I meant to have this out yesterday but the site wouldn't let me upload anything.
"June 15th"
"You were the one who found Mr. Garret and Ms. Bristow, correct?" Larson questions. Cat shakes her head. "My boyfriend was with me," she corrects him. "But why were you two in the attic in the first place?" he asks. Cat looks away from him, then back. "Mason wanted to see what was up there," she confessed. "I didn't want to, but it looked like it would make him happy to see what was in the attic and I liked seeing him happy so I went with him."
Cat starts sniffling. "I saw Nicole first," she states. "She...was in the middle of the floor and her back was turned to me so I went up to her to wake her up because the attic isn't a fun place to sleep. But when I turned her over-" she cuts herself off with a loud sobbing, but continues "-Nicole was pale and had bite marks on her neck and she was..." She stops talking and continues to cry hysterically. Larson quickly searches for a tissue to calm Cat down. "It's okay, it's okay," he tries to soothe. "You don't have to say it." Cat stops crying and looks up at the detective. "Can I go home please?" she asks quietly, a stream of dried tears on her face.
"I just need to hear the rest of your story," he tells her. "Then you can go home and you'll never have to think of this again." Cat smiles widely. "I can buy ice cream too?" she inquires with childlike glee. Larson nods with a genuine smile. "You can even buy ice cream," he assures her.
"Day fourteen," Quinn announced glumly into her camera. "Cat and Mason found Nicole and James earlier this morning and we still haven't seen any trace of Michael anywhere. No one's saying anything, but we all have ideas about what happened to him. We're all scared and we don't know what to do. I hate this horrible place, but there's nothing any of us can do to get out of here."
Tears came to her eyes, but she quickly wiped them away. "I haven't talked to Logan in five days," she added with a small sniffle. "I think the house is making him crazy; he thinks there's something wrong with Nina. I have no idea what to say to him about this. On top of all this, Zoey's still mute because of what happened to Chase; Tori's been a great friend to her, but we're all worried for her. We're all just counting the days until we can get out of here."
Then someone knocked at Quinn's door. She put her camera on her night table and went to the door. But when she opened it, I didn't see anyone on the camera. But Quinn saw someone there and wanted to talk. I remember when I was little and my brother gave me these really strong sunglasses and told me they made everyone else invisible; I was scared to go near any other sunglasses for years.
"Can we talk?" an invisible voice asked from the door. When we watched the video tapes, Jade told me that was Nina's voice. Quinn crossed her arms. I think she was suspicious of Nina like Mason was. "Go ahead," she sighed. "It's about Logan," Nina stated bluntly. "I'm worried about him; he's been acting kind of weird lately. Are you two okay...in the boyfriend/girlfriend area? I heard you talking about how you hadn't talked to him in a few days. Is there anything I can do to help?"
Quinn narrowed her eyes. "It's nothing we can't solve by ourselves," she retorted. "Our relationship is exactly what it implies: ours. Logan's just a little stressed out from everything like the rest of us. We can handle things without any outside help." She went to close the door, but stopped when she had another idea. "And shouldn't you be worrying about your own boyfriend?" she added. I think that hurt Nina's feelings. "Oh," she said sadly, "I...I just wanted to help. I guess I'll just be downstairs then. Sorry to bother you."
Quinn nodded, closed her door, then went back to her camera. When she picked it up, I think she realized she left it on the entire conversation with Nina. She probably decided to replay the conversation because of how suspicious she was of Nina. But when she started watching the tape, her face went wide with fear. Then she looked confused as she listened to Nina apologizing.
Quinn put her camera down on her night table then bolted out of her room.
"Zoey?" Tori called from the doorway of Zoey's room. Zoey looked up at her with blank eyes as she sat on her bed holding her knees. "Do you want anything to eat?" Tori asked. Zoey shook her head.
Sighing, Tori walked into Zoey's room and sat on the bed. "I know you're upset," she began softly. "And I know it won't ever get easier, but you've got to keep living your life. If you stay here, isolating yourself from everyone else, you'll always be stuck in the past and you'll always hurt yourself more. You know you can talk to me if you need me; I'm here for you."
Zoey leaned her head on Tori's shoulder and sobbed softly. "It hurts so much," she whispered. "Every time I close my eyes, I see the same scene over and over. I keep hearing his scream and reliving the pain of not being able to do anything to help him." Tears kept falling from her eyes.
