Nandoz Lab

"Extracurricular Activities"

Chapter 2

"I can't believe that you actually did that." said Dhiv as the seven friends once again met up together at the school entrance the next morning. Nolee shrugged and said that it was necessary, that the thug was the one who kidnapped and killed their senior - Charlotte Atkins.

"Charlotte Atkins?" Onyx stared at her in disbelief. "The school's Assistant Head Prefect?" Nolee nodded as she pulled out a file from her school bag. "She has been missing since last Saturday after a late night prefect meeting at school and found no traces of her disappearance. She was confirmed dead the next day at 11 pm sharp where the thug had posted a picture of her mangled body on Instagram." she explained, showing them the said picture that she had printed out for research reasons. The older girls peered over the small girl's shoulders to get a better look, but cringed and looked away a millisecond later, instantly regretting their decision as they saw the image of their senior's bloodied arms tangled with each other behind her back, her legs decorated with bruises and angled in a way not humanly possible, wearing nothing but a thin blanket wrapped around her.

"Apparently Charlotte had been contacting her friends by direct messaging them on Instagram while she was held captive." Nolee continued, ignoring her friends' reactions, not at all fazed at the exceedingly disturbing picture in her dainty little hands. "None of her friends suspected that she was in any danger and since the messages sent to her friends were quite calm and playful, they assumed that she was at home, safe and sound. Whether it was actually Charlotte herself messaging them, or the thug pretending to be her and giving the friends false information, we don't know. But if you ask me, I think it was the thug. So, scrolling through your Instagram feed only to see a picture of the Assistant Head Prefect beaten to death posted by her herself is understandably shocking, to say the least."

The other six stared at their close friend in disbelieving amazement at the younger girl's detailed and explicit elaboration. "Did you get this from the newspaper or something?" Liz was the first to speak. "And how do we not know about this? She was the school's Assistant Head Prefect, for crying out loud!"

"Nope, I got this from her Instagram account myself." Nolee gave a slight shake of her head, plunging the file back into her school bag as she started to walk into the school, the rest following close behind her. "And I suppose the school didn't want to announce such a dreadful thing to the students, being that it's only the second month of the year and all."

"Oh God Lee, you really are a stalker." Onyx shook her head, pausing when she suddenly thought of something. "Wait a minute, how did you know that "Charlotte" was direct messaging her friends on Instagram? You can't access someone else's direct messages just by following them on Instagram."

"I never said I followed Charlotte on Instagram." said Nolee, stopping when she reached her locker.

Lydia gave her a perplexed look. "Then?"

"I hacked into her account, duh."

Everyone groaned at their young friend's casual confession. The kid really had to learn how to control her stalker skills, or you never know if she'll hack into the government's system one day by accident and cause chaos.

"But that still defeats the reason why you acted so coldly yesterday and killed the thug." said Nell, crossing her arms over her chest, steering them back to their original topic. "You didn't have a solid reason to kill him."

"Of course I did," Nolee laughed, as if her friend had asked a stupid question. "The guy not only kidnapped and killed other teenage girls and children for the past three weeks, he also raped a ten month old baby and chopped her up into pieces, frying her cut up pieces and ate them."