Paul scrolled through his phone, reading the article and then hissed,

"What the hell is he talking about?" he asked, fumbling with his phone and then folded his arms. "This is crap load of bullshit, though."

"We need to find out who she is," Peter declared, and Paul nodded.

"I think that goes without saying."

"But who could she be?" Peter asked, "But now everyone can tell that it is some girl, who most likely needs some friends and a man."

Paul burst into laughter at his words, "That I am definitely agreeing with you on."

"It was that day that Jemimah thought she had thrown us off," Paul muttered and then rolled his eyes, "But we all knew she was going out with King."

"So that means the gossip is too close to home," Peter muttered, and Paul nodded, pursing his lips.

"It's someone around us, someone we know."

"Her roommates" Peter started speaking.

"Yes. I need to find some way to investigate them or check them. I'm going to speak to Vickie," Paul said.

"Oh, you plan to use her to get to them."

"Easiest way"

"On our side..." he trailed off, "Well, it can't be be Doyin."

"We trust no one but ourselves, man; anyone is the culprit."

"But it can't be her, okay? We can't trust anybody, but this is Doyin we are talking about. Four years of friendship – we can vouch for her to some extent, no?" Peter argued.

"No one, Peter, no one at all. Well, check her too. These are the closest people that we can think of; it doesn't have to be them, but maybe people lurking closely around them – that's what we want."

"And what if we find her?'

"Well, we bring her over to our side, threaten her, I don't know. But she must be on our side; I don't care if I have to use Ravens."

"Well, we'll get to it then."

"Exactly"

"That was a mean post, though. Jemimah isn't someone that would allow herself to be groomed."

"So emotions are in this?"

"So if she's not being groomed, you really think she's in love?"

"Well I don't know"

"You don't know; that's your answer."

"Look, I could care less if she's in love or not; if I can use her, then so be it."

"Right, so be it."

The next day, the two boys were ready. Ready to find out what they had planned to do. After class, they had all hung out together, and Jemimah was obviously unhappy, destabilised even. She scrolled on her phone and folded her arms.

"I really don't understand what I did to the girl. Always on my neck, always out for me," Jemimah complained.

"Just calm down; we agreed to stop giving this girl face" Doyin complained.

"Doyin, please your phone, I want to check something" Peter asked and Doyin passed her phone as she focused on comforting Jemimah.

"I'm not just happy that someone who knows nothing about me is saying some bullshit on some gossip blog, even taking my pictures" Jemimah complained.

"I mean, taking my pictures, that's my privacy being invaded. Maybe I need to report this to my mom" Jemimah added.

"C'mon, calm down. It doesn't have to get that serious you know, she's just some online blogger, Who cares about what she thinks or says? Maybe reporting her to the school authority is a good idea" Doyin said.

"School authorities?" Jemimah asked and Doyin shrugged.

"Here's your phone" Peter passed the phone back to Doyin.

"You know you didn't tell us that day that you were going to see King" Doyin commented with a small grin.

"Well, I didn't want you guys to tease me" Jemimah mumbled.

"C'mon, we already know you guys are a thing even though neither of you will admit it" Doyin said laughing and Jemimah pursed her lips.

"Besides, what does King have to say? What did he say?" Doyin asked.

"Well the writer can expect death, daring to write about King like that is asking to be killed. She might think she's courageous but she just signed her death warrant" Paul replied and Doyin laughed.

"Crazy. Good for her"

Back in the hostel Peter shook his head, "She's not even following Butterfly Fairy in the student forum. I even checked if she had checked her comments or had any connections, there was nothing, nothing at all"

Paul rubbed his chin, "So she's no longer a suspect"

Peter nodded, "I guess. I guess we will then investigate the ones around her now bah?"

"Yeah"

"Have you gotten through to Vickie yet?" Peter asked and Paul shook his head.

"Been busy for a while, not time for proper talk"

"We need to move fast Paul"

Paul nodded, "Understood."

He stared out of his window towards the girls' hostel. They had a reason, there was a reason for everything and this everything was and had been propelling them. They were going to find out the truth, that truth that everyone seemed so anxious to bury, that secret that they all wanted to keep underground and prevent from coming out, they were going to tell everyone and expose them.

His eyes narrowed as the day's events played in his head, "You aren't that smart, if it's not you, you know who it is" he muttered as he climbed into his bed.

"What did you say?" Peter asked and Paul shrugged.

"Nothing"

"We need progress Paul" Peter said, his tone hard and Paul turned to catch his twin brother's hard eyes. His eyes were like steel but Paul could feel the storm and emotions brewing the eyes. Their eyes held each other for too long and then Paul nodded, his eyes softening.

"Progress we will" he responded.

"We will. We would achieve what we came here for and nothing can stop us" he said firmly and Peter nodded his head and looked away into space, his eyes unclear. Paul followed his eyes and stared into space as well. A few minutes later, their eyes found each other again and Paul chuckled.

"I saw"

"Me too."

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