Near the End

Chapter 7: Trouble

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Augustus's POV

The last thing I remember was this place, a place I've never seen before, fields with grass and tress, and the rest was all undescribable to me, although it was nearly pitch black, I could see it was a beautiful place. And then it all went black.

"Mr. Augustus!" Was the first thing I heard from my waking. I opened my eyes to see Ms.Nunez standing in front of me. I looked at my surroundings. Halls? Did I sleep in the hallways? Joey just waking up aside me looked just as puzzled as me. I looked behind the yelling teacher to see a bunch of students peaking outside their dorms laughing at us.

"What are you girls doing here?!" I heard in the distance. I turned to see who was speaking. Some other teacher... Yelling at Mae and her friend. Was it all not a dream, I was certain it was, but how can you explain this?

"Come with me!" Ms. Nunez pulled us up from the floor and started dragging us to the office. I looked back and saw Mae and her friend were being dragged along a few feet away from us.

Ms. Nunez opened the office door and all for of us went in. She dragged us into the principal's office.

"Good morning Ms. Nunez, what brings you here?"

"Principal Torres" she began yelling "I found these 4 students out sleeping in the halls, and I know they where up to something especially this one!" She pointed at me.

"What makes you say that Ms. Nunez?"

"I just know they where! Augustus always is! And where Augustus it, trouble is!" I smiled knowing she must be very bothered. "Just look at him, look at his mischievous smile, he did something!"

"Ah I see" principal Torres turned to me, "Augustus, why did you sleep out in the halls?"

"I don't remember." I said, my number one answer I've used whenever I was in trouble, ever since I could remember. I looked at Ms. Nunez and saw how furious she was. I laughed in the inside knowing how easy it was for me to anger her.

"You see that, do you Mr. Torres!? He was up to no good!"

Mr. Torres turned to Joey.

"What is your name?"

"Joe." He answered

"What where you doing yesterday before you fell asleep?" He asked.

Joey was silent. This worried me, what would he say? Then he opened his mouth to speak after a few seconds.

"Augustus went out of our dorm room late at night-"

That little- was he blaming me?

"I noticed he was sleep walking after a few seconds and went after him, I wasn't sure on how to wake him so I kept an eye on him, after a while I got tired so I decided to just shake him to wake him."

Mr. Torres looked a bit lost, as of every body else in the room including me.

"After awaking him we started to walk back to our dorm, but we where far from it, I guess we where so tired we just blacked out feet away from it."
Wow. I turned to see Mr. Torres's express to see on whether he believed it or not.

"OK Joe, thank you for your explanation." He said.

I guess he did buy it. Then he turned to Mae.

"Ok ladies, what's your excuse, why where you girls sleeping in the halls?"

They were quiet. They had no excuse. I felt bad for the-

"You see Mr. Torres" Mae spoke up. " last night Autumn had a bad dream... She couldn't fall back too sleep, I empathized that, so I suggested we go out for a run since that always has my nerves, and it would get us tired, so we went out and jogged for an hour or so, until I started feeling an awful pain in my ankle from a previous injury I had not to long ago.. So we walked back to out dorm until I could no longer walk so Autumn told me to sit down for a bit so the pain would ease, so I did, but after waiting for me so long I guess she fell asleep shortly after me from exhaustion."

Woah.. Did... did she just top our excuse?

"Lies!" Ms. Nunez yelled out.

"Ms. Nunez please calm down-"

"They're lying, all of them, I just know it, why would that all happen to them on the same night?!" Mr. Torres turned to us now suspicious.

I shrugged my shoulders.

"A coincidence I supposed." Mae said plainly.

Was... Was she messing with Ms. Nunez too? Mr. Torres turned to Ms. Nunez now questioning her claims.

"I'm sorry Ms. Nunez, but without evidence of your claims I can't do anything."

Ms. Nunez now boiling with anger began yelling at principal Torres. I couldn't help but smile and laugh in the inside. Seeing adults ranging with anger was quite amusing.

"They did something! I'm telling you!" Ms. Nunez looked at me. "Just look at him! He's smiling! They did something! He's a bloody demon!"

"Now Ms. Nunez! That'll be enough!" Principal Torres told Ms. Nunez and excused us to class.

We all walked back to our dorms to get to our classes... To be honest with myself, I was kind of hoping they would let us stay in and sleep in... But what kind of teacher would to that I thought after. As we walked back to our dorm, I noticed the girls dorm was just a few dorms ahead of ours.

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