Day 40 (Coming Soon)

Day -9

Tuesday January 11
12:01
I quietly made my way into the house taking my stuff upstairs with me, just in case dad has a fit and decides my stuff shouldn't be in his house today either. I groan as I realize I'm leaving a water trail behind me from my now soaked clothes. I quickly stripped and jumped into a warm shower warming my chilled bones. After a long shower. Then quickly cleaning up the mess from the day. Mopping up the water droplets that were on the floor and cleaning the dishes from my parents day. At around 1:30 I decided it was finally time to hit the sack and call it a night. Flopping down on the bed and pulling my blankets securely around me yawning I then plug in my phone playing my music quietly and quickly falling asleep.
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Running through the empty halls of the school, panic wrenching at my gut. The grey haze coming through the windows as I pass stinging my skin as it grazes me. I don't know what I'm running from or why I'm even running period. But my gut feeling says run and if I don't I might not make it out. The thundering footsteps behind me make me want to look back but the fear of seeing it keeps me running instead. The freezing cold tiles under my bare feet, the burning sensation in my lungs, and the itchy sting left on my skin from the fog makes me realize I'm not be able to run much longer. Suddenly it's like all the bad things has been lifted off my shoulders and  feeling of ease set in like there was danger no more. No more sound of pounding feet, the tiles felt sun warmed, and the fog that had stung my skin was no where to been seen. Behind me everything is was peacefully quiet. My stride slows to a walk panting feeling unable to catch my breath. I slowly make my way down the halls still feeling slightly unnerved looking into all the open, but empty classrooms. As I walk by the science room i suddenly spot someone looking out the window. Back tracking quickly, I look in the room again and see that it's Susie. Letting out a sigh of relief that someone was here I make my way over to her I smiling a little. "Hey Susie! Where is everyone and what's going on?" I put my hand on her shoulder and all the color in my face drains. The feeling of her shirt draped over what felt like bone and tightly drawn skin over them. Her body feeling as if I touched a pole in the middle of winter. Being this close to her I now realized how unkept her hair was and her close were dirty and tattered. That's when the smell hit me. The rancid smell of road kill thag has been sitting in 100 degree weather for at least 3 days. The type of road kill not even the scavengers we're willing enough to risk eating. My body kicks into fight or flight and I  step back confused. "Susie you good?" It comes out more of a whisper then an actual question. Her head slowly turns showing  her face for the first time. Her jaw hanging slack and her skin more hanging on her bones then covering them. Her eyes hazed out and seeming to not see at all. I stumble backwards a scream trapped in my throat as the fog starts trickling into the windows again. Falling right onto a desk and it topples and Susie takes a step towards me. I feel as if I'm bolted to the ground and just stare at her horrified. As she gets to where she's basically standing on top of me, the school bells sharp ring cuts loudly through the room.
7:00 a.m.
Jolting awake I grip my chest panting. Looking around I see my normal room and finally make eye contact with my savior, my annoying alarm clock. This is honestly probably the first time I'm glad, no ecstatic, to hear the thing. I turn the alarm off realizing I've probably let it ring for too long now anyway. Getting up I realize I'm still a little shaky so I make my way to the bathroom to wash my face in hopes it gets rid of those horrible images. After splashing the soap off my face I look in the mirror and for a split second I see Susies hazed eyes staring back at me. Shaking my head quickly with my eyes closed I look back in the mirror and it's back to just me. Shaking my head again I start brushing my teeth then head down stairs. Mom's at the stove cooking breakfast again. She has some dark bags under her eyes as if she didn't sleep the best either. Her hair was up in its perfect bun though and her clothes, though a little wrinkled were almost in pristine position. She hands me my bowl of oatmeal and gives me a small smile fixing my hair before I sat down to eat. Ignoring my dad who as per usual is reading his newspaper. After a few he puts his paper down and looks at me looking already annoyed for the day. "Your mother tells me that you made a mess of the house yesterday. Also your chores weren't done and I got a call from the school that your in detention once again!" His anger grows more with every word. I look up keeping my face as neutral as I can as to not feed the anger more. Not responding I put another spoonful of oatmeal in my mouth. To my disdain this seemed to also anger him. "Don't ignore me boy!" Now almost yelling and the red creeping up his neck. Looking at him now putting my hands in my lap as to not show the shake I respond, "I'm so sorry sir, it won't happen again." After getting up flipping my bowl over the trash as I go by making sure neither of them see then rinse out my bowl and put it in the dishwasher. "Love you guys I'm off to school. I'll be late tonight don't wait for me." I yell over my shoulder grabbing my stuff and quickly leave before I could hear a response.
7:35 a.m.
