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Here is CH6 of The Truth Of Arcadia Bay.
Blackwell Academy Parking Lot
5:00pm
October 7th, 2013
Sophia Barns was racing back towards Blackwell Academy. Her eye was bugging her like crazy but she wasn't concerned about that at the moment.
She needed to get back to the school.
Max's message was all that she needed to put pressure on that rich brat, Nathan Prescott. Of course, though, she needed to get all the facts though.
Luckily, she was just arriving at the school and raced through the driveway leading into the parking lot and screeched to a halt. In front of her were two events.
Nathan Prescott was currently being restrained by the security guard, David Madsen.
Another person was on the ground, trying to numb their injuries. 'It might be Warren? The guy Max was talking about...' she thought.
Sophia stepped out of her vehicle and was faced with a choice.
APPROACH WARREN or APPROACH DAVID AND NATHAN
She obviously needed to make sure that the guy, who she thought was Warren, was ok.
Sophia rushed over to the kid and bent down
"Hey, Warren right?"
He shakes his head softly. "Yeah, who told you? and... who exactly are you?"
"We have a mutual friend in common... and I am with the FBI.." she shows her badge to Warren
Warren's eyes widen "Oh jeez, Max! Is she ok?"
Sophia nods. "Yeah she's ok, she messaged me saying that she was traveling with a friend. Now breathe or you'll screw up your injuries more with all the moving around."
Warren starts calming down and breathing normally.
Sophia sighs "Ok Warren. I need to know exactly what went on here before I approach Nathan."
Warren slowly starts to relay his story, which really wasn't much to go on, but it gave her an advantage over talking to Nathan.
"Alright good. You rest for a few before we take you to the clinic."
Warren shakes his head immediately.
"No, there's a school nurse on campus. I can just go there. Please?"
Sophia sighs once more. "Ok fine. Rest up though. I'll take you there after I talk to Prescott." She jerks her thumb towards Nathan.
Warren nods and continues nursing his injuries.
She stands and walks over to David, where he's still attempting to restrain Nathan.
"WHAT DID HE SAY! EVERYTHING HE SAID IS A LIE!" Nathan starts yelling at her.
Sophia did not even seem phased by this little act.
"Mr. Prescott, do you even know how much trouble you are in?"
"I am NOT talking to you, a COP. I want to talk to my da- lawyer."
Just then, Principal Wells popped out, racing a little down the hill, and walks up to David, Nathan, and Sophia.
"Clearly this is a misunderstanding.., please Mr. Madsen, release Nathan here."
David, reluctantly, releases Nathan, who straightens out his jacket and starts looking all smug.
Sophia scoffs at Wells "You cannot be serious, this... guy assaulted another student. That is a crime."
Wells shakes his head "This was nothing... you see this kid was just... not watching where he was going and fell. Mr. Prescott was just... helping up the student. A perfect Blackwell Academy attitude."
"That's crap and you know it, Wells. I have two, maybe even three credible witnesses. Hell, even the kid looks like he's injured more than if he just 'fell'."
Wells smiles at her "Well when you have the evidence, you can consult Mr. Prescott. Come along Nathan."
The two walk off towards the main building.
David turns towards Sophia.
"Hate that Nathan Prescott. He acts like he owns the school. Hell, he even owns the principal. Can't do a thing about it."
Sophia just nods and gestures over to Warren.
"Can you take him to the nurse or something? He doesn't look too hot."
David nods "Of course. Have a nice day Ms. Barns."
She just watches as David helps Warren to the nurse's office. She pulls out her phone just as the two are out of sight.
S: Hey Max, it's Sophia, just got done with the scene here.
A few moments pass
M: Hi, how's Warren?
S: He's alright, he's being helped to the nurse's office.
M: Good
Sophia thought for a moment before asking
S: Hey, do you have somewhere we can meet? I Gotta talk to you about Nathan... you said you were with a friend right?
M: Yeah, the friend in question is Chloe Price. She was friends with Rachel Amber... maybe you can get something useful out of her?
S: Yes! Where is the address?
M: 44 Cedar Lane, saw it on some papers in the house. Also, we have to talk about Mr. Madsen...
Sophia got a little bit worried.
S: What about him?
M: He was harassing my friend Kate, I went in to intervene and I stopped him.
S: Well, any hardcore evidence?
M: No... damn should've thought of that...
Sophia sighed as she texted back
S: Look I should be there in a few. I need to talk to Chloe but we should talk about David and Nathan first.
M: Agreed.
