❛ chasing you ❜ | peter parker

Chapter 14

Licia groaned as a familiar beeping filled her ears, she lazily rolled over and threw her duvet over her head, mentally cursing.

"Alexa!" She yelled groggily, as a blue light spun around the little ai gadget "Shut up!"

She felt like crap. Like she had just been hit by a bus, or had a bus dropped on her head. How did I get like this? A thought passed through her head. The girl immediately sat up, startled.

"What the hell happened?!" Licia exclaimed. Too many emotions for her to handle were flowing through her body at that current moment and she was freaking out. The last thing she remembered was sneaking into the Horse and Crow.. then the building blowing up in front of her face.. when she was in it. The girl facepalmed in realisation that that's the reason she probably felt the way she did, unbeknownst to her that it was due to a completely different, but somehow similar, reason.

She sighed and glanced at her watch, 08:02. Licia slipped out of bed, yawned and stretched as the bones in her back and arms clicked and popped into place. Once she had stumbled sleepily downstairs and made it to the marble-coated kitchen, she whipped open the all of the cupboards in search for a pain-relief tablet and a bottle of water to wash it down.

From then, until hours into the school day, it was all a complete blur for Licia. Her limbs were constantly burning, her skin was bruised and burnt, and to top it off she had managed to peel off some plastic which had moulded itself to her skin in home room - it wasn't fun to say the least. Licia had been sitting in the cafeteria with Kelly and co. picking at her pizza roll when an announcement was called out over the loud speakers.

"Felicia Hardy, please make your way to Headmaster Morita's office." Licia widened her eyes then sighed, sliding back the seat and standing up, "Felicia Hardy, please make your way to Headmaster Morita's office."

"Licia! What have you been up to?" Kelly quirked as she raised her shrill voice in curiosity. Licia waved her off and slowly plodded out of the cafeteria, pain laced in each step.

She approached the tall wooden door and gingerly knocked, "Come in!" He shouted. Licia swung open the door and swanned in.

"Hi, Mr. Morita. You wanted to see me?" She asked, coyly smiling at him as she sat down in the opposing leather seat.

The man exhaled, "You're new here, Felicia. You've not been here for long - at all" he started. "But missing almost two weeks of school, just isn't cutting it." The girls heart dropped as it suddenly dawned on her that, she had in fact missed almost two weeks of school.

"Now, I haven't yet called your parents, because I belie-" Mr. Morita was suddenly interrupted by a sudden bang on the big wooden door, then it being swung open.

A red-faced frantic receptionist almost doubled over as she stumbled in, "Headmaster... two students-uh boys... are fighting.. in the... locker hall" she panted between breaths, grasping onto the doorframe for support.

Mr. Morita abruptly stood up, almost knocking his leather armchair over as he faltered out of his office, not bothering to look back at Licia.

"We will continue this conversation later young lady" he called out, disappearing around the corner, then quickly reappearing, "Don't let it happen again, okay?" The girl, who by now was a bit flustered, just nodded her head in response as the numerous staff members scrambled down the corridors.

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It was early into the lunch hour when Licia had gotten called in, so most-if not everyone-was still eating away at their half-cooked cafeteria food as she walked back in to the food hall. Her friends, as well as many other students, were huddled around one another's phones, gawking at the screens with their mouths agape. People all around were mumbling and chatting to each other about whatever was occurring on the devices.