A girl called fear!

Back to the city

Eleanor frowned at the giggles of the students. Oh, how she wished she could throw them all off a cliff! Or at least, that she could run away, very far away from all this racket that they were making.

However, she had to manage to withstand their happy-go-lucky acts for now, because she was currently on a school bus with the rest of them.

The previous day, the principal, a sweaty old man named Mr. Payne that made her skin crawl, had come into their class and mentioned that there was a friendly meet-up between students. A sports competition, of course, of which Eleanor knew that she was one of the star students in / track, volleyball, and tennis - and they would be picking some students to go on the impromptu trip the next day.

Eleanor watched as other students murmured amongst themselves, querying why the principal had announced this news this late, especially amid all the chaos that was going on and fear being spread in their city like a virus.

She had smirked in her