Zoe ended up finishing that game 5-1, and that was only because she let the other player pass out of pity. And after a relatively uneventful locker room visit, she went to her other class. AP World History. Zoe really liked the teacher in that class, Mrs. Ghal. She seemed to legitimately care for her students rather than treat them like the things paying her salary.

After that was a class called Foundations of Engineering, Zoe struggled with this one the most because the class as a whole was already stuck in the middle of a project and she was paired up with a dumb-ass named Kole who thought the class would've been easy, even though it was probably harder than all the AP classes at the school. And the teacher was a little, eccentric, to say the least.

Her last class was Honors English 10, it was a split block, which meant that lunchtime was right in the middle of the block. She ended up sitting at a group of desks next to the referee from gym and a few other people. They seemed like good people to hang out with.

At lunchtime, Jay's table was full, there were even people squeezing in by sitting on chairs instead of the benches that they were supposed to use. Not knowing where else to go, she sat by a lonely looking guy who was sitting alone. He had dyed his hair electric blue and he looked really lonely. So it came as a bit of a shock when the new girl, who was also pretty good looking compared to everyone else, came and sat next to him.

She quickly found out why nobody liked that kid, his breath smelled like straight up poop and he just didn't know when to shut up either. Zoe finished her meal and she took her tray up to the dishwashers and she went and sat by the ref from gym, since he was the only person she really knew. He and his friends seemed like pretty funny people, at least to her, and she sat with them for the rest of lunch.

After lunch she went back to her English class and after that was over, there was a study hall sort of thing that was compulsory to attend, much to Zoe's distaste. She was glad though because Jay was in that class. But he had to go to one of his classes to make up a quiz. He never came back to the class.

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After an uneventful drive home, she eventually came up to the apartment building that Joe, Lena, and she were using a room in. She parked her car and she went in the building, she took the elevator inside up to her floor and she went to her room. She had forgotten to take the key she was supposed to have and she waited a while before Joe opened the door.

"Hello!" he said excitedly as she came in. Zoe dropped her bag on the floor by the door and she went towards the couch and she slumped onto it. She stretched her limbs out and she sighed deeply. "So, how was your day?" Joe said as he sat at the kitchen table, which was a few feet from the couch. "It was fine, I honestly don't get the people there. They all seem to care about ruining each others reputations, there were only a few people who were actually legitimately nice people there." Zoe said disappointingly.

"Well, that's public school for ya love." Lena said as she walked in to the living room from her bedroom. "Yeah, whoopdy-effing-doo." Zoe muttered. "Hey, I never had an experience like what you're getting, be thankful for that." Joe said. Zoe just sighed and Joe decided to switch the topic. "So, did you find Jay?" "Yeah, he seems to be one of the main jocks at the school. From what I could gather from other students, he's got a sorta mixed reputation with the students and he's well liked by the teachers." Zoe said lazily.

"Well, that's a start, you talk to him at all?" Lena asked. "Yeah, in my first class, AP Calculus, he was the first person to introduce themselves to me. Although I really didn't talk to him past that." Zoe replied.

"Well, it's a start. Who've you made friends with so far?" Lena asked. "Uh, there's this one group of people, I really don't know how to describe them. They are sorta the nerds, but kinda not, they actually make fun of the nerds. I guess you could say they're a mix between nerds, stoners, and punks." Zoe said. "Well, I'll give ya a tip from my own experiences. Don't hang around with them too much. Try and get in with the popular crowd if you can." Lena said.

Suddenly, there was a knock on the door, Joe went and looked through the peephole and he saw a kid standing there, he had short black hair and solid features. Joe opened the door and he greeted the guy. "Hey, you must be Mr. McKnott?" the guy said. "Yeah, what's up?" "I was wandering if Zoe was here?" the guy said timidly. "Yeah, she's here." Joe said as he beckoned her over.

