Life is Strange 2: Unexpected Trials

Chapter 2 of my Life is Strange 2 Episode 3 story, enjoy.

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Episode 3: Trials

Chapter 2

Monday 7th November 2016

It was Monday morning and, after getting dressed, the Diaz brothers left their home, ready to head for their respective schools. Unfortunately from them they soon spotted two people ahead, the last people they wanted to see. Brett and Michael Foster, clad respectively in black pants with a red T-shirt, a dark blue jacket and brown boots, and red pants, a white T-shirt, black jacket and matching boots.

"Urgh, I thought something was polluting the air." Michael snapped when he spotted them.

Daniel just rolled his eyes at the pathetic remark and Sean just ignored them, that was until Brett spoke.

"What's the rush Diaz, going after your alleged girlfriend, you shouldn't rush." He sneered. "She'll be too busy shacking up with some other guy you know."

Sean froze at that.

"Excuse me?"

Brett laughed. "Oh you didn't know, she's seeing other guys, it's obvious, especially when they'd be more worthy than a greaser like you."

Sean growled but forced himself to turn away.

'It's Brett Foster, he's talking out his ass, there's no way Jenn would do that.' He told himself.

So, ignoring the continued taunting he followed Daniel as they made their way to catch the school buses in order to get to school before they were late.

Once at school, Sean was in a tense state.

'I need to find Jenn, figure out what's going on. Brett was talking out his ass of course, but he needed to have something to base it off of, if someone is hassling her…?' He thought to himself.

Before he could make any further thoughts, his phone buzzed, indicating a text. Warily he checked it and was shocked and worried once again upon seeing yet another threatening text.

He shook his head. 'What the fuck...okay, now I'm starting to get really suspicious.'

For the text seemed to imply that whoever sent it was warning Sean to back off, claiming that Jenn was truly dating them and Sean was 'intruding'. The problem was, despite there being some obvious suspects, none of them could be considered truly viable. Jenn was a popular girl and there were many guys interested in her after all.

"Sean."

He turned and saw it was Lyla. "Lyla hey, are you…?"

Lyla looked worried, harried even and seemed to be on edge.

"You got more texts too, huh?" She asked.

"You too?"

She nodded. "Yeah, some of them are downright creepy, it's, it's actually getting scary."

That caught Sean's attention, Lyla wasn't one to scare easy after all and she was clearly very disturbed about it.

"Yeah, um, look..." He showed her his phone. "Listen we need to, are you…?"

Lyla shook her head. "Whoa, Sean, this is serious. You need to find and talk to Jenn, as soon as you can."

"But you..."

"Never mind about me, talk to Jenn, got it." Lyla insisted.

Sean bit his lip, but agreed.

Meanwhile, at their school, Daniel and Chris were meeting up just outside their class.

"Hey." Daniel greeted his friend with a grin.

Chris smiled lightly. "Hi, how's it going?"

"Fine, so..." Daniel began, thinking for a moment. "I got an idea, why don't you come around to my place so we can hang out, huh?"

Chris nodded at that, eagerly. "Sure, sounds good, I'll come over right after school, okay?"
"Sure."

Even though he said that, Daniel couldn't help but note that Chris seemed a little too eager to come around. Not to mention the fact that he could still see the bruises on Chris and, when Chris thought Daniel wasn't looking, he actually looked down, upset.

Daniel couldn't help but start fretting. 'What's with Chris, this isn't...this isn't like him and, and...those bruises, please don't let it be...I've got to do something, but what?'

He couldn't help but feel worried for his friend and wished there was something he could do, but couldn't figure anything out, not right then and there at least. Finally, deciding to at least make sure Chris knew he wanted to help, Daniel spoke.

"Hey Chris, listen, I know something happened to you." He saw Chris about to react but quickly explained. "I understand if you don't want to say anything, but if you ever change your mind, I'm here and I'm willing to listen."

Chris bit his lip, but nodded, just in time as the bell went, signalling the beginning of school.

Later, at lunch time, Sean left his class and began making his way to the cafeteria, he was frantic, he hadn't had a chance to meet up with Jenn all day and the texts he had received played on his mind, especially as at least two more had been sent to him during school.

'Jenn and I need to talk, need to figure out what is going on here...' He thought worriedly. 'But what do I even say, how do I ask her about this?'

Even as he thought this he stopped for a moment, for finally he saw her. Jenn stood at the end of the corridor ahead, biting her lip, twirling a strand of her vibrant red hair between her fingers. She had seen him and was anxiously waiting for him. She looked clearly worried and in that moment, whatever doubts he had about what to say vanished. Sean knew, he couldn't waste any time and approached Jenn. He didn't say anything however, his efforts of reassuring her were based on actions.

"Sean..." Jenn whispered.

Then her eyes widened in surprise when he simply hugged her, holding her close and finally, realizing, she relaxed and smiled, returning the hug. They parted, both looking hopeful.

"Sean, I...thank you, I was so afraid you might..." She began.

Sean shook his head. "It'll take more than some creep sending false texts for me to think you'd do that to me. But we need to think, who could be trying to harass us like this."

"Lyla too, I don't get it." Jenn added.

It was then Lyla appeared, joining them.

"You guys, thank god." She burst out, clearly frantic. "I'm glad you guys are okay. But what are we gonna do about this, I mean..."

"I know, Lyla, we'll think of something." Sean said.

Jenn nodded in agreement, trying to reassure Lyla. Sean was especially worried about the effect this strange campaign against them was having on Lyla. He knew about her mental health issues after all and this might have a serious effect on them, which would in turn have serious, likely negative consequences for Lyla.

End of chapter, hope you enjoyed it, read and review please.