Chapter 5

In the staircase.

I was grateful to Kris that he is helping me but on the other side I thought, can't he just leave me in the nurses room, he doesn't have to be with me, it feels like I owe him in some way. I thought if I thanked him and Said that I was ok, then he would just leave, but he just smiled and sat down beside me.

I looked at him, And he said "lets take some rest, we have only few more minutes before PE gets over" and he leaned back. After a few minutes it was still silent, so I thought of starting a conversation. "Hmm.. did you get anything new about our Clara by visiting the music club today?" I asked.

"I only found the music sheet which I gave it to you" he said and continued "where is it?… may I take a look at it..". I took out the sheet from my pocket and showed him. "Why did you think this sheet is important that you asked me to take it with us….?" I asked. He said "the back of the sheet had some random writings on them, and it made it look as if it was important". I gave the sheet to him and after a few minutes I asked " why do you think that girl Casy apologised even though she didn't feel sorry at all?, but she just did it because her friend asked her to, don’t you feel it’s a bit weird?.".

"How do you know she was not sincere enough about it?, maybe you misunderstood.." he said. I thought a lot but i still felt that she was just faking it. " Soo.. did you find anything from the writing on back of the sheet?.. care to share " I asked with a funny tone. He showed be the sheet, and his finger pointed at some sentences,.... 'you don’t belong' , 'learn to sing' , 'my ears a bleeding', and 'just get lost'…….. and so many. We knew that someone just took out their anger on this poor piece of paper.

"So this is what the other choir members did, by listening to Emma... But I was sure Emma and Clara were friends, this doesn't make sense... Does it to you? " I asked to kris. He stared at me with a confused face. "you cannot get to conclusions that the other choir members did it without knowing the truth" he said. I smiled and leaned towards him and said "earlier in the choir room while picking up the pens and sheets, I kinda heard their talks, and got to know some things.... So I made conclusions with knowing the true " I said proudly. And explained what I heard back in the classroom.

Earlier in the choir room.

The girls all group together and they were talking about Emma saying that she did not get to be the lead singer honestly. She made the music teaching remove Clara from the group, so that Clara won't be able to be the girl in spotlight or even participate. And when the girl casy stood up for Clara, Lidya got in the way and made a huge fuss about it. And girls were also taking about the music teacher only listening to Lidya as if she was Lidya's puppet, they said that she is soo manipulative, I wondered why? ...

In the stairs.

After the end of all the explanations got over, Kris asked "so now we have to find how Emma manipulated the teacher, and why she betrayed her friend?..". I agreed with him and now we have to find how to get close to Emma and find out if there is more to the story than what we know now. This keeps getting interesting, I am getting tempted to know all the secrets.

Kris asked "Joe, Are we going to post Clara's story on the school online news?... Because the more we know the more it is getting complicated". I said " No, we are not going to post this. We only post if it does not harm anyone... But as u said this is complicated, so we just find what happens next and report it to the right person, like teachers.. ". But in the inside I wished we could do more.

"if we are not going to post it then why wast our time in?.. I don't see the point..." asked Kris with a confused fase. "Well..(I paused) even if we don't get to post it, we get to know what happened right? And it's fun to watch people and hear their troubles, its interesting don't you agree? " I asked. He nodded in response and said "yeah it is kinda fun to know about their secrets". I felt a connection with him, normally my friends say I am being crazy for for getting into unwanted emotional life of others, but he was different. He is interesting in a mysterious way, I like it, I want to know more.

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