21. Go Back Now!
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"Aren't you going to do something?" Sarah asked as they stood on the bleachers watching Calum grab Max's collar and shout in his face.
"Like what?" Leah asked as she pulled off her reflective glasses to see better.
"Like stop the fight?" She suggested. Paul and Leah shook their heads.
"Not with her eyes and hand like that. We will be in big trouble if someone sees it." Paul stated, his arms crossed across his chest as he leaned forward, very entertained indeed.
"Leah?" Sarah yanked her by the arm, "Please stop them, please!!" She gave her puppy eyes which Leah found very hard to resist.
She sighed in the end, giving up. "Fine!!" She groaned as she walked down the stairs, putting back her glasses and hood. Making her way through the crowd, she pushed aside surprised bystanders who looked at her like she had grown another head. She was giving them more and more surprises from the morning.
Reaching the very front, she sighed and said out loud, just when Calum was about to punch Max in the face. "Foster, stop it!"
His fist hung in the air as his hold on his former friend loosened, and his head slowly turned to her, so did others'. They all waited in anticipation what Calum was about to say to the social outcast who had suddenly become so important to him.
"Do you know what he did?" He pointed in his direction. Everyone looked between the duo, shocked that the jock was justifying himself to the freak.
"Yeah I do." She said emotionlessly.
"You knew? You saw them earlier and you didn't tell me about it?" He looked furious.
"They had been at it even before she died, and I saw them on the day we had that fight in the library." She revealed, shocking everyone. There were collective gasps. After all, she had spilled two entire jugs of tea at once. Kelly Nelson and Max Harris were cheating on Sarah Foster and Calum Foster and Leah Wayne had been having some sort of an affair for some time now.
"WHAT?" Calum was about to burst now.
"Wait a minute, what's happening between you both these days?" Tristan stepped in, confused by all the new information thrown at him. "Are you guys dating?"
He was staring straight at Leah and that had Calum coming back to his senses. He could not see her eyes or hand. It would be so much trouble and even more trouble to explain. Not to mention the crowd surrounding them. He could not let Leah be treated like a freak any more.
"Let's go!" He grabbed her by the arm and dragged her out of yet another confrontation on the same day.
"I can't believe you didn't tell me!" He muttered as he dragged a struggling Leah all the way to the parking lot, stopping only when they reached the passenger's side of his car where he opened the door for her.
"What makes you think I am interested in human affairs, Calum?" Leah rolled her eyes, taking off the hood and irritating glasses now that it was only the two of them. She didn't fight this time and got into his jeep without another argument.
"Oh, I don't know? The fact that I am her brother?" He asked as he closed the door for her and walked to the other side and got into his seat and turned to her. "What if they killed her?"
She rolled her eyes. "Max and Kelly are tools. And the guy who killed her was pale. Max is tan. And he was here at school when she died."
Calum blinked. And blinked. And bellowed, "You know this much?"
"I am processing s**t Calum!" Leah groaned, putting her hand up in surrender. "We never had this conversation!"
"So, we are looking for someone who wasn't there at school when she died." He nodded to himself.
"A white man." She said. "And probably not one from this school because I think everyone who she was involved with here were here that day."
"You sure?" He asked as he started the engine. "That was like two weeks ago right?"
"I am a vessel, Foster." She rolled her eyes. "I know the entire life story of two ghosts without missing a detail. I think I can remember things happening in my life without much trouble."
"You are a show-off!" He chuckled as he drove.
"Bruh, I don't need to show off. My existence itself is cooler than anything you'll ever do." She laughed.
"Please... You were born with this or something right? Nothing to be so proud of."
"It was passed down to me because I was competent." She argued.
"Was the competency evaluated based on your sassiness and sarcasm?"
"No, it was based on my ability to tolerate stupidity!"
"Oh please!!"
"Oh stop you two!" Leah turned around so fast that Calum stepped on the brake.
"Sarah! What have I told you about leaving the school?" She scowled at her ghost friend.
"But.."
"I don't want to hear it!" Leah growled. "Go back now!" They were just outside the gates of the school, and Paul was already there, not able to step out of the threshold.
"But I want to see till where my threshold is."
"We will do that experiment later, now off you go!"
"I can't believe this is all true!" Calum shook his head, his eyes closed and tears trickling down his face.
Leah pursed her lips, not knowing how to console him in a situation such as this. She gave the ghost a pointed look who just pouted and got off the car – diffused through it – and walked back to her other friend.
"Let's go!" She turned back around.
"Is she gone?" He asked, looking up, wiping away his tears and looking back at the seat as if he could see her if he looked hard enough.
Leah looked over at the gates. They had already disappeared.
"Yeah, now let's go!" She sighed. "I need to study for my test on Monday during the weekdays if I have to go down to my Grandma's to research."
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