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Chapter Four: Faster Than the Speed of Light

I waited outside Bree's classroom as soon as we were dismissed from class. We usually walked to lunch together. We still needed to talk about the whole video thing and Bree couldn't come to discuss it on Sunday so we had to settle for school instead. Bree and I also didn't have a lot of classes together, so I was just bursting with impatience by the time she came out the door.

Bree nodded at me to follow her to her locker. "Okay tell me now."

I sighed. "There really isn't much to say. I opened my phone and the video was not there. Someone went through my phone. I don't even know how they knew the password. No one knows it except for me." I looked at her hopefully. "Well it's deleted, right? Now that it's gone, we don't have to worry about anything."

Bree frowned. "No, I have a bad feeling. I don't think this is good at all." She looked over my shoulder. "Look, the others are coming."

I turned around to see Archer and Trey sauntering over to us while Sera followed behind them, trying to get rid of a guy who wouldn't stop flirting with her. Finally she just stopped talking to him and he walked away, realizing he was getting nowhere.

Trey walked over to me and flicked my ponytail with a grin. "Hey Sunshine."

I glared at him. "Don't touch my hair. And stop calling me Sunshine. My name's Kaya."

Trey flicked my ponytail again. "Too bad . . . Sunshine."

"Why do you even call me that? It makes no sense."

"Because you're dark and moody and the exact opposite of the Sun." Trey said, as if that made perfect sense.

I stared at him blankly. "What?"

Trey rolled his eyes. "You're slow, aren't you? It's like a sarcastic nickname. It means everything you're not."

You've got to be kidding me.

Archer snickered but Sera smacked him on the arm with a glare.

I took a deep breath, trying to keep myself from getting mad at Trey. I wanted to kill him. I am not a violent person. I am not a violent person. I repeated mentally. Trey ended up being in three of my classes already and we only just started fifth period. He was really getting on my nerves.

Bree rolled her eyes at us. "We have more important things to worry about. The video? Kaya said it was gone when she opened her phone."

Archer frowned. "Do you think Ivan went through your phone?"

I shook my head. "That's impossible. No one knows my password."

"I don't know if you heard of them but there are people called hackers. Believe it or not, they can easily crack passwords and get into devices." Trey gasped, faking surprise. "I know, amazing right?"

I glared at him. "I know what hackers are Trey. I'm not stupid." Trey's mouth opened but I held up a hand. "Don't even think about commenting on that." Trey frowned but didn't say anything, thank God for that. "I admit, I thought about the whole hackers thing, but why would Ivan have a need to do that? He wouldn't."

Bree nodded. "She's right. Ivan's not that kind of person."

"Why don't you ask him yourself?" Sera said. We all looked at her, confused. "He's coming our way right now." She nodded towards the other end of the hallway. Sure enough, Ivan was running toward us and stopped to catch his breath.

"Hey guys." He smiled at Bree and me. Then he noticed Archer, Trey and Sera standing next to us. He grinned at them. "You guys are the new kids, right?" They nodded, but didn't say anything. Then he squinted at Archer and Trey and his eyes widened. "Hey, you both were the guys from the cafe."