-1978-

9

*knock knock knock*
The door swung open and revealed cindy who was looking very stressed

"phew!" She wiped her forehead "she's fine!" She shouted to Alice who was inside "come in and get comfy." Cindy then held the door open for us to come in before locking it and walking over to the sofa .

"Okay so some pretty fucked up shit happened earlier." Alice exclaimed as if I couldn't tell I mean I found them in the god damn toilet.
"you guys prepared to hear this?" She asked . I looked at Tommy and looked back at Cindy and Alice and nodded "alright so it started when me Cindy and arnie picked up the book that was in nurse lanes office and it led us to this cave in which we found this room which had stones around it with names carved into and after reading for a good minute we found 'Thomas slater' written on the walls and nurse lanes book said that names written on those stones are cursed n then seconds after rocks started to crush down and that's why arnie isn't with us but I'd rather not talk about him but then the rocks blocked our entrance so that's why we were in the toilet." I was speechless and so was Tommy by the looks of it .

It was silent until Cindy broke it by saying "and when nurse lane attacked me she whispered to me  'I saw it. I saw his name on the stone . kill him and nothing bad will happen' but I was so freaked out to realise what she had said but it all makes sense now."

"Wait so Tommys gonna die?" I started to shake a little from the stress

"we don't know so don't start stressing but something will happen . I mean look where are we from ? Shadyside and bad things always happen to shadysiders!" Alice replied while pulling out a cigarette "want one to calm down?" She asked and then handed me one along with her lighter

"Lila ! You shouldn't smoke!" Cindy whisper shouted so nobody outside the cabin would hear before getting up to take it from me

"cut the girl some slack she was just told her boyfriends cursed!"Alice said and then pulled Cindy back .

Tommy was silent which concerned me a little "Tommy? Love are you alright?" He then snapped out of his trance after I waved my hand in his face

"uh ye I'm fine." He replied while rubbing the back of his head "headache . That's all and that was a lot to take in." I rubbed his back before blowing the smoke in his face like I did when he first tried to stop me from smoking which made him laugh "ur such an idiot Lila ." I scoffed

"you love me really!" I teased poking his chest multiple times

"Ye I do." He said before pulling me in for a kiss

"guys we are still here you know!" Cindy raised her voice "Cindy!" Alice smacked her shoulder so she would shut up . "Anyways lovebirds . Get outta here just be careful please because although it doesn't seem like I am , I am really worried." Alice smiled before opening the door .

Me and Tommy got up and left the cabin and walked to the mess hall to talk about what we were just told . We sat in the far corner away from any kids so it wouldn't scare them . "Why me?" He asked, genuinely believing what the girls had just told us I don't know if I fully believe it just seems to out of the blue to be true but either way I was still scared and was still gonna look out for Tommy.

"I'm not sure Tommy but I promise nothing bad will happen to you." I rested my head on his shoulder and we talked the rest of it out before heading to mine and ziggys cabin .

We walked in on Nick and ziggy talking about Carrie "Nick Goode what a surprise!" I said while pushing him as I walked past , Tommy chuckling behind me as I did it, I started to feel dizzy so I sat down on my bed and started a conversation with Ziggy and Nick "whatcha doing guys?" I asked And got no response "u gonna pretend as if im not here . Cool!" Tommy sat beside me talking to Nick and Ziggy joining in every now and then but yet I still got no answer everytime I said something "jokes over guys it's not funny." I fake laughed before I woke up, woke up? How did I wake up? I was never asleep?

"holy shit u scared me Lila !" Ziggy laughed and sighed out of relief

"huh?" I said before sitting up and looking around to see Tommy Nick and ziggy standing around me as if I had done something "why were you guys ignoring me? Dickheads!" They all gave me a weird look  "the joke wasn't funny anyways." I rolled my eyes as Tommy got up to sit next to me

"what joke Lila ?" Tommy wondered what I was on about, silly boy he was trying to mess with me so bad

"the one where You guys wouldn't answer me?" they all looked concerned for me and I started to get scared

" Lila . You passed out after you pushed me." Nick said as he knelt down to check my temperature

"I passed out? But I remember sitting down on my bed and starting a conversation?" I started to panic I didn't understand any of this and neither did anyone else.

"Nope you passed out. None of that happened" ziggy added from behind Nick

"probably from all the stress from earlier . Well I'll check up on you in a bit Get some rest I love you ," Tommy said before kissing my forehead and leaving the cabin

"so I mares well ask the questions I thought I asked . What you guys up to?" I asked and ziggy replied

"getting Sheila back for punching me" .

"Hm with paint ? Seems a little pedestrian."

"You got a better idea?" Nick asked me

"yep! Science and nature follow me." I jumped out of bed and walked to the cabin that had all the things we needed .

later that day...

We had set everything up for our plan and we got Nick to hand the piece of paper to sheila which we pretended was from will , who she had a crush on . we hid behind a tree and waited for her to arrive not long after she slowly approached the outhouse
"willlll, we could've done this in ur cabin but I guess this is hot." She said which made me cringe and ziggy pretended to gag .

She then walked inside and we snuck up behind her and as she read the next bit of paper which said 'look up from the witch bitches' we pulled this rope which dropped a whole bunch of Beatles and spiders onto her and then we  ran out and jammed the door with a screwdriver.

I then turned to Ziggy snd Nick and high-fived them "fuck paint!" I shouted which they then copied

"fuck paint!!!" We all walked off laughing and then realised that everything had gone a little more quieter then usual . It was still Fairly early and the kids bedtime hadn't come , yet camp nightwing was quiet.

"Hm that's odd . Did everyone just decide they wanted an early night?" Ziggy questioned which Nick interrupted

"hm not exactly an early night." We tuned to look where he was looking only to see Jeremy dead in the arts and crafts cabin .

"JEREMY!" I shouted before running over to his dead corpse . Tears started dropping from my eyes "holy fucking shit . Who the fuck would do this!" I shouted still in floods of tears

"no clue but there's clearly a killer around we need to get everyone in the mess hall ! immediately." Nick
Panicked running over to me to help me back to my feet before we ran to the mess hall only to run into Kurt on the way

"Joans gone." He said before breaking down into my shoulder "someone stabbed her . Not once . Not twice . Multiple time!" He also was in floods of tears . Makes two of us aye "she meant everything to me. I know she meant everything to you to!" And that's when it hit me . Joan. she was gone . Not only was the one kid who looked up to me gone but one of the only councillors I trusted was gone .

"Kurt just get everyone to the mess hall . Please. Do it for Joan!" I hugged him before he ran off to the mess hall to keep everyone safe . Once me ziggy and Nick had arrived I had realised that Tommy wasn't here "Tommy!" I shouted and tried to run out of the mess hall only to be grabbed by Gary and Nick

"your not leaving Lila ! It's not safe." Nick said while I battled his strong grip so I could find Tommy but I wasn't strong enough

"Nick please." I cried to him I couldn't let him be out there on his own not when there was a dangerous killer around

"I can't let you go out- I'm sorry Lila ," he pulled me into a hug as I cried into his chest

"I hate you Nick Goode." I didn't mean it I was just angry and I needed to find Tommy .

I needed to find him now