Kim's POV.
Introduction
I started running, trying to trip. I didn't want them to catch me; I couldn't let them catch me. I stopped at an intersection and looked behind me. Suddenly a hand clasped over my mouth and the other hand grabbed me. I tried screaming but the hand was gripped tightly on my mouth. I tried getting out of the persons grip but it was no use. Unless…I started stomping my feet and stepped on the persons foot. They loosened their grips and I flipped them backwards. When I turned around I realized the person had a black mask on. I reached to take it off and they grabbed my hand then threw me forwards onto the street. A car started speeding towards me and I screamed. In that moment I was sure I was sure I'd be dead.
Chapter One
"Kim, wake up!" I opened my eyes to see Jerry, Milton, Eddie and Jack hovering over me in bed. "Happy birthday!" they yelled. I smiled. It was sweet how they came to wish me happy birthday first thing in the morning. "Thanks guys, but you couldn't wait until I came to school?" I asked. "Nope, because then we wouldn't hear you yelling out how much you love me in your sleep." Jack said and they all started laughing. Damn it, my mom always told me I had a habit of talking in my sleep. I rolled my eyes, "I don't like Jack. I wasn't even conscious!" I yelled. "Mhmm…" they said. I narrowed my eyes at them and they backed away. "My bedroom door opened and it was my mom. "Breakfast is ready Kim, you friends are welcome to have some if they'd like." She said. "Swag, free food!" Jerry said and ran out of the room, Milton and Eddie followed him and closed the door. "You're not going to eat?" I asked looking at Jack. "It's okay, I already ate before I came." He said. I got out of bed and looked around my room. "You guy's better not have touched anything." I said examining my room. "You mean like your diary?" Jack asked holding it in his hand. "Give me that!" I yelled and he ran out of my room. I ran after him down the stairs and followed him into the kitchen. "Give it back, Jack!" I yelled. He laughed and ran out of the kitchen and into the dining room. "Let's see, Dear Diary, today I saw Brad today and he looked so cute." Jack read out loud. Jerry, Milton and Eddie started laughing. I narrowed my eyes at Jack and looked at the breakfast table then took up a breadstick and threw it at him. He ducked and flipped the page. "Dear Diary, today I accidentally laughed so hard orange juice squirted out of my nose and all over Brad." He read laughing. I ran over to him and snatched my diary then pushed him into the wall. "Never touch my diary again." He kept laughing. "Whatever you say Kim." He smirked. I rolled my eyes and crossed my arms. "You squirted orange juice out of your nose at Brad?" Milton asked laughing. "He told a funny joke! Stop laughing, it's not funny. He had orange juice stains all over his shirt for the whole day." I mumbled and they laughed even harder. I sat down at the table and took a breadstick then started eating it. "Hey Kim, your mom makes great food." Jerry said stuffing his face with scrambled heads. "Jerry did you not eat before you left?" Jack asked. "I did, but it's free food? Take a bunch of it while you can." Jerry answered. "Well make sure to close your mouth while you're eating." Milton said rolling his eyes. "You kids better hurry up or you'll all be late for school." my mom said walking into the room. "Late for school? That'll go on my perfect attendance record. I'll never live it down." Milton said and got up and ran out of the dining room. "Yeah I better get going too." Eddie said and got up. "Jerry aren't you coming?" Eddie asked. "No? Why?" Jerry asked. "Well because you had detention this morning at seven." Jack said. "Oh true, I should probably sneak into detention. See ya Kim!" Jerry and Eddie left the room. "Aren't you going to go too? I take a long time to get ready in the mornings." I said to Jack. "It's alright, I'll wait." "You better not want to stay here just to keep reading my diary." I crossed my arms. He laughed, "As tempting as that sounds I won't. It's your birthday. I am going to make this the best day ever." He smiled. I sighed, how could I not smile back? Jack's smile was just one of those things that made you happy no matter what. "Alright fine. I'll be right back." I said and ran upstairs into my bedroom. Since it was my birthday, I had to look my best. Kim Crawford cannot leave the house looking casual. Everyone from the Pep Squad to the Wrestling team would wish her happy birthday. Especially Brad and I did not want to embarrass myself in front of him again. I found a yellow sticky note on my closet and took it off. It read 'Open the Closet' it was probably one of the guy's birthday stunts. I opened the closet door and there was a body in my closet. When I looked at the body and turned it around I realized it was my dad's body. But how could my dad's body be here, if he's dead? I screamed at the corpse and closed the closet doors. "Kim what's wrong?" Jack yelled and ran into my room. "I just saw something horrifying. Look…" I slowly opened the closet door. The corpse was gone, everything looked back to normal. "What? Your messy closet is what's horrifying?" I looked at my closet shocked. "No, it was here. There was a corpse and it was my dad's!" I yelled. "Kim you're probably still tired." "No it was here Jack, I'm not lying." He sighed, "You don't believe me?" I asked. "Of course I do, I just don't want to be late for school." He said pointing to the time. "Alright, I'll hurry." I said and took a black and white striped dress with a jean jacket and a towel then went into my bathroom. That was weird, was I imaging things? I could've sworn the corpse was right in front of me. Maybe I'm just tired like Jack said, I needed to relax. Today is going to be an amazing day.
