Chapter 3: Here we go again
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Authors note: ok I no some of the chapters are a bit short so I'll try and make this one longer. Dewey and Gale will be in this chapter and so will Joel and Cotton. Enjoy. Oh and I need your help on this one. Should Randy live or die? Review and we'll see what could happen. : )
The alarm clock sounded of showing it was 10 o'clock.
"shit!" Sidney muttered as yawned and crawled out of bed. She had had the worst night ever. After being bored out of her mind at the sorority party she had found out about what happened at the Omega Beta Zeta. She had felt terrible. Randy and Cici had found the girl hanging from a tree. Just like Casey Becker she thought sadly.
After getting dressed and finding Hallie's note saying she switched the alarm off so Sidney could get some more needed sleep. She headed out to the campus grounds. She passed a group of reporters without thinking and they immediately crowded her.
" did you know the victims?"
" do you think your in danger?"
She pushed passed them but they followed. She tried to ignore them and without realising walked straight into Randy.
" oh god sorry." she muttered.
Randy grabbed her arm and pulled her away from the crowd of reporters. They followed but weren't as pushy to get a story. Sidney guessed they would be trying to listen to their conversation. She tried to ignore them.
"Randy are you ok I tried to call you but Paul said you weren't in."
"yeah I was at the police station with Cici all night." He looked tired and kind of pale. Not his usual funny self. Sidney realised it must have been horrible to find a dead body. Especially if they had been gutted.
"Sidney are you ok?" Sidney turned and found Derek running up to her. Hallie and Mickey following closely. When Derek reached Sidney he kissed her sweetly and Randy couldn't help but feel a little bitter.
"What do you mean? I wouldn't miss this story for the world." Gale Weathers stated strongly into the phone. "no I'm not worried it's probably just someone who was pissed they didn't get into the sorority. Now I gotta go. Bye." she hung up when a young black man came up behind her with a camera.
" uh miss Weathers?" Gale turned to face him. " hi I'm Joel your new camera guy."
Gale nodded and began to walk towards a crowd of gathering reporters where a press conference was being held. "you got any experience?"
"Uh yeah, I shot the bingo finals, heck, I won an award for that."
"Good" gale said flatly, "we'll get along fine as long as you remember I point you shoot."
Joel seemed keen and ready to follow. " great you point I shoot easy!"
They both made their way along the campus when they were stopped by a middle aged reporter.
" Miss Weathers?" Gale turned to the woman showing that she had her attention. " Hi I'm Debbie Salt I work for the local newspaper and I wondered if I could get a quote from you?"
Gale rolled her eyes. "sorry but I'm busy." she turned to walk away but Debbie followed.
"Please Miss Weathers it would just be such an honour to get a word from you please. You are such a great writer I just love your work!" Debbie's pleading is getting on Gale's nerves.
"ok" she says firmly. Debbie gets her note book out thrilled.
"Begin quote. Your flattering remarks are both desperate and obvious. End quote."
Debbie looks madly at Gale a line of hatred crosses her face but disappears as quickly as it came.
Gale walked on quickly and then spotted what she had been looking for. Sidney. She turned to Joel.
"listen there should be a guy sitting in the van. Go and get him."
Joel hurried off and Gale stood with a smile making sure Sidney didn't disappear. Joel returned quickly with Cotton Weary. Gale smiled. Without a word she walked up to Sidney.
"hallo Sidney." she said trying to sound as nice as possible.
Sidney turned and knew straight away something wasn't right.
"Hi Gale." As she spoke Randy came up behind her.
He glanced at the camera and tied to pull her away but Sidney stood her ground.
"so Sidney how have you been?" Gale asked she signalled Cotton to come out and Joel turned the camera on.
" hallo Sidney" Cotton said more into the camera than to Sidney.
Sidney turned to leave full of anger. It wasn't bad enough Gale wrote a book about her but she then had to arrange a public meeting with a guy her mother was having an affair with.
" oh please Sidney share your feelings on this whole nightmare."
Gale's voice made Sidney explode. She turned and punched her so hard Gale crashed down to the ground. Sidney stormed off Randy and Derek ran after her. Hallie turns to Joel with a smug smile on her face.
" Did you get that on camera?"
"Yes I got that on camera!" He snapped back at her mimicking her tone of voice.
Sidney stormed across campus full of rage and wishing Gale would just leave her alone. She stops at a large tree and leans back. Derek and Randy were on the other side of the grounds. They had been stopped by reporters probably asking about what happened last night.
A hand suddenly grabbed her shoulder. Sidney jumped and spun around to be face to face with Dewey Riley!
"OH MY GOD DEWEY!" Sidney gave him a hug. "what are you doing here?"
"I was worried about you. I wanted to make sure you were ok." Sidney looked up at her surrogate big brother and smiled.
"I'm fine. Things were going great until now. I auditioned for a part in a play snow white and the seven dwarfs. I know it's mad but they're putting one on for some kids at the local elementary school. I have a boyfriend with both parents and no homicidal tendencies. Things were great."
Dewey smiled, "how's Randy?"
" he found a dead body Dewey I think you can guess how he is." Sidney glanced across to see Randy walking casually along. He spotted Sidney and Dewey and ran up to them.
"Dewey hi. God what are you doing here." Randy and Dewey shook hands and Dewey explained that he was worried.
After that they talked for a little while mostly about how they all were. Time ticked by and Sidney remembered her paper she had to do by tomorrow.
"I gotta go," she said standing up, " I'll see you guys later"
She left them and headed back to her dorm. When she got there Hallie wasn't there and the room felt kind of creepy. She shrugged it off and turned her computer on.
She worked away happily for a little while then it happened. The phone rang. Sidney glanced at the caller ID. It was a number she didn't recognize. After a moments hesitation she answered.
" hallo?"
"hallo Sidney." That voice. The one that had given her nightmares and chilled her to the bone.
"who who is this?!" Sidney was panicking a little now but she tried to remain brave.
"Do you really want to know?" the voice was coming from behind her. She whirled round to see ghost face standing by her closet door.
It pulled out a butchers knife. Sidney ran but ghost face chased after her. She opened the door and ran out into the hallway. It was empty no one was around. She ran down the stairs. Ghost face right behind her.
Not knowing where to go she ran round a corner right into Cici. Both girls fell to the floor.
"oh we've got to get out of here!" Sidney pulled Cici to her feet.
"why what's going on?" Cici looked to where Sidney had came from and saw ghost face standing there watching them.
She gave a small scream and both girls ran together.
Not looking back they made it to room 106. Randy's dorm. They both started pounding begging him to open the door. Finally he did.
" Sidney, Cici what's wrong?" he looked as if he had been asleep.
"Randy he was after us you've got to let us in!" Sidney pleaded.
Randy stepped back from the door and let Sidney and Cici in. Just as he shut the door something cut through it. A knife.
All three of them screamed and backed towards the window.
"call the police." Randy told Cici. She was about to when the phone rang. They all looked at each other.
Randy picked it up and hesitated.
"hallo?" he asked looking at Sidney and Cici who were huddled together watching him.
"Hallo Randy." it was the killer. Randy didn't say anything. This had to be the worst couple of days of his life. " Guess what geek. Your next." The killer hangs up.
Randy looks at Sidney. He was quite shocked and didn't know what to say. " Here we go again."