"Hey, what's up? She said coolly as she stepped out into the hall and closed the door. "Oh, uh, Jay sent me. He wanted me to give you this." the guy said as he held out a piece of paper. Zoe took it and she read it. She nodded and she told the guy she would think about it and he left.

Zoe reentered the apartment and she showed the paper to Joe and Lena. "Huh, well, if you got invited to a private party like this. He must really like you." Lena said.

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It had been about a week since Zoe got the invitation to the party. She was asked to dress lightly, despite the cold winds that were blowing through the area. She was at Jay's house, it was a mansion, it looked like a French chateau had been airlifted straight from France and put right where it was now. She marveled at the intricate architecture as she parked her car in the driveway. She climbed the stairs up to the front door and she saw there a really ornate knocker which she used and the noise from it was surprisingly little. But as soon as she let go of the knocker he was greeted by a wide open door with a butler who looked to be pushing sixty standing there. "Name please." the butler said and she said her fake name and she was granted access into the house.

She went into a mud room that was next to the door and there she deposited her coat, she was going to take off her shoes, which were just sneakers, but she decided against it, since that's here she had hidden a small knife in case anything went wrong. She came out into the foyer and she looked around, it looked like the grand staircase from Titanic and at the base of the stairs she saw a table with several white and gold masks on it along with a sign that pointed up the stairs.

She picked up one of the masks and she followed the sign, which led to more and more until she was directed to a door. She had lost her way in all of the hallways and she realized that she had no idea where she was. She shrugged it off and she grabbed the doorknob, but she heard something from inside. It sounded like moaning. From men and women alike, but it wasn't out of pain, but pleasure. She saw a dim light coming out from the door crack and she was already suspicious of the type of party she had been invited to.

She slipped on her mask and she turned the door handle slowly. She opened the door just enough to get a look at what was inside. She saw a bunch of people she knew from her new school there, they were engaged in acts that she really didn't understand. She had had sex ed at Rogue and she had watched her fair share of porn. She had even made love a few times with some boyfriends she had at Rogue, but some of the things she saw in there weren't explainable to her. She backed out of the room slowly and she just hoped that no one had seen her.

She turned around and she was met by another door that hadn't been there when she last looked over there. She turned back to the door to the "party" and she didn't see it, it was a blank wall. She was freaked out by this and she decided to just explore the halls until she found a way out. She started by trying to follow the way the signs had pointed her in, but she just made her way deeper into the house.

After an hour of walking around in the dimly lit mansion, she decided to call for help. She took out her phone and she speed-dialed Joe.

"Hey there Zoe, how's the mission going?" Joe said. "Uh, not as planed. The 'party' that I was invited to was apparently an orgy. I am willing to do most things, even killing people for a mission. But I'm not whoring myself out." Zoe said. "It's alright, you don't need to do anything that you don't want to. What are you doing now?" Joe asked.

Suddenly, the phone line was cut off and a male voice came onto the phone, the line had been hijacked. "Oh Joe, you were always so naive." the voice said as the phone hung up on Joe's line. Joe was scared by that, he dropped the phone and he backed away, in case something else happened to it.

"What's wrong?" Lena said from the couch, she had been watching a bit of the local news when Joe was talking to Zoe. "I think we need to go to Jay's house. Zoe's in danger, and I think I know why." Joe said as he went to his room, which he shared with Lena on and off. He opened the closet door and he grabbed a shotgun and a pistol along with Lena's guns.

Lena followed him and she got her Accelerator strapped on and she started to charge her bombs. She took her pistols from Joe and they started to head towards the house.

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Author's Note

Hope you liked that chapter. Trust me, the next one will be just as thrilling. I can assure you of that.

Also, a little PSA for any fans of Gorilaz, their new album just dropped. It's pretty good in my opinion. I really like Momentz, Out of Body, Sex Murder Party, and Busted and Blue. Out of Body actually served as my inspiration for this chapter. If anyone else reading this has heard the album, what's your thoughts on it?

See ya next time.