Authors note. This is my first story and I will hopefully be publishing one day. All characters plot and content is owned by me if you see anyone plagiarising my work please let me know.
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The summer of 2006 was a dark one for the town of Red Mage. In that summer the angel of death used the town as a holiday home. The first, of many known deaths, was the one of Saxon Sheffels. On the dawn of the first day of summer, Saxon woke from his brief sleep after the Alcohol and party-filled night before with no intention of doing the same the next morning.
I guess we should start a year preceding to the death of Saxon. He seemed to have changed himself over the summer before from the nerdy quiet boy who carried around a notebook and would silently draw in the back of the class, to the popular jock who every girl swooned over. Within a week he was the most beloved guy in the school dating the most prom queen material girl the town had to offer Kimberlee Victoria. She is your standard popular girl with blonde long hair regularly curled into perfect ringlets and the crimson red lips, short skirts and tight tops. Like I said, standard prom queen, but as all good things come with negatives, I guess we should address the negative that came with Saxons popularity. Betrayal or Dishonesty? No, with popularity there's always a bounty. There will always someone that wants the popularity they don't have. Here, they will do anything they can to get it. The first few months weren't so bad. But after a little while the loyalty faded, whilst Saxon didn't notice immediately everyone else did.
Saxon started fighting using drugs and drinking almost every day. All to keep up the image and reputation that came with the name. Now I don't know what made Saxon change so drastically in the summer but many speculate that it was the death of his older brother, Maxie, Saxon had always been in Maxie's shadow. Maxie was the school quarterback. He was everything that Saxon turned into. Saxons first fight was with a boy called Rem. It started because Rem tried it on with Kimberlee and when Saxon confronted him it turned physical.
A sudden gush of pain jolted throughout Saxon's body. His stomach ached, his arms lost tension and his legs began to weaken. "He will not get her," he thought as he dropped to the ground. His tongue was soaked in the taste of blood. Bruised and winded, with a leg in agony, he grabbed the foot of the Rem and pulled him to the ground. His head was pounding. He brought a fist to the Rems's face, snapping his nose into pieces.
"You'll regret that you Sardonic bastard," Rem had told Saxon while tending to the blood gushing out of his nose.
After that, there was just a fight after fight continuously it was almost constant. Now that I look back at it he was clearly being targeted. not only did the people of this town want him gone but they wanted him dead. It's not until later that we all found out why. Now back to the day of Saxons death. nobody can say how he did it. We don't all believe it was him that did it all we can say is he was found at 11:30 in the morning of the first day of summer in a bathtub in his suburban home after bleeding out. The cuts spread all over his body but the biggest one was across his stomach. Some were just lines and others formed letter which formed words which we later found out formed a letter, a warning or a threat. Saxon was found on the 21st of June the autopsy results were released on the 24th. The results show that Saxons blood was full of cyanide. There were 205 cuts on his body including the 11 words "be, will, fall, mage, darkness, on, red, or, kill, town, killed, or, " now time for the people of the town of Red Mage to decipher the note.
The teen who deciphered the note was none other than Saxons previous best friend Lacie Sterling.
Lacie and Saxon's friendship ended after he became the popular jock that everyone knew and not many loved. The argument that was the icing on the cake started by her confronting him for making fun of her and making up rumours behind her back. She had been the only person who was there for him, for his entire life, when his brother died even when his dad left. When she found out about Saxons death she cried for days the only one to comfort her was her current best friend who goes by the name of Noelyn Kleinman. Lacie was heartbroken. When she found out about the passing of her previous friend she went to the back of her closet and pulled out a box. You see Lacie didn't only like Saxon in a platonic way. she was in love with him, she always had been. He was the love of her life.
she had written many poems for him, of course, she had never given them to him. She decided it was time to write another poem for him. she got her notebook and a pink pen that she hadn't used in a year or so and started to write.
"I cried the day you went away
I cried again today
I cry because you're gone
I cry because you're the one
I miss you every day
I love you in every which way"
She wrote until she couldn't see through the tears that had been forming in her eyes. When asked if she was okay and why she seemed so unaffected she would always reply with the same thing each and every time.
"Sometimes your heart needs more time to accept what your mind already knows"
She loved Saxon so much she was blind to see who truly loved her. Noelyn was in love with Lacie. Her heart broke a little bit more each time she heard Lacie talk about Saxon. But Love makes our hearts strong and her love was strong enough to get through knowing the girl she loves doesn't love her back.
The day after Lacie found out about the death there was a knock at her door. It was Brandon, he had been Saxons best friend for the past year since Saxon and Lacie had stopped being friends. He was as overwhelmed as her, seeking comfort in someone who is feeling the same pain as he.
Now I've addressed everyone that needs to be addressed at this moment we can continue with the summer with 6 weeks left and a lot to tell you about we can continue next with Saxons funeral.
The day of the funeral arrived just 2 days after the autopsy report was released and Brandon found himself dressed in dark jacket and cords, preparing to leave in a black car that had come from nowhere surrounded by people he's never met. Saxon Sheffels was buried in Red Mage Cemetery on the south road, just in the shadow of the Red Mage highschool, and Brandon knew where he would have preferred to be on that warm Wednesday afternoon. The entire school had turned up but he hardly recognized any of them. A grave had been dug close to the lane that ran the length of the cemetery, and as the service began, a black Mercedes drew up, the back door opened, and a man got out. Little did they know that man was about to change the lives of everyone at that service.
As the man walked to the front of the service Brandon grabbed Lacie's hand who had come to stand next to him and seek comfort again. She lay her head on his shoulder and listened intently to what the man had begun to say.
"Ladies and gentleman we are all here today to say goodbye to this dear young boy, Saxon Sheffels. But I have some news, the death of this boy wasn't suicide as we had previously thought. After an anonymous tip that was sent in today, we can now release the information that some cuts on Saxon's body were a note and we can now release what it said. The note said darkness will fall on Red Mage town, kill or be killed. we now believe this is a murder case and would like to initiate a curfew."