I walked into the living room and plopped down on the couch. School was finally over. The whole day was pure bad luck. After Jack and I showing up at school late, so we snuck into our English class. Got caught for being late and have detention after school. Then at Pep Squad practice they dropped me in mid-air while we were doing our pyramid. Luckily a gym bag broke my fall. Then when I was washing my hands in the washroom, the tap squirted out of control and sprayed my dress. Plus cheer practice was four hours long because we couldn't get our cheer pyramid right. Four hours in the gym with no food, and pure gossiping with the most snotty and uptight girls in the school? It was torture. I couldn't take the bad luck. I was so glad school was over. Suddenly I heard a tapping noise. When I looked around everything seemed still. I followed the sound and it lead me to the kitchen. The tapping sound started getting louder and louder. The doorbell rang and I jumped. Stop it Kim! You are too paranoid. I ran to the door and opened it and Jack was standing there. "Whoa you look like you just saw a ghost." He said. "No, I'm just tired. Cheer practice was four hours! It was the worst." "Well I have something that'll make your day better." "And what would that be?" Jack always was trying to find a way to cheer me up. It made me feel good; at least I knew he cared. "I found this on the floor in the hallway. I thought you might want it back right?" Jack asked and held up my diary. My eyes widened, thank goodness Jack found it. "Yes, thank you so much." I smiled. "Come and get it!" he yelled and started running. "Jack!" I yelled and ran after him. Damn it, I hated how fast he was. He was already half way down the block. This boy really knew how to push my buttons. I swear if he reads one page out loud in public, it's going to get personal. After running through several neighbourhoods I saw Jack run into the mall. What was he doing? I followed him, trying not to bump into people while I was running. He ran into the dojo and I walked inside. All the lights in the dojo were off. "Surprise! Happy Birthday Kim!" the lights turned on and there were a crowd of people in the room. The room was covered with streamers and balloons and a huge 'Happy Birthday Kim' poster across it. I raised my eyebrows and looked around stunned. "Wow, I don't know what to say. Thank you!" I exclaimed looking around speechless. "Now that our guest of honor is here, let's party!" Jerry yelled and music started blasting. "I think you'll want this back." Jack said coming up to me and handed me my diary. I smiled and took it. "So you were planning this the whole time?" I asked. "Of course, it took us a week to plan all this." "Thanks, I really appreciate it." "No problem Kim, just promise me one thing." "What?" "That you'll have a great time at this party." I nodded, "I will don't worry." "Alright good, and don't embarrass yourself." "Why would I embarrass myself?" "Well Brad's here…" I yelped and hid behind Jack. He laughed and walked off. I walked towards the snack table and poured myself some punch. "Hey, Kim right?" I turned around and saw Noah talking to me. Noah was the captain of the basketball team. I heard he's really smart though, but I've never actually talked to him. Most girls say his dreamy blue eyes are amazing, and his light brown hair makes him the total package. Frankly, he doesn't seem like that to me. "Yeah, hi." I smiled. "Hey, Happy Birthday by the way." "Thanks." "This one goes out to the Birthday girl!" Jerry shouted and a slow song started playing. I rolled my eyes, slow songs were no fun. "Want to dance?" Noah asked. "Yeah, sure." We walked onto the dance floor and I put my hands on his shoulder, his arms were around my waist. "Awh cute couple Kim!" I turned and saw Grace. "We're not a couple." Noah and I said in unisons. "Alright, alright. Well at least smile for the picture." Grace took out her Sony camera and pointed it towards us. Suddenly the lights went out. I looked around trying to see, what was happening but I couldn't see anything. "It's okay, my camera has night vision." Grace said and there was a bright white light. I saw Grace holding the camera but Noah was gone. "Uhm did you see where Noah went?" I asked. Grace shook her head. "Alright everyone, as you can see we're experiencing a power outage. Let's all stay and-" Before Jack could finish a bunch of rock metal music started blasting. It was so loud I felt like I was going deaf. "Leave or die!" a voice echoed through the room. People started screaming and I heard footsteps. Suddenly the power went back on and when I looked around everyone was gone. "Guys, guys come outside and look at this!" Milton dashed into the dojo and gestured to the door. Everyone ran out of the dojo and look at the front of the Bobby Wasabi dojo. The whole dojo was covered in toilet paper and red spray paint. On the wall there was message spray painted in neon green. 