Chapter 2 – Parent's Evening
The next day at the Boarding School, it was parent's evening for Year 10 and 11. Mordecai and Margaret showed up for Alex and Max. Although the boys had no parents, Mordecai and Margaret were their legal guardians. But when they heard everything from the teachers, it wasn't pretty. They said things like:
"Fall asleep constantly."
"A waste of space."
"Hand in homework late."
"Immature little hellions!"
This hurt the birds' feelings, because they knew that the boys were trying their best to keep up with everything, they just got piled with work, driving them to exhaustion. When they talked with the headmaster, he had a different opinion about them.
"I know they can do their work, but they seem distracted. Has something happened to them in the past?" All of a sudden the memories of 2012 flooded back into Mordecai's brain.
"Hello Mordecai. I've been waiting a long time for this." Mordecai's face went slightly pale and started to lose balance, but Margaret supported him.
"Are you alright?" she asked. He nodded and sat back up. Mordecai turned to the headmaster.
"Well, something happened two years ago to us and Alex and Max. It's imprinted on us and none of us can forget it, that's why they're distracted." The headmaster thought about this for a second.
"Okay. I know it isn't easy to forget something like that, and in the boy's cases, it's trickier than I could imagine. But I'll see what I can do." He said, smiling at them.
"Thanks for your time." Margaret said politely, and they got up and left. While driving home, they saw Alex and Max walking on the pavement near them.
"What are they doing?" Mordecai asked. Margaret shrugged and they kept driving. But then Margaret spotted something that made her worried.
"Stop the car for a sec; I want to see who they are." Mordecai gently parked the car and got out. Two people were walking behind them, each wearing a black hoodie. But suddenly the wind got stronger and blew down their hoodies revealing two tattoo-covered faces. Margaret gasped at one faces.
"It's…it's…Slasher!" she whispered. She got back in the car and sat still. Mordecai put an arm on her shoulder.
"It's all right Margaret. Slasher's a huge jerk anyway." He smiled at her, and she hugged him. Outside the two men revealed knives from their pockets. Neither of the birds noticed that, but the man and Slasher kept walking towards Alex and Max.
"Are you Alex Robin and Max Quintel?" he asked. The boys put on worried faces and looked at each other.
"What's it to you, jackass?" Max asked rudely. The men revealed their knives and attacked them. They both dodged the first swing, but the second knocked them to the floor.
"What do you want from us?" Alex yelled at them. Slasher grinned.
"Do you remember Joe Kickass?" Suddenly that fateful day when Cameron had died flooded back into his brain, making him shiver uncontrollably.
"JOE! YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE!" He looked at Cameron's body, now mutilated by Joe.
"Wait a minute…you're Slasher!" Alex screamed, kicking him in the balls from underneath him. Slasher stumbled back, his hands round his pained groin. Max kicked the other man in the leg, making him stumble back, and then Max got up and punched him in the face. The other man fell down and screamed. Alex and Max picked up their knives and pointed them at them.
"What do you want from us?" They asked. Slasher and the other man looked at each other. They both started grinning.
"We have to finish off Joe's legacy for him. He couldn't do it because you killed him. Now we're gonna kill you!" They kicked the knives out of their hands, and caught them, then stabbed them both in the legs, making them unable to move.
"You're lucky it's just the legs. We'll come back for you later. Then they ran off into the darkness, leaving Alex and Max to bleed to death. The last thing that Alex saw before he passed out was two birds trying to wake them up…
Okay, a bit of a slow chapter, but I want to build up the suspense for the next chapter…
