CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
IT WAS A loud siren that had a strong sense of foreboding connected to it. The sound made me clutch my ears as if they were going to fall off. Becky and Sammy looked at each other with huge eyes. That wasn’t a good sign. We ran out of the room as students descended from the stairs around us. “What’s going on?” Becky asked one of the girls. “We all need to go to the auditorium,” a girl with a red prefect badge on her blazer said, and moved with the crowd. Becky grabbed my wrist and pulled me down the stairs behind her. It felt like it took forever to reach the lobby, not to mention getting to the auditorium. Students poured through the doors on both sides. Becky led me to a seat in the back row and plopped me down hard. She looked around, frantic, standing on the tips of her toes. Ever
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