All students were seated at the auditorium for morning assembly, after the assembly, the principal instructed everyone to seat back, after which he took over the stage from the previous teacher that held the assembly.
Principal Maurice clears his throat and began. "Great students of Hiddenveil!"
"Great!" the whole students echoed in unison.
"I hope you all enjoyed your weekend?" principal Maurice asked and the students replied in unison.
"Concerning the previous case of one of our students scandalous video that has been circulating round the school," he paused and looked around before continuing again.
"My search team and I have took down the video and have as well identified who the unknown sender is."
The principal fixed his cold gaze at me and my heart's acceleration increased to twice it's normal beat. Lisa placed her hand on mine and gave me a comforting smile.
"Miss Zendaya!" principal Maurice called out, sending adrenaline through my bones.
I slowly stood up from my seat, feeling the shakiness of my legs, I looked around to know if anyone noticed it and fortunately no one did.
"Miss Zendaya, can you explain to us why you involved yourself in such an evil act?" principal Maurice asked.
I bowed my head and raised it, looking straight into principal Maurice's eyes and made to speak but was interrupted by a familiar voice.
"I did it!" the voice came out from the back and the whole students gasped.
I turned back and behold it was the least person I expected.
"Derick?!" I gasped.
Derick sauntered towards the stage and faced the students who were all murmuring, I stared at him and he winked at me.
"Derick, explain to us what you did?" principal Maurice asked, feeling astonished.
"I was the one that uploaded the video and not Zen," Derick said confidently.
"Then explain this!" principal Maurice said, showing Derick the profile of the account I used in uploading the video and my picture was being displayed on it.
I froze on seeing Derick puzzled, just then a sly smile appeared on his face.
"i own that account, I've been using that account for a long time now, though I use it on business occasions,"
"When i noticed the unending conflict between Shelly and Zen, I felt it was an opportunity to get back at Shelly for what she did to me, so i uploaded the video using Zen's identity, not knowing that it will be exposed someday."
Derick said and showed the principal same account on his own phone as an evidence that he truly owns the account, then he turned to me who's already confused and shocked at same time.
"I hope you forgive me Zen, for the ID theft." he apologized with a pleading face.
"He's such a good actor," I thought.
Principal Maurice cleared his throat and passed his final judgment.
"Miss Zen, we are sorry for accusing you wrongly and Derick you are hereby expelled for blackmail and identity theft of our students!"
immediately after the judgement, the whole students returned back to their classes and Derick's fans from the junior classes started crying.
***
"I feel bad for what just happened," I said, sitting down on my desk.
"It's not your fault, he willingly did that for you." Diva said.
"Yeah Zen, I go with what Diva said." Lisa added.
Ethan and Nathan entered the class with Derick carrying his bag, I stood up to walk up to them but sat back on seeing them coming towards us.
"Hey," Derick greeted and I felt my eyes welling up for the first time in history.
I immediately hugged him so tight than I've ever hugged anyone before.
"Hey! c'mon, don't do that, if you cry then you leave me no choice than to cry along and my fans wouldn't like to see that." Derick said, wiping my tears while Ethan was patting my shoulder.
"You know, you don't have to take the blame, it's all my fault and now you're being expelled cause of me." I said, my eyes starting to well up again.
"I did what I have to do, I saw how hard you worked to archive this election and I can't just sit back and watch all your efforts go in vain, besides I've nothing to loose."
"We are gonna miss you Derick," Diva said.
"One of our best basketball player," Lisa said and hugged him.
"Forever friends, both inside and outside of school," Ethan said as we all hugged ourselves.
"Aww, this is so emotional!" our classmates shouted in unison.
We separated from each other and escorted Derick out of the school and bade him farewell as he enters his dad's car.
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"You've been moody since you got back from school," My mum said, entering my room.
I turned on my bed facing her and she gasped.
"Your eyes are swollen, have you been crying?"
I sat up on my bed and wiped my face with the face wipes on my reading desk. "a friend got expelled cause of me."
"What happened?" my mum asked.
I looked down on my fingers and looked up, staring at my mum.
"I, I did, it's nothing serious mum." I stuttered and she stared suspiciously at me.
"You and I knows that you don't stutter, except you did something terrible, so tell me, what's wrong?"
"This Shelly girl in my class uploaded a false information about i and the principal and so I uploaded her sex video on the school's anonymous blog that lead to her suspension and so the principal conducted a thorough investigation to know who uploaded such an illegal video on the school's app and found out it was me and so Derick took the fall and got expelled to protect meeee," I said in one breath and my mum gazed blankly at me.
"What the fuck! Zendaya!!" my mum exclaimed.
"I know my actions were wrong but I have no regrets cause that Shelly girl deserved it and more, but I wasn't expecting Derick to take the fall for me." I said with a slight frown.
"So your guilt is for Derick and not for both Derick and Shelly?" my mum asked and I nodded.
"It's alright, I understand your feelings. next time don't go this far just to get back at someone, sometimes you just have to let go off of certain things." my mum said and hugged me.
"Okay mum, I promise to be good next time." I said, hugging her tightly.