The Rope

Chapter 5

I called 911 and they said they'd be at the school any minute. I really hoped that they'd be able to find the evil Dr. Drew. I don't know how he looked exactly like him, but I was determined to figure it out. I also wanted to know what happened to Jeffrey and the real Dr. Drew.

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Roxy was watching Dr. Drew and Jeffrey.
"Hello, can you hear me?" She repeated over 100 times.
"Yea." Said the weak Dr. Drew.
"Good, now listen do you know what happened?" She asked.
"No... not really." He said his strength returning.
"Can you sit up?" Roxy asked giving him a hand.
"Yea," He said putting his hand on his knee to help himself up with the little help of Roxy. "Thanks."
"No problem. Could you tell me what happened to you?" She began.

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I just couldn't wait any longer for the ambulance, so I decided to go look for Timothy and Elizabeth.
"I really hope Elizabeth is ok." I thought.
I looked in the science room first, but the only people in there was Peter, Matthew, William, and Henry. I waved hi, and asked if they'd seen Elizabeth, but they shook their heads no.
Next, I looked in the language arts room to find Timothy busy reading his poetry book, of course.
"Through all of this chaos he's reading a poetry book?" I thought.
"Hey, Timothy!" I said as enthusiastic as I could.
"Hello, Ashley. What brings you here?" He said surprised.
"Oh, I just was wondering if you could tell me what this poem meant." I answered handing him the paper.
He read drumming his fingers against the desk, and rubbing his chin with his hand. While he was thinking I saw a burgundy piece of rope hanging from the ceiling by Mrs.Quinn's desk.
"Give me a second, would you?" I asked walking toward the desk, and the rope.
"Yea, sure. Could you tell me who wrote this?" Timothy asked.
"I'm sorry, no." I replied.
"I've never seen, or heard of this piece before. Where'd you get this?"
"I found it in the lady's room."
"So, no known author?"
"Nope."
I looked by the desk to find a piece of paper that said, 'Tiffany Quinn, the one I've been looking for is now missing, and I'm afraid I will never find her.'
"Hey, Timothy, look at this." I said handing him the paper.
"Wow, it looks like the same handwriting." He replied.
"Maybe, this person needs to find Mrs. Quinn for some reason." I answered thoughtfully.
"Yea, we need to find out who it is." Timothy said standing.
"Where are you going?" I asked.
"To find Elizabeth." He replied with a smile.
"Why?" I asked curiously.
"Well, she said that Mrs. Quinn was just engaged, and then the teachers just disappeared. I have a feeling that someone didn't want Mrs.Quinn's engagement to happen."
"Maybe, whoever it was, wanted to get revenge on this person. Do you know who she was engaged to?"
"No, I'm not sure, that's why I need to find Elizabeth." He replied heading out the door.
"Ok, will you meet me in the nurse's office once you find her, and fast because our parents are going to come at 3:30, and we have no time to waste."
"No problem! I'll be down as quick as a rabbit running away from a fox."
"Thanks!" I replied waving, and hoping he'd come back fast.
I ran down the stairs, and straight to the nurse's office, but then I was stopped by John.

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"Well," Dr.Drew began, "I don't really remember, but I was coming down here to check and see if Ashley's aunt had gotten down here, but something about the room seemed different. I started to run to the door when I tripped over some rope. Which reminded me what had been happening, and hoping I wouldn't get harmed like some of the others."
"Did you see the person who did this to you?" Roxy asked.
"Sort of, he was holding some mask, and he had dark curly hair, and he had gray-blue eyes. He also had a beard. He looked like he was some kind of homeless guy, but he didn't seem like he was because he was very strong, and tackled me to the ground."
"Wow, he couldn't have been homeless then."
"Definitely." He replied.

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"Hey, John what's up?" I said.
"I was looking for you actually. I was wondering if I could get you to do something for me?" He asked.
"Sure! What do you need?"
"I need to find Dr. Drew, Alex hurt his arm. Don't worry, he's not hurt bad, he just needs a bandage."
"Oh ok, I can help with that. He's in the nurse's office, I don't know if he's better yet, but he seemed to be getting there when I left."
"Is he alright?"
"Yea, let's head there."

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"What happened?" Jeffrey moaned.
"Jeffrey! You're alright!" Roxy said limping to his side.
"Yea, but my leg hurts." He said sitting up.
"Jeffrey, I'm so glad you're ok!" Dr.Drew replied grabbing his hand to life him up to the cot.
"So, what happened?" Jeffrey asked again.
"Well, we were running out toward the door then you tripped, or fell, or whatever happened. Then-" Roxy began.
"Oh, tripped over someone's foot or something." He replied.
"Oh well, I tripped over some rope." Dr.Drew added.
"I could have tripped over that, I remember that I feel on top of someone... was that you Dr. Drew?" Jeffrey said turning toward him.
"That could explain the bruise on my back." He said laughing.
"Jeffrey!" I said running in giving him a hug, "I'm so glad you're ok, I was so worried!"
"I was wondering where you were." Jeffrey replied with a smile.
"And Dr. Drew, I'm so glad you're ok too!" I said giving him a hug also.
"I'm glad to be alright." Dr. Drew replied gladly.
"Back to what I was saying," Roxy started back. "We should see what the rope looked like."
"Yea, and see if we can find anymore notes." Jeffrey added.
"There's just one problem." Dr. Drew said.
"What?" I replied.
"We are all hurt right now, except for you, Ashley." He said with an uneasy laugh.
"Oh, I'll get right to it." I said jumping up and looking for clues. "Timothy was telling me he was going to look for Elizabeth, because he said that Mrs. Quinn had recently got engaged. We think whoever is behind this could be taking revenge on her going to be husband. We're not sure who her husband is going to be, but we're determined to find out who this is."
"Oh, really." Dr. Drew stated.
"Yea, Elizabeth knows who her husband is, well her going-to-be-husband." I said looking in the sink.
"Yea..." He replied seeming distracted by something.
"What's wrong, Dr.Drew?" Roxy asked.
"Oh nothing." He replied. He was lieing, but we just let him be.
"I hope Timothy comes here soo-!" I started, there was another note near where the evil Dr.Drew was standing.
"Look at this!" I said running over to them.
They all gasped.