𝓦𝐞𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 2...

𝐓𝐖 : 𝐌𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐛𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠

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"𝗚𝗘𝗧 𝗠𝗢𝗩𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗦𝗟𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗦!" Cyra yelled. All the other signs were watching the fire sign dorm door, wondering what on earth was happening in there.

A fuming Cyra pulled out the door and stared at the others. "Unless you lot, have a free bathroom, MOVE IT!" 9 hands immediately pointed to different directions where three vacant bathrooms were.

She stormed off muttering something about long showers and divas. The others stifled laughs and made their way to breakfast. After a few minutes, the other three came down and sat down as well.

Soon they were all laughing and enjoying themselves before school, or as Rosanne nicknamed it, 'educational hell' in which she normally shortens it to 'E.H'.

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Peyton grinned, a bracelet on their wrist indicating that they went by she/her pronouns that day. "Alright Zodiac, in the van, chop chop." She said, pretending to be a strict mother, to which everyone bursted out into more laughter.

They all got in the van, similar position as the night before, with Ethan and Peyton switching roles. "Step on it Pey." Sage said, buckling in. But before she could, the screen in the back of the van, as well as the screen on the dashboard flashed on and a written message, which started off quite distorted, came into display.

𝚆𝚎𝚕𝚕 𝙳𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚉𝚘𝚍𝚒𝚊𝚌 𝚘𝚗 𝚢𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚍𝚊𝚢'𝚜 𝚖𝚒𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚘𝚗. 𝚈𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚗𝚎𝚡𝚝 𝚝𝚊𝚜𝚔 𝚠𝚘𝚗'𝚝 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚊 𝚏𝚎𝚠 𝚍𝚊𝚢𝚜 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚖𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚕𝚢 𝚋𝚎 𝚘𝚗 𝚊𝚕𝚎𝚛𝚝. 𝙱𝚞𝚝 𝚍𝚞𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚎𝚡𝚌𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚓𝚘𝚋, 𝚝𝚘𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚛𝚘𝚠 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚌𝚊𝚗 𝚐𝚘 𝚟𝚒𝚜𝚒𝚝 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚏𝚊𝚖𝚒𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚊𝚗𝚗𝚞𝚊𝚕 𝚏𝚊𝚖𝚒𝚕𝚢 𝚍𝚊𝚢. 𝙶𝚘𝚘𝚍 𝚕𝚞𝚌𝚔 𝚒𝚗 𝚜𝚌𝚑𝚘𝚘𝚕, 𝚋𝚎 𝚊𝚕𝚎𝚛𝚝 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚢 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚊𝚗𝚢𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐
~ 𝙾𝚙𝚑𝚒𝚞𝚌𝚑𝚞𝚜

As soon as the message was delivered, the screens went black and the back of the van's display folded back to the top. There were shouts and cheers of joy once the display went away. Sage strained a smile and leaned back. Peyton beside her was grinning, her smile larger than ever. "Okay, hate to dampen the joy, but let's get to school."

To which Rose shouted "No one willingly wants to go to E.H Pey!" But everyone mainly ignored her since they couldn't really skip today considering the bosses had been nice and let them skip tomorrow.

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Once they arrived at school, Peyton parked the van and the group huddled behind, discussing their plan.

"Okay so Lunch, table at the very back as per usual. After school, wait by Idris's locker because it's the closest to the parking lot." Aster explained but it was mainly to refresh everyone's thoughts since they already knew these procedures.

"Alright then, off we go to E.H!" Rosanne exclaimed with fake enthusiasm. Ethan and Vincent grouped up with Sage to get to their first class of the day. Chemistry.

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As they entered, the class's noise hushed almost immediately. Sage mentally rolled her eyes. All they did was walk. Yet everyone either feared them or bullied them and she happened to be with the two nicest members of the Zodiac so bullying was a higher cause. It was her role to make sure her sign brother and best friends didn't get thrown around like an old cloth rag.

The classroom had long tables that sat three pupils per table so the Zodiac trio sat together, due to their timing, in one of the very first rows. Mrs. Moss, the chemistry teacher, joined in. Amber Moss was a genuinely happy go lucky person who rarely ever got upset or disappointed in the students. 

