Ch19 Arrested?!

I could hear the chirping of birds and the soft hum of small insects along with the soft swish of wind against our tent. The four gloomy faces in front of me twisted unpleasantly as we heard some children giggling not far away.

Life truly is such an unpredictable thing, just some days ago we were planning to spike Mr. Davis's drink with good intentions may I add. That day too we were sitting like this but unlike today we were so excited and giddy thinking of the wonderful outcomes our plan would present. And now today, all we are praying is to not be suspended.

"I still cant believe how pure evil Mr. Cruz is." said Nathan bitterly.

"It's not exactly evil, we are more wrong than him." said Luke in a soft guilty voice.

"I admit we did wrong, but seriously he had put a trap, a TRAP." said Nathan in a loud voice.

"If it wouldn't have been Luke's warning, he would have caught us." said Ben ruefully.

"I mean I would have done the same thing if someone would have drugged someone I liked. He only lied that he had some other evidence so the culprit would come to collect it," said Luke now firmly.

It was true, we all knew it. Mr. Davis and Mr. Cruz accidentally crossed paths when Luke and Nathan were distracting them. I guess they had made a deal to not leave the tent alone. Because they both immediately ran to the tent. It was good that we were alert and when they returned, they didn't find anything misplaced.

They actually told Nathan and Luke about their plan to trap the thief after, this made us even more ashamed. They trusted us so much and we went there trying to get them drunk.

"I am sorry guys, it's all my fault. I started it all." said Noah with his head hanging down.

"No we all did that not only you." I said truthfully.

"Peter is right, I should have stopped you guys it's all of us." said Luke fidgeting his hands in his lap. Ben and Nathan also nodded guiltily. 

"Peter! Noah! Luke! Nathan! Ben! Guys listen!" came a loud voice from a distance of Ms. Wilson.

We looked at each other in horror but slowly left our tent. We hadn't even crossed the threshold of our tent when Ms. Wilson came running towards us looking a little frantic.

"The culprit, they found the culprit." said Ms. Wilson as came with hurried steps almost running. She panted as she clutched the front of Luke's shirt and pulled my hand in a tight grip, and next thing we knew was that we were arrested and taken to Mr. Cruz's tent.

My heart was beating in my ears as sweat ticked down my back, even hours of basketball has never made me this sweaty. Others were sporting the same look of horror as mine, with wide eyes and the guiltiest expressions. But even with all the strength of me, I could not get myself to stop. Otherwise, I would have to jump off a cliff right now.

I never noticed how alarming, dangerous red their tent is, and the angry voices coming from it are anything but pleasant. Ms. Wilson stopped right outside the closed tent. 

"Listen, everyone, Mr. Cruz is very angry even Mr. Davis is angry and if I don't interfere then it could go too far. Can you all go inside and try to calm them down a little?" She said, and I struggled to understand her sentence, how can we calm them when we are the ones who did it? She might have sensed all of our confusion as she rushed to explain.

"They might have told you all that they had set up a trap to catch the culprit. Apparently, when they just returned to their, they found some students who were going through their stuff. They both are so angry, you are their favorite student, can you go and talk it out? One of them is from the basketball team." She nearly ranted. 

And maybe it was the relief in all of our faces that gave her the idea that we were going in. But the next thing we know is that we are pushed inside the tent. We stumbled awkwardly into the heated tent. As everyone looked towards us. And I was really surprised when I noticed Jeffery inside.

It took me a minute to understand the situation, but my eyes widened as I absorbed the scenario. 

"Peter, it's good you came. Your teammate Jeffery and his friends are caught rummaging in our luggage. Did you have any idea about it?" Mr. Cruz asked raging.

"No sir, I had no idea." I answered with honesty. All of us were staring wide-eyed with confusion.

"It was not our intention sir, we had not mixed Mr. Davis's drink. We came here to talk to you." Jeffery said.

Mr. Cruz scoffed, "And when you did not see us, you thought we would have been in our bags." he said.

"No sir, they were just open like this before we came in." Jeffery said truly lying.

"You know what, I'll deal with you guys in the principal's office. Ms. Wilson can you please take them away I am afraid I'll do something that a teacher should not." He said anger dripping from his sharp voice. As Ms. Wilson hurriedly dragged the kids away.

"I hate when people lie, and those idiots are clearly dishonest." Mr. Cruz said now sitting down trying to calm himself. As Ms. Davis sat next to him patting his back soothingly.

"You guys should go and help with dinner, we teachers will handle everything don't worry." Mr. Davis said and we quietly left their tent.

"Was Jeffery trying to save us?" asked Ben, when we were finally inside the safety of our tent after dinner.

"He won't have lied if he was." said Luke to which I nodded.

"He was not the culprit so why was he there?" asked Nathan.

"Maybe he was on the same mission as us?" said Ben excitedly to which we all made disapproving noises. We know Jeffery, he is the biggest gossip, but he is not a very courageous person it must have been something very important to him that he had to put his head in the lion's cave.

"By the way, Peter why were you clicking their luggage picture when we were looking in their tent." asked Ben. And it reminded me of their suspicious contents.

I laughed and recited the story of both of their clothes in one bag, and just like that our tragic day passed with a blur of laughs in the end.

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