Chapter 4

Lyonce's Point of View

Amor and I were walking down the corridor to the second floor when we saw our classmates outide the classroom. They're just peeking through in the window and the some are acting like they're about to vomit, because of something or seemed to be sick of something. Amor and I immediately hurried towards them. As we approached the room, Amor immediately stopped at the door.

"President! That smell!" I covered my nose when I smelled the very familiar and nauseating smell I inhaled yesterday. Bloods. But where did it come from this time?

I went in and looked inside. The smell I was inhaling became more unbreathable so I couldn't help but frown. I was stunned when I heard a box fell inside. And then we heard a loud cuss.

"Son of a bitch!"

I witnessed the gradual flow of blood on the floor that came from a lifeless creature. I could not help but cover my nose and mouth to prevent myself from vomiting on the appearance of the poor cat.

"What the hell is that!" I heard Angelica shouted.

"Who did this! No! The precious little cat, no!"

I was just stunned. I couldn't help but look at what had happened to the little cat. The person who did this is heartless? What did we do so wrong to experience these? This is traumatic. Why is it happening with my another after another. If they're trying to pull a prank on us, then it's not fucking funny.

I turned my head to the woman who passed by me without any emotions on her face heading to her own chair, her name is Aiko Araquel. She opened the box on her desk and then just like Dave, she threw away the lid at the side when she saw what's inside, but unlike the boy, she gave no reaction at all.

"What is that?" It does not look like anything. It's unrecognizable. The person who did this to this poor creature seems very angry.

"Wait. Is that a rat?" I saw Angelica awfully pointed what's inside of the box. I didn't recognize at first but the longer I stare, I saw the tail and head of the rat there, his body seemed to be recklessly grinded like ginger. I heard the screams of my female classmates because of its disgusting appearance.

"What are we going to do?"

"The teacher will be here soon."

"Shall we report this to the teacher?"

"Who made this President?"

No one wants to step inside the room. There are only six of us inside. Sarah holding the key earlier, President, Dave, Aiko, Angelica and me. Fear and disgust are seen on everyone's faces.

"Let all the boys in." Pres said softly but enough for everyone in the room to hear.

Dave called the men in.

"No! I won't! What do you want me to do?! That's just gross! Ew. Look at that mouse!" His name is Pierrionne Justine Corimo. He hates rats but he was forced to enter the smelly classroom when President eyed him seriously.

"Take out the boxes, if you do not want to see anything disgusting, do not open it." Press ordered and warned the men.

"Where are we going to take those Roberto?" Mark asked, Mark John Ramos. Artist and dancer. He's a thin guy with narrow eyes and a Korean-like face.

I heard the deep sigh of our classroom president and looked around. It stopped at the side part of the classroom, at the window made of grills and I could see the outside where the school wall was very close and behind was a lot of trees.

They seem to have solved the problem so I went out and looked at my classmates one by one. Others are worried while looking at the men inside. Others are sitting and staring at nothingness. I went to Amor as I saw her anxious face while looking inside the classroom and then seconds later, she would turned around and sighed.

"Amor. Are you okay?" I asked.

"Ha? Ahm. I don't know.." she then hang her head low. "Tell me Lyonce, why do I have this feeling that this is not the last? Why am I nervous? Why would I have this feeling that someone will get hurt." Concerned neo-hippies and their global warming, i'll tell ya. She looked restless and was biting her nail. That's her habit when she's stressed, nervous or even excited.

I patted her back as I comforted her.

"No. That won't happen. That will never happen." I told her trying to calm her down.

"Guys." we all turned to the speaker. "I need at least some women to help clean inside." Everyone fell silent. No one wants to enter.

"Let Lyonce in. I'm sure she's just pretending to be an innocent. She's the last person I saw here." My forehead furrowed because of what Angelica said.

"Yes, what do you think is the reason for what happened to Amor? That is very clear and freaking obvious." I could not believe what I heard and I turned immediately to Yna with her arms crossed on her chest and her eyebrows raised at me.

"What are you saying? You can't just pinpoint whoever you don't like!" I told her. I know Angelica is pissed at me just because I don't want to tell her what happened yesterday. But Yna? What did I do?

"No. I'm not just pointing anyone. I'm pointing at the real culprit, and that's you, Lyonce!" She shouted as he pointed at me.

"It's not me! And you don't have any evidences! I was just caught leaving here inside, I just fixed something! And you're already suspecting me!?"

"IT'S YOU! OBVIOUSLY! YOU KEEP ON DENYING! JUST CONFESS!"

"HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO TELL YOU THAT IT'S NOT ME ---"

"STOP!" I covered my mouth when the President shouted very loudly. Even the other students passing by stopped and stared at us.

"YOU NEED TO STOP! WHAT WILL GONNA HAPPEN IF YOU KEEP ON ACCUSING ON SOMEONE!? WILL THE ANIMALS THAT KILLED WILL COME BACK ALIVE? CAN IT! WHY ARE YOU ALL FIGHTING?!" The President was furious. We all bowed our head down. No one tried to speak. Everyone kept their mouths shut. Even the men cleaning inside the classroom were stunned and looked at us, surprised by the President's shout.

Some slowly and silently enter the classroom, taking a broom to avoid getting shouted.

"Roberto. We went to the classroom together, I asked him what happened to Amor yesterday and she didn't want to answer so I just let her, I noticed earlier when we entered here she was busy opening the lockers there and she seemed to be looking for something." Angelica said, trying to defend her side.

I swear i didn't do anything.

The President turned to me.

"I didn't do anything Roberto, I was just looking for my missing planner, I didn't open all the lockers, I just opened mine and Amor's." I explained. Angelica raised an eyebrow at me as if she did not believe what I said.

