Down the Rabbit Hole: The Fall of Kate

Warren

// I'm back everyone! Imagine that. Anyway my schedule is clear for a few hours so I decided to sit down and write once again. //

 
      MAX'S POV

  It's been days since I've seen Victoria. At first I thought she was avoiding me. Maybe Kate and her had talked and she decided to distance herself from me? It all seems weird, when I try to talk to Kate about what that happened that night she dodges the question. Whatever happened she doesn't want to talk about it. I know I shouldn't push her then, maybe Victoria had been mean to Kate. If that's what happened I'm glad she was avoiding me. But now it's been three days. I see Courtney and Taylor talking in front of the steps they seem worried. I stand there, my arm grasped by the opposite hand in my awkward yet signature stance. Taylor is talking currently though she stops when Courtney looks at me, Taylor turns as well. "Hey guys, have you seen Victoria." Taylor and Courtney frown and share a sad look. When they look at me I know something is wrong. "Max no one has seen Victoria she disappeared three days ago. In fact you were one of the last people to see her. Do you know anything? Her parents found out and are ordering authorities to launch a search party."

       Oh god, Kate could get in so much trouble if she's tied up into this. Kate doesn't need this right now, she has had so much to deal with already. I decide to lie, to protect Kate. More scrutiny is not what she needs only so shortly after her near death. "Victoria just said she was going to get some fresh air. She said that I could wait in her room. I fell asleep on her couch, when I woke up it was 6 AM and she wasn't there so I returned to my own room. Who would do this to Victoria, she wouldn't have just left would she?" My head hurts, what happened to Victoria. Sure Victoria made enemies here, but who out of these people would have done kidnapped her. Yes the worst case scenario is that she was kidnapped. She isn't dead I'm not losing more friends now.
       "Well thank you you two, I'll be sure to join you in the search party." The two girls smile and nod. "We meet tonight at five, we'd love to have you there. Victoria would love to know that you have her back." I nod and say goodbye. I depart towards the main campus now. Something odd is happening to Arcadia Bay. Everything feels so ominous.

   I find myself lost in though as I walk. My plan is to go to the library and to catch up on my studies. With Kate's ordeal only a few weeks ago I have neglected my schoolwork. Plus being in a quiet environment for once will help my mental state. "Hey Max!" I hear an enthusiastic male voice yell out at me. Warren practically comes sprinting my way. I put on a fake smile, Oh Warren. Warren has always been a pretty clingy friend to me. I know he's had a thing for me the moment he's seen me, I just wish he left me alone for one moment. "Hey Warren." His face lights up as he breathes heavily from his little jog. "Hey Max how's your day going? I know a good movie coming out tomorrow and I was wondering if you wanted to come with me?" Oh no, this again. I rub my arm nervously. I sigh before looking him straight in the eyes. "Warren we've talked about this. I don't like guys. I'm sorry also I won't go as friends. To be honest lately you make me feel uncomfortable." Warren just tries to smile through it all I'm sure he feels crushed, but my creep radar has been spasing when he gets near me lately. I wave goodbye and begin to walk away. Time to forget this happened.

     KATE'S POV

     Good so Max is not interested in him, and she like girls. This feels like the best day of my life I'm hiding around the corner of a building. I'm not spying on Max I'm making sure that creep doesn't touch her. Everything seems good, Max is headed to the Library if I backtrack and loop around I can join her as if by accident. I begin to level the site though this is halted by what Warren does next. He grabs Max's hand. She turns away and faces him. He forcefully kisses her. My heart burns with rage, I've found my next prey. Max promptly pushes him off of her and delivers a slap to his face. This shocks me, I didn't know Max was capable of violence, though most think of me in the same light. "Why did you do that? What is wrong with you? We aren't friends anymore." Max storms away and Warren begins to run. Shit he's coming my way. I step in the way of his path. We bump into eachother due to his running. "Oh I'm sorry Warren I wasn't looking where I was going. Are you okay?" I look in his eyes with my own delicate shades. Time to put your womanly charms to work Marsh.

     "Are you okay? You look upset. Did something happen?" I play stupid, monitoring him, awaiting his responces. He sits there before getting back up. I shake the dust off of my skirt. "It's Max I opened up to her and-" I'm suddenly wrapped up in a hug just as clingy and desperate as the love he shows for Max. I feel like pushing him away but I embrace him back. "Warren come with me. We'll get tea and talk some more."
    We end up taking his car to a coffee shop, I get tea and he gets some coffee. Afterwards I suggest we go to the lighthouse. He seems confused at first. "The view of the sunset is to die for, you'll love it. I promise, it always calms me down."
Upon reaching the lighthouse we sit on the bench, he omits that he kissed Max. What an important fact. Max is right he is truly sick, he starts to flirt with me and seems attached to me the second I showed him any kindness. Truly pathetic. Warren stands up after telling the story. "You don't need her Warren, you'll find someone else." I can sense that he is grinning even though he isn't facing me. I stand, he's standing so close to the edge now, he is enraptured in the beauty of the sun like it's all he has to live for. "You're right I think I've found someone else."
I shake my head and whisper to him. "That's something you'll never have you fool, let go." With those words I shove him while kicking his legs in the back. I watch him tumble off of the edge. His shouts and screams are soon replaced by a sickening Crack and crunch as he hits the rocks below.
It's done no more Warren, Max you wanted to be free. Now you are. The sun hangs low in the Sky, though I see it, facing the moon as they pass by eachother. I stare at the full moon. It seems so big and blank, it threatens to swallow me whole.

   MAX'S POV

It's almost nighttime. We have been out searching for three hours. Sometimes these things take months. Ten of us are searching the woods around Blackwell for clues. I'm at the point where I've almost walked out of the bay. No one is around me anymore. I don't know where the rest of the group is. I check my phone it's 9:12. Shit we are supposed to meet up at 9. I start running, what if they leave me? It's miles to get back. This isn't good. I text Taylor and Courtney that I'm on my way. Though I trip over a branch or root or something. Damn I hit my face on the hard dirt and leaves, ouch. I pick up my phone and shine some light on what I tripped over.

    3RD PERSON

Her screams fill the forest, cries of agony and pain echo them. The search crew, lead by David runs to where the cries are coming from. Dana is the first one to come upon the scene. Max holding the lifeless body of Victoria, tears distorting her face.