Are you trying to skip tutor lessons?

On one of the nights,after Ember's first stay,here,as it was past the curfew time, the girl sat infront of her reading desk, with a couple textbooks, her roughbook, and also, a question paper that was from the past which Percy had pulled out from his archive and gaven her to solve the following questions on it,with its correct options, from one to thirty marked already.

The first five ones, were easy that they needed not much guessing for one to get it. However, it was the sixth one that November got stuck in!

Seems like her guessing technique had no connection with this one after all..

Reading the question of a line with letters to show the equation to be solved carefully, she exhaled through her lips and straightened her back that had started to ache from her posture..and then, pushed back the round frames of her glasses up the bridge of her nose.

Reluctantly, her pencil hand, moved to scribble something on the blank space in her rough softly.

She began to draw something contrary to what question she had to solve, whilst applying severa techniques to it..

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When the next day arrived, Ember came and sat amongst her friends at the lunch room to eat. The three of her friends, stared at her with questions to mark their faces each, " You missed lunch with us three good times, everything okay?"came Tristan's question which Ember smiled to," I'm fine." she told him."Actually, I've been taking private lessons with a senior."

The table then, turned quiet until a few seconds passed before Bora spoke, in a real serious tone," Girl-" her narrowed eyes, now beaming like she'd just gotten an idea,"That's awesome!" She squeaked in a tone of excitement .

" Yeah," Randolph chimed in,"Getting a brilliant senior to tutor you,is rare, unless.. he's into you." Randolph told her. And upon hearing his last three words, Ember's eyes went wide that her irises nearly went missing behind her glasses. Cheeks, turning hotter than the noddles in her plate, and so , she quickly denied.

" No..no! I mean,it hasn't gotten to that extent!"her voice a higher tone that normal." Mine was recommended by miss June." 

" Why? "came Bora's direct question," You don't seem to have much struggles with your performance here. Well at least, for as long as I've known you." 

With her friend's words spoken, the girl turned nervous to speak. She didn't want to talk about this stuff but at the same time, didn't realize that it was going to come to this with her to tell them about her getting a tutor soon.

Finally,she said," Maybe she felt that I'm not quite smart enough."wanting to let the case of her being transferred here by mistake to rest and rest for good.

" Don't let anyone's opinion about you weigh you down , Ember, you're very smart. Sometimes, miss June could be a little bit exaggerating."Bora said, to which she agreed to.

Far away from where they sat, three grown up boys and a girl, sat together to eat, and one of them was Percy.

Following the boy's line of gaze, the girl in their group commented," Looks like you've taken so much interest in her, Percy."the next boy who was with them and who sat next to the girl, turned to look at whom they were looking at," You mean the new girl?"

" Yes. Percy has been giving her free tutor lessons."came the girl's response to the other boy who's expression was of shock as he'd been kinda outdated about it until now.

Soon,a small smile played on his lips," Not bad. Must have run out of blood that you had to stalk to this one."he chuckled in the end and Percy glared at him saying," I'm not like you, Keaton, that'd suck humans till there's no blood left in them. Besides, miss June had asked me to tutor her."

While the smile on Keaton's lips stayed, he gazed at the girl who stood out amongst everyone else here. Coming to ask the question in his mind, he said," Why?"whilst playing on the toothpick in his mouth."Although she got transferred wrongly, she still passed the entrance exam didn't she? "

...

At the same time, as Ember listened to what her friends were telling her, she felt somebody else's gaze on her," Hey, who's that creepy guy that keeps staring at me?" She asked the moment she looked back at the person who's lips held a mischievous smile.

With Tristan to turn and look, he said," They're one of the popular cliques here. The Fire Ferrets."

The fire Ferrets? What a weird name, Ember thought," Very notorious set of people that you should stay away from as you don't want to end up getting injuries and detention that could get you expelled from Redwoods." He informed her," The boy in the right is Keaton Korner. Mischievous in all his ways. The girl, Khali Torres, the second boy is Percy Luther."

Upon hearing the familiar name roll out of Tristan's tongue, she looked at him longer than she'd observed the first two he'd mentioned. Percy, notorious??

She questioned herself as she didn't miss to catch up with the distain in Tristan's voice as he explained. " The last but not the least, Nico di Angelo."

Now, Ember looked again to see the boy and a gasp left her lips. He was the boy who'd intimidated her!!

Out of all of them, he held a colder expression topped with boredom. Ember did not notice all this while because of the locks of his hair that'd covered his face and his black t-shirt that matched with the color of the wall behind him that made him appear unseen.

There was a peek of his tattoo that come out bare, over his round necked shirt, which Ember didn't observe until now because he was wearing a hoodie when she'd met him first, cross earrings to adorn his left ear and heavy chains to wound round his neck.

If their was the delinquent in the group, then, it was him. The rest looked approachable, but him? He looked like a gangster from a movie that she'd watched long ago. Even his eyes wore makeup as a black eye pencil had run above and underneath them, as if he was yet to cast another villain movie that he doesn't want to take part in, due to the frustrated look in his eyes.

"Nico, is the one who frequently gets into trouble and ends up fighting and getting detention. " Bora filled her in and as though not wanting anyone else hear her, she lowered her head and said,"Several girls whom he'd been caught with, always ended up dying."

Then, her friend's brows creased with shock to coat her face, wondering what the girls did to him that he killed them .

"Why haven't the administration gotten him expelled?" came Ember's question while referring to the death case of the girls,where this time, it was Randolph to answer," They have a way of covering it up without the news, reaching the administrators' ears except the students. " He then told her,"Leaking it would only lead to death warrant from him if anyone of us did."

With the information received, Ember began to see a reason why she occasionally, had nightmares and visions of the girl most especially, to hunt her. The dorm she lives in must have belonged to her!

In conclusion, Ember felt the hairs on her neck rise on feeling like someone had exhaled cold air at the back her neck.

The next day, after afternoon classes, instead of Ember to head to the library and wait for Percy, she decided to head to her dorm instead.

Evil communication corrupts good manners,that was what she told herself as prevention is better than cure, because does she want to die before her time!!

She skipped lessons yesterday and she was going to do the same today.

Walking past the students that were outside, and a few trees, Ember's breath stopped.

Fuck!

She cursed on catching sight of her tutor who was with his friends outside, who leaned against the wall.

Like she'd become a little mouse looking for a hide, she started to sprint when the boy called her to stop.

A few students who'd heard him, turned to look at what was going on. 

At that time, he approached her with a serious gaze that caused her to step back. " Where do you think you're going?"

When she opened her mouth to speak, no word came out of it, then, he narrowed his eyes at her," Or are you trying to skip the tutor lessons?"

" No! I mean, I was umm going to come, but-"

" Enough with the lies, Grant." he scolded her prompting her to shut up.

In as much as he was a tutor, he also had the power to instill good manners and carry out punishments to his tutees whenever they were wrong, and he was going to do the same to her..

He told her," Don't think that you can go scoot free after missing your lessons with me yesterday as you're only free on Sundays and Saturdays. Also, if I don't want to punish you myself, I could tell June to help me with it, only then would you become more responsible.. " afterwards, he said,"Meet me at the library now."

With that, he brushed past her.