Chapter Eight
Michael (Miroku)

What was up with this Lina girl? The things she was saying seemed normal enough, but her words were attacking Samantha. She might as well have been throwing daggers at her.

"Very interesting." Mr. Jonas replied to Lina's summer comments. He continued to call on more people around the room.

Samantha's face was buried. What did Lina do to her?

Lina looked at Samantha and smiled. Her cold blue eyes reflecting her cold heart.

Lina may have seemed pretty before, but now she just looked terrifying. I want to know what happened between her and Samantha though.

Katrina had her hand on Samantha's shoulder. "Samantha, Samantha," she whispered, "she doesn't matter. She's an ignorant brat, now snap out of it. It's going to be okay."

The bell rang. The students flooded out of the room, as well as Mr. Jonas who didn't seem to take notice of Samantha.

Samantha lifted her head. She seemed less angry as she was yesterday when Lina was presenting to our math class. She seemed sad.

Samantha walked out of the room. No one tried to follow her. She clearly wanted to be alone.

Katrina, Sid, and I walked out of the room together.

"Katrina?" I asked. "What did Lina do to Samantha?"

"Yeah, she seemed pretty depressed." Sid looked up at Katrina.

"She doesn't like people to know," Katrina started, "but I think she trusts you two." Katrina looked at the ground as she walked. "Lina went to the same elementary school as us. She had her little clique of friends, who could only find pleasure in pushing other people down. I used to be really bothered by that kind of stuff. Then I met Samantha when she moved here. She helped me through everything. She taught me not to care what anyone else thought. Finally Lina and her friends stopped targeting me. Then during summer, they started messing with Sam. But of course I wasn't about to let them. And neither was she. We ignored them until they started to take things higher. Samantha has a little brother. So Lina hired some kid named Noah to sabotage him since she found out that her little brother is more valuable than anyone or anything else. Noah had a knife, and was obviously stronger than the fifth grader. Samantha had found out what was happening and come to help him, but Noah was stronger than her too, and nearly knocked her unconscious. Noah was going to cut his face clear off with the knife, but a neighbor saw what was happening and called the police." Katrina started to tear up a bit. "Samantha's brother wasn't hurt, but Noah was able to convince the court of his innocence. I'm pretty sure that Lina hadn't told Noah to physically hurt anyone, but that must've been how he took her request in as. Even Lina wouldn't stoop so low."

"That's terrible." Sid said. "I can see why she resents Lina so much."

I stayed silent. Then Katrina and Sid turned heading towards their own classes. I headed downstairs toward my third hour where Samantha was sure to be. I decided that when I get there to not talk to her about it. Give her some time to recover from those memories.

A/N: Clarification much? I normally hate just explaining everything in just some paragraph, but oh well. I was dieing to tell that story in it real quick. I've been intending to for some time now. Oh and by the way; if you don't know who Sid is… I'd say think for a minute or two. Thank you for reading!