Obsession

Chapter 32

13:45

Last night Aniyah came in very late, so late that it was actually early into the next day. She still has her guns and knives because she has another 3 days left.

She had to hide her guns and knives in her duffel bag, along with the belt, she didn't have to hide the pants because there's nothing fishy about that. Pritisha was close to opening her bag but was instantly stopped.

The convention is supposed to be beginning very soon, she's standing in the convention centre with Pritisha and Samuel.

"Do you guys want to get food after?" Samuel suggests.

"We finish at 6:30 right?" Aniyah asks. "If we do then I have an hour and a half."

"You going back to your family's place?"

"Yeah, but it shouldn't be for as long as yesterday. Just a few hours. Sorry, I need to take this." She excuses herself, seeing her father call her. "Dad, what's up? I have 15 minutes."

"Your friend isn't answering his calls, so I need you go pick something up from someone."

"Probably because he's sleeping. I can't do that, I only have 15 minutes."

"The person's going to be outside in about two hours, just go find a man with a red cap and a blue shirt." Her dad orders.

Aniyah rolls her eyes, ending the call with her father and returning back to her friends.

"Come on, they're taking us in." Pritisha hooks her arm through Aniyah's, dragging her through the wooden double doors. "I was 30 seconds away from leaving you."

"Mhm, sure you were."

They all enter the double doors and are met with many tables. Each table has a big number above it and lanyards spread across.

"You guys know your number?" Samuel asks the girls. "I'm 7."

"I'm pretty sure I'm 5." Aniyah answers, checking the room for the number 5.

"2."

"Fuck, we aren't even sitting with each other." Aniyah kisses her teeth. "I'll catch you guys after the convention."

Walking over to her table she tells the woman her name, she scans the list and sticks a sticky label with her name on one of the lanyard.

"Find your table number and take a seat anywhere on the table." The lady tells Aniyah, pointing towards another set of doors.

Aniyah follows her instructions, finding table five and taking any seat. She didn't have much of a choice because there were only 2 free seats left.

"Hi, I'm Wilson." A boy who's already at the table says to Aniyah.

"Professor Ferguson." Another man introduces himself.

"Isabella."

"The name's Gary."

"I'm Aniyah."

They're all given a chance to get to know each other while people are still arriving. They had roughly 10 minutes to socialise on their tables before they got everyone sat down.

The convention starts off with short introductions into the subject, they invited different professors from different universities to present certain topics and what they find interesting.

Just like a lot of lectures this talk is quite boring for Aniyah. Having to sit down for a long period of time and listen to people just talk and talk, nothing interactive or anything.