Chapter 7: Haunted. For real!
Neil's plan to get the girls surprisingly sounded good so the boys decided to execute it.
"Ok, so we should do it!" Jay said already nervous and anxious.
"There's only one little problem." Simon said. Other three looked at him when he ruined the atmosphere. "We have no idea where the girls have their room."
"Oh great…" Will moaned.
"No problem we'll find it." Jay said.
"Really? How? Will you walk in every room and sniff the underwear to make sure it's them?"
"Could've. But it's a lot easier to just find the list of the rooms."
"Of course!" Simon said for a moment glad but then, as usually, another problem appeared. "Oh shit, Gilbert probably has it. Or Kennedy."
"Well if Kennedy has it there won't be any problem with that. Neil will pop out his ass to him." Jay said and grinned.
"Behave!" Neil said a bit offended.
"Let's just go. We'll make up something during the way." Will said nervously. They headed out and rushed downstairs to the room in which Gilbert and Kennedy were supposed to be. They stopped at the doors and stared at them. "So?" Jay asked. "Who's going in?"
Three others looked at each other and then at him with smiles Jay didn't approve. "I don't know what those faces suppose to mean but I don't like it…"
"Since you asked first you should do it." Neil asked.
"What kind of a dumb rule is that!"
"Three against one. You have no word." Simon said. Jay rolled his eyes.
"Fine." He gave up. Of course he'll go in. This was a way to get to Taide and maybe find some other rooms where, for example, Donavan is so he could lock him in or something like that as revenge. He carefully tried the door knob. It was unlocked. Simon, Neil and Will moved a bit away. Jay's heart was pounding like crazy. He knew Gilbert hates him and if he finds him in his room the picture won't be pretty. He slowly pushed the doors and peaked in. Their room was divided on two smaller rooms with beds. The bigger one was empty, the doors that leaded to the other were left slightly opened. Jay was able to hear the conversation.
"If there are any threats for you on the school I can handle it." He heard Gilbert's voice.
"For now no one said anything." Kennedy answered with a worried voice.
"What about Sutherland?"
That shocked Jay. 'Neil?' he thought.
"Don't flunk him out of the school! Don't flunk anyone."
"We have a problem. We have too many bad reputations on school; one of them is Sutherland with his three friends. And we don't have enough staff. If you go we'll have to hire. That can cost."
"We'll talk about this later."
"And control yourself."
Jay heard steps so he quickly grabbed the list from the small table and rushed out in the last moment before Gilbert stepped in the other room. He was running towards Simon, Neil and Will waving with the list in his hands.
"Donovan is in the end of our corridor." He said.
"Who cares? Where are the girls?" Simon ripped the paper and looked trough the list. "Second floor in the room right above ours."
"Good. And now we break in like savages?" Will asked.
"I thought we have a plan."
"Yes. It's a bit weird. And hardly to imagine Jay knocking on that door."
"Rubbish! I'm sure everything will be fine." Simon said.
"You guys, you won't believe what I just head." Jay said. "Gilbert wants to flunk anyone who could tattle Kennedy's a paedophile."
"Bullocks!"
"No way." Will said.
"Why are you telling this to us?" Neil asked.
"Because he was touching you! You could be a potential threat. Idiot…" Jay said.
"What now?" Will asked.
"We pretend like we don't know anything. And especially don't mention Kennedy ever again." Simon said.
"And blackmail Gilbert." Jay added.
"How the fuck are you planning to do that?"
"We say we can tell anyone Kennedy's a peado. That means a bad reputation for school and one professor less on school."
"Brilliant, and then he flunks you."
"He won't."
"We'll see that."
"Never mind now. Let's forget about that. Have you forgotten about the girls?" Will asked.
"No. Of course not." Simon said. They had no idea where everyone was so they headed to find them.
"Wait." Jay said and pointed at Donovan's room. "Shall we?"
"Do what?" Simon asked.
"Ruin their room. Or write wankers on the door. Or spill water over their beds like they wet it."
"That's so childish."
"Oh come on! Don't be such a killjoy! What about you Neil? Are you with me?"
He just shrugged.
"You're so boring…"
"No, we just prefer clunge over fists." Will said.
"You won't get any anyways."
"We'll see about that."
Jay anyways carefully opened the doors into the empty room.
