Chapter Forty-Eight – Desolate.

No high school queen liked rumors spreading about them and Clara was no exception. By the time the one week break Clara had to recover was over, the whole school had heard of the children eating Clara and the fact she hid her brother. She wasn't sure how the rumor started but she guessed that they must have seen Paul at the hospital that day and he had chartered about them being siblings. Not that she was ashamed of him but just didn't want to be entitled to babysitting him. 'I'd never be ahead of my little brother, even though he has issues" Belle said to Clara. Clara rolled her eyes, 'You should. That boy can't even say hi when he's waved at". 'He can't talk that's why" Belle immediately defended. The talk of her being a bad sister to her little brother as how she was to Claudia made people fear her more nevertheless. She didn't have a very angelic aura at school anyway and bullied some students secretly. Mark was also displeased as Clara's nickname grew to CEC, the Children