The Best People

Chapter One

Mackenzie and Nathan lie lifeless on the ground.
Nobody moved.
The world was spinning around me.
The blood made me want to vomit.
A single tear dripped down Eleanor's pale face.
Everyone was lying on the ground.
The show was over, and so were they.
KT looked at me in terror.
I stared blankly at the ground.
Blood was smeared across David's face, and Jackie's too.
But what made me pause, was Tyler. Tyler was the last one alive.
He was curled up on the cabin at stage left.
I couldn't do this.
He was Tyler. He always has been Tyler. He hadn't done anything wrong. He was too innocent.
"JUST KILL HIM ALREADY!" KT screamed. "Just kill him!"
She started to cry. To sob. I've never seen her like this.
Hammy came behind him and stabbed him in the chest.
Tyler looked over at me and KT and tears streamed down his cheeks.
The same happened to me.
I'm Rhia.
I'm effing crazy and you know it.
I'm basically the mad hatter, without a hat.
I killed them all.
KT helped.
So did Hammy.
And Sanya.
And Elaine stood and watched.
I felt an arm wrap around my shoulders.
I put my head down in shame and I felt pain in my neck.
I screeched.
"Get down! Don't move! It's all going to be okay!" A man shouted.
I let out an awful, goopy cough.
"Why the hell do 14 year olds think that this is funny?" Another man whispered.
It got dark.
Darker than the blackouts.
Darker than the right wing during the blackouts.
I fell to the ground and my head made a dent in the stage floor.
I fell asleep.

"Rhia. It's not you. It's not you at all! It's them! They're playing tricks on you!" Brett whispered. I was crying. Crying harder than ever before. God! Why am I so goddamn stupid! I couldn't kill my best friends after a show! I went behind the curtains.
"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the opening night of Camp Rock!" Mr. Heckman announced. The curtains opened and we began singing. "This is our song, that's all that matters, 'cause we all belong right here together there's nothing better than singing along this is our summer, and this is our song."

"Wake up!" A voice pounded in my head.
"I think she's waking up. You don't need to keep shouting." Another, deeper voice said.
The light hurt my eyes.
It was white.
Their clothes were white.
The room was white!
"Where the hell am I and why the hell are you guys here?" I asked, looking around to see my friends.
"In an insane asylum." Brett said, sitting in the corner with Charlie and Hammy.
"Holy shit." I said.
I looked in the mirror, which was the only thing in the room.
My hair looked fine.
But different. It was longer, down to my waist.
It was a different color.
It was black.
I was no longer wearing makeup.
I had on a white dress.
It was interesting, yet strange.
Everyone was wearing a closed hospital gown except for me.
I was wearing a laced flouncy dress with a giant pink ribbon in the back.
I had a pink ribbon in the back of my hair, holding to locks from the from of my hair tied in the back.
I felt like Alice from Madness Returns.
They all had changed.
KT's hair was curled and it was gently resting on her shoulders.
Sanya's hair was down and it was resting on her back, straightened.
The boys looked the same.
Elaine, well she wasn't there.
"Elaine is... Elsewhere for now. They said she'd be back and we'll after... Testing." KT shivered.
Testing.