𝑰𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔𝒏'𝒕 𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒄𝒄𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉? 𝑾𝒂𝒔 𝒊𝒕?

Chapter 16.

(So sorry 😭 i forgot extra actuvitys exist)

"Mr Thomas?" Ashlyn calls out as mr Thomas snaps out of whatever he was staring at. "Oh, right! Thank you!" He says as he took her work clearly ignoring what he just saw. What did he see? 

"Hurry up." Tyler snapped as he started to leave. "How bout you shut up." Ashlyn says back joining us.

"Did I see that right?"-mr Thomas-

At the cafeteria

"Am I seeing this right?" Tyler asks as you joined them with an apple in your hand. You tilted your head a bit and noticed Ashlyns shadow, she didn't have her normal long hair..it was short. Your eyes widen a bit in surprise, you then went to the seat next to the window and sat down.

"Woah that's pretty bad." Aiden compliments as he took one of her braids in his hand. "Let go before I break your arm." Ashlyn says threateningly Aiden immediately let go and Taylor rests her face on the table. "Ha...another mystery.."

"This might've something to do with why injuries from the phantom dimension don't transfer over to our dimension.."  Logan spoke as Ashlyn turned over to him. "Speaking of injuries how are you holding up?" She asked him as Logan looked back up at her. "Oh..um it kinda feels like I have a rash and it's pretty sore. Like I've been doing sit ups or something. But it's nowhere near as painful as it was last night." He responds. "..have you tried putting a cold compress on it..?" You asked him, Logan just nodded.

"What about you guys? What happened?" Ashlyn asked Aiden and Ben, Ben just looking down at the ground. "Ah-right. That." Aiden says as he turns his head over to Ben. "Y'a sure you want me to tell 'em?"

Ben stays silent while he types on his phone the ai voice coming out of the phone. "It's best to have these things out in the open if we're gonna be a team." The voice spoke out. "These types of things?" Taylor repeated curiously.

"'But I'm putting my earbuds in until aidens done'" the ai voice continued as you put your apple core in the bin and sat back down. Ben gets his earbuds and puts them in, you looked over at Aiden. "Ight well, that's that then." Aiden says shrugging, "he is right though, it's probably best to let you guys know before you accidentally set him off or somethin." Aiden continues as Ashlyn spoke up. "Set him off?" She asks raising her eyebrow. "Yup! But..." Aiden trails off as you crossed your arms. Aidens gaze turns sinister and almost threatening. "...this conversation doesn't go outside of this group understood?" 

You just nod slowly as everyone else says 'okay' apart from Tyler who says, "don't tell me what to-" he said then got cut off by his sister pinching him, he moved away from his sister and held the spot she pinched. "Fine."

"I don't think anyone ha realised this but Ben has extreme anger issues. Like-extreme. Haha. Much worse than halfwit over there." Aiden says as he turns his head over to Tyler, you just sighed knowing that Aiden wanted a reaction from Tyler who just looked more annoyed than he already did.

Aiden rests his chin on the back of his hand, before he contiues speaking. "And...the reason also has to do with the reason why he never speaks."

"Ben was in sixth grade when the incident happened...or was it seventh? Anyway- he's always been a big guy for his age, and his size tended to intimidate people. Despite his appearance though, Ben was pretty timid. And more than anything, he loved music. It was everything to him."

"However, because his appearance didn't match his personality, he started getting bullied for it. It didn't start out as bullying the group of idiots offered to 'fix him' first. Offering him for him to join their group and they would teach him how to fight. Once he refused that's when it started."

"They started to beat him nearly everyday. Afterwords their leader, Shane, would ask him to join his group. And everytime Ben told them no."

"Shane? Sounds like a name a father gave their child after their barber or some shit." You thought as you continued listening.

"Then one day, Shane took things to a drastic level."