Chapter 13
Ethan
The gates were opened and students were rushing out. As I try to calm down my breathing, I look around. Where do I start? Everyone's in a rush. There are some group of friends here and there.
Then at the corner of my eye, I spot a girl with dreadlocks sitting on a nearby bench reading a book. She has her bag next to her so I assume she's from this school. I walk up to her.
"Hi, there!" I say nicely.
She looks at me with a blank expression, frowns and diverts her gaze.
" No, no, no, you misunderstood. I'm not trying to hit on you. I just wanna talk." I say as I carefully sit next to her.
She looks back to her book " what is it? I'm busy so make it quick."
Rude.
"Is it true about Morgan being a serial killer?" I ask her.
She makes a confused expression " Why are you asking me? Don't you watch the news? It's everywhere."
" Yeah, you see she's my classmate. She always seemed like she was doing just fine. I can't imagine what would make her do something so horrible." I lie with a straight face.
She closes her book and looks at me" If you were her classmate why did I not see you in class since we started school? I'm our class representative. And she was anything but fine." So she was having a hard time at school too?
" Right! You caught me! I'm from the class next door and was just curious. Sorry about lying. But I don't remember Morgan having a hard time." I try to seem deep in thought.
She sighs " Don't you know? Well, I guess there are still somehow don't. She was being bullied by Jessica and her friends. They did it so often...I just left the classroom whenever they began." She looks at her book sadly. I can tell she feels guilty.
" Her friend must have been devastated," I say. I also need to find this BFF.
" Friend? No, she never had any friends. No one wanted to get close to her. " she says.
" Wait...Are you sure? She didn't have any friends? Not even one? Everyone has at least one." I said. That can't be true. That day when I met her, I could have sworn she had a fight with her friend. She was in a hurry too. Could it be that this friendship was secret? That or I simply guessed it wrong that day which I highly doubt. I trust myself more than anyone!
"Not even one. Even if she did I'm pretty sure this friend would have left her so she doesn't get tangled up in all the bullying." She says and stares off into a distance.
I follow her eyes and spot a group of 3 girls near a vending machine.
" Are those the bullies? " I ask.
" huh? Oh, yeah...it's them." She says as she looks down at her watch.
" Look, I don't know what you're after but I gotta go now so-" She begins but I cut her off and get up.
" Yes! Of course. Thanks for everything. Bye~"
Leaving her on the bench with a confused expression I run up to the so called bullies.
" Hello ladies! Might I have a bit of your time?"
The 3 girl all look at me awkwardly
"Umm...who the hell are you?" The red haired one asks.
" Oh, I'm one of Jessica's acquaintances." I lie with an innocent face.
Shit! Which one is Jessica here? Did I mess up?
"Is he?" The baby faced one asks the other two. I guess she isn't part of the group.
" We don't know. Maybe. I mean, Jess has tons of 'acquaintances' she doesn't tell us about." Says the one with the tanned skin as she takes a sip of her soda.
I guess Jessica is not here! Good!
" So what do you want from us?" Asks the redhead.
" I'm looking for Jessica. Is she around?" I pretend to look here and there in search for her.
They all look at each other in silence.
" Should I tell him?" The tanned one says.
" No, Luna! Why would you?" Snarls the redhead.
" Oh come on! It's later gonna be in the news anyway so it doesn't matter who knows. So chill out Ash!" ' Luna' says.
Ash or whatever her name may be rolls her eyes and looks away.
" So listen! I'm telling you this mainly cause you look cute. The thing is Jessica is missing! I went over to her house yesterday to return some stuff she lent me and I saw police outside her house talking to her dad on the door.I overheard a little. Don't know the details except for the fact that she's missing. So, you won't be seeing her for awhile." She says with a smirk.
"Oh, I see" I say. Really now? So this Jessica person is missing. Is this related to Morgan too? I bet the police will think that. But this time...why did she kidnap and not straight up murder them like usual? Is she changing her way or is this totally unrelated? I'll need to get the information about this case from the police station.
" Hey, what's taking Helen so long. I'm getting tired of waiting." Ash whines.
" She said she had something important to do and told us to wait by the vending machine." The baby faced one says.
"Ugh! She better not be fixing her make up again. She takes hours! " Ash groans and sips her can of iced coffee.
" Well, Thank you for filling me in on what happened. Now I'll- " I'm Suddenly cut off by a scream coming from inside the school. After that, a few more screams can be heard and now the students outside the school start to go back in to see what happened.
"What the heck was that!?" Luna says, shocked.
As these girls also start to walk towards the school, I follow them.
I run ahead of them inside the school as I begin to get a bad feeling about this. A large crowd has formed near the entrance of the school building. Loud noises all around.
" I can't believe it!"
"Did you see it!? She just fell! Tell me you saw that!"
"It's so horrible! This is gonna haunt me at night."
" Isn't that Helen? From Will's class?"
" Everyone! Stay back! I repeat! DO NOT GET CLOSE!"
" I was literally just standing there when I saw this body falling down the building"
Pushing through the crowd, I finally reach the front. Teachers telling the students to stay back and don't come near it.
There lies a body of a girl wearing a bloody white dress in a crooked position surrounded by her own blood. She isn't moving and seems so lifeless. From what I heard so far, she fall off the building. So, suicide? Or maybe...what if...
I run past the teacher towards the body.
" Hey you! Get back here!" He yells but I ignore him. He tries to come to me but then gets occupied with keeping the crowd back.
Standing infront of the body I tug my jacket collar over my nose to avoid the smell. Yup, this poor girl definitely looks dead. I see broken bones, busted head and no sign of life.
I kneel down and look around for something to touch with so I don't get my fingerprints anywhere. Settling on a stone, I use it to get a better look at her neck and collar bone by pushing her bloody shirt collar a bit down.
There it is. A pair of angel wings.
I look up at the roof of the building. I don't know if I imagined it or not but I saw something move.
" HELEN!!!" I hear a familiar voice. It's that Ash girl. In shock and tears. I see, so this is Helen.
" Kid! Weren't you listening! Back off from the body right now." A teacher shouts as he drags me up by my jacket.
I shrug him off and run as fast as I could towards the building pushing past the crowd.
Is it Morgan!? Is she here!?
Entering the builing, I hurriedly look for the stairs. There are still some students inside the school looking out the window at the scene.
After finding it I run up as fast as I could. Hurry! I gotta be quick!
After reaching the second floor, I accidentally bump in to someone and knock them down.
" I am so sorry about this! I'm in a hurry" I quickly pull her up and leave her standing as I continue to run up.
" It's ok!" I hear her yell.
Finally reaching the roof, I slam open the door.
As I pant heavily trying to catch my breath, I look around the roof. Theres no one. No Morgan in sight.
" Damn it!" I yell as I kick the railing.
From a distance, I could hear the police sirens. There here. I look towards the road and see the police cars at the traffic signal. Guess one of the teachers noticed the signature and understood the situation. Time to go now and leave everything in to the 'capable' hands of my big brother.
As I walk out the school gates, blending in the crowd so my brother and his team who just got out of the car and is heading towards the crime scene doesn't notice me.
There is more to this case than what meets the eye. If it's not Morgan, which according to the evidence isn't the case, then someones out there desperately trying to frame her or get her harmed. And if it IS Morgan, which according to all the victims so far, then she is taking out everyone who every did her wrong.
Overall, no matter what's the case, one thing is clear to me.
This is a revenge game.
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