Looking outside his window, Noah saw that it was raining outside. It started about a couple seconds ago, and for him, it felt almost peaceful for him to listen to. It wasn't making him less worry about everything that's been happening, but it sure what calming his nerves a little bit.
Sitting there, Noah was whistling 'Singin' in the Rain' to himself as he was sitting on top of his desk, looking out to the rainy night outside. Considering that Noah can't hear footsteps outside his hallway, he knew Duncan was most likely asleep or still in one of the other rooms. Thank God, because Noah was not needing to hear more berating from Duncan this month.
Still looking out the window, Noah took notice of a shadowy figure walking down the sidewalk. Noah could only assume that this was the person who was going around the neighborhood, wanting Duncan and his friends dead. He went downstairs to make sure that this wasn't the same figure, or it's just another friend of his trying to get to his house through the rain. Making sure that he was prepared for a fight, Noah picks up the nearby umbrella, then looks out the door.
He looked outside, before noticing that the figure was already at his door. Noah gasps, falling to the floor in shock as the door swings open. The figure steps into the light, revealing themselves to be only Gwen.
"Noah, relax. It's only me." Gwen said, taking the cape-looking trench coat off, then putting it on the rack. "I came here to show you something that I found at the construction site." Gwen began to make her way to the dining room, as Noah closes the door behind himself.
"What could be so important that you walked through the rain to get here?" Noah asked the goth as she went over to the dining room table to sit down. Gwen pulls out the paper and phone that she found, then looked over to Noah as he entered the room.
"These were what I found at the construction site." Gwen told him. The goth then turns her head towards the living room, hearing the sound of Duncan exiting the living room, heading inside the dining room now. "Duncan, were you sleeping in the living room?" Duncan rubs an eye, before nodding his head.
"Yeah. It's the only room in this house that has a comfortable bed." Duncan said, before glaring at Noah. "There was no way I was sleeping near this guy, who allowed my friends to die." Noah glared back at him, angry at him for the blaming that he was doing, only for Gwen to speak up before another argument started happening.
"I'm guessing Noah told you about what has happened to Jo, huh?" Gwen asked him.
"Yes. He said that he saw you, chasing Jo into the construction site, but when in reality, I bet it's really just him trying to make up a story where he made another one of my friends die, for no reason other than he hates my guts." Noah shook his head, rolling his eyes. "I know for a fact that you would not lie to me and say that what Noah is saying is true." Gwen stood there, silently, not saying a word to him, before turning towards the items she collected.
"Noah is telling you the truth, Duncan." Gwen said, bluntly, standing up for Noah. Duncan was confused.
"Huh?"
"Turns out, I was chasing Jo, however, on my end, it was a misunderstanding. I assumed that she was whoever it was out there, but then we ended up at the construction site." Duncan felt a little betrayed hearing that, still trying to put together why Gwen would go and do something like that, before the goth continued to speak. "Also, if you're wondering why Jo is out there to begin with, despite Chris telling us to stay at your houses, she was told by someone to go to 'safety' at the construction site, only for it to be a trap for her." Gwen hands the juvie punk the paper with Jo's number on it, as she then looks over to Noah. "Just as I left, the killer was actually entering the construction site while I was there. He or she tried to attack me..." Noah and Duncan were shocked hearing that being mentioned. "I fought back when they attempted to, most likely, kill me. I punched them in the face, and knocked them out cold with a shovel."
"Damn, Gwen..." Duncan lowers the paper, before looking at his goth friend again. "...I had no idea you had this in you." Gwen shrugged a shoulder, before giving the juvie punk.
"Hey, when your father's always bringing you out to learn how to keep yourself safe out into the woods, they really come in handy when somebody's trying to attack you."
The goth then looks over to Duncan, who was looking on the other side of the piece of paper that he was holding. He seemed to be horrified by something that was on the other side of the paper. Gwen and Noah walked over to him, as Noah took the paper away from him, to see what the punk was seeing, and what he ended up seeing was even worse than Jo's phone number being on the paper.
"He has Courtney's number too?" Noah asks in a worried whisper. "Oh no..." Noah looks over to the two other friends that were in the room with him, worried that Courtney might actually be in danger as well.
"Courtney is probably somebody they called too..." Gwen said with worry. "Do you think they already called her?"
"Courtney's smart enough to not trust a phone call from a person she's never met." Duncan said, before he picks up Gwen's baseball bat off the side of the walkway.
