𝙎𝘾𝙍𝙀𝘼𝙈 𝙄𝙑

chapter 2 - next year.

a year after the first chapter, we see daria waking up in her bed. she gets out, showers and gets ready. as she finishes up, she begins to put on her lip liner. as shes finishing up as hears her phone ringing, she looks over at her screen and sees that it's an unknown number calling. her parents always told her never to answer unknown numbers but she figured it couldn't be too bad, she picks up the phone. "hello?" a voice responds, but it sounds more so friendly. "hello." daria asks, "um..who are you calling for ?" the voice responds, "is this daria gray-?" daria replies, "yep, this is she." the voice stops. daria asks, "uhh..helloo?" the voice chuckles..as it turns sinister and very unfriendly all of a sudden, "..perfect." daria sighs, knowing the voice. "look, i get these types of prank calls all the fucking time ass-hat. i'm really not in the mood toda-" the voice cuts her off, "i wouldn't be getting bold daria, unless you want people to know what you and your friends did to john..?" daria stops, "..what'd you say?" the voice laughs, "yeah..i know what you did, daria." daria hangs up immediately, and puts her phone down on her desk. facing the screen down, she looks down at the phone as she hears a chime come from it. she slowly reaches for it and grabs it, she turns it over to see a text. it has a photo attachment, she clicks on it to see a photo of johns dead body..that night it happened. daria quickly clicks off the photo, not wanting to see that visual.
she feels a horrible feeling in the pit of her stomach, she didn't think she would have to worry about this.

daria grabs her bag and walks out of her room. she's about to walk out of her front door when someone calls for her, she turns to see her mother. kym ellis, "why are you in such a hurry? you still have thirty minutes to get to school." daria replies, "um..maisies gonna be here soon." kym nods, "how is maisie by the way?" daria responds, "she's good, just..rejecting every boy that comes her way." kym laughs as someone else walks out from the hallway, it's darias dad, xander gray. xander looks at daria, "well don't you look pretty." daria chuckles, "thanks, dad."
daria feels a chine come from her phone as she looks. its a text from maisie, "i'm outsidee" daria puts her phone in her back pocket, "maisies here, gotta go." daria opens the door and begins to walk out as kym and xander both yell to her, "be safe!"
daria yells back, "i will!" she shuts the front door and rolls her eyes, being a bit annoyed. she walks up to maisies car and gets inside, "hey!" maisie begins.
daria smiles slightly as she throws her bag in the backseat. maisie looks at daria, "..you good?" daria sighs, "yeah i'm good, something just happened is all." maisie asks, "what happened?" daria shakes her head, "i'll tell you when we have everyone." maisie nods as she begins to drive to the school.

as the group sits and stand in the same courtyard kym, and xander stood in so long ago, maisie asks daria, "hey, what was the thing you were gonna tell us?" daria looks at maisie, "..oh, right." the group all look at daria, she tries to get herself out of the situation until she finally gives in. she sighs, "um..someone kinda..sorta..knows what we did."
the group all look at daria in confusion as she pulls out her phone and opens up the text conversation, she flips the screen to show them the photo they sent her. steven groans as serenity speaks up, "that is actually rout, i did not need that visual.." maisie looks as she asks, "is that fucking john?" daria nods as she puts her phone back into her pocket. renae asks, "does it have a number?" daria shakes her head, "no, it's just from an unknown number."
the group all look at eachother giving eachother looks as daria asks, "what?" rio speaks up, "i mean..that coming from an unknown number, isn't your family like really familiar with unknown numbers daria?" daria rolls her eyes, "okay, we don't need to bring that up.." carmen chimes in, "that would make a lot of sense actually.." brandon then asks, "but..if they like know what we did, why haven't they called the police? or texted any of us?"
ryan speaks up, "well..they clearly know darias family history, and are taunting her because of it."
raphael then speaks up, "we have to go to the police." daria replies, "absolutely not, we went over this." raphael responds, "yeah, that was before when we weren't thinking straight." the group all begin to argue a bit about what to do when daria raises her voice, "look, i don't want to go to the police. it's just..we made that decision that night, we have to figure this out." serenity asks, "well..did anyone see us that night?" the group all shake their heads no.
steven then chimes in, "okay, well then someone must've said something." the group all look around as serenity looks at steven, "did you say something?"
steven looks at serenity weirdly, "what? no, of course not." serenity looks away as the group all are silent till renae speaks up, "okay well..even if someone does really know what happened they can't prove it."
daria nods her head, "yeah..we just have to all stick to the story." carmen responds, "she's got a point, we can't all just turn against eachother now." raphael then speaks up, "..maybe we deserve this." the group all look at him as daria scoffs and asks, "you really think we deserve this?" raphael continues, "we killed him." daria responds, "it was an accident." raphael looks down, "well that little "accident" is gonna get us all in jail." daria replies, "look, nobody is going to jail..nobody is saying anything." the group all exchange glances with eachother, all of them now being very much on edge.

the school day finally ends and maisie drives maia home, "are you worried?" maisie asked. daria looked at maisie, "..kinda. if the person really just is taunting me till they go to the police, then i am in deep shit." maisie looked at maia as she continued, "and they kinda called me..and it was the voice of the guy that tried to like..off my parents." maisies jaw drops, "whaat?" daria nods. maisie starts, "daria, you have to tell them." daria shakes her head, "no. no way, they would absolutely go fucking nuts." maisie replied, "yeah but..wouldn't it be better for them to know?" daria thought. she sighed, "no. maybe. i don't know, i'll think." maisie sighed as they finally made it to darias house, she grabbed her bag and waved bye to maisie as she drove off. she walked in and saw kym sitting at the table talking to xander, "hey guys." kym turns, "hey sweetie, how was school?" daria puts her bag over her shoulder, "oh same old, boring as ever." xander chuckles, "well..nothings changed i see." daria smiles softly as she walks into her room, she set down her bag and immediately fell into her bed. she then heard another chime come from her phone, she groaned when she heard it but checked. to nobody's surprise..it was another text from the unknown number, "this isn't going to be easy for you, daria."
daria texts back, "who the hell is this?" the person texts back, "you will find that out when i want you to." daria looks at the screen for a bit before sighing and shutting it off, she runs her hands through her hair. clearly stressed, she doesn't know what to do.