Chapter 27; The determined girl

*Unedited but hey, it's been like three monthes since the last update so you all still love me*

edit: so I kinda screwed up some stuff so I do recommend going to chapter 24 and re-read from there because I made a few changes. This is what happenes when you're an idiot, so stay in school kids.

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The boys didn't answer me when I called. Apart from Belle and aunt, the only people I talked to were Caleb, Jason, Belle our cook and sometimes I'll text Grey.

Caleb said they found out about me being the principal's niece. I lied to them again, and they didn't like that. I tried calling, but after a while I gave up. Caleb said that I should give it some time. But maybe if this is how I'll be treated every time they found out something I didn't tell them about, maybe this should stop. I didn't want to give them up.

Caleb told me a little about what Grey said to him, how he wanted to try and hang out if he wanted. I could tell how nervous Caleb was, and so I offered to have a movie night or something which will include me and maybe Jason- just to get Caleb used to Grey's presence. He agreed and said he'll ask Grey about it. It's been about three days since then and he still didn't text him.

"You should just text him," I encouraged, though I understood why he was so terrified. Grey was twenty two- about five years older than Caleb. To add to it, he has a job and legally an adult. Caleb must feel like a young, inexperience kid.

"Maybe later," He said, but I reached my hand quickly and snatched his phone from his hand, typing quickly. "Rhi!" he called out, but I stopped him with my hand.

"This is now or never, Caleb. Should I press send, or should I not?" I asked, showing him his phone's screen. Caleb rubbed his head, biting his bottom lip. "Just send it already," He said and stood up from the chair beside his kitchen table, walking around and looking through the fridge as if he was looking for food. I knew it wasn't the reason he did that.

I sent the message, and it didn't take long for an answer to come. Caleb jumped from the sound of the incoming call, giving me a terrified look that turned into an accusing one.

"See what you did?" He asked, pointing his finger at me. I just shrugged and smiled. He was so going to thank me for this one day.

"Just answer him!" I called out, but when he did nothing I picked up the phone, and before he could say anything I answered.

"Hey Grey!" I greeted, smiling as Caleb froze as he looked at me. "Where's Caleb, Rhi?" Grey asked, without greeting me back. I rolled my eyes, then answered. "He's in the shower," Caleb's face started to turn red almost immediately. He was definitely regretting his life choices right now.

"What?" Grey asked, as if he was confused by my answer. "You know, shower- soap, shampoo, hot water, naked-" "Yeah, I know what shower means I just- never mind. Tell Caleb to get back to me, yeah?" he asked before hanging up on me. I stared at the phone while Caleb stared at me. "Wow. That was rude. Doesn't he want to win some bonus pointes by being nice to your best friend?" Caleb continued to stare at me, before he broke from his trance.

"Well? What did he say?" He asked me, sitting back down.

"He said to tell you to call him back," I replied, which made him panic even more.

At the end of that day, Caleb texted Grey instead, and he agreed to my idea.

Now, I was sitting down on the porch of my house after leaving Caleb's house.

I don't know how long I sit there, doing nothing but stare at the night sky, before my aunt's voice shake me from my trance.

"Is this what you're going to do now?" She asked as she took a sit besides me. I don't answer. She's the reason I'm sitting here, doing nothing. She and her brother.

Aunt sighed, staring to the sky.

"I never once thought to myself, why won't Rhi bring her friends home? Why doesn't she go out with her friends?" Aunt said, breaking the long silence. I finally look at her, but for once she doesn't turn her eyes to me as she talked. Usually, she would scold me if I wasn't looking at her when she talked. It was rude, she said, and some people actually take it to the heart.

"I didn't even think to ask you about that. About your friends, or if you even have any." She told me, and after a while, looking at me, she added, "I'm sorry ,Rhi."

I took a deep breath and let it out slowly, shaking my head. "It's alright." I quietly reply.

The silence surrounds us once again, neither if us say anything.

"Are you okay?" Aunt asked, her voice almost making me jump because I didn't expect her to keep the conversation going.

I look at her, meeting her gaze. And I shake my head, telling her that no- I'm not okay.

My friends think I'm a liar again, and I've broken their trust for the second time. I promised I'll be honest, but I wasn't.

My aunt wrapped her arm around me, hugging me to her as we sat and watched the stars.

A noise from my phone alerted me I received a message, making my aunt look at me as I check to see what it is about.

It was from my uncle.

My aunt gave me a look as I stared at his contact, not opening the text yet.

"Are you still mad at him?" She asked me.

I sighed, directing the question back at her.

"Of course I am, what both of you did behind my back wasn't exactly rational nor responsible. Even though there were other girls with you, it wasn't like that from the start." She shook her head, glancing away.

"However, I've already put that in the past." Her words made me look at her in surprise.

"What? You did?" She nodded, a smile on her face.

"You both already know it was wrong to do that. Besides, it doesn't matter anymore. You're not in that school anymore, which bring me to my next question- what are we going to do about school? Should we just give it and get you homeschooled?" Her words made me jump and yell "No!".

She raised a brow, half a smile on her lips.

"Well then that means one thing- go back to your other school." My heart sank like the titanic.

"Why does it have to be that school?" I asked, and she sighed. "Because other than Woodblock, it's the only school around here. Unless, of course, you'd prefer go to that girls academy I heard those Woodblock boys like so much," I immediately called out a my protests.

I sighed again, looking at my phone again. "Why can't he let me come back? I don't understand- I'm not the only girl anymore."

My aunt's softened, thinking about her brother. "He just wants what's best for you." She answered, but that answer didn't satisfy me. "But being there, that was best for me. I made new friends, and even though the students didn't care about me I like the atmosphere there." I Stated, and I meant every word of it.

