Chapter 1: Summer Vacation
My friend Joshua Loftus is sitting next to me in my last period. I love art period. "And that is how to mold or morph clay into a human head." Mrs. Bartlett finished as she lay down her sculpting knife. I'm actually surprised they let her take that into the school. "CS." Joshua whispers. I don't hear him. "CS." He says a bit louder. The clock's big hand is on 6 and the little hand is on 4. 4:20. "Now, as I promised yesterday, you will all get to free draw." She says as she passes out the free draw paper. It's not much, just a 4times4 length sheet of paper. I get out my pencil, color pencils, watercolor pencils and my custom made Applejack paint brush, and my paint. I get my pencil and look at the clock; 10 minutes is all I have, gotta make this last. I quickly make an oval at the top of the page and start to make the body of the figure I'm drawing. I have the arms, legs, breasts, stomach, hat, button down shirt, and capris. I look at the clock; 4:24, 6 minutes left. I grab the black watercolor pencil and trace over the pencil drawings lightly and then I take the pencil and divide the face into 4 different sections; eyes and eyebrows, nose, mouth, and cheeks. I look at the time again and it's 4:28. Dang, I'm fast! "Almost time to go bro." Joshua says and puts all his belongings into his binder and heads toward our groups of friends. I don't budge from my spot at all. Right now, I have only 1 thing left to do to finish this drawing. I give it to someone who doesn't even know my name, but whom I love dearly. Her name is Ava Wright. She is just like Applejack, that's part of why I love her. Ava is tough, funny, beautiful, can make me happy when I'm sad, she's basically the world to me. I still don't know why I'm living alone. I grab the paper of Applejack and head for Ava; only until her boyfriend Daniel Simmans shows up. Just my luck though, he walks away after saying hi. I take my chances of getting the crap beat out of me by going toward her once more. She sees me and waves in my direction as I finally meet her. "Hi, ummmmmmm…" "Chris." I say laughing. "Hi to you too." She says. "I have something for you behind my back." I say. She looks curious the way Applejack would. I sigh, knowing I could never have her by my side. I bring out the drawing and she slowly takes it, admiring it for some while. If I hadn't been hallucinating because of lack of sleep, I could have sworn there was a tear in her eye. She looked up at me and… my neck suddenly has a knife in the back of it. My eyes slowly lost color in them as I yelled in pain. I could hear and see everyone crowd me and try to keep Daniel off of me. "Don't you ever even look at my girl ever again, if you get out of the hospital?" He shouted as he was brought into the office. My teacher had called the police and an ambulance. It sucks that I only have my one friend to support me in times like this. I was immediately put in the ambulance truck and they sped off to the hospital. It's very peculiar dying. You only feel pain until you lose a certain amount of blood and then you feel completely weight less. I started to feel myself slip away from the grasping hand of life. The doctors tried to get the knife out, but it was stuck. I saw Josh there in the ER room. He looked down at me, trying not to cry. 'Don't worry bro; I'm goin to a better place now.' I think. My vision gets blurry, I grab Josh's hand say "I'll miss you Sonik." He smiles. "Goodbye Crimson." I feel my life slip away and it ends for me completely. (Josh's POV) He died. At school. I never thought that it would happen like that. I decided to find the guy who killed Chris. I asked my mom to drive me to the prison and I talked with him. I made sure the guards weren't looking when I said, "When you get out of here, you will die."
