Red strings

Chapter two: Asher

The girl sitting next to Wyatt taps him on the shoulder and asks "Hey have you heard about what happened earlier today?," 

Wyatt turns to look at her and he smiles "No why don't you tell me about it doll face," He says putting on his usual playboy charm. 

The girl swoons "W-well earlier today some girl stepped on Alicia's foot and then was a b*tch about it even though it was her own fault Alicia even has a bruise I mean she has to be new to not know how things work around here," She stutters slightly. 

Wyatt, Silas and I share worried glances could it be her and how the h*ll did she manage to piss off the three most terrifying girls in school when it isn't even technically the first day of school? 

"What did she look like," Silas asks 

"Oh um I wasn't there but I think someone said she had curly red hair blue eyes and skin so pale she looked like she was almost at death's door," The girl described 

"K thanks doll face," Wyatt says with a smile then turns toward us and we start our own conversation. 

"Why would she step on Alicia?'' Wyatt asks, confused 

"Well knowing Ali she probably tried to trip her to show she was above her," Silas says smartly 

"Yeah probably but why step on Ali instead of just stepping over her foot and avoiding conflict?" I asked 

"To show Ali that she wouldn't lay down and let them walk all over her," Silas replies and takes a bite of his food. 

At about 8:15 the dining room doors open and everyone quiets and turns to look towards the entrance. The girl from the coffee shop enters the dining hall and turns towards the dinner buffet ignoring everyone then the whole hall erupts into whispers. 

She gets her food and sits at an empty table at the far edge of the hall. 

"I'm gonna go talk to her," Wyatt says confidently and is about to stand up when Jordyn and Daisy Brooke sit with her "Never mind," Wyatt says as he sits back down.

I laugh patting him on the back "Better luck next time," I say good naturedly. We continue talking and see her stand up and leave. 

We get up and leave as well. 

We see her walking in front of us in the hall but don't go up to her, she seems distracted and pissed, we follow her to the third floor of the dorms while sharing confused glances. 

She unlocks a dorm door and walks in slamming it behind her. 

Turns out our dorm is just down the hall from her's, I'm not really sure how I feel, yes I want to get to know her but having her be so close to the others as well makes me kinda annoyed. 

We walk further down the hall Silas unlocks the door and we enter after him, he turns "Well this is and interesting turn of events," he says with a perplexed look on his face 

"You can say that again," Wyatt sighs 

I stay silent trying to work though and identify all my emotions. 

"Hey what are you thinking about so seriously, normally it's Silas who has that look on his face," Wyatt says teasingly. 

I run my fingers through my hair and sigh "It's nothing forget about it," I say dismissively as I walk to my room and close the door. 

"Well that was weird... What movie do you wanna watch," I hear Wyatt say through my door and I smile 

"I think our time would be spent more productively by studying," Silas says "But we studied for five hours," Wyatt wines 

"True... fine you pick I don't care," Silas gives in 

"I'm gonna pick a horror movie," Wyatt exclaims excitedly 

"F-fine," Silas stutters he hates horror movies. 

I quit eavesdropping and go take a shower.

***

The next morning I wake up to my alarm and groan. I stayed up too late and now I have a headache. I dig the palms of my hands into my temples trying to make the pounding in my head stop. 

"I should take an Advil," I mutter while getting out of bed. 

I head to the bathroom to brush my teeth before I head to breakfast. Leave my room right as Silas and Wyatt leave their rooms. 

"Good morning," Silas greets as he brushes a few strands a few strands of his black hair out of his face. 

Wyatt is still in pajamas and he flops onto the couch muttering something about it being too early. 

"The sooner you get dressed the sooner we can eat. It's already 7:32 we have about thirty minutes to get dressed and eat if we want to be on time for class," Silas says 

Wyatt jumps up and runs to his room slamming the door behind himself CRASH BANG THUD. 

Silas and I jump startled by the sounds that just came from Wyatt's room. 

He opens the door fully dressed and put together "I'M READY," He yells 

"K," Silas and I say in unison. 

As we leave the dorm we see the girl from the coffee shop we still don't know her name Silas started calling her Pixie not because of how short she is -she is short but not the shortest person at the school- but because of how fragile she looks like she might break if someone touched her the wrong way. 

She locks her door and heads down the stairs putting on her headphones at the same time.

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A cliff hanger.. now suffer. 

I don't think anything exciting is gonna happen though.