Thin As Water

13.

AN: This chapter contains the spanking of teens, you have been warned. Also, it's going to be very long.

Lil sat down at the lunch table, her face completely blank. She swirled her fork in the spaghetti and leaned her chin against her palm.

"Lil!"

The head girl looked up to see Daisy sitting down next to her. "Hi."

"Lil, where were you? You disappeared after morning break and I haven't seen you since! I thought you were off being head girl but Prof marked you absent in English."

Lil felt a small rush of warmth at Daisy's concern for her, but kept her expression neutral. "I was locked in a closet."

"What?!" Daisy's eyebrows shot up.

"How did you get locked in a closet?" A voice added from behind.

Lil looked over as Tatum sat down on Daisy's other side. "Not by choice." 

"Who?" Tate persisted.

Lil glanced across the cafeteria as four girls were gingerly sitting down with their food.

Daisy gasped. "Tina?"

"And her friends."

Tate looked bemused. "I thought you were friends with her."

Lil shrugged, and there was an awkward silence for a second. 

"I need to talk to Hazel." Lil pushed up from the table, grabbed her tray, and left without looking back.

"What's up with her?" Tate asked Daisy.

"Not completely sure." Daisy continued to look in the direction Lil had gone, even after the head girl had left the room.

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"Hazel!" Lil stepped quickly over to the older girl as a crowd of students pushed out of a classroom.

"Lil! Gosh, you scared me!" Hazel flushed as she stumbled out of the mass of students, glancing sideways at Raven who continued walking.

"Hazel, I have a question for you."

"Yeah? What is it?" Hazel brushed a hand through her wild hair and attempted to flatten it a bit.

"I have four U3's to deal with, would you recommend the detention room?"

Hazel let out a breath. "Four? Why not let the Headmistress deal with them?"

Lil tilted her head. "I'd rather take care of it myself."

Hazel raised an eyebrow. "What did they do to you?"

"I'll tell you later. Anyway, will that work?"

"If you suspect trouble, I'd say it's your best bet. Just make sure your head boy isn't holding a detention first."

Lil nodded, then glanced at the clock. "You'd better go. And I'd better catch Connor. See ya!"

Hazel rolled her eyes good-naturedly and hurried to catch up with Raven.

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"Connor?"

The blonde head boy stepped away from his group of friends. "Hey Lilian, what's up?"

"Are you running a detention this afternoon?"

"Nope. Next one's Thursday."

"Great. I have a bigger group to deal with, so I'll probably use the room if that's ok."