The Outbreakers

CH. 2 What's Going On?

A thank you to Inspiresforever for the cover :)

Mia's P.O.V.

Feeling anticipated, I didn't wait any longer to go to school. Michelle and Tatiana hadn't talked to me ever since Saturday night, no call, no text, nothing. I didn't know if they were upset with me, not that there were any reason to be. Maybe they were just freaked out, like me.

The strange thing was that there was no news about the party. It had only been a day but what happened was something huge! A great gossip subject! Why wasn't anyone talking about it? It fuckin' happened! It was no dream, no matter how much I wanted it to be.

I need to talk to someone, anyone who was willing to talk about what happened. Thank god that Drew walked into school at this very moment.

"Hi Drew," I greeted him as I walked towards him.

"Oh, hi Mia," he stopped in front of me. Was it me or was he trying to avoid eye contact? His eyes shifted a couple of times. "See you later," he pressed his lips against each other and walked pass me.

Awkward. He just left me standing there alone in the middle of the hallway. Why didn't he ever talk to me for more than ten seconds?

By the look on his face, I was able to tell that he was worried. He couldn't deny what happened, I was gonna have to ask him. Later.

As I turned around to walk back to my locker, I spotted Tatiana walking down another hallway. 'That little bitch didn't come looking for me' I though as my mouth dropped. Yes, I was surprised and shocked. Tatiana and Michelle always came looking for me first thing in the morning. Why did it have to to be any different this time?

I jogged and pushed through students who were happily talking to their group of friends.

"Tatiana!"I called out to her as I ran in between a lovely couple. "Sorry," I took a glance back to apologize to them.

Tatiana continued walking, pretending like she didn't hear me but I knew perfectly that she did. Her body language showed that she did, she always walked faster and got stiffed when she wanted to avoid someone. She was avoiding me.

I wasn't going to let her do that to me though. I increased my pace and caught up to her.

"Tatiana!" I yanked her arm.

"Ouch!" she yelped. "What the hell?" she questioned as she rubbed her arm.

"Don't play dumb," I said with my arms crossed and my head tilted to the side slightly.

"I'm not playing!" she claimed. I eyed her, curious to know if she had figured out what she just said. She crossed her arms as well and gave me that 'what?!' stare. "Oh, I didn't mean to say that I was dumb, I just meant that, um, that I'm not playing," she mumbled and dropped her arms down to her sides.

"I know, silly," I let out a slight chuckle. "Now, tell me, why were you avoiding me?" I asked seriously. She shifted her eyes away from me and chewed on the inside of her cheek as she got lost in though. "Tatiana!" I snapped my fingers at her.

"Huh?" she shook her thoughts away. "I'm scared," she answered when she was finally able to process my question.

Scared?! That was good! That meant that she was talking about what happened on Saturday night. Finally. Awe, I felt bad for her. She was always more afraid of things out of the three of us.

"It's ok," I gave her a half smile. "Come on, lets go look for someone," I threw my arm over her shoulder and led her the way.

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