AN: Quick apology on lack of updates for the last few days. I think we all know what's been going on with the world (unless you live under a rock), it's really been messing with my concentration, and as I literally post within five minutes of writing each chapter. Well... That's all I'm going to say on it. Back to hopeful regular posting.
Chapter 40
Rosalie sat down next to Bella in the living room. "What are you going to do?"
Bella shrugged. "What can I do? Play hooky on Friday on the off chance Lauren's actually serious, I guess."
Rosalie silently agreed with the assessment of skipping school that day – she'd have to find a way to get her brother to do the same. "You could tell your dad."
"Yeah, tell Charlie that a bunch of girls are considering blowing the school up. That way when it turns out they're all just blowing smoke, not only will Charlie no longer trust me, but I'll be a pariah among all of them. Aside from you and Alice, I have no real friends. I'm either avoided or used all because I'm the chief's daughter."
"Alice is taking what Lauren is saying pretty seriously." Rosalie nodded her head toward the study.
"Alice has a dark side. We both know that. But I saw you in there, you weren't exactly disgusted by what Lauren was saying either."
Rosalie wasn't going to deny it. "I'm not a martyr." For a few seconds she didn't say anything else, then she sighed. "You really should consider telling your dad."
"I have, but why would he even believe it? That kind of stuff never really happens."
"Well, there was the Oklahoma City Bombing a few years ago, and that thing in New York a couple years before that."
"Those were both federal buildings and by terrorists. A bunch of kids planning mass murder... it never happens."
Rosalie couldn't really argue with Bella's logic.