EMILY ***“Where are you going?” Nila asked.Was my roommate out of bounds too? Was I also not supposed to tell her? I couldn’t risk it. The person who sent the text could have been watching for all I knew.“I’m going to get some air. I have a lot on my mind,” I said, deciding to take the easy way out. I needed to be careful. My reputation was at stake.Nila turned in her bed and kept scrolling through her phone and I took that as a sign that she had bought my excuse. I walked towards the field. I had gotten the text from the person the day before and it had shaken me. It meant a few things. They were watching. There was no way around things. They were capable of following through on what they had said they would do.It had thrown me off balance. It felt like my reputation was like an egg in their hands and my own, and if I wasn’t careful it would break and make a mess of things, make a mess of the new start I had gotten for myself. I couldn’t risk it. I needed to be careful.The mee
EMILY***I had made it back to my dorm room and I had hoped to get some sleep before I had to wake up again for my classes but I had been unable to sleep. The fact that I was right shook me to my core. I had correctly predicted that the person who was sending us the texts was targeting our relationships.I had shared this with Gabriel at that moment and I could tell he also knew that it was true. It just made sense. We managed to find out the reason, but we had many other problems. The first problem was the fact that we couldn’t share this information with Harry and Harper.It was clear that we couldn’t work with them anymore, because the person, who was clearly spying on us would consider that as us having told them what they had asked us to do. The second problem was the new perspective this realization had given us, the realization being that it was not us who had enemies, but it was either Harper or Harry.Targets had been placed on our backs for the mere fact that we were dating
EMILY***“What are you talking about?” I asked, already feeling my heart thumping in my chest and my face turning red. I was not a good liar. I didn’t have it in me to look at Harry in the face and lie, yet here I was.“I’m asking if you were on the football field last night,” he asks again. I couldn’t seem to read the expression on his face, and I guessed it was because I had never seen him angry.“I heard what you said,” I said, “I'm just wondering why you would ask me such an absurd question.”He sighed in frustration and paced a few times in front of me before placing his hands on either side of his waist. He was trying really hard to keep his calm and
Bakersville High School *** “Weirdo,” a kid said to Emily as she walked by the halls. She didn’t know what it was about yet but she knew she was about to find out. It was probably another mean joke that Gabriel had played on her to mess her up. It was my first year of high school. The fresh start she had hoped to achieve had gone down the drain. She had given up on it. She decided to keep being friends with Gabriel, but it was a decision she would have to pay for. Dearly. She was already paying for it. She got to her locker and found that a piece of paper had been posted on the door. It was an ab
GABRIEL***“Call me back when you get this, or text me. I promise I can explain if you give me the chance,” I said into the phone.Harper’s phone was going to voicemail. She had switched off her phone and gone ghost on me ever since she discovered I had been on the football field with Emily.I hadn’t told her. It seemed that the person who was threatening me had told her about it and she asked. I guessed that it was part of the test. I had lied to the best of my ability and I had lost Harper.She didn’t say anything when she realized I was lying. The silence was haunting. I would have preferred it if she screamed at me, shouting and crying. At least I know that she was sad and angry. Now, I didn't
EMILY *** “She was right.” Those three words had remained lingering in my mind ever since Harry uttered them as he left. It had been a day and I couldn't think about anything else. Not even the argument, not even the fact that my relationship was essentially over. I hated the fact that all I could think about was the fact that I had finally gotten a lead. The person sending us the texts was a girl. It wasn’t a big, groundbreaking find but it was a start. At least we had a gender. I had lost Harry but I had gained something. The fact that he also knew her gender had also stuck out to me as I kept thinking about it. How had Gabriel and I not been able to find out what her gender was? It meant that their int
GABRIEL***“I should have called before I came,” Emily said.“It’s fine,” I said, “it’s a good thing you found me. Would you like to take a seat?” I asked.We were both standing awkwardly at my door. She had come in and just stood there and I couldn't take a seat if she was standing. I had been afraid that it was Harry but at that moment I preferred him. I preferred being punched in the nose. It was better than this awkward interaction. Why was she here? She had never come to see me of her own accord.“Sure,” she said as she made her way across the room to the seat on my desk.
GABRIEL***“Harper, what are you doing here?” I asked, loud enough for Emily to hear. I was informing her that we had company and things were about to get ten times more awkward.“I came to talk to you,” she said as she made her way past me into the room. She stopped in her tracks when she saw Emily who stood up. Harper looked back and forth at us, trying to figure out what was going on. She then rolled her eyes and scoffed. We were in big trouble.“So you lied to me and still met her? In your room?” she asked.“It’s not what you think,” Emily said, “I had come to ask him about the