It's beginning...

Hope you guys enjoy this chapter! And side note: Once this part is all over which will be in the next couple of chapters, there will be a lot more character building chapters coming!

What is this feeling? It feels like something I've never felt before in my life. I've never felt this much hopelessness and despair in my life. I open my eyes realizing I'm awake and thinking. I remember everything that happened yesterday and my my eyes begin to water. I start to tell myself that what I saw on that video yesterday wasn't real and that it was all just a ploy in Monokuma's plan to get everyone including myself to kill someone. No matter how much I think those things to myself I still can't stop worrying. My thinking is cut off by a knock at the door. As I get up my eyes wander to the clock. Six thirty?! Nighttime isn't over until 7 so why would somebody be at my door. I question whether I should open the door considering the motivation to kill everyone had seen yesterday. Disregarding that I sneak over to the door and slowly crack it open.

"Hey..." I see Jarrett say with an unusually scared expression.

I feel slightly relieved and fully open the door.

"It's still Nighttime" I whisper. "What's going on?"

"If you don't mind I'd like to talk to you about something..." Jarrett whispers back to me.

"I mean I don't mind but couldn't it have waited thirty minutes...?" I reply.

"I'd kinda rather talk to you alone when nobodies awake" Jarrett mumbles.

It seems kinda unusual but I trust him. Jarrett doesn't seem like he'd do anything regardless of whatever he saw yesterday. I decide it's ok and agree to go with him. We begin walking towards the lobby to be stopped by something strangely out of place.

Brett's door is wide open.

"Huh...?" Jarrett mutters. "Why would Brett come out especially at a time like this...?"

With complete confusion we quietly call his name into his room. No response. We take it upon ourselves to make sure everything's alright and slowly walk inside his room.

"Brett...?" I whisper. "Is everything alright?"

Again no response.

"I guess he's not here?" Jarrett questions.

We look around his room to find nothing. The bed seems unused other than a couple wrinkles here and there. We seem to find nothing else. Until we spot something completely terrifying. We spot a knife in the corner of the room with what on it seems to be...blood?!

"What...is this?" Jarrett says.

No no no. This has to be a fake knife. Maybe this is what Brett was doing while he was locked up in his room. Making a fake knife with fake blood on it? No that doesn't make any sense. Nonetheless it can't be real. Why would there be a knife in here? With blood on it too...

We disregard it for now, labeling it as fake and finish searching the room. There doesn't seem to be anything else. Last but not least we check the bathroom. The door seems to be locked. This obviously isn't right. How could the door be locked from the inside?

"Let's try to break it open" Jarrett says.

Knowing it's not the best decision we still try it. Jarrett and I step a couple steps back from the door then run and ram the door. It doesn't work. Not knowing what else to do we try a couple more times. On about the fifth try the door flies open. We hear a big crash and after the dust settles I set my eyes on something unreal. The bathtub is full of blood colored water and there's a lifeless corpse laying in it. It's...Alexa. Somehow I end up on my knees. I sit there for who knows how long just mumbling "No...no...no" Jarrett's screaming something but I'm too scared to hear it. I don't know what's going on. Too many things are coming one after another. This must be a dream right? I don't know what to believe any more but this is too much for me to handle. Seeing it more clearly now I start to get nauseous. I can't handle blood very well and one of my friends bodies being enveloped in it doesn't help. My vision starts to get hazy. I black out with my last thought being: "Could one of us possibly have done something like this...?"

I wake up screaming. "What happened...?" I say to myself. I'm sweating. I remember what I just saw and tremble. I want to start crying but before I can I look around the room. I'm in my own room. Could that have possibly been just a dream...? It was so surreal though. It must have been a dream. There's no reason something like that would happen. Absolutely no reason. I'm still scared though. I don't want to leave my bed and find out that that was actually real. Looking at the clock it says 7. As soon as I let out a sigh of relief, letting myself believe it was just a dream my TV shoots on. I see the face that's been making me go through all this pain; Mayor Monokuma.

"Hello!" he says with a laugh.

"It seems the time has finally come! Upupupupu please come and meet me in the lobby so we may discuss what should be done from here!" With an obnoxious laugh the TV shuts off.

What has finally come...? Please. Please don't be what I think it is.

