Enjoy! And I hope my english is better this time.

Chapter one

I always woke up earlier than my parents and got to school before they even had start eating breakfast. Mom couldn't really understand how I can be a early bird after staying up all nights and watching horror movies. She couldn't really understand either how I could sleep after sitting alone in a dark room and watch a man with a mask stabbing people with a pickaxe.

I always laughed when she said so and I answered that it was a part of who I was. Mom always smiled when I said so and gave me a kiss on my forehead.

She would never have the guts to watch a really terrifying and gory horror movie like me.

I skated on my skateboard to school. It was very hot outside and I only wore jeans and a t-shirt. But I had my hoodie and my jacket in my backpack if it started to get cold in the afternoon. The weather was like this in Clark County Nevada, Vegas.

I'd hoped to see Adam in the hallway at my locker this morning, as usual. But he wasn't there. Ever since yesterday he hadn't answered my text messages or phone calls. I started to get worried because something's might happen to him. Something serious. Something that I have feared would happen ever since me and Adam realized the terrifying truth.

The thing was that I saw on the news one night about a woman who escaped a man in front of a grocery store who tried to bite her. Adam and me thought it was very weird to attack a woman in that kind of way.

We graphed the attack, and all the other who came after. Adam noticed that the more people sold their houses now in Las Vegas. It had increased with 60 percent. And then some student stopped coming to school. They are some who hasn't come to school for weeks and no one knows what could have happen to them.

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"Ben Wagner?" Mrs Granada said under the roll call.

"Here", Ben replied.

"Nick Strailey?"

No one answered.

"Nick?"

It was quiet.

"Adam Johnson?"

Adam's bench was empty. He usually sat in front of me, like usual. But, now he didn't.

I looked at Charley Brewster, a guy that me and Adam used to hang around with. He turned into one of the jocks when we was 16 and he acted like he didn't knew us. We three were an inseparable gang.

"Adam?" Mrs Granada said.

Charley looked around in the classroom. He stopped when he saw that I was staring at him. I shook slowly my head to tell him that this isn't good, something's happened to Adam. But he looked away like he didn't see me.

After class I walked to Charley and his two friends Mark and Ben, the two jocks who bully me and Adam. They used to bully Charley, but not now when he's 'cool'. Mark isn't so very tall, he's short, like me, but he's very muscular. Ben is the tall one, but not so very smart. Charley is the result if you mix up Mark and Ben together.

I had to tell to Charley about Adam, he had to know.

"Wow", I heard Charley said when I walked up through the stairs. "Where did you find that?"

"Mrs Granada, she'll do anything for you in geometry class." Mark replied.

"Hey, I think it's is gonna talk to us." Ben said and pointed at me. All three looked at me and grinned.

I ignored Mark and Ben and said to Charley: "Hey, can I talk to you for a minute?"

"Just the two of you?" Mark said to Charley with a grin. "That's sweet." Then he glared at me. "He can teach you things in the way of geek-douchery!"

"Awe that's nice", I answered and frowned my forehead. "But haven't you got some sluuuuts to go and fuuuck?"

"Actually, yeah, I do."

I groaned, rolled my eyes and looked at Charley. "It's important Brewster."

Charley looked at his friends, grinned and then followed my to an corner.

"So, what's up?" He said with an bored voice.

"You know Adam's missing, right?" I asked.

Charley looked dumb. "What do you mean, he's missing?"

"I-I keep trying him. No text, no phone... I don't know if you paid attention on roll call but he's not the only one who's gone."

"Kids don't come to school sometimes, what do you want me to do about it?" Charley asked.

"Meet me after school at Adam's house so we see if he's okay."

"I can't after school."

I laughed an annoyed laugh, smiled an sarcastic smile and rolled my eyes. "I don't know if you understand what I'm telling you! Adam's gone!"

Charley groaned. "Ed, do we have to take this now?"

"Wow! Am I not even supposed to speak to you right now?" I glared at him with big eyes.

"Ed! Don't spaz out!" He hissed and looked back at his pals.

"You don't want me to spaz out?" I shouted. I glanced fast at Mark and Ben, they looked at us with a big interest. Especially Mark. And then I really spazed out: "OH MY GOD-! IT'S SO HORRIBLE! CROSSING THE STREAMS! WILL HIGH SCHOOL AS WE KNOW IT CEASE TO EXIST?"

Charley stared furious at me. He wanted me to stop. But I didn't plan to stop. "Okay...", I narrowed my eyes and kept them fixed at Mark and Ben as I bent forward to Charley. "..or should I tell your pals how well we used to know each other? The costumes, The Farscape conventions, the lego contests?" I looked at Charley with big eyes. "Or that you used to take my Stretch Armstrong, but in your pants-" I pointed at my balls. "-and jerk it off for an hour?"

"No!" Charley hissed.

"Then be my backup!"

Charley gave up. "Fine... Adam's after school."

"Don't be late."

He walked away and I said to him, without an answer: "I really want my Stretch back, by the way."