Tori wrapped her arm around Zoey and rubbed Zoey's arm gently to soother her. "Only a few days left," Tori stated. "Then we'll be out of this hell and we'll set up a memorial for him. We're gonna get through this." Zoey sniffled. "I'm scared," she announced quietly. "I can't take the stress of this house; I just wish I could be with Chase." Then Zoey started shaking and she let out another loud sob.
Tori hugged her tightly and rubbed her back. "Do you want me to leave you alone for a while?" she asked softly. Zoey sniffled and sat straight up. "Please," she answered. Tori patted Zoey's back and got up off the bed. "Call me and I'll be right here," Tori told her. She left Zoey's room and closed the door behind her.
Zoey laid down on her bed and stared at the ceiling with really sad eyes. If I hadn't been so upset about Nicole and James, I probably would have went to talk to her; I hated seeing people sad. And as she was laying down, someone called her name.
"Do you know who called her name?" Larson interrupts. Cat shakes her head. "But it was spooky," she told him. "It was something like a creepy whisper or some kind of ghost calling her." Larson raises an eyebrow. "You think it was a ghost?" he questions. Cat shrugs. "It was like this," she changed her voice to a low dark wail. "Zoooooey." Her voice was back to normal. "I almost cried when I heard it on the tape; it was so scary."
Zoey looked around her room to see who called her. "Hello?" she called out. The voice whispered her name again. She slowly walked to her door and opened it, peeking her head into the hallway. Her curls bounced as she did so and it was cute. But that wouldn't look right on me; curls never looked right on me.
"Who's there?" she called out. "What do you want?" But no one answered her for a teeny moment. Then it whispered her name again. This time, Zoey stepped out of her room and started going upstairs. "Are you in the attic?" she called. Her only answer was the voice whispering her name again.
Zoey quickly went up to the attic. "Are you here?" she asked after she opened the door. "Are you hurt, whoever you are?" There was another teeny silence. "Do you see him?" the voice questioned in its same whisper. "What?" Zoey questioned with big eyes. "See who? What do you want?"
"Do you see him outside?" the voice asked. "He is so lonely out there, Zoey; he misses you." Zoey gasped and I did too; whoever it was talking to her was talking about Chase, according to Jade. Tori wasn't in the room for the next few tapes. "He misses you," the voice repeated. "Join him, Zoey. You will never be happy without him; you are nothing without him. If you truly love him, you will join him in death." Zoey held herself and cried softly.
She slowly made her way to the door in the attic to lead out to the really pretty balcony; you could see all of the empty land around the house and you could also sorta see Carson City. She opened the door and stepped onto the balcony. When she looked down, I bet she could see the top of Chase's head.
"Your friends will try to stop you if you try to leave," the voice told her in a normal tone. It sounded like a man. Maybe it was the man that was talking to Nicole! Zoey turned to look back into the house and I saw that she saw a tall, scary looking man with long hair and really scary eyes. She looked at him with sad eyes, still holding her arms. "So what do I do?" she asked softly.
He stepped out of her sight and a rope fell along the floor right in front of her feet. She bent over to pick up the end of the rope and she saw James and Nicole's bodies lying in the middle of the floor. She just looked at them with sad eyes. Slowly, she picked up the rope. "This will fix things?" she asked with doubt. "Of course," the man answered from the shadows. "No longer will you feel pain. No longer will you be separated from your love."
Zoey pulled the rope toward her to get the other end. With a sigh, she turned around and tied one end of the rope to the balcony rails. Then she made this loopy knot with the other end and put it around her neck so she was tied to the balcony. She climbed onto the railing and sighed softly as she looked out into the town.
After Tori left Zoey's room, she started going to Andre's room. She knocked on his door with a smile. "It's open," he called. Tori came back into the room to watch this part of the tapes.
She entered his room and closed the door gently behind her. Andre looked up at her from his computer. I think he was making a song on this program thing. "Can we talk?" she asked. Andre put his computer away and patted a spot on his bed in front of him with a smile. "Park your keister," he ordered. "Parking," she repeated with a sad smile as she sat down.
She grabbed his hands. "You know I care about you, Andre," she confessed. He smirked back at her. "And you know I love you," he told her. Then his smirk faded into a frown. "But you don't feel the same about me." Tori sighed. "I've been thinking," she began, "We haven't talked in a few days and it got me missing you really badly. All that time away from you made me realize that I really do love you like you love me." She smiled at him. "I'm sorry it took so long for me to figure that out."
Andre kissed Tori's hands and smiled warmly. "I woulda waited forever for you, Tor," he confessed. "You're just that amazing." He leaned in slowly and kissed her deeply. Then Tori made me, Beck, and Jade leave the room so she could watch the next part by herself. Jade said that was the part where they were being dirty like Nicole and James used to be.
