Evie was miserable. Her new roommate kept making fun of her. She missed Tin-tin.
She kept trying to catch her, but she was always too late. Their classes had all been changed up, so they were never in class together. Tin-tin was purposefully ignoring her and spent all her time skyping her cousins.
Wait. If the boys at the boys' school are Tin-tin's cousins, would that make them my cousins too? Evie thought, sitting alone in her room. She did that a lot. Thinking. She was definitely not doing schoolwork now. It was a shame.
When she came to school, she was excited. Excited to learn, to work really hard, and to make friends. Now she was alone, and not even trying in class. She had given up. She was just about to finish up her homework and go to bed when she got a phone call.
She checked the caller ID. Oh dear lord, no, She thought, Not now. It was her father.
"Evie." Her father said the second she picked up the phone.
"What?" Evie asked. "I'm doing homework." She glanced down at her lap. That was a bit of a lie. Her algebra book lay open, but she had barely glanced at it since she opened it.
"What happened? Is she dead?"
Evie's mouth set in a firm line. She had thought that her father had only wanted to hurt Tin-tin, to make her scared. But this... she wasn't even surprised anymore. Her father had done a lot worse.
"Dad... why?"
"Well? Is she?"
Evie's mind was racing. Her father didn't even care that he tried to force her to kill her own best friend. Well. Ex-best friend, now.
She could only think of one way out of this. "Yes," she said. "Tin-tin is dead."
Her dad laughed manically. "Well done. Well, I suppose you no longer need to go to school. I'll send a man to pick you up tomorrow morning."
"What!" Evie asked, shocked. "But I like it here!" A total lie on her part, but anything was better than home.
"That doesn't matter. You've done your job, I need you back at home now."
Evie smiled slightly. Needed. She wasn't wanted here, but she was needed at home. Finally.
She just hoped she'd get time to apologise to Tin-tin first.