Manipulation

Ch 8 Distraction

It was five by the time I got back to my dorm. I had hung out with Emily and her friends since three and was still smiling as I walked down the hallway. I was about to search through my bag for the dorm keys when I noticed the door was opened. I walked in frowning. "Angel, why is the door..." I trailed off when I saw Angel. She was looking down at something in her hands. Something fell onto her palm.

"Angel?" I ask softly. I noticed something was different about the room but couldn't say what.

"Get out," her voice was strained and her words stung like she had slapped me.

"What happened-"

"Get out!" Angel screeched and stood up. Something fell to her bed in remains. It was her iPod. It was shattered and had been spray painted. I was taken back and stepped away from her. "Get out! I hate you! I hate you!" she shouted. That's when I noticed was was wrong with the room. All her CD's were broken in half, her CD player was destroyed and her phone sat on her bed looking like her iPod. Broken.

Her clothes were hanging out of her open dresser draws, spray paint littering them as well as the dresser itself. Her laptop screen was smashed and something was written in thick black marker. If your wondering why I hadn't noticed this earlier it was because I was standing in the doorway, but I had now walked in and looked around. "Get out!" Angel screamed, tears streaking her cheeks and her hair brushed her face as she moved.

"Angel, I didn't do this," I say trying to reason with her.

"Yes you did! Get out! Get out! I hate you! I hate you!" She yelled though her sharp drawn breaths. Her eyes flashed orange and she let out a sob. "I hate you," she cried.

"Move, make way." someone says from behind me. I turn around to see the hallway filled with people. Guys and girls alike. Which was strange, guys were down the other end of the house. Damian pushed his way to the front with two other older students behind him. "Go back to your rooms! Nothing to see!" he shouts to the people in the hall. Everyone moves away slowly except Damian and two other people.

"What happened?" Damian asks closing the door. One of the two other people went over and started trying to calm Angel down.

"I don't know, I just walked in now to find all this and Angel crying," I say truthfully.

"That's a lie! You did this! You did it all! I hate you!!" Angels lashes out. Every word stung.

"No, I was out with some people, how could-"

"I hate you! Get out!" she screams as tears streak her face once more.

Damian grabs my arm and pulls me outside. "Whats your name?"

"Kat. I swear I didn't-"

Damian cut me off. "Kat, I'm sorry but you must be punished for this."

"What?! I didn't do it!" I say desperately.

He shook his heads. "You have keys yes? And the door isn't broken. That means someone with keys entered. I don't think Angel would break her own stuff." he then pulled me down the hall.

"I didn't do it though!" I say pulling against him.

"Do you have proof saying you didn't?" he asks looking at me.

"I was hanging out with my friends," I say desperately.

"I will talk to them," he says and takes me into a small room for things like meetings. He asks who I was hanging out with before leaving. When he returns he looks down at me. "You weren't with them till 3:30 am I correct? That gave you plenty of time to go to the rooms and make it back." I stared at him in disbelief. Yes, the was correct, but I wasn't in the room, I had been stuck talking to Heath and some others along the way.... I didn't do it.

My voice betrayed me then and I stared at him, probably looking guilty as hell.