Chapter 03

        The next day at school, I was getting my books for Art; my favorite subject of this term. I was there when I saw Kayleigh at her locker, her face was red and in tears. My conscious told me not to ask and not to interfere. For I don�t think I could have helped, I�m not those people who ask �What�s wrong?�. I find that it doesn�t help the person at all, it just makes them either embarrassed or guilty. I usually try to make them feel happy by telling jokes or something to get their minds off their problems. But right now, I don�t think I could help� Soon she left her locker and ran off, I felt guilty, or at least bad for not talking to her.

            Callie and Jessa arrived at my locker and they looked at Kayleigh running off. �What�s wrong with Kayleigh?� Jessa asked. �I don�t know. I didn�t talk to her when I saw that she was crying...� I said. �This might be because of a note.� Callie wasn�t the brightest one of the group. �Oh, com�on! If she were to receive a note, than she wouldn�t run off like that! She had many notes before, some that were pretty bad...� Jessa was always good at finding the obvious. 

             �Happy Hug!!� Cried Ashley. Her and Jessa gave a hug to each other, while Sarah waited beside me. Sarah and Ashley are cousins, but they act more like sisters. They like to hang out with us sometimes, but other times they just stay together. They�re like the opposites; Sarah is calm and quite, while Ashley is hyper and loud. Sarah is the twin sister to her brother Matthew, so that makes Matthew Ashley cousin, too. Sarah is nice to hang around with, when Jessa and Callie are out doing something I�m not included in, I hang out with Sarah. She understands a lot of things and she�s also very smart. Ashley on the other hand, is one heck of a person. She almost always hyper, and that could be very dangerous. She makes you feel good about who you are, and she makes fun of herself so that makes people laugh very hard. Sometimes, I wonder how can she so smart...

            �Whatcha guys up to?� Ashley is quite the social person... �We were just wondering what happened to Kayleigh.� Jessa said. �Kayleigh? Could it be because of Jeremy?� Ashley knew a lot of things going on the school, you just don�t want to know how... �Jeremy? You, you mean the one she�s going out with? Why would she be crying because of that?� said Callie �Well, I would cry, too if I were dating the most troubled kid in the school.� Jessa wasn�t very kind there, but than again, when has she been kind?

            �This is more different, instead of Kayleigh dodging Jeremy, it�s the opposite.� Like I said before, I have no clue how Ashley gets all this information.... �You mean that Jeremy is trying to dodge Kayleigh? Why?� Although I hardly say anything in any conversation, I wasn�t completely disconnected. �Well, that I don�t know. But I would stay out of it. I mean this could get ugly, if anything has to do with Jeremy, you can count on a fight to happen. But if I hear anything else, I�ll make sure to tell you guys.� Ding! Ding! Ding! �Well, have to get to English class. See you guys.� Ashley said as she got her books.

             Everyone went to their lockers, and as I was about to go to Art class, when something caught my eye. A piece of paper was hanging out of Kayleigh locker. Usually, I wouldn�t bother, but this paper was at eye level. I read it quickly,

           �Go behind the Gym after school. Come alone, and don�t tell anyone about it. Not unless you want your friends to end up dead tomorrow� � This is bad, for if the note wasn�t bad enough, than the dried blood would convince anyone that it�s nothing but bad news.

            This is serious, too much for Kayleigh. She can�t tell anyone or else someone is going to die. This could be a joke, but� I. I don�t think it is. It�s one of those feelings. I wonder what Kayleigh will do?

           I totally forgot about Class!!!  I didn�t hear the bell go; maybe I still have time to get to art class without getting a late slip. But I have a dreaded feeling that I was late, you see, there was no one out in the hall... So I walked towards the main office, but that something strange happened. Heavy mist came in and it was extremely hard to see. I stopped and try to walk to a wall so it can guide me. But the problem was that there was no wall.

           How am I suppose to find myself out of here if nothing is even there! I�m scared and I�m panicking. Sweat started dripping from my face and my hand became sweaty as well. Sounds of something inhuman surrounded me, sounds like heavy breathing. But than you would hear some kind of monstrous growl. A shadow of something had appeared on the right of me. Because of the fog, I couldn�t see who or what it was. But I could tell you that it was about half my height, perhaps it was a child lost. But I don�t thing that inhuman breathing says that it�s a child.

