This took way too long, not sure if any of you remember this.
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Yelling broke through quietness of the boys' dorm. Several loud bangs woke Danny up, fear surged through his body, realizing why there was banging on the door.
"Leo Kasper! James Earl Cash! Get your asses out here!" Danny scrabbled to get up. He looked around the room, only seeing Cash seemingly sleeping in his bed.
The door slammed open, two officers storming inside. Danny quickly stood, eyeing the still sleeping Cash.
"Are you Daniel Lamb?" The shorter officer asked. Danny only nodded. The taller officer made his way to Cash's bed, roughly grabbing his shoulder and pulling him up. Cash quickly woke up, throwing a punch to the officer holding him. The man fell against Cash's bed, holding his now bloodied nose.
"Fuck! Martinez, get in here!" A bigger officer stormed in, quickly grabbing Cash and slamming him against a wall. Cash fought against him, but it was no use. The shorter officer put handcuffs on him, then pushed him out of the tiny room.
"Do you know anything about the murders of Raiden Hall and the assault of Simon Masters?" Danny shook his head, fear flowing through him; he felt stuck to his bed. The short officer eyed him suspiciously, seemingly not believing him.
"Are you sure, kid? If you're lying, you'll get locked up like those assholes for a long time, and you don't want that, do you?" Danny shook his head, wishing this inntargation would end. The officer gave him one last look before leaving.
"Smithers! Get a patrol gathered, Leo Kasper is still at large."
Danny's head swam with various thoughts, he hadn't even noticed Leo wasn't in the room when the officers busted in. Where could he have gone? There wasn't many hiding spots on campus, unless he'd managed to somehow get outside.
As he sat running through the possible hiding places Leo could be, a knock on his door broke through the silence in the room, making him jump.
"Who is it?" He asked, eyeing the door.
"It's Janet Rodgers, from the school paper? I interviewed you about getting honors in English two years ago?" Danny slowly stood from his bed. Was she here to write a story about Cash and Leo? Was she trying to interview him to know more about them?
"Come in." The door slowly opened, revealing Janet. She had a worried expression on her face.
"I thought girls weren't allowed in here?" Janet sighed, shutting the door behind her; it was then when he noticed the bag in her hand.
"The police want the boys and girls together to hopefully reduce the chances of one us getting murdered." Danny only nodded, pulling out the desk chair for her to sit. She took the seat while Danny took his place back on his bed.
Are you rooming with me?" Janet shook her head.
"No. I'm rooming with Brad and Kat; they didn't want any of us staying with you in fear of Leo coming back, or even Cash." He understood why, Leo was pretty shifty, if anyone could figure out how to get back in here without being detected, it was him.
"I don't think Cash- or Leo, would hurt a woman." Janet gave him a skeptical look.
"Was Cash the main perpetrator? Danny, if you know something you can't keep it to yourself." He froze, looking like a deer in headlights.
"I-I don't know anything besides what you guys know." Janet didn't seem satisfied by his words.
"Daniel," she said, suddenly standing and gripping his shoulder. "Please say something if you know something; don't get yourself dragged into this." Danny couldn't move again, he felt frozen to his bed. Janet had a desperate look on her face.
"Did you, fuck, did you just come in here to see if knew I anything?" Janet's face lit up; she stood and let go of Danny's shoulder.
"Partly. You are the closest one to them, nobody likes Leo and Cash hardly even speaks to anyone, I just wanted to know if you knew anything. I also wanted to know if you were ok, this situation is probably super stressful." Stessful was an understatement, he'd never been so anxious in his entire life.
"Just because I live with them, doesn't mean I know either of them. Cash is just as much of mystery to you as to me, Leo, well, he's an asshole but anyone could tell you that." That was lie, partly, he knew little things about him others didn't; the extremely subtle ways to tell if he was happy or that he cared, like how he'd grab the back of his collar and push him to his side to avoid getting ran over by other students.
"Just be careful, he's only murdered two people but he could easily kill someone else if he somehow gets out of police custody." Two? He had only murdered Raiden-
"He killed someone else?" Danny couldn't believe what he was hearing, but Cash had told him Simon wasn't dead.
