Shadow Killer

Chapter 30 = Moving On

THIS CHAPTER IS DEDICATED TO vihabam@gmail.com . I HOPE THAT U HAVE A WONDERFUL TIME AHEAD OF U, VIHA. HERE IS CHAPTER 30:)

A few days later everyone at school had gotten used to the fact that someone at their school had tried to kill her best friend. People, at first, looked at me like I was an alien. Anytime that I would walk down a hallway, they would part and enter random classrooms, emptying the hallway. Otherwise, during lunch, they stared at me and talked behind my back but never talked to me. Hanna and Miranda supported me throughout the entire thing. Now, people were friendlier and seemed to understand what I had gone through. They talked to me and tried to make me feel better but honestly, I was never actually feeling that bad at school.

"So, Alex, now your life is normal and there's no killer on the loose. Do you feel fine?" A junior asked me.

"Yeah." I said.

"And what about-"

"Um... hey, can we continue this later? I sort of need to talk to someone." I said politely to the little girl.

"Yeah, sure." She said and I smiled.

I slowly went to the person I had been wanting to talk to since a few days. Victoria.

"Victoria, Victoria! Hey!" I said, waving my arms in the air to catch her attention. That was the first time I saw her without her 'sidekicks' in public. She saw me, she was standing in the queue, holding an empty food tray, but her face didn't light up like I thought it would, "Come here! We need to talk!"

After a few minutes of waiting at the table, she finally came with her tray filled. I wondered how that could have happened so fast but then pushed it out of my mind. That was the least of my problems.

"You wanted to talk?" Victoria asked as she started to eat.

"Yeah," I said, "I just wanted to say thank you, for saving my life and I'm sorry for all the things I've done to you in the past. I really am and if you had wanted to become friends, you could have just told me. I would have, I don't know, accepted."

"I know that you are grateful and that was the least I could do after how rude I had been. I was the one who had started the entire thing. You're welcome for saving your life and I know that I should have told you that I wanted to be your friend but I was too shy and I knew that it would never happen. So I choose to be the exact opposite of that I wanted. At least, we would be something rather than nothing," she sighed, "I decided that I didn't care what happened to me, as long as you were safe. After all, what are friends for?"

"Okay," I said, smiling, "so are you saying that we can end our enemy-ship thing and can now be friends?"

"Yeah, I would like that."

"What about your 'sidekicks'?"

"Oh, god knows." She said and both of us laughed like old friends, which is what I wished we had been but it's never too late for anything.

After a few days, my family sifted into the new house, like my dad promised. We all bought new furniture which was weird, since we had been living in my old house ever since I had been born and had actually not changed any furniture except for the furniture in my room. Our house was close to Hanna's so we were now neighbours.

"Are you okay?" Hanna asked, "I mean about the situation in school. Everyone's friendly now and no one ignores you anymore. In fact, people actually care about you. I've tried to, you know, catch up on the latest gossip and all. Maybe the entire school, or most people, are discussing on ways to cheer you up."

"Yeah, yeah, Hanna. Can you stop your little rant?" I asked. Though that rarely happened, there were still times when she started rants like this. It had been a really long time since her last one and all of us had thought that she had stopped doing it but I guess not.

"Sorry," She said.

"Yeah, it was sweet of them. I'm just glad that Claire was caught, this nightmare is over and I can finally get on with my life."

"Yeah, so what do you want to do today?" Miranda asked.

"I think maybe we need a girl's day out. Shopping, then dinner... and no French restaurants!" I suggested and we all laughed at my outburst. The bell rang. We then exited the school building.

Now I could move on. Things had ended on a different level than I thought they would have with my killer, Claire. She had thought that my life was perfect but she was wrong. She was the reason it was so messed up, right now. It was all her fault. She had no idea that her existence had already turned my world upside down. So, all in all, my life was not actually that perfect. Though I didn't have Claire anymore, I still had Hanna, Miranda, my parents and the entire or most of the school. The only thing I had actually lost because of Claire was Claire. I'm not denying that I would miss her but I'd rather have her not be with me. Now, I could finally move on and put this nightmare behind me.