Chapter 8

"Are you crazy Janet, are you f***king crazy", his voice was all over the place as he drove aimlessly on the road.

"You killed a man, you killed a f**king man", he was breathing hard and the horror could be clearly seen in his eyes, he turned to look at her. She sat still, looking emotionless without any sign of remorse.

"You are a murderer, the police would be looking for us, God what have i done", he rubbed his head aimlessly, his breath was quick and in successions.

"Gosh, what are we gonna do", he spoke to the air.

"Johnson place", she replied calmly.

He gave her a angry glare, she wasn't serious.He thought.

"We are not going there", he spoke out.

She turned to look at him and placed her hands on his shoulders, "Keep calm, and stop acting like a baby".

"Calm, I just witnessed a murder and the police could be after us".

She laughed, "there were no cameras in the alley and the bar had just one camera which is at its entrance, that's why i choosed the alley".

He looked at her bewildered.

"There was no way we could be caught. While the red haired girl was with us my hood was on, that means she didn't see me enough to recognize me and most times i commanded all of you guys to heads down".

"Seems like you had all things figured out", he said with sarcasm in his voice.

"I do", she replied calmly, "Ben, i am not gonna stop till they are all dead, so it's either you are in or you are out", her voice was serious and calm.

He looked at her eyes and could see the seriousness in it, she was ready to burn the world for her mother and she didn't mind getting burnt in the process. Was he ready to walk this road with her, he thought to himself. Was he ready to loose everything for her.

"I would do anything for you babe, I am in", he replied and wore a smile on his lips.

"Thanks babe", and she kissed him on the cheeks.

"To Johnson place right", he said quickly stealing a glance at her.

"I have googled the directions, its a big accounting firm, that means there would be lot of cameras and security guards. We need to return back to school because the current class session is up and we need to show face for the next class to prevent suspicion." She paused, "also from school we need to head back to your place to get a change of clothes, it would make it difficult for us to be caught", she explained.

He looked at her somewhat with pride and also with a little bit of fear, she was prepared for this.

"Alright, to school then".

They arrived at school five minutes after the current class period was over, Janet made her way to her next class which was biology class and Ben went to his Maths class.

Janet sat at the back seat, studying the teacher properly, she was a little bit sad today, she thought to herself.

"Alright, i am gonna call out your names now", she announced.

Janet waited patiently for her name to be called, once she was marked as present she would be able to ditch the class.

".... Janet", she called out.

"Present", Janet responded quietly and she went on calling out other student names.

Janet studied the classroom carefully, Mrs Sophia was not one for allowing student leave the class anyhow, even for bathroom purposes. If she was to leave, she would need a better excuse or plan.

beep....beeep.

She bent her head to look at her phone, it was vibrating and she could the message hanging carelessly on the home screen.

"I am at the car", from Ben.

He was already out. how does he do it, she thought. Maybe it was because his father was an influential person as regards the school, she kept her phone safely in her bag and wipe off the dirt off her black jeans. She pondered on how she could leave the class without arousing suspicion and nothing was coming to her.

"Pages 42....", She could hear that Mrs Sophia had began to teach, it was now or never. She looked around her for any hint or clue, yet she couldn't come up with anything. She was about giving up when she saw the tomatoe lying carelessly on the floor close to Jack's bag.

"What's a tomatoe doing there", she said to herself, then the idea hit her, "never mind", she smiled.

Mrs Sophia sat on her chair opposite the classroom and studied the students carefully. They were always fond of skipping math class but not on her watch. She had planned to give them a pop quiz and this quiz was going to be part of each student permanent record.

Let me see the student that would want to skip that. She smiled to herself, and the students that saw her smile knew something was up, it was unusual for her to smile like that.

"Open your maths textbook, pages 42. We are gonna learn algebra, after which we would have a p....."

"Excuse me ma, but i need to go now", a tall beautiful girl cut in while standing before her.

"You said what", she asked.

"I need to go ma", the girl gesture with her eyes towards her pants and she could see blood stains spreading all over her privates.

"My gosh, are you okay dear", she asked emphatically.

"I am alright ma, I just need to go", the girl replied timidly.

"Okay, a second please", she reached for her bag and brought a pair of white clean pads and surprisingly a cleaned blue jeans.

"Here you go, wash yourself properly", she handed it over to the girl, who received it with smiles and left the classroom.

Janet smiled to herself, she didn't knew it was going to be that easy. So the Math teacher wasn't a sadist afterall. She made her way to the convenience room to change into the blue jeans she got from Mrs Sophia. It fitted her properly.

"What took you so long", Ben said on sighting her walking towards him.

"Mrs Sophia", she replied. "Do you know that she gave me this jeans". She pointed to her jeans.

"I noticed you had different jeans on, i wanted to ask you about that. Yet i find it hard to believe", he said.

"Me either, but she can be kind", she replied.

"What was your excuse", he asked.

"My period", she replied emphatically.

Ben stared at her with amazement, what would you not do. He thought to himself.

They entered his car and he started the engine after Janet was already seating comfortably at the front seat. The engine came to life with a low humming sound and Ben placed his hands on the steering wheel, and turned to look at her.

"Where to now", his voice was without emotions.

"Home", she replied absent minded, staring ahead of her and not at him...