"Last night, yes. They found Simon's body this morning; looked like they had fight before he died." Danny went pale; Cash had told him that he was still alive, and the one of the officers that had barged in said assault not murder; maybe the Bullworth PD was just trying to make sure the students didn't freak out even more.
When he looked at Janet, she had a suspicious look on her face; like she wanted to pry further but was worried what the outcome would be. Danny was scared, he suddenly stood up, making Janet jump. He gave her a small apology before pacing around the room.
"Daniel, are you ok?" Danny quickly glanced at her before returning to his pacing; he felt like he was going to have a panic attack.
"I-" He stopped. He tried speaking again, but couldn't. It felt like his throat was closing up. He watched Cash murder a man without even knowing it.
"How do you know this? How'd you find out?" Janet looked at her hands, trying to find the right words. Daniel clutched his hands on the back of his neck, he felt like he was going to throw up. He couldn't get over the fact that Cash actually killed a man in front of him, and also lied about killing him; though a part of him kept thinking that maybe, just maybe, Cash did it on accident, not meaning to.
"I heard a couple officers whispering about it while they were making us pack up to come over here. I've only told you and Helen. Obviously they don't want us knowing because it would cause a riot." Danny just nodded. Janet watched him intently, looking at the way he was becoming more pale and the way he looked sick.
Yeah. All hell would break loose." Especially with Leo on the loose, knowing him, he'd probably come back to savor the chaos being brought upon Bullworth.
"Seems like it already has here, you boys are unruly right now." Danny couldn't even bring himself to give her a dry laugh. But she was right, there were arguments being started left and right between students, prefects and officers. Some demanded to let off campus, others wanted less officers breathing down their necks.
"What the fuck!" Noise erupted from the hallway, multiple bangs being heard outside of Danny's door.
"A fucking prefect!?" Oh shit. More shouting and bangs were heard in the hall. Janet stood from her seat, moving towards the door.
"Oh god. What the hell is going on out there?" Danny put his back against the wall, intently watching the door.
A few minutes later, the door swung open, a girl Danny recognized but forgot the name of, comes rushing in. She quickly slammed the door closed, joining Janet by the desk.
"The hell is going on, Sam?" Sam took a seat on Leo's bed, a scared look on her face.
"It's damn tiny warzone out there; I was just hanging out with Catherine and Jane in the common area, then all the sudden, a screaming match broke out between Aaron and one of the officers, then his dumbass and punched the officer. And of course, all the other idiots started throwing punches too." Danny and Janet weren't surprised, if one person starts a fight, others will join in. It basically apart of Bullworth culture.
"Are Cat and Jane alright?" Sam nodded, her eyes widened when she realized that Danny there.
"You've been hanging with the guy who lives with freaks?" Danny felt offended, it wasn't his fault he got roomed together with them. It wasn't like Starkweather let them switch rooms.
"It's not my fault!" Janet grabbed Sam's arm, throwing a glare her way.
"Calm down, we don't need a fight in here. Now, are Jane and Cat ok?" Sam simply nodded, looking away from Danny.
"Yes. They went with Victor to his room." Janet sighs. This is out of control, and Danny feared it was only going to get worse. Maybe he could try escaping like Leo did. How the hell did he even get out? That one question kept tripping him up.
"You should stay with me and Rick, it's not safe with Danny." 'What the hell did I do?' Was all Danny could think. So he's automatically a physcopath because he lived with two of them?
"Hey! Danny just lived with them, doesn't mean he's a freak as far as we know!" Janet defends. Well, she did say as far as they knew, but he'd take that.
"So!? Even so, that freak Leo could come back and try and murder him. You want to risk that?" That was one thing he hadn't thought of, Leo trying to kill him. He'd be lying if he said the thought didn't frighten him.
"I'm not staying with him, I was just making sure he was ok! Michael already agreed to let me stay with him!" Her friend seemed to chill a little upon hearing that. Still, she glared at Danny before grabbing Janet's hand, pulling her towards the door.
"Come on, Jan." Janet protested against being pulled out the room, but there was nothing she could do. Danny just watched as she was dragged out, giving him a quick goodbye before the door slammed shut.
Danny just stood there, looking at the door. As if Janet or Leo, or even Cash would just enter right that second. He needed a way out of here, this was torture.
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