The darkest me

Expectations

The following morning I woke up soaked in blood with all my friends body laying lifeless by my side except Ross I searched for him but didn't see him. I passed out as I heard the approaching sirens. When I awoke I was in an hospital bed with my parents and a police officer by my side. He wanted my statement but I couldn't tell him. All I could say was that I went to sleep and woke up covered in blood and surrounded by dead bodies. The police man said it was what my other friend was saying too.

"Other friend?"

"Yes a young man around your age is alive and here in this hospital too. He is in critical condition but he is alive and recovering from a kidney transplant."

"Kidney transplant?"

"Yes Mr Ross Richmond is fighting his battle for survival. However what I don't understand is how you managed to escaped the attack unarmed? Your other four friends die on the spot while Ross was found suffering in the yard. You on the other hand only a few scars but nothing major. The strangest part is Ross don't know what happened and neither do you but I promise you kids somebody will be held accountable for this."

"How about the Cabin's caretaker is he dead too?"

"No Mr Fletch is nowhere to be found and neither are his belongings. He went somewhere in quite an hurry but don't worry he won't get far."

With that said I felt into a doze. I was discharged the following morning but was placed on bed rest. I was too miserable to sleep, too torment and scared what happened to them was my fault. Every day since I got discharged I kept going back to sit beside Ross to held his hand. I had it bad loosing a boyfriend and a bestfriend but he lost his heart, he lost his finance. When he finally came out of the hospital Meg's mother and father invited us to Meg's autopsy results. It was over a month since her death and still she and the others were not buried as detectives were cutting into them like lab rats. Finally they were finished and in a week time our four friends could be laid to rest. We went to the government lab just outside of the Valley to found out the t cause of death where we met up with the detective on the case. Has it turned out Meg was raped and beaten badly before the wounds that led to her death was inflicted. The doctor spoke of one injury in specific that cause a dent in her head. As we were there crying and thought it couldn't get any worst. They told us Meg was four weeks pregnant too. Her mother fainted and had to be rush to the hospital where she was treated and released.

A week after our friends' bodies were returned for burial. Ross and I attended each of their funerals together along with our parents, friends and family members. Months after Ross was placed in a mental institution and i was left out in the world to mourn alone. The police still could not locate the caretaker and they had no other leads. Summer eventually ended and I went back to school alone bearing the burden of my friends being murdered. I decided I would move away from this town for college has it had too much painful memories. My life was so messed up. We went to bed with expectations of waking up but as faith would have it, it didn't work out that way. The year I finished high school was the same year they closed the case of my friends' murder. They would of closed it earlier but our parents being all rich kept funding the investigation until they grew tiresome. It could take me years but I promise i will be the one to slove this case and I'll find our killer. Ross was released after two years and was enrolled in the same college I was going to as his parents thought it would help him to have a familiar face for a friend. They even managed to get both of us a house together a little off campus, a very well secured house at that. Our parents even gave us bodyguard s they decided it was the only way we were moving so far away from them. I had to be taking sleeping pills to help me sleep after everything that happened. This was my last night here in the Valley and with my loving parents for a while so I made the most of it. We spend most of our time together getting me ready to leave but we still managed to get a few laughs in. I felt good about this, the only light I now had in my life was my parents.
The following morning Ross and I was put on a plane off to California where we would be attending college. When we got there we called our parents and then we went to bed as a new phrase in our lives was about to began.

College my opportunity
Ross became a broken down shell of what he used to be. He no longer played football or video games, smh Ross stop doing everything that reminded him of good times with our friends including smiling. We went to our first orientation together and within a week we were through them all and ready to start a new. Months upon months we attended classes with me studying to be a detective and he studying to be a prosecutor. We barely did things we normally did together while our friends were alive and we both promised each other we would not speak of them. We tried different relationships as in dating but it never worked because both of us were distance and using people to seal our minds from our undying pain. Eventually we run out of people on campus to used so we turned to each other. Every time one of us started struggling to operate efficiently in every day life we would talk and comfort each other. This made us grow closer as friends and we became inseparable. Soon Ross's smile came back in his cheeks and I too were smiling alot more. We told ourselves that our friends would of want us to continue living so we dealt with the pain but we stopped allowing it to control our lives. Pretty soon we were back to normal eating dinner together and watching movies like the six of us used to. We both were obviously not over the pain but we were creating balance in our lives.
One day while we sat together having lunch in campus a certain familiar voice crept under my skin.

"Baby girl?"

My body started to shiver I was afraid to turn around, afraid to see who the voice belonged to but then Ross spoke and I became sure. I knew it was in fact Mr Brown our guidance counselor from high school. It was like I could not shake him. How did he managed to secure a job in this specific institution I was unaware. I was unaware as to why faith brought us back within the same place we were years ago on the other side of the world.

"Mr Brown what you doing here",asked Ross.

"As it turns out am the new Sex Ed teacher here son. I received my register recently and I recognize two names that were written on it, Cassandra Vellver and Ross Richmond so I thought I would give you guys an heads up before."

"Ok that's cool, right Cas?"

"Yes Ross i guess so."

"So how are you baby girl?"

Every single time he said those words it gave me an headache. I didn't even bother to answer him so Ross did for me.

"She is quite fine, still the straight A student she was in High School."

"Ok I must bid you guys farewell right now as I have a lesson plan to prepare see you tomorrow in class."

With that said he disappeared. Is it a coincidence or did he followed me here. Something just doesn't add up about about this man. Too creepy and mysterious. But I'll figure out soon enough what it is.
The following morning we went to our classes including Mr Brown's which was the last one in the evening. I tried to withdrew myself from the class but as it turned out it was compulsory. After sex Ed finished we went home. Pretty soon it was our last year in college and we were to sit our last set of exams. Five years passed by like hours. The pain of our dead friends left the heart of Ross but still lingered freshly in my thoughts. Our parents recently moved to California to be with us, so now we really had nothing left in the Valley but eventually I would go back anyway. I made myself a promise and I intend to keep it. Some time along the year our Sex Ed teacher grabbed my ass and I reported him in secret to the proper rank authorities and he was kicked out of school. As it turns out my ass wasn't the only one he liked to grab and it caused him his job. It felt good that I was able to resist him. For the first time ever I felt free, he could no longer have sex with me like he did in High School and I was proud of myself. I wasn't for him to be used. I was just a lost sheep seeking a path home.

The college gave us two weeks study leave to prepare us for exams and we decided we were both going home to our loving parents who were now in California. When I got to my mom's and dad's  new place they were excited to see me. Retired and waiting on me to leave college and take over the business. I didn't plan to but I didn't plan on telling them just yet. And so began my vacation at my parents house just like old times.

Word from author
Hi there again I am thinking you didn't expect this. Well neither did I. I am just writing whatever comes to me. Stay tuned thought as I promised this story is worth it. Bye until next chapter