Philophobia | e.d + g.d

Chapter 13

Cassidy's POV

I had left Ethan to go to my detention after our 5th period together.

As I walked down the corridor, I pulled my phone out of my skinny jeans pocket. As I looked at my notifications, my heart skipped a beat when I saw another text from unknown.

I went into the detention classroom and sat down at the table at the back of the classroom before reading what the text said.

There was another guy at the back of the room, but his hoodie was pulled over his head and he had his phone out too. I shifted in my seat so that he couldn't see my phone.

I had the same teacher that had looked over Grayson and my detention a few weeks ago. She was stuck in another thick book.

I breathed deeply through my nose before I opened the text. I counted down in my head.....3.....2.....1. I pressed on the chat of the unknown number.

Unknown: don't you try and block my number baby girl

Unknown: I have many other sources

Unknown: we'll meet again soon babe

I went straight to block the number, but it wouldn't let me. I tried to press it a thousand times, but my phone froze and then turned off immediately. It had been at 67%.

I breathed deeply and started to get a bit suspicious. I tried to turn it back on. It didn't budge. I pressed the off button and home button at the same time for a while.

It still didn't work.

There was a small noise as the boy in the hoody shifted in his seat. I caught him glance quickly at me.

He had a beard.

No one had a beard in at school. All the boys had to shave.

I snapped my head to the front of the classroom.

It couldn't be. How?!

I waited until the detention was over so that the guy could leave the room. But he didn't. He stayed. I grabbed my bag, and he immediately grabbed his. I dropped it again, and a few seconds later, he dropped his too.

My heart pounded in my chest. Hard. I started to breathe faster.

"A-aren't you going to leave now?" asked the teacher without even looking down from her book.

I gulped.

I quickly went over to her and stood next to her.

"Hey, you know for the maths question that you gave me? I don't understand it. I was wondering if you could help me with it?" I made up the excuse to stay a while longer as the guy went out of the classroom.

The teacher looked at me weirdly as I laughed nervously.

"Yeah, it's this one, how do you do it?" I waited for 10 minutes for her to try and help me with the question that I already knew the answer to, then slipped out of the classroom.

Ethan was probably waiting for me.

I power-walked to the back entrance of the school, taking a mint gum out of my pocket and chewing hard on it.