Chapter 5: Rachel

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2090, BCE, September

I had finally found a new piece of information I needed to discuss. Looking through the desk of Aaron Jazler's files of students, I found the one I was looking for. "Finally," I tell myself. Opening the folder, I grabbed the phone and dialed for Finn. "Finn?" I asked once he had answered. "Did you find the information?" He had asked me from the other end of the line. "Yeah I did. You're going to want to come down and see this," I tell him rather urgently. "Where do I meet you?" He had asked me right away. "In the band room, I don't have a class," I tell him right then before hanging up. I have a class next block, which is in 45 minutes, so I have a little bit of time before the 9A class enters in. That class starts after lunch anyway.

"Fiona?" I had asked. "Yeah it's me. I got here as soon as I could," she told me. "What's so urgent?" She asked, walking towards the desk. I was standing up now. "Take a look at this," I tell her, handing over Cashmere Oberon's file. "What?" She asked, more confused than ever. I could tell that she was confused as well. "I don't understand," she had started, but trailed off into confusion at the end. "I called Finn, he's on his way," I tell her as I heard footsteps coming toward the band room. "I'm here," I hear Finn exclaim rather worrisome. "What is it that you wanted to show me?" He had asked, putting down his bags. I showed the folder to him that Fiona had just looked at. When he gave it back, his jaw had dropped and was speechless. "What the fuck is that?" He exclaimed a few seconds later. "I still got to break the news to Aaron," I tell them, breaking the awkward silence before it stayed there. We had never heard Finn swear in all our lives. "Well, we're here now, and no students are coming. We should be safe." Finn had told us before I had headed to the door. I needed to make sure that no one was there.

I head back to Fiona and Finn, who are beside the bookcase. The bookcase is against a flat wall, and we like the students to see that there is nothing behind it. I pull back the book entitled Biographies Of Musicians and the wall opens up. A room with hi-tech software computers shows up on both sides, a glass table in the middle with chairs all around it, lighting everywhere, and a camera right infront of us. We see Aaron come from the back room. "Aaron?" Finn had exclaimed once we had entered, the bookcase had closed and there was no way out, except to scan your hand on the scanner on the way out. "I thought you were on a family trip," Finn had thought out-loud. "This is my family trip," Aaron had told him, hoping that he would be able to break the code. "Oh," Finn had exclaimed out in a big long sigh, once he had got it. "You had me there for a second," Aaron had playfully told him. I cleared my voice loud enough to get Aaron's attention. "Right, sorry. What did you find?" Aaron had asked, once he focused on Fiona and I. Without saying anything, I handed over the folder for him to read. "I'm going to need the family tree," Aaron had muttered to himself after scanning the folder. I gestured to the table to sit, and Fiona sat down beside me, Finn had sat down beside the table and I was standing. A few seconds later, Aaron had came from the back room with the family tree in his hand. He sat down across from Fiona and I with a pen.

"You know how we thought that something was missing to link the Strapples to the Moxy's and the Harp's? Well, this is the link, or we're getting close to it," Aaron had told us, starting to draw with his pen. He had written down Jasmine Oberon's name beside Liam Strapple's and linked them together. Drew a line from underneath them and wrote down Cashmere's name. He then wrote down James Oberon's name beside Jasmine's name, and connected it to Lucy Judge's name with a line, and then a line underneath writing down Ben Oxford's name. Going back up to Lucy's name, he then tied it to David Judge, and a line going down and wrote Snow Judge's name. "You got all of that from Cashmere's folder?" Finn had exclaimed loudly, but not loud enough to be heard through the wall. This area is soundproof, so no one can hear us. "It's not just from Cashmere's folder," Aaron had told us. "We also have Ben's, Snow's, Jason's, and Jack's folders." I had commented.

"Is there a reason of why you're doing this Aaron?" Finn had asked. "It's a long story, and it won't make any sense to you," Aaron had told him. Out of all four of us, I'm the only one who knows Aaron's story. Trust me, it's messed up. The only thing that's needed to know is that he has a purpose for why he's doing this, and I'm leaving it at that. "Rachel? Can you come with me to the back room?" Aaron had asked me. I walked up to him and we started walking. "Yeah sure. Why not the others?" I had asked him, cause why can't the others come with us? "They don't know the story," He had whispered into my ear. That does make sense. "Can they go? I don't want them to hear noises coming from the back room," he had told me. Wait, noises? Did he have someone back there? "Is someone back there?" I had asked him in a worried tone. "I had found her," he had told me. I had to get the others out there.

"Finn? Fiona? Aaron wants me and only me. Sorry guys, things are complicated," I told them before they scanned their hands on the scanner and left the room. I headed back to Aaron right away. "Have you gone mad?" I asked him, more worried than ever. "I haven't gone mad, I'm doing this for my family," he had told me, starting to raise his voice little by little. "Oh really? Like this is for your family," I told him rather sarcastically. "She's the one who killed them! It's time to make her pay!" He had finally yelled out before falling to the floor on his knees, silently crying. "I don't understand. You never told me that your family was dead. How did this happen?" I had asked him, lowering myself to his level and comforting him. "Remember how I had mentioned that I came through a portal and Bellafonte had sent me to find you guys?" He had asked me, with his voice cracking. "Yeah I remember that," I tell him, remembering of when Finn, Fiona, and I had met him in elementary. "I was quite young at the time, and Erica was eating my family when I had noticed her. I grabbed a portal bean and I ran." He had told me through the never-ending tears. I never knew his family was dead. "I want to see her dead, I want to see Erica dead. She did nothing but destroy my family," Aaron had finally told before releasing all of the tears, and I held him there.

Why didn't he tell me about his family? Why did she kill them anyway? I had too many questions in my mind, that I couldn't stop thinking about it. Drying off Aaron's tears for him, I had helped him up. "You want to confront her?" I had asked in a gentle voice. "More than anything," he had finally got out. I took him to the back room, where Erica was probably tied up in a chair. "Erica," Aaron had exclaimed when we saw her in there. "I take it you miss your family?" Erica had asked rather rudely. Aaron had slammed his hands against the desk. "Where did you put their bodies?" He asked her getting up into her face. "Don't make me ask you again," he had told her. She wasn't answering him. "Where did you put their bodies?" He had yelled into her face, almost spitting on her. "I don't know what you're talking about!" She had finally blurted out. "You'll know what I'm talking about," Aaron had told her, grabbing onto her shoulders and closed his eyes. I didn't know what he was doing. A few seconds had passed, and he had opened his eyes and took his hands off of her body. "You," she had exclaimed, breaking the rope that tied her to the chair and her hands together. Aaron was backing away as she had started to fly from the chair into the air. "This is not happening," I quietly tell myself in astonishment. Aaron was able to make a sword appear from out of thin air and threw it at Erica, stabbing her to the wall. "Aaron? What have you done?" I yelled out in shock. The bell had now rung, and students were going to be coming any moment now. Aaron had hurried out the back door and I headed to the entrance. Before scanning my hand, I headed back to the room where Erica was in. The sword was still there, but her body wasn't.

I headed back to the entrance, scanned my hand, and the door opened as I headed straight to my desk. The bookcase had closed just as the first student was entering in. 

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