Silence [Discontinued]

XVI

"Alright, this emergency meeting is hereby called to order." Wes smacked down his gavel.

"We shouldn't start without Blaine," someone said immediately.

"Don't worry, he already knows!" a freshman chirped happily. They all turned to him. "He was the first person to hear it! I want you guys to hear this and tell me what you think."

He started it before they could ask and they were all immediately spellbound.

Except one.

When it was finished, he grinned. "So, what do you guys-"

"Absolutely not." Everyone looked over to the boy who had spoken. "Absolutely not. The day Smythe joins the Warblers is the day we destroy our legacy."

"Wait, I'm sorry, that's Sebastian? The one who doesn't talk?" someone asked in shock.

Ethan nodded. "Yeah, it is. What do you mean?"

"Unlike everybody else in this school, I know him. Trust me, when the truth comes out, Dalton's reputation could be ruined. No need to put the Warblers at stake too." At their blank looks, he sighed. "So there's a rope around the Warbler's neck. That's Smythe. Smythe joining the Warblers is the trapdoor underneath us. He joins, it opens, we're dead."

"Isn't that a bit extreme?" one of them asked, chuckling nervously.

He looked at them seriously. "I feel like us being hanged is the perfect term. If we still hanged people... Let's say, the Warblers wouldn't be the only ones hanging when the truth came out."

"You're ridiculous," Ethan said, rolling his eyes. "What'd he do that was so bad? Besides, he's, like, seventeen."

"Shouldn't he be sixteen?" someone else asked. They looked to the boy who seemed to know so much about Sebastian.

He shrugged. "There's no record for his birthday. I don't know how old he is. And I'd rather not say."

"You're bluffing. You can't tell us because he didn't do anything," Ethan said.

"Okay," he sighed. "You'll regret it, but who am I to stop you? Oh, wait. I'm only his ex boyfriend."

He left the room, leaving everyone unsettled.