The Secret Behind the Closed Door

Chapter Five: Everything's Gonna Be Alright

*Grammatical errors up ahead! (I think)
Enjoy! :D

{Day 4, Thursday}

Tomorrow morning, while Tash was preparing herself to go to school, she looked at the mirror and said to herself  "Everything's gonna be alright..W-What could possibly go wrong anyway?". She gave out a sigh and went to school afterwards.

Meanwhile, when Tash arrived at the classroom with her friends, they noticed that the students were talking about Dianne's post last night. It made them feel uneasy, especially for Tash who was the one that saw the dead bodies first. The girls went to their seats and talked, "I think everyone knows about our secret." Victoria uttered. "It's all thanks to that Dianne.." Julia added.

Tash was not saying anything, she kept overthinking about the consequences of what she just did that night. If she had not let Dianne open the door, others would not have known their secret. "I'm sorry, guys." she uttered with shame as she was fiddling with her fingers and looking down the floor, "It's all my fault.."

"It's alright, Tash. Don't blame yourself." Victoria replied while patting her back. "We're going to fix this mess together!" Julia exclaimed.

"What should we do now?" Tash asked them while looking for Dianne's appearance, "Where is she by the way?"

Dianne suddenly went inside the classroom with some of her friends beside her, it looked like they were talking, "Did you really saw dead bodies? I know you're just joking around!"

The girl responded to her friend, "I'm serious! I'll show you later! See it for yourselves!"

Julia, Victoria and Tash heard what Dianne just said, they got nervous a bit. When Dianne sat on her seat, the three approached her. "Oh, guys! Did you saw my post last night? I know you'll believe in me 'cause you were there too!" Dianne said.

Julia spoke to her while staring at her eyes menacingly, "We said you keep it a secret, right? Did you know that your post might cause a big trouble for us, huh?!"

Dianne chuckled, "Do you think I'm scared of you? You're not even that threatening to me, tsk." Julia got closer to the girl and whispered to her, "If you try to approach door with your plastic friends, you'll see what will happen.." She left dragging Tash and Victoria away from Dianne.

"Hey! We're already leaving her behind? We just approached her!" Victoria spoke. 

"Just leave her alone, don't talk to that bitch anymore."

Tash and Victoria didn't have any choice but to follow their friend since she was being too serious about what she just said.

2 hours later, everyone inside the classroom was busy taking a test. Tash couldn't focus on the test, her mind was full of random thoughts that it's giving her a hard time answering every questions. While the teacher went out of the classroom for a brief moment, Dianne who was sitting beside Tash, tapped her shoulder and asked to copy her answer. "Psst, hey Tash. What's the answer for question #21?"

Tash hesitated to respond, she remembered Julia saying that she shouldn't talk to her.  The girl glanced at Julia who was 2 seats behind her, Julia looked back and shook her head. Tash nervously replied to Dianne, "I-I'm sorry, I didn't answer that question yet."

"How about question #17?"

Tash didn't know what to do, she was too afraid to get caught by the teacher and also Julia. She just wanted to answer the test without having a hard time. Tash stuttered, "P-Please, I'm trying to answer here. Y-You should ask someone else."

"Tsk. Fine. It's not like you're smart anyway.." Dianne muttered as she averted her gaze.

Afterwards, the teacher came back and Dianne continued to answer her test again. Tash was relieved and continued to answer too.

Class dismissed again, everyone started to fix their bags and prepared to leave. While Tash was fixing hers, she noticed that Julia already left the classroom. Victoria approached her, "Julia said she was going home first 'cause she has to attend some private business whatever that is."

"Oh, okay. Then, it's just the two of us going home for today." Tash answered with a chuckle.

"Let's go buy some snacks! My treat!" the other exclaimed.

While they were buying snacks at a store, Victoria noticed that Tash was zoning out. The girl tapped her back and asked, "You okay, Tash?" The other got startled after and answered, "Yes, I was just thinking about stuff."

"Are you thinking about your crush?" Victoria joked to lighten up the other's mood.

"No way! I don't even have one!" Tash laughed for a minute then went back to her recent mood.

"I'm actually worried about Julia" she stated, "She saw me talking to Dianne earlier, I wonder if she's mad at me. Argh, I shouldn't have answered her."

Victoria patted her back and exclaimed, "Of course not! She's your friend, why would she be mad at you if you were just forced to talk to her? She'll understand it, don't worry. It's alright."

Seeing her friend comforting her made Tash feel relieved. She spoke to Victoria while giving her a warm smile on her face.

"Yeah, Everything's gonna be alright.."