Archie

Plan in Action

Archie

The school bell's about to ring so I hide behind the brick wall, waiting to strike.

I look at my reflection through the knife and stroke the sharp end.

I'm actually about to kill this innocent little girl.

Stop Archie, she's nothing to you, just an old memory. And she'll be a memory to Theo Stone and Maddie Archer. Oh. Sorry, Theo Archer. Because they wanted to keep the Archers going, oh please.

The bell suddenly rings and everyone runs out so I scan for Tiger. But she doesn't come out... where is she? She went to school today, I watched her go.

Once everyone in the building leaves, Tiger walks out. Why does she wait for everyone to leave before she does? Doesn't she wanna get out of here as much as everyone else?

I don't know, but as soon as she starts walking to her car, I walk up behind her. She must feel my presence because she turns around to me so I hold up my knife and run at her. "ARCHIE STOP!" she says as I pin her into the hard brick wall. I hold my knife up higher and tears stream down her face. "Archie you don't have to do this! You're better than this! This doesn't help you grieve"

I look at her begging self. "Give me a reason as to why I shouldn't kill you right here and now? Give me a reason why I shouldn't kill Carter and Maddie" I growl.

Her lip quivers. "Because I know you're better than this! I see the good in you, Archie... I know this isn't you. I know you're grieving, but Archie... it's time to move on"

I look at the ground, still pinning her. "He's gone... my parents are gone... I killed my aunt... my little cousin" I slowly let go of her wrists and she immediately hugs me. I put my arms out in confusion. "I have to kill you... I have to"

She shakes her head and pulls back. "No you don't, you don't have to kill anyone. You're a great person on the inside, Lovebug" she says a nickname, making me furrow my eyebrows. "Stop this all... you can turn your life around"

I stomp. "No I can't! You need to die!" I hold up my knife and she looks at me with sincere red eyes, making me lower my knife.

I can't...

I can't kill her.

She's too innocent and pure.

What am I doing?!

I'm so disgusting! I throw my knife to the side and fall to my knees, crying in disappointment. "Love..." she kneels down in front of me and hugs me. "what you're doing right now is a good step in becoming a better person. I can help you... I can help you get through this and your urges to kill"

I gulp. "Just... leave me alone" I say and she pulls off me. "Go! Go before I kill you!" I growl. She frowns before running to her car, driving off.

**

Katie

I speed to Jacobs house and tell him everything that just happened. "What the fuck?!" he shouts and I put my hand on his chest. "He's a psychopath! Are you okay?! Did he hurt you?!"

I shake my head then Oliver and Sam walk in. "Hey mrs and mr Taylor" I smile and they wave before sitting down. "Jakey and I were just talking about a project for school" I say and Jacob looks at me in confusion so I slyly kick his foot.

"Yea, this damn project is stressful" he goes along.

Sam nods and Oliver looks at me. "Uh huh so why are your wrists black and blue?" he asks and I look at my wrists to see my bruised wrists that I didn't even know were there.