Before heading back to the self-study room, she whispered to Hannah, "Hannah, I just heard in the study room that some students have been skipping class and hiding out on the fifth floor. I don't know which grade they're from, but the restrooms are full of cigarette butts. It looks like we won't be able to go up there anymore."
As soon as she finished talking, the teacher arrived, and she hurriedly ran off.
The fifth floor of the senior high building has always been empty, usually off-limits to students except when used as an exam hall during monthly tests.
But the so-called prohibition was just symbolically placing a few chairs at the stairwell entrance, easily stepped over.
Last semester, the enforcement wasn't strict, and Hannah and Tessa Thompson ran up a few times.
