Blackthorn - Top Secret Villain School-Chapter 28: A Knock at The Door

After the training exercise Nashoba and Val had gone back to their dorm, leaving Roxanne and D walking in silence back to theirs. Neither really said anything as they walked into the hall, went up the elevator, or entered the room.

D noticed her gathering up a few books and notepads and went to ask where she was off to. But he figured she was probably going off to the library as per usual.

As per usual he would be left alone, in his room, with nothing to do. He thought about going to the library separately from her for a moment. That thought was quickly squashed by the fact that he didn’t even fully remember which building was the library.

He tried to mentally map out the island within his mind, and by the time he’d given up trying to figure out where the library was Roxanne was already gone.

He laid on his bed with his feet hanging off to the side, wondering about what Scarlett would say to him when he asked her. He supposed a girl like her could be asked worse questions by a guy. He shook his head trying to dissipate the thought of him asking her any other question than ’Will you participate in the trials with me?’

It wasn’t that big of a deal he figured, people around here risked their lives all the time, he told himself. ’She was apart of that SSC thing, she’s gotta be pretty good in a bad situation’ He thought.

His mind flashed back to their scuffle on the beach all those weeks ago. He knew she was good in a real fight, hell she’d almost killed him when he first got here. She’d be the perfect person to ask. What D didn’t think about was who he would ask if Scarlett said no.

If that happened he would truly be fucked for the next however long they planned on keeping him here. He had to convince her he thought. It was his only way off this damn island.

As he thought about what life would be like once he got off this god forsaken island, thoughts and memories of his friends began to bubble to the surface. He tried to suppress them, to bury them under what he knew he had to do, but he just couldn’t do it.

He’d be lying to himself if he said he didn’t have fun with Max, Val, Nashoba, and even Roxanne sometimes, but he couldn’t stay here with them. They knew he was nothing like them and that he truly didn’t belong here, maybe he belonged in prison with his mom but he didn’t belong here.

As he ruminated on all the thoughts in his head a soft knock sounded at the door, but he was too lost in thought to pay it any mind.

Some time passed and the knock sounded again, harder this time. Like the knock of a policeman right before he said ’screw it’ and kicked down the door.

The knock made him nearly jump out of his own skin as he hit the floor and went over to the door. He wasn’t expecting anyone to arrive anytime soon and Roxanne nor Max knew anything about knocking, so he didn’t know who it could be.

He slowly opened the door slightly...

And Spire looked back at him through the slit of the door.

"May I come in Mr. Cross?" Was all she said as she slid a foot in between the door and wall, keeping him from immediately closing the door in her face.

"Why?? What do you want?"

"I merely want to have a chat about your recent activities, in regards to the Thorn Trials." A devilish, almost too wide smile spread across her face as she said those words.

D felt his heart sink down to his stomach, ’how the hell did she know anything about what they were planning on doing?’ He thought.

"I don’t know what the hell you’re talking about, now step off."

"You’re a better liar when you’re not hiding vials of Surge in your room."

D felt himself beginning to sweat, he could usually lie much better than this pitiful display.

"Now you’re just making stuff up!"

"Oooo am i? Of course, I have no proof of these things but lets just say I have my sources. Sources that can stay rumors if you let me in..."

D took a long sharp sigh and relented, throwing the door open and waving her in.

"You can come in, but don’t touch my shit, or anyone else shit".

"Someone’s touchy today, did you miss your little appointment with Miss Hemlock today?"

"How do you know about that? Why’re following me like some creepy stalker?" His face began to get heated as he felt anger rising. He always felt anger around her though

She was the very reason he’d been dragged here, she’s been watching his every move and now is in his space for apparently no other reason than to taunt him.

He leveled a hard gaze had her as he asked," I’m going to say this one more time, why are you here?"

Clea moved a long strand of hair out of her face and behind her ear as she sat down onto Max’s bed across from D. Completely disregarding D’s plea not to touch anyone’s stuff.

"I need you to stop any plans you have of entering the Thorn Trials immediately. That is why I’m here.

If D was drinking a beverage he would’ve spat it out by now. This woman had really come here to demand something of him. Something that might not even happen if Scarlett didn’t say yes to his question.

"Thanks for your concern but we’ll be going to the trials and it doesn’t concern you, like at all."

"That’s where you’re wrong Mr. Cross it does concern me. It concerns me more than anyone else on this island."

"Pfft really? and why is that?"

"Because the SSC are the secondary administrators of the Thorn Trials..."