           I started to back up, away from...it. The thing had moved incredibly fast, it ran away from me. All of the sudden, I heard clash of steel, or something like it. And the sound echoed, and repeated again. But after the third clash, I heard an inhuman cry.  I was so scared; I swore I could have just wet myself right there and now. But I�m happy to say that I didn�t. I ran to my right, hoping that it was the opposite way of where the cry came from. But I was unlucky.

            A shadow of human (Of which I�m certain this time.) was ahead of me, still I cannot see if it truly was human because of the fog. But from the shadow of it, it seems to look down at the floor, than directed its attention to me. I was a bit scared, but not as much as before. I was unknowingly walking towards it.

            The human figure had than... disappeared. Faded like dream, like it was all my imagination. But as I approached it more, the faster it faded. I had stopped, knowing that it unless to follow. But I looked to where it had disappeared, and found that there was something on the floor. Right where the human figure had been.

           I walked there with hope, but when I got close enough to see what it was, I was horrified. The image was sickening and the thought was horrible. The thing was dead.

           It was some kind of monster, a dead one in this case. It had green skin and was partial bald. Its eyes were still opened, and it was colored yellow. The monster had worn a brown vest and the pants looked like it was an old sac before. The monster was half my height, like a midget. From what it looked like, to me resembles an imp from all the stories I heard when I was a child.

           The imp was carrying a small sword, which was about a foot from his body. From what I could tell, the imp was cut in half. The purple blood kind of told me that, that plus organs that were spilled around it. I could have lost my lunch if it wasn�t because of all the gruesome television shows I watched before. But still, it was sickening.

           I had backed away from the dead corpse, hoping that it will all go away. I got far enough from it that the fog made it disappear. I had kneed down with my hands over my head, �What the hell is going on here?! Ok, ok. Calm down Rachel, you have to think of something quick before the thing that killed that... that imp, decides to come for you. Ok. Ok. Let�s see. You�re stuck in mist, that our situation. You have a dead monster far from you, but you�re still stuck!� Okay... Now I�m starting to talk to myself. Am I going crazy? Must be or else you wouldn�t have asked that question.

           I�m like in the Twilight Zone or something, there�s absolutely nothing here! Well, except for that dead imp. Maybe if I go over there and see I could find something that could help me, that small sword could help. At least if I have to fight something, I have some kind of defense. 

            The Imp was not far in front, but the more I seem to walk the more I question myself. There is no way that I could have walked this far without seeing that dead imp. �Alright, now I�m lost,� as least I could accept that. �HELLOOOOO!!!!??? CAN SOMEONE HEAR ME??!!� I shouted in a desperate attempt. I listened and all I heard was my own echo...

            I�ve been here for at least 20 minuets trying to find my way out. With my luck, I�m probably going to die here... Thinking of my future that will probably never be, to be a teacher, have a loving husband and a happy family. I started to cry. I even thought about my family, my parents, my brothers and my friends, how I miss them so much now. I guess that saying �you won�t know how much you miss them, until their gone,� is true. How much I hate that saying...

            I closed my eyes imagining my family and how happy we were. Playing, talking and having a great time is how I want to remember them. But I didn�t even get say good-bye. I could feel tears forming� My friends were always there for me, even though only Callie and Vero know how I�m truly am. They stand beside me at times of trouble; I didn�t even say good-bye to them either. Tear came down my face; I started to cry. Which was very rare for me�

             This sucks. I wishing this whole thing is just a dream. When I open my eyes, I�m going to see my room with the alarm going. To my surprise, when I actually opened my eyes, I didn�t see my room and the alarm wasn�t going. But I didn�t see that annoying fog either! I was back to school, and at the other side of the school. In which I don�t remember getting to. But I do remember that I�m late and must get a late slip. So I started walking to the main office, telling myself that it was all just a dream and none of it happened. As I was walking by the library, when out the windows I saw Kayleigh behind Gym, I looked at my watch and saw that it wasn�t time to meet Jeremy yet. So what�s going on?

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