Chapter 3: Riiip
At that point I ran out and met with Derek outside. "We need to go look for him!" I said.
Derek
nodded. "But it didn't sound like it came from the kitchen."
"Who cares? We can't all be killed in one night!" I fought
back.
"Fine, let's go," he said, and we ran for the elevator.
Moments later, we got out and ran into Carmen.
"Did you see James anywhere?" She asked, her voice sounding nervous.
"No, we came down to look," Derek explained.
"James?" We called.
James popped out from the shadows, and made us scream.
"God!" Derek laughed. "You frigging scared me to death!"
"Why did you scream?" I asked.
"There's a body in the pool!" James replied.
"Oh
yeah," I suddenly remembered. "He wasn't there."
"Nick…drowned, James," Carmen explained.
"Oh my Lord!" James said, grabbing his cross out of his pocket and squeezing it tight.
"If we stick together, we'll be fine," Derek assured him.
"No! No! I'm going to the church! I need to prey," James said, grabbing his coat and putting it on.
"Be careful," we told him.
Right
before he left, he turned to us. He whispered, "I'd prey too, if
I where you."
We looked at each other. "Lock the doors," I
told Carmen.
"Ok,
I will. You 2 look very tired. Go up to your rooms and get some rest.
I'll see you in the morning. Hopefully."
She walked away,
locking the back doors.
We
went upstairs.
"See you," we said, and closed our doors.
The next morning, we all woke up around 10:30, by the sound of the pool opening.
It was a little funny, how we could hear each other yawn and the showers turning on.
We all walked out of our rooms by 11:30. A couple at a time, the doors opened and closed, and by 11:30, we where all downstairs.
"The cook left pancakes and eggs in the fridge. I'll warm them up," Carmen said.
Ashley
sighed. "Why isn't he here?"
"He's probably dead,"
Kyle sighed, and kissed her.
"I
got through to the department in California!" Carmen cried. "They
said they'll be coming on Thursday. That's the earliest that they
can."
"A whole day's difference? Ugh." Selena said.
A knock at the door.
BAM BAM BAM!
We all jumped.
"Who do you think it is?"
Carmen
slowly and nervously stood up. "I'll…go get it."
We all
watched her, until she turned and was out of site.
"Oh, James!" Carmen sighed.
"Where
have you been?"
"I stayed at the church," we heard James
reply to her.
"Why all night?"
"It felt…safer."
"Well come on in, please!"
"You're
still alive!" Michael noted. "That's good."
"Duh,"
Julie rolled her eyes.
Michelle
stood up. "Do you have any hickory-smoked bacon?"
James
thought for a moment. "No, but we have micro-wave bacon."
Michelle stuck out her tongue. "Disgusting!"
"Oh, shut up
you spoiled brat!" Kyle said, and with his British accent, it
really helped him sound meaner.
Ashley
nodded, and then looked at Michael. "What are you looking at?"
He was staring at her and his tongue hanging out of his mouth. "Oh,
nothing…"
Ashley rolled her eyes.
Breakfast was good, but we figured that we didn't want to go outside, so Kevin, Derek, Selena, Kikko and I went to explore the hotel.
Michael, Michelle and July went to the activity room, and played ping-pong and other games, I believe.
Kyle and Ashley went to the lounge and watched TV, cuddling.
About a couple hours later, James asked any of us if we wanted to go with him to go to church.
"Again?" Selena asked, taking a sip of her Mountain Dew.
"Yes, I go there before I cook meals. I'm getting started for dinner. I was thinking I could do a medium-well stake, with some mashed potatoes and carrot," James replied.
"Finally, something worthy," Michelle sniffed.
"You ungrateful little nut-job," Kevin sighed. Ashley and Kyle laughed.
"I'll go," I said.
"Yeah,
we should go, too," Ashley said, looking at Kyle, standing up.
"Anyone else?" Kyle asked, looking around.
Everyone shook their heads.
"Ok,"
I sighed.
We walked to James' car, and I got in front with
him, and Kyle and Ashley got in the back.
A couple of moments later, we where at the church. It was bricked, with a giant cross above the entrance. It was very old-fashioned.
We walked in, and James slowly walked to the altar. "My father used to be a priest here. But…he died," he explained.
