Heathen Series - Changed

Chapter 32

Taylor's Pov...

I sat with my head in my left hand while I doodled pictures around my art test question paper. Who knew we would be getting tests while we were here. I had finished fifteen minutes earlier and decided to keep myself amused with my little pictures. 

I looked over to Ntsakela who sat with her arms crossed over her chest; not very impressed with her teacher at the moment, and the surprise test didn't help matters either. I could tell what she was thinking of, and I didn't blame her for looking so irritated. 

The events of the day before had been a shock for us all; especially when more than half of our grade was sent home for some random reason while the rest of us had to stay. I still didn't understand what had really happened; all I knew was that they all needed to get out of here – fast. 

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Ntsakela Pov...

I could feel someone staring at me and of course it could only be Taylor. We had been friends for years, so he knew how I was feeling, when I was feeling it by just looking at me. Not that my facial expressions hid anything either. 

I looked around at all the empty chairs where the rest of my classmates used to sit. They were lucky enough to be sent home and get back to some sort of normalcy.

None of this made any sense though. Why had they had the chance to go home, and others haven't.

But then again, those who had left, had no idea what was really going on here and were probably fed lies while they were here. 

Did I know what was really going on here; did any of them?

I remembered looking at Steph not knowing if that was my friend or someone impersonating her. Her words were also as clear as ever, yet it still confused me a bit more than I liked...

'They sat around staring at Steph who had dropped in out of nowhere and took a seat in front of them as if she hadn't been MIA for months. They sat still, waiting for her to say something or give them a reason why she was there or why they hadn't heard from her...

"So, I heard you all got into a little trouble in one of the hallways with another group..." she started trying to get them more relaxed.

"Yeah, they were an irritation on another level and we weren't interested in dealing with their shit that day. We had... other plans." answered Dwayne who stared at his best friend not knowing what had happened to her; looking from the bandage to her zoned-out expression, hoping that she was still in there somewhere.

He would kill whoever hurt her.

"What happened? Did they do anything to you?" ventured Raphael cautiously.

"You telling me you don't remember how irritating some of these idiots are?! 
Fuck...
We ran into Clara and her group while we were... looking for you. They asked us where we were going, so like always we ignored them, and moved on. They started following us and whispering shit about us that we could clearly hear. They were clearly trying to get a rise out of one of us. They were bad mouthing all of us and it wasn't on." started Shaylin still annoyed with them.

"Then Clara started flirting with Shaylin. And Shang. And Liam. And Carter ... that's when shit hit the fan. She flirts with any guy that came her way." added Dwayne who looked at them with a wicked smile.