"Nina are you alright?" Robbie asked as he knocked on her door. She answered him with loud crying. "I'm coming in," he announced through the door. When he opened it, he looked to her bed; she was probably crying on it. He walked over to her bed and sat on it. "What's wrong, baby?" he asked. I hated how he called her that. But through her tears and sobs, Nina was able to answer him. "Q-Quinn hates me-me s-s-s-so much," she cried out. Then she continued crying.
"I don't know what I did," Nina stated after she stopped crying. "I was just trying to be nice and be her friend. I bet all your friends hate me!" Robbie pulled Nina close and rubbed her back...at least I think it was her back. "No one hates her," he assured her. Jade laughed when he said that; deep down, the majority of us hated her. Hate was such a big, mean word, so I just said I really didn't like her. "They just haven't warmed up to you yet," he added. "Just give them time, then they'll know why I love you so much."
She hugged him tightly. The weird part was that she was looking in the mirror and I could see her! I don't know why though, but I could. And her eyes looked like they were turning red. She closed her eyes and when she opened them, they were blue again.
She pulled away from robbie so she could look him in the eyes. "You won't remember this," she told him softly. "You will only remember coming to my room and spending time with me until you fell asleep." Then Robbie's eyes glazed over and his head started slowly falling like he was trying to stay awake. His head turned and I saw Nina in the mirror as her fangs came out and bit him on the neck!
After Quinn talked to Nina, she went looking for Logan and saw him staring into his mirror and combing his hair. That was a silly thing to do when you had your door wide open. "Can we talk?" she asked with a weak smile. Logan put down his comb and turned to her. "Did you come to call me crazy and run away from me again?" he questioned.
Quinn walked into his room and closed the door behind her. "I want to say I'm sorry for not believing you," Quinn stated. Logan got up from his mirror. "What?" he clarified. Quinn walked toward him and grabbed his hands. "You were so right about Nina," she admitted. "I filmed a conversation we had and rewatched it. She didn't even show up on camera!"
Logan pulled Quinn close into a hug. "So you'll stay away from her?" he asked hopefully. "Yes," Quinn answered happily. "And I'll always believe you from now on. I love you, Logan." He smiled at her and leaned in to kiss her. "I love you too, Quinn," he said after the kiss. I clapped after I watched it on TV.
A loud knocking came at Logan's door. He pulled away from her, still holding one of her hands, and opened the door. Tori stood there looking back with worried eyes. "Have you seen Zoey?" she asked him rapidly. "I left her in her room and I was only gone for a little bit, but now she's not there." Logan shook his head. "I've been in my room all day," he announced. "I think I saw her going up to the attic," Quinn piped in. Tori's eyes lit up. "Do you think she's still there?" Tori wondered. Quinn shrugged in response. "Then let's go find her!" Tori exclaimed.
Together, the three of them raced to the attic. But once they got up the stairs and reached the door, Tori screamed at the top of her lungs. Someone had cut off Trina's foot and attached it to the door! Tori recognized it from the sneakers Trina had been wearing; they were pink with her name written in cute, curly letters. Andre came running up the stairs then stopped when he saw Trina's foot. Then he ran to Tori and held her in his arms, directing her away from the door. Logan was the one who pulled the nail out of Trina's foot and hid it under his shirt. I thought that was icky. Tori got up from the couch when he did that and went up to her room.
Logan moved toward the door and slowly pushed it open. He saw Zoey standing on the balcony. "Zoey no!" he shouted. Tori pulled away from Andre and looked to Zoey in shock. "Zoey stop!" she shrieked. Zoey turned around at Tori's voice and looked back at Tori with big, sad eyes and her hands around the noose on her neck.
"Come back into the attic, Zoey," Tori pleaded from the doorway. Zoey shook her head slowly then turned away from Tori. Then Zoey stepped off the balcony and I turned my head from the screen, refusing to look. I wanted to cry when I turned my head, but Jade assured me that Zoey was gonna be okay; she told me that Zoey was going to be with Chase and they would be really happy together.
Tori screamed and ran to the edge of the balcony, tears falling from her eyes. She stared down at Zoey's body as it slowly swung around in front of the house. Tori fell to her knees sobbing loudly.
The only person who knew what Tori was feeling was gone and the only person she was supposed to make feel better was gone. Her only chance at being a great friend was gone. She'd failed herself...and she had failed Zoey.