Psycho | Beatrice

39 | cuffed again

2 days until graduation

In the evening, I get a text from Luke asking me to come over. He told me to expect to spend the night.

I arrive at his window. He opens it and I crawl inside. When I get situated, I notice the empty bottle on his dresser. Luke paces back and forth in front of me, his hair a mess.

"I'm freaking out, Beatrice!" He almost yells.

I stand up and I grab his arm. I rub it gently.  I've never seen him in so much distress.  Either he's drank a lot, he's cried a lot, or both. 

"Come lay down," I whisper to him. 

I lay down on my back and Luke crawls on top of me.  He hugs my waist tightly and rests his head on my chest.  I run my hands through his hair repeatedly. 

"I'm going crazy," Luke cries.  "I'm a fucking psycho.  I'm losing it.  I really don't want you going tomorrow.  I don't want to lose you."

I sigh.  "You won't lose me because nothing will happen.  I'll be there with you.  We can skip school all day, yeah?  Just hang out around the school?  In the library?"

Luke doesn't say anything back.  I assume all the drinking and crying tired him out because within a couple minutes, he's sleeping.

*

1 day until graduation

I wake up and i immediately feel this void behind me. When I go to see behind me, my hand gets caught. I look above my head and I see my one hand cuffed to my bed. The bed behind me is empty.

He really went to school without me.

I open the nightstand drawer and I dig through all the crap in there until I find the key on the very bottom.

I got to school late. There were officers in the parking lot keeping an eye on things. Im sure its from Luke's tip. I was very confused first hour because Luke wasn't there. It was eerily quiet. Before second hour, I went to peak in the library but he wasn't there. 

At lunch, I make my way for the library. When I get to the table in the back corner, I see it vacant. I sit down and I text Luke.

Beatrice: Where are you?

After about five minutes of no response, I text Raven to meet me here. She doesn't respond either. I forgot that she's at the amusement park. Then I text Mia and Emma.

A couple seconds later, they show up. They kindly acknowledge Luke's disappearance by not sitting in his spot. Mia seems a bit off as well, but it's probably because she knows what today was supposed to be too.

"I was going to try to be with him most of the day just to calm him down. He was freaking out the past couple months about today." I randomly blurt. "He was paranoid that Ethan would follow through."

Mia shrugs. "Yeah but we're under high security today."

Suddenly a high pitch beeping starts. Mia's head perks up and her eyes become filled with fear.

"We need to get out of here." She says.

Emma and I stand up slowly and pack our bags. Mia tries to rush us. Then there's a loud pop that shakes the floor. I furrow my eyebrows but then the sound happens again. It's so loud that it forcefully causes us to get low to the ground. That's when I realize reality.