The students shuffled on their feet as they turned towards Gloria once more. "Why would she do that? She has been innocent in all of this. She has been the one that has been helping the class. She saved us from the boar. What have you done all of that time." The students fired at her.
"I am telling you that Tina is only pretending to be a good person. She isn't who you think she is and you ate blind if you think that she has changed. This is all part of her plan for revenge, she is trying to pin this on us."
"We don't believe you." The class said with a scoff.
"But I am your leader you have to believe me. why would I lie to you,?" she asked them and she watched as they shook their heads at her in response before crossing their arms over their chests.
"You may be our leader but that doesn't mean that we will be unable to see the truth. Your words make little to no sense and we know. For a fact that you are simply out to get Tina. you don't like her and that is why you wish to target her." One of the students said to her harshly.
"Tina had no reason to go after you." The students said to her.
"and you think that I have motive to go after her. Why would I do that." Gloria asked them in a raised tone.
She watched as the students looked between each other for a moment as they began to whisper slightly.
"You may not have reason but he certainly had plenty of it.'" They said as they pointed towards Dick.
Dick kept his expression passive as he waited to see what more they would have to say.
"Don't be ridiculous." Gloria said as she tried to defend him.
"he has never liked her and he hasn't been shy about making that fact known. He also tried to leave the internship a few days ago. maybe because they had rejected his offer to leave that was why he decided to take our food and go anyway. Like the coward that he is." the students said.
"You can't be serious. Dick wouldn't do that." Gloria said as she tried to defend him. However Dick could see that there was no persuading them.
He knew that no matter what he said and no matter how much he tried ort defend himself they wouldn't believe him.
"It is okay. You don't have to say anything else. You know that they aren't going to believe you. They would never believe us over her." He said pointing to a smiling Tina.
"You see he knows it as well. That sounds like someone who is guilty to me." The students said.
Gloria refused to show her fear but she couldn't help but wonder what it was that the students planned on doing to them. "So what are you going to do to us." she asked shakily.
She watched as one of the students left the circle and he came back only a few moments later holding a bundle of rope.
The students stepped forward as they cornered Dick and Gloria giving them no room to escape.
Before they could do or say anything they were helpless as they watched the students take on pieces of the pile of rope and tie up their hands together.
"Only a coward would be willing to steal from others. The two of you are perfect for each other. You are both a load of good for nothings and you should be ashamed pf yourselves." One of the students said as he tightened the binds that were around their wrists.
"You guys shouldn't do that. They are still part of us and we shouldn't be turning against each other. They are still essential for us winning the course." Tina said as she continued to feign her innocent act.
"Don't act like you are innocent on all of this Tina. I know and we both know that you are the one who was behind this. you are the one who caused all of this." Gloria said to. Her harshly.
Tina blinked twice as she gasped.
She took a step towards them causing Gloria to faulter as she looked towards her in confusion.
She ran her gaze over her as she was left to wonder what it was that the girl was doing. "I think that I finally understand what is going on. I don't know how it was that I hadn't seen it before." Tina said as she stood back up before she turned her attention towards the other students.
They looked towards her with caution as they raised their brows at her in confusion. "What do you mean? What is going on." The students asked her.
She sighed as she cast her head down before shaking her head. "I know that we can't blame Gloria for this. She isn't the one to blame for all of this. She is only working under the influence of Dick. He is the one who is controlling her." Tina said as she pointed an accusing finger towards Dick.
The students gasped as Gloria spoke up suddenly as she turned towards Tina and sent her a deep glare. "Of course not. I can't believe that you would even think about that. I am not being controlled the lot of you are the ones who are being controlled by Tina." Gloria said to them desperately.
The students looked between Gloria and Tina as though they were struggling to figure out who they were supposed to believe and whose side they were supposed to stand on.
"I think that we should untie Gloria and leave her. She didn't know what she was doing." Tina said to them.
However the class wasn't too sure. Although there were a few of them that were okay with the idea of letting Gloria go there were a large majority of them that weren't open to the idea. They wanted to make sure that she paid in full for what she did.
"No there will be no forgiveness for her. She doesn't deserve to be forgiven. Even now she continued to sympathize with him. Besides I think we were wrong for putting her as leader. You are the better leader and you are the one who was able to get us through everything. We should be grateful to you and not to her." One of the students said.
The others seemed to nod their heads in agreement. "We should punish the both of them equally and this will serve as a warning for them and for anyone else that wants to think about stealing from us. We will not react lightly and they should be very. Careful the next time that they want to consider stealing form us." the student said.
The others cheered in agreement. "After all Tina you should be the last person that would want us to free Gloria. Gloria was the one that had told us to give up on you. She made it clear that she would rather you die at the hands of the goblins than us go and rescue you."