CHAPTER 2

❝ ...There's a lot of time wasted hating the way I act, social skills, I'm not sure I have...❞

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It had been two days since the try outs, and Jake still hasn't heard any news on who made the team. He sighed as he trekked back to his dorm. It was almost time for curfew and there was no way he was going to get caught by the prefects. He stood in front of his dorm room and searched his pockets for his key, when he heard the sound of feet scuffing the floor boards. He froze as he leaned close to his door. Jake knew for a fact that his roommate was out staying over at a friends room for studying, so it couldn't have been him. Jake then rummaged through his bag and took out a bat, as one can never be too sure, especially with a sociopath running a muck all over the place. Slowly, with one hand, he unlocked his door and opened it. Inside he slowly walked in, on guard, looking around to see nothing out of place, but the window open. He gaze at it suspiciously and walked towards it. He looked out of the window and saw nothing. He shrugged and was about to close it when suddenly a figure appeared hanging upside down.

"Jake!" The figure said, scaring Jake who let out a scream and caused the figure screamed too. His mind took a moment and saw that the figure was his best friend. He stared at her like she was insane.

"Eliza, what the hell are you doing!?" He cried.

"You didn't answer your phone!" She said and looked at the bat in his hands, "And why do you have bat!?"

"I thought you were predator!" Jake said.

"Predator?" She scoffed and shook her head, "Okay, forget that! Look I get that it's late and curfew is in 2 minutes, but I saw my dad head out like ten minutes ago from my house, and apparently dispatched called, they're bringing every man of Bullworth department and even the state police!" She said with a smile.

"Okay, so what?"

"Wha-what do you mean 'so what'?" She said, "Two joggers called and guess what they found in the woods?" She asked as she flipped back and landed on the floor of the room.

"Whoa, you mean dead body?" He asked.

"No, a unicorn, yes dumbass, a dead body!" She said.

"Was it murder? Were they from here?" He asked.

"Nobody knows yet, just that it was a girl, probably around our age." She said.

"Wait a minute, so if they found the body, then what exactly are they looking for?" He asked.

"Oh that, well it may or may not have been cut in half..." She muttered, nonchalantly. Jake stared at her as she nodded, "We're gonna find that other half..." She grinned.

"Oh man, seriously?" He grinned as well.

"Yeah, so come on!" She said as she neared the window and pulled out a rope that was hanging on the side and rolled it down.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa!" Jake said, stopping her as she looked back at him.

"What?"

"Wouldn't it be safer if we just took the stairs?" He asked.

"Well yeah, if you wanted to play it safe, but where's the fun in that?" She asked as if it was the most obvious thing in the world, "Now don't be such a sour puss and come on!" She said before climbing down the rope. Jake sighed before following. Once outside of the dorm, they headed to the gates, which were unlocked like usual. They looked around for any prefects before continuing on to their destination.

"Okay, so what do we do if we find the other half?" He asked.

"Don't know, report it and hopefully hope that they'll be grateful and forget that this ever happened." She said.

"You seriously think that's gonna work?" He asked.

"Nope."

"Oh great, I'm gonna end up in jail before I get to ask Lizette out..." He sighed, Eliza looked back at him with a look.

"If asking her out the only thing you care about?" She asked.

"No, but at the moment it is..." He muttered.

"Yeah, yeah, okay whatever." She muttered, "You go to the west side while I check out the east, we'll meet each other half way from there." She said as she headed for the east side of the forest.

"Alright, sure."He said and headed in the opposite direction, only to stop as he looked up to see dots of white lights. He stood there as he looked at the lights then back behind him where Eliza left, only to see that she was gone too, "Oh no..." He said as he turned around to find his friend before the police, or something worse, finds her, "Eliza! Eliza!" He called out as he looked around to try to find her. Meanwhile, Eliza continued her way through the forest, it had only been a couple of minutes in since she split up from Jake. She continued trekking through the dark wood when she heard Jake calling her name.

"Huh? Jake?" She muttered as she looked around her surroundings.

"Eliza!" Jake said as he spotted her.