Even though I got hurt so many times and people didn't really like me after they've found out I'm the principal's niece, and even though my friends are not friends with me anymore- I still loved every moment in Woodblock high. Okay, maybe love is a big word.

But then again, love is an overrated word.

"And yet, you've spent about two month in every school you moved, and suddenly in this one you had to be kicked off after more then three months to get out of the school. Why do you think it's like that?" She asked me, making me frown at her. "Weren't you listening to me? Private schools suck!" My aunt rolled her eyes.

"Perhaps you were the one not listening to yourself. You've convinced yourself you hate private schools so you kept switching them, never satisfied. All of a sudden, you move to a public school, with the initial thought that public schools are the best thing in the world even though you never went to one, and suddenly you have the best time of your life.

"Now answer my previous question again. Why do you think it's like that?" Aunt finished, her brow raised.

I glanced away, because I had no idea how to answer that. I had to think carefully about her words.

My aunt seemed to have thought the same, since she told me to go to my room to sleep, and think this through.

Before I went to bed, I checked my phone again, finally reading the message from uncle Bart. I stared at it for more than a few minutes, trying to see if what I was reading was actually written there. Because in the text, my uncle called for my help. I froze.- This will break our deal, the one in which my uncle and I agreed that until I'm thirty years old, he could only ask for my help once. He already did that, and though maybe I wasn't as much help as I wanted to be, he still asked for a favor. And now he had another one?

Whatever it was- it was definitely serious.

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The next day, I went to my uncle's house around eight o'clock in the evening to see what he needed.

I had a feeling that whatever it was, it was very serious.

And when I saw my uncle's face I realized how right I was. So even thought I was still a bit mad at him for expelling m, he was my uncle. So as soon as I saw the sad glint in his eyes, I hugged him.

After a few moments of us standing there on his doorway, we finally entered his house.

I have to say, since the last time I've been to his house it definitely looked more... mature. I couldn't hear his pets, so I wondered if he finally gave up on that habit.

But then a second later I hear what definitely sounded like a monkey.

I gave him a look, but either he didn't notice or he ignored it.

"So let's cut to the chase. You texted me and said you needed my help. That's not something I thought I'll hear again until I'm thirty," I tried to joke, but neither of us smiled.

"I'm sorry, Rhi," Uncle Bart said after a few moments of us just sitting near his kitchen counter. "I know how much it meant to you, studying on a public school. I know I let you down, but you have to understand that the school is too dangerous right now." I sighed, about to bring up my argument points once again only to be cut by him.

"Which is why the school is going to be closed down." At first his words didn't fully register in my brain.

I can't say what I thought that moment.

Understanding came down on me with a bang. "Wait, what did you just say?!" I called out, raising to my feet.

"Rhi, listen-" "No, uncle Bart, you listen- you can't close the school no matter what! Those kids might not like studying, but they love Woodblock High! So yeah, maybe their do bad and stupid things, but you can't do that," "-Rhi, "and what about the teachers? They'll have a hard time looking for a job because there aren't a lot of schools around here and you can't just-" "Rhi!" His raised voice made me stop my rumbled protests.

Uncle Bart took a deep breath before letting the air come out slowly, shaking his head.

"We have a kidnapping case in our school, the boys still can't act like students, there isn't a day without at least three fights going on and all of the girls had to be transferred," he told me, rubbing his hand up and down his face.

"Wait, what do you mean the girls had to be transferred?" I asked, trying to catch up on all that happened in the last week of not being there.

"I mean that the boys decided it was a good idea to go around with balloons filled with paint and throw it at every possible corner, and then proceed to have two fights more than they usually have. Ms. Glenn, that all-girls academy principal already saw to it that the school board will see each of those events by making some of the girls in Woodblock film it." I felt the air leave my long, a big lump forming in my throat.

I sat back down, putting my hands on my face. This was serious. The boys really have done it this time.

If I understood correctly what uncle Bart was telling me, this meant that the entire school was taking a part of it.

How come Caleb hasn't said anything? That thought made me feel... so out of place. I didn't belong to Woodblock high anymore.

But soon, no one will belong to Woodblock high.

We had to do something about it.

I voiced my thoughts out loud, but uncle Bart shook his head in reply. "There's nothing to be done. The school will be shut down until the kids who disappeared will be found and so will their kidnappers. After that, it will be officially closed down." I perked up from his words.

"So you mean that once the school's board will be convinced not to shut down the school, there might be a chance for it to be reopened when the missing kids will be found?" "If," He corrected. "If what?" I asked him, looking at him as I crossed my arms.

"If the school's board would be convinced and if the boys would be found." My uncle stated, trying to convince me otherwise.

But he should've known better. Once I had a certain thought and idea I went through with it until the end.

"Oh no, I know that look," he said with a wary look on his face once he finally remembered who he was talking to.

"Rhi, I won't allow you to put yourself at risk again for my sake. The only favor I wanted to ask from you was to help me think of how to tell everyone these news. That's all, no deal breaking whatsoever." Uncle Bart claimed, but I wasn't really listening anymore.

I don't care if everyone there hated me, including all the boys I held so dear to my heart.

I don't care if the school will say an all-boys school for delinquent.

And I don't care if I won't be able to go back to Woodblock High.

Because those boys deserved to stay together. Those boys deserved to have their friends back from wherever they disappeared to.

And if I would get into so much trouble I'll be grounded for so long I'll never see the daylight again- so be it.

Woodblock High won't be closed down.

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I know you expect me to start with the speeches and all of that but I'm going to hold it because I'm planning on writing another chapter right now and uploading it, so maybe the fact that I'll need to write another chapter to get to the speech part will motivate me more.

Hopefully.

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