Chapter 5

POV: 1st person Kyla

After a few weeks, I got used to Henry Parish being our dean, I was suspicious as hell about what his motives were but I was used to him. Big surprise though he brought his mother with him. Katrina replaced our math teacher a week after school started, and I thought our old geometry teacher was a witch. Homework took forever to finish without Katrina giving us homework. At least she explains the lessons thoroughly which surprised me for a woman her age to know Algebra that well. My guess is Jeremy taught her or she cast some spell on herself or some shit like that. I worry about my friend Lucy because so many people are getting sick in her biology class, she looks fine when I see her in Algebra but i'm worried she will eventually catch whatever's going on in that class. Meanwhile me and Luna are working our asses off in gym class. Geez does this dude even know what a break is? Yesterday one of the boys in our class passed out, he had to be carried to the nurse's officer by two football players. I know something's up but I just don't know what it is…

POV: 1st person Luna

As Kyla and I were walking to history Lucy came running up to us.

" Wait let me catch my breath", she said gasping for air.

" You ready to learn about the plague in history today", I asked her.

" It looks like some people in my biology class have it", she replied.

" Stay away from me if you get sick Lucy", Kyla said to her.

" Missing class because you're out sick isn't gonna kill ya", she said with a laugh.

" Besides I don't have a cold so you don't need to worry", Lucy added.

The three of us walked in to class, trying to ignore the loudness of our fellow classmates.

" Where's Mr. Lincoln", Kyla asked.

" He's not here yet", I heard Lucy say.

We sat down at our seats and started talking about our summer break. I bent over to take out my notebook to take notes when I felt a poke on my shoulder. I looked up and saw Joe sitting in front of me.

" Hey can you pass this note to Holly for me", he asked.

"No way", I said.

" Please you won't get caught, I have a plan besides I'll pay you fifty dollars", he pleaded.

" What's so important about this note that your willing to pay that much", I asked him curiously.

" It's a drawing that I've worked on all summer asking her to homecoming", he said slowly.

" Homecoming not for another three weeks, but fine I'll help you, what's your plan", I asked him while checking to make sure Mr. Lincoln wasn't in the room yet.

" Okay so first you take your ID off and I'll put the note in it and you toss it to Holly, that way if Mr. Lincoln walks in you can just say Holly asked to see your ID picture," Joe explained.

I nodded and took my lanyard off, handing it to Joe. He folded the note and shoved it into the pocket where my ID card was, he then handed it back to me. I looked over to Holly who was talking to her friend.

"Hey can you pass this to Holly," I asked my friend Lucy.

She nodded and took my lanyard and handed it to Holly. Holly looked at the ID and slowly took out the note. She nodded fiercely at Joe and gave him a thumbs up. I waited for Holly to give me back my ID when she started talking again to her friend. I looked at Lucy and she shrugged at me.

"I'll ask her to pass your ID back," she said.

Just as Lucy was about to ask Holly for my ID back the room went silent. I hear someone cough, breaking the silence. I look over at Kyla and Lucy who are looking at me worried. I then notice everyone in the class is looking at me.

" Um..", I begin to say when Joe interrupts me.

" Didn't you hear what Mr. Lincoln said", he asks me as I still wait for Holly to give me my ID back.

"No, I didn't, why what's going on", I asked beginning to get worried.

" He said you can't turn around until you have your ID back on," Joe tells me as Holly finally hands my ID back to Lucy. She then hands my ID back to me, I thank her and start to put my ID back on when I look at the tv kart that's in the classroom. I look at the reflection of everyone behind me and see that my teacher has no head. I quickly put my ID and see his head appear in the reflection. I turn around in my seat to face the front of the classroom.

" Miss Shade I would like to speak with you in the hallway", Mr. Lincoln said looking at me.

I slowly get out of my seat and followed Death out of the classroom. He turned to look at me and silently stared at me.

" Why do you think you couldn't hear me when your ID was off," he slowly asked me.

" Um I don't think my ID had anything to do with it sir; I sometimes have noise-induced hearing loss and the classroom was very loud before you walked in," I lied hoping he would believe me.

He nodded slowly before saying,

" I will give you a warning this time, but mark my words you will get a detention if I ever see you without your ID on again".

" I won't do it again", I told him.

" Good now get back into the classroom," he answered.

I walked back into the classroom and sat down in my seat. I breathed a sigh of relief, as he walked into the classroom. I couldn't wait for class to be over, so I could warn my friends of the deadly nature of our history teacher.

POV: 1st person Lucy

As our history class ended, I got my things and headed to my locker. I grabbed my lunch and headed downstairs to the cafeteria. I saw my friends at our usual table and sat next to Luna.

" What happened, you looked scared to death when you walked back into the room", I asked her.

" That's because I just saw Death", she answered.

" What do you mean by that", Kyla asked Luna.

" I mean our history teacher is the Horseman of Death", Luna said shakily.

" When I had my ID off I saw his reflection through the tv in the classroom, he had no head", she continued.

" So are you saying our IDs our like Katrina's necklace", Kyla asked.

Luna answered her by nodding yes. I looked at my friends, unsure of what to say.

" Okay lets not lose our heads about this," I said trying to lighten the atmosphere.

" Well that explains why Katrina gets a dreamy look on her face when we talk about history class", Luna says ignoring my joke.

" What do we do", Kyla asks.

" What can we do, its not like we can go to the principal and say our teacher is one of the horsemen of the apocalypse," I say.

"True", Kyla says slowly.

" Besides she has a thing for Jeremy she might report it to him and, then we have to deal with two horsemen", Luna says.

" Eww", Kyla and I say at the exact same time.

We all laugh and start eating our lunches. We decide it would be best to continue talking about what to do about Jeremy and Headless after school where neither of them could hear us.