The Glass Butterfly

7

Aria rushed out of the class when the bell rang for the next period, Athletics, the period she would see Jax. Hopefully, he would say yes to her invite.

Once in the gym locker room, she held her breath against the putrid smell and quickly slipped into the ugly gray Athletics uniform.

When she got to the gymnasium her heart sank after scanning all the faces. He wasn't here. That didn't mean anything, he was new to the school and could have gotten lost. Or maybe she had scared him off.

He probably just got lost and was running late, Aria told herself. She started to actually believe that she really did scare him off when he still hadn't appeared when Coach Gil started to divide the class into dodge-ball teams.

After two rounds of that game of torture, in which Aria had gotten hit in the first five seconds, she went to get a sip of water from a water fountain outside the gymnasium. Just as Aria had pulled her hair back to drink she heard a familiar voice coming from a few hallways down. Creeping in the shadows her sneakers made barely a squeak. Pressing her back against the wall she strained to hear who it was.

The voice was masculine with a slight accent and sounded very bitter and cold. From what she could hear it seemed as if the person was talking on the phone.

"Thank you for all you did," the voice said sarcastically, "Yes I'm going to watch her tonight. No, no, don't you worry she won't know," there was cold silence " Okay I'll make it quick. Just remember I'm one of the best in the BFCDS."

Her heart thudding Aria thought It can't be him. He simply isn't that cold.

She peeked around the corner just in time to see Jax snap a silver phone shut and start walking toward where she was hiding.

Aria dashed for the gym before Jax could turn the corner. Several minutes later Jax walked in looking a little flustered, and not at all like he had just had a secret phone call with a mysterious person in the middle of class. He told the coach that he had lost his way. He looked so convincing that Aria began to doubt the conversation she just heard was real. Was she going crazy? After all, she had been seeing very odd things all day. Still, she wondered who Jax could have been talking to and what they had done to make him talk to them with such malice.