The next classes after that were made up of hushed whispers and voices of teachers that always cut like stone. Adrian always sat in the back, his hair covering his dark eyes, doodles eating up paper that should have formulas and numbers rather than highlighter green butterflies and messy eyes. He was never good at math.
Adrian felt the weight in the air, the tension. It made his skin buzz and his blood crawl. He was answering a textbook question when the door opened and a guy with light hair and emerald eyes walked in.
Everyone looked up, and for some odd reason, the humming stopped, the whispering stuttered, and the weight fell.
Seconds later, Adrian's pencil fell down from his desk,and everything began again. Girls and boys looked at their papers and the humming wrapped itself around his mind. Turns out the guy thankfully wasn't part of their class, just had to speak with the teacher.
YOU ARE READING
SMOKE AND MIRRORS.
ActionWhen there's murder surrounding an innocent boarding school in California, these students take it upon themselves to investigate, and find that they find out a lot more about themselves than intended.