She turned her phone off and stepped back into her car.
44 Cedar Lane
6:00pm
October 7, 2013
Sophia turned off the engine of her car and stared out at the house to the right of her.
It was a normal house on a residential street in Arcadia Bay. Cars were barely anywhere to be seen, her car being only one of few seen on the street.
She stepped out and locked her car.
Sophia walked along the paved walkway until she reached the door, but before she could even knock, Max opened the door.
"Sorry but Chloe doesn't know your here yet. Didn't want her to know a cop was looking for her. She is not huge on authority figures. No offense." Max said
"No offense taken. We need to talk first."
"Sure. sure. Come on in, I need to fix my camera, Nathan broke it when we got into that scuffle. Chloe said there were parts in the garage."
Sophia just nods and walks into the house. Pictures line the walls as Max leads the way to the garage.
"I'll look around for the parts while we talk" Max says
"Sure. So Nathan of course talked his way out of his assault. With help from the Principal."
Max scoffs "Of course."
"The whole thing with David Madsen, he's kind of paranoid. Can you walk me through what you saw?"
"Yeah I was making my way to the parking lot from the girl's dorms, and just as I round the corner, there's David ganging up on this one shy girl, and that's when I intervened." Sophia nods.
Sophia takes a look around the garage. Lots of food. Like apocalypse level of food. Muscle car in the front. David must be a gearhead of some sort.
Just then, Max opens up a cupboard with a television screen in it and turns it on.
"Holy..." Max says
Sophia turns towards her "What? Oh. He didn't."
Sophia and Max both look at the television screen and see surveillance cameras placed in almost every room of the house.
Max says angrily "This is a complete invasion of privacy! I'm not even sure Joyce and Chloe know about this!"
Sophia agrees. "Yes and look at this." She points to a map "Here's where he plans on putting the Blackwell Security cameras."
Max quickly closes the cabinet "We have to tell Chloe about this..."
"Agreed. But not right now. We focus on getting the tools you need and I need to interview Chloe."
Max nods and quickly finds the parts she needs. They were on top of the washing machine. They of course fell when she was attempting to get them and miraculously she was able to get them.
'Strange.' She thought. 'I remember that she couldn't get to them. This is weird. Like deja vu...'
She quickly shook off the thought as Max investigated the rest of the room.
"There are some files up here I can't reach can you?" Max asks
Sophia sighs "We really shouldn't be searching but ok."
Sophia is then hit with a wave of deja vu, her brain feeling like it's in a million places but only lasts for a few moments.
'Shit. These split-second headaches are starting to get worse.' She thought
Max was at her side instantly. "Are you alright?"
Sophia waves her off "Yeah, yeah, just a bit of head pain. Probably from the eye. Just need to take some pain reliever. I'll take some when I'm back at the car." Max nods.
Sophia asks "Hey you said something about files? Where are they?"
Max points to where they are and Sophia grabs them with ease. She then remembers a seemingly alternate event where Max tried to grab them instead and they landed in some sticky goo that was underneath her feet.
She shook off the thought and open the file folder.
"Huh."
Max asks "What?"
"Well, you were right about Madsen stalking Kate. He's got some real hard-on for her. There are tons of 'recons' and photos of her."
"Creepy" Max says
"Yep. Well, I need to take a quick picture of this so we can have some evidence against David." Sophia snaps a photo with her smartphone. Less quality but it gets the job done.
"Well, we better get back upstairs before Chloe thinks I up and ditched her," Max says
"Alrighty lead the way." Sophia smiles
Chloe's Room
6:20pm
October 7th, 2013
They both head upstairs towards Chloe's room. Max stops Sophia before they enter the room.
"Listen, I know what I said before but she really wouldn't appreciate you just barging in wait out here for like a sec before I bring you in. Ok?"
"Got it."
Max nods and heads into the room. She could hear the tail end of what presumably the other occupant of the room said.
"There you are Max, thought you had left. I heard voices downstairs, who were you-"
That's all she heard before the door closed behind Max. A few moments passed as she was only able to hear certain words and phrases.
"There's a girl outside Chloe."
"Who?"
"The person from earlier." She trailed off, picking up again later in the sentence, "remember Rachel?"
Very audible sighing could be heard
"Fine just go work on your stupid camera and I'll talk to her."
"Thank you Chloe."
"Mhmm."
Some shuffling could be heard before Chloe opened the door.
"Yo. Max vouched for you so come on in."
Sophia stepped inside.
