“Looking for Maggie…they can’t…I can’t find her,” she said before sitting up as she pushed her hair off her shoulders. She smiled and winked at a guy walking by before looking back at us. “Ayira is missing too.”
“Missing?” Asha repeated. “Knowing her she probably just went above ground. Okay and? She’ll be back, right?”
Souxie started to say something before tilting her head to the side.
“You haven’t heard…have you? About the attack?”
“At the pool? Yeah, that was my class…Nobody knows what the fuck that was about. I do know that teacher is probably gonna be fired,” she said as she pulled out a sandwich already pre-made and wrapped.
“That was your class? I had to draw water from a student that was silently drowning but…” I shook my head trying to make sense of it. “It was something else.”
“Yeah, it was crazy,” she said in mid chew. “Namir had to jump in there and save the girl. I’m like where the fuck does he learn how to swim like that? He’s a wolf I thought?”
“Y'all really don’t know,” Souxie said as she looked at the two of us. “Where is Quan?”
“I last saw him with Namir.”
I knew that expression all too well. Souxie’s mind was working overtime, but she suddenly masked it with a smile when a guy came up behind her. He wrapped his arms around her waist for a deep kiss on the neck and cheek. They spoke under their breath before he walked off and her eyes lingered on his.
“Someone was attacked by the First Family,” Souxie said with her eyes still fixated elsewhere. “They’re searching for Maggie who just so happened to disappear around the same time, and I think Ayira is with her.”
“She didn’t do it!” Asha blurted out with bits of bread spitting from her mouth.
“Obviously I know that.” Souxie stated with an attitude. “The problem is how it looks. Someone was able to penetrate the school barriers and send a message out to witch-born, and those of witch ancestry.”
Her eyes were still wandering, staring at each student that walked by, but her mouth continued to move.
“A Witch has been attacked on the Grounds. They want me to stay silent. Their fear of the First Family comes before the safety of the Underground. No more… The same message kept repeating over and over on the board written in chalk. The dean was just in Maggie’s house looking for her with two police officers.”
I gasped as I gripped the edge of the table like I would fly off at any given moment. “Okay so what are we going to do?” I asked. “Do we just wait for her to return?”
Souxie smiled just as someone slammed their hands on the table. I looked back to see Clementine leaning over with her eyes peering at each of us with suspicion.
“I know you all heard the rumors,” she said with a snotty attitude. “Just so you know, I don’t believe Maggie would do such a thing but it's quite suspicious, don’t you agree? I have a little bit of witch ancestry in my family tree, so I was able to see the messages. The First Family attacking a student? Here I am thinking she’s the last one outside of Dr. Holmes… Where is my Soror, if I may politely ask?”
Souxie leaned forward with a smile.
“You may not,” she replied with a sweet tone. “That is our business.”
Clementine smirked before looking at Asha who was strangely her target every time she wanted to be vulgar and rude.
“Too good to eat the free lunch the school provides? You know, the low income, and less fortunate types of lunch,” she said with a pout of her lips. Asha took a bite of her sandwich before nodding with a cheek full.
“You know rug burn,” she started with lettuce spilling from her mouth. “I think I’ve gotten used to you being up my coochie. Since I won’t allow you to be in my face or in my ass, you’ve settled–––”
Clementine rolled her eyes and walked off in mid-sentence just as the doors opened with several officers in uniform walking into the dining hall. The chatter and noise of students suddenly leveled to whispers as they began to walk towards the double doors that led to the second dining hall. A tray was placed down between Souxie, and I as I looked up to see her manshe apparently couldn’t shake, Harmless Harvey. His round glasses, crisp white shirt with the tie made him look neat and professional when he sat down beside her. His cologne smelled sweet but the eyes darkening every other minute was his incubus nature always itching to come out. Such sexual deviants.
I didn’t even notice Solomon walking in until he quickly came over to our table and leaned in towards the center. Our eyes nervously locked for a moment before turning away as I cleared my throat.
“Hit my phone tonight,” he said before walking off.
“Who is he speaking to?” Harvey asked, confused.
“Any of us…there is no difference,” Souxie said softly just as a man walked by our table, almost as if he were in a hurry and came up behind Harvey’s chair and crossed his arms over his chest. The maroon hoodie barely clung to his thin body as the man looked Souxie up and down with disgust. Then glared back at Harvey, waiting for his undivided attention. Even Asha had to stop eating and watch because what exactly is going on.
“So this is what we’re doing Harvey?” The man let out before gripping the back of his chair. “I’ve been calling you and texting you, but this is what the fuck you’re doing?”
Harvey continued to eat before leaning back in the chair to look at the man. Just the move along caused the man to spazz out.
