Terror

Chapter Thirty-Three

Gradually, people began to leave the hospital, either because their parents were able to take them home or their injuries were not severe enough to give further treatment. However, Jason was unable to leave and instead had his own room, with tight security nearby.

He gazed up at the television in the corner, furrowing his eyebrows at the latest news. It wasn't about them escaping charges or River's mother being sentenced to forty years in jail; instead they discovered another survivor in Simcoe.

As he tried to think of who it could be, he was startled by the sudden slamming of his door. Emma stood in the doorway, her eyes wide eyes and breathing heavily.

"There's something wrong," she gasped.

Jason sat up, wincing at his injuries and holding his head. "Did someone die?" he asked.

"That feeling is back," Emma trembled.

Jason knew exactly what feeling shoe was referring to. It wasn't a normal sensation, but rather the gut feeling she got before the storm or when she suspected something bad happened was going to happen.

"Check CTV news," she urged.

Jason grabbed his phone and scrolled through the many news reports posted online. Most of them were discussing the possibly of avoiding charges or the public's anger over not all of them charged. But when he saw what Emma was talking about, he almost dropped his phone in shock. It couldn't be true; there was no way this couldn't have happened.

"How is Cassandra alive?" he exclaimed.

The news referred to her as Cassandra, and she had been covered in scrapes and burns when they had all seen her burned alive. Had something gone wrong? Or were they never truly dead and had gone somewhere else?

"She shouldn't be alive. And if Cassandra is alive, it could mean that Ashley and Divina are also alive," she whispered.

They had witnessed the three of them being burned, their skin melting away like ice cream. Did this mean everything they had done had only erased their human bodies, but not whatever they truly were?

"What happened? Did something go wrong, and are we all going to die? Is she a wandering ghost or an illusion?" Emma panicked, pacing back and forth in his room.

"Dude, you look like you've seen a ghost," Mark said.

Jason pointed his phone toward him as Mark came walking over, grabbing his own phone.

"What the hell? Are we sure this is even true or just clickbait?" Mark questioned.

Jason hoped it was just clickbait, but he had a sinking feeling that it was real. There had been a lot of gossip and theories about the return of that girl, but this seemed different.

Cindy bopped in his room with a frown, crossing her arms over her chest and wincing from the whip marks inflicted by Luke.

"Have you seen it?" Jason asked her.

Cindy walked over to look at the news article on his phone. "It's all true. She came with Zane to ask me about the chemicals used to create Ashley," she implied.

Why would Cassandra want to know about the chemicals? Jason wasn't any more knowledgeable about them than her. Cindy may know more, and they did explain it in court, but there had been a lot going on lately.

"She's talking to James, but apparently Divina and Ashley are sealed. They no longer have human bodies because of the attachment," Cindy explained. "We need to find a way to get that mixture without something that can erase them, or Divina and Ashley will return to this world."