fear street - the gc

Chapter 8

Henrik quickly sat up as he heard a loud car horn honking outside of his house. Gemma had fallen asleep on the couch and was now sitting up and rubbing her eyes. "What the hell was that?" She mumbled. 

Henrik was now peering out the window at the ambulance. He had to admit, he was pretty confused. That was until he saw Lisa climbing out the back of the ambulance followed by Luna, then Sam, then Raven and finally Caitlin and Jess. 

Jess was helping Caitlin stand and even from this distance Henrik could see that Caitlin looked pale. She should be in hospital.

He didn't realise he had completely tuned out Gemma's question until he heard her repeat it. "Henrik, what's going on?"

"It's the rest of the group . . . in and ambulance" He said slowly, which didn't help Gemma in the slightest. If anything it only made her more confused, thinking that this must be some kind of weird dream.

She was proven wrong when the door was pushed open and in walked a very shaken looking group of teenagers. 

"You know most people call before turning up in a stolen ambulance" Henrik said, looking around as Jess helped Caitlin onto the couch beside where Gemma was sat. 

"This a common occurence for you then?" Jess asked. "Where is your dad?" She asked, walking to the door and looking out into the rest of the house, finding no one there.

"He's out. Work or something" Henrik said. "What is this? What the hell happened?"

"Another attack" Lisa said. "At the hospital."  She didn't look injured as far as Henrik could tell, just shaken up. 

"Who- what?" He asked, his brain not comprehending this.  "Why are you here? Why not at the police station?"

"We had to make sure you guys were okay" Raven said, voice rough like he had been yelling. 

"And Jess can't drive for shit so we needed someone with a license" Sam said with a tight-lipped smile. 

"You're all still alive, I couldn't have been that bad" Jess muttered under her breath. 

"Well, come on then" Henrik said, making a beeline for the door. Everyone else shared a look with each other before one by one they all followed him out the door, Gemma helping Caitlin up so that she didn't fall due to her concussion.

When the group made it outside, Henrik was already in the ambulance and Jess was silently thankful that he hadn't seemed to notice the dent in his own car from where she had bumped into it in her rush to get here.

They all piled back into the ambulance, Sam, Jess, Raven and Luna all sitting the ground as Lisa, Gemma and Caitlin squeezed onto the seat.

The ride to the police station was a lot smoother and less panicked than the ride to Henrik's house and it wasn't until about halfway there that Jess finally spoke up about what she had seen in the hospital. Everything had been moving a mile a minute since she say Jim's face under the mask and she hadn't had a chance to share this information with her friends yet but the chilling image hadn't left her mind since.

"Guys" She said, her voice breaking the silence in the van. The rest of them were silently thankful. The silence was getting too heavy and uncomfortable for them to bare.

"Hmm?" Someone spoke, she couldn't be sure who.

"I think-" She paused. "Listen, I know this sounds crazy but you have to believe me" She looked up, earning some nods from the rest of the group. "When we were leaving the hospital, the killer's mask slipped and. . . I swear it was the guy from the mall massacre" 

Everyone was stunned silent, some of them wearing horrified looks and some of them looking skeptical. Jess was frightened at the hospital, emotions were running high. It was possible she just thought she saw him but didn't.

"You're sure?" Sam asked slowly.

"Yes, i'm sure! Why would I lie about that?" Jess said, growing frustrated at herself and her friends for not believing her. Although, she wasn't entirely sure she believed herself.

She had been seeing him everywhere, after the attack. But it had never felt as real as this. As vivid.

She was certain this was real. 

Mostly.

Maybe.

"I'm not accusing you of lying, Jess." Sam said, managing to keep calm which Jess was failing at. "I'm just saying you've been through a lot. Can you really trust what you see?"

Jess let out a humourless laugh, running a hand over her face. Maybe she couldn't trust her thoughts as well as she thought she could. That was terrifying to her, the idea of being out of control of her senses. That was scarier than being killed.

She wished someone else had seen this. "I still think we should bring it up to Sheriff Goode" She said. Sam had a good point but it was still better to be safe.

Before anyone else could say anything the ambulance came to a stand still and Henrik walked out from the front of the vehicle. "We're here."

The rest of them all got up, following him out of the ambulance. 

"Wait!" Luna spoke up, calling the rest of the group's attention to them. "Maybe we should just send 4 people in and leave four people behind to watch the van?"

Everyone silently agreed that this was a good idea, they all decided that Jess, Raven, Sam and Lisa should go into the station and Luna, Henrik, Gemma and Caitlin would wait behind.