I fell under Kiara's weight immediately after I entered the hall. Mrs. Banks, our history teacher just stood there staring at us with a dazed look on her face.
"Oh my God! I missed you so much." Kiara shrieked when she finally got off me.
"I missed you too. The holiday was crazy long."
"I know right."
"Where were you all this while? I came to your house like twenty-five times."
"Oh that. Dad took us all on a trip to Peru."
"Oooh fancy."
"There's nothing fancy about being locked up at home all day."
"Oh my gosh. You don't mean....."
"Inside treatment."
"Ewwww."
"Tell me about it."
"Well the holiday is gone and I think I'm ready for a fresh start."
****
".....can anyone tell us what 'drape' is?" Mrs. Kendrick our English teacher asked. No one answered. Everybody pretended not to hear her.
"Drape anyone? Drape? Yes, you." She pointed to Rebecca and everyone rolled their eyes.
Rebecca was witty and talkative. No one likes her.
"To hang clothes, material e.t.c loosely on something or somebody. Examples are; she had a shawl draped around her shoulder, he draped his coat over the back of the chair and she dr......"
"Thank you, Rebecca." Mrs. Kendrick interrupted and the whole class roared with laughter. Almost immediately, I heard a swishing sound on my table. I looked down and saw a paper. I opened it and saw the message "HAVE YOU HEARD THE NEWS?"
I looked blankly at her and wrote "WHAT NEWS?"
I was about to set it back when Mrs. Kendrick called:
"Kenzie please come here." I walked up to her.
"Can you tell us what you have in that letter?"
"I—I—I don't have anything on it." I stuttered.
"Kenzie, if you don't tell me what's in there, you will board the next bus to detention town."
"How about I just read it out loud?"
"I would like that."
"Have you heard the news?" I read.
"What news? What news Kenzie?"
"That's what I don't know."
"I said what news?"
"I don't know."
"If you don't tell me ri......"
Suddenly, we heard a scream coming from the school's catering kitchen. In seconds, the class has emptied.
****
We pushed through the crowd trying to get to the front. Kiara held onto my hand with her pigtails swaying this way and that. My shirt cling to the small of my back as sweat trickled down my back.
I pulled through the thick sound of "ooohs" and "aahs". Ginger was the first thing that caught my eye. She looked scaly and her foundation seemed to crack something behind me. I turned and my tear duct gave me the way as I stared at the cold lifeless body lying inside the freezer.
"Chase!" I gasped.
****
My bronchial tube seemed to be blocked as I breathed. A dark shade of mascara ran down my face as I blinked rapidly. I raised my head from Kiara's chest and straightened up.
"Who could have done this?" I asked tearfully.
"I don't know."
"Did you notice the initials?" I was suddenly serious.
"What initials?"
"K.T"
"You mean there was an initial?"
"Like the same one on....." I said, stopped, and continued "was this what you wanted to tell me?"
"No"
"What was it then?"
"I don't know if I should tell you"
"Just tell me"
"Annie is pregnant"
"What? I screamed and the shutter vibrated.
"Is it— — I mean is it Chase's?"
"Duh obvi"
"O.M.G" I gasped and just then, Annie's phone fell and she fainted.
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