Please read the authors note to learn more on why I took a yearlong brake.

Maka POV

"A recent killings this weekend four bodies were found last night and K Kings Mountain State Park. Over this past week there have been ten more bodies found. All of the victims have their stomachs cut open. If you know anything about these killings please call the police-" The TV turn to black and made a click sound as it turned off. Jack was holding the remote his thumb was still resting on the off button. He stood there for a while before putting the room meltdown.

Everyone was still a little jumpy about the break-in even though it happened about a week ago. The cops have stop watching the house but now there's one who would drive around the neighborhood at night looking for anything out of the ordinary. There hasn't been any break-ins since the last one. Slowly everyone went back to normal. They all went back to school and went out to have fun unlike what they've been doing, (which was hiding in the house) it was really nice to have everything back to normal. Too bad it didn't last all that long.

Somehow I even got used to the life of a normal high school. I thought it would be late in the movies, there's a queen bee and clicks everywhere. But that's not the case. Where is no queen bee but tons of popular people in other groups. There's no real groups all the groups are mixed in together so you would see a band geek hanging out with a cheerleader. When I saw this my first thought was this is not what I prepared for. The first time in a long time I did not know what to do, where to go or who to talk to. I was nervous and lost. But luckily I had my friends with me. They showed me all the ropes where to sit at lunch, which bathroom to use, which chair not to sit in at the library.

Once I got used to everything my school life wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. No I can waves you a pack hallway with breeze. I don't run to class like I used to. I slowed down and took my time.

But I will never get used to the school layout itself. First of all it looks like a prison with big windows, it has three floors and every outside wall is painted gray and made out of cement. The school itself was built in a giant line. I think they first built the hallway then the attached be classrooms, from there they built up two more floors. Then they awkwardly shoved the front office, cafeteria and the library right in front of the building. In front of the school is a huge parking. Next to the school is where the football field in the stadium. There's four stairwells our wraps around the school. Stairwell has a total of five hundred steps (one day Maddie decided to count the amount of steps it took to get to the third floor from the first floor one every stairwell.) I really hate going up from the first floor all the way to the third to get to my classes.

Weirdest thing about the school is the schedule. They call it a bullocks schedule, there are a total of four classes which they call blocks and each class is an hour long. Between second block and third block there's a thirty minute lunch period (cafeteria is big and can hold the entire student body but there also not that many students) and depending on your schedule you have a thirty minute break in the library. First block I have literature in room 302 on the third floor with Miss McAbee, Katie, Tori and Nikki are also in the class with me. Second block is a Vance mathematics with Tori and Alex in room 228 on the second floor. The teacher for that class is out for the rest of the year so every day we get a new substitute (which is really annoying). Third block I have biology with Jack and Maddie, in room 313 on the third floor. The biology teacher is very nice and she actually doesn't dissect any animals in the classroom, unlike someone else I know. Between my third in my fourth block I have my break in the library. Sevan, Alexis and Jack also have the break in the library so we normally sit around and talk while read. Fourth block I have art class and room 105 on the first floor. In that class with me there is Maddie, Tori, Nicole, and Jack. It's not just the basic art class, we do writing we paint, we draw, we take photographs, and we edit things on Photoshop. When the bell finally rain is in school is over we all meet up in the giant parking lot in cram into your all our cars and head home.

On normal days after school we would go home, some went to work when the rest of us would stay home and watch TV and do our homework. But on Friday nights around six we go back to school to watch the football team kick the other team's ass! Saturday and Sunday goes up to change when it comes to what we are doing depend on our mood.

But this week has been different at school it was spirit week, the good think about this spirit week is that all the money goes to a charity. There were times when you could buy out of class and watch girls play football, boys in booty shorts dancing around, shaking their butts, or watch the teacher talent show, watch people play minute to win it, or go to Fridays pep rally. During lunch you can buy ice cream and snow cones. You can get married at lunch, pay for someone get sent to a wooded jail, or pay seniors do whatever you want. There was face pant, soccer, taking sledgehammer to an old broken car, seeing how far you can limbo. Let's just say I did everything. I got married at lunch to Maddie, sent to jail and even sent someone to jail, it was this girl that picked on everyone. The whole group chipped in and payed ten dollars for her to go to jail. When she found out she was going to jail, she yelled on the top of her lungs 'who put me in jail' over and over again. I made five dents in the old car with the sledgehammer, the sledgehammer was heavy, me and tori worked together to lift that up. I test to see how low I could do at the limbo, turns out not all that far.

At first I didn't really want to do any of them but Nikki and the others wouldn't let me sit on the side lines. Nikki made me go to the girl's football with everyone else. When I saw the half time show I couldn't stop laughing. The boys did everything, they slap there buts and shake them. The whole time during the game everyone was talking, laughing and having fun.

