Chess 2: Checkmate

Chapter 5: Who you gonna call? Drug busters!

Cherry, Marissa, and I went back to The abandoned HZ. This school is literally so dead. Dead. Reminds me of Nicco in the locker room. I'm not afraid to die because it's not easy to kill me.

Cherry made up a theory where the person who murdered Nicco has a thing against drugs. It's possible.

So we called ourselves the "Drug Busters".

I told Marissa and cherry to walk around campus while I check out the locker room.

As Marissa, Cherry, and I separated, I carefully entered the locker room. I walked down the first row of lockers, and I'm utterly disgusted. Nicco's body is still there 😷 I thought the killer would clean it up by now or something. Why is he still there? Maybe, the killer comes everyday and waits for us to comeback ourselves☹️☹️☹️ jeez.

Then I heard what sounded like a gunshot and I ran out of there as fast as I could. There wasn't a gunshot. It's just that the locker room always makes these weird plumbing noises. 

I went home and I saw Audrey sitting on the couch, as usual.

"Jen, someone's here to visit you." She said.

"Who?"

It was JJ.

"JJ, if you wanna talk, we have to talk outside."

We went out to the front porch, and we both sat down.

"When did you come back?" I asked.

"Just two days ago."

"Why did you Come back?"

"It's hard living, knowing you're not by my side."

"JJ, I've been single for 8 years. I'm still single. It was actually kind of easy for me."

He was hurt. I can tell by the way he was looking down at the table.

"JJ, if you think That coming back here and asking me out like this would change my mind about you, it's not."

"What?"

"J, you used us. You lied to us. I believe you when you say you love me, but it's still hard to trust you."

"Jen, I flew all the way from Korea just to see you!"

"Why didn't you do that 8 years ago?!" I burned back.

He was just blank.

"Now you listen to me, bitch. I ran for you at the airport! I tried to catch you! I wanted to talk and tell you what we had didn't have to end. But you didn't even stop."

"Jen, I really did hear you. I didn't approach you because I knew you'd be mad!"

"Wow. If I was mad, I wouldn't have made my way there!"

He was just a pathetic asshole losing this conversation.

"JJ, I think it's a good idea if you just leave. I really don't need this."

"Jen, please."

"JJ, leave. The door's right there."

He left.

As I opened the door to go back in, Audrey, cherry, and Marissa fell down, which told me they were eavesdropping.