In the town...
Cody was looking up at the sky, seeing that the clouds were forming in the sky. It seems like there is going to be another rainy night once again. It seems like the town is getting a lot more rainy days nowadays this month, by the looks of the past few days. Not that that was a bad thing, or even something he should even be focusing on, but he just took notice of it.
The boy walked through the streets, trying to get to his own house. He had nothing on his mind all too much, until he heard the sound of a car following behind him. He turns around, noticing that Detective McLean was following him in his car. Cody stops, before Chris pulled up closer to the boy, rolling down his window as he approached him.
"May I ask why you're following me, Chris?" Cody asked the Detective.
"I was just following because you're pretty close to that Gwen girl. You know, the only was almost arrested?" Chris asked him. "Yeah. She around? Because I am wanting to talk to her due to the fact that she is needed to help me track this psycho down."
"Now you need her?"
"I know it sounds like I'm asking for her a little too late now. But Mayor Hatchet is a bit peeved and anxious if you haven't noticed." Cody walks up to the window, leaning on the side of the door. "Despite all of that, and despite me wishing I could just do this on my own, I felt like it would be better for Mayor Hatchet, as well as the town, and for my own defense since I can't fight all that much...I think I need some help."
"Now that everything is going straight to shit, now you need our help?"
"Maybe..."
"I'm guessing once we're all done, Gwen's going behind bars along with this culprit because she helped anyway? I believe that's just going to happen when we're all done with this shit?" Chris glared at Cody, holding up a finger to the younger male.
"Hey, I didn't come this far into the mystery for sarcasm, pal...if I were you, I'd drop that tone of voice you're using and help out." Chris stared forward, before starting his car back up. "After all, I am pretty much changing my mind on the fact of having Gwen in jail for helping us, and allowing it. So be grateful I'm doing that much for her, and you, and Noah, and Duncan." Chris then drops his glare, staring at Cody again. "By the way, is your friend going to be bringing Duncan to the town hall later tonight? Because tonight, Mayor Hatchet wants to keep him there so that he can be safe." Cody shrugged his shoulders, standing back up.
"Beats me. You're gonna have to find Noah yourself on this one." Chris rolled his eyes. "Also, what makes you think that Noah is the one doing it?"
"Oh, Topher actually said he was going tell Noah to go do it. He didn't want to go face Duncan again after what happened last time." Cody raises an eyebrow, wondering what that meant.
"What do you mean by that?"
"Topher actually doesn't really like Duncan, you see." Chris started off saying. "Back in high school, the guy and him had so much beef in the past, during both middle school, and apart of high school." Cody raises an eyebrow again.
"What do you mean?"
"What? Is all of this really requiring that question? I already said that Topher and Duncan had beef in the past, according to Chef. All I know is that part of the time, Topher went off to a different school."
Trying to connect the dots on this whole ordeal, Cody stared at the car with pure terror in his eyes. As Gwen told him from the notes that she discovered around town, apparently, whoever this was left town because of an unknown reason, most likely because of Duncan bullying him. But was Topher really the one who was writing those notes, or is this nothing more but a misunderstanding. Topher doesn't even seem like the kind of person to be out there, killing people out of revenge.
Cody kept this to himself, as he said his next words. "Thanks for telling me." Cody said. "So...tonight, go straight to the town hall?"
"You bet." Chris said.
Chris starts his car, and then drove off to go to back to the police station. Cody stood there for a couple more seconds, before wondering if Topher had some sort of involvement in all of what is going on. He hoped not, because if that's the case, Chris and Mayor McLean surely don't know about him doing any of this, and when they find out, they are going to feel betrayed.
Cody doesn't one hundred percent know what Topher's motivation is to do all of this, aside from the fact that he was apparently bullied by Duncan and his buddies for some reason. If he was going to confront Topher about this, it'll have to be while he, Noah, and Chris are at the town hall. Hopefully, Gwen will be there as well, considering that she has a crossbow, in case things go awry for the three men. That is, if she shows up.
With Bridgette now...
The surfer girl was walking back to her house after she went off to work. Her shift finally ended, and she just wanted to get home already so that she didn't have to worry about all of this craziness that's happening around town. She personally just hoped that Gwen and her friends survive the night, especially if the goth girl was just going to go out and try to finally put an end to this psycho around here.
Speaking of that...
Bridgette stopped in her tracks, noticing the figure was standing by the back of the town hall, while nobody else was in the area she was in. The figure was watching Mayor Hatchet talking to somebody in the office area of the interior of the building.
Bridgette gasped in horror, seeing the figure once again, dropping her backpack upon seeing them. The figure looked behind themself, seeing Bridgette was looking at them at the window. The surfer has no other choice but to run away from the guy. So she did.
She ran immediately across the street, heading straight to the alleyway, in hopes of getting into the downtown area of Leafton. But before she could get across the alley, Bridgette stopped, seeing the other figure walking into her view. The surfer turns around noticing that there were now two psychos here now.
"T-This can't be real!" Bridgette said in a panic.
Neither of the figures said nothing in response of what Bridgette just said. The surfer looked across both sides of the alleyway, completely defenseless. Seeing no other choice, Bridgette attempted to scream for somebody.
"HELP! SOMEONE!" Bridgette screams, hoping somebody hears her.
Before Bridgette could scream for help some more, one of the two figures knocks her out with a baseball bat that they were carrying. The surfer fell to the ground after she was hit in the head, passed out.
The two figures looked at each other, wondering what to do next. Neither of them knew the girl, so they chose not to do the obvious choice, like she was one of Duncan's friends. The one figure Noah saw first had a different idea, that might make Mayor Hatchet a little willing to throw Duncan under the bus.
Meanwhile...
