Raquel's Peanut Butter Obsession

Chapter 3: oof

Betelhem's POV

"What're you talking about?" Kendra asked us, her smile telling us that she thought we were high or something, just like she probably was.

"Yeah, also can you give me whatever drugs you're on?" Valeria asked, being the crackhead that she is.

"I can't believe I'm saying this, but she's right."

The three looked at me confused.

"Betelhem, you're supposed to be the only one with brain cells, you're not supposed to encourage Bridget's bullshit, that's our job," Kayla told me.

"Okay, so you know how I started working at HEB today?"

"Oh yeah, how'd that go? Prolly better than my first day at IKEA," Valeria interrupted with her weird obsession with IKEA that nobody gets. (even though IKEA is heaven in a maze form)

"Not really," I started, taking a seat on the floor with them. "I was having a normal day until this one chick asked me where we kept the peanut butter. She gave me a weird vibe, but I ignored it until I found her eating peanut butter in the middle of the aisle after the store had closed. I told her to get out and chased her for a little, but when I was walking home, I passed by an alley and she was there with like a million jars of peanut butter. That's not even the scary part, she had my boss right next to her while filling her insides with peanut butter! I went to Bridget's house and told her what happened and she made me take her to Rachel. Then, Bridget pissed her off and she chased us until Bridget threw a peanut butter sandwich at her and then we came here."

"That's my favorite bedtime story," Kendra said, smiling.

"Shut up, Dora. This is why I wish Isabella was here, she's the only one of us besides me that has some sense. But noooo, her rich ass is in Cancun."

"What do you want us to do?" Kayla asked.

"I want you guys to help me get to her, I wanna know what's going on in her head and how we can help her," I replied.

"I'm down if you give me a discount at HEB," Valeria said, getting up and putting on Kayla's shoes.

"Give me my shoes, you low life."

Bridget's POV

Ten minutes later, we were all crammed in Kayla's car, which happened to be a car too small for more than four people. Since we knew Rachel was dangerous, we each elected a weapon at Kayla's house to take with us and a few jars of peanut butter just in case they needed to make a quick getaway. Kayla and Betehem both chose a knife, Kendra chose a spoon, Valeria chose a chancla, and I had a pack of string cheese.

Kayla drove and nobody was saying anything.

"We should get TJ to come with us so that if we need to sacrifice someone, we'd have him," Valeria suggested.

"You're a genius," Kendra said, taking out her phone and texting TJ to wait for them outside of his house because they were all "going on an adventure."

After we stuffed TJ in the trunk, since there was no room in the car, we headed in the direction of where Rachel and her peanut butter jars were. The more I thought of it, the more I realized that I didn't exactly know what Betelhem wanted us to do about Rachel. Did she expect us to walk up to her and ask why she loved peanut butter so much or something?

"Betelhem, what do want us to do when we find Rachel?" Kendra asked. She looked worried, she'd probably realized that she was going to get trampled by us if we all ran away.

"I want to help her. If she's this dangerous, we have to find a way to get her to a mental asylum or something. Would you really want someone like her free on the streets AND she knows what Bridget and I look like."

"So we have to kidnap her and take her to a mental facility?"

"Yes."

We pulled upright by the alley where we last saw Rachel. As far as we could tell, there wasn't a soul around. Betelhem rushed us out of the safety of Kayla's car. We spent the next thirty seconds going down the alley on the find empty peanut butter jars and dried blood.

"Now what?" Kendra asked.

"We can't give up yet. Look, there's a trail of jars leading away from here," Betelhem said, walking along the spread out trail.

"Why did I have to come with you guys?" TJ asked. He was the only one without a wEapOn.

"Would you rather be out on Halloween or inside like a loner?"

"Never mind, then."

We followed the trail until it abruptly stopped in the middle of a park. My guess is that Rachel got bored and decided to scare little kids walking towards their next destination on Halloween. We walked along the dirt trail hoping to find another sign that she was near us. Eventually, we found a fork in the trail and headed right. I noticed Kendra go left when she was too busy biting her nails off to pay attention to the rest of us. I decided to keep my mouth shut and watch what happens.