Just Another Secret.

Chapter 78

Kahlil

The rest of our time in cottage country was pure bliss.

The boys and I ambushed the girls on our picnic and brought out the super soakers.

Keisha shut it down within the first minute with a single shot in the air with her gun.

No one knew she brought the shotgun.

I swear I nearly passed out I was so scared when it went off. We all were. Keisha found it hilarious.

She taught Tyrel how to hunt. They killed a wild turkey. I disliked how close they stood together but I sucked it up and they won me over with Keisha's baking.

On the last day we took the tent outside and spent the entire day out there. It was amazing seeing all the stars. I've never seen a night sky quite like it before.

Overall it was a good weekend.

When I got home mom was ready holding my wallet. She claimed she's not taking my money she just wanted to see the light in my eyes fade knowing I can't win everything.

She's crazy.

Prom is in a week. Graduation in two and a half. Final exams throughout the month. Prom falls on the same day as championships. I'm beyond stressed.

I gotta take it one step. One day. At a time.

***

I walk into school late Tuesday morning and if you walk in during morning announcements you have to stand in the office. In the office Keisha is destroying the Av system as the resource officers try to get her away.

The staff are all yelling at her.

"The more you yell the more I'm tempted to cut all these chords with scissors. Turn it off!"

They aren't listening to her. She's not listening to them.

I walk up to the huge control panel that controls the power to the entire school. I press the emergency shut off button. Everything goes dark.

"Kahlil Hayes what have you done!" The principal yells.

"No one was listening. You were all yelling. What was I supposed to do?"

"Nothing. This doesn't concern you."

Apparently only the fire department can reverse what I did so we are stuck with no power right now.

"Keisha—"

"Don't talk to me," she tells the principal.

"Just tell me why—"

Keisha

"John you know why! Why is it that you have a problem when I get into situations, but you instigate them? You wanna know what my deal is? Why is today's day in history about my grandmother? Why do you always bring up that me her granddaughter was present when she was what you call assassinated? Why do I have to keep reliving that moment! The people who know... how do you think it affects them? It affects me!"

"What are you talking about?" He freezes.

"Sergeant Latrice."

"Sergeant LJS." He says back to me.

"Sergeant Latrice Jenning-Simone!"

He grabs the bridge of his nose. "You were the girl in the video," he says so quietly.

"Every year. Every year I question why announcements don't go through you! No one has ever gotten the hint. No one has ever done the research." I pick up the paper with the announcements. "Read today's moment in history. Looks like someone finally did their damn research but no one wants to use common sense with the connection."