A/N: Heyyyyyy guyyys *waves* so if you don't know by now, which if you have been reading you should, I am evil... Now I wouldn't go as far to say I was Sebastian Morgenstern evil but I'm pretty evil and unfortunately for the characters that does show when I write and this chapter is now different 3;) ... well if you don't think I'm being evil, I think the characters may disagree.
I will try and add more fluff in but at the moment with the plot and all it's kinda hard :)
Guys GUys GUYs GUYS... I would like to know if any of you know who the two teachers I just added were and what fandom they're from: Mr Phantomhive and Mr Michaelis ;). Honestly it would be awesome if just one of you knew who they were
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Chapter 22: The world is merciless yet very beautiful
Simon's POV
"Why the hell are you here?" Simon said, surprised that they were also standing outside Mrs Branwell's office and why it was those three were there and to why Sebastian was holding his broken, looking, nose.
"Language, Mr Lewis," Mr Michaelis said rather uninterestingly. At his presence, the girls visibly perked up and were smiling innocently. Mr Michaelis seemed to notice this and said "And why are my three favourite students standing outside the head teacher's office," His manner made Simon sick as he thought it was way too flirtatious for a teacher.
Simon sighed as the girls giggled, yes giggles from the girls who were normally completely unaffected by flirting of any sort, and he'd be lying if it didn't make him feel nauseous. "Apparently we've been bad girls," Maia said suggestively, making Simon gag and roll his eyes. Mr Michaelis just laughed and winked at them.
Then Mr Michaelis, finally noticing they had other presences, turned to Sebastian and held out a handkerchief. Sebastian quickly took it and held it to his nose without any form of appreciation. Mr Michaelis, being one for telling students when they needed manners, said, slightly exasperated, "Manners will get you far, Mr Morgenstern," Sebastian muttered a thank you as the girls were suppressing smiles and Mr Michaelis smiled saying "Much better,"
Jamie and Cato went over to Jem and Sebastian, Jamie was glaring at Simon and Cato merely smirked at Peeta, who Simon forgot was standing behind him. Before anything else could happen Mrs Branwell pushed through the semi-circle that formed around her office door.
"Mr Michaelis, if you don't have any classes to teach, would you mind being witness to the interviews that are about to occur?" Charlotte said unlocking the thick, decoratively carved door and opens it a margin, awaiting the teachers answer. "It would be my pleasure, Charlotte,"
Smiling, Charlotte opened the door and ushered the students in. Simon stepped in the wooden office and it already felt cold and unwelcoming; to Simon the office represented Charlotte as the head teacher even though she was still warm and friendly as one.
"Okay," Charlotte sighed sitting at her desk. "Those in Ithuriel sit at my desk, the others in Jahoel sit on the couch at the back," They all did as they were told and Katniss, Maia and Izzy sat on the three chairs which left Jem and Sebastian standing next to each other behind them, whereas Simon and Peeta sat on one of the couches and Jamie and Cato were on the other one.
Mr Michaelis went and stood next to Charlotte, behind her desk. Charlotte brought a piece of paper out from her desk, wrote something the whispered to Mr Michaelis who took the piece of paper and a pen. "James, please recite the events that occurred earlier," She said looking at Jem, whose full name was actually James, expectantly.
This is more of a police investigation than a… whatever this is. Simon thought, he didn't know what normally happened in these situations as he had never been to the office before, not even to drop anyone off.
"Why him?" The girls said simultaneously, staring wide eyed at Charlotte and Simon had the feeling that Sebastian would've said that as well if he hadn't been pinching his nose, he probably didn't want to sound as if he was on helium.
