Not So Star-Crossed

Ch 10: Code Black

3rd Person POV

Rothwell Private Academy Boarding School.  Room 213.  Friday, September 6th.  3:20pm

Daxon tosses open the doors of room 213, already extremely irritated that he may miss some of his soccer practice. On top of that the last class in the room must have dissected something because it reeked of bleach and death which made the whole situation worse.

Sitting behind the teacher's desk with a signature scowl on her face was Cecily. "Where is everyone?" Daxon asks grabbing a chair from one of the lab tables.

"Haven't seen Shelby since French, I try not to talk to Jeff on a regular basis, Ava's been missing since this morning, and as always Princess De la Douche has taken has sweet time to grace our presence." Cecily says dully and Daxon only takes a deep sigh running his hands through his hair. While Ava St. Xavier may have been his enemy, Cecily Havenport was an evil force of nature that roamed the halls of Rothwell. The girl oozed of confidence and power, almost like she was trained to manipulate others and then take them down with a wave of her hand. Daxon tolerated her and sometimes they got along but she was someone he never wanted to be too close to.

"This is a waste of time." He knew for a fact a good chunk of this meeting had to do with Ava and his constant feuding and having a strict warning from a 17-year-old boy wasn't going to change anything between them.

"For once I agree with you. Especially since I'm sure it has something to do with us." The door is thrown open and a flustered Ava strides in with a Birkin bag in one hand and an iced coffee in the other.

"Where have you been all day?" Cecily stands to greet her friend as Daxon only rolls his eyes at his foe.

Ava warily looks at Daxon and then to Cecily. "I'll tell you later."

Cecily seemed to understand and let the matter go for the time being.

"Where is everyone." Ava tosses her overly priced bag on the table Daxon is occupying which makes him give her an icy glare.

"You are everyone I texted." The door is once again opened and T.J walks in, also with a to go drink from the Hideout.

"I'm sorry since when is a Code Black call code for stopping for a beverage on the way to the meeting?" Cecily gestures towards Ava's and T. J's cups exasperated and the two just shrug before Ava finally takes a seat at the table in front of Daxon.

Cecily follows suit and sits next to her best friend and T.J walks to the front of the room setting down his drink on the teacher's desk. If anyone were to walk by and peer in the classroom they would believe that T.J was giving a tutoring lesson to his friends.

"I think we should give T.J the floor. Considering we all want to be somewhere else right now." Daxon remarks and for once Ava doesn't feel the need to defy him, for which Cecily and T.J were grateful.

"Thanks Collingsworth. Now I only called us four for this meeting because as of now us, except for Baylor, are the only ones that know of our plan_" Ava took note that he hadn't mentioned Brynn knowing but she had assumed her knowledge was irrelevant to his speech.

"_While I applaud your valent efforts to ditch school with him today Ava, that isn't enough to make everyone think you are happily dating."

"You ditched school with Carson Baylor?!" Cecily squeals and Ava's cheeks ignite pink as Daxon scoffs with his arms crossed against his well-defined chest.  This may be the most exaggerated Code Black Emergency he had ever witnessed.