"Oh, don't tell me you're going out there." Noah said. "You know facing up against the guy will have you killed as well!" Duncan glares at Noah, not really listening to him.
"She's my girlfriend, even if you and I are not friends. I'm not letting some douchebag kill my girlfriend all because of reasons that I don't know about!" Duncan walks over to the door of his house, exiting it in the process.
"DUNCAN!" Noah shouts, before going after the punk as he was leaving the house. Noah ran out of the house, leaving Gwen all by herself now. The goth shook her head, pretty annoyed, before deciding to head out of the house herself.
With Courtney...
She actually went off to the town hall that night so that she could talk to the mayor and Topher. Courtney also became aware of Jo's death after Duncan and her talked on the phone about it. Once she heard about it, she decided to confront Mayor Hatchet about this, wanting to know if he's got any sort of plans to stop all of this.
"This is starting to get utterly ridiculous!" Courtney said, pacing the mayors room, before stopping in front of the desk, where Mayor Hatchet was sitting at. "Already three of Duncan's friends are killed, and it's only a matter of time when my boyfriend, Alejandro, and...whoever else in this town this person hates, gets a majority of the town. Is there any sort of plan to ensure the safety of our townspeople?!" Mayor Hatchet sighed, before standing up.
"Courtney, we and Detective McLean are doing our best to try to make sure that everyone in this town is safe from getting killed by this guy." Mayor Hatchet said. "Also, when it comes to complaining, Chris should be the one to talk to."
"I would also complain to him to give me a different job that's not helping the mayor out." Topher said, glaring at the wall to the right.
"You...sort of wonder why you're here at the town hall rather than with Chris at the police station." Courtney said, sarcastically to him, before turning her attention towards Mayor Hatchet. "But...regardless, Mayor Hatchet, I know we knew each other personally in the past, you use to be the owner of the daycare before while my mom and dad are away during their work, and I've always been good to you in the past, but...my concerns are valid, you know. I'm not doing this for myself and because Duncan's my boyfriend, but I'm doing this because I am deeply concerned for our towns safety. So if you tell me you guys have this all under control, I'll be less than concerned for all of the town's safety." Mayor Hatchet sighed, before sitting back down in his chair.
"Courtney, I'm concerned too. But I am relying all of my trust on Detective McLean on this one." Mayor Hatchet said, before leaning forward on the desk. "I know that doesn't mean much, but I can assure you, that he has this town completely secure from left to right." The man then held up both hands. "In other words, Chris is trying. He's not the best detective, but he's trying his best to save everyone in here before things escalate to being worse than they are."
Courtney looks to the floor, blinking at least once. She didn't really want to argue with the mayor, since things escalated this far. She looked up at the mayor, deciding that she should just go home, and leave him be. Mayor Hatchet spoke one more time, before Courtney could leave.
"Just trust me on this one, Courtney. Go home and get some rest now. Okay?" Mayor Hatchet asked her. Courtney sighed, before nodding her head.
"I will, mayor." Courtney said, backing up towards the doors behind her. "And...good day to you and Topher." She said, bowing her head, before heading out the doors behind her.
Courtney exits the town hall, suddenly realizing that it's raining outside. Of course it would be raining while she is out here, trying to reason with the mayor. Of course she is stuck at the town hall until morning. The girl rolled her eyes, before picking up the nearby item to use as an umbrella for herself, which was some empty bucket.
'It's not an umbrella, but it'll do.' Courtney said, before charging out into the rain, keeping the bucket over her head as she tried to make it home.
Thankfully for her, her house was right nearby the town hall. So she wasn't too worried that she might need a long walk to the town hall.
Once Courtney got home, she tosses the pail into the garbage can outside her house, then headed inside. She took a few breaths after her run, before she feeling like eating dinner now, then heading off to bed. So she walked into the kitchen so she can eat something.
After eating some leftover food she and her parents got from Applebee's, Courtney went upstairs so that she can go and do something before going to bed. She walked over to her bedroom, picking up her phone, wanting to text her father when he'll be back from work. Of course, Courtney ends up hearing that her father is going to be heading home late, again. Probably talking with that girl Lindsay's father at the office once again. She was too tired to even care.
