After a sleepless night last night, Jessica arrived at school with two dark circles under her eyes as expected, and found herself once again the focus of discussion among passers-by—the relationship between Eleanor and her yesterday What happened has become a topic that everyone talks about, especially those who experienced it at the scene are treated as the top of the gossip food chain, flattered by a group of people, and vividly describe the cause and effect of the whole thing.

Fortunately, most of them still prefer not to believe it. At least according to Emma, ​​everyone regards it as a joke.

"How is this possible? You and Cornwell? Eleanor was blown crazy." Emma's decisive words brought Jessica a little comfort.As the person who knows the facts the most in theory, she is the one who doesn't know the truth in reality, but since her best friend has said so, then this must be a baseless accusation.

Jessica put on her shorts and looked around the women's locker room. She had one more important thing to do, but first she had to find the client.The girls had almost finished changing, and they left the dressing room in twos and threes, but there was no sign of the person she was looking for.

"Has Margaret still not come to school?" She couldn't help frowning.

"I thought she wasn't here either," Emma looked around vigilantly, and then whispered into her ear, "but her nerdy friend said she's coming every day these days."

"What?" Jessica paused as she went to put the shirt down, "but I never saw her."

"That's right," Emma nodded sympathetically, "They say Maggie likes to hide from people more than before."

Jessica thought of the last time she and Emma went to Margaret's house—drinking, violent father, and never-showing mother—and couldn't help but feel a little uncomfortable.

After a while, Emma changed her clothes, and the two walked to the playground together, doing warm-up activities on the sidelines.

"I mean, is Sherlock Holmes in vain? It's been so long with Maggie, but how is it possible that he's implying us every day that James did it?! Maybe James isn't as perfect as he seems, but He's not... that, I mean, 90.00% of the girls in school are interested in him... I'll be honest, Sherlock is absolutely jealous!"

While Emma warmed up casually, she resumed her daily questioning of Sherlock.Jessica knew that no matter how she explained, she would be interpreted as making excuses for Sherlock, so she simply listened honestly, without any intention of interrupting.But maybe the grievances were too deep, Emma didn't stop complaining until they started to line up and run around.

"He's pretty smart, but so what? He can put on that pompous face just for that? He's looking at people like he's looking at a dumb dog or something! In God's eyes Everyone is equal, is he more powerful than God?"

To be honest, Jessica felt that ordinary people might be worms in Sherlock's eyes. He couldn't understand the emotions of ordinary people at all, just like Jessica couldn't understand his behavior and emotions.

"Sherlock is the most ungentlemanly person I've ever seen! He's defiant to a shocking degree, I suspect he can't see the lady at all, his eyes are only the dirt on the shoes, the folds on the clothes, if You didn’t get sick or went somewhere you shouldn’t be, he wouldn’t look at you at all!…Speaking of which, there are real gentlemen out there!”

Emma saw something and waved excitedly to the other side of the playground.Jessica looked in the direction of her gaze and found Joseph standing far away at the small gate on the side of the stands.He also waved his hand, and kept jumping and gesticulating, but Jessica was too far away from him to receive what he wanted to express.

"What is Joseph doing?" Jessica struggled to read his gestures. "I don't know at all." Emma also noticed something was wrong, "He seems to be in a hurry."

As the whole team gradually ran to this side of the playground and got closer and closer to Joseph, Jessica saw his appearance clearly. He waved his hands vigorously, then pointed to the west, and kept repeating: with a word.And his anxious expression surprised Jessica.

"I think something happened." Jessica turned to look at Emma.

"Absolutely." Emma became serious, and Jessica saw the same thought in her expression.

Out of the corner of her eye, she glanced at the physical education teacher who was chatting with others not far away, and exchanged glances with Emma.The two slowed down and slowly fell to the back of the team.Under the cover of the people in front, they took advantage of the blind spots to escape from the team and came to the door to join Joseph.

"I'm really, really sorry to bother you." Joseph was slightly sweating under the continuous exposure to the sun.But even in this case, he was impeccably polite.

