Then together, Theo and Eva can help Sadde up.

"I'm fine," she says, sounding it.

"It's just a scratch," says Brad, between the sneer and apparent doubt.

After Sadde's back on her feet, Eva backs off and gives Brad another look.

You know, this really is not okay.

Theo suggests that someone clear up the mess – it's not Sadde's fault – and then suggests that she go check herself over and make sure she's okay.

A cleaning person has seen the mess. "What happened here?" they ask sharply.

"She tripped and fell," Brad says.

The person looks at Sadde, sees the blood, and some of their annoyance drains. "Well, watch where you're going next time," they snap, and start cleaning it up.

"Will do," she says quietly.

And so Sadde and Theo leave the cafeteria.

Eva tries to catch Sadde's eye and smile at her, then says thanks to the cleaning person, grabs her tray from the counter where she left it, completely ignores Brad, and goes to sit down.

Sadde's friend Willow runs past the mess, going after them.

Sitting down with her food, Eva quite calmly picks up her knife and fork and starts eating, looking at Brad, then her friends, then around the room, and then at Brad, studying him.

How should she start, she wonders.

The cafeteria returns to its normal level of hubbub, and Brad seems to not notice her glaring daggers at him.

Glaring daggers? Why, whatever do you mean? Eva is just carefully studying him and his surroundings.

And plotting, just a little.

Brad doesn't notice that, either.

Good.

And so lunch will continue.

Until it's interrupted by a scream coming from somewhere.

Ugh.

Right now, she doesn't care too much. She'd rather just eat and plot how to kill– uh, destroy– uh, harm? Yeah, harm – Brad.

"What was that?" asks Verity.

"We should go see," says her best friend Janet, and both of them stand up at the same time as 80% of the cafeteria.

"You know you're not gonna be able to see anything, right? Like half the school is gonna be trying to find stuff out."

"Yes, and we're gonna be on the half that succeeds, we're us," Verity says, somewhat baffled. "Come on, let's go."

She rolls her eyes but does indeed get up and go.

And there is indeed a gaggle of students there, around the library! That's probably the most action this library's ever seen. And Principal Flutie is just going through this gaggle. "What's going on? What's here?" comes his voice from the middle of it, and then, a bit softer from inside the library, "Oh, my goodness." Pause. "You. Girls. Have you called nine-one-one?"

Sadde's voice is too low to be made out from this distance.

Eva stands there, waiting to see if her friends actually bother to barge through the crowd or if they're going to be polite and considerate or if she's going to have to take some sort of action or something.

She's not really in the mood to do things.

Of course her friends are going to barge through the crowd, and they'll drag her with.