I slowly get up from my bed feeling winded and head over to the lobby, scared for the outcome. On my way I again see Brett's room wide open.

"No...no...WHY?!" I scream. I run into his room and go all the way back to the bathroom. It's just as I saw it in my supposed "dream". Alexa is laying in the bathtub lifeless and dead. I run out of the room screaming. I find everyone else in the lobby.

"DO YOU GUYS SEE WHAT'S HAPPENED TO ALEXA?! WHY ARE ALL OF YOU JUST STANDING AROUND. WE HAVE TO HELP HER" I scream.

"She's already dead. There's nothing we can do" Katie says with a scowl.

"No...there must be someway to help her!" I bellow.

"It happened too long ago. She's long gone" Tanner sighs.

I see Emily by herself, crying in the corner of the lobby. Everyone else just has the same expression; complete despair. No one knows what to do. We're all dumb struck. I doubt any of us have ever experienced something so terrible. I refuse to believe any of us killed Alexa. There's no way. We're all just high schoolers, not murderers. Nobody would go as far as killing someone. My thinking, once again gets cut off.

"Upupupupupu look at all this despair!" Mayor Monokuma laughs as he comes out of the elevator.

"OF COURSE. ONE OF OUR FRIENDS JUST GOT KILLED" Arielle screams. "AND YOU MUST'VE BEEN THE ONE WHO KILLED HER. HOW COULD YOU?!"

"Yeah...it must've been you!" Emily shouts at Monokuma.

"WHY BEAR?!" Katie screams out while also laughing.

I don't understand Katie...It seems like she's having a great and fun time watching everyone suffering. I don't get it.

"No" Tanner interrupts everyone. "It was most definitely one of us. If Monokuma wanted to kill one of us he would have done it a long time ago..."

Arielle begins to argue but stops realizing he's right as well as everyone else.

"Hehehehehe your right! I, as well as all the Monokumas would not kill one of you because that'd just be boring!" Mayor Monokuma laughs.

"But...but...WHY WOULD ANY OF US DO THAT?!" Dawson screams.

"I have noooooooo idea" Mayor Monokuma says with a grin. "Well I might have some idea. I mean, I know who killed her"

"If you know then why don't you tell us Mayor Monokuma...?" Elizabeth says with a grin.

"YEAH. You need tell us. I wanna know which one of us could have possibly done something like this..." Joey blurts out.

"Why would I tell you? The killer is for you to find out!" Mayor Monokuma screams with excitement.

"Huh...?" TJ says as quiet as ever.

"Does everyone not remember? I told you the grandeous plan! I told you the way I wanted it to go!" Mayor Monokuma pouts.

I don't remember him saying anything about finding it out ourselves...

"I remember..." Brett says.

Wait Brett? I completely forgot. Where has he been since his door was open. I just noticed that he's been in the lobby since Mayor Monokuma showed up. I've been too scared and worried to notice that he was here.

"You said that we had to go through an investigation to find out who the killer was. Then afterwards we would go through a class trial to finalize who will receive punishment." Brett sternly says.

He seems like a completely different person now. It seems like I don't even know him. What has he been doing all this time? What's going on with him?

"You are indeed correct!" Mayor Monokuma declares. "I will give you all a couple of hours to investigate the murder and find all the clues you can! Then we will go to the luxurious class trial which I will tell you more about when the time comes" he laughs.

"Well! Good luck to all of you" Mayor Monokuma walks into the elevator and it closes before anyone can object.

"He expects us to just inspect our friends dead body?! I WON'T DO IT" Sydney screams.

"We gotta do it. Let's just get it over with" Megan says with a surprising serious expression.

"I'm sure we can bring the killer...to justice" Mckenna says while trying to keep up her normally optimistic attitude.

"Yeah lettttttttttts do it! WE NEED TO FIND THE ONE WHO DID IT!" Brett laughs. "This is like a mystery TV show" he blurts.

Now he seems to be acting like himself...I don't know what happened but at least we have him back in the group. I'm sure everyone's as confused about him as I am but right now is not the time for that. We need to find who the killer is by all means possible. We need to help Alexa. I can't imagine how it felt to be in her situation and to be...be murdered. No matter what I will find the killer. I still can't believe this happened but I can't just sit and do nothing. I'm scared and I don't wanna do this but I have to...for Alexa.