By lunchtime, the cheating scandal had reached the years below mine, which wasn't a surprise; a student, in any grade, getting expelled was a rarity, so it created quite the buzz around the school yard. The rumour mill was running wild with who it could be, any student from grade 12 who was absent that day became prime suspect number one and many times I had to defend Sam's honour and explain that he was in England.
What surprised me more than anything though was Petra, she usually loved to start gossip and would fuel rumours without a single care given, even if her information was true or not, yet she was remaining very tight lipped, even as people threw out allegations around her she just sat at her table across from ours, focused only on the contents of the lunchbox in front of her.
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