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⊹ Book 1 of the Aldergrove Duology ⊹
After being told he has only six months left to live, Clementine decides to track down his sister's murderers, leading him to Aldergrove Academy, a place...
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Clementine exhaled deeply as he pushed the bathroom door open. He was met by Elliot, Mathew, and Mavis' smiling faces, their conversation coming to a halt so that they could greet him and ask him if he was okay. He nodded in response, ushering them away from the bathroom and down the corridor where the rest of the students hadn't long wandered. He'd cleaned the blood from his hands and face, but he kept checking his skin in case he'd missed a spot. He also made sure to hide his face from his allies so that they wouldn't question him in the middle of the academy.
He waited until they were heading up the spiralling staircase to the library to slow down. There wasn't anyone around, and he didn't want to risk people overhearing in the library.
"Guys," he said.
The three of them stopped and looked down at him from the steps they were standing on.
Where should he even start? "I, uh...something happened in the bathroom." There was no going back now.
"What happened?" Elliot asked worriedly.
"Are you okay?" Mavis asked.
He nodded. "Yeah, well...no—but yes," he said, scratching the back of his head.
Now that they could actually see his face, concerned frowns quickly warped all three of their expressions.
"What the hell happened to your face?" Elliot asked.
Mathew growled something agitated. "Who did this?" he asked, gesturing to Clementine's face.
"That's what I needed to tell you about. I was in there and I heard someone come in—it was Ian—"
How many times was he going to be interrupted? He sighed irritably and shook his head. "I wanted you to hear it from me before it spreads. They grabbed me, they were going to kill me, but...some guy came in and killed them. I didn't see who it was," he lied, "but he killed Ian's friends and ran off."
Elliot adorned a nauseous stare as Mavis and Mathew glanced at one another, confounded frowns on their faces.
"They...tried to kill you?" Mavis uttered.
"How did they get in?" Mathew questioned. "We were right outside the door."
"There was another door—it's how that guy got in, too," Clementine explained.
