Helanie:
"Lucy has been trapped with that entity for this long, and none of us were able to help her?" Gavin muttered, shaking miserably. Lamar and Jenny tried to comfort him, but none of us really could, and I understood why we were all feeling guilty. We had let her down so much.
"We should have known there was no way Lucy would take such a sudden turn. She used to be so sweet," Jenny said, remembering how even when so much was happening to her, she still managed to stay meek and thoughtful. Even when she was mean to Jenny, which wasn’t her fault, we all made her feel terrible.
"Well, she was misjudged even before the fall," Lamar added that he remembered how Jenny and Gavin cheated on her. Jenny didn’t know, so it was basically Gavin’s fault, but Jenny could have told her. Suddenly we were all back to the early days of our academy, and it felt awful. Things we had buried were being dragged back up, just to understand Lucy’s habits. Like Lamar and Lucy having a one night stand, which made Jenny uncomfortable. Like Gavin and Jenny’s cheating, which I could tell made Lamar uncomfortable. And then her ex, who was the reason she cheated. That same ex was the reason I was in pain. It was all just a circle.
"Okay, Helanie, you need to calm down, Emmet said, his hand in his parents’ pocket. And you two, if you wanted to keep this a secret so she wouldn’t stress, you should have done it better. Because she ended up with way more stress than if you had just told her. Now she had the stress of you cheating on top of everything going on with Lucy." Emmet grunted, scolding Norman and Maximus. "Did you know, Kaye?" He turned to Kaye, who started shaking his head.
"I swear, no. I only knew Norman told me he was doing something to help Helanie with the pain she would feel once she found out the truth. That was all I knew," Kaye quickly defended himself.
"It’s okay. It’s fine. Let’s not talk about that. I want to focus on Lucy now," I said, reminding them it wasn’t about me anymore. It was about Lucy. "How are we going to help her?" I asked, tearing up.
"We have to keep going with the plan where she thinks Norman is under her control. Sometimes she slips up, because she’s so sure he is lost that she can act evil in front of him," Maximus explained. I shot him a harsh look.
"I’m just saying, if you allow it," Maximus quickly added. I took a deep breath.
"As long as he doesn’t fucking sleep with her or get all touchy with her for the purpose of the plan." I gave Norman a very harsh look.
"Of course I would never," Norman protested instantly.
"Not to be a party pooper, you can all feel guilty later if you want. Right now our focus should be on how we can save Lucy without killing her, because these entities inside her are not going to leave her body alone. And if we kill them, we might kill Lucy as well," Penn finally broke the silence.
We all stared at him and then nodded our heads. "Penn is right," Sage said, and of course Lamar, being Lamar, couldn’t control himself.
"Of course he is right now," Lamar added, hinting at the fact that Sage and Penn had been overly romantic with each other, which we were happy for. At least someone was happy. But now they had to worry with us, because Lucy was our friend and probably would have been theirs too.
"How are we going to do it?" I asked nervously as I played with the chain on my neck, the pearl my mom gave me from her mermaid tail. Maximus narrowed his eyes on my neck.
"What is that? Who gave this to you?" He was instantly offended that one of his brothers had gifted me a pendant without telling him. We didn’t know they had to compete with each other so much, that they had to share what they were giving me.
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