The minuet to win it its self wasn't all that good, but what happen during it in the ground was interesting. I don't know really what happen but I hear three story's to why the half of the crowed was fighting. The first story was that someone broke someone else phone so the two started fighting, the toys friends desisted to join in. The second story was that a man pushed a girl, so the girl's boyfriends and his bros punch the man who push the girl, slowly people add into the fight. The third story was like the second story but the girl in crutches was push.

The teacher talent show was really fun, in the beginning we got to dance to pop music. Then when the show was ready to benign we all sat in the bleachers in the gym. The first act was a teacher playing the electric guitar, he played some slow songs and then some faster ones. After that there was small skit that wasn't all that good but entertaining. Next came the teacher band, four teachers with their invisible instruments playing covers albums. When they were done, a magician was on. He did many tricks that where easy to me figured out, but there was ones that I can't even understand how he did it. The teachers dancing was the best part of the show. Teachers dress up like minions dancing like there no tomorrow. It starts out with them walking around trying to find everyone, then they make a circle in the middle of the gym. Nikki yelled out for someone to brake dance, she got what she wanted. When the beet "drop" they started dancing, they even end up twerking. It ended with someone dress in a banana suit getting chase around the gym.

The Friday pep rally was also fun, we got to see the cheerleaders do some tricks. The whole time they were out there Nikki and Maddy wish they would fall. They said they didn't want any to get hurt or die, they just wanted them to fall (turns out the Nikki doesn't get along with the cheerleaders all that well). We got to see the principal and some teachers get a shaving cream pie get throw in there face. The band played there songs and we singed the chants with them. The minion teachers came out again do a different routine. After the pep rally we went back to our fourth block teacher classroom waiting for the bell.

Tonight was the big football game when they would announce how much money we raised, after that we go to the roller skating ring. That where I am now, waiting for the halftime when we see how much we raised for helping kids with autism. Everyone was in our school colors, red, white and black. Everyone was on their feet dancing, cheering along with crowed, and doing the wave over and over again.

"How much longer till half time?" Seven complained looking at his phone which was about to die.

"Why? You worried that your girlfriend going to die soon?" Alex said mockingly.

"Yes! Also I want to get home and play my game." Seven yelled back. Alexis is sitting behind them both look liked he was ready to slap both of them. That what she did, she slap the back of their heads hard.

"Ugh… Why must you guys always fight?" Jack who had been sitting between them rub his temples. Jack stood up swiftly, "I'm going to get more soda, do you guys want anything?" No one said no or yes, to busy watching the game or wrap up in their own conversation to hear him. Even I was too busy talking to Nikki and Tori. "I'll take that as a no." He left to the closes exit with his soda in hand.

Jack didn't return for a while, he had miss the half time and how much we made for the kids, it was a quarter million. (We may be a small school but we know how to raise money.) When I asked about him everyone just said there might be a long line at the snack bar. So I decided to see if I could find him. But it wasn't easy, I fist had to get out of the bear hug Nikki had me. I thought about an excuses for a while but nothing seem liked it would work, finely I got one.

"I'm going to the bath room," I said to get out of the death grip Nikki had on me.

"Not happening." Nikki grip got tighter and tighter.

"But if I don't go soon we will have to leave." That made Nikki let me go and I got up. Running fast to the snack bar. When I got there I didn't see him there at all. I walked around everywhere trying find him, when I past the bathrooms, I could hear his voice form behind the bathrooms. Walking back there, his voice got stronger and stronger. He was talking to someone, they were quite, like if they were telling a secret.

"Have the cops figured out who is behind the killings?" Jack asked and the man moved his head side to side as if he was saying no. Why would Jack want to know about the killings? At the time I had thought for a minute to figure out why he would and then he came to me. His father works with the police, so maybe that why he wanted to know. (But now that I look back on that thought I feel so stupide forever thinking that.)

"Do they know who is next to die?"

"No, the cops know nothing besides that there a killer out there and that ten people are dead."

"Hmmmm…"

If only I knew what I do now, then I could have stop Jack before things out of hand.

Jack turned around and something in my body told me to run. That what I did, my brain didn't prose what happen until after I got back to my set. Once I sat down again I started thinking 'what if he saw me?' I didn't know what he was going to do if he did see me listening into his conversation. But at the same time I wanted to know what he was talking about.

I just got my heart to calm down when Jack showed up making it beet faster. "Hey, Maka mind if I sit next to you?" he said holding a soda and a candy bar.

Oh no, this can't be good, he saw me spying on him. "I think your brother is next to me and I don't think you can get Nikki to move from her spot."

