CHAPTER 1: SHE REACHES FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE

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It was the Monday after the Shadyside mall massacre and Kimberly had a strange feeling in her gut. Guilt. Her, Heather and Ryan had been best friends from kindergarten to the start of high school, but when Kimberly became more popular and her friends didn't, she started hanging out with Kate and Simon and she hadn't spoken to her childhood friends since. Now she never will. Though not many knew about the Portman girls previous friendship with the most recent Shadyside killer and one of his victims, so she decided to try keep it that way. She drove to school picking Simon and Kate up along the way as she usually did, not telling them anything about the fact that during the entire weekend she had sobbed over the death of her two childhood friends and that she'd never be able to make amends with them. Kate and Simon we're Kimberly's best friends and she'd trust them with her life but they didn't tend to be the type of friends where they'd be emotional in front of each other none of them had cried in front of each other so she wasn't going to be the first.

"So Kim, how much did you make off the batch I gave ya?" Kate asked, turning her head towards one of her best friends. "Well I've sold it but we're trading the stuff today, a Sunnyvaler, believe it or not. I'm giving her it at the pep rally and she said and we agreed on $500." Simon gasped from the backseat and Kate's eyes widened so much they looked on the brink of falling out their sockets. "$500?! You better not be messing with me Kim! And she agreed to give you that much?!" Kimberly smiled at her friends through her mirror, "Well her first offer was $150 but I worked at it and she agreed on $500." Simon began to laugh in excitement. "And that's not all." Kim began, causing her friends eyes to widen even more, "She's paying $500 per batch, she wants a batch every week for the next 6 months at the least." Simon screamed and Kate shouted, "Omg! Kimberly Portman! You are incredible!" Kate kissed her cheek while Simon kissed the other. "We'll be out of this shithole in no time, we're still technically underaged but my aunt Hailee agreed to register as our legal guardian until we're old enough so we'll be set to leave for destination anywhere but here within hopefully the next year." Kim finished, her sentence followed by an excitable 'woooo' from Simon and a joyful 'yeah!!' From Kate.

The trio arrived at the hellhole commonly know as their school and the hopped out of Kim's car. They walked through the front doors being greeted by multiple people in the hall, Kim's eyes avoiding Heather's memorial as they walk off into the girls bathrooms where they had hidden their goods. "Deena should be here by now, I'm gonna go find her and you better not be making out when I get back!" Kate shouted at Kim who was on Simons shoulders as she was unscrewing the vent to get the drug box out. The pair laughed as Kate left."Yep it's in there." Kim put the vent door thing down for now until Kate came back and her and Simon started painting the Sarah Fier rhyme on the bathroom stall doors in red paint. Kim was painting when she had finished she felt a pair of arms wrap around her waist and lift her off the ground. She laughed as Simon spun her around until he brought her in, closer to him and they began to kiss, they knew they only had minutes before Kate would return with Deena so they didn't get very far just a couple Hickeys and some arse grabbing, when their faces parted they looked into each other's eyes and started laughing until they heard Kate outside the door and the ran into the stalls.

