Death by Ivory

Prologue - Shit, We're Dead Meat

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EMMALENE VANE TOPPLED down a flight of stairs in school and ended up on her butt painfully. Ms. Brown-hair-Shwaty was more than positive that the school assembly had already begun. She glance at her watch once more - it read 8:34 AM. "Shit", she hissed. She was late. Forty-five minutes late.

No one was ever late at Equirton High. Never.

She quickly uncurled from the uncomfortable position, rubbed her sore behind, and started off towards the main hall. She paused, muttering a string of her best curse words. To go to the assembly hall would be as good as arranging her own funeral. She didn't want to go back home (thank you very much) and being so late would lead to a complaint being sent back to 3A, Vane Manor, Greenewille. The parents would ask questions which would lead to an ever-akward conversation.

She couldn't possibly go back to her apartment. With her level of clumsiness, she'd get caught on her way out. She wished her boyfriend were there. He was so humorous, he would have tried to make her feel better immediately. 99% chance that he'd have succeeded too.

Emma got into the first open room she saw, closed the doors and sighed. Phew, at least she was safe. 

"Em?" A deep voice boomed from the absolute darkness behind her.

Emma gave a little squeak of surprise and turned around.

"Ja-Ja? What are you doing here in a storage room?" she asked. She recognised the voice. It was her best friend's. Jacob Greene. She grinned. Her boyfriend Bill wasn't here but she wouldn't mind having Jake around. He was the shit.

"Ja-Ja? Really? I can't believe you still let her use that one, Jake." Another voice snickered.

Ed? Both of Emma's besties were stuck with her, it seemed.

"Eddy, you too? What's happening today? I thought you two are supposed to be there in assembly with Bill." They were prefects!

"Oh I don't know. We were bored, wanted to chill a bit and ha-"

"So you were late."

He chuckled. Jake snorted and declared, "Mr. Edwert Gray has officially set a new record. He showed for two hours."

Emma and Jake laughed as Ed protested, "Hey! Just because you don't care about personal hygiene and hair care..."

"Dude, no. We know what you do in there, you wanker, and you still haven't told us who the lucky girl is. And Em? Nandini's lost the key again so Bill's gone to help her break the lock. They ought to be late too." Jake told her, and she could imagine his eye roll (it was still too dark to see him actually do it). Nandini was a forgetful person, and Bill was the strongest of the boys. She shivered as she imagined his hard muscles and the things he'd done to her with his big, rough hands.

Ed switched his phone's flashlight on. Emma could see the roomy place-- Jake was sitting on a spare stool, his dyed blue hair and electric blue eyes shining in the bright light. His weird happy grin making him look adorable, nullifying the punk look. Ed was sitting on an upturned bucket opposite Jake. He looked creepy, the flash right under his face made his eyes invisible and his black hair silver. His charming smile looked absolutely spooky.

Jake's face suddenly lost all colour. His alarmed voice startled Ed and Emma, "Fuck!" 

"What? Did you get hurt? Is it another panic attack?" Ed shot out, concerned.

"We're swimming in deep shit right now. You closed the door on your way in, Em," he added gravely.

"Oh lord", she whispered, horrified. She'd closed the door. She looked at Jacob, "How do we get out, Ja-Ja?"

"I'm thinking, Em. I'm thinking hard."

Ed was clueless, "I... don't see the problem here?"

Jacob replied patiently, "The room can only be opened from the outside. There's a reason I kept the doors open when we came in here."

"And the reason why your face is white as a sheet", Ed realised. "Aw crap... Can't we just... shout out for someone to help us or whatever?"

"And lose our badges along with our reputations in the process? No way. I've worked way too hard for the reputation. We all have. Charming teachers isn't easy. You of all people should know that, Eddy."

Ed silently agreed. There was a reason he was made a prefect after all.

Emma shook her head. "All broom closets are soundproof."

"What?! How did you know that?" Jake was dumbfounded. He knew almost everything about the school buildings so this came as a surprise for him. Plus, Emma didn't even know one short cut in the school building.

She shrugged nonchalantly. "At our last get together, Nandini was telling me about the time she walked in on James and Tara getting it on in one of the broom closets. Not a single sound coming out first but when she opened the doors a little, she heard a lot of moaning and-"

"Emmy!" Ed exclaimed, surprise eminent in his voice.

"What?"

"You were as innocent as a baby-"

"Yeah," Jake joined in the interrogation, "What happened to you?"

She blushed slightly and tried shrugging nonchalantly. "Uh... Bill and smut* happened to me."

The two boys shared a look and burst out laughing. Then Jake waved his hand to his side, offering her to have a seat on one of the upturned buckets to his immediate right.

"Anyway", she continued from where she'd left off, "I'm pretty sure the same applies to this store room too."

Ed held his hands palm first in front of her, indicating her to stop. "Wait. What did Nandini do after she walked in on them?"

"She informed a caretaker. Mrs. Monroe, specifically." Emma was a lot more comfortable now, sitting on the bucket. Her butt was still sore.

"No way!" Mrs. Monroe was the bitchiest of all the caretakers.
"Heh. Yes way."

Realisation hit Jacob in the face. "Oh hell. No wonder Monroe looooooves Nandini. I always thought she was the darkest arsehole of all the caretakers." He added, murmuring to himself, "Probably carries around piles wherever she goes..."

This emitted an Eww Emma and Ed.

Emma checked the time again. Assembly would end in 13 minutes. Ed saw her gesture and was about to say something comforting when the doors suddenly opened.

Emma released the breath she'd been holding when it was evident that it was just Nandini and Bill.
As of how they knew where to fine the lost three - Bill had impressive intuition at times.

And now that the doors were open, they could always escape when they needed to. Jacob was smiling with relief.

Bill got in, startled to see Emma inside and they shared a quick, deep kiss, while Nandini followed in. "I thought it would only be Jake and Eddy in here, but this is much better," he murmured against her lips and gave them a small peck again.

Jake started, "Nandini don't close the-" but... too late. They'd all heard the doors closing shut with an irritating click. "- doors," he sighed, defeated.

Now Emma was really, really, REALLY sure that they were gonna BE DEAD MEAT.

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A/N

*If you didn't know, a SMUT is an erotic story written aiming to provide pleasure and sexual excitement to the reader. It is actually illegal to write smut on Wattpad (but you'll still find a good lot of it if you search for it😉). A book containing some mature scenes with an actual plot may not be considered as smut though.