Alicia’s POV“No, you’re not mad.” I muttered. Too low, I wasn’t even able to convince myself. Alex and Arnold picked Adrian up. Alex said, “Let’s take him out of here.’’ I nodded and followed them. People were beginning to gather and before they would start recording, we needed to take Adrian out.We had too much at hand, it was wrong to add Adrian’s breakdown to it. As we passed the onlooking students, I could help but wonder which of these was the Blackmailer.The real anonymous poster. Someone that was crafty enough to fool Miss Selene. Was he a student? A teacher? The guard or the gardener? Who could it be?A chill ran down my spine making me swallow. Goosebumps crawled all over my skin, my heart racing and a throbbing headache soon followed. I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. “Maybe I was thinking too much?” I thought out loud. But only to myself, I didn’t want the brothers to think that I was going nuts too, perhaps. Maybe we are going around this thing wrongly. The an
Alicia’s POVI heaved a slow sighed, “Let’s go to her house.”Alex nodded and slowed down the car. “I can’t let Dad know we are taking another route.”My hand touched Adrian’s hand and he paused, turned to me slowly. His eyes were dull, his lips parched and pale. “Are you thirsty?”He gulped slowly, and shook his head. “You are.” I said and picked a bottle of water from the top and I opened it and handed it to him.Alex reversed, switching lanes and I bumped up, the bottle of water tilted and poured on Adrian. He gritted his teeth and yanked the bottle from my hand and tossed it out the open window to the road. “I told you I was fine!!” Adrian growled at me. I flinched back, the sorry I was going to say tied in my lips. “Chill man. She cares for you–”“I don’t need it. I just want to know if that girl was found. I am fucking losing my mind.”I swallowed and turned to the other side, looking at the window, with teary eyes. My heart was still racing from the way he yelled at me. I bit
Alicia’s POVBang Bang Bang. “Who’s there?” I jumped out of bed, sweating as I looked at the door, vibrating from the heavy bangs. “Alicia?”Alex? Why was he banging at my door so early? It was barely dawn. I groaned and pulled my robe over my body before I dragged myself to the door.“Is Adrian in here?”’ He asked, looking over my shoulder. I narrowed my eyes on him. “What? No!” I shook my head.I last saw him at dinner last night. “He was with us last night, but then he went out for some air, right? After he left, I went to my room, I wasn’t feeling too– comfortable.”He sighed. “I know, and I wasn’t comfortable either.” A running step soon reached my room and it was Arnold. “He is nowhere, Alex. is he with Alicia?” I shook my head at him. “No. Where did he go?”Arnold punched the wall as he grunted in frustration. “I should have fucking check on him last night? I just thought I should let him breathe, but damn he has disappeared.”“Please, stay calm. We will find him, he can’t
Adrian’s POV“D– Dad?” I muttered at Dad. Alex and Arnold seemed to have shrugged back a bit. Damn it. I knew this was a bad idea. I fucking knew it. Alicia seemed to have held her breath as she shook her head at me. Now they all think it was a terrible idea to tell Dad? Ofcourse, it was from the onset. I scratched the back of my head as I looked down. “Erm. D– dad.” I stuttered again and Dad furrowed his brows and crossed his arms over his chest.“Are you going to talk or not?” he looked back at the others behind me. “Can any one of you speak?” Alicia shook her head. “It’s–”“Nothing,” Alex cut her off, with a smile. “We just wanted to see what you were doing so we came, we will take our leave now.” Dad narrowed his eyes at us and then he shrugged. “Okay. I will get done with my work and then come inside.”Alex was the first to turn, Arnold followed and I took Alicia’s hand as we went back to the house. We got back to Alicia’s room and she dropped on her bed. “What now?” Alica
Alicia’s POVWhy was she calling me? Does she know it was me and the boys? How the heck did our picture go online in the first place? Who the heck was this anonymous poster? My eyes darted around the room as these thoughts ran through my head. Adrian and Arnold had both stood beside me, Alex was behind. They were all hovering over me and I looked too small in their midst.“Did Serena just call you?” Alex asked me from behind. I gulped as I faced Serena. “Alicia,” Miss Serena called me again and I balled my sweaty palms up. My head banging with questions and my heart racing with tension. “Ma’am?” I answered about to step out when Adrian held my hand, stopping me in my tracks. “I’ll go and ask her what she needs.”I glared at Adrian with wide eyes. My heart screamed. What! Hell No!!I shook my head at him slowly as I whispered to him, “I should go, we don’t want to draw more attention. I need all of you to act like all is normal okay? It wasn’t us in that video, right?” Alex nodd
Miss Serena’s POV“Great, just great.” I grunted as I entered my office. “What is wrong with kids nowadays? You would think one was good one minute and find out she’s just a psycho the very next minute.”As I dropped on my chair, I couldn’t help but wonder how Anna Fredrick, one of the brilliant and quiet students in this school, would be the anonymous poster. If I didn’t see her with my own eyes, I would never believe it.She was just too good. I scoffed and rolled my eyes. “Obviously, it was just an act, just to get off the list of suspects.”I smiled, softly. I must say she did so well. I had been checking everyone else, but I never once investigated her.I had been looking in the wrong places, thanks to the moon goddess for that hint I got last week. I opened my shelf and brought out a piece of paper. It was a note that I had seen on the foot of my desk, after school hours, last week friday. It had asked me to come to the school ground on Saturday evening if I wanted to catch the