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KAI
Nothing.
I had searched all night and found nothing.
I swiped my hand across my face and glanced at the time on my phone, the screen glaring at me in the dark, windowless computer room—7:12 a.m. After grunting, I wiped my tired eyes again and turned back to the computer.
On any normal day, I’d be at school by now, swapping weed for money in the student parking lot—or occasionally the teacher’s lot too. I even had a fucking meetup planned for this morning, but I was so fucking close to figuring this shit out. I’d stayed up all night.
Clicking through the contents and files that I had downloaded on a flash drive from Principal Vaughn’s computer, I opened another document that only had a couple words on it. There wasn’t even any high school academy shit on his computer.
Just documents with unfinished thoughts—some blank, some with only a couple words on each, some with entire paragraphs of shit. And I was fucking tired of reading aimlessly about purple clouds and bulls and the types of chairs Vaughn wanted for his home kitchen.
What kind of shit was that?
Pissed, I scrolled further through the files and decided not to look at any more fucking documents. I didn’t have time for that shit anymore. I needed to figure it out as soon as fucking possible because we needed Redwood to fall.
After finding a zipped folder, I clicked on it and typed in Vaughn’s password that he used for everything. What a great way to secure important documents, dickhead. He had no sense for being the principal of a prestigious academy.
Once I was into the folder, I found a series of about a hundred videos. Maybe more.
I clicked on the first one as a message popped up on the Discord group chat between Imani and Poison.
Imani: Where are you guys???
Imani: Please, get to school. It’s an emergency.
While both João and Landon were online, neither one of them messaged her back. So, I paused the video at the one second mark and typed out a message, telling her that I’d be there as quickly as I could.
I’d watch this video, then head to class for the day. I hadn’t been able to find anything last night, no matter how long I stayed awake. Part of me was starting to believe that there wasn’t anything to find.
But I knew that wasn’t true.
Principal Vaughn and the police force were hiding something. And I needed to find it out.
Imani: Please be quick.
My heart raced for a moment. Imani might’ve needed us sometimes to do her dirty work, like deal with Carter when he was messing with Allie, but she had never been this urgent in her texts, which must’ve meant drama was unfolding at Redwood Academy.
After shutting off my phone, I clicked the space key on my keyboard to start the video. The black screen turned to a recording of the empty boys’ football locker room. I sat up in my seat and moved closer to the table, brows furrowed.
What the hell is this? Why is there a recording of the boys’ locker room? Hell, why is there a camera inside of it? I hadn’t seen it the other day when I snuck in and stuffed that dildo inside of Jace Harbor’s locker.
Suddenly, Allie Hall and Jace Harbor walked into the locker room, locking lips and tearing each other’s clothes off. I stopped the video before I saw either of them naked and quickly skipped to the next video on the camera roll.
Once I watched it for a couple moments, I skipped to the next, then the next, then the next. Then, I sat back in my seat and shook my head, unable to fathom what I had watched for nearly ten minutes.
No fucking way.
My stomach dropped, and I turned off the videos. Adrenaline rushed through my entire system, my blood running ice cold. Redwood’s fucking principal was more of a fucking creep than I’d thought.
And today he would get what was coming to him. Today we’d put an end to this all.
This was what we needed to bring Redwood to its knees. This was how we’d destroy the prestigious town from the inside out, expose the rich for who they really were—coldhearted, perverted criminals.
