Afterlife (A7X)

Chapter 5: And It Begins

~~~~CHAPTER 5~~~~

And It Begins~~~~

"This' bullshit!" Brian practically shouted, standing up and pushing his book off the desk to the ground, making everyone, including the teacher, look at us; he was clearly mad now.

"Something you have to say Brian?" the teacher asked, making Brian stop and realise that he'd said that out loud.

"Ah..." Brian said, looking around at everyone in the class, as they were all looking our way now. He looked back to the teacher and gave her a guilty grin. "No sorry. Just thinking out loud again. Sorry."

The teacher shook her head and went back to writing stuff down. Brian sighed in relief at his narrow escape of a detention and looked between me and Jimmy as he sat down again.

"We're so fucked," he said, putting his head in his hands.

"We dunno who it's tied to either," Jimmy said, making sure to keep his voice low so no-one would over hear us and think we were crazy. "It's clearly one of us though."

"Mr. Sullivan, quiet please," the teacher snapped at Jimmy, who just rolled his eyes and spoke again anyway.

"We're just gonna have to keep a watch on what's goin' on with this, ok?" he said, making Brian finally look up. "If it happens to one of us again today, we'll know who it's tied to."

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Brian and I were the last ones to arrive during lunch break. We sat down at our normal seats at the table and Matt gave us a nod of greeting.

"Hey guys," he said.

We both just nodded back and Jimmy looked to us.

"I told these guys what was goin' on," he said. "You guys have anything else like that today?"

Brian and I both shook our heads and Matt looked down with a frown as he thought. Brian looked to Jimmy.

"What 'bout you?" he asked. "Anything weird goin' on?"

Jimmy shook his head.

"Nothin' since I was with you guys first period."

"Alright, we'll we're gonna have to figure this out soon," Matt said finally. "We can't risk one of us getting hurt, and seeing as this ghost can probably kill, we're in a lot of trouble now."

"Y'think it's gonna try kill us now?" I asked in disbelief. "Oh God."

"He was a psychotic killer Baker," Jimmy said matter-of-factly. "Of course he's gonna wanna kill after years of not being able to."

Brian shot him a disapproving look and shook his head, Matt hitting him on the arm; hard.

"Oh," Jimmy said upon realising what he'd said. "I mean, who knows? He might be feeling fine?"

I just stayed quiet and Brian looked to me; Jimmy wasn't very good with watching what he was saying at some point in time.

"Don't listen to 'im," he said not-so-helpfully. "He didn't mean it."

"I meant the psychotic killer part," Jimmy said, earning himself another hit from Matt.

Without warning, one of the windows near us in the cafeteria shattered inwards, making everyone jump in shock and surprise. Glass rained over our table and we all quickly tried to shield ourselves from it.

"What the fuck?" Brian exclaimed as he brushed glass off himself and everyone in the cafeteria looked our way in shock.

"What the fuck was that?" Johnny asked, looking over at the broken window.