Killer Crush

Chapter 1

Hayden's POV

The Monday morning news was one of my weekly rituals. In my experience, all of the best news that was collected over the weekend was played on Monday mornings before school. I sat there, eating a bowl of cheerios with my feet up against the coffee table when my T.V went from a diet commercial, to the morning news. "This just in, the body of twenty-four year old Thomas Blake was found this morning by Lake Moore...". I listened to the newswoman give all the details of her report, wondering why I didn't feel scared of threatened. Shot around two early this morning? I was trying to gather my knowledge of who exactly in this town would be out and about that late. Moore county wasn't the biggest, but also wasn't the smallest county in Evansdale. The name Thomas wasn't ringing any bells to me. If one of the Thomas' at our school had been killed we would have gotten a voicemail from the principle. Drug dealers is the only thing that could come to mind, and with that thought I cleaned up my bowl and grabbed my backpack.

West Moore High School was one of the 2 high schools in our county. The second one? East Moore of course. Everything here is named that it gives me a headache. I walked up to my locker to find my best friend, Jessie popping her gum and texting one of her acquaintances. "Sup baby girl" she said still looking down at her phone. "Nothing much, did you see news this morning?" "What makes you think I get up early enough for that Hayden?" She was right of course. Jessie was the type of girl that didn't have good track of time. The rest of the school day was boring. Sitting in Mr. Jefferson's AP Chem class was the most brutal. I love science but for some reason it was rubbing me the wrong way lately. I walked over to my 2007 Honda Civic to find Jessie, and our friend Camden leaning against the hood. "So I was thinking, instead of you going home and being a hermit, we could all go to the rave tonight." "I want to, but my parents are coming home tonight and they promised me a special family dinner." Saying that out loud made me really happy. My parents are lawyers for the state so they are always away for weeks at a time. This time it has been three weeks and four days exactly. "Fine be like that." Jessie sighed.

I walked through my front door after school trying to figure out where my parents were going to take me tonight. I walked passed coffee table when I saw a flashing light on the landline. My heart sank when the realization hit me. I sighed to myself and hit the play button. "Hey sweetie pie, mom and dad forgot that we had meetings all day tomorrow with clients. Go ahead and order some pizza on the card. We love you so much". I started my bath thinking about how I would react when my parents finally decided to come home. Maybe a little Passive aggressive? I thought. Or how about act like nothing is wrong? That would just make it seem like bailing on our dinner plans is okay. After the bath I jumped into my Victoria's Secret sweats, threw my hair up, and sat on the floor. I rolled a blunt to help my nerves. Smoking is something I keep to myself, I know Jesse and Camden do it together from time to time but I prefer to do this alone. I sat on the ground wallowing in my self-pity for about 45 minutes when the tiredness hit me and I decided to get some shut eye. Hoping things would go better tomorrow.

Zander's POV

The sun started to set behind the palm trees as I looked up to the sky closing my eyes. I couldn't help thinking to myself, what am I doing here? What is my actual purpose on this shitty planet inhabited by a worthless species? These questions get repeated in my head every time I have to do a job. I knew for a fact that I was probably going to get the shit beat out of me for slipping up last night, for not cleaning up like I should have. I could fight back, I could run away, but I don't. Why don't I run? Maybe I just don't care enough to run. Maybe I like what I do. That's all i'm good for anyway.

Destruction.

Hayden's POV

Saturday morning I decided to go to the Jackie's. Jackie's was more of a scene for college kids. Books everywhere, coffee, places to sit in the corner alone away from idiots. The corner seat is where I was at. I had my AP calculus homework in front of me and a tall black coffee to get me through it. "Man you look like shit!" Jesse said as she sat in the seat across from me. Without even looking up at her I said "Thanks best friend." Jesse started going on about the rave last night and how Camden didn't have the balls to kiss her. I just sat there and looked at her with a blank face. Jesse loved to talk, it's just sometimes I don't love to listen.

Out the corner of my eye I saw the most annoying senior couple at West Moore High. Antonio and Britney were flirting when someone walked past and caught their attention. His name was Zander. I didn't know much about him, he usually doesn't talk and I never see him with friends. All I knew was the bad nickname the guys on the football team called him. Zero. "Hey babe watch this." I heard Antonio say to Brit. "HEY ZERO WHAT DID THE INSIDES OF THAT GUY LOOKED LIKE WHEN YOU KILLED HIM?" I saw Zander was ordering coffee when he looked back to see who was talking to him. "Sir?" The barista asked him. "Forget it." He said as he started to walk away and out the backdoor. Seeing this pissed me off. Antonio is always picking on someone, anyone when he gets bored. I got up from my seat and ran after him. "Hey where are you going!?" Jessie yelled at me.

"WAIT!" was all I said as I ran out the door.

Zander stopped in the grass when I caught up to him. "Hey uh...Zander? I'm-" "I know who you are." He cut me off coldly. "Well I wanted to say sorry for Antonio, he's an ass" I was out of breath. "Dicks like him always get what comes to them." I could feel the conversation getting awkward by the second. "I noticed at school you don't talk to anyone, I think so I wanted-" "Jesus Christ do you ever shut the hell up?" He said that as he was walking towards me staring me down. I started to feel the anxiety rise within me. He had me up against the wall with his left arm over my head, leaning into me. "Listen, I don't want anything to do with you, or your idiot friends. I like being alone, I PREFER being alone. So fuck off." All I could do at that moment was stare at him. His eyes were bright blue, they were so perfect. "Got it?" He asked me. I nodded my head and he started to walk away. "Good." Was all he said, and I was still up against that cold brick wall.