"Because, you three" Charlotte began, pointing at the girls. "Are prone to exaggeration and I don't think Sebastian wants to speak while he is trying to stop the bleeding" They all seemed to accept this as it was completely true, Simon knew they were rather good a lying as it had happened on numerous occasions with the girls. But before the girls could counter her statement Charlotte says, "James please continue,"
"Me and Sebastian walked into form, later than we normally would, and the whole class was abnormally quiet. Most of them were looking between the non-interactive board and us. So we walked to our normal seats and everyone was looking at us in surprise and horror. Then Tris tapped Sebastian on the shoulder and when he turned round, punched him on the nose," Simon had to hide a laugh as Tris was at least a foot smaller than Sebastian and was also skinny, whereas Sebastian was built up. Simon wasn't that surprised that Tris could punch that hard as he had seen her punch before but she resorted to violence only if it was self-defence or she was so angry she didn't think over it properly.
Mrs Branwell looked shocked, towards Sebastian, and Mr Michaelis just had a faint smirk on his face while scribbling down on the paper. Jem continued, despite everyone around him looking shocked, "Sebastian, naturally for him, tried to hit who ever punched him, not knowing it was Tris. But the thing was that Tris had stepped back, behind Isabelle, Katniss and Maia. Maia deflected the hit, as it was going to hit her. Then all three girls ganged on Sebastian, whose nose was heavily bleeding, and it took a while to get all three girls separated from him. Before they were separated Mr Starkweather walked in to the classroom and helped me, Clary and Hazel get these three girls off him. He told me to escort them to your office so I did,"
All that was left for Simon to wonder was: what was written on the board? It wasn't hard to guess that something was written or drawn on the board and Simon was no Sherlock Holmes.
Asking Simon's unasked question Mr Michaelis said "If you don't mind me interrupting; what was written on the board that was so offensive?" Anger and a hint of sadness was now painted on the girls face, Sebastian looked like he wanted to know as well and Jem looked like he was trying not to break down.
Silence hung heavily in the room until Jem finally spoke in a small, soft voice, "It said some rather personal things about a member of the class," He saw Charlotte's eyes soften but nevertheless she said "James, we are going to need details; the exact quote if you will"
Jem looked down at his hands as if unable to answer the question, he sighed and said "Mrs Branwell would I be able to excuse myself while one of the girls answers that question," She just nodded and he turned and walked out the door. As he did so Simon swore he could see tears pooling in his eyes but there was also something even stranger than that, which flickered across his face: anger.
Simon was now confused: one, Jem never showed any sign of being upset before, especially not crying, and two, Jem never got angry, no matter what Jem was always known as the peaceful peacekeeper (peaceful because no one would associate him with one of the peacekeeper from the Hunger Games), even when it came to Will, who was basically his brother, who used to mess up a lot, Jem never got angry or even showed glimpses of anger.
In a way Simon didn't want to think of what an angry Jem could cause; Simon liked to think that Jem was a bit like Bruce Banner but when Jem got angry, which had previously never happened, he would turn into the Hulk and destroy everything in his path. While Simon thought this, he also hoped that Jem never hulked out.
"It said things of a rather personal nature about a girl in the school," Katniss said but choked at the end not giving the girls name. "It had a list of names, guys' names; saying that this girl had been with all of these guys, recently and in the past and that because she had, apparently, been and is a slut and slept with all these guys, she deserved everything that had happened to her and that she deserved everything that was going to happen," Maia continued on from Katniss but she looked as if it physically pained her to say the words.
"Can you remember the names that were given, the names of the boys she had slept with?" Charlotte said cautiously and Izzy answered in an angry, upset voice, "Um… they were bullet pointed in this order: Jace Herondale, Will Herondale, Simon Lewis, Jem Carstairs and Jamie Campbell. But it said at the bottom that there had probably been a lot other guys that went to our school and that didn't, that she had supposedly slept with,"
Simon's mouth hung open with shock; what do I have to do with it? No one ever thought or thinks that I had slept with anyone! Oh, then everything clicked in his brain, as if it was a lightbulb going off in his brain that didn't bring light but instead brought darkness.
"Can you give me the full name of the girl that was mentioned on the board?" Charlotte said but she looked like she didn't want to know the answer and in some way Simon thought that she was just looking for a confirmation, not an answer.
There has only been one girl who has apparently slept with me.
The horrible truth spilled out of Katniss' mouth like it was poison; like it burned her to say it. "Crisiant Jones"
