Chapter 10 – This isn't suppose to happen

"Elle, are you okay?" Will asked me with full concern. It has been two weeks since the day Jennifer threw the knife out the window. I hadn't seen her ever since. I couldn't see her anywhere in school and Will didn't mention a word about her. I guess that incident still remains unknown to him.

Will and I are sitting in the living room couch. It is near midnight. My parents are out attending a meeting. I have been having nightmares almost every night. And Will had been sleeping in my room more often nowadays. "Nothing, I'm fine," I answered. I get up and head towards the kitchen to get a drink. I reached for the vodka with no reason whatsoever. My throat burnt when it washed down it. "Since when have you started drinking alcohol?" Will asked again. "None of your business," I replied. I wish Will would just leave me alone to let me have some time to think and mind my own business. He has been tagging along behind me since that day.

"Now that really isn't like you," Will said. He dragged me upstairs into my room and before I knew it, he was kissing me. He deepened the kiss and pressed hard against me. It seemed like a pretty long time when suddenly we were separated by the sound of glass breaking. Neither of us moved for a second. Then Will told me to stay in my room while he goes downstairs to see what's the matter. But he doesn't have to. Because there standing at my bedroom door is Jennifer, holding the knife that she has plunged down five floors two weeks ago.

I reach for Will's arm. He exclaimed with pure surprise, "Jen?!" "So I guess your loving girlfriend here hasn't told you about me, huh?" Jennifer said, advancing towards us. Will shot me a look with confuse mixed with anger.

I backed away as far as I could from her. She grabbed my hand whilst she aimed for Will's stomach. Jennifer took him completely by surprise which caused him to double over in pain. She twisted my arm in an odd angle and direct the knife towards my throat. I shrieked in pain and struggled to get free. "You struggle once more and this knife is in your throat," she said in a deathly whisper.

"If you want your girlfriend alive, you better do as I say," she spat to Will. "What is with you? I thought you were happy with Lance," Will said in nothing more than a whisper. Jennifer laughed and I felt cold breath washed over me. "Happy? I was only with him because you were spending less time with me. Well, how was I to know you are to meet this girl. I tried so hard to get you back but I guess you never notice my efforts. So, I guess I just have to get rid to this girl." "You can't kill her. You'll go to jail. It isn't worth it." Will said. "Ha! Isn't worth it?! Of course it is worth it! I'll never go to jail!" "Why not?" Will shot back at her. "The forces of evil are strong and they never look at things like jail."

"Forces of evil?" Will said in a tone of disbelief.

"Didn't Mr. Morgan tell you? My master's order is to kill anyone you dislike or hate. I like you too much Will, that's why I can never kill you. But as for this girl, well, I guess it is her I dislike."

"What master? Jennifer, WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?!" Will exclaimed.

"Oh, forget it!" Jennifer snapped.

And with that, she dragged me outside onto the landing and pushed me against the glass railing which only reaches up to my hip. My dad had designed it that way three years ago. I looked down and I realize that if I fall down on this spot, I will crash head first into the glass dining table. She deepened the knife into my throat and I can feel a drop of blood trickle down my neck; I can't breath.

"Good bye, Ellie, forever," her whisper tickled my ear. Then, she pushed me with full force that sent me over the railing plunging down to the glass dining table.

Something grabbed my hand just in time. I opened my eyes and saw Will grabbing my arm while he's trying to take the knife from Jennifer with the other arm. She kneed him in the groin but at the same moment, he elbowed her in the stomach. Jennifer lost her balance fell head first over the railing.

She was still holding that knife and while she's falling, she cut me across my arm. I yell in pain but my shout was drown out by Jennifer's high pitched scream. A second later, I heard a crash.

Will pulled me up slowly and held me tight. I froze in terror when I saw Jennifer's body covered in blood with a knife in her throat. She has killed herself by accident. A black mist started forming around her lifting her body up. And in a second, her body was gone. The dining table was back to normal, there is no blood to be seen, there is no windows broken. I turned to face Will. He looked at me for a second and pulled me into a tight hug. My throat no longer hurt. The blood on my arms had dried and the cut has healed. It is like nothing has ever happened. Maybe it is just a nightmare and it would soon be over.

Jennifer has been missing and she isn't in school. But no one seem concern except her parents. Jennifer's picture was in the paper two days later. I was nibbling on a Mars bar when I saw the news. I nearly choke. I nudged Will but he reassured me that everything's going to be fine. "Maybe we should confess," I said to him. "Confess what? Elle, no one would believe. It would just bring trouble," he replied. "Maybe we should tell my parents. They would understand," I tried again. "Your parents?" he nearly laughed. "You think they will believe that you are responsible for the missing cheerleader? And that the forces of evil has been in your house to get Jennifer? Oh, please!" By then, Will is laughing his head off so I joined in too.

He pulled me close and kissed me hard on my lips. I leaned in against him as all worries disappeared from my mind. I can only think of Will and me. And our future…