Masked

Chapter Nine Die Down

I guess everyone thought that it was all over. That was only because the killings have stopped for a little bit, almost like the killer is having a hard time finding someone to kill. But everytime I try and bring it up with my friends or my parents they just kind of push it off. My mom says that he or she needs some help with comping things. My dad says the same. Max says that he's a sick bastard. Jack says the same. Kassie just kind of zones out and doesn't really answer the question much. I wonder what she thinks about. I mean she's looked happier than she did at her mom and stepdads. I guess that the move was something of good nature. But somethings is eating her alive, but she won't tell me and Jack has no idea what it is either. Neither does Max.

I wanted outside for her to come out to walk home together.

"Kassie what's going on in your head today? I mean you kind of zoned out today during our free period."

"I did? I'm sorry I guess I haven't really been sleeping that well for the past two weeks. What were you guys talking about anyway?"

"Nothing really. I was wondering why you were zoning out. Max and Jack kind of had their own little convocation in a corner of a bookshelf. I now can say I know who you and Jack like. You never told me that Jack was bi."

"Yeah that doesn't really come up in a convention that much. Why in the world would he tell Max about that in the first place? It took him almost two years to tell me himself. I know who he likes to. I found out and he found out mine. I kind of already knew about him, but I just wanted him to tell me himself."

"Yeah I guess that makes sense. Hey doesn't it seem like the murders have almost gone away?"

"I guess. I don't really think or watch what's going on all round us. I guess that I have a lot on my mind. Sometimes I think that I'm going crazy."

"Why do you think that?"

"I just sometimes hear something that was never really said by anyone in the room with me. My brother has noticed it and so has my dad. Yeah and my dad is getting married so I get to have a new mom kind of. My dad keeps telling me that I don't have to call her mom if I don't feel comfortable, but I think that it's the most logical thing to do."

"Maybe it has something to do with your sleeping problem. Or maybe it has something to do with everything that has been happening in your life and in everything that has been happening to everyone around you as well. I know how it feels. I was with you when your mom got remarried and I know what you are going to have to get used to her being in your life for a little while. You have me, Jack, and Max. You're not alone."

"I just wish that life would stop throwing things my way and let everything that has been happening would just die down for like one year or even a month or two. Just God die down on somethings."

I wonder what she is wishing would die down. Not only did she say that everything die down she just said God in a sentence where she was wishing. Something is killing her on the inside to come out or to stop. I do hope things die down for her.