Brendan: Yawn… I am so sleepy… why did we have to meet up so early in the morning ?

May: Beats me.

Me:

May: Hey, Evil's not here.

Brendan: Very observant, May. (sarcastically)

May: Are you trying to be like Drew ?

Brendan: N-no, I-I was praising you.

May: (thinking) As if.

Brendan: Hey Drew, do you know where Evil went ?

Drew:

Brendan: He's gone too ?!

May: Very observant, Brendan.

Brendan: Ha ha ha. Very funny. Hold on… (thinking) if Evil and Drew are gone, then that means that May and I are alone… together…

Drew: Brendan you are DEAD MEAT.

Brendan: Aaaah !! (runs away)

Me: I think Drew just obtained psychic powers…

May: Uh… (sweatdrops) Xdrewmay74X does not own anything in this story except for Drew's parents, Eva, Bryan, the teachers, the other royal adults and the old couple who took care of Drew for a few years.

Chapter 7: Reactions and Change

Dawn shivered in fright. It couldn't be…it just couldn't. Katie couldn't be gone. It was impossible. "Y-yeah… it's all just a dream. And when I wake up, everything will be the way it was again."

"Just like before."

Dawn fell to her knees as students pushed their way towards the scene. She had been living in an orphanage ever since her mother died, which was 3 years ago. Her father had left them when Dawn was just a baby.

Paul's brother, Matthew, was there, holding a bloody knife, with a shocked expression on his face, seeing the number of people who had crowded around him. He dropped the knife and dashed off.

Drew tried to stop him, but May pulled his arm and shook her head. Reluctantly, he stopped, not wanting to create another problem.

Paul himself was there, staring after his brother and at Katie. This was all his brother's doing. Dawn would never forgive him now.

True enough, she turned to look at him and yelled, "You !"

Paul faced her with a horrific expression.

"Your brother killed my sister !" she yelled at him, tears welling in her eyes. Everyone stared at the two of them.

"I can't believe you !"

Dawn was screaming at him so much, that her body couldn't take it anymore, with all the stress put on her. She collapsed, but luckily Paul caught her in time. "Oh Dawn… forgive me. I never meant to hurt you. I was just… being myself. How could you do this to me ?" he thought.

May buried her tear-stained face in Drew's arms. He was a little surprised, but at the same time, was speechless. He couldn't find the right words to comfort her. Nothing could be done now.

After that, no one actually knows what happened.

"Will she be alright, Nurse Jill ?" Paul asked the school nurse.

"Yes, Paul. It appears she has a slight fever, but I can promise you that Dawn will be up and about before 3 o' clock," she assured him.

Paul heaved a sigh of relief. "Thanks, Nurse Jill."

She nodded as Paul went out of the room. As soon as the door was shut, her expression changed into a worried one.

Nurse Jill rolled up her sleeves, dipped a clean towel into a basin of iced water and draped it over Dawn's forehead. She would be up and about before 3, she had told Paul. But it could be tomorrow. Or the day after.

"So, how did it go ?" Bryan asked his best friend who was currently in distress. Paul didn't answer. All he did was brush coldly past his shoulder and off to his locker to get his books for class.

Bryan stared after him. There was definitely something going on between Paul and Dawn… and if not, Paul then.

He turned around. Four deaths in two days…would this school ever return to its normal and lively state ?

He stopped dead in his tracks. Come to think of it, weird things had been happening ever since Drew had come into the school.

Bryan started jogging down the hallway once more. There was definitely something fishy about Drew. And he was gonna find out.

When Drew came home from school, he trudged upstairs to his room and looked out the window to see May's empty house.

His grandmother came into his room to see him. "Drew," she said.

He turned towards her. "Yeah Grandma ?"

"I heard that the girl who lives across the road lost her parents and her younger brother, right ?" she asked him, sitting down on his bed.

Drew nodded solemnly. "May still hasn't gotten over it yet. And I don't know how she's gonna cope with all this. She's gotta handle finance and what not."

She smiled. "Why don't you ask her to come and live with us ?"

Drew stared at her. "Grandma, you can't be serious. May's a girl in my class. Besides, where is she gonna sleep ?"

"She can sleep on the extra bed we have, remember ?" his grandmother told him.

"You know Grandma, I just had an idea. That is, if it's okay with you," he asked her.

"Of course," she replied.

"May's friend Dawn doesn't have parents, and her sister was killed just today."

"Oh, the poor soul. Of course she can live with us. It'll make both their lives better," she said.

Drew smiled. Even though they weren't his real parents, or grandparents, as a matter of fact, they were the closest he had.

That night, he went to sleep with a smile on his face. A very grateful smile.

Drew: I'm not that emotional.

May: I never knew you were that emotional.

Drew: I just said I wasn't !

Me: You are.

Drew: Am not !

Me: Are too !

Drew: Am not !

Me: Are too !

May: SHUT UP YOU TWO !!

Misty: WAKE UP, ASH !!

Ash: Aaah ! What happened ?

May: SHUT UP !! REVIEW !!

Me: Hey, I was supposed to say that !

May: SHUT UP !!