"Not even I would make Nikki move, she would kill me. Alex can you please move so I can sit next to Maka?" Jack said in clam tone that made me even more nerves.

"Why should I?" Alex said back in a snotty tone, Jack only had to give him one cold stare and Alex moved instantly.

"Thank you," Jack took the seat next to me eyes staring at the game. "What did I miss?"

"The haft time, we raised quarter million dollars." I said nervously.

"No surprised, we do like to spend our money." He looked down at me, "I got you a candy bar."

"Oh, thanks." I took the candy bar and it put it down.

"Are you going to eat it?"

"I'm not hungry right now, maybe latter."

"But I got it for you to eat now."

"Ok if I eat it will you be happy?"

"Yes," I was waiting for him to say something about what he was talking about. But that didn't happen, he didn't say anything at all, he just keep staring at me to see if I would eat the candy bar. Eventually I gave in and pick it back up again. There was a small tear on the left hand corer but besides that there was nothing out of the ordinary. I took a big bite of the candy bar with so many things swirling in my head. All questions about what he the man was talking about. What did they mean? Why did they want to know if the police knew anything about the killings? Who was that man? Why-?

My mind went blank, I couldn't remember what I was thinking about. Was it something about a man and Jack? I really couldn't remember, all I do remember was eating the candy bar Alex got me.

"Hey Maka you ok?" Katie said poking the back of my head.

I blinked, "Yes, sorry I spaced out." I took another bite of the candy bar.

"I'm glad you're ok Maka." Jack said taking one of my hands in to his. I blushed deep read, he cares about me. Knowing that gives me a warm fuzzy feeling inside. I felt an arm wrap around my neck, at first I thought it was Jack but I could still feel his hand on mine so they couldn't be his.

"Am I smelling love in the air?" Nikki had her arms wrap around Jacks and I necks, he head was stick between us. If my faces wasn't all ready red, it was red now.

We kicked the other teams ass tonight, so the whole school went to the local skating ring to party and man was it fun. There was karaoke, drinks, food, games and skating. I tried to stay out of the skating ring the best I could but Nikki had other plans. She pulled me onto the floor and made me skate. For the first few times I keep falling on my butt. I keep trying, I even hold on to the wall but every time I would fall. I was about to give up when Jack came over and taught me how to skate right and when I mean right I mean not falling on my butt all the time. Soon I was able to skate pretty well if you ask me, it was way better than before that for sure. But I still don't understand how Tori can skate back words. She tried teaching me but that didn't end all that well.

By the end of the night everyone was parting and having a found time, even the people normal hate everything. There was laughter and music everywhere in the ring, the sound of games going off as people played them could be heard. You could see the neon lights blinking as someone wins a prize. There was groups of friends holding on to each other as they skate (we were one of those groups). This is where I belong, everyone was so nice here. No one picked on me, not even the poplar people! Almost nothing could ruin this night. But it's very unlikely that the thing would come here and ruin it.

Sadly that thing did show up, and it brought more things that made my life hell.

At first I didn't notice them standing at the door, I was busy requesting my song to sing at the karaoke stand. It wasn't until I was on the staged getting ready to sing when I saw familiar white hair. They were here, the people I was running away from. I didn't know what to do, so I ignored them and sang my song, One Less Problem. I tried my best to ignore them but they keep staring at me. I had on a school shirt on that Maddie let me brow, my hair was down with red ribbons in them. I hoped I looked different enough so they don't recognize me. Just as luck would have it, they did recognize me and was just staring at me. I felt so sick and light headed. Feel like any minute now I would either be throwing up or passing out. When my song was over I hand the microphone back to the Dj, I need to go find someone and ask for them to take me home. Before I could do that Black Stair was already on the staged trying to steal the microphone. In the fight over the microphone I Black Stair bumped into me hard and I feel off the staged. I remember hitting my head on something hard and passing out.

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Hey guys I'm back and so is the story! So I know I haven't updated in a long time but now I am and hopefully I will not take a brake like that again. So you may be wondering why I stop. Well I tell you there where three main things for my reason of stopping. First: I didn't have the time to do it, I had a job and school so it was taking too much time to wright these. Second: I didn't really have a plot to the story, it was originally a one shot. Third: the bet that I made with my friend that made this story happen was drop after a while.

But that bet is now back on, so to win this bet I need to finish this story and to make a better one then hers. So now that this bet is back on for now I will keep updating. It also helps that I drop a lot of my after school actives and also has plot in mind. So this is the first chapter back, please be nice to me I'm a little rusty at this. I hope you like this chapter and don't tear me apart.

Ps everything that happen at the spirit week in this chapter happen at my school. Well except the football game, it canceled because the field was flooding.