It's Only Gossip

33

There Madison is, staring at me with dark circles under her eyes. She pierces directly at me, almost like she wants to steal my soul.

"What's up?" I nod my head in attempts to lighten up the room.

Yes the room, the curtains are shut and no lights are on. It's hella dark. This is unlike Mads.

"Did you tell anybody about Mr Pepe?" Her voice sounds raspy due to all the hatred held between each word.

"No!" Immediately I defend myself.

"Then what's this?" She motions me to sit next to her so I do.

She passes her phone, revealing an email.

Dear Madison,

I know about you and Mr Pepe. If you fail to follow any of these rules, your secret will come out.
1) Dump him.
2) Make sure Levi doesn't leave campus until after the mocks.

"Oh my God, you didn't break up with him still?" I'm screaming at the top of my lungs.

"So you did tell somebody! How could you betray me like that?" Mads screams back.

Meanwhile Daniel is just blocking the door, unaffected by all of this.

I turn to face Daniel, "You knew this entire time?" Now it's my turn to steal someone's soul.

Before he could respond, Madison grabs my hand gaining my full attention.

"Who did you tell Levi?" Slowly and deadly she asks, oh boy how I dislike that combination.

"I swear I didn't tell anyone..." I hesitate for a while.

"But?" Madison nudges me to continue.

"I think Aura found out, it wasn't me. You sent an email to some anonymous helper email thing and somehow word got around." I hold just a tiny bit of defence up.

I can't exactly spill that Aura is the anonymous helper email whatever.

"Wow you can't trust anything nowadays." She looks up at the ceiling, defeated.

I give her time to think. Wait, she still didn't break up with him! Fury spirals within my chest not leaving a second to take a break.

"Yo," I click my fingers in front of Madison's face. "Break up with him!"

"Chill, I did." She whispers.

"I don't believe you." She stares at me in disbelief instantly. "Give me your phone." I command.

As soon as she passes me her phone, quickly I message F saying it's over. Deleted and blocked his number, now I can sleep in peace.

I smile at Madison and she sighs. What on earth is wrong with this girl? Some illegal business. I know I'm being harsh but she's already been warned. Aura did her a favour and me a punishment.

"Done and dusted." I smile.

Without making eye contact, Madison whispers, "Thanks."

Daniel begins coughing and we both give him dirts. He should learn how to cough in silence, how rude.

Madison turns to me, "How do we know it's definitely Aura?"

"We don't. You already followed the first instruction and I'll follow the second one for you. I won't leave campus until after the mocks." I give her a weak smile.

"You would do that?" Her eyes glimmer. "You know, I've missed hanging out with you. You're always so busy!"

"Yeah, I'm just tired of being busy." I laugh.

I look around Madison's room and it has changed significantly. For starters, her old posters are no longer on the wall. She has quite a few photos framed on her desk but that's it.

I jump off her bed and open the curtains. As much as I love the dark, Madison needs her vitamin D.

Maybe I should just study for three weeks straight for my mocks. Then I can carry on with my mission afterwards. I just need to pass, that's all. Although, getting A's wouldn't do any harm. I know it's a lot to catch up, but I've been in worse situations and survived. I can do it.

Pure dedication.

I miss Meredith. At least I have Madison and as much as I hate to admit, I also have Aura. Even though she's so annoying, she's doing it for the best. I hate her. These three weeks will be torture.

That reminds me, I need to get their files of Aura. Surely she'll give it to me straight away. She'd suspect things, but she trusts me. Who knows, she might even help.

I guess after every section I teach myself, I can create a proper plan to get revenge on Carrie and Ash. One that isn't made up on the spot.

I don't know how I'm going to hide this from Amelia though. She's bound to talk to them and find out what happened. I'm surprised she hasn't yet. Or maybe she did, she could be playing me.

I'll be ready after my mocks.