I walk into the school keeping my board under my arm keeping my head down. I quickly head to the friend spot not saying anything when I walk in. Sits down reading my book keeping my hood so that my face is hidden. The group used to this behavior keeps at there antics and allows Rebecca to come over sitting beside me whispering. "Hey you ok? Is it your dad again?" Shaking my head I give her a small smile. "I'm good just didn't get much sleep last night that's all." She nods then gives me a pat on the knee knowing I'm lying but not calling me out for it. She hands me a granola bar then joins the group with there chaos again. Eventually I shake off what happened this morning and get up joining in the group. "So what did y'all do yesterday evening?"Rebecca responds quickly "well me and Susie went to my house and wrangled the littles and finally got our homework done about 5 minutes before my mom got home and this saint here was even able to get some groceries for us." Susie blushes a little at being called out for her good deeds. "We'll have to have food for the place I basically live at plus I had some extra money I needed to spend." Rebecca gives an accusing look at Jason. "And you were supposed to come over yesterday too. You promised Juan that you would teach him how to play soccer." Jason scratches the back of his neck. "Sorry I got called in by gramps to fix a broken pipe on the farm." Rebecca nods obviously taking that as an excuse. "Just remember don't let him down again." He nods again quickly. Max laughs a little looking up from his phone. "You guys know that there's this new movie coming out that we have to go watch. The trailer is so funny." We shake our heads at is obliviousness. Max smirks wrapping an arm around Susie's shoulders, "hey maybe we can go watch it together just you and me." She glares at hun then looks at his hand dangling carelessly at her shoulder. "How about no and if your arm is in me much longer you'll loose it." He quickly takes it away putting his hands up. "Jokes jokes jokes." We all laugh at his undying effort to try and get every girl he knows. This is nothing new we're all used to him randomly flirting with any girl within reach and we also know that Susie would never do any serious damage to any of us. The conversation trickled down to conversation about our last game night and the boys arguing once again about who actually won. "Plus you know as good as me if we invite them again they would just complain that there bored like last time." Susie raises her eyebrow and smiles "Oh you mean when I whooped you in Halo?" Rebecca starts laughing but trying to hold it in with her hand over her mouth. Jason has a slight blush on his face and says "I went easy on you! And you know it!" Know we're all laughing at him. Finally the bell rings and we all wave bye still laughing are butts off wiping the tears from our eyes.
-8:00 a.m.-
Science class
After taking a seat and stretching actually planning on listening to the class today I take out my book and some paper. I can confirm now it is biology and we're learning about the evolution of homo sapiens and how it might have come along. As the class went on I got the feeling of being watched and looked to see miss queen bee glaring at me. Turning back to the board ignoring her again I got a cold chill and the feeling of something much more sinister staring at me. Looking over at the windows I see Susie standing and looking out them and startled kind of stumble back in my seat toppling over. "Mr.Winzer are you all right back there?" I get up quickly rubbing my now sore head looking back at the windows, she was gone now and I kind of stood there kind of confused. "Mr.Winzer?" Now much closer I turn looking at my teacher who was now right beside me. "Sorry?" He looks at my face concerned, "I think you should head to the nurses office you look Ill." I nod going to take a step forward and my legs almost give out. He grabs my arm quickly and sits me in my seat. "Ok we should get someone to help you there, just sit for a second ok" I nod again trying to calm my heart down.
-8:30-
Nurses office
After Mr.Green getting Max to come help me to the office the nurse quickly attended to me. What do you think she gave me? If you didn't say ice pack I can say we are not the same. She told me to lay with it behind my neck so I wouldn't faint and luckily she let Max sit with me the whole time. After she left he set on the bed near my legs looking at me concerned. "What's wrong with you it looks like you seen a ghost." I shrug not wanting to sound crazy. "Guys I dozed off and had a nightmare." He nods still looking at me concerned. "You know you can talk to me right?" I media giving him a small smile, "of course man i know that." He nods still looking at me concerned. I force a smile on my face now, "I'm fine stop worrying so much." He nods again then looks away at the stuff on the walls. Eventually the nurse came back and said I was good to go but to be extremely careful and if I didn't feel good to go home for the night. Giving a quick nod I leave as quickly as I can.
-3:15-
Hallway platform after school
You know I'm starting to think that maybe their starting to enjoy being around each other in the basement. I know this is only day two but when I went down it seemed everyone but a very annoyed blonde was having a grand time dancing and cleaning.

All of us agreed to hang out at the old playground after school, girls included even though Jason's pride was still bruised, he agreed to hang out with a lot of persuading. We s made it there around 3:30 and just started goofing around. "Hey Max let's play a game!" Emily says. Max looks at here suspicious "what kind of game?" Emily smiles evilly "let's play truth or dare." Jason starts shaking his head no and backing away "no way last time I played you made me go swimming in the lake in December!" We all laugh and agree to play and hesitantly Jason agrees too, after promising no one will end up soaking wet at the end of the game. Emily goes first since it was her idea "Ok Max truth or dare?" Max acts like he's thinking about it then says "truth!" Emily pouts "You're no fun! Ok fine, have you ever kissed someone?" He turns bright red and nods his head. The game continues and we all head home around 6 because it's getting dark. I get home by 6:15 and straighten up the house. I cook dinner for my parents and go take a long shower. When I get out I go down stairs and hear my mom come in the back door. "Jackson I'm home. Did you cook dinner?" I walk around the corner and say "No need to yell I'm right here, and yes it's on the counter I made fajitas" she nods and takes a plate and sits down. I take that as my cue to leave and head back up stairs to do some of my math and science homework. I crawl into bed around 10:30 and completely crash.