All We Know Is Falling: Fall With Me: Volume One by Nicole Thorn Page B

I had to do. Despite the fact that I was technically evil, that didn’t mean I’d just sit back and watch evil in the world hurt the people I care about. And, Lucifer help me, but I cared about Hale. This was wrong and I needed to fix it.
    I closed my eyes and started listening to the chattering of the students all around me. I needed to try and pick up on something. I needed a hint so that I could start fixing this.
    Most of what I heard was useless. Talking about what they did over the weekend. Where they were going after school. What they wanted for dinner.
    “…But he’s so hot,” I heard a girl say. Hot? Sounded like Hale, so I focused on her voice. “I can’t believe he’d do stuff like that. I was gonna ask him out. Thank God I didn’t.”
    “Shut up,” I heard from a familiar voice. Kenna. “He’s a dick. That’s obvious.”
    “I don’t need a guy to be nice to me to get what I want from him,” the girl said. “And you’re just pissed because of what he said to you.”
    “What’d he say?” another girl, Melanie said.
    Kenna sighed. “I was being nice enough to point out to him that he was wasting his time with Freakshow. And he flipped his psycho switch and started screaming at me. He called me a bunch of names and said I was ugly.”
    That lying bitch. I should set her on fire for telling people that Hale was doing anything but defending me.
    “Wow,” Melanie said. “He does sound mean.”
    “Yeah,” Kenna said like the girl was stupid for ever thinking anything else. “He’s a psycho. I already said that.”
    “But,” Melanie said, “I don’t even know what he did. I keep hearing shit but I don’t know what the real thing is.”
    I opened my eyes and stared at Kenna and her Cheshire Cat grin. “Why don’t I tell you?”
    “Go ahead.”
    Her smile grew and I wanted to throttle her.
    “He killed someone.”
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
Chapter Seven: Freakshow And The Psycho
     
     
     
    No. I didn’t believe it. It was just a stupid rumor that Kenna was spreading to get back at Hale.
    “Did you hear something?” Jay asked me.
    I stopped listening to the girls and looked over at my friend. I told her what I heard and she didn’t look surprised.
    “Is that what you heard too?” I asked.
    She nodded. “That he killed someone. That he killed a bunch of people. That he robbed a store. That he beats people up for looking at him too long. That he was busted for drugs.”
    I felt fury rise in my veins. “It sounds like an awful lot of bullshit to me.”
    “Me too. But they got those files. Something they saw triggered this.”
    “No. A pissed off bitch triggered this. And maybe they didn’t find anything in the file and so they just made all of this up. How do you even know they got the file? Did you see it?”
    She shook her head. “Mrs. Deetz said it was missing when she went into her office this morning. The only one missing. The thing was left open.”
    I breathed out. “Of course the thief is a dumbass. But that’s alright,” I stood up. “Because I’m going to show them just how big a mistake they made.”
    Jay looked up at me with clear worry and certainty. “What are you going to do when you find them?”
    “I’m going to do what’s in my nature.”
    She swallowed hard. “Aurora, don’t let your temper make you do something that’ll get you in more trouble than you can get out of.”
    “I’ll do whatever I need to do. They hurt someone I care about.”
    She almost smiled. “Sweetie, I’m so glad that you care about someone. But I know you. I know what you do when someone fucks with someone that you care for. I don’t want you taking this too far.”
    “Like as far as stealing a file and spreading rumors so that a new kid has a miserable last year of school?”
    “You know what I mean. Don’t put anyone in the hospital. I love that you care, I really