Next Generation (Part Two)

Part 2

I read the name on the box. There was only an 'I. Rogers' on it.

I didn't ask mum about it, I don't want her to get worried.

So I went to sleep, hoping I'd forget about the video soon.

"Hey Iris, have you been informed about the new infirmary plan?"

"No, have I been transferred to another station?"

"No it's just another time plan." I sighed. "Hang in there, only one more month and this semester is finished and we can go back to normal boring lessons." I chuckled.

Our school had a working project that students from the high school should help out in the school building; it was officially called a project, so that they couldn't say it was children work because the school had no money. We would have to help out once or twice a week at our stations, they people who originally work there, are giving us points and grades, it wasn't hard to get a good grade if you work somewhere like the infirmary, the most students who come here are girls having their period, nerds that injured in gym or guys who got into a fight.

I walked in the infirmary as already a guy sat there. I tied my hair to a bun and hung the door key on the hook with my coat right next to it. The main nurse was about to handle him as her beeper got an emergency. "Oh shot, Iris Can you please treat this student; there was a kind of emergency in the bio labor." I nodded my head and walked up to them. I grabbed my glasses and put them on.

Soon the nurse left and I got some things from the cupboard to treat his wounds. As I stood in front of him, his annoyed face disappeared and he placed his hands on his knees. "You're as beautiful as ever." He said with a mischievous smile as my hand touched his chin. Looking at the bruises on his face I said, while concentrating on it "How can you even see me? Your eye is extremely swollen." I dabbed at his wound with some cotton wool ball. He groaned in pain as the alcohol touched his open wounds.

"It is?" he tried to sound surprised, while I had the 'You already know the answer' look on my face, and he chuckled. He looked at my face and I knew he would notice how tired I was, I couldn't sleep after what happened yesterday. In silence I treated his wounds, he would groan here and then, but in the end he survived it and had some little plasters next to his eyes and on his cheek.

I finished bandaging his hand and turned back to my own business, as he stood up it was noticeable how much taller he was than me, about one head. I was barely taller when he sat down.

"See ya next time" with a perverted smile he walked to the door.

"Sure." I answered not paying attention to the nurse who stood in the staff door way. With this last word he shut the door behind him. "Is there something between you two?" I took off my glasses and sat on the sick bed. "Not that I know."

She looked at me and grabbed her bag where some of her medicine was in. "Well I hope that won't change, there are only bad rumors about this guy." She nodded at me and walked back to where she came from, probably the bio lab. "Only bad rumors, hm" I looked at the ceiling and sat there, later playing with my phone waiting for this 'lesson' to end.

In the lunch break I joined my friends at the table who already talked about something.

"Something interesting?" I put my food on the table and sat next to them.

"The police found Jennifer Alton and Jackson Kull dead in the woods near some old cabin."

"Really?" I began to eat my food not really caring about these people.

"You know what; we should go there, to the cabin I mean." I stopped, suddenly it got interesting.

"Why the hell should we?"

"How do you think they died? They said it they murdered right?"

"Jen, they said probably, maybe they just have been doing shit and been so drunk that they had an accident or something, nothing noteworthy."

"I just want to visit that cabin, there were a few rumors about it anyways, so why not?"

"I'm in." Melanie said next to me, slowly Hana agreed, too. They all stared at me. "Fine."

"okay, we meet at my house, I call you what time." I sighed, after what mom told me about the woods, how dangerous they really are, I had a bad feeling. But not only this, I had to think about how Sasha always disappears there.

It was already dark, and with the excuse that I would stay at a friend's, mom let me go out. I took with me a flashlight and the camera from the box, not because I wanted to show it my friends, because maybe something strange happens, you'll never know.

Jen, Melanie, Hana and me began to walk deeper in the woods searching for this infamous cabin.

"Hey Iris," Jen whispered. "I heard it's the total guy magnet to be a nurse at the infirmary, is that true?" I shook my head, but then I heard a rustle. "Shut up Jen."

"Come on."

"No, I mean be quiet, there's something." I whispered, we all stopped and waited. Hana held her baseball bat ready to knock someone out. No we weren't like normal girls.

A hatched was thrown at the tree next to me, I flinched and stepped away. From the shadows was a man appearing, he was taller than me, like every guy on this world it seems, and wore some strange mouth thing. Over his eyes were goggles, they were orange or yellow. Having some belts around his sweater, what had stripes at the sleeves, probably to hold something, it had even some pockets, and as I saw what he held in his hands I understood what it was supposed to hold. He pulled the hatchet out of the tree, coming in our direction. I felt being glared at. I heard a cracking noise; it was coming from the man. "You shouldn't be here a-around this hour."

Hana stood next to me, holding up the bat. If I would be her, I wouldn't have done so. Melanie was shocked and scared, Jen just stood there not knowing what was happening. "Didn't your mother t-tell you that the woods are d-dangerous?" he came closer. "Run." Hana asked "What?"

"I said run."

"But-"

"Now." I felt that the man was smiling.

Hana looked at me and hesitated. "Let's go." Melanie whispered. She sighed and nodded. I heard their footsteps as they ran away, I felt a bit disappointed that Melanie would let me here, but it was easier this way.

"Who the hell are you?" he looked directly at me, and said "You two are similar." I was confused, what did he mean by that. He looked at my hand, I held the camera, I wasn't filming, I just held it because I thought something might happen. "You have something that b-belongs to me." He pointed at it. I took all my bravery and said "Is your Name I. Rogers?" I chuckled, I said the name that stood on the box. He chuckled, too. "No, but Toby Rogers."