How to Heal

--Chapter Eight: Unwanted Truth--

Now safely barricaded in their homeroom, they sat and drew pictures. When they opened the doors again, everyone left because they knew not which twin was Rosy. The girls sat and talked until people started to come in. After that they went to their lockers and grabbed their binders. They came back to their homeroom and finished drawing as the rest of their class started coming in and finding a seat. Ms. Marvey came in and sat down at her desk. She took two deep breaths before frantically looking through her papers.

"You good?" Rosy asked, still seeming to be Alex by the eyes of everyone else.

"Yeah. I've gotta find some papers for meetings tonight." she replied.

"Just remember that you should take a break every now and again. It's not healthy to stress yourself out too much." Rosy said.

"Thanks Alex. I'll keep that in mind. Do you think you could come talk to me after class?"

"Sure thing. May I ask why?"

"Here we can just go out into the hall."

"Okay."

Rosy followed Ms. Marvey out into the hall. She went across the hall and asked Ms. Avery if she had a minute and she emerged from the still chared classroom with a smile on her face.

"What's going on?" Rosy asked as the two teachers exchanged looks.

"Is Rosy okay?" Ms. Avery asked.

"Yeah. Why?" Rosy asked suspiciously.

"Well she just seems more.. upbeat than normal." Ms. Marvey replied.

"So what? Now she needs a reason to be happy?" Rosy said out of frustration.

"No not at all. We want her to be happy but we were just checking." Ms. Avery said.

"How come you say that but at the same time, her being happy is all of a sudden a cry for help?" Rosy said as she tried to walk away before saying anything else.

When she got back into the classroom, Rosy went straight to her sister and told her what had happened when the switch. She told her that Troian, Ms. Marvey, and Ms. Avery asked if she had been okay because she'd seemed more happy than normal. Alex suggested they switch back but Rosy refused and quickly went back to her drawing.

"The worst things come out of the best people." Alex said to try and cheer Rosy up.

Rosy gave no response and kept her head where it was, giving no indication that she'd even heard her sister. Alex looked at Rosy and then gave her a hug. Ms. Marvey saw this and thought she'd have been better off to just stay out of whatever was going on.

Shortly after, the bell rang, dismissing the class to their next class which had been gym for them today. Alex and Rosy went to their lockers and grabbed their gym clothes and headed for the locker room. When the girls entered the gym, everything was normal. When they entered the locker room, Rosy felt sick by the prank awaiting the other girls as well...