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Celine

Two weeks. It's been two weeks since I've seen or heard from him, from both of them.

It seemed like a weird coincidence at first but then everything started to make sense; the tattoo, him knowing where I live, his strange behaviors when we were having dinner, now both of them are MIA. I don't know, maybe I'm overthinking it because... I miss him.

I refuse to believe that Kyle is anything but the sweet, control freak that he is, if anything he would be the one to tell me straight up what he wants with me rather than beat around the bush like that bastard, plus Kyle would never take pictures of other people and use it to blackmail.

I should stop putting a killer's intentions on my professor.

I don't know why, and I hate to admit but I'm also wondering where the killer is, why he stopped coming to me.

Maybe he saw that I was serious when I stabbed him.

Or maybe he just doesn't like me anymore.

Either way I was grateful but the questions still  lingered, why did he give me a clue? Why let me live? Another weird thing is not hearing the killing on the news, trust me I've had the tv on channel 8 since that night and nothing. The one I witnessed aired the next day and was all over the place, unless they haven't found the body. My mind was in a constant race with itself, from battling negative thoughts to toning down my overthinking but sometimes I'm unable to get control over the self-sabotaging raging war going on inside my head and right now is one of those times.

"Where are we going Celine?" Alaina asks from beside me, I talked her into borrowing her dad's car to drive somewhere.

we were driving around for about an hour but neither I or her had any idea where we were going but I still pretended like this was a regular outing, "somewhere" I shrugged.

why did I bring her again? oh right, just in case I get caught.

she deadpanned me and folded her arms, "I'm not stupid Celine, you think I don't recognize Professor Norman's Ferrari three cars ahead," she said.

my eyes widened with both fear and surprise, I didn't expect her to realize what I was doing so quickly, when I didn't answer she started to sus me out, "this is more than just a crush isn't it?"

"I don't know what you're talking about." I replied, keeping my eyes plastered on the car ahead. I knew this would only piss her off, but I wanted to maintain our secret for as long as possible, but I knew Alaina wasn't stupid and that eventually she would find out. The funny thing is I wanted Alaina to find out, I felt so alone dealing with everything and I wasn't going to intentionally put her or Kyle in danger.

"Celine. don't play stupid with me, what's going on between you too? I thought I was your best friend," her subtle accusation hurt and put into perspective, how others around you can get hurt even though you think you're protecting them.

we stopped at a red light, my eyes were still focused on the red car ahead; I feel like a crazy ex-girlfriend.

I let out a sigh, "I just want to protect him Alaina. to protect us but it's not fair to drag you along and not fill you in so..here goes." I proceeded to tell her almost everything about the professor and I and just as I expected she was cool about it, she didn't judge me or make me feel like a bad person, neither did she judge kyle.

"dont ever hide anything from me again. got it?" though Alaiana was still oblivious to the dangers that lurked over my shoulder everyday, I did our traditional pinky and promised to keep her in the loop but some things were still best kept in the dark.