Stalker

Chapter 3

Aaliyah's pov

I was so terrified of what had happened that I stayed on the couch the whole night and fell asleep there.

I wake up the next morning to my phone ringing.

"Urrrgghh..." I groan. I take my phone in my hands and "Hello?". "Hey sleepyhead. It's Jayce. Did you forget you go to school or something?" Oh shit  I thought. I look at the time and realize I have 15 minutes to get to school. Better move my ass. "Oh my god. Thank you so much. I'm so lucky you call me every time I'm not at school 15 minutes before the first bell. I'll see you later. Bye!". "Your welcome. Bye!" replied Jayce.

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Finally arriving at school, I think again about the events that took place yesterday. I forgot about them when I was in a rush but they are coming back again. This is the most annoying thing ever  I think in my head. 

When I get to my locker and I didn't see Jayce. Great, when I need to talk to him he's not there I say in my head. As soon as I opened my locker, I found a piece of paper falling on the ground. I grab it from the floor and realized that it was a picture. I was in it along with someone else. But I couldn't clearly see the other person because of a big red 'X' mark drawn on there head. Took me a few seconds to realize that the face behind the mark belonged to Amina, the girl I tutor. But what does all of this mean. 

My phone's ring tone dragged me out of my thoughts. I take it out of my pocket and read Jayce's name on it. "Where are you?" I ask him kinda angry. "In the gym. Come here, FAST." he said hanging up. "What the- Jayce! ... Urgh". I shove the picture in my jean pocket and I walk to the gym. When I entered, I got greeted by tsunami of students. What the- ... I say in my head.

"Aaliyah!" I hear a familiar voice say. I look around and found Jayce waving is hands at me. I walk towards him and the first thing he says is "Look!" pointing up at the stage. I look in that direction and found the principal getting ready to talk. 

"Hello students. As some of you may know, we are gathered here to talk about Miss. Amina Masson's death. She passed away last night. She was brutally murdered. Police found her stabbed in the street. A note was found next to her. Police quotes 'very mysterious' . They gave us the permission to read it out loud." the principal said. He motioned his hands towards Mrs.Helen who soon handed him a Ziploc bag containing a red stained item. Mr.Albert , our principal then read the item out loud, "I warned you. But you didn't listen. Now, here's your punishment."

I was speechless. Is this my fault? I asked myself. No it can't be. Whoever this is can't possibly ... kill someone. Oh my god.  

Mr.Albert finished his little talk and told everyone to go back to class. Walking to class all I could hear was the other students mumbling things like "She was so nice." ,"Amina didn't deserve that." , "Why would anyone ever kill someone sweet as her." , "The person responsible for this should go to hell." ... 

My breathing  got heavy. I was starting to see all blurry. It's all my fault I kept on saying in my head. I did this. It's all my fault. I should go to hell. I'm so sorry Amina. Tears started rolling down my cheeks. "Aaliyah are you ok?" asked Jayce. "Why are you crying... I know you were kinda close to her but you shouldn't cry... It's ok... Go to the bathroom." he said. "Ok" I mumbled. 

I was on my way to the bathroom, when I bumped into someone. "Oh, I'm so sorry. I wasn't looking where I was walking." I looked up and found Jackson. Usually I would blush like crazy but right now, the only emotion I showed was sadness. "It's fine. Are you okay?" he asked. "Yea I'm fine just a little shaken up by what happened to Amina." I answer. "You shouldn't be. It all happened for the best." He says. That took by surprise. I wasn't expecting that. "What I mean is that god choses the best for us, so maybe it was her time to go. But you shouldn't worry. She's probably watching you up there. Wanting you to be happy like everyone else." he says lightly smiling. "Yea you're probably right." I said wiping a tear off of my cheek. That made me feel a little better but the feeling of guilt was still attacking me inside. 

"I should get going." I say. "Ok, bye. See you around Aaliyah." said Jackson. "Bye." I said lowly and walked away. 

I got to the bathroom and looked at myself in the mirror. I took the picture that I crumbled before out of my pocket. I stared at it and soon,... Tears just uncontrollably started sliding down my cheeks. I didn't know for how long I cried but I knew I wasn't going to stop soon...

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Two chapters in a day. Now I'm tiered. I hope this chapter was good. Already working on the fourth one. It'll be up soon so look forward to it. Till then...

Bye!

GM~~ 😙😙