Back To You

Game plan

"None of this makes any sense!" Katelyn exclaimed.

We were all in Robyn's living room after we ransacked her whole house looking for the missing tests.

"Kate, calm down." Chrissy said gently.

Katelyn groaned. "I can't! I know everything there is to know about completing pranks. None of this adds up."

"And by that you mean..." Chase spoke up.

"Think about it. They know that universities start looking at early admissions junior year, and they know that this semester's grades will make Robyn's chance at a scholarship drop. What motive would those girls have for doing such a life-changing prank?" Katelyn asked.

"Maybe they don't know how badly this will affect Robyn." I said.

Katelyn nodded. "Maybe, but then where have they been? No one has seen them in weeks. Pranksters always like to see the outcome of their pranks."

"Also, I don't know about Brianna, but Rebecca isn't the sharpest tool in the shed. There's no way she could have figured out how to hack into the school's computers and hijack files." Trent said.

"Yeah, Brianna isn't stupid, but she's no star student either. She failed every test, the only reason she passed was because she got other people to do her homework and her grades balanced out to straight D's." I added.

Brianna and I may not have been close in reality, but she was extremely good at manipulating. She played me for a fool for years.

I guess deep down I always knew she never really liked me, but she could make you feel so important and wanted. And she was powerful enough to take it away. You never wanted to get on her bad side.

I could remember multiple times that she guilt-tripped me into doing her homework.

"Come on, you know I don't have time to do all of it with my dance practice." She made her eyes wide and pouted.

I saw through her innocent act, but I knew it wouldn't be pretty if I denied her.

"Besides, Natty, it's not like you have anything better to do. You wouldn't want me to fail would you?"

And I always agreed.

"See?" Katelyn broke through my thoughts. "I'm finding it extremely hard to believe that they were the masterminds behind this."

"But they signed the notes." Andrew said.

"It's not impossible to write fake notes." John spoke up for the first time all day.

"Which brings me back to my point: where are they?" Katelyn said again.

"Oh, wait, hold on." Chrissy spoke up suddenly and started scrolling through her phone.

Katelyn rolled her eyes. "This is not the time for social networks, Chrissy."

"Oh really?" Chrissy showed her phone screen to us.

She was on Rebecca's Instagram page and it was filled with an array of pictures of her and Brianna at a beach.

"So?" Zander asked.

"She just posted these pictures yesterday. It says they're in Hawaii." Chrissy said.

We stayed silent, trying to process what that meant.

"Well, so what? Those pictures could have been taken months ago." Zander said.

"How do they even know each other?" I asked. It was like Brianna purposefully followed me all of the way here and made friends with the girl that hated me as much as she did.