9:33AM. 

Miss Anderson walked back into her room with a sniff. Waiting for her, sitting at her desk, was Ms Elliot, who spoke immediately when seeing her, “You’re not taking-" Kylee Anderson quickly rubbed under her nose and pulled at the hem of her clothes. Elizabeth continued, "-You are right, we should be concerned about Matteo. He wasn’t in class today.”

"And you want me to do something about it, Elizabeth?" She walked over to her desk and gestured with her eyes for her to move. "It was your class he skipped."

Elizabeth didn't seem to take the hint that she was to move out of her chair. "Were you not the one to came to me with your worries before class?"

"Yes, and I seem to remember you telling me not to worry."

"Now it is different, Kylee, he's skipped both of our classes."

Tamara tried to cover up her surprise before the girls noticed, but it was too late. “What? Was it something we said about Zig?”, Kiona asked.

“Do you like like him?”, Brooke chimed in with her own cute smirk.

“Ew, no!" Tamara scrunched up her face in disgust. She didn’t want to tell them that Zig was her cousin. He obviously wouldn’t want that information shared either, and the thought of her having a crush on her cousin was absurd. “It’s my first day here. I’d be crazy to like someone already. I just… heard his name. I had a run in with him.”

Brooke folded her arms and awkwardly shifted her stance. “There’s nothing wrong with crushing on someone so quickly. People do it all the time. It’s called love at first sight.”

Kiona laughed. “No, people don’t do it all the time, that’s just you.” Tamara quietly chuckled along with Kiona.

Before Keira had a chance to respond to meeting her afterschool, she watched as Chloe saw Brayden walking toward them. Pouncing on him, she pushed him into the stairwell, which only worked because he was caught unaware. Keira followed, intrigued. Under the stair, Chloe pressed him against the wall. She put her foot between his legs, kicking them out, and started patting him. As she found his box of cigarettes and looked inside it, she asked interrogatively, “Who are you buying from? Bay was speedballing just this morning, high as a kite in class. Or are you selling her the stuff?”

He looked over at Keira smugly. “Who’s your little friend?”

But Chloe wasn't deterred. “Answer the question.” She shoved the cigarettes back into his pocket.

Facing her again, he shrugged. “Chloe, I don’t take the stuff,” he said, surely lying, rather well. He pushed back against her. “And I don’t deal, why would I want to go against you? If I did-” He looked over at Keira. “supposedly, know who sold to Bay, why would I tell you?”

“I know why you were suspended.”

Brayden chuckled. “Along with everyone else in this school.” He waited for her retort, but when none came, he continued, “I suggest you stop interfering with others and try to focus on your own life. I know what you did to Chris and who-” He smirked and walked away, not before stopping and holding Keira’s gaze for a number of seconds.

“If you’re really asking me that, then you’re too innocent to get me what I want anyway,” Bay explained to Jason, still in the corridor walking to her second class. “Maybe you can ask Chloe for her notes instead. You’re friends with her. I’m sure she’ll be a great help,” she added sarcastically.

“We all know that Chloe doesn’t write anything down,” Jason told her. “So what is it you want?”

She rolled her eyes and gave him a look that said is it so hard for you to understand?. “You know…” She tapped the side of her nose. “...some stuff.”

“That’s what you want, Bay? That’s what you want from me?”

“Forget it. I knew you were too much of a goody-two-shoes.”

Jason didn’t answer. It suddenly occurred to him as he looked into her eyes; she was using. He took a step toward her and lifted her chin to look him in the eyes. “You’ve had that stuff today, haven’t you?” He wasn’t expecting an answer. Staring silently at each other for almost a minute. Then Jason put his other hand on her neck and lowered his head down to hers. He planted his lips onto her soft ones.

“Ignore her. I hate her so much,” Zig told Will after Isobel left, still rubbing his arm. “She hangs around our group and I hate that.”

“Your group?”, Will asked as he shrugged.

“Yeah, me, Brayden and another two, but they’re an item now, so not even worth mentioning. We barely see them since they started making out under the bleachers.”

“Where do you all hang out? Back of the school somewhere?”

“Yeah, that’s where you can usually find us. No one ever goes there.”

“So I’ll meet you there after this class then and you can introduce me? I already know Brayden after all.”

"Alright."

Blake waved his hand in front of Charlene’s face. She seemed to be completely out of it, like in some kind of trance. “Char? Earth to Char.”

She snapped out of it. “Don’t call me that!”

Blake gulped. “I was just asking you what you did at the weekend and you suddenly appeared to be elsewhere.” He paused, unsure of how to word his question. “Are you on-?”

“Get your hand out of my face,” she interrupted.

Pulling away his hand, he rubbed the back of his head, running his fingers through his hair. “Sorry.” 

"I'm sure you will be if you do it again." She narrowed her eyes at him before leaving the room. This only made Blake more sure about adding her to his list in his head of potential users and continued onward to the next class.

After triple checking that the coast was clear, Christopher shifted the unconscious Matteo onto the bathroom tiles to make sure any remnants of the substance was flushed away. Once the scene was clear, he dragged Matteo across the room, keeping ahold of him under the armpits, lifting and dragging him out of the door. Chris stopped once they got to the corridor, letting Matteo’s back rest against his legs. “HELP,” he bellowed down the corridor. “SOMEONE! COME QUICK!”

9:57AM. 

The sounds of sirens could be heard throughout every classroom, and emergency services flooded the school. An ambulance, two police cars, and a fire engine, for some reason. Classes stopped, because students crowded the windows, trying to get a better look. The P.E. class left the field and ran around to the front of the school.

Everyone saw Matteo being wheeled out on a stretcher, with Chris following closely behind.

SILENCE!

No one spoke.

Not until… “NOOOOOO!!!” Bay had seen it, and she ran all the way from her Science class to ambulance. Chloe watched Bay leave hastily, and then the new boy chase after her. From the window, she saw Bay just get out there as the paramedic was leaving; too late. That’s when she saw the new boy comforting her.