Chapter 24

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The weeks went by and I settled into the School for Evil. In every Surviving Fairytales class my Ever friends looked worriedly at the ranks board. I was at the top. One time after we had beaten them again Lil, came to talk to me.

"How come you're at the top of the Evil ranks when you were top at Good?"

"It's easy to pretend to be good, you can't pretend to be bad. Not without being bad. At least not a little bit."

"I s'pose you're right. We miss you."

"Miss you too."

I turned away.

"Ashley?"

"Yeah?"

"Can I sit with you at lunch tomorrow?"

"Sure." I walked over to my Never friends.

Lil started sitting with us almost every day since then and soon Liz ventured over. Em stayed stubbornly with the other Evers, giving us sideways glances.

A week since Lil spoke to me the day of the Trial was almost upon us. It was tomorrow. Layla was over excited, Alec was calm but he sometimes looked worried and Sebastian? He was too good at masking emotions. In a way almost exactly like me. Layla kept pestering me about how I felt but I just brushed her away. I was scared. I didn't want to kill my friends again.

I didn't eat much, slept over- I woke up half way through uglification that day. Sebastian approached me to ask if I was okay, but I just pushed him away.

Went to sleep, quickly that night, but it was not fitful. When I awoke I lay in bed for a few minutes.

The day of the Trial was upon us.

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