Beth

Chapter 6 - Professionally

I wake up earlier than usual, it's 6am. Jordan is still asleep, I need a jog. I get up slowly, trying to avoid waking him up. I walk into the closet and pick out a pair of shorts, a sports bra, a pair of socks and my trainers. I get my phone and my earphones, then I exit the room. I'm sitting in the living room, tying my shoe laces, when I hear footsteps approaching. I assume it's Jordan.

"Jordan, if you're trying to scare me, I can hear your footsteps"

"It's not Jordan," Dan replies bluntly as he comes into view.

I don't reply, I just resume tying my laces.

"Are you going for a jog?"

"No, I'm baking a cake."

"Can I come with you?"

"As long a you don't speak to me, I don't really care what you do."

I get up and walk towards the door, with Dan quick on my tails. It's going to be a long morning.

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Jordan's P.O.V.

I reach over for Liz, when I don't feel her. I bolt up from the bed. That girl is crazy, she could be poisoning those boys right now, or worse, she's already burying them. I fly off the bed, run down the corridor and burst Ken's door open.

"Ken! Get up, where the hell is Liz?"

"What?" Ken mumbles as I've just disrupted his sleep

She's probably killing them on her own. I run back to my room and grab the baseball bat that Liz keeps in the closet (you see that she really is dangerous). Then I make my way slowly towards the boys' room. I reach the door and say a silent prayer then I burst through the door, kicking it open with the baseball bat high in hand.

"LIZ DON'T DO IT," I scream out but as I look around, there's no one in the room. She's already buried them. Oh lord.

I hear voices from the living room and I walk there cautiously. As I arrive in the living room, I see the boys all sitting down watching TV and talking.

"Yo Jordan, you aii?" Damien calls out to me

"Where's Liz?"

"She went for a jog with Dan." Chris says

"With Dan? You let her take him out of the house? Are you kidding? He's probably laying somewhere dead in a bush right now and you're all here acting like everything's fine."

"He offered to follow her from what we know." Bennett counters.

"He offered for his own death? Oh wow, how stupid can he be?"

Before anyone can answer me, Liz walks through the front door alone. I think for sure that she's dumped Dan somewhere but then he walks in a few seconds later, out of breath.

"Where did you guys go?" I ask

"For a jog, he tagged along," Liz explains, then she cites the baseball bat in my hands, "You thought I had killed him or them right?"

"Yeah, I reply sheepishly

"Nah, I'd kill them in style," she smirks then walks off down the corridor until we hear the door close.

"What does she mean when she says she'd kill us in style?" Anthony aks

"She means, she'd chop up your body parts and serve them as some sort of broth." I reply with all seriousness.

Their faces pale and I burst out in laughter.

"Oh, he's just kidding." Dan pants.

"Who says I am?" I reply with a straight face then I walk back to my room, leaving them all scared as fuck.