"What the-Jake-WAH!" She looked in his direction for a split second before she heard dogs barking at her and a light blinding, the sudden event scared her and cause her to fall back onto the ground. Jake jumped and hid behind a tree, hoping he wouldn't get caught.

"Stay right there!" A policeman yelled as he held a flashlight at her with one hand and the leash on the dog in the other.

"Hang on, hang on." A slightly older man with dark hair said as he looked down at Eliza, "This little delinquent belongs to me." He said as she got up.

"Hey dad..." She started.

"So I take it you always listen in on my phone calls?" He asked, eyeing her.

"What? Psh, me? No way..." She lied, hoping he would buy it, but he still eyed her making her drop her facade, "Okay, well obviously not the boring ones..." She sighed.

"Uh-huh. So where's your usual partner in crime?" He asked.

"Who? Jake?" She asked, behind the tree, said partner in crime cringed at his name and silently cursed her, "He's back at the school, it's me, alone..." She said.

"Hm...Jake! You out there?" He called out as he used the flashlight in his hand to see where Jake was hiding, thankfully Jake stayed behind the tree and didn't move. After a few minutes, Eliza's father sighed and looked back at her, "Alright young lady," He said as he put one arm around his daughter, "You and I are going to have serious and long talk on the way back to school." He said.

"Great..." She sighed. Throughout the whole night she had an earful of lectures from both her father and Crabblesnitch.

The next day, Jake appeared with his unappetizing meal of a lunch he got from the lunch lady, Edna, and sat next to Eliza,"So how'd it go?" He asked.

"Oh the usual, lecture, lecture, lecture." She said ad continued to play with her food. As she played with her food, she notice someone took a seat at their table, she looked up to see the sociopath, making her frown.

"So I heard that you snuck out...again..." He said.

"Congrats Captain Obvious, you just pointed out the most obviously thing since the stratosphere..." She remarked with sarcasm as she flashed him a smile.

"Well you're quite welcome Sergeant Sarcasm, I also heard that Crabblesnitch gave you quite the lecture too, this is, what? The fifth time this month?" He said with a smirk.

"Tenth actually! And indeed, he did Comrade Comeback!" She said, and noticed poor Pete and the new kid that she saw a few days ago, "Oh I heard that you've taken the new kid under your wing, how thoughtful of you!"

"Why thank you, Senior Smartass."

"Anytime, Dictator Dickhead!" She smirked, looking over his should she stared down at Pete donning his usual fabulous pink shirt, "Kowlaski!" She exclaimed, making the fidgety, shy boy jump.

"Y-yes?"

"You. Me. Smash Bros! Toon Link VS. Lucina!" She said, Pete blinked a couple of times and nodded.

"Alright, be prepared when my Toon Link wins!" He said, getting slightly into the topic.

"Ha! You wish! Lucina will be the one who will win this match!" She said with a burning passion.

"Okay, what are they talking about?" The new kid asked.

"Super Smash Bros. It's a really addicting game for gamers, aka, those two..." Jake said, motioning to Pete and Eliza, "They've been having these showdowns on who's the better gamer for a while, all in good sportsmanship of course." He said, "Jake Stilinski." He said as he introduced himself to the new kid, "And this dorky here..." Jake said pointing to Eliza, ignoring the frown on her face, "...Is Eliza Johansen."

"Jimmy Hoppkins."

"Alright! It's settled! Tonight at seven. My room, of course. But first!" She exclaimed, "We need some supplies!" She said.

"'Supplies'? Supplies for what?" Jake asked.

"Well for our Smash Bro spectacular tournament, duh." She retorted as she gave her best friend a look.

"Oh...uh...sorry, but I don't think I can't make it..." Jake said sheepishly, as he bit his bottom lip. Eliza stared at him as if this was a joke and laughed sheepishly.

"Aha...what'd you mean, you 'can't make it'?" She asked.

"Well...I have plans..." He said and stood up from the table, Eliza continued to stare at him.

"What the hell you mean you have plans?" She asked as she followed him out of the cafeteria, with Gary, Jimmy, and Pete following as well.

