Chapter 5
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"Which is?" She asked and Ashley brought out her phone and showed it to her.
Andrea posted something at exactly 11am on the college group and her eyes widened.
She looked around and saw the students looking up from their phones. They pocketed their phones and started coming closer.
"Run" Ashley said and Ariel did what she said, running away.
The people wanted to run after her but Ashley held them back by fighting some of them but she couldn't fight them for long before they pushed past her going after Ariel.
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"What will happen if they aren't able to do what we say?" Alicia asked.
"That's highly impossible. Apparently, the people of this school has the desired knowledge needed to find someone no matter where they hide so don't worry, they'll be able to find her." Andrea said.
"They have to, she was holding Logan's arm." Alicia said and Andrea smiled.
"Don't worry, she'll pay for that."
"What about Conrad? He seems to have eyes for her." Alexa asked and said.
"Why do you say so?" Andrea asked.
"He's always staring at her. Always" Alexa said with a frown.
"She's becoming a pest on her first day" Alicia muttered with gritted teeth.
"The last pest we had in high school isn't alive right now. What we're doing now would serve as a warning to her. If she doesn't listen to the warning, then we move to step 2" Andrea said with a small smirk.
The girls exchanged glances before chuckling.
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Ariel got to the rooftop and blinked when she saw Conrad standing at the rails looking down at the people.
She heard noises coming upstairs and she looked around trying to find a place to hide.
"Inside that dumpster" He said without looking back.
She looked at him before opening the dumpster, surprisingly, it's empty and clean. She got it and covered it slowly.
The door to the rooftop opened and some of them ran in.
"Hey, have you seen the girl?" One asked but Conrad didn't answer. He didn't even look at them and the one who asked scoffed.
"She's not here. Let's go" A girl said and they left the rooftop.
"They're gone" His cool voice said and she opened the dumpster peeping. She opened it completely and tried jumping out only to fall with the dumpster.
"Ouch" She mumbled rubbing her knees. She stood and dusted herself before facing Conrad.
She blinked when she saw him facing her now.
"Thank you." She muttered.
"Don't thank me cos I did nothing." He said and she nodded.
She walked towards him and stood at the rails looking down at the people who were searching everywhere for her.
"I'm so dead the moment I leave here." She mumbled and turned.
She gasped stepping back when she noticed he was facing her now. She cleared her throat before speaking.
"What do I do?"
"What's the desired time given to them?" He asked instead.
What Andrea posted was:
"I give y'all till 12:00 to beat the living hell out of Ariel. Give her immense wounds before 12:00. Anyone who's able to do so will get 1 million dollars from me"
"1 hour" She said and he stared at her for a while.
"This is currently 11:20, you have 40 minutes more" He said and turned walking to the exit.
"Thank you"
"I told you not to thank me. It doesn't add a cubit to my body system so quit it" He said leaving the rooftop.
"Jeez so rude" She mumbled and turned. She stared down at the students who were running up and down looking for her.
"All for 1 million dollars they wanna injure me." She muttered.
Her eyes widened when she saw Ashley in the arms of a guy.
"Wherever you are hiding, come out else we'll injure your friend" The guy yelled.
Ariel bit her lips.
"You have 10 seconds to come out. 10!" He screamed and Ariel ran out of the rooftop immediately.
"9!!"
She ran downstairs heading to the hallway.
"8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0!!!"
The guy screamed and raised his hands to slap Ashley. She closed her eyes waiting for the slap only to feel nothing.
She opened her eyes and saw Ariel holding the guy's hand.
"Let her go, I'm here" She said and he smirked removing his hand from her grip.
He pushed Ashley away and she fell to the ground bruising her knee.
"Leave Ariel, these guys are brutal" Ashley said trying to stand.
Some guys rushed and held Ashley down.
"If you leave, we'll injure her. But if you stay, she'll be safe" He said and Ashley tried breaking out of their grip.
"Alright. Do whatever you want" She said and a guy came with a brick of wood.
"No!!!" Ashley screamed.
The guys smirked and raised the wood wanting to hit her but she held the wood kicking him away.
He fell to the ground and looked at the guys holding Ashley. They nodded and slapped her hard.
"Stop!!" Ariel yelled and the guy smirked standing up.
"Don't dodge any of my attack else she suffers" He said and tears welled up in her eyes.
He picked up the wood and used it to hit Ariel's arm.
She bit her lips looking at her hand which began bleeding immediately.
The guy smirked and raised the wood wanting to hit her face but a hand held it.
She looked at the person in front of her and he pulled the wood out of the guy's grip.
He looked back at her and she blinked when his gaze went to her bleeding arm. His blue eyes flickered and he turned facing the guys.
"What the hell are you doing?" The guy asked.
He held the wood tightly and used the wood to hit his face hard.
The people around gasped.
Andrea who was watching what was happening on her phone frowned deeply punching her desk angrily.
"Ariel!!"
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