FantabulousMe: Ahaha, I forgot to say the Jellicles will come in later. Oops. Anyway, glad to hear you enjoy!

The next day, Tara and I walked around together like zombies. Since Peyton had been attacked by something, we figured everyone had to go home. Besides, Peyton really was the life of the party. Talk about a crummy birthday - having my best friend murdured - as far as we knew anyway. All of our parents went to the hospital themselves, but refused to let us go along with them. I questioned their safety tactics though; a girl gets attacked outside of our house, then they leave two more girls there alone? Yeah, that's real smart. But then again, they left my brother, Roger, to 'guard' us. I can hear him blasting his music from down the street. If I screamed at the top of my lungs, along with Tara, I sincerely doubt he would hear us. They had also told us to 'stay here, no matter what'. Well... what if the house was about to blow up? Then we'd be dead, so Peyton would be lonely on the (large - I hope) chance she lives.

A while of staring later, three pairs of people walked in, our parents, plus Peyton's. Peyton's mother looked like she'd just stopped crying, and wasn't meeting either of our gazes. Her father looked pale with shadows under his eyes.

"Uh-oh, I'm not liking the intervention going on here." Tara said, eyeing up the scene.

All I could do was nod. To put two and two together (in a metaphorical way, I'm not sure exactly how much I put together at the time), the news was not good.

My mom came over and wrapped her arm around my shoulders, Tara's father -whom she was closer to, her parents were divorced- did the same. "I'm sorry, honey," my mom said, looking down at me with tears in her eyes. At the time, I didn't think to say how much I hated it when people said 'I'm sorry' when someone close leaves.

"No!" Tara and I shouted together. We'd both read the signs, and Peyton's mother bursting into tears confirmed our fears.

"She'd lost too much blood." Someone stated, I don't quite remember who...

"My only baby! She was just a baby!" Peyton's mom kept crying things like that to join her tears. In our hearts, we all knew Peyton would hate to be called things like this, but no one had the heart to voice it.

Around a week later, when they were still making preperations (at Peyton's house, Tara and I were there because our parents were so freaked now, they dragged us everywhere with them), the hospital called. Tara reached the phone first, and called out in disbelief, "Why is Mercy Hospital calling us?"

Peyton's mom snatched the phone away from her: she'd become extremely irritable over the past week. "Hello?" After a moment's pause, "What?" she shouted, causing everyone to jump. Peyton's Dad had come up behind her, just in case.

With her hand shaking, and sobs, her mom set the phone back on the receiver.

"She's gone." Peyton's mom sounded just numb, in shock.

I wanted to say 'yeah, we've already established that', but I didn't. That would probably only cause her more tears. So, my dad, who's a shrink and deals with many fragile people, said, "What?" In his calmest voice. He'd tried his little ruitine on me too, to stop my 'mayhem', but no shrink will be able to stop that. I'm an antagonist for life.

"H-her b-b-b-body's gone," she choked out between sobs.

"Please tell me this is some sick joke," Tara said, head between her knees. I'd never seen Tara cry before, and I still haven't. With that we exited the room, leave the adults to sue or whatever.

Once we were seated, in our favorite spot at Peyton's house -Peyton's room- we both began to talk at once. But then I shut up and Tara started over. "What the hell," Tara never curses if avoidable, so this surprised me, "Do you think happened?"

"I don't know. Remember what Pey said a long time ago? 'If I'm gone, and you're not, check my computer. Check my secret file -Kailie, you know where it is- and listen to the song. It's my life.'"

"Should we?"

I nodded, "But... what'll we find? That scares me."

"I know. But... she told us to, that means we should." We inched our way over to her desk top, as though it might lash out and bite us or something. "Do you remember her password?" Tara asked once I'd gotten the computer running.

"Yup, y'know Peyton, it's 'Mango1414'. Why, I have no idea."

"Yeah... that's Pey alright." She said as I logged in. I clicked a few times, and then I was brought to her file. When I clicked it, it asked for a password. I tried typing 'Mango1414', but nothing happened. Well, it yelled at me, and gave me a password hint. I glanced at Tara, and said, "Do you think it's what I think it is?"

"I didn't even know Peyton read books, let alone have a favorite one."

"Same here," I agreed, "But I don't think it'd be wise to go out and ask her parents right now... wait! Remember Kramer's class?"

"Yeah..."

"What was her favorite book we read that year?" I was testing Tara now.

"Oh! We called it 'Remember the Banana', I don't remember the real name though."

"I don't think Peyton did either, but shall we try it?" I'm the only kid in our grade who uses the word 'shall' regularly, if at all, and proud.

At Tara's nod, I typed it in, and we were in. There was a video, which I clicked into full screen mode, and turned the volume down a bit, for good measure.

There was a note at the beginning, in Peyton's favorite text, and it said, 'If you're watching this, it means your either a dousche who hacked my secret file, or I'm gone and I told you to watch this. I won't say more, but Tara, you might know where this is from, given you're parents weren't so strict. I know you're into music and stuff, so... and Kailie, you two were my best friends.' The note then disappeared, and I was thinking; Leave it to Peyton to make you laugh a week after she dies.

Then the beginning of what I assumed to be a movie faded onto the screen. It was a man looking like he was trying not to cry, and another sympathetic looking one beside him. Then the screen was filled, and it began. The sympathetic looking one sang, "There is no future. There is no past." Now a whole bunch of people were on-screen. I noticed, sub-conciously, the resemblence between Peyton and one of the girls.

Then a biker-looking-dude sang, to the one who resembled Peyton, "Thank God this moment's not the last."

Then he and the Peyton-ish girl sang together, "There's only us. There's only this. Forget regret. Or life is yours to miss."

Then everyone in the room -The Peyton-ish girl, blond biker-looking-dude, the guy who looked like he was trying not to cry, the sympathetic guy, a shorter girl who was in what looked like a biking jacket, and a woman beside her- began to sing, "No other road. No other way. No day, but today." The sympathetic scarf guy walked over and turned on a projector while the others were singing, (the girls were singing) "I can't control, my destiny. I trust my soul, my only goal, is just to be. Without you, the hand gropes, the ear hears, the pulse beats. Life goes on, but I'm gone, 'cause I die, without you, I die, without you."

Meanwhile, all the boys in the room were singing, "Will I lose my dignity? Will someone care? Will I wake tomorrow? From this nightmare? There's only now, there's only here, give in to love, or live in fear. No other path, no other way, no day but today. No day but today." Then they went on to repeat 'No day but today' and 'without you, I die, without you'. Then, at the very end, they sang together, "No day but today." Then the movie ended. Everything went black.

Well, not knowing really what this was from, I couldn't exactly make out the scene in the movie, but in reality... that was Peyton's life point. There really was no day but today. She used to always say, 'Why live in the past, or think to the future, while you can dance in the present? It's a gift, that's why it's called present.'

I glanced over at Tara, and for the first time in my life, I saw her biting her lip; trying not to cry.

[A/N] Kay, I SWEAR the Jellicles will be in the next chapter. The song is, in fact, 'No day But Today' or 'Finale B' from RENT. Sorry, this was originally over like 2000 words, but fanfic deleted my chapter (overnight. How weird is that?) and I don't really have the heart to make it as long as it was before. Sorry I didn't really describe the 'movie' very well, think of it from Kailie's view, she had no idea what was going on. Either way, I advise looking the real thing up, as I wasn't very descriptive.