BUZZZ BUZZZ BUZZZ.

I groaned and rolled over, reaching out to my bedside table and struggled to find my phone in the dark. The bright light pretty much blinded me and I noticed I had a new message. I switched my lamp on and sat up in my bed. I couldn't believe what I had just read; I quickly shot out of my bed dropping my phone and started to change out of my pyjamas.

"Where did she go when you guys left her?" Harry puffed jogging over to Bex, Sophie, Ayesha and I.
"I- I don't know, she said she was going home, I thought that it'd be okay, she said she didn't need us to walk wi-" Bex panicked, letting the words rush out of her mouth.
"You let her go by herself? At 1 am? Here? In the dark? Are you stupid?" Harry yelled in Bex's face.
"Hey, it wasn't her fault... it was all of us. Calm the fuck down Harry, she'll be fine. Chill your beans" Sophie rolled her eyes. She never really liked Katie. Well, thats a lie... she never really liked any of us but she had to be part of our group because of him, her boyfriend and our best friend.
"Calm down? CALM DOWN? Katie's gone missing and you expect me to be calm?" Harry shoved passed us.
"Where are you going?" I frowned and asked after him.
"Where do you think? I'm going to look for her!" I looked over at Louis, Zayn and Niall - their faces were blank, white. They looked like they were about to throw up. I noticed Liam wasn't with them, that was strange... he followed them everywhere, normally. He was sort of like their shadow. Maybe he had had enough. "Are you coming or not?" He turned around and practically spat at us.
"Yes" we all said in unison.

"You see, life is good but just not good enough for me. I want adventure, I want fun... it wasn't fun anymore. You know what? I don't even think I'll die, I'll still be alive. Hey, look behind you." I paused the tape.
Everyone did what the friendly, familiar face in the tape told us to do. We looked behind us. My eyes searched for something, I don't know what they were searching for but then I noticed something in the corner, sticking out from behind my desk. It was a small parcel... I'd never noticed it before. This was creepy. Surely it couldn't have just appeared out of nowhere?
"What's that?" Zayn asked curiously. I shrugged. "Well go and open it then," Harry sighed.
I slowly got up and picked up the parcel, it had a label on it.

To Bex... inside you'll find something that I hope is of great use to you. Your friend, Katie.

"Bex" I stared at the parcel, not moving to look at anyone or anything. "Yeah?" She replied.
"Its for you" I turned around and handed her it. Everyone looked at Bex with blank expressions. She took a deep breath and slowly began removing the packaging. Inside was a small, black box. It looked like a box you'd keep jewellery in. Jewellery? Why would Katie be giving Bex jewellery?
"Go on" Niall put his arm around her, reassuring her. She lifted the lid off carefully, it was Katie's lucky ballet pump necklace.
"Why would she give you that?" Harry frowned, "Shouldn't that be given to her sister, surely? It's too special" he rolled his eyes.
"Don't be so rude," I dug my elbow into his stomach and played the tape again.

"Bex, I know you want to be a dancer and you know what? You should do it. Its your passion and you're so talented... I want you to have this, it brought me luck so hopefully it will bring you some too. Eur, what am I saying? This is far too cringey for me." I rolled my eyes and laughed. She's right, she's never like this... I mean never was. Everybody knows Katie was the dancer out of us all but so was Bex. She was always in the background though, she never really made a fuss and never auditioned for things in high school or anything. That was Katie's role.

Harry's face looked emotionally drained, you know, when someone doesn't know what to feel anymore, like they were numb? Yeah, that's what it was like. He sat there, motionless. I walked to the sofa and sat next to him. We were in his living room, around us were pictures, memories. "You okay?" I asked him. Stupid question, I knew the answer to that, of course he wasn't okay.
"I will be, I suppose" he sighed, staring into space. I placed my hand on his knee, "I know it's hard, it's not going to get better for a long time but she's not going to want us to sit here all solemn, is she?" He shook his head slowly and looked at me, tears filled his eyes. I was trying my best to keep my emotions in for him, it was hard enough as it is but now he was bubbling, it was even harder.
"I loved her."
"You loved her?" I heard someone spit from the doorway of the living room. I turned around and looked at her - Sophie.

"Why am I watching this? You ask yourselves. Well I want to tell you all about how I died." A chill passed through the room and everyone looked at eachother. So, she knew exactly how she was going to die? It was by choice? All of this was too much. I thought she was murdered, that's what we all thought.
"You're probably wondering why I'm so cool about this whole thing. Well you know, everyone has to die one day and lots of people are doing it nowadays. Of course, being trendy isn't my main priority, there are other reasons behind this too. One of them being I know you all will join me sometime. It could be tomorrow, it could be in 10 years... it could even be tonight." Louis gulped dramatically, trying to ease the eeriness of what we were watching. "Stop it Louis, you're not funny" Ayesha finally spoke.
"Of course you'll be joining me, I'm a trendsetter amn't I?" A smirk appeared on her face as she spoke those words. "You'll be following in my footsteps soon enough... literally."