Chapter 80 Trap

KIA

"It's locked!"

I tried to open the door but nothing happened. After several tries, I heard a clicking sound from inside. Did I break the door handle?

I was about to open the door when it suddenly opened by itself. But then I was wrong… It didn't open by itself. There are people inside the surveillance office…

"You're here! We have been waiting for you for a while but you seem to be busy trying to talk to the guard, so… We are very sorry, Kianna. We can’t wait any longer…” She smiled while her servants were trying to hide their laughter.

What does he mean by they can’t wait any longer? Is she pertaining to the footage?

“Wait! What is going on?” Miaree interrupted the weird atmosphere between us.

“Nothing is going on, Ishii—”

“I am not talking to you, Eunice!” Miaree rolled her eyes before looking at me. “Kia, is there something wrong?” she asked.

I don’t know what to feel right now. Vera looks so satisfied, so much different from what she acted earlier. Does that really mean that they already destroyed the footage? But that was the only thing that can save me from going down from these accusations…

“Kianna! Hey! Are you okay?” Miaree holds my shoulder and shakes it to wake me up from this f*cking nightmare. I look at her with a total blankness in my eyes.

“Girl? Talk to us. What is going on?” Marcy asked but I don’t know how will I respond while I was in this kind of state right now. “You! Ventura, what did you do to Kianna?” Marcy questioned sternly.

Vera shrugged, “Nothing! Why are you accusing me? Why don’t you ask your friend what is going on right now? Kianna, why don’t you tell them what you just did?”

“You are really good at acting as if nothing happened… I guess there’s no point for us to be here.” I said as I look at Miaree and Marcy.

“No! Something is wrong here! Vera, tell us what you did, or else I will report you to the dean.” Marcy threatened Vera but Vera responded to him with a smirk. That triumphant grin.

“That’s better, President. Why wouldn’t you visit the dean and also ask why your friend is acting like this?”

“Why can’t you just tell us right now? You are making everything hard, Eunice.”

“Not my problem anymore. Girls, let’s go!” Vera with her four liar servants left the surveillance office.

We were left dumbfounded. Marcy and Miaree don’t have any idea what is going on. I collected myself so I to be able to tell them everything.

“So, you are telling us right now that the dean called you earlier because Vera and that b*tches just accused you of cheating in our midterm exam?!” Miaree asked.

“Do they already confirm that evidence that they were saying? Is it true that you met that girl in the restroom?”

“Of course not, but for sure they will not say that if they can’t use it as their weapon. There must be something that happened in that restroom which I really can’t remember.”

“Then why don’t we check it? We are already in the surveillance office after all…” Marcy suggested.

“Marcy is right. Hurry! We need to think about things to defend Kianna from this mess. We won’t let that b*tch hurt you, girl… We got you…”

Marcy immediately sat on the monitoring chair. "When did that happen?"

"I have no idea but they said it was the time where the news about the midterm exam will be held in one week…"

"Mhm… I will try the day when the professor announces it…" Marcy said as he searched for the exact date. After a few minutes of waiting he then found the footage. "Alright, that's kinda easy. So, the restroom, right? — Kia, do you still remember the time when you went to the restroom?" Marcy asked.

"I am not sure but the usual time that I go to the restroom is at lunch time or sometimes the first break time in the afternoon — start at 12:00 pm."

Just like what I said, Marcy fast forward the footage into 12:00 pm. We all stayed in the same position as we were seriously looking at the monitor, waiting for me to show up in the restroom at the same time.

"Is that you?" Miaree asked while pointing at the girl who entered the restroom.

"What? Where?" Marcy asked while he was rewinding the video. "Her?"

"Yeah. Is that you, Kia?"

We have the same physique and the same length of hair but I don't have a sweater like what she was wearing. "That's probably not me. I don't have a sweater like that and I don't use sweater—"

"Oh, right. Kia, preferred jacket when it's cold while going to school." Miaree added.

"Stat focus, girls, we gotta find Kia and check what happened at that moment." Marcy said and continued playing the footage.

A few minutes had passed but I am still not showing up at the restroom. I wonder if I really went to the bathroom that day…

Suddenly, a loud knocking sound interrupted us. We looked at each other while thinking who were going to open the door, but then someone suddenly talked from outside.

"Ms. Saavedra, are you there? Please open the door. Can we talk first? We can settle this in a different way…" A voice that seems like it's coming from the dean.

"What is she talking about?" I wondered as I tried to lower my voice.

"I think we need to open the door…" Marcy murmured and slowly went closer to the door. He then opened it and I wasn't expected to see Vera with them..

What are they doing here?

"I told you, dean! She was trying to delete the copy of the evidence!" says Vera.

"What?! Dean, no! I wasn't trying to delete anything. I just wanted to see what happened that time. I need to confirm it but I don't have any intention to delete any footage, dean. It was her who deleted the footage at the detention center. She already confessed everything, dean. I caught her! But she immediately went here earlier and delete that footage while I was being dragged by the guard at the abandoned room—"

"Enough!"

I didn't expect her to scream like that. The dean looks at me filled with disappointment in her eyes. "I help you, Ms. Saavedra. I believe in you that you won't be able to do this kind of thing but U was wrong. I can see how desperate you are just to make yourself innocent… I am so disappointed… Guard, check the footage and all of you. I want you all to stand at the corner and no one is allowed to talk."

We don't have a choice but to follow her order. While the guards are looking at the footage, I can hear Vera with her servants whispering at my back. They make me so irritated.

"Dean, there is a cut in this part. Confirmed. They deleted some of the clips." The guard said as he looked at us.

"Dean, something is wrong here. Kianna is telling the truth. I am here with her. She only wanted to see it and it took so long but we still didn't see the clip where she went into the restroom." Marcy said to defend me.

"That makes you a suspect too. I want to see your guardians, all of you! This is such a big problem for the university. You are destroying the reputation of the school. How embarrassing it is when the university that sponsored us knows about this issue? Did all of you even think about how hard the situation is? This is enough for today. All of you are dismissed."

"Dean. Please take a look for the footage earlier where you sent us to the detention room. I am sure that Vera deleted it since she confess everything they did at that time—"

"Liar! I didn't delete anything, dean. Even if you insist on checking it, Kianna." Vera said.

"Alright. Play the footage earlier at the detention room." The dean ordered.

After a few minutes of waiting, I was so shocked when I saw the footage being played on the big screen… she didn't delete it?

"Bu-but…"

She didn't delete it because it doesn't capture the voice. Hah— I don't want to believe this…