Title: 5 Shopping Teenagers
Chapter 2!
Disclaimer: I do not own Fruits Basket! I don't own Agatha Christie's work, either, for she inspired some of this.
The five teenagers go into the electronics store, looking around at voice-activated doorbells and touch-less phones and such. Arisa walks over to the camera display, trying to find the one she wants. There are still three other people in the store: an older couple who are probably around 70 years old each, and a teenage boy who looks to be about 17. The boy is browsing through the CD sales, and the couple is asking the clerk for directions to an 'adult toy store' they saw advertised on the interstate.
"Ah ha! Found it!" Arisa claims triumphantly. Her friends gather around her, and Yuki asks, "So, what color do you like best?"
"I like the pink!" Tohru says.
"The black is nice…" Hana offers.
"Green is the best!" Kyo exclaims.
Uo and Yuki laugh, and she declares, "I think I like the simpler white one."
The group nods in agreement, and begins to browse once more as Arisa takes her merchandise to the counter to be purchased. By now, the couple is on their way to 'Café Erotica,' but the boy is still in the store somewhere looking at phones.
Uo puts the camera on the table, while she waits for the cashier to come back. In about three minutes, he emerges from a closet in the back of the store and walks up to the cash register. He is wearing a long black coat with a tag that says 'Jim.' His eyes are a piercing black, and his skin is white as a sheet. The most noticeable thing about him is a questionable scar above his lips on the left side.
"Uhm….Sir?" Uo asks when he makes no move to ring up the camera.
"May I help you, Miss?" he asks.
"I'd like to buy this white camera. I'll pay in cash," she informs him.
"Very well, then," he says as he scans the camera and takes the money. He hands her a receipt and drops some line like 'Come and see us again' or 'We have enjoyed your business.'
Tohru, seeing her friend is ready to leave, rounds up her friends, and they head out of the store.
"We have about forty minutes before the mall closes, and I'm hungry!" Kyo tells the group as he rubs his stomach. The teenagers, feeling the same way, don't protest.
The boy from the electronics store walks past the group, and crashes into Yuki, dropping his purchases and confusing everybody, "Oops, sorry…" he says.
Yuki, Tohru, Uo, and Kyo get situated again and head towards 'Subby-Sub-Sandwiches.'
The group begins to look at the menu on the door as they get their wallets. They start to walk in when Kyo asks, "Hey, where is Saki?" At the same time…
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!" Tohru lets out a blood-curdling scream.
They look in the direction of where Tohru's shaking finger is pointing.
"Oh, shit…"
"Mother f-"
"Oh, my…."
Miss Saki Hanajima is sitting in one of the seats in the restaurant, blood spilling from the back of her head to her hand, dripping to the floor. Her eyes are open in a state of fear and shock.
Yuki, the most stable, rushes over, grabs her arm, and waits for a pulse. The others are too anxious to move. After a few seconds, Yuki releases her arm, and it falls down limp.
"What's wrong?" Uo asks as she, and the others gather around, fanning Hana and trying to pull her out of her state of terror. Tohru is fighting back the waterworks that are threatening to drown this place, as Kyo and Uo wait for a declaration from Yuki.
"She…. She's dead…."
The group is stunned with fear and confusion. How could she be dead? They were only separated for a few minutes…
"Hello, there," a deep voice booms from the intercom, scaring all but one of the teens.
Uo, the only one angrier than scared, yells in the direction of the speaker, "Who the hell are you? Are you the one that did this?"
((….No Answer….))
"You had better answer me, you bas-" she starts but is cut off.
"My, my. Angered easily, aren't you? Oh, but you see, you must calm down. There is no reason to be upset. All will be understood, just look in the pocket!" he/she/it says smoothly.
The intercom sounds a 'click,' and whoever is now gone.
"Pocket?" Tohru asks through sobs.
"I think they meant Miss Hanajima's dress pocket…. I don't know why, though," Yuki says, though confused.
Kyo walks over to their deceased friend and reaches in the pocket. His hand brushes against something smooth and thin, and he pulls it out.
"A note…" Kyo says.
"Well, don't just stand there, Carrot Top; read it!" she says, panic now setting in.
It reads:
Five shopping teenagers, shopping no more.
One disappeared, and then there were four.
Four shopping teenagers, searching for a key.
One slipped and fell, and then there were three.
Three shopping teenagers, with minds now askew,
One was choked on fashion, and then there were two.
Two shopping teenagers, danger only begun,
One had too much water, and then there was one.
One shopping teenager, having little fun,
Played a victim to love, and then there was none.
Oooh, creepy nursery rhymes just give me the shivers! Lol, anyways, tell me what you think: ) REVIEW, PLZ!