Silent Knife

8)Locked in

Lily swiped the small tears she hadn't known fallen out of her eyes, before suddenly standing to shove Reese away from her as he offered a large hand to pull her up.

"WHAT!? Scaring the new girl? Is that what it was about?!" Lily yelled, shoving him back once more.

Reese was a good actor. He said nothing. His aqua eyes widened as he took in Lily's frightened figure that was tinged with anger. He looked alarmed as she pushed him yet again. She wasn't strong enough to shove him far, but, the action alone from Lily of all people surprised him. "What are you talking about??" Reese asked, his eyes still wide with what resembled confusion.

Lily waved the manila envelope she still held in the air. "How about shutting the lights off and leaving this for me??"

By now, Lily's sudden yelling has caught the attention of the others. JP, Davion, Evie, Nico, Cara, and Abby run into view with their flashlights waving everywhere, their eyes darting back and forth between Reese and Lily as they get closer. "What's going on?"

Lily paid no attention to whoever asked the question, her angry eyes watched Reese instead. "I'm not doing this." She shrugged, taking the flashlight from him before stomping her way to the first exit out of the school. She was met with protests as soon as she was headed towards the door. Nico rushed ahead of her, confusion on his handsome features as he slid his glasses back up his nose. "Lily, what happened??"

Lily shoved him the envelope, holding the flashlight up so he could read it. "Which one of you left it?? Which guy came into the bathroom, turned the lights off, whispered Beverly, and then left me this??" She hissed, her blue eyes darting to all the alarmed faces that were watching her curiously.

Nico's expression turned to disbelief in a matter of seconds; his lips moving as he silently read the poem. "JP, this seems like a dick move you would pull" he finally said after his face pulled into a disgusted grimace.

"Uh, Nikolai, he was with me this entire time..." Abby scoffed, giving a cross of arms. Lily noticed that when the flashlights were shined on her, Abby's pink lipstick was horribly smudged while residue of it seemed to be coating JP's lips.

JP gave a shrug. "We weren't even up here, we were in the basement."

Soon, the group turns to Davion, the other someone who would've found something like this incredibly funny. The guy threw his dark hands up, shaking his head adamantly. "Hell to the no - besides, I was working on scaring Chewie with a mannequin I found in the basement."

Evie came forward, gripping Lily in a hug. She sighed as she released her. "I left because I heard what sounded like Chewie calling, and then Davion was at the end of the hall by the stairs showing me the mannequin he set up to scare him."

"Wait - where is Chewie?" Reese asked, glancing around to find the lovable Asian student was no longer among their group. A quick scan on everyone's part showed Chewie was in fact nowhere to be found. "Well, that answers who's the jackass who would leave that" Reese mused, glancing over Nico's shoulder before wincing. "Wait, wait...." He paused, glancing over the note. "-There's no way Chewie would write this."

Davion came over to poke his head over Nico's other shoulder, a dark brow cocking as he read. "I know, man" he nodded seriously. "This spelling is way too good to be Chewie's work."

Rolling her eyes, Cara stomped over in heels to rip the paper away from the boys. She read through the strange poem carefully, her lips dropping in a frown before they tilt in a smirk. "This time I will take your heart, without tearing my own apart....." she snickered. "Obviously, you wrote it for yourself after hearing the story about the teacher" she scoffed, shaking her head in disbelief at Lily as her eyes narrowed.