CHAP. NINE—JELLY.

『.*+ • ᴄʜᴀᴘ. ɴɪɴᴇ• *+.』

THE HOURS OF THE DAY CONTINUED TO PASS AS the bell rang throughout the wooden brown corridors of the school.

Students began running around and filling the space of the halls, some stuffing their books into their lockers while some remained chatting with their fellow classmates. At the sight of Scarlett walking by them, a few began to whisper conspicuously.

"Seriously? Her? In the Specials Class? That group of weirdos?"

"Yeah, but...she's the only one we can see here. No one else saw those guys more except her."

"I wonder what they're like."

"And what's so special about them anyway?"

"Who knows. Maybe they mean Specials as in disabled."

"It doesn't seem like that to me."

Thoughts ran in Scarlett's mind as she recalled back to what Gadiel, Fortune, Danté, Nicolai, Sapphire, and Professor Ada were talking about. About this Jagger character. Who is he? Was it that Vampire she saw yesterday? It had to. She wanted to ask about it. But there was a chance they