CODE RED (Book 1)

Copeing with it all

"Are you two okay?" D.C asked both me and Alex. I was currently sitting on the piano stool playing a random song in the music book, propped up on it's stand as Alex sat next to me with his guitar strumming tunes.

"What makes you say that?" I inquired, turning towards her away from my placed fingers on the piano keys.

She leaned down while turning her head to look across the room at Nai writing down something in his notebook.

"All of you guys are acting weird ever since this morning, I wanna know what happened. She insisted turning her eyes back to me. Don't tell me all of you are cutting off this whole competion for The Battle Of The Bands all because of a fight?"

I opened my mouth to protest but Alex answered for me which surprised me, he hadn't said much to me ever since he cried in my arms that morning he begged me to forgive him for hurting me while we were broken up but I kept telling him it was fine, we both misunderstood. I seriously couldn't stand seeing him cry so hard like he had done. He cried long and hard until the entire gym period was over and we had to transition to our next class period.

I had helped him regain himself until his face wasn't red from crying.

"Of course not." He said from behind me. We'er still going to practice after school once Gareki gets out of detention but it might be late at night though considering we need to stop by his house and help clean up a party.

D.C looked at him confused before she crossed her arms over her chest." What party?"

Alex looked at me to explain that part so I did.

"My mom invited some people over last night and completely trashed the living room and kitchen so with her being at work till late tonight I decided that I should clean up both rooms, But since we have practice today and Alex wants me to play a guitar solo for the song then I'm going to need all of your help so we can move faster with the cleaning."

"Oh, okay. Well I guess I'm in on it." D.C agreed. She looked over to Nai for a second before asking again what had happened that morning in the boys bathroom.

"We got into a fight, but luckily Gareki was there to stop me from doing something I would seriously regret. Alex stated. I was so angry, all I wanted at that moment was to hit him."

"Glad I was there to stop you in time. I said before adding. But it's over now, we need to stay together to win this band contest thing."

"Well aren't you determined for the guy who disagreed with the idea at first."D.C teased, a smile coming across her dark red lips.

I shrugged, " Alex did tell me it would clear my name from the student body, which means no longer will people pay attention to me in a bad way but in a" Hey your pretty cool" way.

I still didn't want the attention but it was way better then having hundreds of eyes on me every day all because of some dirty photo shopped pic of me and Lock.

D.C blew out a short laugh as my voice changed when I stated the last 5 words in a humorous voice. "nice, but what are we going to do about Nai? Is he still on good terms with Alex- or maybe he didn't like you at all Alex and is just now showing it." she suggested.

Alex gave her a hard look. She raised her hands up defensively, "Sorry, I said to much, right."

Alex sighed. "He'll come around but for now I need to talk with the both of you on you guitar solo's for the song, it would be best if we went over the format right now."

Alex instructed for me to grab a bass guitar while D.C handled an electric that were propped against the far wall and we began to talk about what notes we would be playing when the song started and ended and when we should pause for the next verse, we discussed this for a good solid 10 minutes before hearing the dismissal bell ring.

Alex got u and shouldered his backpack," Good job, we'll talk about this more after school.

D.C and I nodded.

I put my back pack on and grabbed for my notebook as students exited the class chatting up as they went down the filled halls.

"By the way. Alex started, I looked up just noticing he was still in the class with me. I appreciate what you did for me."

" It was. . .nothing. I replied slowly with a shrug not sure how to respond to his sudden acknowledgement. But then I smiled genuinely, important thing is, is that you're okay now, ' so don't mention it."

He smiled back at me before walking past me but not before saying." You've changed a lot ,Gareki." he then walked out of the class leaving me stunned to hear that same saying from his mouth again.

I looked down at the ground, Was I really changing so much that he had to say that a second time to me? I mean I admit it, I was showing less restraint when it came to my emotions towards him unlike it had been initially when we first met but for Christ sake, I called him by his full name when we first got to know each other not feeling the need to just call him Alex but Alex Throne as his entire name went, but now I supposed I had trust in him way more then I had before.

The sound of the warning bell hit my ears and I snapped out of my trance and looked around me seeing a bunch of other students looking at me wondering why I was just standing in the middle of the front class.

"Embarrassing." I muttered to myself before making my way out of band room and headed to my next period already assuming another tardy ticket passed down to me once I stepped into geometry. I really needed to stop letting my thoughts get the better of me.

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Mr. Igarashi placed the plastic gloves over both of his hands as he dragged the women's body into the bathroom, he hand leaving a trail of blood from the knife gash in her stomach. her mouth taped over tightly as was her nose to prevent breathing.

He made sure the kill was quiet in order to keep the city cops off his back for a few hours at most. He knew they were out searching for him so he disguised himself whereing a wig that was longer then his natural hair stopping below his ears and wore makeup, different colored eye contacts and a change of clothes that he found in the very apartment he was currently in.

He couldn't stay in this place for long he had to keep moving in order to get back home and soon a certain someone would pay for all the trouble this has caused him. But as for now he needed to stay low and be clever for his revenge.

Mr. Igarashi thought it was quite pathetic of the police to not send out warnings for his jail break to the society and the fact that they still hadn't found him even if it'd been 2 days was ridiculous but it was also a strike of luck, and he wasn't complaining.

He held the gun in his hand feeling it's weight and checking to see if it was full. . . "Jackpot."

"EMM!" Mumbled the policeman that had been caught off guard and tide up to the bed post on the bed. He owned the apartment they were in at the moment with his wife womb Mr. Igarashi had just killed.

"What was that?" He asked walking over to the tide up man who was squirming to get out of his binds.

"EMM. ..em!" His breathing was harsh against the tape covering his mouth tightly. Mr. Igarashi smirked." No way am I letting you out of here." he aimed and pressed the gun to the mans head and made the man become silent instantly.

"It's my time to leave." He stated before pulling the trigger and a loud bang came from it. Blood splattered on the pillow and through the mans head where the bullet lay lodged into his skull killing him instantly. His body lay still on the bed no longer squirming for freedom.

Mr. Igarashi made his way out of the building being unnoticed and pretended not to know what happened as he hid the gun in his coat. look as casual as any other citizen.