THE BURIAL*

Hyce hugged him tight, crying on his shoulders while the woman just watched sadly.

*

TWO DAYS LATER*

It's the burial of Sybil and fake Pearl.

The bodies has been lowered into their holes, and the diggers are currently covering up with sand.

There are barely ten people present.

Only Rook and Morgan came from school, and Morgan's eyes are so swollen.

She even forgot how to cry already.

Tate is sitting beside the grave, hugging Pearl's picture frame to her chest with a barely-alive look on her pasty face.

She looks dead, and Adrian is the one consoling her though he's dying inside too.

"I hope Richard gets caught. If he wrecked this much havoc in one night, then he's a walking time bomb. I can't believe I lost Pearl, too" she hiccupped, going on her knees right there.

"I can't believe it"

Rook sighed beside her, thinking about Sybil.

To think he was starting to get attracted to her.

First was Lizzy, and now Sybil.

Is he cursed, too?

He blinked his red grief-stricken eyes, and then they heard sniffs behind them, making them turn back.

Teal is standing there, crying loudly.

They didn't even try to talk to her cos her tears are much more.

"Sybil was my best friend! How dare she! How could she!!! pearl too? It was too fast what the hell is going on! How could it happen so fast!!!"

She went on her knees like Morgan, crying harder.

Morgan sighed, wiping her tears and hiccuping.

Rook left the grave that minute.

Teal faced the ground, and a evil smile secretly fell on her lips despite her tears.

Richard is currently wanted, and the cops are madly searching for him, but they'll never find him since he flew out yesterday as Prof. Hayden.

She'll go meet him with Jeremy and Romeo after their final exams.

Taking Sybil's life made up for her late mother's life already, and as for Pearl.....

Pearl will suffer what she went through... Pearl will cry.

Her family already buried her fake body anyways, so she's dead to them.

Teal continued her fake tears, raising her volume.

*

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The smell of blood filled her nose like dead meat, and then the coldness of the cemented floor hit her pores.

Pearl didn't understand at first, but then she moved slightly, and she began hearing noises.

Several noises as if she's in a political campaign, or worse.

Her eyes peered open, but she met blurriness, so she blinked, opening it again.

This time, it's better.

She's lying on her back on the ground, and she saw two faces staring down at her.

One is a ash-eyed girl who's obviously older than her, and the other is a black guy who looks her age.

"She's awake" the girl said.

"Hey, newbie" the guy added, and Pearl's eyes opened wide.

She sat up, her head snapping and her eyes twitching.

Her heart pounded, and her eyes widened when she remembered what actually happened.

Roonie got shot!

She didn't trust him.

He got shot because of her...is he....dead?

No!

She spranged up and dashed for the door, but instead of a door, she met a metal bar like a cell door, and her eyes widened again cos there are several others.

There are hundreds of cells like this one, facing each other in the long hallway, and there are several males and females inside, chatting and making serious noise.

They look shabby, unkept, and haggard.

What the hell is going on?

What did Richard and Teal do to her??

She turned back to her cellmates, not having the time to notice that her period blood already stained the gown she's wearing.

"Where...am I?" She asked slowly, holding her breath.

"I'll make is simple... You're in Europe" the girl said.

"Wh.. what!" Pearl gasped, feeling her world spinning.

"And this place is two sessions. The upper part is a psychiatric hospital where mad people are kept, and that's what the outside world sees" the guy added.

Pearl staggered weakly.

"But this place is the underground, and it's an organ harvesting market. They kidnap us, bring us here, then sell us to organ hunters." The girl said.

Pearl fell on her butt.

"Welcome, newbie" the guy added.

Pearl felt her menstrual blood rushing, staining her gown more.

The immense shock did a good job in pushing out more and more blood, and immediately she saw the blood, darkness enveloped her.

She fainted.