So after changing into a regular green t-shirt and purple pajama pants, Courtney went straight to bed. She really wants this day to be over, so that she doesn't have to be too stressed out about everything that's been going on in her life. She closed her eyes, and laid there, trying to sleep.
But before she could sleep at all, the sound of something falling was heard outside...
Courtney's eyes went open the instant she heard that...
"Ah, what the hell..." Courtney mutters, as she glares at the window. She assumed that another squirrel got into her backyard again, and knocked over one of the flower pots in the garden. "...Probably another squirrel, or something...I'm too tired to deal with it, right now..."
Courtney still attempted to try to sleep the night away, until she kept hearing strange noises out in her backyard. She thought it would just go away, but it kept going, and going, and going, until the girl had enough of the noises, feeling like it's more than just some squirrel that's lurking around in her backyard. She stood up out of her bed, and headed downstairs so that she could see the on Earth is going on out in her backyard.
Looking out the back door, Courtney didn't see anything, or anyone, out there. However, she did end up feeling like some animal entering her backyard was correct, since she saw that one of the flower pots were knocked over onto the grass. She rolled her eyes, before making sure that the back door was locked. Once she knew that her back door was locked, Courtney went upstairs to finally head back to bed.
Walking up the stairs, Courtney believing that it was only a squirrel is gone when she heard the sound of her garage door opening...
She didn't hear her dad pulling into the driveway, so it wasn't him. Courtney was now beginning to become frightened at the fact that there might be somebody entering her house right now. She walks down the stairs, slowly, before looking out from behind the wall, seeing that the door to enter her garage from the kitchen was starting to rattle. It took a bit before it could open, which revealed somebody that Courtney was shocked to see. The same figure that was going around and trying to get Duncan and her friends.
Courtney gasped in horror, at the fact that this figure was suddenly in her house now. Noticing that there was the person entering her house, Courtney ran immediately upstairs, heading towards the bathroom to hide inside of it. She locks the door, and kept her distance from the door. She pulls out her phone, trying to text Duncan, or Noah to warn them about the person who's now inside of her house. She texted both of them for help, until she heard the sound of the door-knob on her bathroom shake. Courtney shrieks in horror, as she behind behind the sink, huddled while shivering in fear.
"I'm too young to die!" Courtney shouts, fearing for her life, behind the sink.
After a couple seconds after Courtney shouts that, she heard another voice calling her name downstairs. She opened her eyes, looking over to the door, feeling a bit relieved when she heard the voice shouting from downstairs. Courtney stood up from the ground, looking over to the door.
"Duncan..." Courtney said, before heading over to the door, slamming her fists into the door, trying to make sure that her boyfriend hears her from upstairs. "Duncan! I'm up here! HELP!"
Downstairs, Duncan, Noah, and Gwen finally arrived at the house, hearing the sound of the knocking from downstairs. They actually took notice of the garage door opening downstairs when they finally arrived at Courtney's house. When they saw that, they knew Courtney was in some sort of danger. Prepared to try to discover who this guy or girl is, they immediately ran inside.
Hearing Courtney screaming from upstairs, they knew for a fact that she was in trouble. Hearing his girlfriend's voice, hearing that she was okay, Duncan attempted to run for the stairs, only to see that the figure who was trying to get him was up there.
"Well, it seems like you and I finally meet face to face, huh?" Duncan asked, angry. "You better not have grabbed my girlfriend, or else it would be the end of you..." The guy held up their hands, as if this isn't a threat whatsoever. "Oh, now you're trying to surrender...nice try, asshole. But you killed three of my friends already, and you think I'm going to sit back while you take the love of my life?!"
The figure slowly backs up, before Duncan balled up a fist. Noah and Gwen came into the same room where the stairs were located, seeing the person was upstairs, not fighting or going after Duncan. The killer has him right there, so why isn't he or she going after him. By the looks of him or her, it doesn't look like whoever this is brought means of defending themselves while they were here.
"Well, you brought fists to a...well, fist fight!" Duncan shouts, before charging at the person.
The figure dodges Duncan, heading down the stairs. Noah and Gwen tried to block the doors, only to get knocked down by the psycho before they were able to grab a hold of him. Gwen stood back up immediately to try to go after this guy herself, only to run out to see that whoever it was, disappeared out into the night.
She glared around the part of the neighborhood that she was in, making sure that there was no sign of the person anywhere in sight. After seeing that whoever it was was gone, Gwen sighed shaking her head, before heading back into the house.