The next day, Skittle was sat at her group's table as usual. Casper was throwing pencils at her from across the table.
"Don't do that, Casper. You could seriously hurt someone." Skittle warned him.
"Good." Casper said with an evil grin.
Skittle couldn't believe he had said that. That was just pure evil. But she chose to ignore the pencils bouncing off her black and blonde striped wavy hair. She turned to chat to Tara.
"Tara?" Skittle said, tapping her best friend's arm.
But Tara didn't answer. She was staring at nowhere in particular with a faraway look in her eyes.
"Tara!" Skittle repeated, poking her.
But she still didn't respond. Skittle felt a bit worried. Why wasn't she answering her? Then the teacher stepped up to the front of the class.
"Class, I'm afraid we have some bad news."
Skittle gasped. What could it be? Maybe the school had been burgled last night. Or one of the kids got kidnapped? Or the school was closing down?
"Tara, can you come up to the front, please?" the teacher said.
Skittle's eyes widened. If the teacher was calling Tara up to the front, the bad news must be about her. And the bad news must be why Tara wasn't answering her before.
"Your classmate Tara will be leaving very soon. Her parents have gotten new jobs to run a book shop up in the countryside, so she has to move." the teacher told everyone.
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Darkness Falls
Teen FictionSkittle Aradito has a hard life. She has no friends, is hated by everyone and, worst of all, she is bullied by Casper Arterton, the most popular boy in school. Casper thinks he is all that, and tries to make Skittle's life a misery in every way poss...