Today however, she seemed to be off the charts happy. "Please don't be a pop quiz...please don't be a pop quiz." Vincent chanted softly. Almost right after he stopped, Mrs. Moss looked around the class with a wide grin.

"The school has decided to have an experiment class for next year! It will basically be a separate class to do experiments and investigations for all three sciences. Now all you teens have to do is give this form to your parents to sign to enroll you for the class! Bring the form back to me on Monday next week." She explained, and everyone seemed alright with this, mainly because it wasn't a quiz.

"Oh and there's a pop quiz today." Sounds of groans and students slamming their heads onto the tables were heard all around. Moss found this hilarious and walked to the back, making her way to the front and passing out the forms. 

Once she got to the trio however, she paused. "If you can get your head's signature, that would be enough dears." She told them and Sage had to do her best not to roll her eyes.

To the whole school, she and her friends were kids in foster care. Their parents either didn't want them or are presumed dead.  Little do they know that most of their parents are alive and they've just been stealing under the name of an unknown group for money who takes care of them and trains them. Nothing like foster care but they can believe what they want to.

"Of course. Thank you Mrs. Moss." Ethan stepped in and replied before Sage could say anything. Sage grumbled in response.

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After chemistry and a few pop quizzes later, it was lunch. Sage sighed in relief as she put her books into her locker. Aster came up to her. "Come on, the others will be waiting." She said with a large smile as she dragged Sage with her.

The duo was greeted with 10 hellos and heys as they sat at their table. Like many typical high schools portrayals, there were tables grouped up by different cliques. The zodiac was known to the others as the 'foster care weirdos'. They didn't care because they had each other and that's all they really cared about.

Sage was admittedly a lot quieter than usual. The others were happily discussing tomorrow's events. She faked a smile for most of the lunch but the others were getting suspicious. "What about you Gigi?" Milani asked.

"Hmm?"

"She said, whatcha gonna do tomorrow love?" Vincent repeated.

"Oh. Stay at HQ. My parents are...uh...travelling."

"They were travelling last time too."  Rose said, slightly confused.

"Yeah, what kinda job requires that much travelling?" Zephyr asked.

"Clearly, theirs." Sage huffed. She didn't like arguing with them but she didn't like talking about her family either.

The others stayed silent, unsure of what to say for a while before Aster piped up. "You can come with me and meet my family, if you'd like?"

Sage couldn't help but smile but shook her head. "It's your time with them. Keep it that way."

"Nope, you're coming. Not up for negotiations. You're my sister more than my blood brother."

Sage sighed. She knew there was arguing with Aster. The other seemed to like this idea too.

"Beats you being alone and brooding over our next heist." Nikolai commented. Sage faked a gasp.

"I do NOT brood."

"You do-" Julianna started but stopped when Sage glared. "Okay okay, you don't brood." This just caused Julie to burst out laughing.

Noting the nature of the group, this just resulted in a chain reaction of laughter, till even Nikolai, someone who usually keeps his laughter to the HQ started laughing. This made everyone in the cafeteria turn their heads and look at them.

"Foster freaks." Someone called out from in front of them. All twelve heads whipped to the main bully, Brayden Pratt, glaring in unison.

"Shut up." All twelve said at once. Together, they can be quite intimidating and Brayden rolled his eyes going back to his group.

By then, the bell rang and they got up to get to their classes, having only a few more before the school day was over.

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They met up at Idris's locker and Peyton did a quick head count before directing them to the van.

Then they drove home and spent the rest of the day training and doing homework.

That night was filled with happy dreams as most of the Zodiac slept, excited to meet their families the next day. Even Sage slept peacefully, but how long will the peace last is the question.

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𝗡𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗿...

𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝟯  ⁞ ➴

𝗳𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝗿𝗲𝘁𝘀
𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗰𝘁? 𝗶𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀

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✎ ..• Welcome to chapter 2! I really hope you liked this new chapter. Lemme know your thoughts/opinions/predictions, I love reading them! Anyways, hope y'all enjoyed and with that done, I'll see ya in chapter 3!

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