A white lie

Bill leaned up against the school bus and dialed Alice’s number. He remembered it because he had stolen Maggie’s phone before. It took Alice a long while to answer the phone. She left the auditorium quietly through the side door. After pressing the answer button, she lowered her voice and asked, “Hello?” “The bus has a break issue. Tell them to change the buses.” The moment she heard it, Alice tensed up and became terrified. Before she could ask who that was, Bill hung up the phone. Her mind kept replaying this straightforward, but shocking messages. It was not until a minute later that she called back immediately, only to find that she could not get through. Just as Alice was about to return to the auditorium, she noticed the doors had been opened, and people rushed out of the jammed doorway. Immediately after that, Alice became alarmed and dashed towards the underground parking lot. She instantly stopped in front of the bus owned by Rose City High School. The last students were just