Highschool of Hell®™©

Chapter Five: Mall

Lexi was enjoying moving around until she saw a new store called Music Divinity. She liked the way looked and it even had a performance stage. She was currently browsing through some albums before she saw a familiar face, no two familiar faces. The first belonged to a one Jay Sullivan and the other belonged to her friend, Jude Hathaway.

She was shocked. She was given the impression that Jude didn't want to go to the mall, but she was still wondering something else. Why was Jude here, why didn't he get a ride with everyone else?

She wondered what was going on here. She then saw Jay once again, and this made her wonder if Jude went with Jay. But that should be impossible right? Lexi doubted herself when she quickly remembered that they both work at the same store.

This made her suspicious.

"Welcome to Music Divinity, can I help you with any thi-" a familiar voice said from behind Lexi before being cut off. "L-Lexi?"

The brunette turned around and saw Jude. "Hi Jude." she nervously smiled. "What are you doing here?" he asked with his usually stoic expression.

"Hathaway, what's the problem?" Jay asked before seeing Lexi. "What's she doing here?" he asked with a harsh tone of voice.

"Relax Jay, she's just a friend." Jude said sighing softly.

"Fine, besides it only likes her, she hasn't done anything so I'll let her off with a pass... For now." Jay said before leaving.

"It?" Lexi was confused. "Jace."

"What's the deal with those guys?" Lexi asked Jude. "Jay and Jace's hatred goes way back. From what I heard, Jace is a conceited douche bag. The reason he targets us the most is because we're guilty by association."

"Why guilty by association?"

"Jace did something bad to Jay a few years back and Jay hated him ever since. Amanda and I will hang out with him to help him get by. He's not a jerk, just misunderstood." Jude explained.

"So Jay was your ride?"

"Yeah, so if you got no business here, I need you to leave, not being a jerk it's just store policy."

Lexi understood and left the store promising Jude not to let anyone else know about his after school activities.

She was feeling inpatient now. Jude was at work, Jace, Johnny and Lars were busy with rap battles and she wondered when the others would show up. She was able to get by alone but there's only so much loneliness that a person can take. Well anyone except Jude.

"Why so blue brownie?" a girl wearing black with midnight black hair and a pair of curved square glasses asked. Lexi looked at her and saw that half her face was covered by her hair. "Oh, it's nothing." Lexi said.

"Hey, do you know where I can find Music Divinity?" she asked. "Yeah, it's over there." she pointed to the store. "Thanks." She said before going to the store.

And like that Lexi was alone once more.

She looked to the back to see that Abby, Malcom, Tori and Amanda finally ended their make out sessions as they walking up to her. They joined up with her along with Jace, Johnny and Lars, who came back from their rap battles. They were also joined by Danielle, Rae and Vanessa.

The entire group looked at the time and headed to the food court. Jace and Lexi went to Burger King☆, Abby Malcom, Tori and Johnny headed over to Pizza Hut☆ and Lars, Danielle and Rae chose to get food from McDonald's☆. The group met up at the spot they usually ate at.

"So what happened?" Rae asked. "These ass hats ditched me for their stupid rap battles. I could've gotten kidnapped or something." Lexi said as she was irritated by being left alone. Who could blame her for that?

"Sorry." Jace said apologising to Lexi.

"Speaking of rap battles..." Vanessa started. "What happened?"

"Took Snow here to his first rap battle and he helped me win." Johnny spoke. "And Jace?" Vanessa asked out of curiosity. "Bitch got his ass roasted." Johnny said laughing. "Please tell me you got it on video." Vanessa said.

Johnny simply typed sent everyone in the group a text with a link and said, "Here you go."

They all watched and laughed, minus Jace. They also heard a familiar laughter coming from Starbucks. Abby and Malcom's eyes widened. Surely it wasn't who they thought it was, was it? They all looked to see Jude laughing with Jay. They seemed to be having a quick drink.

"Is that Jude?" Malcom asked. "Yeah, but bigger question is, what's he doing with Jay?" Vanessa asked.

All of them, aside from Lexi, all wondered the same thing as they watched Jude head over to Music Divinity with Jay.