CRYSTAL'S POV
I was walking through the not-so-crowded halls to my next class, just minding my own business as usual when all of a sudden a familiar blonde-haired ass knocked into me causing me to stumble backward. Great and now I'm five minutes late, thanks, Arlo. I looked up at him as he just looked down on me.
Ugh.
I said to myself as I proceeded to walk in the opposite direction away from him. Nope, not in the mood.
"Crystal". He said with King's tone, making me turn around and face him.
"What do you want? " I asked as I watch his eyes trail down to the floor, he hesitated for a moment before he looked me in the eyes.
"Did John...mention anything to you or Sera about...What happened?" He asked me, I noticed a hint of nervousness as he said that.
"What do you mean?"
Arlo was about to say something but quickly closed his mouth then walked away.
"Never mind" he slightly shouted out the last part as he continued walking away.
For some reason, as he started walking away, he looked somewhat nervous, but I don't know why. A thought suddenly came to mind, my then started glowing a bright gold color meaning I activated my ability I then started going inside Arlo's mind trying to read his thought (hey come on, I was just curious as to why he asked me such a question. My eyes widened slightly as I found out what he was thinking just now "As long as I do what he wants, no one finds out"
I thought for a moment, trying to recall anything John said to me about Arlo, then all of a sudden I remembered something.
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It was right after Sera and I hanged out when I decided to text John about what happened to him.
Hey John
Hey Crystal, what supp?
I was just gonna ask you about what happened earlier
...
John I know it isn't just normal, I got beaten up by some students. tell me what really happened.
...It's really nothing Crystal, you don't have to worry too much.
...Fine...
That was all I texted before shutting my phone off, tossing it to the side then lying on my bed while hugging my pillow tightly to my chest. I had my suspicions before but I'm still not sure, but what I do know is that Arlo is involved in all of this. I thought before allowing my sleep to take over me. But still not able to brush the thought from my mind, even Celeste knew.
I snapped back to reality, realizing I was the only student in the halls.
Sh*t, damn Arlo! making me late to class! I screamed in my mind as I dashed through the halls and towards my classroom. I'll just ask Arlo about it later but right now I gotta naruto run this thing! After a few more minutes, I finally reached my classroom. I swung the door open getting everyone's attention.
"Ms. Nightingale! I assume you have a reasonable excuse as to why you're late?"
The teacher said while raising an eyebrow and sending me a death glare for disrupting his lesson. I then quickly thought of an excuse. "Uhh...Sorry, Sir, I was just in the bathroom" I said. The teacher glared at me for a hot second before sighing and point at my seat.
"Well hurry up you're disrupting the lesson!" He said as he turned around and continued writing on the board. I sighed relief then walked towards my desk, everyone's eyes still on me as I plopped down on my seat and listened to the lesson.
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After my class, John and I met up in the hallway and walked to our last class.
"Seraphina's suspension ends tomorrow, so she needs to move all her stuff back to the dorms. You wanna help?" John asked me as I just looked down at the floor watching my legs walk.
"Huh? Oh yeah sure" I said as an idea popped up in my head.
"Let's go right now!" I said with a grin on my face as John raised an eyebrow.
"Huh? but we still have one more class left." He said, I then turned to face him and just smirked
"Exactly."
It didn't take too long for John and me to reach his house, since it's so close to the school. I was about to grab the doorknob, but stop dead in my tracks when I noticed something red covering it.
Is that...blood?
John and I looked at each other in horror, silently praying that it isn't what they thought it was but failed miserably when we let out a loud yell.
"Sera!"
I quickly swung the door open frantically. What happened next made my heart stop, it was Seraphina, unconscious and laying on the ground, with a blood-stained knife and her cracked phone beside her. John and I quickly rushed over to the unconscious girl at lightning speed. I shook Sera's body, trying desperately to wake her up. "What happened?! Sh*t she's bleeding" I said to John as I pointed towards the stab wound.
"Who could have done this to her?! Why didn't she use her ability to rewind the wound?!" John said as I had the same question.
"I don't know!!" I said as I slightly yelled. My heart was beating fast, I started feeling dizzy but I knew I had to get it together for Sera's sake. Swiftly, I grabbed the girl's broken phone and scrolled down through the contacts, until I found the one I was looking for, and started dialing the number. Come on, please pick up-
"Hey Seraphina, are you all packed up?" Elaine said with her casual voice, while I just sighed relief before quickly explaining.
"Elaine! John and I need you to come here right-"
Beep.
The phone almost slipped out of my hand as I heard her hang up the phone. This bitch just hung up on me. John had a furious and pissed expression on his face, when John saw how Elaine wouldn't hear me out, his hands were balled up into fists and he furrowed his eyebrows in anger. I could clearly tell he was about to explode any moment now. I don't have time to calm him down, we need to help Sera first. I started scrolling down through her contacts trying to find a certain number, then stopped when I found it. I pressed the dial button and waited impatiently while biting my lower lip.
"Hello? What is it Seraphina?" a certain blonde's voice asked
"Arlo!" I practically yelled, not wanting to waste any more time. "Grab Elaine and come to John's place right now, please!"
"Crystal? Why-"
"Just do it" And with that, I hung up the phone, and all we have to do is wait
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Elaine and Arlo stood in front of us with widened eyes and their jaws hanging open in slight horror. The sight of Sera's unconscious body and the bloodied knife beside her was shocking. It was the first time I ever saw Arlo so surprised, but I couldn't blame him.
"Seraphina!" Elaine cried out as she rushed beside me. "How did you end up like this?!"
The blue-haired girl's eyes stared at the girl for a moment before slowly looking up at John with an angry expression on her face.
"J-John...You creep! W-what the heck did you do?! How DARE you hurt her!? What did she do to deserve this?? You better explain no-". before Elaine could react, John raised his hand in the air and aimed it at her face ready to slap her hard. "Will you shut the f*ck al-!"
Only seconds away before his hand could make contact with the healer's face, I quickly shoved her to the side and raised my arm in defense as his hands made contact with my arm instead of the face. It was deathly silent the moment we saw everything unfold, nobody dared to move or even to speak because of the tension in the room.
I was the first to move as I let my arm fall on my sides as I just glanced at it. There was a bluish-purple bruise forming, as much as it pained really bad I ignored it and looked at John in the eyes as he did the same but was slightly shocked at what just happened. I knew Elaine's a b*tch but I didn't expect John to hit this hard, if he did land a blow to her face I wouldn't even imagine how painful it would be.
"John," I said with a slightly angry tone and my voice louder." You need to keep your anger under control, Sera's seriously hurt and we don't have time for this."
John's face changed into a shocked and regretful frown as he glanced at my painfully bruised arm "C-Crystal...I" I cut him short by shushing him and turn towards the shocked and slightly shaking healer who was still as a rock from what happened.
"Elaine, go and heal Sera. I'll just get some ice." I said as I started walking towards the bathroom. Elaine was about to say something but just brushed it off, knowing that I would just refuse her healing her, she thought as she walked back over to Seraphina still scared that John might hit her this time. As I opened the fridge and got a pack of ice for my bruised arm only one thing was in my mind at that moment "Sera... Please be okay...