CHAPTER 31

"Do you really think am gonna drink that?" Veronica asked.

"Miss it would help with your hangover a lot." Julia replied.

"If you are trying to encourage me, then it's not working Julia." Veronica said.

"Miss..." Julia did not even have and idea on how to convince her. Meanwhile Veronica was loosing her patience even though Julia hadn't stayed long in her room.

VERONICA'S P.O.V

It feels so annoying to be delayed like this. I really want to call Rachel right now to find out what's going on and Julia here is overstaying her welcome.

"Julia I don't want this so can you leave now?I told her cause she didn't seem like she was going to leave unless I took the tea. Even when i said it Julia didn't budge and it was getting irritating. My head started hurting again and i couldn't take it. It wouldn't hurt to take the tea, right? I should probably take it to get rid of this hangover and at this same time i could get Julia out of my room. Good! That'll be killing two birds with one stone.

"Okay Julia" i took the tea and gulped some down without minding the taste. It's burned my throat and i regretted taking that way.

"Water!" I felt so disgusted. I didn't even know where Julia had gotten the water from, i just took the glass and downed it without wasting time.

"Great, Julia can i be left alone now?" Does she even need to be told? I watched Julia turn around and leave my room and i immediately followed behind to lock the door. I went back to the shelf and picked the phone. Then hopped back to my bed.Luckily i have Rachel's number saved on my phone. I turned on the phone, waited for a while then called Rachel immediately.

AUTHOR'S P.O.V

Back at Unity High School...

"I will..." Rachel wasn't able to tell Mark her reply cause she heard her phone ringing loudly in her locker. Mark quickly looked into her locker and picked out her phone that had been ringing then muted it.

"Seems like it's Veronica calling, don't worry u can pick the call I'll be on the look out for any school authorities." Mark was being caring to look out for her cause they weren't allowed to use their phones during school hours or else they'll have to go for detention.

Rachel didn't hesitate and decided to trust Mark, so she picked the call.

"Hey!" Rachel said first.

"Rachel am grounded." Came the first thing Veronica said. "What happened last night?." Veronica asked.

"Ohh its a Long story. I am in school right now and you know that." Rachel replied.

"Yeah...so?" Veronica was rebellious so she didn't care about school rules. "Just go to the rest room or something cause u have to tell me what happened last night."

"Mark's on the look out for me anyways. But o can't tell you everything now, Class will be starting soon." Rachel explained.

"Wait a minute...why is Mark with you huh?" Veronica knew they weren't that close so she wandered what was going on"Umm...Nothing. I'll call you later." Rachel hesitated for a while but then she didn't feel like there was anything to update her on so she hung so as not to keep Mark waiting for too Long.

"You done?" Mark asked.

"Yeah, am done" Rachel replied.

"So, you haven't given me a reply yet. Are you willing to go out with me?" Mark summoned up the courage to ask her once again.

"You've got yourself a date, mister! Just don't expect me to hold your hand." Rachel's reply was flirty and Mark was happy about her reply.

"Oh, so I'll have to hold my own hand? Darn, and I was hoping for some hand-holding action." Mark decided to flirt back which made Rachel flush a little.

"Alright alright...we'll talk later I have a class to attend now." Rachel politely ended the conversation.

"Okay then. I'll see you later." Mark said and left immediately.

Alistair Residence...

VERONICA'S P.O.V.

"Wow she hung up on me." I said looking at the phone in my hands. I shook my head and smiled. It was even more surprising that she was with Mark. I couldn't seem to think of any reason for them to be together. I decided to send her a text and I'll need my notes to be updated since am gonna be missing a lot of classes today.

Oliver's Mansion...

Oliver was still in bed, busy checking through his phone when a video was dropped on the basketball team group chat. Oliver clicked on the video and watched. The video played a girl who was dead drunk at a club being assisted by a girl and a guy who he recognized to be Mark. He didn't find anything interesting about the video and he was about to ask a question on the group when another person did before him;

[ Isn't that Veronica? ]

Seeing that he watched the video again, looking closer he noticed it was actually Veronica.

'Couldn't expect anything better from her.' Oliver thought. He was about to leave the group chat again when he thought of something and decided to watch the video again. In watching the video again, He looked closely at the girl assisting Mark in helping Veronica to her car.

'That should definitely be Rachel. Didn't know that Rachel had such an interesting curve though.' Oliver thought to himself and laughed.

'Hold on...wasn't that video recorded yesterday?' The sudden realization hit Oliver. 'That must have been yesterday.' He decided to ask on the group chat.

Oliver - [ When was that video recorded?]

Oliver wasn't replied immediately but then another person on the group noticed the video.

Leo - [ ohhh! So Mark was caught on video 😅]

Cole then decided to tag Mark answering his question.

Leo - [ That was yesterday.]

When Oliver saw Leo's reply he realised he was right. He decided to not be rude and acknowledge Leo's reply.

Oliver - [ Ok.]

Leo - [ And why haven't you been in school? We need you on the team.]

People weren't aware of what had happened, though it was nothing serious but the fact that Oliver wasn't in school was fishy and sinner or later people might find out what transpired.

Oliver -[ Just some personal issues. But i won't be in school until Monday.]

Leo - [ Monday? Hmm alright.]

Leo decided to not ask to many questions since they were talking on the group chat and Oliver didn't feel the need to reply again so the conversation ended there.