Kate and Deena walked in, "She reaches from beyond the grave, to make good men her wicked slaves." Kate began. Simon slammed his door open before continuing from Kate, "She'll take your blood," Deena flinched, "Simon!" Then finally Kim came out in the same way as Simon did, "She'll take your head!" Deena flinched again, "Kim! Seriously!" Then Kate, Simon and Kim stood together to finish the rhyme, "She'll follow you until your dead!"  Deena walked over to the sinks and looked in one of the mirrors at the trio behind her, "Wow, you guys are dicks." They laughed, "It's just fun." Kate told her but Deena was quick to reply, "It's sick!" Simon laughed again before saying, "What? The dude was wearing a Halloween skull mask!" Kim then decided to help defend their case, "C'mon D, you can't say that's not at least kinda fun." Deena looked her dead in the eyes, "People died." Kim smile slightly faulted but what Deena said next turned her smile to a frown, "Heather died. The dude was probably just some sad sack who hated his life just like the rest of us. Except he decided, 'Hey, why don't I get out of here for good?' And 'Hey, why don't I take Heather and a couple of other mall rats with me?' There's no angry dead witch who made him go postal. The only thing that made him go crazy, is this town!" How Deena talked about Ryan made Kim's blood boil, but then she reminded herself that she didn't want anyone knowing about how she used to be friends with them, she didn't need people pitying her more then Simon did when he found out about her dad leaving. So she had to contain her urge to punch Deena in the face. "Are you ok?" Kate asked Deena. "Yeah, I'm fine." Simon could sense the discomfort Kim felt during Deena's rant about Heather and decided to try change the subject slightly, "Seems like, maybe you got a little witch in you." Kim and Kate laughed before getting cut off by Deena, "Dude, why are you even in here? This is the girls bathroom." Deena joined in the laughing as Simon lifted his red headed girlfriend back on his shoulders to retrieve the special box in the vent. He turned around so Kim could show Deena. "Candy store!" Kim exclaimed, gently shaking the box next to her head. "You know we don't actually believe in this witch crap right?" Kate asked Deena, "It's just like, fucked up Santa Claus or something." Kate finished. "Ho, ho, ho" Simon added making Kim and Kate laugh again as Deena held up a box of her own. "What's this?" Kate asked her, "I need you or Kimberly to give this to Sam tonight." Kim gets down from Simon's shoulders and walks over to Kate and Deena, "Yeah, that's not gonna happen." Kim told her straight up. Deena turned to Kate, " I'm with Kim on this one, no way Deena." Kate agreed. "C'mon guys," Deena whined, "Not happening D, we're not getting mixed up in your ex drama." Kim told her, Kate wrapping an arm around the Portman. "Do it yourself." Kate finished Kim's sentence. "But, I'm not going to the game, I quit band.." Deena told them, still trying to convince them to do the deed for her. "Since when?" Kate and Kim asked in union. "Since who gives a shit!" Deena bursted out. "Was band the only extra curricular you had left?" Kate asked her. "Well you still have your band uniform right?" Kim then asked, "You just wear it one last time. I've got something that'll give you the balls to face Sam." Kim picked up their drug box, opening it to show Deena what was inside. "What? You're dealing again? I thought you stopped after this dingus's brother OD'd." Deena exclaimed, pointing at Simon who wrapped his arms around Kim's waist from behind her, making her smile. "Timothy?" Simon asked. "Wh- Timmy wasn't a real OD, he didn't actually die." Kate told her, "They brought him back." Kim said, looking up at Simon who then kissed his girlfriends lips, causing Kate to take the drug box off of Kim who then just moved her hands to Simon's neck. "Ugh, get a room." Kate fake gagged. The couple stopped kissing and they answered the question on Deena's mind by putting their fists out and using imaginary defibrillators. Deena shook her head in disappointment, "Your all morons." Kate then cut in, "Excuse me? Which one of us is valedictorian again? President of every club this shithole has to offer. "I'm getting out of here. Off to claim my place amongst the stars. Bitch." Kim laughed. As they all exited the bathrooms they saw a random guy running down the hall shouting about Sarah Fier dragging a random dummy by the rope he'd put around it's neck. Kate, Kim and Simon started cheering along with some others down the hall. Deena gave them a look that said 'seriously' and they all just continued laughing.

They were all stood in the sports hall, the coach giving the football team and the cheerleaders a speech about the game later in the evening against Sunnyvale and that Sunnyvale was having a candle memorial type thing for the massacre at Shadyside mall. Everyone groaning because the football team, cheer team and band's attendance would be mandatory. Kim and Kate mad eye contact with Deena from across the hall, she made a finger gun and pretended to shoot herself in the head making the girls laugh. This was gonna be a long night.

(A/n: It took a while to work up motivation but it's here! Chapter 1! Hope you like it!!)

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