"Woah, woah, hold your horses lovely!"

"Athena," I scrambled to catch my breath, feeling my heart pounding.

"Care to explain the sprinting?"

"I...the..." telling her the truth would only lead to more troubles so I decided to keep it to myself for now, "The school just seems so scary with no one there." I bent the truth a bit, even though it was still true.

Athena laughed and in a high pitched voice that reminded me of a disney movie said, "well, come on my little pony, I'll protect you!"

I laughed, calming down a bit before I stuck my tongue out at her, took her hand that she offered, and we walked to the blue door. I silently prayed for them all to be gone as I entered the building again.

I walked through the rows of lockers again, this time with Athena at my side. I let out a sigh of relief when I didn't hear any other footsteps.

"Okay, let's get this over with, you take that half, I'll do this one," I nodded, grabbing the sheet with the combinations walking over to the other row of lockers. Turning on my tiny flashlight, I looked at the locker numbers of the row. Lockers 56-113. Turning each lock to the exact combination numbers then hearing the lock snap open, I gathered several locks at a time in a pile. When I got all the lockers in the row, I grabbed random locks, sliding them back on the lockers, mixing up the combinations. A paper slid out of one of the top lockers and I bent down to pick it up. A... news paper? Turning the paper over in my hands, I stopped when a picture caught my eye. Squinting, I brought the paper closer to my eyes to read the caption, street bunch gang leader, adrian, got bailed out of jail by his fellow gang members. And the picture above was the picture of the man I saw being held captive today.

"That was where I knew him from, what was I doing getting involved in this," I silently muttered, cursing myself under my breath. Making a promise to myself to never mention it again, I reached up and slid the newspaper back into the locker it had fell from, then sliding and locking the locker. I continued down the row, sliding locks and clicking them shut.

When I had about ten more to go, I felt a presence staring at me. I looked up, already having a bad feeling about this, to see Adrian leaning on the wall with his hands crossed, staring at me with a smirk on his face. When he caught me watching him, he just winked and turned around, hands in his jean pockets, and walked towards the entrance. I watched him, eyes narrowed, until he left the building completely, then shook my head to try and forget again. 

a/n: hi, hows everyone's day going? here is today's update! will anyone figure out what happened? how will people react to the prank? any traditions like this one in your guys' school? comment! stay tuned!

written with much love!