"Jay? What the fuck are you doing?" Simon asked and quickly looked around if anyone's close. Jay unzipped his pants and pissed into Donovan's backpack. Simon and Will were looking at him with jaws dropped only Neil had a huge eager smile. Jay closed the doors and came back out.
"All done. Shall we?" he said.
"Have you gone fucking mental?"
"Don't be such a pussy Si. You hate him as we all do. He deserves it."
"Yeah, but guess who will be his main suspect. Us!"
"Nothing will happen, don't worry. Let's find the girls. I need to empty my balls."
They all knew how much Jay's 'don't worry' meant. But now the girls were the main topic so they headed upstairs.
"You two wait here." Jay said to Neil and Will.
"And why do you have to go there?" Will asked offended.
"I already told you."
"We should go together."
"No, I'm going on my own. You can't ruin everything."
Will frowned. Jay walked to the doors and knocked on the door. Weird, but those opened. But it wasn't either Taide either Carli. It was Carli's friends from her class. She didn't seem really happy to see Jay.
"What do you want?" she asked uninterested hoping he'll leave.
"Um… have you seen Taide?" he stuttered.
"No. Bye!"
"What about Carli?" Simon appeared and quickly asked right before she closed the doors.
"Oh, so you're her stalker."
"Friend actually."
"I think she's downstairs at evening activities or whatever they have. My head hurts. Can you scram before it explodes? Bye…"
She closed the door in front of their noses.
"Was she serious?"
"Evening programme… I never imagined she fell so low." Simon said disappointed.
"Let's go downstairs then."
"Wait, you were the one who said that's lame."
"Not if the clunge is there."
"You're right…"
So they headed downstairs to the mess hall where some people was playing cards and stuff like that they weren't interested in. Well, at least most of them.
"Oh my god!" Neil said amused. "They're playing briscola!" he rushed to the table where few guys were playing a card game unfamiliar to Jay, Simon and Will. Simon looked around the place and actually saw Carli on the other side of the room talking to someone. Meanwhile Simon was busy with thinking how to get to Carli Jay headed to wander around. Anything can be better than this. He went towards the toilets to take a piss but someone grabbed and pushed him in the lady's bathroom. He tripped inside and turned around to rush towards the doors to run out but the doors were already locked.
"Now you can piss in here you twat!"
"Donovan! This is not funny! Open up!" he yelled and hit the door but there was no answer. What was even creepier there was no laughing. He couldn't even hear the footsteps. "Fuck!" he kicked the doors but they didn't move. He turned around and almost shat his pants because he didn't expect anyone in there with him on the other side of the room. They yelled at once.
"Holly shit Taide! You scared me." He said and smiled later. He couldn't help himself but to look up and down her body that was barely covered in her white towel. He failed at keeping his poker face.
"What the fuck are you doing here?" she didn't seemed really happy comfortable with him in the same room right now.
"Donovan threw me in and locked me."
"Ok now I give you the last chance to tell me truth."
"But it's true!"
"Get out. I'll be done inna tick. Wait for me in the cafeteria."
Jay headed to the doors and tried to open again. They were locked. "Shit, these are locked for real."
Taide sighed and rolled her eyes. She pushed Jay aside and tried herself like he was incapable but she figured out they were actually locked. She tried several times in vain. "What the fuck!"
"I told you."
"Is this some kind of a stupid plan to bang me? Is someone helping you?"
"Gosh no! Why are you so suspicious suddenly?"
"I dunno." She grinned. "It's a blind bit weird. You're in a girl's bathrewm. Are you hiding something from me?"
Jay thought a bit and then laughed with her.
"Gaffer, now I'm here stuck with you, without my clobber, right out from the shower."
"Pity you didn't wait for me."
"I prefer taking shower alone."
"That's what you think now."
"Aha…"
"What do we do now?"
"I dunno. We wait. Eventually someone will appear and find out the bathrewm is locked."
Jay leaned to one of the sinks and looked at Taide who was brushing her wet hair on the third sink down the row looking her reflection in the mirror. The whole room smelled like her strawberry shampoo. He looked at the showers from which she came out. His thoughts quickly became a bit dirty. He imagined all the things they could be doing in the shower now that they're on their own. Suddenly it was really hard to control himself when she was with him in the same room almost naked. He tried not to look towards her but his gaze kept on finishing on her.
"What's happening in the cafeteria?" she asked when she took the hair dryer and dried her hair.
"Nothing much. It's boring. That's why I went looking for you."
