Next Adore

Chapter 1: Missed Me?

My name's Journey Pasternak. What a name, right? That's what the others thought too. Junior year, students started to go missing. Disappearing left and right, gone. What did all these people  have in common? Him. Jasper Greys. Your typical, cliché high school boy. Handsome, athletic, smart, he had it all. Each and every one of the girls and boys, involved with him at some point. I started making a plan the moment I saw him, the first day of freshman year. Not until 3 years later was it put into action. Yes, you heard me, do you catch my drift? All those students  that went missing? Dead. The killer? Me. Why? All part of the plan. It's senior year and I'm making it my mission to be Jasper Greys' next adore.

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Screaming. Crying. Begging. The same sounds ringing indefinitely inside my head since last summer, when it all began. What led me to this, you may ask? Freshman year. Jasper Greys. I had a plan, ever heard of the Yandere simulator? I'm Yandere. Slowly and subtly, killing off the students who might get in the way of Jasper,  one by one. First was Danica Woodsen, Jasper's first girlfriend. Let's just say she isn't a fan of the water. I mean *wasn't*, because well, she's dead. Drowned, such a tragic event. Next it was Nathan Trent. All that information about electricity and conductivity really paid off, haha. Death by electrocution! The third to go, my personal favorite, so subtle and easy, Alicia Hallman. Poison, a classic. Countless more, and still some left unfortunately. Maybe their lives will be spared, just as long as I get my Jasper. How did I manage to not get caught, you may ask? That's for me to know, and you to find out.

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*BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!*

After reliving those wonderful memories, the loud, overbearing sounds of my alarm break me away from my dreamland. As I touch my feet to the floor, I feel it inside me. "This is the year, Jasper will be mine." As I rush to get ready, the feeling grows inside of me, growing more confident with each movement I make, by the time I'm out the door I just know it's going to happen. I'm going to be Jasper Greys' next adore.

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The second I walk into the school, a familiar sound comforts me. Ahh, yes. The sound  of gossiping and backstabbing, the #1 method of betrayal. A lovely sound, really.  People talking everywhere, about everything, but the only person I'm focused on is Jasper. As I make my way through the busy, crowded halls, I think of what was going to happen. What if he doesn't even know who I am? What if I mess up his whole impression of me? What if, what if, what if? I snapped back to reality, I don't live in a world of 'what ifs,' I really should stop worrying about that. As I turn the corner, I spot him. Not too overcrowded for me to not talk to him, but not too secluded to make it awkward, perfect. As I walk up to him my heart starts beating faster, and faster with each step I take. At the point when I reach him it's practically racing a million miles per second, but I try to hide it. "Hi Jasper, have you missed me?" For a split second he looks startled, but then covers it so quickly I might not have even noticed it. "Hey, Journey, right?" he asks questioningly. "The one and only." I say, wow, confidence was a good look on me, maybe I should wear it more often. "So how was your summer?" he asks, and I'm slowly seeing a sense of recognition on his face, baby steps. I stare at him, he was beautiful. The feature I loved most about him were those gray eyes, fitting, right? A nice, cool grey, tinted a balance of slightly blue and green, neither overpowering the other. "Journey?" he asks while nervously rubbing his neck and looking at me with those gorgeous gray eyes. II immediately blush with embarrassment, well, so much for confidence. I hadn't even realized that he'd been talking, or how long I'd been staring. "I'm sorry, could you repeat the question?" I respond, hoping he doesn't mention my stare. Thankfully, he doesn't and instead replies, "I said, so how was your summer? Did you do anything special?" My mind starts working, like all these ears were just fitted together and starting turning. Flashes of the begging, screaming, crying, and pain echoing over and over again. For a moment I'm totally separated from this world, and instead find myself in a land of terror. I remember where I am, and what I'm doing, and tell him, "It was good, nothing too crazy happened, what about you?" Don't show any sign that you know something, you can do it Journey, deep breaths. "Mine was good too, I was actually worried about all those disappearances though, I was worried that something might happen to me." I was half-listening, half-staring again, but that caught my attention. "They'll never come for you, Jasper, believe me." The words just came tumbling out of my mouth unexpectedly, and the second they were out I wish they weren't. He starting fidgeting nervously, wow, way to make things awkward Journey, confidence level: 0. "Well, uh, thanks I guess," he finally says. I take a deep breath, and actually think before I talk. "See you around, Jas." I silently pray that he'll take that in a good way, and not create even more tension between us. I breathe a sigh of relief when he smiles, and says back, "See you around, Jour." I'm giddy as he walks away and waves goodbye, progress. I'm getting somehwere. The bell rings and in that moment I realize I'm late for class, but that doesn't really matter to me. All I can focus on is the fact that I am one step closer to being  Jasper Greys' next adore.