Ninety One

“Criminals, hm?” Mom’s voice spoke over the intercom.

“Yes, mom.” I met gazes with Baron. He shrugged and mouthed ‘don’t fall for their tricks’.

What tricks? I frowned in cluelessness, he sighed. He mouthed the same statement again but what tricks would mom and dad try to play with me? There was no tricks, and if there were, I had no part in it, neither did I understand it. I just wanted to make sure we all survived this morning without mom and dad knowing the real truth.

Them finding out was the worst, no one would leave here today. We would all remain here and a lot of other lies would be exposed. Like when I had pretended to break a leg so Baron could take me to school when the boys were refusing to talk to me.

Or Baron growing his wolf’s nails just to pretend I had fallen, to cover up the main story of the phone theft and bullying. There were a lot of things mom and dad knew nothing about, it was better it remained that way.

“So you, Katherina, are saying those guys are criminals?