The Boarding School

-17-

We follow the screams, they lead us outside, I gasp from what we saw... A dead student. No blood, no odd coloured skin, no weapons, nothing. I freak out and get nauseous. Ms Perison runs outside and sees the body. She gasps and stands there staring in silence. Arianna starts crying. I wrap my arms around her and hurry her back into the school foyer.
"Are you okay? Do you know that girl?" I ask. Arianna keeps crying.
"No, not really, I didn't know her well... But I still feel really bad, and..." She says, cutting off her sentence.
"And?" I ask slowly, trying not to upset her even more.
"And it reminded me of my friend, Hailey, the one who committed suicide" she cries.
"I'm so sorry" I say, hugging her tightly, as she cries on my shoulder, making my sweater damp.
"It's gonna be alright" I say in a very soft tone, patting her back.
"I'm sorry" she says, sucking up.
"It's okay" I say softer.
Ms Perison runs into the foyer.
"You girls alright?" she asks, I slowly nod, Arianna continues to cry. I run my hand down her dark brown hair. She sniffles and gently pulling away. Ms Perison nods and runs into her office to use the phone.
"You okay?" I ask. She nods and wipes the tears from her cheeks. We walk into the recreation room, where there was a few other girls, trying to calm down. Some crying, some whispering, some just sitting there silently. I awkwardly sit down on the couch, Arianna sits next to me. One of the other girls looked up at me, her face full of anger and dried tears. She stares at me with a very intimidating look. I look at her and make a face like, why are you staring at me? type look.
"You...." She says in a scary, deep voice. I look around, then point at myself.
"Yeah you" She says, her tone even deeper. She slowly walks over to me, then punches me in the face, hard. I gasp and put my hand over my cheek. Everyone else just stared.
"What was that for?!" I yell.
"You... You killed Cassidy" she growls.
"What?" I yell, standing up. "I would never do such a thing!" I scream. Everyone just watches.
"You hate Alison and her friends, Cassidy was one of her friends so you killed her" She growls.
"Are you insane?! I would never do something like that!" I shout. She punches me right in the gut. I cry out, leaning over from the pain, then throw up.
"Why would you do that?!" I growl, wiping off my mouth. She just snarls and leaves the room. A few other girls follow her out. But some stayed, most of them were just grossed out, they didn't even ask me if I was okay. I cough and sit down, feeling queasy and sick.
Ms Perison walks in and sees the vomit, she's kinda grossed out at first, but then asks me if I'm okay. I nod. A woman comes into the room with a bucket and mope, sighing and cleaning up the mess. A bunch of girls walk past and go outside, Arianna and I follow them.
There's an ambulance outside, paramedics picking up Cassidy's body and putting it in the back of the ambulance. Many girls were crying, some were standing there silently, some just, stared. Alison was there, she wasn't crying, she didn't seem sad, she just stood there and watched the paramedics take her away. Arianna just stood there, almost staring into her own world. I slowly wave my hand in front of her face.
"Oh, sorry" she says. I nod and we go inside.
"Everyone report to the assembly room please! I have an announcement" A voice says on the P.A. Arianna and I hurry to the hall and sit down on one of the benches. A bunch of other girls and staff pile in too. We look up at the stage where Ms Perison stands behind a podium.
"As you all may no, one of our friends, Cassidy Raymon, has died. It is a very sad time, but we will get through this. We will set up a mourning ceremony tomorrow. We don't know what happened to her, but everyone at this school is safe, I promise. Everyone just try to calm down tonight, maybe go to bed early, and try to relax a little. That is all" Ms Perison explains, then steps down from the stage, watching everyone leave.
I sigh and start walking out, but Ma Perison grabs my arm. I stop and turn to her. Arianna stops and waits for me.
"What happened in the rec room? You weren't just sick, I know something happened" Ms Perison says seriously.
"It was nothing" Isay, trying to avoid telling her the truth.
"It wasn't nothing. One of girls said someone hurt you."
"Ugh... I was punched in the gut."
"Is that why you got sick?"
"Yes."
"Who did that and why?"
"I don't know who it was. I don't know why."
"Okay... If you figure out who did that to you, please tell me."
I nod.
"You girls should probably get ready for bed now, you have busy classes tomorrow."
We nod and hurry into the bedroom. We sit down on Arianna's bed. I pull out my iPod and her and I listen to music together. Arianna starts getting teary eyes, I turn off the current song.
"Are you okay?" I ask in concern. She pulls out her earphone and wipes her eyes.
"I'm okay, the song just remind me of my parents. I miss them; your not the only one that gets homesick sometimes" she says. I nod in understanding. Then I think of my Dad, and I start missing him and my sister. My eyes tear up too, I wipe my eyes, and quietly giggle, after seeing Arianna smirk at me. I laugh, then wipe my eyes.
"Alright girls, bedtime" Ms White says softly. Everyone starts getting into their beds.
"Night Ms White" some of the girls said. I stand up, leaving my iPod with Arianna and going into the bathroom to brush my teeth and put on my pj's, because I haven't done so yet. I come back and crawl into my bed. I have a hard time sleeping again, it took me about an hour to sleep, but I finally did fall asleep.