She discreetly smiled. That made him smile too. Before he managed to say anything else the electricity went off.
…
"Where's Jay?" Will asked looking around. Simon looked in the same direction but before he could say anything the light went off and confusion overwhelmed the room.
"Great… that's the least we need now…" Simon moaned. Visibility was poor. Only the light from the moon from outside was giving them enough light to see contours.
"Everybody calm down!" Gilbert said annoyed. "You can stay here and stop being worried. It's just some electricity that went off, nothing special. The staff will find some candles and you can continue doing whatever you're doing."
"How the hell am I supposed to find Carli now?" Simon asked.
"I still don't know where Taide is."
"If you want you can go and find her."
"In the dark? By myself?"
Few candles were lighted. The visibility was better. Simon looked at Will with a grin.
"Are you afraid of the dark Will?"
"What? No!" he lied. "Where did you get that from?"
"You seemed scared when I suggested you to find her."
"Really? You must've been wrong." He said with a bad poker face.
"I told you!" Neil suddenly came out of nowhere. "This place is haunted!"
"On which grounds do you presume that?"
"There are no lights!"
"Nothing special. They just ran out of electricity. I bet this is common in god forbidden towns like this. By the way, I'm going to find Taide now."
"Don't get scared." Simon nagged him.
"Good one!"
Will took a small key ring pocket light he had and headed down the corridor. "Ph! Scared of the dark. What does he think I am? Six? Please…" even if he was encouraging himself the anxiety and fear came up. Eventually.
Meanwhile Jay was looking for the lighter he had in his pocket and lighted it. He knew it won't work for long.
"Oh no…" Taide said like she was a bit worried.
"What?"
"There's no light." She said looking around like there was something moving in the room.
"Hey, hey, hey! Looks like Taide here is scared of dark!"
"It's not funny!" she meant it for real. Jay stopped smiling. "I…" she continued a bit held back. "I get a bit claustrophobic…"
"There's seriously nothing to be afraid of in here."
"Yeah… probably you're right."
For no reason Jay tried to doors again. "Hello!" he yelled. "Can someone open this fucking door?"
"Maybe you should try with please in the end."
Of course there was no answer. Taide leaned on the wall and placed her hand to the radiator. "Gaffer…The radiators are getting cold."
He quickly took off his hoodie and handed it to her.
"Seriously?" she asked.
"Sure. I don't want you to catch a cold or something."
"But I'm wet."
"Wet? I'm pretty excited myself as well."
"Of course you are. But I meant from the shower you idiot…"
"I… knew that."
"Thanks anyway." She said and put it on meanwhile Jay was about to kill himself. Why did he have to use dumb statements like that? The hoodie was too big to her and it was enough long to reach her thighs. He found her hot in his hoodie. He quickly thought about something else just to control himself downstairs. He burned himself on the lighter and quietly cussed. The room became completely dark again. Jay kneeled to the ground and tried to find the lighter. He found it and lighted it back again. He took one of the paper towels and lighted it even if he knew it won't last long either.
"Oh, fuck me!"
"Anytime! I mean! What?"
"A candle!" she said and took it from the shelf above one of the mirrors. She lighted it. It was a scented candle but right now it was the only light. "By the way, what I said before was metaphoric. Don't dare to try anything."
"Of course. Sure. Of course… but I wouldn't mind you know."
She just grinned and shook her head. Jay felt a bit awkward because of what he said and because he didn't knew if she was sick of him or not. His perverted brains were working against his will. Taide headed back to the doors and just tried few times to open it. She was playing with the door knob and hoping someone will wander by and find out they're locked in. But then something weird happened. Jay only heard her curse and jump away from the door.
"What?" he quickly asked as he thought something happened to her.
"The door knob moved by itself!" she said freaked out. For a moment they believed Neil was right. Then he looked better and it moved few more times.
"Holly shit! What the hell is going on in here? Neil was right! This place is haunted."
"It's not haunted…" an annoyed muffled voice came from the other side. "It's just me." It was Will. Jay rolled his eyes.
"You wanker… you freaked us out!"
"I have two questions. What are you doing in a lady's bathroom? And what to you mean by 'us'?"
"Umm… Donovan locked me in! None of your business. I'm with…" he looked at Taide wondering if he should say if he's alone or not.
