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14 : Voices

"Elsa, from where did you write down the timetable? We don't have biology. We're not even biology students. We have math. We don't even have to study biology." Zayn said.

"Oh my gosh. How could I forget that? But, look at my timetable. How the hell...what made me write biology instead of math? How silly of me! " She said.

"What do we do now? Whom do we ask?" Niall said.

"We have to use the library then. There's no other go." Louis said.

"Okay...but when? We need to know this as soon as possible, before something more happens to him." Zayn said.

"What do we have next hour?" I asked.

"Chemistry. And then Math." She said. "What do we do?"

"Let's go after classes? Or, our math professor should not come today. Gibbs will come for sure." Louis said.

"Remember what Joanne said about using the library? Only during recess and free hours. We can't go after classes." Liam said.

"Do we have time to go now?" It's still recess, right?" I asked.

"Just five more minutes." Elsa said.

"We'll make it." I said.

"But Audrey, we need time to read the book, because we can't borrow them until we get our library cards. " Liam said.

"Good point. But this is our only chance. We can't delay this. Every day is precious from today." I said. "But today, I feel we can't make it."

"Yeah, let's just go tomorrow." Elsa said, as she patted my shoulder.

"Alright." We walked back to class from the cafeteria. Almost everyone I passed by when I was on my way back to class were talking about what happened to Zayn and my mysterious injury (as they call it). Even in class when I was walking to my bench, I heard a boy talking to his group of friends eagerly "I heard that Jake from the next section got beaten up by Niall and his friends."

"No, Audrey beat him up." Another boy said.

"Oh come on, how can a girl like Audrey beat up someone like Jake? He's like...huge, right?"the first one said.

"Just ignore them..." Niall said, shoveling me to our bench.

The bell rang a few minutes later. No sign of Professor Gibbs. It's been twenty minutes, and no sign of him.

"Should we just...go?" Louis asked.

"Good afternoon class." Professor Gibbs burst out of nowhere. " I just came to give you all your library cards. A lot of students were complaining saying they needed reference books for their studies, but since they can't borrow them, they can't. "He paused, and continued. "Just take yours and pass the rest. Oh, and I won't be coming to class today. I've got some work with your seniors. Those who want to use the library can go in this hour only. Get back here in the next hour for math." He said, and he left.

"Finally. Things are on our side." I said. " Let's go. Hurry."

We all got up to leave. The boys had already left the class. I was walking with Elsa. I saw Harry packed up his books, and put his head down trying to sleep I guess.

"I think we should just talk to him...nothing about this. Just a normal conversation." I said.

"You go. I won't come. I'll wait for you outside class."She said, and walked away. She stood near the door.

I walked up to where he was sitting. He had his head facing down on his bag.

"Harry?" I called. He got up slowly. I saw him rubbing the mark I made on his face.