"Oh, don't be like this," Emma was obviously pleased by Joseph's attitude, "You must have encountered something urgent."

"Yes," Joseph took out a handkerchief from his pocket, and wiped the sweat from his forehead, "It's Margaret Lindemann, something happened to her..."

"What happened to Maggie?" Emma exclaimed, "Is she okay?"

Jessica also went to see Joseph nervously.

"Uh," Joseph hesitated, "you should see for yourself, she's not well."

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Jessica came to the building in the northwest corner of the campus again.Since she left last time, she has never set foot here again, and even when she is just approaching, she will feel a kind of coldness from the bottom of her heart.Open doors, dark floors, broken glass windows, everything seems like an all-consuming nightmare.

So she really couldn't figure out why Margaret would revisit the old place for no reason.

"... Margaret and I are partners in the physics experiment class. She seems to have been on leave for a long time, so there is an experiment that needs cooperation until today. I found out that the physics teacher is resting here, so I asked her to come together Hand in the report. Margaret seemed reluctant at first, but eventually she agreed, so I didn't take it seriously. However, once here, she became very strange, as if something terrible happened... …and then she started crying and having nervous twitches that brought almost everyone in the building over - it was a disaster, but Margaret just wants to see you and Emma right now, so I'll go find You guys..."

Along the way, Joseph finished talking about what happened very quickly.He patted his chest with lingering fear, "She looks completely broken..."

Jessica and Emma glanced at each other, quickened their pace, and came to the place Joseph said. From a distance, they saw many people gathered in a circle, with several medicine boxes on the ground, and some tools scattered around There, looks didn't come in handy.

When they got closer, they found Mr. Elliott, the dean of students, arguing loudly whether or not to call an ambulance.Several female teachers knelt on the ground, comforting Margaret who was huddled together.

"Maggie!" Emma rushed forward, Jessica followed closely behind her, and these people automatically made room for them.

Margaret had buried her head between her arms, her body was twitching and crying, but she raised her head in confusion when she heard Emma's cry.Her face was covered with tears, her face was so pale that she had no blood, and her eyes were so slack that it was frightening. It seemed that she had received some great stimulation.

"What's the matter?" Emma eagerly looked at the people around, wanting an answer, but only shook her head in unison.

"Maggie," Jessica said in the softest tone she could, "do you want to get out of here?"

After hearing this sentence, Margaret's pupils refocused.She nodded and stood up holding Jessica's hand.The onlookers fell silent, and Mr. Elliot stopped arguing with others and walked over with a stern face.

"Miss Lindemann, I'll call your parents later and ask them to pick you up," he said seriously, "You should see a doctor and have a good rest."

Margaret's hand holding Jessica's wrist began to tremble, and it soon spread throughout her body.Apparently Emma felt it too, and she preempted everyone by saying: "I'm Maggie's neighbor and I'll take her home. Maggie's parents are both at work and they're too busy to come."

"Miss Hunter..." Mr. Elliot didn't seem to believe it.

"I think this arrangement is the best," Joseph, who had been silent since he came here, suddenly said. He winked at Jessica, and he held Mr. Elliott and whispered. What.

Jessica understood, and she and Emma protected Margaret from left to right, and quickly left here while Mr. Elliot had no time to make sex.

They went downstairs smoothly all the way, and when they passed by the place where Emma was said to have first found Margaret, Margaret had another sign of collapse.Jessica had no choice but to hold her hand firmly and say some meaningless comforting words.After finally reaching the gate, Margaret stopped suddenly.

"Maggie, we'll walk a few more steps..." Jessica persuaded her softly, but was startled by her expression.

"I smelled that smell again..." Margaret's eyes widened to a terrifying degree, "It's that person..."

Both Jessica and Emma saw each other's terrified faces.

The author has something to say:

So what... the home network is not very good and I can't post it, and the author is worried that there will be more than a dozen chapters with exactly the same content in a while, so I dragged it until now and waited for a long time~~

I hope there will be no little angels who waited until 12 o'clock in the comment area_(:з」∠)_Sins, sins, go to bed early and wake up early Amitabha

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