"I trust you with that Lyonce, and you are the last one here, have you not seen anyone?" He asked and I immediately shook my head. I saw Angelica frown and she stared at me.

"Earlier while I was at the clinic, who left in their seats?" The President asked those who were in the gym earlier.

"Wait, President-- are you telling us that one of us here did that disgusting thing?" Queeny Robles. Contrary to her name, she's a little bit boyish and has very long hair.

"President, it can't be one of us. President we've been together for years and if anyone pranks, it's not like this. I believe other people did it, lots of other students from other sections are angry to us." Jomelle Loja. One of the responsible students in the classroom. She's beautiful and has a narrow eyes. And one of the sunshines in the classrooms but now, I can clearly see the frustration on her face while worrying about what will happen next. A handkerchief was still covering his nose to prevent him from vomiting.

Almost everyone agreed of what Jomelle said.

"What happened?" We all turned to where we heard the interrupting voice. We saw Ara, Abegail, Lyka and in their side, Kathleen. The President immediately approached Kathleen.

"Are you okay? You should be there and resting." President.

"The nurse said it was okay for her to come back to class. She just had trouble breathing earlier because it was too hot and too crowded." said Ara.

"What happened Roberto?" Abegail asked as she stared inside the classroom where the rest of our classmates were cleaning.

"It's--"

"There's a welcome party inside." Abegail frowned at Sarah's reply.

"What do you mean?" -Ara.

"All our seats were with a big box, when Dave opened it, we just saw a dead cat, and it's stomach had been opened and seems like the parts inside had been removed." Sarah had not finished speaking when Ara and Lyka turned around covering the ears. They are two of the people I know who are easily disgusted by things.

"What!? What .. Who did it?" Abegail could not paint her face, Can't even figure out if she was angry or scared or nervous.

"We don't know." I could see their worried faces so I couldn't help but lower my head.

"Shall we tell Ma'am this?" A classmate asked me. Bernette Oracion. Well, she's really noisy at times but serious about things that should be taken seriously. And she loved to sleep.

"Why do we have to say something like this? Do you want to hear a long sermon and how can she say that one of us has no heart for killing these animals even if it's not yet proven that one of us did it? What if our classmates did not do those things?" Selle, Roselle Mae Legaspi replied. We were in a circle while talking and the others who did not listen to the conversation were sitting on the side or talking quietly.

"The best thing we must do is tell Ma'am. She said it before, right? If there is a problem, we should always tell her first?" Abegail, defending her side.

"No one was hurt, there's no need to disturb teachers for these foolish pranks." Selle replied, annoyed to Abegail. Look like we'll be having another fight.

"Do we still have to wait for someone to get hurt? How heartless are you? Are we just going to take action when this whole school is covered in blood or maybe someone will die?" She was furious. She has a point, we need to act early about this issue before they will do anything more, anything dangerous to my classmates. What the is this person is doing?! It seems like he is not just pranking, its seems like something serious. Who will kill these pitiful animals because of a prank? He is losing his mind!

"How dare you call me heartless? I don't want to tell the teachers because I don't want things to get worse, this issue will blow up and we are done, they will talk about this section with disgust on their faces!" Selle couldn't help but scream.

"I'll talk to Ma'am about this issue. I'll try to explain to her first and say we won't tell anyone first." Angelica suggested.

"Wait. Why are you saying that? What if one of us did that? Then he will find out then he will kill Ma'am!" Lyka complained, confused.

"Besides, we are not sure yet, let's report this to ma'am with evidences. Not right now." said Ara. Everyone nodded, agreeing.

"For now, let's all go in first. It's clean inside. Please guys, I hope this issue is left inside the classroom, no one talks about this outside so that no news will spread. Please?" Roberto pleaded. He even lowered his voice a little because of the classrooms next to us where the class was starting. Everyone had entered but I saw Angelica leave.

Where will that woman go? Tsk. Well, I don't care.

Roberto's Point of View

Others took all their lunchboxes and the others went out to buy their own dishes. I grabbed my own lunchbox and approached friends. I sat beside Pierrionne who already started eating. Some are laughing while watching somehing on their cell phones. Some of my classmates were also started eating so I looked at them for a bit. Seconds later, I saw someone and smiled. I pulled out my phone and typed some letters.

Roberto: Eat well.

And sent to someone who was laughing with her friends, not far from where he's sitting. I saw her reading my text and she turned to me. I can read her lips murmured 'you too'. I was about to return my cellphone when a message popped up. It was from someone unknown so I opened it.

This is a link. What is this? Because I'm always brave to do anything, I pressed it. Tsk. If this is the video that moans that they always send as a prank well, they're stupid! My phone is on silent.

When I opened it I saw a video.

What is this? I press the play button so it started. I saw a figure of Angelica sitting at her desk in the SSG office and seemed to be doing something. I frowned at what I saw. What is this? Someone took a video on Angelica? Stalker? Angelica was so busy reading or whatever she was doing that she didn't seem to notice a shadow in front of her. Who is this?

I raised the volume of my cellphone and I heard someone's devilish laugh when it turned black on the screen. My cellphone suddenly seemed to lag.

Next are the apps that is suddenly opening, I can't even press the home button! I heard a weird laugh from the cellphone again loudly and it suddenly died. I tried to turn it on but it continued to lag.

And..

Angelica..

Shit!

I got up and then hurried out of the classroom. I have to go to Angelica. Shit! I hope I am wrong! I hope it's not that! I run so fast to the point that I no longer care if I have my asthma attacks as long as I get to the office. I saw people gathering in the distance so I ran even faster. I huddled with people until I got to the front.

And my whole body freezes when I saw Angelica, but with the worst state ever. Fuck.