Chapter 72. Behind Locked Doors

Layla’s POV

The entire next day went by in a daze. Wherever I went, I could feel eyes leaving burn marks on the back of my head. People were nice; they said hi and invited me to lunch and for coffee, but I declined every offer. The only person I was looking for and wanted to talk to was Justin, and as it turned out, he was the only one I couldn’t find.

I saw Nathaniel walking through the makeshift town; everything looked weirder than it had before. The cuteness I saw when I first arrived has been replaced with a morbid feeling of a blind alley. Thankfully, there wasn’t any practice today. Nathaniel told me to rest up, and that we’d continue tomorrow. More specifically, he said that tomorrow was a special day and that I’d get to know a secret. I wasn’t looking forward to that.

“Excuse me, have you seen Justin?” I asked a guy that I had seen hanging out with Justin before. He looked at his friends, and they all shook their heads.

“Sorry, no,” I smiled a