Dangerous fellows - One shots and stuff

Lawrence - Path continued (4)

We spend most of the spare time we had in the morning to try and find Judy's bracelet, but it was to no avail.

"I'm sure it's nothing, I guess I might have dropped it somewhere." Judy just laughed it off, as it was her nature. However, I couldn't shake off this awful feeling that it was something else.

There was a meeting held in the classroom, were the key was discussed. Lawrence arranged for me to try to find the correct room for it, and I was to check the Library first with Zion. Nothing really happened other than that, Scarlett tried to find an excuse to kick me out, Judy argued against her, Eugene complained about them both, same old same old.

As I left the room, I looked to Lawrence one last time. But he seemed to be staring at Zion, almost like he wished he could have switched places. But the group needed him here instead. I felt the same way a little.

"Lead the way." I told Zion as we waited for me on the other wise of the door. He took the cue and started to walk ahead of me.

"I'm getting the feeling you wanted me to be someone else string-bean." He refered to me.

"What? No.. pssst..." I tried to play it off, but it was clearly faked, I wasn't trying that hard to cover it up anyway. I wanted to spend all the time I could with Lawrence.

"You aren't that sly hun. I see you making googily eyes at Lawrence." Zion strode ahead of me, his pace was naturally fast than mine it seemed. "He acts different around you too. But man, that guy is a can of worms."

"Hm." I processed this information to myself, as much as I wanted to jump to conclusions I couldn't.

"I ain't lying either-scouts honor." We stopped infront of the library door and Zion turned to me, "Guess it's time for that key."

"I guess so." I pulled out the blood-soaked key and put it into the keyhole, but it didn't turn.

"Well. Better luck next time." Zion shrugged, "Guess we should report back." As soon as he finished his statement, I heard footsteps. Not loud ones, or purposeful ones, just light footsteps. As Zion was about to turn around, I stopped him.

"Do you hear that?" I looked around. Strangely, I didn't feel threatened.

Zion rolled his eyes at me, and in a mocking manner licked his finger and acted like he was looking for a breeze. "Nope." He could see that I was clearly annoyed that he wasn't taking me seriously, and I wasn't going to change until he at least looked for it. "Fine, I'll look ahead okay?" He strolled ahead and turned the corner, and was gone for a moment, but returned without a hitch.

"Nothings there hun." But then he leaned into me and spoke in a real hush voice, "But just because you don't see it doesn't mean it's not there." A sick feeling churned in my stomach.

"Nah I'm just fuckin with you, I'm sure your just hearing things. Ready to go princess?" Zion suddenly cheered up, satisfied with how well he managed to scare the hell out of me. He had already begun to walk ahead of me as I shook off the feeling of dread and caught up with him.

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"See I knew it wouldn't work! She can't do anything right! We should just stop trying, the key probably too screwed up to work." Scarlett exclaimed.

We all gathered in the home room to discuss our findings. Judy was sat next to me in a desk and she squeezed my hand for reassurance, glaring at Scarlett.

"Scarlett we must maintain our composure. I'm sure the key goes somewhere. We just need to find it. It's not her fault it didn't fit." Lawrence stood at the head of the classroom, like the leader he assumed he was.

"Yeah don't be too hard on the girl. She's just the one who found it after all. I'm sure Harry would have found it eventually too." Zion defended me surprisingly, leaning on the windowsill next to Ethan.

Ethan always seemed to be the silent observer in these arguments.

"Oh so now your taking her side?!" Scarlett interjected, offended.

I just retreated into my own thoughts while Scarlett bickered with everyone. Where could it possibly go? Maybe it's a key for one of the lockers? Maybe a stray classroom? Maybe it's a skeleton key?

I looked at Lawrence in the midst of the argument, god I wish I knew all the answers like him.

Eventually the meeting is dismissed and we are all left to our devices as the sunsets and curfew will soon set in.

"Penny for your thoughts?" Judy questioned as she stood next to me in the hall. The sunset shone through the hall windows.

"It's nothing. I'm just gonna do some light exploring and try to find a home for this key." I fished the key out of my pocket and looked at it.

"Okay, but promise me you'll be safe okay? Most of your classmates didn't make it when the attack hit, and I don't want you meeting any of them while your out with none of us around okay?" Judy looked into my eyes with that worried, motherly gaze. I just gave her a reassuring smile.

"Don't worry Judy, I won't go too far. And I'll be right back." I tried to ease her worries, and I patted her shoulder before I set out on my small adventure.