Three more chapters! Including this one, if we don't its only two.
Disclaimer: This is story is purely fan based. I don't own the plot or characters. I do however own the ideas as to how the characters play a roll in the lead female's death and the order of her list.
Chapter 12
Syrus was the first person to speak up. "I wonder who is next up."
"Don't we all?" Bastion asked. He looked at the cartridge, then at the other members of the group.
Jaden ended up flipping the tape over and pressing play first.
By this point I was at my wit's end. The only thing that could form in my mind was death. How would I die? What would be the cause? Pills? A gun? Strangulation? There were many things I could to do kill myself. But how committed was I? Well, this next tape will tell you if I was really intended on dying or not.
It started when I ran into Mindy and Jasmine. Jazz being the kind of girl that wants to hang out with everyone, slifers included, immediately dragged me along to where ever they were going. For a while, it felt like old times. When it was just me and the girls--no guys, no drama. But then Jasmine got a call. She told me and Mindy that she had to leave. We nodded and told her it was fine, every time she apologized.
Soon it was just me and Mindy. She got this weird idea to steal Ms. Dorothy's car. I tried to talk her out of it, she was wasted. You would have to be up close to tell since she didn't smell like alcohol. Her eyes were bloodshot and her speech slurred. Yeah, she was drunk.
"Mindy, no."
"Why not? It's not like anything bad is going to happen to us."
"Mindy."
"I am fine Alexis!" I ended up letting her drive. It was probably one of the worst things to do. I tried to get her stop driving, I even threatened to call Chancellor Sheppard. That made her slam her breaks. She glared at me, that was probably the only time wanted to be back at the party and be reprimanded by my brother.
"I didn't even know she was at that party though." Atticus said.
"She meant she would have enjoyed that better, Atticus." Bastion said.
"Oh." Atticus said. "That makes more sense."
"Does someone have to explain everything to you?" Chazz asked.
"No!" Atticus huffed.
"I thought blondes were suppose to be dumb, I never knew it was brunette's as well." Chazz said.
"Alexis wasn't stupid!" Jaden argued.
"Indeed, if I recall she got higher scores than everyone, except Zane, in this room during the tests."
"Well, no one can beat Mr. I'm-the-best-duelist-on-campus." Atticus frowned. He was glaring playfully at his friend.
"That is only because unlike you, I study." Zane said.
"I study!" Atticus huffed.
"Studying what a girl likes and dislikes just so you can hook up with this them is not studying." Zane said.
"It is too!" Atticus fumed.
"No, it is called observation." Zane argued.
"He's right." Bastion said.
"Fuck you." Atticus growled.
Jaden laughed. "See, Sy! I told you I wasn't the only one who acted like that!"
"Yeah yeah." Syrus said, he pulled something out of his backpack.
Jaden grinned. "So you knew I'd win?" He chuckled.
"No, I was just prepared so that if you did win, I would have it."
"What is it?" Chazz asked, eyeing the object in Syrus's hand.
Jaden grabbed the object and opened it. "A sandwich!" He grinned and took a bite.
The other males sweat dropped.
"Only Jaden." Atticus said. Zane nodded his head in agreement.
The worst part of that night was what happened after words. She continued driving. We didn't get into an accident, but we hit something. A stop sign. Normally it wouldn't be such a bad thing, but it was dark and there were other cars on the Island.
"Mindy! Stop the damn fucking car!" I screamed.
The car balked. "What?" She snapped. "What the hell is it now?"
"We need to call someone about that stop sign." Yeah I know it sounds like something to revel at. But it was important to me. Just because I wanted to die didn't mean I wanted others too.
"It is a stop sign, Alexis. Not a person." Mindy sighed.
"Mindy, People could get hurt!" I tried to reason with her again, but to no avail.
"No one will be hurt. Besides, no one pays attention to those anyway. I just saved people time." I frowned.
"Mindy, at least call someone!"
"I will in the morning." She started the car again.
"Then give me your phone, I will call." I told her. Of course the one time I need my cell phone, I didn't have it. Kismet is against me today.
"Let me out. Now." I told her. She looked at me like I was psychotic.
"Fine, Get out." She unlocked the doors and I got out of the car. The moment my door slammed, she drove away.
"No…" Zane whispered.
"No what?" Atticus looked at his best friend skeptically.
"I know this night." Zane said barely above a whisper.
"We all do, we were at the party." Chazz said,
"Listen to the tape." Zane said.
"Okay!" Jaden said, finishing the last bit of his sandwich.
I ran to the nearest place I knew that had the phone. It happened to be Deux Passé .
I called the school's security campus. It was the closest thing to the cops that I knew of on the island. Apparently, someone already called them for that same street, only it wasn't for a stop sign it was because of a car Accident.
Mindy, I told you something could happen. The sad thing was, something did. Someone died. I probably beat myself up about it way more than I should have. I was with you when it happened, but at least I did attempt to do something about it. I was just to late.
Someone died because I let you goof off. I let you take that car and allowed you to drive. It was one of the worst things I could have done, but I did it. It was all my fault.
No matter what logic I could have come up with, there was still that one fact that toppled them all: I didn't stop it. So it was my fault. Even though you were driving, and you were the one who was drunk. I was the one to blame.
"So, what were you saying?" Jaden asked.
"I was there during the accident. I was walking when I saw the two cars crash. I called the campus security."
"Who died?" Syrus asked.
"One of the campus chefs." Zane said.
"Which one?" Jaden asked. His affinity for food caused him to know all the chef's names.
"I don't know, all I know is that he had a kid. He was going to the docks to go back to Domino City to visit."
"Koto." Jaden murmured.
"Who?" Syrus asked.
"He was one of the ones that helped Ms. Dorothy during Eggwich day." Jaden explained.
"Oh." Syrus said, looking at his best friend.
"It is a shame he died. He made the best sandwiches. Only Ms. Dorothy made it better." Jaden sighed.
Syrus nodded his head.
"Stop talking you two!" Chazz said. Everyone was quiet, except them.
"Well, fine! We were just expressing how upset we were for his death." Jaden huffed.
"You can do that later!"
"Fine." Jaden frowned.
Everyone turned their attention back to the tape. But nothing came out.
"Is it broken?" Atticus asked.
"The light is still flashing." Chazz said.
"So it is not broken. What about the tapes?" Bastion offered.
"I don't think so. It is still spinning." Syrus said after carefully looking inside the clear window inside the door of the cassette player.
"Then what's the problem?" Atticus frowned.
"She's probably gone quiet." Zane said after a few moments of silence.
All my fault. Everything always is, whether I was there or not. I was there when that stop sign fell over. I was at the infirmary when the man died--the man who got hit by a car that didn't know when to stop because you, Mindy, took down the stop sign with Ms. Dorothy's car.
Mindy, I will tell you now. Do not beat yourself up for this. I will take all of the blame. The reason you are on these tapes is simple. You ran over a stop sign and that resulted in someone's death. I told you not to blame yourself for your reprehensible act, because I will take all of the blame. I was already taking everything else. I can add one more burden to my list. And I did, too bad that made me further my plan of suicide. It put me one floor deeper into my own personal hell.
Congratulations for making my list Mindy. Just don't beat yourself up when you hear this, because really I already took enough for both of us.
Two more stories to go. Find out who is next in the next tape.
"The last tape." Zane said,
"With two more sides to go."
"Insert it?" Syrus asked.
"Yeah." Zane replied.
"Alright!" Jaden said. "Sy, insert it!"
"Why me?"
"Because you didn't do it yet!" Jaden grinned.
"Fine." Syrus pouted, but none-the-less he pressed inserted the tape and pressed play.
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