All Chapters of Teach me to sin II (Sins of the past): Chapter 121 - Chapter 123

I don’t know why the note unsettles me so badly. Eloise isn’t dramatic. She isn’t cryptic. She isn’t one of those girls who writes poetic nonsense for attention. So the simplicity of it — the softness, the gentleness — feels wrong. So wrong that it keeps replaying in my head like a whisper I can’t shake. “Thank you for showing me what freedom feels like? I wish I could explain?”What was that supposed to mean? I don’t like it. I don’t like any of it. And I especially don’t like that Eloise is not in class. She’s never absent without saying something. She always shows up. Being class president required that much. But today… nothing. She’s gone, and this note is the only proof she even existed in the last hour. Everyone around me is distracted — whispering about another cafeteria fight, about Norman disappearing from school early, about how the principal looked stressed this morning.But my mind is somewhere else entirely. Something is wrong. Deeply, bone-deep wrong. I d

The moment I got the text alert from school—the one screaming *EMERGENCY ON CAMPUS*—my stomach bottomed out. The second I pushed through the mass of people, saw Elijah’s blood on the tiles, and saw Eloise’s terrified face being dragged away, something in me snapped like a wire pulled too tight. I didn’t think. I didn’t hesitate. I didn’t breathe. I ran. By the time I reached the motorcycle lot, my hand was shaking so badly I nearly dropped my keys. My helmet wasn’t even fully buckled before I threw my leg over the bike, kicked the engine awake, and tore out of the school grounds like the devil himself was on my heels. The wind hit me like a slap. Cold. Hard. Loud. I didn’t care.I almost ran over security guards on my way out because they thought it was a good idea to get in my way. My brain played the same image again and again: Eloise’s face—wide-eyed, terrified, her legs dragging uselessly across the floor as the man pulled her into the shadowed hallway. Her mouth opene