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Choosing an outfit wasn’t hard There was no way I was going to wear anything tight or short, and a pair of white joggers seemed the best kind of footwear on a day like today They h in the sky It beaaze locked onto the cloudless sky, a shining blue People forget how beautiful the world is, they don’t appreciate the beauty that surrounds us We’re encircled by so many colors, soabout pointlessthe most of a beautiful day The air ar A clean sweat broke out along the botto to h ponytail and continued onthere Lunch wasn’t for another hour, but I just wanted to walk and bask in my own company

I should have known it wasn’t as si hall

"Fight, fight, Fight!" they chanted

I turned away fro I needed was to be associated with soht

"You did this! I know you did," someone yelled

"Don’t blarowled the other one

Oh shit I sprinted over and pushed through the crowd

"Move!" I shouted as I went

Hunter and Rylan were in attack stance,around the circle

"Stop it!"

Rylan would never stand a chance against Hunter They were two completely different builds Hunter was tall, lean and h Rylan was tall and lean, his body didn’t look like he worked out much Hunter trained every day I’ve seen him train, and it’s brutal

I leapt in front of Hunter, protecting Rylan

"Don’t blah clenched teeth

Yet again I was angry at Hunter; you don’t fight people who are obviously weaker than you

"He did this to you, notthis toto say that you’re just trying to help, don’t You’re not helping, you’re s worse"

I wasn’t aware the croas still around us I looked at all the faces that burned with gossip, their ears stretched towards us as they waited for rabbed Rylan by the arm and escorted him out of the circle, away from Hunter and his obsession to clear his naized

"It’s not your fault Hunter is aa hard tiht, I’m surprised he hasn’t tried to take down the whole school" I exhaled dralanced back where the gathering of students once stood Everyone was gone

"It was brave of you to ask him about it"

"I had no choice, I wanted answers … unfortunately, I need more"

"What "

"He ad a report, but he didn’t send it"

"How can you be so sure?"

"I’ up out of desperation to clear his name"

"If it wasn’t him, who else would have done it?"

"Raina … maybe, I don’t know, and I have no idea where to start to find out"

Rylan placed his hand on esture or if heI didn’t offend hi down the path towards us

Sweat beaded his forehead as he cah his perspirationall over the place to find me, his lack of shortness in breath od, I was looking all over for you"

"Rylan, could you --"

"No probleed us with a nod of his head and left

"Eli, are you okay?"

Soht in my stoestured for hiher power"

I gripped Eli’s arain

"Mr Aleksandrov received a phone call, the higher power is cohtfall and he wants toI had become terribly faht back the urge to break down into a panicking cry

"Wh- what? Why?"

Eli’s face reflected the ht I threw his suspicions off, but II did to you when he asks Don’t protect me; it’ll be worse for you You have to tell hie of you"

"No, I won’t"

"Don’t be stupid!" Eli snapped

I flinched at his words, he exhaled and his urgently calm façade returned

"Please, Ruby; I need you to do this If you don’t, his minions will take whatever he wants by force I’ve seen it, and believeand hard about his words There was no way I was going to throw Eli in the deep end to save myself It wasn’t his fault we ended up like this, it was reeh with it There was no way

The Higher Power