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Beck and Andre walked through the entrance to Hollywood Arts on Thursday morning. Their backpacks were hanging from their shoulders and they held their morning cups of coffee in their hands, ready to face the day ahead. They entered the main building of the school and headed across to their lockers to dump the things they didn't need.
"Hey guys!" Robbie's voice called as he walked across the floor from his locker. Surprisingly, he was sans Rex this morning. Which was a rare occurance.
"Hey man,"
"What's up?"
The guys greeted him with smiles whilst throwing books into their lockers. Robbie didn't smile back, he looked worried.
"Have you guys seen Tori, Jade or Cat this morning?" Robbie asked, pulling his PearPhone from his pants and checking for any messages.
Andre and Beck shook their heads. "Nope, we just got here," Beck answered as he closed his locker and took a drink of his coffee.
"Why, haven't you?" Andre asked Robbie, also closing his locker and moving to lean backwards against it.
Robbie shook his head, "No, which is strange. They're usually here by now," he frowned, looking around the large hallway, hoping to catch a glimpse of one of the girls' faces.
Beck frowned and looked at his watch, noticing that the first bell was about to ring. Usually, the girls were standing by one of their lockers, "You're right. Have you tried calling them?"
Robbie nodded, "Yeah, no answer from any of them," he told them.
There was silence for a few moments as the boys thought hard about where the girls could be. But they couldn't think. The girls didn't tell them that they were going anywhere... did they?
Andre sighed and shook his head, "Okay, lets not bug out. Maybe they're just late," he suggested.
The guys sighed and nodded as the first bell rang, signalling the beginning of the school day.
Yeah, maybe they were just running late.
By the time lunch came around, neither of the guys had seen any of the girls. They were missing from all of their classes, and they hadn't texted or called at all.
"Okay, this is getting weird," Beck said as he sat down at the lunch table beside Andre and Robbie.
Andre nodded, "Yeah, way weird. You haven't heard from them either?"
Beck and Robbie shook their heads, both checking their phones for what felt like the millionth time that day. Still nothing.
Beck looked out across the Asphalt Cafe to the parking lot. His eyes scanned the cars before he sighed, "Jade's car isn't in the parking lot," he told them.
"Maybe they're just sick?" Robbie suggested, trying to stay optimistic.
Andre sighed, "I doubt they would all be sick at the same time."
They looked up as they saw Trina approaching their table. Her face was panicked, "Have you guys seen Tori?" she asked hopefully.
Andre, Beck and Robbie shook their heads simultaneously and her face fell, "She didn't come home last night," she said sadly.
Andre froze, "Wait... where did she go?"
Trina shrugged, "I can't remember, she told me but I wasn't listening properly," she said, the guilt evident in her voice.
"Jade and Cat are missing too," Beck informed her.
Trina's eyes saddened even more and her gaze fell to the ground.
Silece fell over the lunch table as they became lost in their thoughts again.
Where were the girls?
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Many miles away, back in the cabin, the girls had woken up after a long night of restless sleep and nightmares of what had happened to them. Only to their dismay - it wasn't a nightmare. It was very real.
Tori, Jade and Cat were huddled together in one of the corners of the small room. The room wasn't heated, so keeping together was their only way to keep warm. It was also for comfort too - knowing they had each other.
The girls' heads spun around as the door to the room opened and the clown walked in. Only... he wasn't dressed as a clown anymore. He wore blue jeans and a simple green shirt. No clown make up or anything. He just looked like a regular guy, which in a way made him even more sinister.
He smiled at them, "Good morning girls, how are you?" he asked, making his way over to them and placing plates of food in the middle of the floor along with a new bottle of water.
The girls stayed silent, too terrified to speak or even move - well, Tori and Cat were. Jade on the other hand was only staying silent because she knew if she opened her mouth, it would only get her into trouble.
His eyes scanned over them for a few moments before he turned and left the room, locking the door behind him.
"What a freak," Jade hissed, her eyes dark with hatred as she glared at the door.
"Shh! He might hear you!" Tori cried, not wanting Jade to be 'punished' again.
Jade stood up, "I don't care! I don't care what he does to me!" she yelled. Looking around, she found the black marker pen that was lying beside the mattress. She grabbed it and threw the cap off before turning to the wall.
Slowly and furiously; she began to write in block capital letters. Her rage evident as she slammed the marker pen into the wall with each letter. Tori and Cat could only watch her, knowing that they couldn't calm her down in that moment.
A few moments later, Jade stepped back from the wall and threw the pen onto the floor. On the wall, in block capitals she had written:
YOU DON'T SCARE ME.
Her blue eyes scanned over the words and she smirked to herself. She wasn't some weakling that would just give up without a fight. Sure, he had attempted to drown her, but she was Jade West. And nothing scared Jade West.
Nothing.
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On the other side of the mirror, the clown... who was no longer a clown... watched with amused eyes as the dark haired girl wrote furiously on the wall.
I don't scare you? Well then maybe I'll just have to try a little harder...