"I'm with him." She said louder so Will could hear her. Will frowned. He couldn't figure out what they were doing in there. Until now. It passed some time since Jay left. They couldn't actually do it…
"Don't you stand there like you have something up your ass Will!" Jay said nervously. "Find the fucking keys!"
"How the hell am I supposed to do that?"
"Find anyone!"
"Fine… Are you ok in there Taide?"
"Yes, I'm fine, don't worry."
"Is Jay nagging you?"
"No, he's nice."
"Will, go for fuck sake!" Jay couldn't wait anymore.
"All right, all right…" Will turned around and went back towards the mess hall where he found Simon and Neil on the same place he left them. "Jay is locked in the girl's bathroom with Taide." He said surprisingly monotone.
"Aha. Cool." Simon said not really following his words.
"WHAT?" few moments later Neil and Simon asked at once surprised and shocked at once.
"You heard me right."
"Brilliant! What are they doing?" Simon asked curiously.
"I bet he's fucking the brains out of her right now." Neil said.
"Nothing actually."
"Nothing? Are you sure?" Simon asked.
"Donavan and his company locked in and somehow on a weird coincidence Taide was in there."
"So they aren't doing anything?"
"No. I hope they weren't done already when I came by."
"Should we do something?" Neil asked.
"A girl is locked with a sexual maniac in the bathroom and you ask if we should do something! Of course we should do something! Get them out for example."
"Since when you're helping Jay?" Simon asked.
"I'm not helping Jay, don't be silly. I need to get Taide out before someone gets pregnant in there."
"Great, explain that to Gilbert."
"I haven't thought about that."
"Of course you haven't."
"Let's just go there and ask for the key."
"Ask for the key for girl's bathroom. That doesn't sound weird at all to you?"
"It does actually."
"You said Donovan locked him in." Neil said.
"Yes. So?"
"Well, then he has the keys. Go ask him."
"Brilliant Neil. Have you gone mental? Asking Donovan? Me? No way."
"Then Si should go."
"No thanks man. I have enough troubles already. Why don't you go?"
"Because he hates Will and that means he hates me too. I can't go. Maybe Jay should go."
"Sure. Will he teleport himself from the bathroom?"
"Oh I forgot that."
"Of course you did." Simon said.
"I have an idea! Let's go."
"Are you sure?" Will asked.
"Aha."
They followed Neil with Will's lame flashlight to the bathroom where Taide and Jay were locked in. They were quiet most of the time now. Jay was ready to say to her his feelings. He straightened up and took a deep breath. Now or never.
"Taide…" He said unsure.
"That's me."
"I have to tell-"
Before he could finish the sentence Neil ruined everything from the other side. "Jay! I've come to rescue you! Are you ok?"
There goes the most perfect moment in his life. "Never been better, now since when you're here." He said sarcastic.
"Oh great! He's fine."
"Good, now we're here. How are you planning to get them out?" Simon asked.
"I have a plan, no problemo."
Neil stepped few steps back and then rushed with full speed into the doors and bounced back and fell on the floor. Jay and Taide winced on the other side when they heard the loud noise of Neil hitting the doors.
"What the fuck was that?" Taide asked. Jay shrugged. Will and Simon looked down on Neil almost disappointed.
"That was your plan?" Will asked.
"I thought it'll work." Neil said when Simon helped him up.
"Any other ingenious plan?" he asked.
"Does anyone have a paper clip?"
"You can't unlock the door with a paper clip."
"Of course I can! Don't you watch any movies? It is possible."
"That's the problem with movies. They're not real."
"Dr. Who doesn't exist!"
"What the hell are you doing here?" Gilbert's voice appeared from nowhere. Three boys jumped back when he came with Kennedy. Jay also heard him from the other side of the doors and rolled his eyes.
"Great…" he sighed.
"Umm… We were looking around." Simon quickly lied.
"Looking around? In the middle of the night with no lights?"
"We have a flashlight." Neil said and pointed on Will's small flashlight.
"Good. Then we have our suspects Mr. Kennedy."
I know it's hard to understand Taide's speech so I give you…
~Taide's Liverpuddlian dictionary:
Innna tick – in a minute
Clobber – clothes
Gaffer – great
Incaseyouwerewondering… Briscola is a popular (well, at least where I live is popular :P) trick taking card game with Italian origin played in whole Istria.
Ok! I've been enjoying writing this chapter, I don't know why... but I hope you enjoyed reading it as well