"Thanks. I know you have stuff against cops."
Chloe nods. "Mostly my stepdouche. Thinks this is some kind of dictatorship over my life. Plus I hear you're investigating the missing person case of my best friend. An actual investigation, not like the useless cops in this town."
Sophia nods "Yeah. Noticing that everybody's paid off by the Prescotts. I do want to fully investigate your friend's disappearance."
Chloe nods.
"So first thing's first. What was Rachel Amber to you? I know she was your friend but can you specify?"
"Well when Max left Arcadia Bay, I felt abandoned, alone. Rachel came along and it felt like a match in heaven. Helped me through some dark times. At least until she up and went, with no word, six months ago..."
Sophia nods. "Did she tell you where she was going at all? Or if she was leaving at least?"
Chloe rapidly shook her head. "No. All she said was that she found someone special in her life and that was it."
"Any idea on who this special someone is?"
Chloe shook her head.
Sophia asked a couple more questions before an audible sigh was heard from Max.
"What's wrong Max?"
"Stupid camera is officially busted. Can't get it working again."
Photos were all over the desk. "Hey, these your photos?" Chloe asks
Max responds "Yeah I just took these today."
Chloe immediately takes a photo with the blue butterfly on it "Hey I know this! You were the one who set off the alarm in the bathroom! That's why Nathan was so mad at you... You have to tell me the truth right now."
Max explains "Alright yeah it was me."
"You totally saved my life... thanks" Chloe says.
She turns towards a nearby shelf and grabs a nearby object.
"I know it was your birthday last month."
Chloe starts explaining "So I want you to have my real father's camera." Chloe hands it out to her.
"What? No way! I can't take this..." Max pushes back.
"No take it! My dad would be pissed if he knew I wasn't using it. Now it will be used. Awesomingly." Chloe says.
Chloe turns on the music she originally out "Come on enough of this mushy shit, time dance!"
Chloe starts dancing on the bed "Come, join me Max! Shake that bony white ass!"
Max quickly joins her as Sophia stands back and watches. She reaches for Max's nearby camera and snaps a quick photo.
The flash startles the two as they turn towards her and Sophia chuckles. "Come on! That was a perfect photo opportunity."
They all laugh as in the background a door can be heard slamming from somewhere downstairs.
"Chloe, are you up there!"
Chloe quickly looks at Sophia and makes a stop symbol "Cut that shit!"
She quickly turns it off as they all hear David coming up the stairs.
"Chloe! I'm coming upstairs, we need to talk!"
Chloe says "You two need to hide. He will lose his shit if he finds you two here."
The only reasonable place to hide was the closet. They squished into the closet like a sandwich. Sophia was with a deja vu moment. An alternative timeline showed that the lamp was knocked over by Max, blocking off access to the closet.
"My bra is stuck! Just a moment!" Chloe shouts as she blocks the door.
"Your stalling Chloe! I am coming in!"
She let's David in as Max and Sophia are both crammed inside the closet.
"One of my guns is missing Chloe... know anything about that?"
"No, I don't. I care about gun control you know."
Silence for a few more moments before David picks up Chloe's weed.
"What is this... weed? Chloe, you know better."
"What guns? Drugs? Your trippn balls man."
"Then whose is it?"
Max looks like she wants to intervene but Sophia pokes her and shakes her head.
"I wish you would stop treating me and Joyce like we are your family platoon."
"Hey! Don't bring Joyce into this."
"I wish you'd leave Joyce! Like Now!"
That's when it happened. The slap. Chloe on the receiving end and David on the giving end.
"You were asking for that Chloe. You have to stop pushing me."
David doesn't say another word as he walks out.
Sophia and Max come out of the closet. (haha)
Max asks if Chloe's ok but Chloe brushes her off and says "Well I know one place in this town that isn't a shithole."
Outside Chloe's Place
6:40pm
October 7th, 2013
They part ways with Chloe and Max headed towards the lighthouse and Sophia headed back to her motel. Sophia had remembered to pass along Chloe her contact details if she remembered anything else. She could do with an early dinner and long-awaited rest.
As she's driving back from Chloe's house, she turns on the radio.
"Welcome back to KARB 96.7 FM The Sound. Just got this new track into the studio. Syd Matter's new song 'Obstacles'. After that is your seven-day forecast."
The music from the radio filled the car as Sophia finally settled in, eyes trained to the road. All she wanted to do was sleep, thinking her day was over. Just then, the phone rings.
"Caller ID: Chloe Price"
Sophia answers "Hey what's up?"
