Love and War

Sub

I head into my next class with a smile as Dash holds open the door "Hello beautiful," Dash says as I pass by and I roll my eyes as I smile to myself. I ignore him as I take out my books and settle into my seat "Hey, Eren switch seats with me," Dash says to the boy who sits next to me and Eren shrugs "Sure, we have a sub today anyways," he says grabbing his stuff to move. Dash immediately replaces him and leans over to my ear. "I'm still not quite close enough," he tells me and I feel butterflies spark to life in my stomach.

I have to pull away from him and fight desperately not to blush at his statement. "Pay attention, Dashiell," I tell him and he wrinkles his nose "Don't call me that," he says and I can't help but laugh a little. "I've called you that for the past decade, why stop now?" I ask quirking my eyebrow Dash looks me in the eye and a smirk covers his face. "Because I wanna hear you-" "Good Morning class!" I colorful woman greets interrupting Dash and I'm thankful to her and I have to try not to laugh the way Dash frowns. 

"I'm Ms.Calore, and I'll be subbing for Mr. Wilkens while he recovers in the hospital," she explains and I furrow my brows and raise my hand. "Yes," she asks with a sweet smile "What happened to Mr.Wilkens?" I question confused and her face drops slightly. "Oh dear, I figured you all had heard. Apparently, last night sometime when Mr.Wilkens was grading papers a supervillain came into the school. Burner and she hurt poor Mr.Wilkens, but he is expected to make a full recovery in 2-3 months," Ms.Calore explains and I nod hesitantly and look to Dash.

A villain in the school? Why? Burner... I search my brain for any information on the woman. I know she controls fire, and she usually focuses on back robberies but that doesn't explain what she was doing here. I am unfocused the entire class as I think about how just last night she was in the school, and my eyes linger on the filing cabinet in the corner of the room. I hadn't noticed earlier when I was focused on Dash, but the handles they're warped from the heat. An indent of a hand is left in the metal.

"Savannah?" Dash says and I look at him pulled out of my daze "What is it?" he asks in a whisper seeing the look on my face "Look at the filing cabinet. Whatever Burner was after is in the school records," I tell him and he furrows his brow "In Mr. Wilken's class? What could be that important that he'd keep in here?" Dash asked and I shrug "I think we should find out. Tonight." I tell him and he nods. The rest of the day I couldn't focus on the bet or Nat's Super questions or anything other than a villain targeting someone from our school.

It's the only explanation...