One hundred fifty gallons of water on the floor. Two fish dead. Teachers and students scrambling. Although this incident seemed like an unexpected disaster, it turns out it may not have been an accident at all. 

   The fish tank in the college counseling office broke on Feb. 13. It was devastating for students, as most thought of the fish tank as a good luck charm during the college application process.

   “Every time I went into the college counseling office, I would use the fish to manifest getting into my dream college, Dartmouth,” senior Sophia Yao said. “I am so glad it worked, but I send my genuine condolences to the underclassmen because I just know they won’t get into their dream college now.”

   After further investigation of this mishap, college counselors Marvin Coote and Carolyn Siegel have reasons to think someone may have been behind this so-called accident, with both of them blaming the other.

   “Even though Siegel says she loves fish, she always forgets to feed them when I tell her to, so I have reason to think she was purposely trying to kill the fish,” Coote said.

   According to Siegel, Coote loves his fish to death, but he hates that students see it as comforting.

   “Coote is evil,” Siegel said. “He doesn’t want kids to be comforted by the fish tank when thinking about college. He has never told anyone but me, but his saying is ‘Let ‘em worry, it leads to success.’”

  However, despite the obvious lack of trust between each other, both college counselors agree that girls basketball coach Doc Scheppler could be responsible for the damage. Scheppler, Coote and Siegel work very closely, as the girls basketball team is highly focused on college recruitment. 

   Coote thinks Scheppler may have destroyed the tank because A) Scheppler has a baseball bat in his office, B)he would always joke about the fish tank exploding and C) Scheppler is mad that Coote is taller than him. 

   However, Scheppler is entirely oblivious to the speculations. After being questioned, he seemed to be most concerned about the two dead fish. 

   “I am a big animal person,” Scheppler said. “What most people don’t know about me is that I’ve got like ten thousand animals back home. The one thing that hurt my heart more than losing to Priory was hearing about the two fish that died that day.”

   When asked who he thought was responsible for the two deaths, Scheppler immediately 

     put the blame on Sophomore         

       Zaiden Saberi.

   “That kid … he’s something,” Scheppler said.

   Saberi is very much aware of Scheppler’s speculations, and refuses to comment on the subject.

   “I didn’t even know our school had a fish tank, bro,” Saberi said. “Doc just hates me.”

   The Pinewood administration, stuck between the four suspects, has hired an FBI agent to do further investigation. 

   “I hope they find who destroyed the fish tank,” Yao said. “I’m dying to know who ruined everyone’s future.”