Chloe sounds panicked "You have to hurry to the lighthouse!"
Sophia responds "Why!? What's wrong?"
Chloe responds "Max had this head pain it looked like and now she's just in a daze! I can't get her to snap out of it!"
Sophia flips on the sirens and lights and makes a sharp u-turn. "You guys are at the lighthouse right?"
Chloe says "Yes! Hurry please.."
Sophia responds "Ok, hang on..." She plots a point on her map of Arcadia Bay and pushes her car to the limits as she races towards the lighthouse.
Arcadia Bay Lighthouse
7:00pm
October 7th, 2013
Sophia rolls up on Chloe and Max as Chloe waves Sophia down. She steps out and she runs to Chloe and Max.
"I can't snap her out of it! We gotta help her..."
"I...I don't know...!"
Max finally at that moment snaps out of it.
"Chloe...Oh, your here. I'm back. Oh my lord. This is real."
"Max! What's going on! You totally blacked out..."
"I didn't blackout. I had another vision! The town is gonna be wiped out by a tornado."
Sophia explains "Hurricanes rarely happen here in this state."
Chloe chimes in "About five every twenty years to be exact."
Sophia low whistles.
"Anyways, you just zoned out, part of a dream while you were blacked out."
Max grabs Chloe's hand. "No, No! I saw it. I could feel the electricity in the air!"
"Come on take a breath ok?" Chloe attempts to reassure Max.
"Chloe, I'm not crazy. Listen... I have something to tell you. Something... hardcore."
"Talk to me, Max."
"I had the same vision earlier today in class... and when I came out of it, I discovered I could reverse time.." Max explains "Like I said, not crazy."
"But high right?" Chloe asks
"Listen to me! How do you think I saved you in the bathroom?" Max asks
"By reversing time? Yeah right."
"I saw you get shot, Chloe. Saw you... actually, die. I was able to go back and hit the alarm."
"Ok now I see your a geek now with a great imagination, but this isn't anime or a video game. People don't have those powers, Max."
"I don't know what I have, but I have it. I am scared shitless."
"You need to get high. It's been a hella insane day." Max shakes her head rapidly.
Sophia was listening in on their conversation, thinking this was just all a huge bonding moment, but she suddenly felt snow landing on her face. 'What the...' she thought.
"What the hell is this..." Chloe asks
"Snow in 80-degree weather?" Sophia responds.
"Exactly what I was gonna say" Chloe responds
"Climate Change." Max says out loud.
"Or a storm is coming..." All three of them say..
"Max... tell me everything..." Chloe asks Max.
The camera pans away from the out to the shoreline of Arcadia Bay while Syd Matter's 'Obstacles' plays.
David working on the power lines to the household, pauses and looks around him when it starts snowing.
'We played hide and seek in the waterfalls'
Joyce cleaning up the diner looks outside to see that it's snowing.
'We were younger, we were younger.'
Warren, looking much better than he did earlier, is doing something on his laptop as it snows outside.
'We played hide and seek in the waterfalls'
Kate crying in her room as it snows outside.
'We were younger, we were younger'
Frank, we don't know who he is yet, coming out of his RV while it snows around him.
'We played hide and seek in the waterfalls'
Victoria, tearing off a Rachel Amber missing persons poster.
'We were younger, we were younger'
Principal Wells, drinking, looking out his office window.
'We played hide and seek in the waterfalls'
Mr. Jefferson, at his laptop, looked outside as well.
'We were younger, we were younger'
Nathan sitting outside, looking at his camera.
'Someday we will foresee obstacles,
Through the blizzard, through the blizzard.'
Files appeared along the wall with different girl's names. The camera stops at the last folder with a scribbled name on it.
'Rachel'
An unidentified cell phone with recording software was found at the scene of the Arcadia Bay natural disaster. After analyzing it, it was taken as evidence as part of the disappearance of Rachel Amber. The following recording that was transcribed will be displayed.
Unidentified Male Number 1: Did you get her?
Unidentified Male Number 2: Yeah, real easy target.
UM1: Alright well bring her down here, I need to get the photoshoot ready.
UM2: Alright.
Some shuffling*
UM2: Damn, she's heavier than she looks.
UM1: What do you need help? Get her over here!
UM2: Alright! Alright, I got it.
UM1: Alright bring her over here, I want to get the perfect shot.
UM2: Ok.
Recording terminated.
This concludes the 6th chapter I believe of The Truth Of Arcadia Bay.
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