Reece nods “I know, none of us wanted mr. Alberts to die, except maybe one of us?” He said and sighed. “I just hope the staff doesn’t accuse us of anything.”
Reece chuckled. “I don’t think the principal would give us As. I mean if I walked in on one of my professors stabbed to death and found his detention class scared off in the little room doing pretty much nothing, I wouldn’t give them aces. Plus when it comes to detention work, it’s generally not graded it’s there only to waste your …” Reece wanted to finish that sentence when he was struck by Hazel’s announcement. When she said she had heart problems his almost stopped. ‘No, a sweet girl like her can’t be taken from the world so soon.’
He stood up and after Jacob responded to her he said. “Jacob is right, I’m pretty sure everybody in this room likes you.” He gulped before having the heart to ask the question that was on his mind. “What kind of heart problems are we talking about?” He wanted to know how serious it was. “Acute angina? Valve disease? Coronary artery disease?” He named the first three diseases that came to his mind … Maybe it’s the only three heart diseases he knows, but he wanted to show her he knows a bit about it coming from his family of a doctor and a pharmacist he always knew a bit more about what should be done.