? I heard a scream.” 

It was her mother. She had to think quickly. She knew her mother would definitely kill her if she knew about that.

“I-It’s nothing mom!...Lita sent me a scare video! You know how much I hate ghosts!”

‘Please mom, eat this one up. I can’t have you come in. Not right now’

“Oh yeah? Ghosts aren’t real honey no need to be afraid of them. Why is your door locked?”

“ I…. wanted to read in peace.” Her temperature rose again from mentioning reading. ”Didn’t want Ian to challenge me to a surprise fight.”

“Makes sense! Ok, I’ll talk to you later. Glad you’re ok.”

Once she heard the feet retreating away from her door, she breathed a big sigh. Her head hit her pillow as she lay there, trying to not think about what she just witnessed.
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"I got to show Lita!"