A.N: Honestly, I don't know why I decided to start with Zack. Maybe because people don't usually write about him. But my story is going to be their different takes. So please read anyways, even if you're not interested in one of them! Hope you enjoy :P
Take One: Zack
How lucky they were to have a team!
Of course there were others, but a team of their own was just a dream come true. They ahd always wished, and their wish had come true.
Not many dreams came true now a days, so their's had been a blessing.
At first, he thought of all the great places they would finally be able to go. And the equipment they would finally get and the things and experiences they would encounter.
He wasn't the tech manager for no reason. Before the show got started, he was always the one to be tampering with the electronics here and there. Even by himself, he liked to tamper with computers and other devices. After all, they didn't start off with the high-tech stuff, only the things a few teenagers could get their hand's on.
Like the easy things. Walkie talkies and cameras. His old mp3 player had a recorder on it, so he had tested it out to see how well it actually worked. Since it picked out whispers from the other side of the room, the five of them agreed to use it. The five of them only had so much money…
Before everything, they don't have a team. It was more of just them going to places and seeing if they could get any evidence with the little stuff they had. Mostly, it was just places that they thought were creepy. Once, a camera was placed in the woods near them because it felt different.
And by different, he really meant different. Not everyone felt another feeling, but some did. Spirits were said to give off different energies, just like people could. Usually, when they had walked into a place that had haunted reports, you could tell by the feeling whether or not something was going on there.
What they had captured on camera wasn't anything big, but a few shadows that looked suspicious. They weren't forms of anything (like an animal), and there was no sound to go along with what they saw. The no-sound thing crossed out the theory of what they saw could have also been a person.
Shadows like that didn't just come out of nowhere, especially when a camera was right there. And if it was a person, wouldn't they have taken the camera? A lot of people would these days.
Something like that gave them different looks on things.
Like how once they had evidence, it always changed their looks on things. KC and Jackie had a theory about how their school was haunted. He didn't go to school with the rest of the crew, so he wouldn't be the one to know.
But there was something they said about one girl bathroom. Weird sounds, and getting paranoid when there was only a few of them there at a time. They had said that every girl that walked in there could feel that something was off, but few thought it was a haunting.
Most people in school thought it was awesome to be doing what he and his other friend's were doing. They asked him how things were going and what it felt like to see yourself on screen.
But there were few in his school that taunted him for what he was doing. Usually he was a strong person, but when no one was around to back him up it did get hard.
They told him that ghosts weren't real. That whatever he and his friend's were catching on screen was all professionally done by people who was in the business. After all, the ones who made fun of him thought it was all fake anyways.
No matter what they said, he always held his ground. Either ignoring them or talking back, he showed them that nothing would change his mind. It was people like those groups of kids he felt sorry for…
Not seeing a world that was right in front of you, never knowing it was actually there. And what they were doing was trying to find evidence that proved other things were around them.
And so far, they had.
Now that he looked things over, there wasn't really much he had to deal with other than those annoying peers and school. But he did realize something:
The fact that he was probably more of a skeptic than Riley was.
Riley was the one known as the skeptic of the group. Everyone, even the fans, knew Riley was one who was incredulous. On the inside though, Zack felt differently.
Out of the five of them, he had to admit that he was the one that got the most freaked out on the sweeps. The only one to be scared to death when it came to doing things by themselves…
But they all knew that being scared didn't make the place haunted. Your body reacts to all different things, so if your mind is freaking out, your body would too. It was natural to react in situations.
That's why when you thought of scary things, you usually got scared. But two seconds before thinking of something freaky, you knew that nothing frightening was there. It was all in interaction, environment, feeling, and thought.
A lot of contributed to being distressed.
As being the scaredy-cat, most would believe he thought any things were out there in the dark, just because he got scared easily. But in all truth, he even disagree and overlooked things Riley even called haunted.
He was different in more ways than one, the other being that he knew he would become the fifth wheel. It would happen eventually…almost everyone knew it.
You heard it everywhere you wet. People in school. Fans. Even adults they didn't know saw it. Saw that KC and Riley should get together, and so should Sam and Jackie. Zack could even see his four friend's as the couples they eventually would become.
It joyed him on the inside that they were happy, even though his friend's hadn't realized it yet. But after a while, the fact of that he would be the one left alone dawned on him.
And unless they magically added another girl to the croup that he would get together with, then he would always be alone when it came to the team.
He would never express his feelings. Or thoughts. But no matter what, the doubt was always there…
But right now Zack decided that he had to just suck it up. At the moment, they were in the middle of the growing investigations. And school. Every day, they came closer to picking up even more incredible evidence than the days before.
Right now, it was about living in the moment that counted. Capturing every memory before the time came and went, and they were all left wondering where their childhood had gone. It was all about the present…
Wasn't it?
Hit or Miss?