'Almost there, almost there...' Gabriella thought as she focused on her game. The hardest level, not even Noirnyx a popular gamer she knew could beat that level. She needed to stay focused because if she got distra...
"Last night's party was epic!" Cleopatra exclaimed causing Iris to wake up and Gabby to lose hold.
★GAME OVER★
"Cleo seriously?" Gabby questioned. She hated having to play a game the second time because she lost the first time.
"Can you please keep your voice down? I'mm trying to get some sleep before we get to school," Avery said.
"It's no one's fault you drank too much last night." Iris whose attention was on something else said.
"Sorry guys," Cleo apologized
All four girls were in their way to school. The car belonged to Gabriella, and Cleopatra was driving it.
The four of them were part of the popular clique. Cleo the most popular was the captain of the school's cheerleading squad. She was also the most optimistic of her friends.
Avery was a freelance model and had the highest number of Instagram followers in their school. Iris although outgoing, was a bookworm and also the craziest of all of them.
Gabriella on the other hand was edgy and loved gaming more than anything else. She was also a wannabe detective.
"When would you start driving your car?" Cleo asked, her eyes on the mirror as she watched Gabby.
"When J.D and every other mobile games seizes to exist," Iris responded.
"How are you not asleep?" Gabby asked Avery
"Well unlike the both of them, I only took soda," She responded. The only reason why Cleopatra wasn't asleep was because she needed to stay wide awake while driving. She had planned on skipping the first period just to sleep In their secret spot.
"By the way, Keith waited for you last night." Hearing this, Gabriella's ears tingled and her face turned beat red.
"Oh really?" She asked like she hadn't heard the first time.
"Yeah, he thought you were going to come and when he saw you weren't with us, he looked disappointed," Iris said nonchalantly.
"The both of them obviously like each other but none of them want to admit it first," Avery said half asleep.
"I don't understand what you're saying, Keith and I do not like each other,"
"Of course you don't, keep lying to yourself alright," Avery said rolling her eyes and then went back to sleep.
Gabriella couldn't stop blushing. If all that her friends said were true, that meant she actually had a chance. Her friends were partially surprised to see her that way. They had already gotten used to her tough girl facade so blushing over a guy was definitely new to them even though they knew under that tough face was a real softie. Upon their arrival at school, Cleo who felt a bit drowsy lost hold of her driving and the car swerved, nearly hitting another car.
"Jesus Cleo! keep your damn eyes open! Do you want to get all of us killed?" Iris asked shaken by the whole thing. Avery was still fast asleep while Gabriella didn't move, like she knew nothing was going to happen to them.
Finally they arrived at school and were shocked by what there were seeing. There was an ambulance and a few police cars in front of their school. The ambulance left as soon as they arrived but the police cars remained, this got Gabriella and Iris's attention attention and the rest of the girls were wide awake.
"What the heck is going on?" Avery asked. Everyone seemed shocked but Gabriella was more excited than ever. Although she had no idea what was going on, she was ecstatic because she was about to witness a possible crime scene. They all walked towards the school building, passing a few police officers and Gabriella heard something in particular
BODY
Her excitement gradually started to fade till she had no idea what she was feeling. A few students looked scared while some were shocked.
'What exactly happened?' all four of them wondered.
None of them knew who they could ask, all they could do was observe everyone while walking past them.
Finally they found people they could ask. Renee and Natasha. Although both of them were also part of the popular clique they were both b*tches according to the other students. They also didn't get along with the four friends making them each other's nemesis.
Renee who was a bigger b*tch than Natasha looked like she had just cried. The girls were surprised making them even more curious.
"Hey, what's wrong?" Cleopatra asked but didn't get an immediate response. Gabriella observed Renee, she looked but scared and hurt. There were two things that Gabriella thought might have happened, either someone died or someone got injured due to something terrible.
Renee was too shaken up to speak so Natasha spoke instead.
"Well I came in this morning, quite earlier than Renee and a few people. I heard screams from the chemistry laboratory. I had no idea what was going on and then I saw it..." At this point, Gabriella wasn't even listening. She thought the only answer was that someone must have died and in a way the person was close to Renee for her to have cried. There was only one possible person she could think of but she wasn't sure.
"Her body..."
"Who's body?" Avery asked in anticipation. She felt anxious, all of them because they wanted to know who had died.
Gabriella finally came to the conclusion who it was, she was definitely sure and she decided to mention it.
"... colette," she mentioned and the other three looked at her I'm shock, Natasha then spoke.
"It was Nicole's body, in the pool of her own blood,"