"What! Jenna died last year!" Lorraine's eyes widened.
"Yeah, and that's why we're gonna keep her in this school with all tricks possible. What if she's the key to discovering the missing students? What if she's the key to killing Slade?" Vann replied, and Lorraine swallowed again, secretly pinching herself.
"I need you to keep calm and watch as I organize things, don't do anything" Vann said and left the office.
Lorraine sat on her chair restlessly, biting into her nails and lips.
She got her phone and texted Slade.
• We need to meet tonight, at the woods.
Her Slade can't die, she's just gonna kill Twilight instead.
*
FINAL YEAR HISTORY LECTURE HALL*
The only class for the day just got over, and students could be seen trooping out of the hall in twos and threes.
Tamlin and Ruslan didn't leave. They stayed back, talking over snacks in the empty hall.
"You came late to class because of her? Why did you even carry her to the infirmary in the first place?" Ruslan asked suspiciously.
"I carried her cos I wanted to carry her, and her slim stature is deceiving cos she's so damn heavy" Tamlin smiled, taking a soft bite from the waffle he's holding.
"You're smiling?" Ruslan leaned closer.
"What?" Tamlin blinked.
"Are you...are you interested in her cos she looks like Isob...
"No. Don't go there" Tamlin cut him off sternly, and Ruslan zipped his lips.
Imogen came into the hall almost immediately, holding two flyers which she distributed to the two.
"What's this?" Tamlin frowned as he stared at it.
"It's the first party of this semester. 7pm to 11pm tomorrow in the woods, and I'm taking you two with me. Posey and Ren are hosting it and everyone is going" She replied.
"No one has gone missing this month, right? Why do I have a feeling that it'll happen at the party tomorrow" Ruslan said.
"Who cares? It's only the orphanage lowlifes who go missing anyways, so we're safe" Imogen replied and spread her palm.
"Your phone" she said.
"Why?" Ruslan asked.
"I have something to do on it since mine is problematic for now, and please tell me you have Echo's number" She replied.
"Echo?" Ruslan frowned
"Twilight's roommate" Imogen smiled.
"What the fûck are you planning this time?" Tamlin scoffed.
"None of your business" Imogen glared at him and took Ruslan's phone.
She left the class, meeting Posey and Ren outside.
"Did you get it?" Posey asked.
"Yeah" Imogen chuckled.
"Make it entertaining" Ren said.
"Trust me" Imogen winked, and the three laughed as they went down the hallway.
They fight as fast as lightening, and they make up at the speed of light.
*
7PM, TWILIGHT'S ROOM*
Echo and Twilight returned from the refectory some minutes ago, and Twilight is currently in the bathroom, having her bedtime shower.
The bathroom is not attached to their room. There are like ten common bathrooms down the corridor for all the students in that tower, so she had to go out of the room.
Echo is sitting on her bed, eating from a pack of snack.
The refectory food was making her nauseous, so she just had to top it with this one.
She was stuffing her face when her small phone buzzed beside her, and she took it slowly, but her heart jumped when she saw a new text from Ruslan.
Why would Ruslan text her?
Ok when she became a student of this school last week, Ruslan was the first guy she met by the clock tower, and though he didn't say a word to her, she fell in love immediately.
She has been keeping an eye on him since then, and she's aware of his crush on Imogen, so why is he suddenly texting her?
She tried hard to calm herself down, inhaling and exhaling very well before reading the text again.
• Hey it's Ruslan, and we can be friends if you want.
She smiled, biting her lip as she typed a quick reply.
Echo: Why so sudden? Thought you were into Imogen.
Ruslan: Maybe I've been checking you out too, and Imogen is my friend's sister, how could I have a crush on her? She's not half as hot as you.
That made blood rush to her cheeks so much that she folded her toes on the ground.
Echo: Really?
Ruslan: Yeah. So... friends?
Echo: Of course, and maybe you can go to the party with I and Twi tomorrow night.
Ruslan: I'd say no to that. I can't have Tamlin finding out that I'm into you, and I'd like if we can keep our chats limited to the phone for now. I'll tell you when we can start chatting in person.
Echo: Alright.
Ruslan: Goodnight then, sweet dreams.
Echo jumped on her bed immediately.
Sweet dreams? That's a first for her, and she could die now without regrets.
She stared at their chat till she fell asleep, and then Twilight came in with her grey towel tied to her chest.
She dried herself and changed into her PJs so fast
She was about to jump in bed when the bulb in the room suddenly went off by itself.
She got her phone and turned on the torchlight, then she walked to the wall and turned on the lights.
She walked back to her bed, but the lights went off again, then she felt a chilling presence behind herself in the dark room.
She froze, and someone touched her shoulders as an eerie air blew into the room.
"You shouldn't have come here" a chilly voice whispered, and the lights in the room came back on immediately.
She turned back, but she saw no one, and she gulped, shifting back with two steps.
She released the breaths she has been holding and sat gently on her bed, gulping again.
"Yes. I shouldn't have come. I'll leave, but only after killing the man who killed my friend" she muttered, opening her suitcase.
Apart from the segment where she keeps her clothes, there's an hidden segment where she hid a short barrel gun.
It was given to her by her father when she was coming here, and the bullets inside are very poisonous.
If anyone told her she'
d be using it this early, she'd deny it, but here she is.
The gun has four bullets, and she's surely using everything tomorrow, unfailingly.