Castle Heights: Crown of Glass by Sasha McDaniels

Author:Sasha McDaniels [McDaniels, Sasha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-06-05T22:00:00+00:00

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I’m not sure what I expected school to be like, but I took to it like a fish to water as far as classes were concerned.

I soaked up every piece of instruction, even the instruction that included material that I already knew.

By the time my morning classes were over, my hair had grown another inch which meant that I’d be back to braiding and pinning it up in no time. On my way to lunch with Ben, I was sulking over my hair when I heard a girl screaming.

The girl stood in front of the school gym’s double doors.

“What’s wrong?” Ben asked her.

“There’s a girl, in the locker room, dead.”

Ben pushed into the gym. I followed behind him. I don’t know why I followed him.

“Shouldn’t we get someone? Like Mrs. Bright or the principal?” I asked Ben.

Ben pulled his cell phone out of his pocket and dialed. “Uh, yes. I’m at the high school. Someone says there’s a dead body in the gym, in the girl’s locker room. I’m going there now. I haven’t seen the body yet.”

Ben ended the call.

“Shouldn’t we go get someone?” I asked again. “What if the killer is still in there?”

Ben grabbed my hand. “I doubt that. I need to see the body for myself this time. Too many have died. No one seems to know who the killer is, not even the Castle Heights police or my mother.”

The gym was quiet and empty. Everyone had already cleared out to go to lunch.

I trailed Ben across the basketball court. A large C&H was painted in the middle of the floor. The school mascot, a crow, sat on top of the C.

Once we made it to the locker room, Ben pushed the girl’s locker room door open. “Hello!” he called. When no one answered he went into the locker room.

“Whatever you do, Ben, don’t touch anything,” I said. “I’ve watched enough crime shows to know that you never touch anything.”

“Crime shows, huh?” Ben looked back at me and smirked.

“What? You act as if this is so normal. As if finding a dead body is no big deal.”

“It isn’t all that big of a deal in Castle Heights,” Ben said.

We looked around the girl’s locker room. We didn’t see anyone. I heard the tapping of high heels on the locker room floor.

“What are you two doing in here?” Mrs. Bright asked. Her eyes wide with surprise.

Ben had his back to us. He was peering into one of the single stall showers, peeking behind the yellow shower curtain. “She’s in here,” Ben said. He stumbled back. “It’s…it’s Annabelle.”

“Annabelle!” Mrs. Bright shouted. “Not my Annabelle.” She pushed past Ben and shoved the curtain aside. The Principal who I had never met, but could identify because his picture hung in the school hall near the entrance, hovered behind Mrs. Bright as she confirmed that it was indeed her daughter dead in the shower.

“You two go on,” Principal Pike said to us.

“Oh, my!” Mrs. Bright cried.

“Come on, Ben,” I said. I grabbed Ben by the arm.

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