Snippet #1932848

Ariel absolutely hated school, she hated having no one to talk to and feeling invisible. She made her way through the hallways at a snail pace, because nobody cared to move out of her way and just kept on idly chatting with their friends. After a while she started to get impatient so she got a bit more forceful, giving an occasional slight shove followed by an "excuse me". Finally, she reached her locker and she quickly opened it up and put away her books from her last class of the day, then took her bag off of it's hook. As she closed her locker, she hoisted her bag up onto her shoulder and turned walking out the door which was right nearby. She headed down the school steps and found a tree to sit under while she waited for her neighbor to find her, since they carpooled together. She took out her phone to pass the time, even though she rarely got texted. So of course she was surprised to see she had multiple messages waiting for her to view. She clicked on her inbox and selected the first message out of the bunch, all of which were from unknown numbers.
Hiii ;) Enjoying our second week back, are we? Well, that won't last long. Some of you already know me, but for those who don't:
I know every single little detail about each and every one of you. And that includes your dirty little secret.
Or should I say secrets?
What's going to stop me from telling the whole school? Well, you are. I will set you a few... challenges to keep your secrets safe, and if you don't go along... there goes a secret. xxx - A
Ariel's eyebrows knitted together in confusion as she tried to decipher this message. It had to be some sort of joke right? She had just gotten to this school and as far as she knew, nobody even knew her name, let alone her utmost personal and deep secrets. It couldn't be for real. But quickly a realization hit her, that maybe all those weird occurrences that she had seen so far at this school were connected to this... Suddenly interested, Ariel went through her other new texts which were in response to the last one.

What's on the schedule for today? one person had texted back to this mysterious 'A' figure as if this was all just an old drill.
Not telling yet. You'll just have to wait an see. ;) - A came the response from the same number that the original message was sent from.
Isn't blackmail illegal? Whaat's stopping us from going to the cops right now? It was a good point. This had been going on for the past couple weeks, maybe longer, and it was a big deal too, it definitely had to be illegal in some way. Curious to see how A would respond to that retort, she flipped to the next message.
Yuss, blackmail is illegal. But I don't think you want to tell the cops, honey. I'm sure they would be very interested to know some of your secrets. If I'm going down, I'm taking you all down with me ;) xxx - A. Ariel felt her palms get sweaty and her heart pounded as she thought about how ruined her life would be if the cops knew even half her business. She definitely didn't want them to know she was illegally buying drugs. She also didn't want them to hear about the way her neighbor had been assaulting her, even if it meant they could help her. Nobody could know.
But somehow this A person did. How did that even work? It was very possible that she was just SAYING that she knew all their secrets and then having a good laugh when she watched them run around frantically over nothing. Before she even read the last message she pressed reply and quickly punched in a response.
How can I be so sure you're not just toying around? For all I know, you may just be saying that you know everything to see what I'll do.
She sent the text before sliding her phone back into her jeans. She leaned back on her elbows and sighed, watching people socialize in the parking lot as she waited for her neighbor to get outside already.