He
turned behind him, to show us the cross hanging above him. "My
father made this."
"Wow, that looks like it'd take awhile
to make," I noted.
He nodded.
"How long did it take him?" Ashley asked, staring at the variety of colors on the cross.
"About
a year," James said. "I think."
We heard a crackling
sound. "Where is that coming from?" I asked Ashley and Kyle.
"The cross?" Kyle asked, looking at it.
"The
cross," I whispered. "James!"
"Hmm?"
"Run!"
Ashley screamed. "Get off of there!"
"Why should I? This
is God's home. This is my favorite,"
He was stopped, when
the cross fell on him, tearing through his back.
It made a giant rip; tearing threw his clothes and his chest.
"Oh, my God!" Ashley screamed. Then she looked up at a sculpture of God. "My bad," she apologized.
James
looked at us, his eyes widened, blood coming out of his mouth.
"Run."
We all ran out of the church, and I tried unlocking
the car. "Crap!" I cried. "It's not unlocking! Where are the
keys?!"
"Doesn't James have them?" Kyle asked.
"No, he left them in the church, I saw him put them down," Ashley said. We ran into the church. The keys where gone.
"…He's in here. I know it," Ashley said with confidence, looking around.
"Stay together," I whispered, tossing my brunette hair back from my face, so I could look around.
"We should leave" Kyle said, defiantly hearing the fear in his voice.
Ashley
nodded. "Yes, we should."
Quietly, we ran out of the church,
running as fast as we could back to the Hamilton.
We ran through the door, panting and taking deep breaths.
"What happened? Where's James?" Derek asked.
"James got…killed," I sighed.
"Well one of you 3 is probably the killer!" Michael cried.
I
shook my head quickly. "No! No, we aren't. We got to the church,
and someone slit the cross so it'd fall on James. I swear we
didn't."
"Prove it!" Kikko cried.
"How?" Ashley snapped.
"You can't," Julie finished.
"Ugh,"
I said. "If you wanted to get technical, then you could search the
cross for finger prints, and see it wasn't us who slit it!"
"Ok," Carmen said. "Now any person who would say that to prove
they are not guilty, are not guilty. Do you agree?"
Everyone
sighed and nodded.
"Ted is still
missing,
too," Selena sighed.
"Do you think they're working together?" Derek asked.
"Ted
wouldn't," Carmen said, shaking her head. "Because he knows
about what I told you guys about David Kross. He'd never work with
him, or he'd already be dead."
"But how do we even know
Ted is a
killer?" Kevin asked. "I mean, he could have just left or
something. It sounds stupid, but it is a possibility."
Carmen
nodded. "Or, Kross is dead, and Ted is the killer, or Kross is just
on the island, not killing anyone."
"Ugh!" Selena yelled.
"There are too many possibilities!"
"What are we going to do for dinner, now that we don't have a cook?!" Michelle cried.
"Oh,
my, God!" Kevin yelled. "Shut up!"
"I will not
be talked
to like that!" Michelle snapped.
"People!"
Julie yelled. "We have to stick together!"
"I agree," I
said. "No group is smaller than 5 people from now on."
"But, the killer can still get in, lock the doors or not," Selena
said.
"How?" Ashley asked.
"Anything
on the island can be used as a weapon. The killer could take a rock,
throw it through the glass in the door, and break right in, and kill
all of us."
"We should search the island," I told them.
"What?! Why?!" Kikko asked.
"The island isn't that big," I started. "We should look around, all in 1 group, and see if there is some hiding place or something where the killer could easily just get out and kill us when he or she wants to."
"Yeah,
and maybe we'll find the killer. We could take some knives with us,
and I thought I saw a couple of guns in the longue," Derek said.
"And finish this."
"But, what if he or she gets us,
first?" Ashley asked.
"Then that's a risk we're willing to take," I said.
"Let's
at least do it tomorrow!" Kikko sighed. "In the morning, so we
could have a fresh start, you know?"
"Agreed," Michael
added.
"Ok, tomorrow," I finished.
"Yay!"
Kikko jumped. "I have a garlic rice recipe that I've been dying
to try!"
"Great," Julie said flatly. Use it before you do
die."
