𝐆𝐋𝐔𝐄𝐃 𝐓𝐎𝐆𝐄𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑 || #𝟏

Chapter 54

Did Lorelei seriously just... Admit to committing credit card fraud? Does she seriously not care? This doesn't sit right at all with me. Emily is visibly more shaken, though. Then, she starts to sing something very quietly at the bottom of her voice. Abigail somehow gets tangled up in a scarf, and starts spinning around the store like a fidget spinner. She falls on top of Emily, which causes her to scream.

"GET THE FUCK OFF OF ME ABIGAIL!"

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"You're telling me that everybody in this class is going to help each other cheat..?" I slowly say, "who are you even cheating off from?"

"Emily, of course..." Aubrey whispers, scouring her eyes around to make sure that our geography teacher - Mr Branbran Bar wasn't listening. "She's the best at geography, because she actually tries in school. The whole class has collaborated on this, and we've got the perfect plan."

"Okay... First off, does Emily even know you're doing this? And second, why am I just being told now?" I complained, "I stayed up until twelve last night studying for this stupid exam!"

"You're such a goody-two shoes, we didn't know if we could trust you. But after your demonstration in the cafeteria today, I have full faith in you."

Earlier in the day, Katheryne was off terrorising the school again with her vegan cart. This time, she threw very sharp carrots at students which ended up sending three of them to the infirmary. I think one of them needs stitches, while the other's arms are all in casts and won't heal for another four to five weeks. Tired of all of the terrorising, I distracted Katheryne by singing her beloved vegan song - which gave everybody enough time to escape the cafeteria and back into the safety of the principal's office.

Yes, all six hundred students were all stuffed into the principal's office. It took ages for the chaos to die down, and even then, you can still faintly hear the muffled screams of our principal and Katheryne berating each other.

"Angel brought in a guitar, and she's going to do a duet with Mr Branbran bar. In her duet, she will sing about cats which will lead Emily to take her eyes off the test and start singing alongside them. We will do this ten minutes until class is over, because Emily will most likely finish by then. While Angel has them distracted, we will copy Emily's test and also copy the answers down on Angel's sheet. Does that sound good?"

"Is ten minutes really long enough?" I blankly asked, "it's not exactly like ten minutes for twenty failing students to copy down the answers is-"

"Which brings me to the next phase of my plan..." Aubrey wickedly smiles, "Abigail will call reception and tell them that there is a toxic gas leak in our school and force us to all go into lockdown. While Emily and Mr Branbran bar are having an existential crisis, we'll have around half an hour to finish the operation."

"Wow... This is a very well thought out plan. Of course, except for the part where Abigail calls the police and tells them that there is a gas leak."

"Why's that not good?"

"Because that's literally a crime..?"

"Come on man, Abigail is fine with it. She thinks it'll be fun, and I don't want to fail geography. Are you in?"

I stare at Aubrey for a couple of moments before shaking my head. "I think I'm good, I won't tell Mr Branbran Bar or Emily about this, but leave me out of this. I don't want to get detention, or punished by my mum."

"Well, that is your loss." Aubrey sighs, immediately taking out her phone again for god knows what. "If you fail, don't come running and crying to me."

Mr Branbran seats us all down at our respective desks, and hands out the thin stack of sheets meant to be our tests. Immediately, I am glad that I studied because I already know everything, and the test is easier than I thought it'd be. Aubrey, who is sitting beside me looks stressed, along with everybody else in the class except for Emily. I see Angel get physically very agitated, and also a very noticeable shape of a guitar being stuffed into her shirt. The head of it sticks out, whacking into her head every time she moves and the body of the guitar makes her look ridiculous.

"I... I can't take this anymore..." Angel whimpers, taking the guitar begrudgingly out of her shirt. "LET'S ALL SING A SONG!"

She strums a c-chord on the guitar, and immediately after this - Mr Branbran Bar starts belting out 'My heart will go on'. He sings very out of tune, with uncontrollable vibrato which causes Emily to join in to try and show him how it is done. Max takes this as a chance to snatch Emily's paper, run up to the whiteboard and start writing down all of her answers for the entire class to copy.

All while this is happening, the dreadful sound of the wailing alarm starts ringing very loudly while the principal announces that there has been a toxic leak of 'amortentia' from the science labs. By now, I've already managed to finish my test and everybody else has already copied down the answers written by Max on the board.

"IT'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN!" Mr Branbran bar and Emily sings at the same time, the sound of their voices joining in unison causes everybody's eardrums to break. They start playing air guitar, aggressively strumming the air so much - Mr Branbran Bar whacks himself into the TV causing the screen to shatter while Emily topples over the desk and causes another domino-effect of desks and chairs falling on top of each other.

The entire class is in shambles.

"What the hell happened here?!"

The S.W.A.T team gawk at the absolute mess of our classroom. The leader steps forwards and looks at the loose piece of paper on the ground.

"Mmhm, you answered B. It is so very obviously C," he tuts. He starts shaking his head in disappointment while the entire class just goggles at him with no idea what the hell was going on. "Oh well, we've been called because as it turns out - a student in this classroom decided to make a call about a toxic gas leak. This is very illegal, whoever did it, step forward now."

There is absolute silence, before somebody very stupidly opens their mouth.

"I'm radio rebel," Abigail very confidently and clearly declares. Everybody's mouth drops open in absolute shock at her dumbness, and this ends with Abigail being led away in cuffs.