Just Breathe

chapter four

Virgil

morgan hadn't left her room yet today so it allowed me and roman to go over some things 'does she know?' he asked 'no, the part about carter wasn't in the message, but remember the visit, he said she was hard to find, so he had help finding her, she won't be found if she doesn't want to be found' I said 'so, you think the reason he came here was to confirm she was actually here, and on accident stumbled upon you?' he asked 'yes, after that day, we were all moved into safe houses, or in my case, I moved here and 6 months after we all were moved she went "home" so to say, we were all informed that mike, the one who helped was already in jail, he got 4 years and he'll be out soon as his time is ending, but dean, he was sentenced 15 years, he was caught just after morgan moved out her place, so he's been in jail for around 3 years now' I explained 'what did this guy do?' roman asked, I let out a sigh 'remember I told you about a guy at my previous school that almost broke my leg' roman nodded' its the same guy but it's worse, but we all swore to never talk about it, but when you go into morgans room the new painting, the most detailed will tell you a lot' I said 'so if this dean is coming for you and morgan, when do you think he'll reach this place?' he asked 'al in all, we got the message yesterday, so I presume tonight or tomorrow' I said, still hoping I was wrong.

the day went by quick, at dinner morgan came out of her room for the first time that day 'how are you feeling ?' roman asked 'i've been better, but even that was a long time ago' she said, I could understand that all this brought back a lot of feelings. earlier, just before we talked about carter in private, we were talking about what happened the evening before and Patton caught on, that we were also talking about he's part of it and we had to explain without giving away that I was also part of it, so we told him the story morgan told us before she came here, I told him the reason I transferred schools and that the guy moved and morgan met him then causing trouble so she and her friends got him in jail, and he blamed me for that too and that carter was helping him, Patton was still skeptical but believed our story. After dinner morgan disappeared into her room again 'do you think she'll be able to go to school tomorrow?' Patton asked 'i honestly don't know, whatever this dean has done to her, it must have had a big impact' I said, I wasn't lying about it though.

 Without knowing we all went to bed, but I was soon awoken '2 A.M., you gotta be kidding me' I muttered, but that's when I heard something fall downstairs. Remembering the conversation I had earlier with roman I freaked out a little, when I looked into the hall everything was dark. I made my way through the charged bathroom and woke up morgan 'common, someone broke in, and if it is the one I think it is we better not be in our own rooms' i dragged her out of bed, and into Romans room, I closed the door when I saw a flashlight shine upstairs from the kitchen 'ro, I think their here' i whispered 'what, who?' he whispered 'ro, someone broke in and were scared' i said again 'her room is at the end of the hall, last room on the right' we could hear someone say just outside the door 'alright you under the bed, and you with me' roman said, he gave morgan a blanket and a pillow for under the bed in case we fell asleep here, and the blanket would make it less obvious that someone was under the bed, I laid down next to roman and he placed his arm around my waist making it look like we had been asleep for hours. we all heard someone go through the room and then closing the door, after some time we must have fallen asleep cause we woke up to jelling. 'what the actual hell' i could hear Thomas, 'all the snicker doodles' Patton never swore 'wha...tsk' i heard morgan, she must have forgotten she was under a bed. 'morning' i said as soon as her head popped up. 'they really went through everything' roman said looking at the mess they made from his room 'oh... shit' morgan said all of the sudden, she was up and out the room in a second 'wait, what?' i called after her before following to her room, so did roman. and she was right, on the painting of all us, was written in blood-red paint, "one down, eight to go and count four more" and a cross over one of the faces. that's when Patton walked in 'logan!' he called out as soon as he saw 'is everyone... what the hell!' Thomas walked in 'language' Patton said to him 'my room... its a mess, who did this!' we all heard logan jell, he finally woke up 'logan, come take a look at this' Patton called out again, when he walked in he was shocked 'alright I'm calling the police, don't you think about painting over this, this is crucial evidence he said. 'while you call can you guys leave me alone for a minute' morgan asked, giving us all a sad smile 'sure kiddo, we'll be downstairs if you need anything' Patton said as everyone else left to room, that's when I realized who was painted over,