'The Wasabi Warriors better watch their back.' I raised my eyebrows. "This is horrible…" I mumbled. "The dojo!" Rudy yelled. "Who could've done this?" Eddie asked confused. "It was definitely the black dragons; they always pull stuff like this on us." Jack said angrily. "Rudy, I know it was you!" We all turned around and saw Ty the Sensi of the black dragons walking towards us. "What's wrong Ty?" Rudy asked. "Someone destroyed our dojo, and I have a feeling you had something to do with this!" Ty yelled. "We didn't have anything to do with it! Look at our dojo right now! Someone vandalized ours too!" Rudy yelled. "Oh…well I've still got my eye on all you wasabi warriors." Ty said narrowing his eyes at all of us. "Yeah, okay we get it, you hate us, and we have a rivalry. Are we done here?" Rudy asked annoyed. Ty rolled his eyes and walked off. "I'm calling the police." Rudy said and took out his cell phone. "Wait if the black dragon's dojo got destroyed does that mean it wasn't them?" Eddie asked. "Please their probably just faking. We haven't even seen their dojo to know they're not lying. It's like when I tell my history teacher I'm almost done my project and I haven't started. She can't see it, so she'll have to believe me." Jerry said. "Jerry's right, it could be anyone. I learned it on C.S.I. anyone could be the suspect." Rudy said and started dialing on his phone. "Anyone? I doubt it; I mean some people automatically couldn't be involved right?" Eddie asked. "Well not anyone, just people with motives who hate us and would want to see us suffer." I said. "Hey this could've been Truman trying to get back at us. Maybe he's still worried we kept the video of him throwing a tantrum." Jack said. "Or it could be Ricky trying to get back at Kim…" Milton said. "Well the sign said Wasabi Warriors, it is definitely not Ricky." I said. "You just don't want to believe it's him because you still think he's cute." Jack said crossing his arms. "No I'm being logical. Ricky isn't that smart, so he'd probably single me out from the group." I said. "Fine we'll leave Ricky out of this." Milton said. "Okay, I just called the police they said we should stay at the crime scene so they can investigate." Rudy said putting his cell phone in his pocket. "Well guys, thanks for an amazing birthday party but I'm tired. Goodnight." I said and waved. "Wait, Kim you can't leave! The police told me we all had to stay here." Rudy said. "Plus you didn't even get to cut the cake." Eddie said. "Or see all the presents!" Milton exclaimed. "Well I'm saying I'm tired, guys I really appreciate it but if I don't leave now I'll probably pass out on the floor." "Alright, be safe." Rudy said. "Happy Birthday Kim!" Jerry, Eddie and Milton said in unisons. "Don't forget to lock up your diary." Jack said handing it to me laughing. Somehow my diary always ended up in his hands. "Thank you, everyone." I smiled and walked off. I got out of the mall and walked along the sidewalk. Good thing it wasn't pitch black outside, because I really didn't want to trip over things. "Help, help!" I turned and saw Grace running towards me. Suddenly a hand grabbed her and started ragging her away. "Grace!" I yelled. "Kim help me. He's trying to kill me!" Grace yelled. I ran towards her and the person knocked me to the ground. My head was pounding, this really wasn't my day. "Kim!" she screamed, and it was silent. I got up and looked around, the person was gone. Grace was lying in front of me, her head cut off. I screamed and started trembling. Oh my Gosh, Oh My Gosh…what just happened? I looked around scared and looked at Grace. This was definitely a birthday I did not expect.