Filed To Story: Falling for the Alpha As a Student Novel
“Did something to who?”
She asked, narrowing her eyes at me.
“Lila, Sarah has been here all night—”
“I don’t believe that for a second,”
I said, and I could feel my emotions getting the best of me. But I didn’t care; I needed answers. I needed to clear Scott’s name.
“Who are you even talking about?”
Sarah asked, standing to her feet and folding her arms across her busty chest. “I haven’t spoken to anyone since yesterday.”
“You did something to Scott,”
I said, shaking my head at her. “You did something to him and now he’s going to prison over something you did!!”
Sarah’s eyes grew large.
“What the fuck are you talking about?”
Sarah asked. She genuinely seemed confused, which was throwing me off a bit but I knew what Sarah was capable of. I wasn’t going to let her get into my head like she does everyone else. “Scott’s going to prison?”
“Lila, what happened?”
Kay asked, stepping toward me. “We heard sirens, but we didn’t know it had anything to do with Scott.”
“Did she get into your head too?”
I asked, turning to Kay. “She has a habit of doing that.”
“One thing about fairies is we can’t be manipulated like normal beings,”
she said, a concerned frown decorating her lips. “Can you at least explain why Scott is going to prison?”
“I’d like to know the answer to that question too,”
Sarah said, her brows knitting together. “What the hell happened?”
“Like you don’t already know,”
I said through my teeth, glaring at her before turning back to Kay. My expression softened and tears spilled from my eyes. “He confessed to murdering Merida,”
I said in a low and defeated tone.
They both gasped loudly.
“What?!”
Kay asked, her eyes wide with alarm.
“He confessed to murdering someone?”
Sarah asked, equally shocked. My gut was telling me something was seriously off with my accusation. “Scott wouldn’t murder anybody.”
“That’s why you manipulated his mind into thinking he did,”
I said to her pointedly.
The color of her face drained and she looked taken aback.
“That’s not a fair accusation,”
Kay said, shaking her head at me. “I was with her all night. We’ve both been freaked out about this whole murder thing and kept our minds off the events by binge-watching corny movies. We haven’t left our dorm since yesterday.”
My heart fell into my stomach as I looked at Sarah; tears were in her eyes, and she wasn’t looking at me. She was looking out the window; the bright blue lights of the sirens were no longer shining through their window, and I could no longer hear the faint sounds of the sirens either.
Scott and the officers were gone.
“You didn’t manipulate his mind into thinking he killed her?”
I asked, staring at her with dismay.
She remained still for a moment and then she looked at me through her unshed tears and shook her blonde head.
“No…”
she murmured. “I didn’t. I wouldn’t actually kill anyone, and I certainly wouldn’t make anyone take the fall for me like that…”
Her words fell short, and her breathing grew thick. She was about to have a panic attack.
Kay could sense that as well because she rushed toward Sarah and wrapped her arm around her, helping her to her couch.
That’s when I realized just how wrong I truly was. I took a step back, unable to cope with what I had done and what I had accused her of.
“You didn’t do this…”
It wasn’t a question.
Sarah met my eyes and I saw the pure worry in them as she shook her head slowly.
“No,”
she said, her voice breaking slightly. “I did not do this.”
“If you didn’t do this then who did?”
I finally asked the question that’s been sitting between us. A question that none of us had the answers to.
“I don’t know,”
she finally said, shaking her head. “I don’t fucking know.”
I didn’t stay much longer; I left and went back to my dorm to find Becca curled up on the couch. She looked as if she had been crying but she forced a bright smile when she saw me enter.
“I didn’t think you’d be back tonight,”
she said, wiping at her tear-stained face.
“Scott confessed to murdering Merida,”
I blurted, sitting down beside her; my entire body still felt so numb. I couldn’t believe what had happened. I was completely and utterly numb.
“What?!”
She gasped. “He killed her?”
“No, Becca,”
I said, shaking my head. “He didn’t kill her. He just said that he did.”
“Why would he say that if he didn’t kill her?”
“Something was wrong with him,”
I said, remembering the dark look he had in his eyes. “It was like he wasn’t fully there.”
“I don’t understand…”
“He was under some kind of mind manipulation,”
I blurted. “This time, it wasn’t Sarah.”
“Are you saying someone else at this school has the ability to control minds?”
I didn’t want to face that fact, but that was exactly what I was saying.
“Yes,”
I finally said after a pause. “And whoever has that ability is who killed Merida and forced Scott to take the fall.”
Lila’s POV
“What are you talking about?”
Rachel asked, emerging from her room and surprising us both.
“Rachel,”