Bloody Valentine

Chapter One

"Did you hear that Makayla was murdered last night? In cold blood. Her father found her face down in their pool with blood everywhere." My friend Rebecca whispers as we walk through the halls. I tense up slightly. "I know." I say quietly. She gives me a confused look. "How?" She asks. "How'd you know?" I snap and all my friends stare at me surprised. "I got a video sent to me last night. It was her being dragged and dumped into the pool and the message attached says it all starts with me." I say sighing. My friends' jaws drop. "Go to the police." They say in shock and I shake my head slightly. "Don't worry about it. I'll be fine." I walk away from them and I see the new guy staring at me from across the hall. I sigh irritated.
I was the quiet type of girl in school. I didn't talk much and I stayed out of the spot light. Nobody knows I exist other than my friends. I kept hidden. My mother said hiding is something that's best for our family. Definitely since she was involved in a masked serial killer when she was my age. This guy was obsessed with my mom and people picked on him because he loved her and nobody's ever seen his face. He snapped and started murdering people close to my mother but he never physically hurt her. He was shot and put into a mental asylum by the police and my mom moved far away from here to get away but then came back, met my father, and then had me.
Sometimes I have wondered who Keon Shade was. My mom said he was a nice sweet boy. She didn't believe he could've murdered all those people. They grew up together. She's the only one that has seen what he looks like other than his family. He never trusted anybody else. My mom loved him but only as a friend until he was taken from her and she realized it was more. She never admitted it to anyone other than me though. When I was born my father left us. I never knew why.
But some things are better off a mystery. And that's what this town is all about. Everybody's a mystery. I walk into my first period class and immediately go to the back of the classroom. The teacher doesn't acknowledge me and neither does anybody else. When the bell rang and everybody was in their seats the teacher took attendance and then announced the new kid was in this class. "Everybody welcome our new transfer student Emmett Woods." He says and the guys say "Sup bro" as the girls smile flirtatiously. Emmett nods back. "Alright for the next three weeks we'll be partnering up and doing a scene from anything you choose as long as its appropriate. Meaning no cursing and no sexual scenes." The teacher says.
"Oh and I pick your partners." He says smirking when people stand up. People groan. "Dreher and Woods." He starts off and my eyes go to Emmett as he looks around. When he catches my eye I nod my head signaling for him to come here. He heads over to me as the girls glare at me. "I'll say romance scene because its easier to do." I say. He raises an eyebrow. "I'm also avoiding anything horrific." I say. "We can do an action scene. Or just a friendly scene." He says slowly. "He loves romance and he knows I'm the best actor in this class so he's expecting romance from me." "Hey Juliet romance right?" The teacher calls over to me and I roll my eyes. "Will you stop calling me that when you want a romeo and Juliet scene?" I ask. "You haven't given me one yet." "That's because all of my partners have been stupid and can't read Shakespeare."
"I can read it." Emmett says. The teacher grins. "I'm not doing the dead part." I state boredly. "I knew that." The rest of the period we were figuring out what scene we were going to act out. The day flew by with people talking about Makayla's death and talking about Emmett. It was annoying to me that an innocent girl just died and most people were to busy making up rumors about Emmett to care about what happened to her.