"Okay, look, Noah asked me to be his wing man on this double date he had set up." Jake explained as he tried to make his way to his locker.

"Wing man?!" She exclaimed, "You can't be a wing man! Hell, I'm your wing...woman" She muttered the last part.

"Ooh, looks like these two are having a lover's spat." Gary mused, causing the two to glare at him.

"SHUT UP!" They both fumed in unison.

"Just saying what's the truth." Gary shrugged, throwing his hand in the air.

"Okay, whatever," Eliza sighed, "But you being a wing man do not mix!"

"I know," He agreed, "I'm an idiot too..."

"Yes you are, oh God, this like watching a car wreck..." She muttered. "You might as well start hanging out with the gays and lesbians, speaking of lesbians, I don't think Sonya likes me..."

"How can this be happening to me?" Jake cried as he opened his locker to grab his textbook for his next period class.

"Am I not attractive to the eyes of lesbian chicks?" She asked, ignoring him.

"How can go on a double date and be a wing man if I can't even asked the girl I like?" He sighed, the bell then rung, "And now, I'm gonna be late to class..." He said and started to walk away.

"Wha-wait! Jake, you didn't answer my-!" She called out to him, "Am I not attractive to lesbians?" She sighed as he left and stood there, she paused and turned to see the others, "He didn't even answer my question..." She trailed off and then looked at them, "Hey can you three answer this for me?" She asked.

"Uh...sure, what is it?" Pete asked.

"I already have a feeling that it's a waste of time..." Gary muttered as he took a sip of the water bottle in his hand.

"Do any of you find me attractive?" She asked in all seriousness. Pete flushed bright red and started to stutter while Gary was caught off guard with the question and almost choke on his water, but he kept his composure and stared at the floor, refusing to look back up at her.

"If it make you feel better I think you're hot..." Jimmy said, not really sure why the other two were so flustered with the question, well more so why Pete was flustered, Jimmy didn't know what was up with Gary.

"Nah, it's not the same, you're a boy who doesn't know me..." She deadpanned, "Oh well, I'll ask him later, or maybe Sonya!" She said, "Anyways since I assume that none of us have classes at the moment, how about we continue with those supplies?" She asked.

"Well this is absolutely boring..." Gary started, irking Eliza as they were all waiting in line.

"Okay, now see here!" She fumed, glaring at him, "No one said that you had to come! Me and Kowalski would've been fine without you!" She said, at the moment it was only her, Petey, and Gary. Jimmy was forced to help the nerds again.

"Uh...Eliza, you're crushing the chips..." Pete said as he looked down at the poor potato chips in her hand as they were balled into a fist. Eliza looked down at the chips.

"Crap..."

"Nice one, Johansen."

"I swear to God I will shank you with a spoon..." She muttered and then sighed, "Alright, you two stay here while I get some new chips." She said and turned to make her way to where the chips are, but turned as sh narrowed her eyes at Gary, "And don't get into any trouble, Kowalski, you'll be in charge..."

"Why is it that femme boy is in charge?" Gary asked.

"Because," She drawled out, "He's more responsible than you and won't get into any shenanigans, plus I don't like you." She smiled sweetly at him before turning her back at them. As Eliza walked around the store, she looked around and froze as she saw a familiar face. A few feet away from her was a man with dark, scruffy hair and a slight stubble. Eliza grabbed the magazine laying on the side and used it to shield her face from his view as she paled and started to panic, she slowly looked up from the magazine to see him busying himself to other orderlies. She took this to abscond out of the place, but first she need to get the two dorks. She ran up to said dorks, panting. Surprisingly the market they were inside was quit big despite its outer appearance.

"Oh, hey Eliza did you get the chi-" Petey was cut off when she grabbed him and Gary by their shirts.

"Ow! Hey, what's your problem?" Gary asked as yanked the two out of the line and towards the exit.

"Change of plans boys!" She answered as she continued to yank them. Only to be stopped by a new voice.

"Well, if it isn't the sheriff's nosy daughter."

Cliffhangers...and it's only the second chapter joy.