With Gwen...
The goth girl was setting things up for the night now that she has returned home. She placed the coat she had on for the past few nights, making sure that she was ready to go. She picks up the crossbow off of the dresser she placed it on, giving it a good look for a couple seconds. She already got arrows for it. So she was all set for the night.
She then heard a knock downstairs. She looked out the window of her bedroom, making sure that it wasn't Chris. Thankfully, it was Cody. The goth opens the window, poking her head out of it.
"Come in!" Gwen shouts from upstairs. "The door is unlocked!"
Cody walks into the house, allowing himself in. He walked up the stairs, heading over to Gwen's bedroom. Gwen was placing what she's got into her backpack, just as Cody entered the bedroom.
"Cody, you're finally here." Gwen said, before placing her backpack on.
"I know. You seem like you're going to be ready for this killer to finally get stopped. Huh?" Cody asked. Gwen nods her head. "Well, I need to tell you something Gwen, before you end up going into town to try to get rid of this guy."
"Alright. Say it."
"Well, Chris came to me when I was walking down the sidewalk. I was just minding my business, until he told me to tell Noah to bring Duncan to the town hall so that Mayor Hatchet could keep him safe. I know what it sounds, but even I would say it seems like a pretty dumb plan." Cody walks over to Gwen's bed, sitting down on it. "That's not what I am getting at at all of this, but...I feel like I have a bit of a theory of who we could be dealing with, or who was the person who was doing all of this in the first place." Gwen raises an eyebrow, as Cody said the last part. "I just want to say once more...apparently, there's two killers out there now."
"Seriously? Cody, is this a joke?"
"I'm afraid that it's not a joke." Cody points at himself. "Just to prove my point, I need to ask you, if there's only one killer in this situation, then how did me, Noah, Emma, and Kitty confronted the killer at the gas station, while he apparently had Alejandro and Trent killed? Because I remembered that the abandoned gas station was about...a lot more blocks away from Alejandro's house than one would think." Cody points over to the window. "Granted, the guy ran away when MacArthur's police car was heard. But still, where he lives, it's too far away for him to get to his house." Gwen walks over to the wall, before placing a hand on the wall, then looks behind her shoulder, looking at Cody again.
"I guess that makes sense..." Gwen threw her arm down, glaring to the floor. "Damn it..." Gwen then looks at Cody again. "So...if Topher is...possibly one of the two, then who's the other one? Who is he in cahoots with?" Cody stood up from Gwen's bed, then walked over to the goth.
"I'm not sure who the other one is. I doubt it's Harold, Cameron, or Sam, since...from what I can see from this guy...he or she doesn't even appear to be any of them..." Cody looks over to the goth, before she walked over to the door. "Look, I don't know what the plan is, but what do you think? Should we go and try to confront Topher about all of this?"
"Chris and Mayor Hatchet would never believe it's Topher."
"Well...we got to go do something about this. If it is him. Noah is going to bring Duncan to the town hall any moment now." Cody looks at the baseball bat that's leaning on the wall. "I'm starting to get worried."
"Now that there are two people going around attacking Duncan's friends, I'm feeling worried as hell too..." The goth girl picks up the baseball bat, handing it over to Cody, before patting him on the shoulder. "Look, if Noah is bringing Duncan to the town hall, then...I feel like we should get ready to try to protect everyone in that building if he were to attack Duncan right then and there. Promise me that you'll help me out?" Cody nods his head.
"I will...but can you promise me one more thing, Gwen?" The goth was confused by what he was wanting from her. "...Can you promise me that...you won't die out of all of this? You're good friends with Duncan, and...I honestly don't want you to die." Gwen blinked twice, before speaking.
"Is...this because you want to date me? Or is this genuine?"
"I didn't want to say that first part...besides, you're still hurting, I think..." Cody shook her head, before sighing. "...I just really don't want you to die, Gwen. I really don't...besides, you said it yourself, you did say that you appreciate our friendship even if it...didn't really seem like we were friends in the past...but I really want to be better friends after all of this passes by us."
The goth girl sighed softly, before nodding her head. "Then I promise I'll survive along with you." Cody nods his head, before picking up the baseball bat. "Let's just hope that both of us survive the night then."
"Agreed." The two headed off, heading off to make sure Duncan doesn't end up dying throughout all of this.
With the two figures again...
The two of them had Bridgette tied up on a chair, and placed in a bedroom. Bridgette woke up, looking around the bedroom, seeing that it had no pictures of who it was who owns the bedroom, nor did it have any items that made it obvious who it is doing all of this. The only furniture in this bedroom was just a bed, a dresser, a closet, a desk, and a bulletin board on the wall.
The bulletin board had photos of the people who were from Noah and Cody's college. But by the looks of the photos, about a couple of them had a marker crossing out the people who've been killed in the passed few days. Scott, Lightning, Jo, and Alejandro were crossed out in some of the photos, but then there was a photo of Duncan that had a red marker circled around him. Bridgette was horrified at what she was seeing.
She looks down at her legs were tied to the chair, and her hands were tied behind her back. However, her mouth and eyes were free, so that was good, somewhat. She realized that her phone wasn't in her pocket, as she would usually feel her phone in her pocket whenever she brought it along with her wherever she went. The surfer girl looks over to the desk, then the bed, but her phone appeared to not be in this bedroom at all. It seems like there's no sign that she was going to have to call her friends.
The surfer girl attempted to scoot her way over to the window, in hopes of trying to find help outside. Once she was finally near the window, she looks over to the door one more time, before looking back to the window, hoping somebody was out there.
"SOMEBODY HELP! I'M TRAPPED UP HERE!" Bridgette screams. "HELP!" Nobody could hear her.